Yesterday, Chris Drury announced his retirement from the NHL. Over 892 regular season games he scored 255 goals with 360 assists for 615 points. In the postseason, over 135 games, he scored 47 goals with 42 assists for 89 points. He was known as a clutch player with 64 GWG over the course of his career. Drury was bought out by the Rangers on June 29th to clear cap room for the Rangers to sign unrestricted free agent Brad Richards.
First an foremost I'm a Drury fan. It's on record on this blog. I can't blame him for accepting a buyout to look for other work which sounds like he has already done this summer. However, I also tweeted yesterday that I didn't blame the fans either for being angry at him. One does have to wonder if his knee was already going to prevent him from playing this season anyway. This is the reason why I stated the Rangers should just keep him this year and buyout Wolski. Drury could have just retired under contract and would have come off the cap or the Rangers would have just put him on LTIR and his cap number would come off the books that way. By the way, the Rangers would have been able to do EVERYTHING that they have done already this offseason. Its unfortunate that Drury was not the player that fans were hoping to get when he was signed to that monster contract. Good luck to him in his post NHL life.
Side note: I'm going to begin posting with more frequency as the season gets closer. The start of the season is only 6 weeks away!!
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