Rangers News: NY Post: Rangers squeezing Dubinsky

“Neither Brandon nor I have any interest in attempting to negotiate this through the newspaper, so we’ll keep the conversations private

Translation: Buzz off Larry. ;)

I dug up an article from the days of his signing his contract.
http://bit.ly/2JYumO
Apparently, the cap calculators are skewed somehow.
Could be that he played most of the first year of the contract in Hartford – which I guess would be pro-rated across the 3 years for a cap hit perspective. Then add the bonus that got spread across the same period? Don’t know – but appears that the new information per Cam would be correct.

Kudos to Dubi and his agent (and the Rangers, as well) for not wanting to negotiate through the press. That’s a rarity these days..

confirmed the qualyfier and it is much less than what was first reported, this will be a sweet signing.

I love the fact that people are voting the most tongue in cheek answer of my tongue in cheek poll

as i have said before Sather should use the leverage he has this year not to lowball dubi but to get him an added year at a lower price than he would otherwise pay. i suggest a 4 year deal that is something like 1.2 this year 2.2, 2.4 the following 2. This doubles what dubi would make this year and equals what Cally got for his first 2 arb years. As a sign of good faith from Dubi he matches the overage the rangers gave him this year to take less in the 4th year, say 2.6 mil. If dubi was to break out this year like Zajac did the rangers would be paying him well north of 3 mil a year on a new deal. this way the rangers show their faith in dubi, he gets security and the rangers save money as the total deal works out to 8.4 mil over 4 years or a 2.1 mil cap hit.

That’s probably similar to one of the scenarios that’s currently on the table (per the reports).
And for the Rangers/Sather – you are absolutely correct.

But that’s exactly why this has taken so long!

Why would Dubinsky want to accept a 4 year deal like that – when the possibility exists that he has his ‘breakout’ year this year, which would dramatically increase his value?
It’s in his interest to get something like a 2 year deal – something greater than the QO – even if it’s less than what he would get out of a banner year and arbitration next year. The risk for him is that he has a great year this year and then falls back in 10/11 – at the end of which he is arb eligible – so he needs to have 2 good back to back years.

If the Rangers won’t budge on the offers they’ve put out – he’ll take the risk of going with the QO and ARB next summer. Which might not be in the Rangers best interests – esp. if he does have that breakout season. Risk/reward balance for both sides…..

The organization throws boatloads of money at Redden, Rosival, Drury, Gomez, etc., etc., etc. and too much for Brashear, but squeezes Dubinsky for his last drop of blood, lets Orr go for peanuts and doesn’t even look at Betts.

I’m confused…

I’m one of the 13 people who said that he would be signed by labor day…..I said it weeks ago and i’m stickin’ to it…….i’ll probably be wrong

ur right in a sense bls..

hes def. a hard working guy and was in the top 10 in hits along with callahan..

but until he improves on 13 goals, we need to think realistically.. while he might be our first line center, for a realistic team hes a 2nd/3rd line center.. so he should get paid for being a 3rd line center.. 2 mil max..

my opinion is no one will send him an offer, and hell have to take the QO.. than if he shows up we resign him sometime through the season for a long-term contract…