Rangers' Jack Eichel interest hangs over Filip Chytil signing
That might be somewhat less than Zibanejad wants, or thinks he deserves, or could get on the open market next July 1, but if he wants to remain in New York instead of diving into the volatile flat-cap free-agency pool, that would probably do it. And if general manager Chris Drury won’t even go that far, then Zibanejad would have a pretty good idea of where he stands and we’d all have a much better idea about the degree of the Blueshirts’ interest in Eichel.