I think the Rangers did the announcement because the market is heating up and if the captain potentially is traded in the next week, as is a guy like Nash and some other fan favourites, they want to get ahead of it for the backlash or plan. I don’t think the players would take this as any personal affront, or is it news to them, as the top guys have been asked in the past week or so to waive their NTCs.
Nash doesn’t want to go, and the attraction of NYC certainly is a factor like few others in the league once you’re ther and immersed in it for years.
But yeah, never totally trust Sather in anything he says or does. Never forget his comment when running the lean late 90s Oilers about how if he had the resources that teams like the Rangers did at the time, how many cups he would win as a GM. Well, that answer is none in 15 years as a GM there, and the only appearance in the Cup was under a salary cap.
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