The New York Rangers and Brady Skjei are a little more than a week away from their scheduled arbitration date. Now, assuming the two parties reach a deal without an arbitrator, the team has an important decision to make. By all accounts, Skjei should be considered a building block for the rebuild based on his upside and only being 24 years old.
Whether the front office should offer Skjei a bridge deal is a different discussion. However, the team should take what they have in the former Minnesota Golden Gopher and keep building on it. At times, Skjei has shown flashes of an elite offensive defenseman.