DeAngelo Contract Situation Foreshadows Eventual Departure

Kevin Hoffman-USA TODAY SportsWith the Rangers’ preseason underway, the team finds itself with an incomplete roster. Defenseman Tony DeAngelo remains a restricted free agent and the two sides don’t appear particularly close to a resolution.

At the heart of the issue is a lack of cap space. After all of the wheeling and dealing this summer, the Rangers are left with just $1.16 million in cap room. Add in a small buffer for maneuverability, and it doesn’t really leave much ambiguity as to what the Rangers can offer DeAngelo.

Told there is currently wide gulf between Rangers and DeAngelo. NYR don’t seem inclined to move off same $925,000 for which Lemieux signed. Puck is in the defenseman’s end.

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