Reports suggest Shane Doan may not re-sign with Phoenix Coyotes, favourites are New York Rangers
Ever since being picked up 7th overall in the 1995 NHL draft by Winnipeg Jets and Jets being relocated to Phoenix in 1996, becoming Coyotes, Shane Doan has been a Coyote since then and has played every single reason for them.
Doan had signed a contract for five years in 2007 which was for $22.75 million, but that contract has expired now and 35-year-old Doan has now become an unrestricted free agent.
Initial reports indicated that Doan does not want to leave the place where he has been for last 16 years now and wants to end his career at Phoenix by re-signing with them but now there are speculations that he might not be staying at Phoenix and would be
signing with one of New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins or Vancouver Canucks.
Doan had also visited these organisations few days back and it looked like he had come to meet with the people there and check his options. But still his agent had told that it was just a visit to see if these moves can work out or not, but his main priority
is staying with Phoenix Coyotes.
But now things are starting to look different. New York Post columnist Larry Brooks, via ProHockeyTalk, has said that Doan is “believed to have narrowed his sights on Manhattan, Pittsburgh and Vancouver.”
If these reports are to be believed, Philadelphia Flyers who were also in a run to land the veteran forward are out of contention now and more important Doan would not be singing with Phoenix Coyotes.
According to Brooks, Phoenix Coyotes might not be offering Halkirk, Alberta native a four year contract and if they do not, Rangers has a chance to get the services of him by making a four-year offer, as he wrote,
“That’s why the Rangers remain keenly interested in signing free agent winger Shane Doan, who will turn 36 in early October and is seeking a four-year deal as he confronts the separation issues that will accompany his departure from Phoenix, his home for
the last 16 years.
He also wrote,
“It’s unclear if Rangers general manager Glen Sather is willing to go four years, but if he does, Doan is more likely than not to become a Blue-shirt.”
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