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Brooks: Rangers need to get with the program and lock up 2014 UFAs-to-be

08/04/2013 at 3:56am EDT

The New York Post's Larry Brooks duly notes that perhaps the biggest signings of the summer of 2013 have in fact involved teams locking up the unrestricted free agent class of 2014, and as such, Brooks urges the New York Rangers to start ponying up to retain their core:

The potential free agent class of 2014 is being whittled down one by one — a Joe Pavelski here, a Jay Bouwmeester there, contract extensions for essential players everywhere.

Except in New York, where the Rangers have been curiously reluctant to engage in negotiations with Henrik Lundqvist, Ryan Callahan and Dan Girardi, all of whom can go free (alternate meaning) next summer.

Understand, it’s not as if negotiations with any or all of the Big Three have hit snags. Fact is, Slap Shots has been told, negotiations have yet to even begin with the franchise goaltender, the captain or the first-pair, right-side defenseman.

Why? Who knows? General manager Glen Sather’s email response to Slap Shots this week when asked about the status of negotiations was, “We will be talking.”

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