3g’s = showed your fishstick colors with Sillinger. come clean re your allegiance you’ll feel better.

By the way whenever I see people (including me) posting suggested lines they always include Callahan. I really liked him when last year but I’m not sure he’s such a lock- he will have to earn the spot in camp and then be consisitent.

And can people please stop talking about the Cup? How many examples do we need that the game is played on the ice? Yes this team on paper suggests it will be competitive but that’s just the first step- long way to go before talking Cup.

I’m actually going to have to agree with you there. They moved well through the N-zone but once they got in Cullen never dished off the puck (truthfully he never passed on any line, really. It seemed he was always selfishly trying to get out of his season long slump by trying to get a top shelf goal that rarely came.

I still believe Cullen was an illusionist type of player. He moved really smooth but I think he was a little too slippery for himself, and too slippery for $3M. Good riddance, this will be a blessing. Matt was clearly unhappy here….and I’m surprised we were even able to dump his contract.

there was no chemistry at all, Cullen never passed to them. He acted like a selfish asshole, instead of a vet playing with 2 young guys.

RANGERS ROLL DICE
CULLEN TRADED TO CAROLINA, CREATING HOLE AT CENTER
By LARRY BROOKS

CULLEN FOR HELP: The Rangers traded Matt Cullen to Carolina yesterday for…

July 18, 2007—The Rangers cleared cap space they might never need by digging a hole at center they’re likely to have a difficult time filling. The Blueshirts traded Matt Cullen and his $2.875 million per year contract to Carolina yesterday for a pair of definite maybes and a 2008 third-round draft pick.
The trade, in which the Rangers obtained 27-year-old depth defenseman Andrew Hutchinson and 21-year-old pivot Joe Barnes (whose 2006-07 AHL Albany season ended with a December concussion), creates a question mark out of what appeared to be an exclamation point of a position following the free agent signings of centers Scott Gomez and Chris Drury.
Moving Cullen does create an opportunity for rookies Artem Anisimov and Brandon Dubinsky – if not Barnes, the 64th overall selection of the 2005 Entry Draft – but Tom Renney’s track record at coach suggests that he’s far more likely than not to give third-line time to Blair Betts rather than a freshman.
This stands to create a ripple effect on projected offense-minded third-line wingers Petr Prucha and Ryan Callahan, who had developed late season chemistry with Cullen. This holds true as well for young offensively-inclined candidates on the wing such as Nigel Dawes and Alex Bourret.
Betts, best in a fourth-line checking role, had four assists last season in 69 games. This also creates the situation in which the team will be scrambling frantically should Gomez and/or Drury go down for any substantial period of time. Cullen had 16 goals and 25 assists in his first and only year as a Ranger after leaving Carolina to sign a four-year, $11.5M free agent contract.
If, as expected, Marc Staal earns a top-six spot on the blue line out of training camp, then the Blueshirts would probably choose between Hutchinson ($475,000) and Thomas Pock ($667,500) as their seventh defenseman, with Jason Strudwick ($500,000) ensconced as the final man on the roster.
Neither Pock nor Hutchison would be expected to clear waive