If I had time (I don't), I would love to pull about 100 posts starting with draft day and up until the Brassard trade and show all the unbelievable overreactions about how our GM is an idiot, he is doing nothing, this roster will be the same, the world is ending, blah blah blah.
There is that word... I believe it is patience?
you cannot put into words how unbelievably important 2 things are for this Rangers team.
1)The emergence of Chris Kreider...when hes playing the way he played prior to his injury, hes a legit star. not just a good player..not just a top line player..a frikkin star.
2)The signing of Vesey. I know I said it before we signed him, that if JG signed Vesey i'd call it an absolute grand slam of an offseason.
Vesey was the key IMHO..hes allowed you to have a second line player play on your 4th line.
Signing Pirri was huge.
JG had one of the best offseasons ive ever seen a GM have. I'll gladly eat crow on what i thoguht this team would be...i wanted a complete gut job. JG decided to revamp.
he was right.
but, there is still a lot of work to do...particularly on the defense.
the question is...how do you add a top pair RH defenseman without gutting the area of this team that's carrying the dead weight...our forwards. its tough.
ive not been in favor of trading first rounders..but im looking at this team right now, and id really rather move a first rounder for a guy like Trouba...Vatanen, etc...than move one of our forwards...
its a precarious situation right now.
the defense CLEARLY needs to be addressed..but man, its tough to imagine trading one or more of these forwards.