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Rangers allow Zherdev to become free agent

Nik Zherdev will skate elsewhere next season, a victim of his own ineffectiveness and demands as well as the Rangers' budget and needs.

Unable to trade the 24-year-old Ukrainian winger, who started well last season but tailed off in the second half and refused a $3.25-million qualifying offer, the Rangers walked away from a one-year contract worth $3.9 million awarded by arbitrator Elliot...

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