More from Brooks:
"Making like the stand-in President Bill Mitchell at the cabinet meeting in the movie, «Dave,» you take that, add it to the original $909,000, that gives you around $2.9 million, you get the Blackhawks to retain half of Kane's $10.5 million cap hit, you get another team to take half of the resulting $5.25 million and voila, Kane's ultimate cap charge becomes $2.625 million that fits and welcome to Broadway, No. 88.
Then, of course, there are the assets the Rangers would have to sacrifice in order to get this done. There is absolutely zero appetite within the hierarchy to move the club's remaining first-rounder in this year's draft, and the same hands-off edict will apply to
Brennan Othmann,
Will Cuylle and the club's blue-chippers.
It would be a challenge to get it done, though if Kane audibly disappointed upon learning that the Blueshirts had acquired Tarasenko tells Chicago he would waive the no-move only for a trade to the Rangers, the cost could become manageable.
If Kravtsov clears, that would be a benefit in itself by putting him in the position to get consistent top-line work with the Wolf Pack. That would prepare him if the Rangers need the winger in the playoffs because of injuries.
But if claimed, it is not as if the Blueshirts would have lost him for nothing. In essence, they would have traded him for $2 million in cap spaceand the chance of adding Patrick K"
- Larry Brooks