On the finish of the day — actually — the Rangers are in a much better place than when the solar got here up Friday.
The Blueshirts are swimming in cap area after buying and selling Jacob Trouba to Anaheim to shut a tough chapter of the lame-duck captain’s profession; they locked up franchise goaltender Igor Shesterkin on an eight-year extension for the wholly equitable $11.5 million cap hit per; and they’re even two factors to the nice after their 4-2 Backyard takedown of the Penguins that represented the membership’s most disciplined efficiency in weeks.
There isn’t a query that there was trauma in primarily forcing Trouba out the door by threatening that he could be placed on waivers if he didn’t settle for a commerce to alternate choices he was introduced.
The story of how this unfolded has been instructed and retold right here and I do know I turned a big a part of that story and for that I’m sorry that it has had such a profound impact on Trouba’s life. However I’m not sorry for doing my job correctly.
