BY: Lyle Richardson

On July 1, 2007 the New York Rangers made the biggest splash in that season’s unrestricted free agent pool, inking forwards Scott Gomez and Chris Drury to expensive, multi-year contracts.

Nearly four years later those contracts have proven burdensome so creativity has been needed to deal with the fallout.

The Rangers dealt Gomez to the Montreal Canadiens on June 30, 2009, in a move that was crucial to the Habs’ subsequent free agent additions of Brian Gionta, Mike Cammalleri and Hal Gill.


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