John Tortorella got the size he wanted on the wing today when the Rangers traded for 6'6, 230-pound Nik Antropov, sending a second round draft pick to Toronto for the 29-year-old Kazakh. The Rangers also shed a pair of wingers who lack size in acquiring defenseman Derek Morris from Phoenix. Petr Prucha and Nigel Dawes, both tagged as smallish players but who on the other hand do have scoring touch, plus disposable Dmitri Kalinin, were a hefty sum for the Rangers to pay for a player about to become a free agent. As we noted this morning, the Rangers are in a weak salary cap position that made it likely that they would trade at least two of their impending RFAs, and have done so in moving Dawes and Prucha -- while that appears to be a necessary move at the moment, it does represent a mismanagement of the salary cap...
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