If you are talking about a deal with the Rangers, there is a pretty interesting name that may very well be available if Larry Brooks is to be believed.
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Here is another reason, perhaps the most significant one, that the Rangers won’t be signing impending restricted free agent Tony DeAngelo to a multi-year contract and instead are seeking to trade the 24-year-old righty defenseman:
That is because a contract of longer than one year for DeAngelo would all but ensure losing 20-year-old righty defenseman Nils Lundkvist to unrestricted free agency on June 2, 2022, without ever getting the Swede to Broadway.
Teams hold exclusive rights to European-born draft picks through the fourth June 1 following their selection, per the CBA. Lundkvist was selected 28th overall in 2018 with the first-rounder obtained from Tampa Bay in the package for Ryan McDonagh and J.T. Miller. So, the Rangers hold his rights through June 1, 2022.
What do you think the odds would be of the highly regarded Swede signing in New York next summer, or the summer after that, knowing the Blueshirts have Jacob Trouba, Adam Fox and DeAngelo lined up long term on the right side of the blue line with free agency and a clearer path elsewhere to the NHL available on the open market?
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https://nypost.com/2020/09/12/nils-l...tony-deangelo/
A RS Dman who is 24 years old and still an RFA, albeit with Arb rights, and was trending to a 64 point season.
He will command fairly big $$ on any long term deal, but maybe they could bridge him until Gio is retired and there is a big hole on the right side at this point.
Buchnevich and Deangelo for Gaudreau and Kylington perhaps?