DeAngelo ‘has played his last game’ for NY Rangers, GM says

Tony DeAngelo has played his final game for the New York Rangers despite going unclaimed on waivers, after a warning from the organization about behaviour and an undisclosed “incident” he was involved in, general manager Jeff Gorton said Monday.

The Rangers assigned

DeAngelo to their taxi squad, but the 25-year-old defenceman won’t be around the team moving forward. The NHL’s other 30 teams passed on the chance to add DeAngelo when

New York put him on waivers Sunday.

“We told a player that ‘Enough is enough, let’s move on,”’ Gorton said. “I feel like this is the necessary move that we had to make.”

The Rangers just re-signed DeAngelo to a $9.6 million, two-year contract in October. They’re not contemplating any way to void that contract but instead are “talking about finding him another place to play and letting him move on with his career,” Gorton said.

An NHL team is not allowed to buy out a player during the season. One option would be retaining a portion of his salary in a trade.

Gorton believed DeAngelo “wasn’t able to move on from” being a healthy scratch earlier this season. Coach David Quinn benched DeAngelo for a bad penalty in the season opener and was put on alert by the organization in the aftermath of that decision.