The Rangers Transformation

It didn't take long after the salary cap went up that the Rangers starting spending again. They locked up both Scott Gomez and Chris Drury on July 1. The Rangers dropped over $14 million a year for quite some time. With these two centres, the Rangers are now a lean, mean scoring machine. When they sign up Henrik Lundqvist, they'll be from top to bottom, one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference.

With all this new scoring, the Rangers will be a popular team in the hockey pools everywhere. As of right now, the Rangers look a little like this:

Martin Straka	Scott Gomez	Jaromir Jagr
Sean Avery *	Chris Drury	Matt Cullen
Marcel Hossa *	Blair Betts	Petr Prucha *
Colton Orr	Ryan Callahan	Ryan Hollweg

Michal Roszival	Paul Mara
Marek Malik	Fedor Tyutin
Thomas Pock	Marc Staal

Henrik Lundqvist *

Steve Valiquette

* indicates Restricted Free Agent

The Rangers are still expected to sign Brendan Shanahan in the coming days and they will still shop around looking for another Top Six forward and Top Four defenseman. The Rangers still have some cap space to work with and they do like to spend all their monies.

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