I think the Rangers gave him a surprising amount of rope up until he said COVID wasn't real, which definitely crossed a line beyond politics. How many dead in the city that pays you, buddy?

Now he's saying he wants to go to Parler, except now I'm reading both Apple and Google have banned it from their devices.

Also, Parler had to delete posts from some psycho lawyer named L. Lin Wood because he was calling for the execution of Mike Pence.

Oh hey Parler I thought you were all about letting conspiracy nuts and Nazis congregate and talk about whatever...?

Happy on one hand, but on the other, going farther underground means less people can monitor what they're planning.

Tony eAngelo (no D) got into an altercation with a teammate and he's out.

The funny thing about these guys is they'll say they got a raw deal because of their politics, but it's actually because he's a giant prick. Hockey is a conservative sport. Most guys lean conservative. But most of them aren't running their mouths online like he was.

The Rangers traded for a guy who was covered in red flags, and not only enabled his ugly, racist behavior, they even promoted his fucking podcast. He enjoyed a fluke season where he outscored his averages by a huge margin, but that was mostly because Marc Staal (yes, Marc Staal) was covering for his ass and Artemi Panarin was feeding him a ton of offense. I mean, it doesn't help that dumbass Quinn put him out there with quite possibly the worst defenseman in the National Hockey League (hint: Shares a similar name with that one guy who toured with every single festival in America in the mid-aughts) but they could have sold high and gotten good futures on him, but nope...they ran straight into his arbitration year and gave him an inflated contract as a result.

I have ZERO sympathy for the dumbfucks currently running things at MSG. Gorton has no idea what he's doing. He has a massive amount of cap tied up in dead space, and may have to use even more to get rid of the current mess on his hands. Meanwhile, it was his and Quinn's job to protect young K'Andre Miller, and all they did was knowingly let a black player just getting started share a locker room with the most demonstrably racist player in the league. Fuck all of these assholes.

Am I missing something. Dreger reports there's a "ton of interest in De Angelo"

First off I don't get it with all of his bullshit, but secondly, why wouldn't he have been picked up for free of waivers?

Again, I am sure I am missing something.

Agreed, so why didn't someone just pick him up on waivers, instead of having to now make a trade?

GMs are generally wary of waivers, especially if it's a player with a not-cheap deal. You're taking on that cap hit without shedding any salary, and right now hardly any teams have ample room to take on something like that. If a team can wait the Rangers out and get them to retain salary, that immediately becomes a more palatable acquisition.