The New York Rangers 2010-11 season featured a number of
players who had career years. Brian
Boyle was certainly one of those as his 21 goal, 14 assist season shattered not
only any individual season he had before, but his career totals. This summer Boyle was rewarded for this
performance with a three-year, $5.1 million deal. The length of the deal was somewhat surprising
because of the vast disparity between the Boyle of last season with the rest of
his career.
Along with the differential between last season and the rest
of his career was the disparity between his first half and second half
performance. During the first half Boyle
had 18 goals and 9 assists in 52 games while hitting the wall and only
recording 3 goals and 5 assists in the final 30 games. That decline made expectations for Boyle’s
contract to be one of a short length to make him “prove” that there was no
fluke in his early season performance.
The Boyle contract was the only one that receiv...
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