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Posted on 09/30/2020 10:26:02 AM PDT by airborne
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The 38-year-old goalie agreed to the $59.5 million contract extension ($8.5 million average annual value) with the Rangers on Dec. 4, 2013.
Lundqvist is 459-310-96 with a 2.43 goals-against average, .918 save percentage and 64 shutouts in 887 NHL games, all with New York, and 61-67 with a 2.30 GAA, .921 save percentage and 10 shutouts in the postseason.
"THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!," Lundqvist posted on social media. "15 years ago, I played my first game for @NYRangers I came here with high hopes and big dreams but in my wildest imagination, I could never have pictured the amazing ride that lay ahead.
"Representing this organization has been the biggest source of pride and joy in my life. I'm so grateful for the opportunity, for the friendships and for all the great memories created wearing the red, white and blue. I will always cherish my time as a Ranger. From the bottom of my heart, thank you!"
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Hockey is full of class-acts. Lundquist is one.
Doneqvist was done since he waved at that TB
OT blue line shot...5 years ago
Played one of the finest games ever but could not
carry his team ...8 years ago
Selfish to the end when the team could have gotten
more cap space - PTUI! Good riddance!
He has an identical twin brother who plays forward in Sweden.
I had to do a double-take when he turned up in the Olympics.
HoF bound for sure.
Thanks Hank. You were awesome. Heart and soul of the team.
Point 1
Can’t stop em all. Holtby was lucky that the puck bounced off the short end off the stick and not over.
Point 2
Not sure which game your referring to But it’s guys like Ovi, Stamkos, Cindy, ect who carry teams not goalies.
Point 3
Selfish to the end? The contract was 13 years ago. Typical new yorker.
He seemed to have clear problems with durability earlier in his career -- which is not uncommon for European players who are used to shorter seasons.
He also never really had a great team in front of him.
The only real downside to his play was that good goal-scorers could exploit his weaknesses if they figured out that he consistently left holes in his stance and dropped to his knees too quickly in many situations. When Ilya Kovalchuk played on the Devils he was one of the few players who absolutely owned Lundqvist.
Signing a goalie to a long-term contract with an $8.5-million annual value in this salary cap era was absolutely disastrous for the team. Even a perennial Vezina Trophy winner isn't worth that much -- because it makes it harder to fill out a roster to play in front of him.
The Islanders signing Rick DiPietro to a 50-year contract or whatever it was still has to be the worst personnel decision in the history of hockey.
1) 2015 ECF Game 3 @ TB
https://youtu.be/IbVs-WSSGOM
Makes a great stop on a semi breakaway and
a minute later gives up a weak goal
2) 2012 ECF Game 3 @ NJ.
You must not watch or know much hockey
if you don’t understand how a hot G can
carry a team. Last year’s Blues are a good
example.
3) The overpaid Doneqvist got his latest
bloated pact in 2013.
Mad Mike Milbury, indeed.
Never blame a guy for getting paid. Not his fault the team threw too much money at him over too long. Also not his fault they didn’t try to renegotiate. At the table the teams jobs is too manage all the salaries, the player’s job is to get paid as much as they’ll give him. If they cut their own throat that’s on them.
Ben Roethlisberger regularly agrees to rejigger his contract in order to keep a competitive team around him.
Problem is that they still owe Ben the money. This just pushes the debt problems further and further out into the future (i.e. DiPietro’s ridiculously long contract).
You don’t get the money you deserve, you get the money that you negotiate.
Yeah. But he doesn’t call first. Teams have to be smart enough to call somebody in. NFL is way better about extensions (which almost always result in short term paycuts) than anybody else. Differences in league culture.
Yup. Thus why the good agents are the good agents.
Cannot wait to see his sweater raised to the rafters. He was a class act and was great within the community. Rangers should hire him as their goalie coach.
1. They signed him to a long-term deal with a no-trade clause.
2. A couple of years later he took a leave of absence to deal with a chronic medical problem (reported as a skin disorder that got aggravated whenever he perspired, if I remember correctly).
3. After sitting out a year, he decided to officially retire.
4. During his leave of absence he remained under contract with the team even though they didn't have to pay his salary, and his salary didn't count against the team's salary cap. But the no-trade clause meant they were forced to list him among their protected players in the Las Vegas expansion draft even though he never played another game in the NHL.
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