Recalled/Assigned: Magnus Hellberg / Chris Summers (Skjei assigned to Hartford)

[TheDirtyH]

I woke up today thinking we'd hit the basement of bad decisions.

Tomorrow's a new day.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

So tonight's defensive pairs are probably

Staal-McD
Yandle-McIlrath
Summers-Boyle

 

[Vinny DeAngelo]

So tonight's defensive pairs are probably

Staal-McD
Yandle-McIlrath
Summers-Boyle

Does it even matter? Ulf is going to play everyone with everyone else...
Guarantee yandle-Boyle gives up a goal

 

[Captain Lindy]

Trade girardi or staal please. So we have more than 90k in cap room. How do we expect to sign anyone or resign anyone when we have no money? And then the cap is problem going to go down. The Looney is dropping and if this new US budget bill gets passed. The Looney will plummet. They rely on oil exports and this bill allows US companies to export us oil. And simple economics shows that increase in supply will drive down the price of oil even further.

One of them, preferably BOTH, has/have to go.

 

[Fitzy]

Summers is absolutely atrocious.

So was Bickel but at least Summers is our 9th option at D and not our 6th.

 

[NYRFAN218]

Gotta imagine Stepan plays either tonight or Sunday then. They could have put him on LTIR which would have made him eligible to return Tuesday at the earliest and cleared enough space just to recall Hellberg.

 

[eco's bones]

It's hysterical how hysterical some people can be.

Teams that are near the cap ceiling when they run into injury problems tend to have issues like the ones the Rangers are having right now.

 

[RangerBoy]

It's hysterical how hysterical some people can be.

Teams that are near the cap ceiling when they run into injury problems tend to have issues like the ones the Rangers are having right now.

The cap is coming down hard on the Rangers and every big payroll team. That's the reality.

 

[bernmeister]

He was only sent down because of the $.

He might not be the solution, but getting him some NHL time was not the problem, either.

this^

We're literally counting pennies because our cap is so screwed up

... and this^.

Can we please recognize now it is in the natural order of things for there to be a turnover cycle and start moving vets?

Summers is absolutely atrocious.

I fear you are right, but hoping he has developed enough to turn into a tradeable asset

 

[SA16]

It's hysterical how hysterical some people can be.

Teams that are near the cap ceiling when they run into injury problems tend to have issues like the ones the Rangers are having right now.

Yea basically this. If we were 5M below the cap people would just complain that we have leftover money and should have signed more players. Girardi/Staal aren't an excuse here either as if we didn't have them and had cheaper guys we almost certainly would have spent money differently in the offseason and still been close to the cap. The front office can never win.

 

[Raspewtin]

Summers is ****ing garbage and I hate that I have to watch him attempt to play hockey again.

And Glass is still on the roster LOL

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Gorton gambled by not putting Stepan on LTIR, hoping he'd be back sooner. It caused us to move players around to get Hellberg up.

 

[Inferno]

Gorton gambled by not putting Stepan on LTIR, hoping he'd be back sooner. It caused us to move players around to get Hellberg up.

it wouldnt have made a difference. particularly if Stepan plays tonight.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

it wouldnt have made a difference. particularly if Stepan plays tonight.

Not if he is playing tonight, no.

 

[RangerBoy]

Long term IR is 24 days and 10 games. Stepan got injured 3 weeks ago today.

 

[NYRFAN218]

Not if he is playing tonight, no.

He could still play Sunday. Earliest he'd be eligible to return is Tuesday if he's placed on LTIR now. It doesn't matter when you place him on LTIR because it doesn't save you cap space. All it does is allow you to go over the cap by the amount of his cap hit as long as he's on LTIR.

They must think he's either playing tonight or Sunday because Stepan + Summers > Skjei + no Stepan for a game or two.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

He could still play Sunday. Earliest he'd be eligible to return is Tuesday if he's placed on LTIR now. It doesn't matter when you place him on LTIR because it doesn't save you cap space. All it does is allow you to go over the cap by the amount of his cap hit as long as he's on LTIR.

They must think he's either playing tonight or Sunday because Stepan + Summers > Skjei + no Stepan for a game or two.

I know how the cap works in terms of LTIR and cap relief. Just saying we had to go through this because Stepan was not on LTIR. If this was done to have him back in the line-up sooner, I fully agree with what Gorton did. If not, it was a gamble that didn't pay off.

 

[NYRFAN218]

12/22/2015 Chris Summers (D) Hartford ADD Returned on loan from N.Y. Rangers (NHL)

12/22/2015 Magnus Hellberg (G) Hartford ADD Returned on loan from N.Y. Rangers (NHL)

http://theahl.com/stats/transactions.php

 

[Raspewtin]

Good ****ing riddance.

 

[ecemleafs]

http://theahl.com/stats/transactions.php

no games for 4-5 days so it could just be cap maneuvering.

 

[Mac n Gs]

Thank God. I'm just happy that Raanta is ok after going down like that

 

[BBKers]

Klein will be placed on retroactive LTIR for evident cap reasons as he now qualifies
Will Lighten up the cap a bit
Hopefully we see a minor trade and Banish Glass to Gernander
That is all I want Santa

 

[ThatsNashty61*]

Klein will be placed on retroactive LTIR for evident cap reasons as he now qualifies
Will Lighten up the cap a bit
Hopefully we see a minor trade and Banish Glass to Gernander
That is all I want Santa

100% this.