{"id":12977,"date":"2025-06-25T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12977\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:01:09","slug":"the-rangers-entire-offseason-will-live-and-die-by-the-salary-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12977\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rangers&#8217; entire offseason will live and die by the salary cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the Rangers, who on Tuesday morning <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/24\/sports\/rangers-trade-top-draft-pick-to-penguins-with-tantalizing-2026-possibilities\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made the sage choice<\/a> to send this year\u2019s 12th pick to Pittsburgh to complete the J.T. Miller deal instead of deferring the transfer to next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> I can tell you with assurance that this does not imply the Blueshirts will use their 2026 first-rounder for an offer sheet this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is not going to happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First, the Rangers do not <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/18\/sports\/where-rangers-salary-cap-situation-stands-after-matt-rempe-signing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have enough cap space<\/a> to make a consequential offer sheet without becoming immediately vulnerable to an offer sheet raid on Will Cuylle.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regarding the Rangers, who on Tuesday morning made the sage choice to send this year\u2019s 12th pick to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[13725,4348,1302,293,8993,13726,62,2632,2225,67,132,68,1300],"class_list":{"0":"post-12977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-chris-drury","9":"tag-kandre-miller","10":"tag-new-york-rangers","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-draft","13":"tag-ny-sports-minute","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-will-cuylle"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114742957656698507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}