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http://www.nypost.com/seven/12262007/sports/rangers/rangers_seeking_full_mettle_jacket_419420.htm
Larry Brooks of the New York Post reports that New York Rangers GM Glen Sather is intent on bolstering his team?s defense once the holiday roster freeze is lifted Thursday at midnight.
Word is that the Rangers have been scouting a couple of Columbus Blue Jackets blueliners, namely pending unrestricted free agent Adam Foote and Rostislav Klesla.
Foote, who earns $4.6 million this season, has a no-trade clause in his contract so he would have to approve a departure form Columbus. Klesla is signed through the 2009-10 season and will earn $1.6 million per season.
It?s believed that the Blue Jackets are interested in Rangers forward Petr Prucha.
In an expanded deal, Brooks suggests the Rangers would look to dump Marek Malik ($2.5 million) and Paul Mara ($3 million) to the Blue Jackets and possibly get pending UFA forwards Jason Chimera ($875,000) or David Vyborny ($2.2 million) in return. However, acquiring Klesla would cost the Rangers more than a couple of bottom-pair defensemen.
Whether Sather gets together on a deal with the Blue Jackets, expectations are that he will not hang on to Mara or Malik as the club?s seventh defenseman. Both blueliners have been made healthy scratches at different points this season.
The Rangers, who currently have about $2.25 million in salary cap space, would gain even more cap flexibility if they can rid themselves of Mara or Malik.
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<H1>RANGERS SEEKING FULL METTLE JACKET
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By LARRY BROOKS


HEADING OUT?The Rangers are looking to trade for Columbus Blue Jackets Adam Foote or Rostislav Klesla, both gritty defensemen — and the Jackets' first choice in return seems to be Petr Prucha.



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December 26, 2007 -- The Rangers may be last in the NHL in scoring with their puny 2.22 goals-per-game attack as they enter tonight's Garden match against Carolina, but GM Glen Sather's immediate aim is on strengthening his team's defense when the league roster freeze is lifted tomorrow at midnight.
Indeed, with 20-year-old Marc Staal finally beginning to act his age, and with expensive veterans Marek Malik and Paul Mara recently reduced to roles as scratches, it is believed the Blueshirts' recent concentrated scouting of the Blue Jackets has been focused on putting together a deal to pry either veteran Adam Foote or top-four defenseman Rostislav Klesla out of Columbus.
The 36-year-old Foote, a physical presence the Rangers so obviously lack on the blue line, is on the final year of a three-year contract at $4.6M per that contains a no-trade clause he would have to waive in order to come to New York.
If willing, the two-time Cup-winner with Colorado will become one of the prime rentals on the market as the Feb. 26 deadline approaches. Hence, the Rangers' attempt for a pre-emptive strike.
Klesla, the multi-dimensional fourth-overall selection in the 2000 Entry Draft who will turn 26 in March, is under contract through the 2009-10 season at $1.6M per.
The Blue Jackets, who have scored four goals in their last four games, are believed primarily interested in Petr Prucha. The Rangers, who have approximately $2.25M of full season cap space which to work, would likely look to send either Mara ($3M) or Malik ($2.5M) to Columbus in an expanded deal that could include either left wing Jason Chimera or right wing David Vyborny. Obtaining Klesla would almost certainly require much more going the other way.
The 28-year-old, 6-foot-2, 215-pound Chimera, drafted by Sather's Oilers in 1997, has gone 17 straight games without scoring, so he'd obviously fit right in on Broadway. Earning $875,000, he's eligible for unrestricted free agency this summer.
Vyborny, who will turn 33 next month and is also an impending unrestricted free agent, was drafted by Sather's Oilers in 1993. The 5-10 Czech native, who has scored two goals in 28 matches, played the final two games before the Christmas break after spending three weeks on IR with a groin injury. He's earning $2.2M.
Regardless of whether they can create a match with Columbus, whose first-year GM Scott Howson was originally hired for a management position by Sather's Oilers in 1994, the Rangers have no long-term intention of carrying either Mara or Malik as their seventh defenseman.
Each carries too much of a cap hit to be a spare.
Mara, scratched on Sunday after Malik had been a scratch in six of the previous seven, has apparently lost his spot on the second power-play unit despite having the team's heaviest shot from the point. Mara, who finished tied for 11th in the league in defensemen PP scoring (8-21-29) two years ago for Phoenix, has played a total of 43 PP seconds in his last eight games.
* Blueshirts are 2-6-2 in last 10, a stretch that began with a Dec. 3, 4-0 loss at the Garden to the Canes.
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Rangers seem to be the trade partner</H1>
 
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jimotis4heisman;1039340; said:
that is untrue, not a real story there...
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That's a good thing. Mara was average 6 years ago and I doubt he's gotten any better. It sounds like wishful thinking on the NYR part.....

starBUCKS;1039341; said:
1460 was reporting the Rangers as trade partners this afternoon.
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1460 has been wrong before and you really want them to be wrong in this case. Howson and Hitch would need their heads examined if they did anything like the deal we see here......
 
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I'll start a rumor just for the hell of it :biggrin:

Chimera and Foote to Tampa for Brad Richards

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OK so that's a deal I would LOVE to see the CBJ make (well minus the obvious detriment for the Wings by having a competent centerman for Nash), but it won't happen.

Richards would finally give Nash the centerman that the Ghost-that-was-formerly-known-as-Sergei-Fedorov was supposed to be......
 
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I've read on a couple of "NHL Rumor" sites that Vancouver is willing to offer up Ryan Kessler as trade bait. Unfortunately, I haven't heard the Blue Jacket's as a possible suitor. I think Kessler would be a great fit in Hitchcock's system. Fine 2-way player...and to top it off, he's a Buckeye!
 
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TexasBuck said:
I've read on a couple of "NHL Rumor" sites that Vancouver is willing to offer up Ryan Kessler as trade bait. Unfortunately, I haven't heard the Blue Jacket's as a possible suitor. I think Kessler would be a great fit in Hitchcock's system. Fine 2-way player...and to top it off, he's a Buckeye!
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hes a 1.75m player signed through 09-10
36games 9-918 +6
eh for a player who has only hit 20 points once thats a chunk of change.

of note:
ufas
foote 4.6m
vyborny 2.2m
peca 1.315 (plus 600k in bonus potential)
chimmer 1m
hejda 1m
hainsey 900k
shelley 650k
beech ufa 522k
mckenzie 500k

fritshce 750k rfa
glenx 522k rfa* could be ufa vi
lindstrom 525k rfa
methot 475k rfa
pazzy 1.4m rfa
popperle 500k rfa

plus more in the system
 
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