Buying Out Wade Redden: The Cap Hits

if someone else signs him is there any relief in what he is paid by another team?

We need to just accept it. We are stuck with him for 4 more years. As far as being a serviceable NHL player, his time is done.

The problem is he has to get playing time because of his salary. The best we can hope is that Torts stands up to Sather and grows a set, and benches him permanently as a healthy scratch. Torts need to work the team like dogs in practice. There arent too many players that will take being a healthy scratch every night for 4 years while going through a grueling practice every day, without calling it quits somewhere in between.

Personally, I think we need Mike Keenan to do this job. Fire Torts and hire him solely for the purpose of running Redden into retirement. From what I remember, Keenans practices were relentless.

Redden, and in the photo he’s getting his ass kicked by a ham-and-egger like Pouliot!

and shot by a firing squad……….

or he should be forced to do the human puck race until he drops dead.

For me personally what we are paying him is really painful, but his performance on the ice is even more painful. I can live with us paying him a lot of money, even for a long time but for gods sake get him the hell out of the lineup. If worst comes to worst make him the 7th defenseman who plays 1 min per game. Pay him to watch in the press box I don’t care but we need people willing to hit and clear henriks crease … something Redden will not do.

Maybe he’s splitting his check with Sather???

I was going to suggest the same thing :).—drugging Redden, that is

so who’s worse, the New York Mets’ Oliver Perez, or Wade Redden?—maybe they’re the same players in different sports? HAH

why won’t Sather demote Redden? Simple,Sather is an ego maniac, or haven’t you noticed?

sorry for posting another sports topic, but I just couldn’t resist.

While I think buying him out would be silly given how long it’s still left on his deal and how much money … I don’t think it’s out of the question that he’ll be demoted to the minors … why? Because Tortorella really doesn’t like him and although I feel it was out of Tortorella’s hands to play him this season he was the one guy whom Torts didn’t give any sort of vote of confidence during break-up day … he in fact said he didn’t want to talk about him … the only other guys he didn’t talk about were the UFA’s whom are highly unlikely to return to the team …

I think that Glen Sather has tried to save face on the Redden signing but two years in, going on a third, and it’s been a complete disaster … Redden isn’t our best defensive D, he isn’t even our 4th best offensive D … he plays on the 3rd pair because there was no choice … I think although most teams do not like waiving players with a lot of years and $$ left that will be a serious possibility if there aren’t any trade takers for him … Washington bit the bullet and waived Nylander when it didn’t work out so why can’t the Rangers waive Redden?

Going into this off-season he said the exact same crap he spewed last summer that he had to be better, that he didn’t play up to his standards, blah blah blah … I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt this season but he showed that either he cannot do it or he won’t do it … the Rangers need the cap space, waive him!