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Here’s your latest Rick Nash to the Rangers rumor

Rick Nash

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2012, file photo, Columbus Blue Jackets’ Rick Nash (61) watches a face off during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Rangers at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The NHL trade deadline is next week and contenders have to decide if they want to risk the future to win now. Columbus captain Rick Nash is available and it seems every team is in talks with the Blue Jackets about acquiring the star.(AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

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Mark Spector of Sportsnet in Canada tweets that talks between the Rangers and Blue Jackets have picked up and that the latest offer is indeed a whopper.

For the Rangers to land Nash, they’d be giving up one of a pair of young defensemen in either Ryan McDonagh or Michael Del Zotto as well as a first-round pick and a prospect, namely defenseman Tim Erixon. Spector says that the Rangers feel that offer bests what the Toronto Maple Leafs could offer Columbus and puts them in the driver’s seat to land Nash.

Considering how well both McDonagh and Del Zotto have played this season for New York, the Jackets would be getting an instant young stud on the blue line. Adding Erixon would give them a potential future star as well. The first round pick makes for a nice throw in given that it’ll be a mid-to-late round pick.

The talk of late from The Columbus Dispatch’s Aaron Portzline is that Nash’s camp is hoping for a quick resolution to things and they’re growing weary of the process. It doesn’t appear the two sides are long for each other. The Jackets aren’t under pressure to get a deal done at the deadline, but it could turn the summer into an endless array of discussions to land Nash if a deal isn’t done by Monday at 3 p.m.