Shanahan re-ups with Rangers

Jul 10, 2007, 20:45 GMT

New York, NY - The New York Rangers announced on Tuesday that the club has agreed to terms with forward Brendan Shanahan. No details were released.

Shanahan played in 67 games with the Rangers this past season, his first with the team, and registered 29 goals and 33 assists for 62 points. The captain of the 2007 Eastern Conference All-Star Team finished the season tied for second on the Blueshirts with 29 goals, while his 62 points ranked fourth on the club.

In his Rangers debut on October 5 against Washington, Shanahan notched two goals and became just the 15th NHL player to reach the 600-goal plateau.

The 38-year-old missed over a month of play last year after sustaining a concussion when he collided with Philadelphia's Mike Knuble during a home game on February 18.

A veteran of 19 NHL seasons, Shanahan leads all active NHL players in goals scored and is 12th on the league's all-time goal scoring list with 627. He has appeared in eight All-Star games and captured three Stanley Cup Championships while with the Red Wings in 1997, 1998 and 2002.

He has appeared in 1,417 career NHL games with the New Jersey Devils, St. Louis Blues, Hartford Whalers, Detroit Red Wings and Rangers, collecting 627 goals and 667 assists for 1,294 points, along with 2,425 penalty minutes.

He is a a two-time 50-goal scorer and has scored at least 40 goals in six of his 19 seasons in the NHL.

In 167 career postseason contests, Shanahan has totaled 58 goals and 68 assists for 126 points, along with 269 penalty minutes. In the 1997 playoffs, en route to capturing his first Stanley Cup, he led the Red Wings in goals (nine) and ranked second on the team in scoring with 17 points (nine goals and eight assists). The following season, in 1998, he collected five goals and four assists and helped Detroit win the Cup for the second consecutive season.

In 2002, he captured the gold medal in Salt Lake City, Utah with Team Canada and won the Stanley Cup with Detroit, becoming only the third player in NHL history -- at that time -- to win both in the same year.

The Mimico, Ontario native was originally the New Jersey Devils' first round choice, second overall, in the 1987 draft.

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