Matt Beleskey’s tenure with the New York Rangers has not gone well. He was acquired from the Boston Bruins in the Rick Nash trade deadline deal, but he was seen as a salary dump by the Bruins. He was immediately sent to Hartford, only playing one game with the Rangers. This season, he suffered a separated shoulder in the pre-season which sidelined him and he didn’t get back into action until late October.
Beleskey is a perfect example of a player riding an unusually high shooting percentage to a huge payday. Based on one career season he signed a big contract he couldn’t live up to and it derailed what had been a perfectly decent career.