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The overlooked reason Rangers’ Vlad Namestnikov trade was so important

Regarding the Rangers, who are guaranteed to remain unbeaten for at least another two days:

1. When you get the chance to move a $4 million fourth-liner, which is what Vlad Namestnikov would have become by Saturday’s match against the Oilers at the Garden, you jump at it the way the Rangers did on Monday in sending No. 90 to the Senators.

You don’t wait for weeks or months, hoping to marginally increase the return for the impending rental property from a fourth-rounder and an AHL defenseman to perhaps a third-rounder plus.

Players get injured.