New CBA Gives Rangers Options to Deal with Wade Redden

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Montreal sent Gomez home with the intentions of buying him out next summer. The Rags are apparently planning the same thing here with Redden.

What happens if either gets hurt while at home? If 3 days before his buyout Redden tears his shoulder in the weightroom are the Rangers f*cked? Same with Gionta in Montreal?

[chilly666]

im sure there are rules for players being injured away from teams but I think they would still be able to buy them out. just a hunch

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Originally Posted by chilly666

im sure there are rules for players being injured away from teams but I think they would still be able to buy them out. just a hunch

Are you sure that's how it works? Remember Dustin Penner throwing his back out while eating his wife's panckes? He was injured away from the game, but still had to be paid by the team. Look it up and find out Chilly Willy. I think it could make for some interesting lawyering if something was to go down. Anything is possible.

10 CRAZIEST NON-HOCKEY INJURIES

1. Manny Fernandez injures shoulder and/or back while blow-drying hair

While blow-drying his hair or toweling off after a shower (reports vary, but either way, dude was trying to get clean and dry), Manny tweaked something that caused him to miss action in 2005.

2. Ron Tugnutt pulls groin while tying shoes

Goaltender Tugnutt (whose surname still sparks Beavis & Butthead-style chuckles) suffered a groin injury while completing the most kindergarten of activities: reaching down to lace up his shoes.

3. Jose Theodore slips on driveway, breaks ankle

The goaltender (see a pattern here?), then with the Montreal Canadiens, slipped on the ice outside of his home and strained his Achilles tendon. Bonus irony: Surefooted defenceman Brian Leetch was stepping out of a cab outside of his Manhattan home when he slipped on the icy sidewalk and busted his ankle.

4. Brent Sopel picks up cracker, throws out back

Five-second rule: The Vancouver Canucks player missed playoff action in 2007 because he blew out his back in an attempt to retrieve a cracker dropped on the floor. “He was trying to pick up a cracker and anybody who has had back problems knows that can happen,” Canucks coach Alain Vigneault explained.

5. Arturs Irbe attacked by Rambo

The Latvian goaltender’s dog, a Labrador-Newfoundland mix, was put to sleep after he bit his owner’s left hand. Rambo, man’s vicious friend, severed an artery in Irbe’s hand, broke one of his fingers and severed an artery.

6. John Vanbiesbrouck falls through collapsing coffee table

Attempting to rise from the glass coffee table he was sitting on, the New York Rangers goaltender fell through the table as it gave way, cutting his left wrist and suffering nerve damage. “It was a totally freak thing, the table just collapsed under me, and as I put my hand back to brace my fall, the glass gashed me,'' Vanbiesbrouck told the New York Times.

7. Glenn Healy suffers everyday bagpipe injury

Your typical cliché NHL upper-body injury. Backup Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender cuts hand while cleaning his bagpipes (the actual Scottish instrument, not a locker-room metaphor), requires 40 stitches. Yawn.

8. Sarah Palin (sort of) to blame for Manny Legace’s hip injury

Another goaltending Manny, another odd disaster: The red carpet was rolled out on the ice for 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin; Tina Fey’s greatest target was set to drop the puck for a ceremonial face-off. Trouble was, goaltender Manny Legace stepped on the carpet, slipped and damaged his hip. The Blues put the injured netminder on waivers.

9. Erik Johnson tears knee while horsing around on golf cart

When an NHL squad is ousted from contention, the silver lining is, of course, golf season. But for the St. Louis Blues defenceman, golf proved more dangerous than hockey in 2008. Johnson, the No. 1 pick in the 2006 draft, tore his right knee’s ACL and MCL while goofing around on a golf cart. His right foot got caught between the cart’s accelerator and brake.

10. Mikael Renberg falls out of boat, struck by propeller

The Swedish right winger, who spent 10 years in the NHL, developed an infection from tying up his skate laces; his condition was so bad, doctors considered amputating his hand. But that’s not the unluckiest thing that happened to the man. One year prior Renberg was sailing in northern Sweden. In attempted to retrieve the anchor, he slipped and fell into the water. The boat’s propeller blade gashed his right arm, slicing his biceps. Fortunately, no long-term nerve damage was caused

[chilly666]

but the dustin penner thing was in-season while play was going on and he was with the team...so i don't know how similar that case would be to if gomez or redden got injured training away from the team.