Rangers Give Brandon Dubinsky Four Years to Live Up To Potential

The Rangers did a relatively impressive job in holding Brandon Dubinsky to a four-year, $16.8 million, arbitration-avoiding contract. According to some, the big issue in getting the contract done was money and length of contract. According to others, the issue was just contract length. If the proceedings had a feeling of deja vu, it’s because back in 2009, Dubinsky held himself out of Rangers training camp while negotiating a new contract. Eight days later, Dubinsky had a nice, new contract. There were two interesting issues at play for this edition of Get Dubinsky Signed. One was the Rangers’ reluctance to commit to Dubinsky. He’s coming off of the best year of his young career, but it wasn’t an incredibly impressive career year for a guy entering his fifth NHL season. Dubinsky’s 24 goals puts him firmly in the NHL’s top 60 goal-scorers for last season. Plus, consider Dubinsky’s two goals and one assist in the playoffs. When linemate Ry...