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Today we’re talking the New York Rangers, and how they recently got swept by the Carolina Hurricanes in their 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs qualifying play-in series. They are the first team to reserve a 1/8 shot at drafting Alexis Lafrenière at the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, but there’s more to their story than just that.
We’re referring to their legendary starting goaltender, Henrik Lundqvist, and his future here; as the elimination of the Rangers could potentially be the signal of a new future for the 38-year-old netminder, who happens to have one year left on an $8-million contract. Have we seen the last of King Hank in New York?
Larry Brooks Article: https://nypost.com/2020/08/03/rangers-in-terrible-spot-as-henrik-lundqvist-era-may-be-over/
The 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs will involve eight already-confirmed teams, which are the Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning, Washington Capitals, and Philadelphia Flyers in the East, and the Colorado Avalanche, St. Louis Blues, Vegas Golden Knights, and Dallas Stars in the West. The remaining teams will fight in qualifying play-in series. The matchups will be the Chicago Blackhawks against the Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames against the Winnipeg Jets, Arizona Coyotes against the Nashville Predators, Vancouver Canucks against the Minnesota Wild, Columbus Blue Jackets against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins against the Montreal Canadiens, Carolina Hurricanes against the New York Rangers, and the Florida Panthers against the New York Islanders.
Alexis Lafrenière is the projected first overall prospect at the 2020 NHL Entry Draft.
The current NHL rankings for the 2020 NHL Draft go as follows:
1st) Undetermined team
2nd) Los Angeles Kings
3rd) Ottawa Senators (via San Jose Sharks)
4th) Detroit Red Wings
5th) Ottawa Senators
6th) Anaheim Ducks
7th) New Jersey Devils
8th) Buffalo Sabres.
The draft is stacked with guys like Alexis Lafrenière at the top, with Quinton Byfield, Tim Stützle, Lucas Raymond, Alexander Holtz, Jamie Drysdale, Marco Rossi, Cole Perfetti, Jake Sanderson, and Yaroslav Askarov rounding out the top 10. The rest of the draft has a ton of great talent as well, like Anton Lundell, Kaiden Guhle, Dawson Mercer, Braden Schneider, Dylan Holloway, Hendrix Lapierre, Connor Zary, Justin Barron, Jack Quinn, John-Jason Peterka, William Wallinder, Rodion Amirov, Jacob Perreault, Seth Jarvis, Ty Smilanic, Jeremie Poirer, Noel Gunler, Mavrik Bourque, Lukas Reichel, Tyler Kleven, Ridly Greig, Justin Sourdif, Shakir Mukhamadullin, Jake Neighbours, Luke Tuch, Helge Grans, Jan Mysak, Michael Benning, and Antonio Stranges.
The former NHL Draft Lottery odds, went in order as the Detroit Red Wings, Ottawa Senators, San Jose Sharks (Senators), Los Angeles Kings, Anaheim Ducks, New Jersey Devils, Buffalo Sabres, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks, Arizona Coyotes (Devils), Minnesota Wild, Winnipeg Jets, New York Rangers, Florida Panthers, Columbus Blue Jackets, Calgary Flames, Vancouver Canucks (Devils), Nashville Predators, Toronto Maple Leafs (Hurricanes), Edmonton Oilers, New York Islanders (Senators), Dallas Stars, Carolina Hurricanes (Rangers), Pittsburgh Penguins (Wild), Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning (Sharks), Colorado Avalanche, Vegas Golden Knights, Washington Capitals, St. Louis Blues, and Boston Bruins (Ducks).
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21 Comments
Could you live stream the Chicago vs Oilers Game Later?
Oh so this was the video…
Long live the king
I hope he plays one more year
Could you live stream pens vs Montreal
Great Video
I really hope Lundquist gets a cup before he goes to the hall of fame
Love the channel ❤️👍
Cya Old man… one of best to not touch the cup… don't need any of your hair gel on the cup…. don't let the door hit you the way out…
Rangers might get stuck with that contract ..Teams are struggling with their own cap space..They will need to add sweeters to get teams to bite ..So who do they give up hmmm
He Should of Retired 2 Years ago,
He was working out and doing shooting drills with Lucas Raymond a few months ago in Sweden to stay in shape.
He said Lucas has great talent.
Look at twitter msg rangers and see Hanks warm up
An era might be over I hate Lundqvist cuz I’m a habs fan and they beat the Habs multiple times in the playoffs but it sad to think that all the guys like the Sedins retired Loungo retired and others 😢
But a new era is here a speedy fast game
Where people like Lucic aren’t good because they play a physical game and power their way to win and score while now they get skated around in circles because there not fast
Shesterkin wasn't any better, allowed 4 goals ha. Rangers just couldn't stop the Canes and now Canes show they have a two goalies who can dominate. A rest in Mrazek was best, expect him to start when best of 7 starts. I wouldn't strain my goalie back to back. I still feel Canes in the East final vs hmm I like Oilers but their D sucks and goalie has issues. The Avs look strong
A trade with the kings might be possible if the rangers put their 1st rounder for this year or next year. Kings have a lot of cap space and no big raises in salary (most of their prospects are still in their ELCs), so they could take henrik's contract. He wouldn't play though, no way he plays instead of Quick or Petersen.
Goalies were the least of their problems in the canes series
I hope to see Lundquist sign with SJ since Aaron Dell is going to be a free agent, and Lundquist can mentor Jones since he hasn’t been good for the last couple years
as a swede. the SHL isn't close to the NHL
He maybe go back home to Sweden to Frolunda HC play last game there
Trade: ludquist to the wings taking on all his salary plus either their first or Anderson (who wants out of new York anyways) for red wings 2nd (their own 2nd) and a Rasmussen
I don’t think its Henrik Lundqvist is retiring i think he might be traded but you never know until next season
As a Rangers fan. Rangers need to add a top 4 left handed D man to play with Trouba and add a gritty bottom 6 forwards that actually win battles and get to the net. The talent is obviously there with Breadman, Mika, Kakko, Kreider, Fox etc. They’re not far from contention
I have a feeling Hank would retire before he puts on a different jersey, he was the spine of the team for probably 10 years and his jersey deserves to be up in the rafters, with eddies, and richter’s