It’s no secret that the New York Rangers were trying to deal one of Ryan Spooner or Vladislav Namestnikov before and after this year’s NHL Draft. In fact, there was a time where everyone around the team, be it the fan base or the media, expected one of the two, if not both, to be off the roster come training camp.
But here we are, just weeks away from camp and both players are sitting pretty with new, matching two-year contracts. Both players figure to be somewhere in the Rangers’ middle-six going forward.
But it is definitely within reason to believe that the team will continue to shop the two 2018 trade deadline acquisitions.