Moves Around the League

While there is still nothing new in the Ranger world (the panic button will be hit soon), there were a few noteworthy moves made in the past few days:

• Alex Tanguay is headed to Tampa Bay. Buying out Vinny Prospal and Marc Denis gave them about $7 million of cap space to work with. Not too shabby.
• The Canucks added Mathieu Schneider to a one-year $1.55 million deal, plus $1 million in games played bonuses. Good deal for a good, veteran, scoring defenseman. If he went that cheap, I wonder why Glen Sather didn’t kick the tires on him.
• The Canucks also traded two prospects (Daniel Rahimi, Patrick White) to San Jose for Christian Ehrhoff and Brad Lukowich. Ehrhoff is entering his prime and had a great season last year, and Lukowich will provide some veteran leadership lost when Mattias Ohlund bolted for, well, the Bolts on July 1.