A final grade on the Marty St. Louis trade? Not yet

What the Rangers got

Marty St. Louis played just over one season with the Rangers.  He had led the league in scoring the previous season and had scored 29 goals in 62 games when the trade was made.  Once in New York, he got off to a horrible start, scoring just one goal in 19 games with the Blueshirts.

He made up for it in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, with eight goals and 15 points in 26 games.  He was an inspiration to the team, playing despite the death of his mother and he led the team to the Stanley Cup Finals.   His Mothers’ Day goal and his overtime goal against Montreal is the stuff of Ranger legends.

Unfortunately for the Rangers, the next year the 39 year old’s play deteriorated considerably. He finished with 21 goals and 52 points in 74 games.  He scored only one goal in 19 playoff games and retired after the season.

The Rangers traded Tampa’s 2015 second round pick to Arizona at the next trade deadline.  They included a first round pick, Anthony Duclair and John Moore and got back Keith Yandle, Chris Summers and a 2016 fourth round pick.   Yandle played just over one season for New York before departing via free agency.  Chris Summers played six games as a Ranger and is out of hockey.  The 2016 fourth round pick (#98) turned into Finnish defense prospect Tarmo Reunanen who is playing in Liiga while under contract to the Rangers.

But there’s more.  The Rangers reacquired the seventh round pick they traded to Tampa in exchange for forward  forward Daniel Walcott.  They then traded that seventh round pick and Cam Talbot to Edmonton for three 2015  draft picks.  They drafted Sergei Zborovskiy  with Edmonton’s third round pick (#79) and goalie Adam Huska with Edmonton’s seventh round pick (#184).

Zborovskiy is not longer a Ranger property and Huska is playing regularly in Hartford.

The Rangers also got Montreal’s second round pick (#57) in the Talbot deal and they traded that pick to Washington for the Capitals’ 2015 fourth round pick (#113) and Buffalo’s third round pick (#62).   The Rangers drafted Brad Morrison with the fourth round pick and Swedish forward Robin Kovacs with the third round pick.  Morrison never signed with the Rangers and became a free agent.  Kovacs signed an Entry Level Contract, but was released from the deal after a mediocre tenure in Hartford.

But wait, it gets more complicated.  The Rangers traded the rights to Keith Yandle to the Florida Panthers in exchange for a 2016 sixth round pick and a fourth round pick in 2017.   With the 2016 pick (#174) the Rangers drafted goalie Tyler Wall.  Wall just signed his first pro contract after two seasons as one of the best goaltenders in the NCAA.

The Rangers traded that fourth round 2017 pick (#102 overall) to the San Jose Sharks for their fourth round 2017 pick (#123) and San Jose’s sixth round pick (#174 overall).

With that fourth round pick, the Rangers drafted defenseman Brandon Crawley. Crawley has played three seasons in the Rangers minor league system and looks like he doesn’t have much of a future with the team.

With that sixth round pick in 2017, the Rangers drafted center Morgan Barron who just signed his first pro contract as is one of the brightest prospects in the Ranger system after starring for Cornell University.

So, the Rangers got one season and two playoff runs from Martin St. Louis, one season and two playoff runs from Keith Yandle, six games from Chris Summers, minor leaguer Brandon Crawley and prospects Morgan Barron, Adam Huska, Tyler Wall and Tarmo Reunanen