{"id":10295,"date":"2017-07-01T14:26:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T18:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2017-07-01T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T18:28:10","slug":"kevin-shattenkirk-signs-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/07\/01\/kevin-shattenkirk-signs-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Shattenkirk Signs with the New York Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Frank Seravelli of TSN ,<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/shattke01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Shattenkirk<\/a><\/strong> has agreed to sign with the New York Rangers. After numerous rumors that Shattenkirk was going to New York, it looks like he\u2019ll end up making it happen. Shattenkirk isn\u2019t a cheap defenseman though, and his contract showed it. His yearly earning is $6.65 million despite only being signed for four years.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big news here. Expect a four-year deal: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HJRd4ckaoE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/HJRd4ckaoE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNBobMcKenzie\/status\/881216943642030080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shattenkirk 4 years x $6.65<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frank_seravalli\/status\/881217162668584960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Kevin Shattenkirk Signs with the New York Rangers<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shattenkirk has faced a lot of drama since the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. That\u2019s supposedly when his original team, the St. Louis Blues, began shopping him around the league. The Blues continued to offer him to various teams, but never landed any solid interest. Perhaps the most interesting rumor was that of a Shattenkirk for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/barrity01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyson Barrie<\/a><\/strong> or <strong>Matthew Duchene<\/strong> trade. Sadly for the Blues, that\u2019s not the deal that went through.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shattenkirk was held until the trade deadline, and was then dealt to the Washington Capitals to provide playoff insurance. In exchange, the Blues acquired <strong>Zach Sanford<\/strong> and Washington\u2019s first round pick. Washington seamlessly won the trade, but Shattenkirk wasn\u2019t enough to push them to their first Stanley Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was a little surprising because he seemed to click with the Capitals. Playing with former teammate <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/oshietj01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T.J. Oshie<\/a><\/strong>, amongst others, Shattenkirk had 14 points in 19 regular season games. Playing on the team\u2019s top defensive line, Shattenkirk was a key role in a lot of plays. His production went down slightly in the playoffs, but was still a big player for the Caps. In the 13 games they played before being eliminated, Shattenkirk had six points. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Capitals salary cap troubles means they sadly had to let go of Shattenkirk. In the combined 24 games he played in D.C., Shattenkirk was a big part of the team\u2019s defense. His great play in Washington and St. Louis this season lead him to a handful of votes for the Norris Trophy and the second postseason NHL All Star team. In fact, he received considerably more than former defensive partner <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pietral01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Pietrangelo<\/a><\/strong>. Now New York is bringing that skill to their line-up. Shattenkirk will easily add a lot offense and defensive power, and should be a crucial role for his new team. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/680517600\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 67.845118% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/680517600?et=HBcohuawRdVPBHCrlTShQA&amp;tld=ca&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=uMaKPHNOBMLc97Regx8uW4vYXboYWv40lTc5Y-M0jGo=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"403\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Frank Seravelli of TSN ,\u00a0Kevin Shattenkirk has agreed to sign with the New York Rangers. After numerous rumors that Shattenkirk was going to New York, it looks like he\u2019ll end up making it happen. Shattenkirk isn\u2019t a cheap defenseman though, and his contract showed it. His yearly earning is $6.65 million despite only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1628,"featured_media":11535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2,14],"tags":[440,48,38,39,75],"class_list":["post-10295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","category-rangers","tag-kevin-shattenkirk","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-washington-capitals"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}