The hope from the Rangers is that they didn’t see the best of Dustin Tokarski four years ago.
The Blueshirts signed the 28-year-old goalie to a league-minimum, one-year, $650,000 deal on Monday, bringing him in to possibly compete with Alex Georgiev for the role as backup to Henrik Lundqvist. Tokarski has bounced around since his time as the Canadiens’ short-lived savior, having replaced the injured Carey Price in the 2014 Eastern Conference final against the Rangers.
The Canadiens traded him to the Ducks in 2016, and the Ducks traded him to the Flyers in 2017. He has played in only seven NHL games since that one playoff series — only one in the past three seasons — spending most of the past three years with teams in the AHL.