Rangers News: Rangers Waive Tim Kennedy and Todd White

mleetch I deleted your fan post since we put it up here. I want to make a better effort of making sure we all aren’t commenting in three different places on the same story.

Thanks for posting it though.

I’d like to ask all the fans who told me that White would be an impact player on this roster where they are and how they’re feelin right now. After the trade w/ ATL I said it was a clear salary dump move for both teams and White would not impact this team at all. Being right is fun.

Kinda sucks to see Kennedy go. Good young player. Feel bad for him, too. First he gets bought out by Buffalo, then waived by Rangers after a strong camp performance.

maybe a dumb question: since kennedy at 550K wont make it to Hartford why not trade him for something?

NYDNRangers Derek Stepan says he plans to switch to No. 21, which he wore in college. #NYR

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you

Could be terrific if its a White/Rosi in the package. Edmonton is pretty dumb, unfortunately prob not that dumb

But I just got this message:

Kennedy ($550k) and White ($2.375m) waived…$2.925M in cap space…Souray
is $2.7 through re-entry waivers…

oh and for the record, this is part of why i ranted at the D moves the other day because sending McD down meant a move like Souray was likely to come because I didnt see them giving Sauer a legit shot to start

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John Tortorella confirms Kennedy and White on waivers, but says they’re not going down… so where are they going? Sather coming soon. #NYR

what’s the plan, to put him on the third pair?

staal-girardi, mdz-roszival, gilroy-sauer/eminger

who’s spot is he going to take if none of them are in the deal? doubt he’s going to be here as a 7th dman

I added a poll to the story, make sure you vote

VAN-NAS trade is O’Brien and Dan Gendur for Parent and another player not off the NHL roster. (Other player is Jonas Andersson)

(Bob McKenzie)

i voted yes soley based on the fact that i would rather see just about anyone other than eminger on the team….surely souray would not be taking on the same role as eminger….but again…..im not really considering the other possibilities and potential problems that could come from this…just can’t stand to see eminger play as a ranger.

There’s plenty of speculation, and rightfully so, that the Rangers are looking to deal for a defenseman, specifically a left-shooting one. The one name that keeps coming up is exiled Oiler Sheldon Souray but there are no indications the Rangers are moving in that direction. Another name speculated on, Vancouver’s Shane O’Brien went to Nashville today.

Is so he can take Ken Daneyko to task for the below the belt comments he made about him last year. Then he could punch Daneyko’s lights out, break his hand again and then put on the LTIR for the next 2 years.

And NYC nightlife are not a good combo.

I cant believe 35 people, as of now, voted for Souray to be on the Rangers.

I will be sooooo mad if Souray comes here. I will be pissed actually.

This from Gross:

"It’s not complicated," Sather said. "It just gives us some options in case somebody becomes available in the next day or two we can use. There’s always that possibility (of Kennedy being claimed). At the same time, you have to remember there are some kids in Hartford that can play here as well. It just gives us a little more versatility. I think they both played fine."

Pretty sure that lowers their waiver priority – they were speculated as being a team ahead of the Rangers who may be interested in Souray.

To the prospects of picking up Souray to my friend, who although is as a diehard fan, sometimes fails to grasp the larger picture when it comes to choosing the on ice personnel.

My first issue with Souray is that the Oilers didn’t even let him attend camp, so perhaps he’s been working out on his own but that’s hardly going to put him into game shape. And for a player that’s missed about 50 games in 2 of the 3 years he’s been in EDM who’s almost 35, conditioning is a legitimate concern.
 
Furthermore, he’s on the books for another year after this. The Rangers don’t exactly have a lot of big contracts coming off the books after this year, I think Frolov has the highest cap hit out of anyone due to become a FA. Callahan and Dubinsky (if he’s still around, I think he will be but I can see him getting traded) will require another raise of at least a million each. Also, having Souray for an extra year would mean next year they’ll come into camp with 5 D on the NHL roster leaving room for only one of McDonagh, Valentenko and should he impress enough this year, Gilroy. Furthermore, I think having him man the point on PP will rob Del Zotto (and maybe Gilroy if they let him play that role this year) of gaining experience in that role and especially for Del Zotto they should be looking on expanding his role not decreasing it. The Rangers aren’t a Cup contender so they don’t need a guy that will set back some of their rebuilding process.

Mentioned this earlier, but Vancouver who acquired Ryan Parent in a trade, then waived him, any interest?

I dont get it. Why not keep Kennedy whom many of us like? Then go and get souray who took the Wade Redden route to the ahl? I dont care what kind of shot he has. Look at Valentenko’s shot, McD’s potential/hockey IQ or Sauer’s shot he buried at the redwings game i went to, before looking at Souray. Ugh give me a break.
This is the perfect example of a gm trying to do too much, what a joke. Why not go and get somebody at the trade deadline, all the while showcasing our on-the-bubble players. To think I thought he had a good off season and now he’s going to do something retarted agian! anyone have something hard to drink?

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news;_ylt=AgwEFcABHg2rNrf8Kbuuhh97vLYF?slug=ap-officials-laboragreement

When I saw this at first I thought it was a new CBA. I was like dude how is this not big news? It is the official union and the NHL though duh…lol

I’ll take Souray if we can dress him up as a pirate and let him loose in MSG to terrorize opposing fans.

I read what Sather said to Spector. Part of it sounded like Souray, but maybe something more. Maybe the Devils will have to dump one of there “big boys” To get under the cap & Isn’t Philly in trouble also? Here Sathers Quote:

Let’s say somebody’s got a cap problem, and they put a real good player on waivers tomorrow, then we have the room to take a real good player," Sather said. “Maybe in a different position — maybe you’re looking at a defenseman that could be there, somebody can’t afford to keep him. Then, by opening up this space, we would have room to absorb it. It’s just giving us a chance to do something like that, to exercise an option.”

There was no pressing cap situation that would force the rangers to waive todd white. the rangers could have kept him as spare as an insurance policy for vinny prospal in case his knee doesnt let him come back anytime soon. strange they would make this move now with no pressing cap need and two injuries up front.

kennedy being waived is even more curious

I would be glad to have Souray… his salary through waivers would be 2.7 as a cap hit for the Rangers… He’s a high risk high reward player and would be an excellent veteran to help our rookies something we lack…

Souray’s contract only has two years left on it… unless i’m mistaken… essentially he replaces redden/eminger… which is a major upgrade… plus he’s a nasty defensemen in his own end…

So summing it up –
Sather might spend 2.7mm
on an oft-injured (by his own hand, mind you)
irresponsible in his own end (that whole ‘minus’ on the the plus/minus thing)
“project” (we all know how the majority of those work out, eh?)
who’s completely out of shape (wasn’t permitted to attend EDM training camp)
but will light up the ESPN highlights (the few times they do anything with hockey) with a couple of big bit hits.

Oh – and who statistically is probably worse than Waive (D)Redden…..

Fantastic – what a deal !!! Where do I sign???

/sarcasm

really makes no f’n sense to me to sign this kid and then cut him
long term he could be a good player
what is he 20 years old?

topic change: the edmonton oilers “boys on the bus” doc from 1987 is on msg right now, and look at that tomato faced bastard sather

Does anyone else think the supposed 2nd and 3rd lines (as proposed danmarley 21 above, and many others) should be switched. I just think Aves/Stepan/Fed-ex will be more offensively productive than Dubs/Anisimov/Cally if given the opportunity (ice time). As several people have been saying, Dubinsky has heart, grit, etc. but he really struggles to finish.
Just a thought.

on a side note, i always find it interesting when an sbnation blog does a poll and there are so many more votes than comments or especially commenters, so lots of people lurking, speak, we would love to debate the opinions.

I don’t really mind waiving him… there is no certainty he will be claimed… plus he isn’t a big player, he is shifty, but a lot of people react as if we just waived gaborik… he was a spare part… you cannot go with a line up of 21 rookies… it just doesn’t happen… there has to be some veteran presence in the lineup, and I doubt that Kennedy is going to be able to mentor players as Fedetenko will be able to… Fed also brings something that many o ther players on this team don’t have, and thats a winning mentality… He’s won two cups, one with torts…

Plus if Vinny’s indeed done for the year, fed takes his position as middleman between the players and torts…

Kennedy is the type of player that people fall in love with, much like peter prucha, whom is nothing more than a third line winger at best…