Details Emerge About the Tony DeAngelo Fight With Rangers Teammates
In one of the weirdest stories to come out of the NHL, Tony DeAngelo is done as a New York Ranger and has been sent home by the team until a trade is facilitated. While the Rangers have mentioned to interested teams they are willing to retain some of DeAngelo's $4.8 million cap hit this season and next, any trade will certainly have its risks.
DeAngelo's bizarre situation with the Rangers started shortly after he signed a two-year extension in the Big Apple back in October of last year. Then it turned to his social media accounts and he was being called out all over the place regarding his views, his burner accounts and his stance on a number of things away from the rink.
While the Rangers apparently let it be known they wouldn't tolerate his outspokenness off the ice, they made mention if another incident happened with his teammates, he was done. That takes us to Saturday of last week, after the Rangers were beat by the Pittsburgh Penguins in overtime.
According to Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet, then this happened:
The organization felt DeAngelo “wasn’t able to move on” from his early-season benching and warned him one more incident would be the end of his tenure. That came Saturday night, after the 5–4 overtime loss to Pittsburgh. DeAngelo delivered a sarcastic, cutting comment to Alexandar Georgiev in the aftermath of that defeat. The goalie clocked DeAngelo before the two were separated, and the decision to put him on waivers was made that night.
New York will try to trade him, but it’s not going to be easy. Any acquiring team knows there will be heat. Gorton indicated the Rangers currently are not pursuing a termination of DeAngelo’s contract, and it appears unlikely they’d be able to do it unless the player agreed, for whatever reason. Since he does not turn 26 until October, he can be bought out for one-third of the $5.3-million salary on his contract for 2021–22.
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