In what was a move questioned by many, New York Rangers‘ general manager Glen Sather gave 27-year-old Derick Brassard a five-year contract worth $25 million. Brassard was a solid center last year, anchoring the Rangers’ most effective line alongside Mats Zuccarello and Benoit Pouliot. Few thought Brassard could duplicate his success, mostly because he was going to be facing stiffer competition as the Rangers number-two center after the buyout of Brad Richards. People on Twitter were befuddled, thinking the Rangers had just overpaid another player.
Well, those people have been proved emphatically wrong by the play of Brassard this year.