That is an invalid statement as I care, so there is one.
- ducks31

Count me in, make that 2

I have no idea what you said in your first paragraph...

Eklund: Why Won't the Rangers Pay Derek Stepan? Is Ryan Murray Niedermeyer 2.0?
- Eklund

I didn t ask for this he came up with the comparison

Hey, Ducks are my 3rd favorite team!

WOW, kid plays 1 pre-season game and you're comparing him to neidermayer

- sensarmy_11

1 full nhl season .... look for the jesus comparisons

Cant wait for the NYI to offer sheet Stepan...

Moulson-Tavares-Bouchard
Bailey-Stepan-Okposo
Grabner-Nielsen-Clutterbuck
Martin-Cizikas-McDonald/Regin

Strome & Nelson as call ups!

Cant wait for the NYI to offer sheet Stepan...

Moulson-Tavares-Bouchard
Bailey-Stepan-Okposo
Grabner-Nielsen-Clutterbuck
Martin-Cizikas-McDonald/Regin

Strome & Nelson as call ups!
- kcNYI

Not sure what Snow is waiting for, the Isles are the only team in a position to do it and really screw us over without having to worry about damaging "the relationship".

If the comparison is to Rob... nailed it...

Not sure what Snow is waiting for, the Isles are the only team in a position to do it and really screw us over without having to worry about damaging "the relationship".
- xcheckmajor

I would have done it already. Snow needs to stop being Mr. Nice guy and be a little controversial for once

Cant wait for the NYI to offer sheet Stepan...

Moulson-Tavares-Bouchard
Bailey-Stepan-Okposo
Grabner-Nielsen-Clutterbuck
Martin-Cizikas-McDonald/Regin

Strome & Nelson as call ups!
- kcNYI

Sign Stepan trade Nelson and a d prospect for a top two d man and get rolling

Sign Stepan trade Nelson and a d prospect for a top two d man and get rolling
- mighty13duck

There's no way the Isles are actually gonna get him. They would simply screw us over and make us have to move 2 Roster players like Boyle and Pyatt. But I'm pretty sure the problem is also Stepan actually signing with the Isles, there is no way in hell he would. He's not a malcontent.

umm 4 times better?

I'm jk, no one cares about the Ducks anyways
- BigDre

um 8 times better

There's no way the Isles are actually gonna get him. They would simply screw us over and make us have to move 2 Roster players like Boyle and Pyatt. But I'm pretty sure the problem is also Stepan actually signing with the Isles, there is no way in hell he would. He's not a malcontent.
- xcheckmajor

Why not?

Why not?
- mighty13duck

Because he doesn't have issues with the Rangers organization. And on top of that, here's a young kid thats only known this club, his best friend McDonagh is playing here, his other friends are playing here. I'm pretty sure he's not gonna jump ship to the crosstown rivals simply over a matter of $1M or $2M in the immediate 1 or 2 years. Any amount in an offersheet to him this year is going to be given to him in an extension next year anyway.

Ah yes, the time of the year where prospects get so overrated. I remember when MPS for Edmonton got a hat trick in the preseason. He was gong to be a superstar!

Bo Horvat is Steve Yzerman V 2.0. Book it!

Sign Stepan trade Nelson and a d prospect for a top two d man and get rolling
- mighty13duck

you can trade for stastny for cheap right now or O'Reilly for a premium at the deadline, take your pick.

Ah yes, the time of the year where prospects get so overrated. I remember when MPS for Edmonton got a hat trick in the preseason. He was gong to be a superstar!
- RogerRoeper

MPS could still be a superstar, if he wants to be, and there lies the problem with him. He has the size, hands and skill set to be a star but hes a little boy in a mans body and hes very timid and scared to play rough hockey. Hopefully St.Louis can coach him out of it.

Cant wait for the NYI to offer sheet Stepan...

Moulson-Tavares-Bouchard
Bailey-Stepan-Okposo
Grabner-Nielsen-Clutterbuck
Martin-Cizikas-McDonald/Regin

Strome & Nelson as call ups!
- kcNYI

Wang the cheapest owner in the league. No way he lets snow doll out another penny.

Wang the cheapest owner in the league. No way he lets snow doll out another penny.
- blacksheep1

waiver wire will fire up soon, they will poach it hard.

Add to the stable of Grabner/Aucoin/Hickey/Strait/Nabokov, just crazy how active they are with it

Getting a Niedermayer isn't so hard. You just have to be willing to part with a Kurvers.

Getting a Niedermayer isn't so hard. You just have to be willing to part with a Kurvers.
- golfingsince

Everything Jan wrote here is true and are all valid reasons. Another easier reason is, the Rangers won't pay him because THEY DON'T HAVE TO. There is a process in the NHL called the Entry Draft. This is a system that the league pays for, provides, and gives, young players a chance to easily have access into the NHL. Others that don't want to use this, they are UFA's like Justin Shultz, Torey Krug, Martin St. Louis, Mike York, etc.... UFA's never signed their rights away because they didn't take advantage of the Draft (which makes it infinitely easier to enter the NHL system). Now I bring this up because, inherently, Stepan was scouted and drafted by the Rangers. They spent the time and money to scout him and get him into their system. This is one of the reasons why the CBA has laws that protect teams who draft their players and cultivate them and develop them into Pros. So when a club has the right to play hardball with a young budding star whom which they know will suck TENS of MILLIONS out of the club in the future, it is the team's given advantage during the years of RFA to leverage that right whenever they see fit. Stepan is not getting the $5M he deserves not because he doesn't produce like a player that should, but simply because the business side of the sport deems him Rangers property and no one else's. The business side of the sport deems him ineligible for arbitration because he is with his drafted team and he has only played for so long with his originally drafted team. So to sum it up again, they aren't paying him because they don't have to. Its one of the few times EVER, a team can get a discount on a high producing player and they are taking the discount.
- xcheckmajor

Perfect.

Getting a Niedermayer isn't so hard. You just have to be willing to part with a Kurvers.
- golfingsince

How hard is it to get a Neely?

umm 4 times better?

I'm jk, no one cares about the Ducks anyways
- BigDre

Charlie Conway cares.
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