With the trade for Jacob Trouba, the vaunted “boatload” of New York Rangers cap space went poof! It vanished like a David Copperfield magic trick. With it went any hopes of acquiring a big money free agent and believe it or not, that may be a good thing. That is of course, unless they sign a big money free agent.
2019-20 payroll
According to capfriendly.com, with the salary cap set at $81.5 million, the Rangers have $17.5 million in cap space. With that they have to sign restricted free agents Jacob Trouba, Tony DeAngelo, Pavel Buchnevich and Brendan Lemieux.