NYR469
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NYIsles1 said:Considering all that obscurity an 80 million dollar Ranger team and all it's star players have enjoyed why would Crosby be any more than superstar #25-30 in a market where the media pays little attention to hockey in the first place?
ny pays attention to the rangers when they win, the 'superstars' in recent years haven't drawn interest because the team has been awful. the idea isn't that you could simply throw crosby in ny and say 'here he is' and everyone would come running, but rather if the rangers stick to their rebuild plan and then you throw in someone like crosby as a franchise player, he will make the team better. and if the rangers become a good team again with him interest will rise and the ny market will help the entire league improve...
crosby's impact would be wasted in any city if he was on a horrible team for his whole career, but the theory/hope is that he will make the team better and that bad team won't be bad anymore a few years from now...