Keys to the New York Rangers offseason
Emily Kaplan and Chris Peters of ESPN: Keys to the New York Rangers offseason.
Show discipline: The Rangers will have lots of salary cap space this offseason and have already been linked to big names like Artemi Panarin. Trying to do a quick fix using free agency could do more harm than good.
Take care of the RFAs: Among their RFAs are Pavel Buchnevich, Vinni Lettieri, Brendan Lemieux, Neal Pionk, Anthony DeAngelo, and Fredrik Claesson.
Incorporate prospects: Vitali Kravtsov and Igor Shestyorkin could make the team. Alexander Georgiev has been good but Shestyorkin may need to get into some NHL games.
The Senators and Oilers looking to hiring another executive
Emily Sadler of Sportsnet: The Ottawa Senators are looking to hire a president of hockey operations according to Elliotte Friedman.
“One of the things that the three of us have been hearing is that Ottawa is thinking about hiring a president of hockey operations, and the Senators said today that is true,” Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported during Saturday’s Headlines segment on Hockey Night in Canada, alongside fellow insiders Nick Kypreos and Chris Johnston. “It’s not imminent, but the one thing they wanted to come out and say clearly was that this does not mean that Pierre Dorion is in trouble. They supported the work he’s done in building up their prospects and picks.”
According to Nick Kypreos, the Edmonton Oilers could also be looking to bring another management person.
“ also has the option, much like the Ottawa Senators, to find a president to oversee his general manager and their relationship with the coach moving forward. Right now, that presently belongs to Bob Nicholson,” Kypreos explained. “But what a president of hockey operations would do, is it would exclude Bob Nicholson from the hockey side and get him solely looking at the business side.”