As for Cally, haven't seen Tampa play but no offense from his so far per the stats. I said per the trade in 2014 that I fully expect five years from then that he's back with the Rangers in a role similar to Ortmeyer/Graves or will be at the Garden all the time. Tampa is pretty much going to buy him out after this season and he'll probably get a PTO from Buffalo or Colo and then be out of the league by 2019.
Tampa won't buy him out till maybe the final year of his contract. To make room for the Kucherov raise. They don't need the cap till then. As per his play, He has been playing like his old self. Nothing to show for it, but he is not getting PP time , and his line has no playmaker. Very hard to produce. Last season when he had the hip setbacks, I would of agreed with you. But they screwed up his surgery. Which is why he missed most of last season. But the way he has looked think he has at least a few more years left in him, even if it is a bottom 6 role.
Right now he is being pushed to the bottom 6 over a Yanni Gourde who is getting his offensive ice time like on the PP and he only has one assist in 7 games. Cally has outplayed him but nothing to show for it. Cally's center is Cedric Paquette where plays die on his stick. So not easy to produce with that kind of center. So it's not about his performance, but how his injury from last season and a half had set him back in the line up. He did hit over 14 mins last game, and think he will see more and more ice time, he looks hungry out there. 5 SOG last night, and making his typical Cally hits and has been a beast on the boards. That is the Callahan we all knew from his prime Rangers days. His speed is also back. He is creating shorthanded chances, and is able to get back fast now to defend. Things that did not happen last season and a half because of the hip.