Looooob's take:
This deal was done at our suggestion. The Rangers get the higher ranked, more productive player this year in Robert Lang. a silly move perhaps as they are battling us for playoff position. Lang couldn't beat out Prospal for our top C job, and we decided we didn't want to pay 7.5 M for a guy on our 2nd line. Morrison is struggling, but long term we hope he'll be ok. We think up front we aren't much weaker for this year, and look forward to going into next year with Prospal, Rolston, Morrow, Morrison, Fedotenko and Lombardi all signed relatively affordably as our top 6 forwards.
Besides we think its cute that we can now play Brendan Morrow and Brendan Morrison as 2/3 of our 2nd line
on D, Hnidy helps with depth a little. A few weeks ago we had only 2 dmen with DF ratings over 69, now we have 5--that should help with the playoff push.
Also this move frees up a tiny amount of cash. enough to allow us to add one more body for the playoff run
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