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The New York Rangers May Not Be Able To Bring A Few Players Back

06/28/2014 at 5:06pm EDT

from Andrew Gross of Ranger Rants,

Rangers GM Glen Sather provided a realistic assessment on the Rangers’ chances of retaining all their free agents after the team made its seven selections in rounds 2-7 Saturday at the Wells Fargo Center.

To paraphrase, they’re not good, and that was even before Sather said the NHL general managers were taken somewhat by surprise by the salary cap being set at $69 million instead of the previously expected $70 million.

“We already traded one guy (Derek Dorsett) to give us some relief,” Sather said. “We didn’t know then but we had a real good idea that it wasn’t going to be $70 million so we had to make some room. We’ll see what happens here in the next week.

“I’d like to have everyone back,” Sather added. “Realistically I think it’s going to be complicated for the two reasons I said: One, the cap is not going up and the other one is where we ended up at the end of the year (in the Stanley Cup Final).

“We didn’t win so I think, realistically, some of these guys have got to pull the horns in a little bit,” Sather said.

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added 5:25pm, Watch ten minutes of Glen Sather from the draft floor below...

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