It's quite noticeable among us fans on twitter about the shakeups surrounding the bottom 6 players on the Rangers forward roster. Boyle has been virtually useless so far this year and I was strongly against giving him any kind of long term deal in the offseason unless Boyle was able to prove he could repeat what he was able to do last season. With Boyle signed into a 3 year contract, like quite a few of the Rangers early this year have tried to do too much with the puck in attempt to score goals. Erik Christensen has no place on this team. Prust is noticeably having a rough start to the year due to injury and probably could use some extra time off.
I'm not sure with all the success that Carl Hagelin is currently having in Hartford, how long the Rangers can afford to keep him there. I'm curious to see how well a line composed of Avery-Boyle-Hagelin would fare or if the Rangers wanted to get really bold and have them call up Zuccarello and putting Zuke and Hagelin on a line together here either with Brad Richards or Boyle and seeing what could happen from that.
I'm not sure Sather is going to be able to find a GM partner dumb enough to try to take Wolski or Christensen off the Rangers hands by the time the trade deadline comes around either. The Rangers high end prospects will be ready to compete for roster spots next season and guys like Wolski and Christensen won't be around next year anyway if the Rangers could somehow trade either guy for a late draft pick somewhere although this scenario is unlikely.
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