DeAngelo is enjoying a breakout year for the New York Rangers and he has put himself in line for a huge payday in the summer.
Set to become a pending Restricted Free Agent in the summer, the defenseman currently carries a cap hit of $925,000, although his new contract will blow that out of the water and then some.
The million dollar question at play here, quite literally, is whether it will be the Rangers who will be shelling out to make DeAngelo a very rich man.
A year ago I would have been quick to suggest that DeAngelo would be one of the first to be shipped out of the building, especially if there were a cluster of other players that need re-signing, as is the case this year.