When the Rangers signed defenseman Fredrik Claesson to a one-year deal, it was viewed as a low-risk, high-reward move for a 25 year old defenseman. The consensus was that Claesson was undervalued, and probably already better than most of the blue liners the Rangers had on the roster. While we weren’t necessarily wrong in that assumption, Claesson still had trouble cracking the lineup regularly. In the end, he finished his first, and likely only, season with the Rangers with a line of 2-4-6 in 37 games.
Claesson was never going to be a huge offensive driver.