{"id":87182,"date":"2020-09-26T19:30:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T23:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=87182"},"modified":"2020-09-26T19:36:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T23:36:54","slug":"marc-staal-has-been-dealt-to-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/09\/26\/marc-staal-has-been-dealt-to-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Staal Has Been Dealt to the Detroit Red Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/rangers\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers<\/a> have traded defenceman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/staalma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Staal<\/a><\/strong> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/redwings\/\" target=\"_self\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a>. A second-round pick in the 2021 NHL Draft joins Staal in the move to Detroit. In exchange, the Rangers simply get future considerations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedWings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RedWings<\/a> have acquired defenseman Marc Staal and a second-round pick in the 2021 NHL Draft from the New York Rangers in exchange for future considerations. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EO9cWDACOE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/EO9cWDACOE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DetroitRedWings\/status\/1309994970431062025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Marc Staal has Been Traded to Detroit<\/h2>\n<p>This is clearly a cap dump for the Rangers. Stall has a $5.70 million cap hit next season; the last year of his contract. The Rangers are facing a fairly tough situation, forced to choose between a trio of great goalies. Rumours have voiced that the legendary <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lundqhe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henrik Lundqvist<\/a><\/strong> might get bought out to help ease New York&#8217;s cap situation. In his place, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/georgal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexandar Georgiev<\/a><\/strong> would serve in the backup role, with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/shestig01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Igor Shesterkin<\/a><\/strong> filling the starting spot.<\/p>\n<p>With Staal&#8217;s pricey contract now out of the way, the likelihood of this rumour coming to fruition is questionable. The Rangers now have around $20 million in cap space, with eight pending-free agents. This includes Georgiev, who is seemingly a must-sign. Also without a contract for 2020-21 is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stromry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Strome<\/a><\/strong>, who many expect will earn a fairly hefty pay raise. Strome netted 59 points, and 18 goals, in 71 games this year; clearly finding his footing on the back of the Rangers upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>Staal himself recorded 11 points in 52 games last year. It was his fifth season in a row of netting 15-or-fewer points and the 10th time he&#8217;s done it throughout his NHL career. Still, he&#8217;s managed a 13-season career. Now, at the age of 33, the defenceman will be moving to Detroit&#8217;s blue-line. Detroit has four pending-free agents on their blue-line, including <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/ericsjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Ericsson<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/daleytr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trevor Daley<\/a><\/strong>. Both are 36-years-old whose future is uncertain. While neither has retired, many are expecting the duo to. Staal&#8217;s addition would fulfill the role of one of these names but they&#8217;d still need to search for a second; pending an AHL-upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"sruZOpytQpt6tIldEcOzSQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1203977446\" 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:'sruZOpytQpt6tIldEcOzSQ',sig:'op95ADXnyo-rnDaOXlvyXyEPe0o-Zs_tRyENDQ9QFeU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1203977446',caption: true ,tld:'com',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 have traded defenceman Marc Staal to the Detroit Red Wings. A second-round pick in the 2021 NHL Draft joins Staal in the move to Detroit. In exchange, the Rangers simply get future considerations. UPDATE: The #RedWings have acquired defenseman Marc Staal and a second-round pick in the 2021 NHL Draft from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1628,"featured_media":87183,"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":[4,4547,14,34,4548],"tags":[95,37,406,48,38],"class_list":["post-87182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redwings","category-hockey","category-rangers","category-news","category-nhl","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-hockey","tag-marc-staal","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Gabriel Foley","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87182","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=87182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}