4:45pm: At a press conference this evening, Rangers GM Jeff Gorton made it clear that DeAngelo “has played his last game for the Rangers.” As Stephen Whyno of the Associated Press relays on Twitter, Gorton felt that DeAngelo “wasn’t able to move on” from being a healthy scratch earlier in the season and if anything else happened, the team was ready to move on instead. DeAngelo will not be around the team, despite currently being on the taxi squad, while they search for a trade. At this point, the Rangers are not looking to void his contract.
11:05am: New York Rangers defenseman Tony DeAngelo has cleared waivers today, meaning he can now be assigned to the taxi squad or minor leagues. DeAngelo was waived after an incident occurred following Saturday’s overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins, in which he and goaltender Alexandar Georgiev had a physical altercation in the hallway outside the locker room. As Larry Brooks of the New York Post reports, the altercation was broken up by rookie defenseman K’Andre Miller.
DeAngelo, 25, signed a two-year, $9.6MM contract just a few months ago after his breakout 15-goal, 53-point 2019-20 season. He received Norris Trophy votes for the outstanding campaign but was still overshadowed by assistant captain Jacob Trouba and young star Adam Fox on the right side in New York. This is not the first time DeAngelo has been involved in altercations with teammates. In 2014, he was suspended by the OHL for violating the league’s harassment, abuse, and diversity policy by directing a slur at one of his Sarnia Sting teammates. It was the second time he had been suspended for violating the league’s policy. DeAngelo has also been suspended in the NHL for the abuse of an official, serving a three-game ban in 2017.
As Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic tweets, the Rangers are now still determining what the next step is for the organization and DeAngelo. They are working with his agent Pat Brisson on the matter, though a trade seems very unlikely at this point. Putting DeAngelo on the taxi squad or minor leagues would bury $1.075MM of his cap hit, while an offseason buyout would require the Rangers to only pay out one-third of the remaining salary owed because he is still under the age of 26. That would mean relatively minuscule cap penalties moving forward, though they would have to wait until the end of the year.
yeah not a shocker. dont think they do it if they didnt expect him to clear.
Send him to Mar-a-Logo
Send him to Oregon.
He’s nothing more than a republican nut job
Sounds like it’s gonna head towards a buyout if they can’t terminate his contract. Cause of age will only be 1/3rd cap hit
He was a attitude problem when he was in Arizona..So why would it change when he went to the big lights of NYC…He is a donkey..get rid if him now…one lucky year equals big pay day ..
He had a huge problem in junior too. You have to think he’s running out of opportunities, teams just won’t be willing to put up with him if he sucks on the ice on top of being a cancer.
Next stop russia. sure putin will be happy to have him. lol
Nahhh Russians and one party that’s affiliated with socialism and communism radicals are joined by the hip so I’m not thinking they would want him either. Maybe we can send Lebron James there. He’s a hero in China and Russia.
Everyone in the world saw your cult leader bend over and spread it for Putin in Helsinki, Bud.
Dime store deflection won’t change that.
And DeAngelo is all but certainly bound for Russia for entirely hockey related reasons.
What? Was t it your savior who said after I win again I’ll have more leverage? Was t it your other leader who paid a foreign agent to create a fake dossier from Russia with love that was determined to be completely full of lies by the same agency that hated him! You are a weasel and you can’t hide from that. I don’t have a cult leader comrade but I know a weasel when I read comments from him.
jeez we are miles beyond the commenting rules now
Not sure if would really happen, but I believe Brisson is Sid Crosby’s agent as well.
link to forbes.com
Swap DeAngelo and Sam Bennett?
Tony D was a one hit wonder last year. The fact he’s a racist, insecure, punk will keep most, if not all NHL GM’s not wanting any part of him, and I wouldn’t blame them.
Well said dude…that is right who wants a cancer on their team….just buy him out….
I’m trying to understand how he is labeled a racist? You don’t make comments like that without substantial facts! Please provide and if it’s because he supported the last president then you have some real issues to work on. What happened to him in juniors wasn’t racial, he made some derogatory comments to a ref and another player but from everything I read it had nothing to do with race. So please educate us all when Labeling a young kid a racist. Pretty harsh comment and in today’s society it’s gotten out of control.
Billy,I’m a Ranger fan..Don’t know who you root for.but you can have him on your team.
Not singling you out since this is your only comment, and this comment doesn’t point fingers at anyone. So I’m just responding in general:
Just because someone wants someone else to clarify specifically how DeAngelo is a racist doesn’t mean he wants him on their team.
I don’t want him because he’s twice now acted foolishly this season. I didn’t like Georgiev’s play against Crosby, but I’m going to wait until the private locker room to discuss. Tony couldn’t do that, so cut the string.
If people are going to go out and call someone a racist, it would be nice to know exact facts. He most assuredly has a checkered past, that much we know, but I (and what looks like Billy) would like to know why people are labeling him as racist? Is there factual evidence? If not, stick to the facts that we have and judge from there. Not because of his political beliefs and skewed past articles that do not provide specific material.
Again, I’m not coming at YOU. You’re just the last comment here and I hit reply.