Looking back on the all too brief career of one of the more underappreciated Rangers of the Lockout Era.
What if I told you that the Rangers once had a 23 year old, 60 point player on their roster and just...let him go after one year of solid play?
Well, in the 2008-09 season the Rangers had Nikolai Zherdev and his team leading (tied with Scott Gomez) 58 points. Traded to the Rangers in the 2008 offseason along with Dan Fritsche for Fedor Tyutin and Christian Backman, Nik Zherdev came to Broadway with the reputation of being a very talented young forward with the "enigmatic" label slapped on him (We'll get back to this a little later).