The New York Rangers signed Jarret Stoll, he of the drug charges and declining on-ice utility, on Monday for a one-year deal at just $800,000. It was a strange addition, to be sure, but one that makes sense.
Stoll's numbers still appear to fall in the “solid fourth-line option” range, for one thing, and being able to sign him at such a deep discount from what he got last season ($3.25 million in the final season of a three-year deal in LA) is in and of itself not a bad idea. Getting him on a “prove-it” contract also carries little risk for the Rangers because they are among the league's richer teams and, if he sucks — which he might because he's a physical 33-year-old, and they don't age well — they can send him down with no cap penalty. At that point, he'll still make his $800,000 if he wants, but he'll do it riding the bus in the minors.
Malone, too, was a bottom-six guy whose game had clearly lost its fastball (from 2008-12, Malone averaged almost 56 points per 82 games played), the Rangers figured he might be able to reclaim something as a 34-year-old. That, obviously, didn't work out either, to the surprise of very few people, but the Rangers also didn't have to care very much. Malone had four times as many appearances at the AHL level than the NHL, and the organization has money to burn anyway.
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