How is Redden on the decline? And your last sentence proved that. Slower???? Shanny resembles a cone, jagr lost a step on speed and played with his size. Zherdev, Naslund and Fritche all have very good speed. The Rangers got Voros who will take the place of Avery and he is on the upside.
Yes the rangers lost a few guys but it was time to get younger and bigger with speed. Time will tell but me as a ranger fan thinks they will be a better team because of this.