The Rangers – home of second-chancers – signed free agent center Jarett Stoll to a one-year, $800,000 contract on Monday.
Stoll, 33, won a pair of Stanley Cups with the Los Angeles Kings, but pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges from an April arrest in Las Vegas for suspicion of possession of cocaine and Ecstasy. He was sentenced to 32 hours of community service.
Minus the arrest, though, Stoll – known as a right-handed faceoff specialist (55 percent in his career) and penalty killer – would probably have been too expensive for the Rangers, who had less than a million dollars of cap space before the signing.