There has been absolutely no Ranger news since last week when we reported that Petr Nedved was invited to training camp. The Mats Sundin watch remains in force, but the Rangers remain without enough cap space to sign Ronny Sundin, let alone Mats, and they don't have enough trade bait to open up that space, despite false rumors being spread by discredited fraudsters. So what can we do to help fill the time for Ranger fans in need of their summertime fix? That's right, our next installment in our Blueshirt Bulletin+ series about all the new Rangers who hope to benefit from a change in scenery. We've already looked at Markus Naslund and Nikolai Zherdev. Next up: Wade Redden. Here's our lead-in:
Ranger GM Glen Sather has always believed that good players are still good players and that sometimes all they really need is a change of scenery. And he always believed that he was the one who could jump start the stalled careers of players who were toiling in poisoned or otherwise compromised atmospheres. His results have been mixed -- from one extreme to the other given the success of pulling Jaromir Jagr out of a bad situation in Washington to the failure of trying to rescue the too-often concussed Eric Lindros from Philadelphia. But never before has Sather thrown all his cards into the "change of scenery" bucket as he has this year...
Of all the important new Rangers said to be in need of change of scenery, Redden is one for whom that landscape is not real estate. He needed to readjust his inner space -- the space between his ears -- more than he needed a trip to outer space, which is where Ottawa fans thought their cornerstone defenseman had taken up residence since the lockout.
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