Henrik Lundqvist’s Future Is Unknown After Rangers Buy Out His Contract
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If he chooses to continue playing after 15 years in New York, Lundqvist, 38, will join a crowded goaltender market during this free agency period. By Allan KredaHenrik Lundqvist has been a prominent New York athlete over a sterling career with the Rangers, with 459 career wins and myriad philanthropic efforts to boot. Now, the end of his 15-year era is at hand as the Rangers announced Wednesday they would buy out the last season of his contract. Lundqvist finished his Rangers career by playing the first two games in their three-game defeat against Carolina in this summer’s qualifying round. He had started only one of the team’s last 19 regular-season games, and just four of their last 30 en route to a career-worst 10-12-3 record.
The Rangers carried three goaltenders on their roster for part of the 2019-20 season, with Lundqvist, 38, alongside two emerging 24-year-olds.
Yet milestones and grandiose statistics were never the driving force for Lundqvist, who reached the playoffs in all but one of his first 12 N.H.L. seasons.
And that’s what Hank has known for the majority of his career.
The Rangers carried three goaltenders on their roster for part of the 2019-20 season, with Lundqvist, 38, alongside two emerging 24-year-olds.
Yet milestones and grandiose statistics were never the driving force for Lundqvist, who reached the playoffs in all but one of his first 12 N.H.L. seasons.
And that’s what Hank has known for the majority of his career.