Vinny DeAngelo
Jimmy Easy to defend
Happy birthday!I only saw the highlights - so I can`t comment much on this game.
It`s my birthday today though so I`m happy!
42 years old who had thought. ))
Happy birthday!I only saw the highlights - so I can`t comment much on this game.
It`s my birthday today though so I`m happy!
42 years old who had thought. ))
Hasn't been mentioned in here but I thought Sproul had a pretty strong game.
7 goals in 37 games when he was playing through injury. That sure is selective.
McDonagh was the biggest piece to move, since he has another year on his contract. "We never felt desperation to move him. We had a lot of things to talk about as far as him: whether to move him now, whether we were going to get what we wanted to get or would we get more now or in the summertime. We looked through the past of other teams that were in this situation with similar players," Gorton said.
Honestly, why should we keep Chytil? What are we willing to pay him when he hits free agency? We should move him now before we have to decide.How much and for how long are the Rangers paying Kreider in his next contract? The Rangers will need to make that decision sooner rather later and they will get less the longer they wait.
This general manager doesn't want to give term for group III's. He didn't want to give Yandle a long-term contract. The Rangers traded McDonagh 15 months away from group III. Gorton held the line at 4 years for a 28 year old Shattenkirk and a contract which makes Shattenkirk readily available for trade after the first season. He also traded Stepan before his full NTC kicked in.
Keeping McDonagh wasn't an option
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All of these Rangers fans would say the Rangers would re-sign McDonagh if they couldn't get what they wanted. It wasn't an option for the general manager of the team.
You all wanted to trade Kreider two weeks ago
HAHA such an AV thing to do.Can’t wait for Anderson to play with McCleod and Carey tomorrow
How much and for how long are the Rangers paying Kreider in his next contract? The Rangers will need to make that decision sooner rather later and they will get less the longer they wait.
This general manager doesn't want to give term for group III's. He didn't want to give Yandle a long-term contract. The Rangers traded McDonagh 15 months away from group III. Gorton held the line at 4 years for a 28 year old Shattenkirk and a contract which makes Shattenkirk readily available for trade after the first season. He also traded Stepan before his full NTC kicked in.
Keeping McDonagh wasn't an option
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All of these Rangers fans would say the Rangers would re-sign McDonagh if they couldn't get what they wanted. It wasn't an option for the general manager of the team.
That was the point.
As is projecting numbers when someone is on the upswing. That’s the thing with projecting - it can vary widely depending on when you choose to make a cutoff or when you choose to make said projection.
If Kreider has shown us one thing, consistently thus far, it’s that the pointless and the point streaks seem to balance out to about his career average.
And I happen to like Kreider a lot. I just don’t agree with some of the overstating. You claim he’s one of the most consistent players in the league, I don’t think consistently going 7-9 games without a goal supports that. You claim people have Internet fantasies about wanting him to score every game, I refer to the previous point. However, you’ll notice I don’t necessarily argue that he isn’t a valuable player, or that he pushes play.
Whatever the reason, Kreider seems to remarkably finish around that 22 goal mark, with the exception of last season.
I don’t consider that a bad thing. But I’m still waiting for him to have more seasons like last season. Maybe that’s next season. But it is also possible that the end product, not the projected one, ends up being around 22 goals.
IMO it ends up being about his health. I think he's improved in a lot of ways from his early seasons (where he still scored 20 goals) but his health problem this year was certainly an issue and staying healthy is a big part of being a consistent player. If he can play a healthy 75+ games? I think he can certainly flirt with 30 again. I don't think last year was anything wildly abnormal from him.
I also think Machinehead is talking a lot about Kreider's consistency in driving the play and not strictly points. I think it's fair to start talking about the different ways players impact the game that go beyond just your normal goals and assists. Hell, we've already done that for years with stuff like "hits!" and "intangibles!" so I don't see why quantifying some of that stuff and saying "hey this guy pushes the offense forward whenever he's on the ice even if he's in a scoring slump" isn't also a fair thing to use to judge a player.
I get it. And I don’t disagree that Kreider could flirt with 30 again. But at the end of the day, we’ve been down this road before. So my belief is, and remains, now he has to go out and do it. Us talking about it, again, doesn’t make it so.
The discussion continues to be about what we think he can/should do, versus what he’s actually doing. But I’ve been saying he is capable of 30 goals for the better part of a decade now. Don’t need to be sold on the concept.
Regarding driving the play and impact, I don’t actually disagree all that much from Machinehead. The main point I happen to disagree with is the idea that people expect multiple point games, every game. There is some basis for people to be frustrated from an offensive production standpoint. But I’ve not once disagreed on the driving/impact standpoint.
Lower expectations, I think. We don't expect this team to do well, so they're exceeding expectations.Anyone else find themselves enjoying watching the games more after we made all those trades and gutted a good part of the roster? I've found the games since the trade deadline to be unexpectedly entertaining...
Yes.
What I've been saying and other folks as well. I was never worried about his point totals. I always figured that if he were more visible game in and game out the points would be there.
And again, this year really bends the curve for him. It's an outlier. A serious health issue... career threatening...if not life threatening...that he plays with. Then recovering from it. Literally a new lease on life. Then coming back to a team radically overhauled that you get to make a statement with. I mean you could not ask for a more extraordinary set of circumstances for a professional athlete to deal with.
I am very excited for him. Let's just see what happens.
For me, right now, the 28 goal season is the outlier. It will remain so, until it actually occurs again (not via projection, not via belief, but actually happens).
Do I think it could happen? Sure.
But now I need to actually see it happen.
I don’t understand how you reconcile these things. Outlier to me is an exception, something that is not likely to happen again, by definition. In meantime you calling it both an outlier and something that could happen.
Outlier to me is the exception based on established results, thus far.
But I freely admit that it could happen again. If it did, I would no longer consider is the outlier. It goes back to the trend conversation we had a few weeks ago.
Chytil, Howden, Andersson, Barron and Virta need seasoning in Hartford. Put Vecsy on the 4th line and put Boo in as 4th line center. We need to sign a couple of Veterans on Short term contracts until the Youngins are readyKreider-Zibanejad-Fast
Chytil-Hayes-Buchnevich
Howden-Andersson-Namestniov/Zucc/Spooner (I'd say the other two get traded for D)
Barron-Veteran 4C-Virta
I'm sweating
Kreider Zibenajad and Fast definatley have chemistry.Sure there is.
He's been useless without him.
Add in Fast and now he has tons of room to do his thing.
Night and day.
He missed the net alot last night"When he's on"
So, always?