Confirmed with Link: Rangers sign Benoit Pouliot (1 year, $1.3M)

[JohnC]

Andrew Gross ‏@AGrossRecord 1m
#NYR agree to terms with LW Benoit Pouliot, 26, who played for the Lightning last season. Former fourth overall pick in 2005 by Wild.

https://twitter.com/AGrossRecord/status/353287149216477184

New York Rangers ‏@NYRangers 1m
BREAKING NEWS: The #NYR have agreed to terms with free agent forward Benoit Pouliot...details to follow

https://twitter.com/NYRangers/status/353287609084153856

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[Tawnos]

There we go. Like that signing. Mentioned him as soon as he wasn't qualified.

And, oh my god!! The Rangers actually have a 3rd liner on the roster!!

 

[AIexisLafreniereNYR]

Another 3rd liner. Nice.

 

[The Gloaming]

Gross. He sucks. Oh well, nothing lost. But a typical Sather reclamation project, so who knows.

 

[MPJohnny5]

There we go. Like that signing. Mentioned him as soon as he wasn't qualified.

And, oh my god!! The Rangers actually have a 3rd liner on the roster!!

Hmm do we still have room for other RFAs or does these leave zuccs out?

 

[Hire Sather]

you guys want depth, and i agree

this is depth.

no reason to bash the move

 

[RGY]

Kreider-Brassard-Nash
Hagelin-Stepan-Cally
Pouliot/Boyle-Richards-Zucc?/xxxx
Boyle/Pouliot-Moore-Dorsett

I don't think they are done.

 

[RangerBoy]

Benoit Pouliot a signé un contrat avec les Rangers. 1 an / 1,3M$

https://twitter.com/RenLavoieRDS/status/353288520875511808

 

[Brady Skjei]

Any details yet on term/money?

Depth is definitely building up here. Prospects will really have to earn their spot. How's Pouliot's physical play?

 

[Kreider Typical]

decent pickup if the price is right

 

[Tawnos]

Hmm do we still have room for other RFAs or does these leave zuccs out?

They'll be fine on the RFA front. You can go over the Cap 10% in the off-season. Powe, Asham, etc will get waived and sent down early in the season to make room for Moore and Pouliot.

 

[AIexisLafreniereNYR]

you guys want depth, and i agree

this is depth.

no reason to bash the move

We have depth with Zucc, hagelin, richarsd, krieder, brassard, dorsett, moore. We need a top 6.

 

[Hire Sather]

asham or powe are done i'd imagine

 

[RGY]

you guys want depth, and i agree

this is depth.

no reason to bash the move

I like the move. Good small move by Sather.

 

[Tawnos]

https://twitter.com/RenLavoieRDS/status/353288520875511808

1 year, $1.3m. Another risk-free signing.

 

[silverfish]

Wow. We were a lot more active today than I thought we'd be. Lots of depth coming in. Going to be very hard for the young guys to make this team.

 

[NikC]

Gross. He sucks. Oh well, nothing lost. But a typical Sather reclamation project, so who knows.

what are talking about? good bottom 6 move for 10g+ scorer

i don't get people here sometimes...

 

[Hire Sather]

We have depth with Zucc, hagelin, richarsd, krieder, brassard, dorsett, moore. We need a top 6.

We need Steven Stamkos.

Or any top flight player.

Top 6 would be nice but thats not easy to get.. if you can't add a top 6, you try to roll 4 solid lines instead of rolling AHLers out on the 4th line like we have in the past

 

[Vitto79]

Weird, did not see this coming at all. How many guys do they need?

Well atleast he has some offensive talent

 

[bootscraper]

This is a solid signing along with Dominic Moore. Improving the bottom six was MUCH needed. And I see there are a lot of naysayers...as usual. According to AV, he said that they wanted to give some of the younger folks a shot at the roster this year. So this is perfect.

 

[RangerBoy]

17 goals in 09-10. 13 goals in 10-11. 16 goals in 11-12. 8 goals in 34 games in 13.

 

[RGY]

Pouliot had 20 points last year in 34 games. He missed 11 games with a sprained shoulder. He was on pace for roughly 40+ points in a normal 82 game season. That is solid depth for the rangers. He had 32 points the prior year in 74 games, a career high for him. 30 points the year before that. His game has been improving. He is only 26 years old. Good move by sather.

 

[Machinehead]

With AV saying he's gonna give young guys a shot and adding a couple of legit 3rd liners here, we have something we haven't had in a long time: competition for bottom 6 spots. Now maybe we won't have to call up some corpse from Scrubford when there's an injury.

 

[*Bob Richards*]

Awesome.

 

[The Gloaming]

what are talking about? good bottom 6 move for 10g+ scorer

i don't get people here sometimes...

The Lightning had to have had a reason to not qualify Pouliot. He's soft and highly inconsistent.