New York Rangers: Top five fan least favorites of the Lundqvist era

5 – Wade Redden

Wade Redden signed with the Rangers in 2008 mainly to add structure to their power play. Redden helped his former team, the Ottawa Senators by contributing often more than half his points on the power play.

Redden signed a six year, $39M contract, averaging about $6.5M a year. This would have been acceptable had Redden provided similar numbers to those he had in Ottawa. In two seasons with New York, Redden only produced nine power play points.  point Redden also experienced a decline in overall point production with the Rangers, and had spent two seasons buried in the minors

As a result, Redden was bought out of the remainder of his contract in 2013. Although this tied up some cap for the Rangers, it seemed the best route to go, as having Redden spend the rest of his contract in the minors seemed wasteful.