Bobby Bevilacqua

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I’d like to preface this article: I haven’t been posting at all for a while, missing out on a busy and exciting time of the NHL offseason, and not covering a lot of Ranger moves. I was interning at MLB Network with varying hours and shifts, making it hard to write articles, work, and balance everything else. Now that my internship is over, I look forward to covering the Rangers again, writing lots of articles, sharing my opinion on signings and trades that already happened, and providing you with steady content again. Thank you for the continuing support.

Heading into the offseason and nearing the trade deadline, it was a huge question mark as to what Jeff Gorton would do to address the Rangers’ many needs. Upgrading the defense would be tough considering the massive, practically unmovable contracts of Dan Girardi and Mark Staal, they didn’t have the cap space to get a big name forward, and locking up all of the UFAs and RFAs would be tough.

The last thing that anybody expected was for the team to trade Derick Brassard, their leading goal scorer from last season.

Jeff Gorton made a trade with the Ottawa Senators, sending Derick Brassard and a 2018 7^th round pick in exchange for 23 year old Mika Zibanejad and a 2018 2^nd round pick. Read the rest of this entry →