{"id":48317,"date":"2019-07-31T18:21:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T22:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=48317"},"modified":"2019-07-31T18:25:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T22:25:31","slug":"kevin-shattenkirk-bought-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/07\/31\/kevin-shattenkirk-bought-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kevin Shattenkirk To Be Bought Out By New York Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Rangers<\/a>\u00a0are to buy out defenceman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/shattke01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Kevin Shattenkirk<\/strong><\/a>. Shattenkirk will become an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now the window open, and a source says that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NYR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NYR<\/a> have bought out Kevin Shattenkirk.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brett Cyrgalis (@BrettCyrgalis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrettCyrgalis\/status\/1156680082183938048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 31, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>New York Rangers Buy Out Kevin Shattenkirk<\/h2>\n<p>Shattenkirk will become a UFA and will have to begin searching for a new team. Shattenkirk is a defenceman who has 9 years of experience and is a veteran playmaker on the blueline.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, he scored two goals and 26 assists for 28 points, adding 20 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 50.4 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of +5.6.\u00a0 Over his 9-year NHL career, Shattenkirk\u00a0has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/avalanche\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blues\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St.Louis Blues<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/capitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Washington Capitals<\/a>\u00a0and New York Rangers. In that time, he has 75\u00a0goals and 274\u00a0assists for 349\u00a0career points in 609\u00a0career games. Shattenkirk has recorded five goals and 29 assists for 34 points in 60 career playoff games. He was originally drafted, 14th\u00a0overall of the 2007\u00a0NHL Draft by the Av&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The cap hit for the buyout will be:<\/p>\n<p>2019-20: $1,483,333<\/p>\n<p>2020-21: $6,083,333<\/p>\n<p>2021-22: $1,433,333<\/p>\n<p>2022-23: $1433,333<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means For the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Shattenkirk had two years left on his four year deal worth 6.65 per season. The Rangers are currently in a rebuild and are getting younger, hence the reason they bought out the veteran defenseman. The New Rochelle, NY native spent last year playing on the Rangers top pairing alongside <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/skjeibr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brady Skjei<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Shattenkirk had put career low numbers while with the Rangers. He had seven goals and 44 assists for 51 points in 119 games with the Blue Shirts. Shattenkirk used to be a guy who put up about 10-15 goals per season, so he will be looking to bounce back next season to find his old form.<\/p>\n<p>Shattenkirk, while putting up low numbers in New York, is still able to play on a teams powerplay. He will have to start looking for a new team and put up better numbers than his last few seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"s25gvgANQGB_66QjKd6zXw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1140265099\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'s25gvgANQGB_66QjKd6zXw',sig:'rkGRXrM7dcM5ADIYaHyUgeLMeafKd_qhUnceWLuerSw=',w:'594px',h:'457px',items:'1140265099',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Rangers\u00a0are to buy out defenceman\u00a0Kevin Shattenkirk. Shattenkirk will become an unrestricted free agent. Now the window open, and a source says that #NYR have bought out Kevin Shattenkirk. &mdash; Brett Cyrgalis (@BrettCyrgalis) July 31, 2019 New York Rangers Buy Out Kevin Shattenkirk Shattenkirk will become a UFA and will have to begin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":53033,"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":[14,34],"tags":[1598,440,48,955],"class_list":["post-48317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rangers","category-news","tag-brady-skjei","tag-kevin-shattenkirk","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Oscar Elieff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48317","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\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}