I agree with that @egelband - we are not buyers. But don`t move all above 27 years old, because it will not go well next season.
We play Minny on tuesday and Piles on Thursday. We know the Piles are gonna pound us. Minny? Ottawa, Philly next weekend. Well prob win the Ottawa game. Then a a back to back with the Scabs and Minny again before the deadline. Maybe Hank gets destroyed in Montreal. Detroit on Deadline day minus Nash,Grabner,Holden and possibly no Mac or Zucc. 19 games after the deadline, If all the above are gone I don't see how the team wins another 8 games plus over the last 19. So I'm pretty confident that we are going to own a high draft pick regardless.
It's a good point. I think JG is strong minded enough. It's Dolan I'm worried about, and Sather as well, who might be delusional enough to cancel the sell off. I think JG is savvy to see the forest beyond the treesWe've basically been a meh team the last 2 years and not for nothing, but this team wasn't exactly playing well when everyone was healthy.
Winning games doesn't always mean that you're playing well. Forget the draft lottery, there is a huge difference between picking 8th and 16th.
JG already said that he won't be making moves to save the season, which means that they won't be adding. They're going to lose a pretty big chunk of scoring once Grabner and Nash are moved which should manifest itself into more losses but I'm a bit uneasy that staying close to the pack will keep JG from pulling the trigger on trades for Zucc, McD and others even if the offers are up to par.
I think you`re upset buddy since we did not win the cup in 2014, and the meh team still qualified for playoffs in one of the most difficult division in NHL, @Go Away Staal . And M. Staal will probably be bought out - so you can probably change your avatar end of this season.
Why should it be any difference with our younger core in Miller & Kreider, Buch, they have not showed us anything so far that we are closer to that cup if we moved all our guys above 28 + including Grabner.
Absolutely not, I've said in an earlier post that I expected to be brutalized by them.Did you think they would beat Winnipeg?
Predicting how every game will go is pretty pointless and people are unlikely to be right as often as they think.
This team only plays hard when they face cheesy fake tough guy teams. When greasy teams like Winnipeg try to embarrass them, the Rangers actually show some guts.
Its not about Henrik Lundqvist anymore, unfortunately. It's about the next 15 years of this franchise.I agree with that @egelband - we are not buyers. But don`t move all above 27 years old, because it will not go well next season.
your original point was it's rare to draft stars past the top 3 picks.Now you are moving the goal posts and changing your argument.Not really. Statistics show the teams that the Stanley Cup winners in today's NHL have elite skaters, 8 out of the last 10 came from 3 dynasties who spent 3 or more years picking in the top 5.
And I never said that every star in the NHL will win Stanley Cups or having them will guarantee a team Stanley Cups. Maybe there's actually something to the stars who go in the top 5, players like Crosby, Malkin, Kane winning Stanley Cups and the "stars" who've emerged later in the draft, Kucherov, Karlson not having any Cups yet.
Absolutely not, I've said in an earlier post that I expected to be brutalized by them.
Im not predicting anything, I'm just thinking realistically whats the most likely outcome. This roster is flawed as is.Then how can you predict future outcomes?
Buffalo was the team that derailed the Bruins streak. It's all kind of random.
That`s fine and I understand that reasoning and opinion, @Go Away Staal , but it`s not a brief rebuild plan in that case - it`s more like a (3-5) years and probably outside of Henrik window.
Yes, the team is flawed. Most are in the cap era. Of course there are ways to minimize the flaws as much as possible, and the Rangers have not done a very good job there.. but waiting for the "perfect" team...well, you are likely to be waiting a *very* long timeIm not predicting anything, I'm just thinking realistically whats the most likely outcome. This roster is flawed as is.
Tarasenko is a very good player, is he elite? So far, they haven't done that well in the playoffs with him as their best forward, so there's a good argument that he's not. Boston is the one outlier example to the three dynasties of the last 10 years. There will always be outliers, I'd rather us try to be part of the higher percentage group. Just because the Kings were able to acquire important pieces in other ways doesn't mean they weren't a team that picked 3 times in the top 5, including picking Drew Doughty who was one of the best defensive prospects in the last 30 years. I think you often need a combination of top 5 picks, and good acquisitions in other ways, whether its picks later in the 1st round, good drafting after the first round, trades, UDFA's, UFA's, etc.
I think you are putting up a pretty weak argument. If you look at the last 10 Stanley Cups, 8 of them have been won by 3 teams, the other two are this generation's outlier team in how they acquired talent, the Bruins and last generation's outlier team in how they acquired talent, the Wings. The three dynasties all picked in the top 5 at least 3 times in building up their teams. Probably more than anything what the data shows is that one pick won't be enough, we might need multiple top 5 picks, and it might take years to build up a dynasty. I think the stats show that if we don't pick in the top 5 this year, we are off track of where we need to be to properly rebuild the team.
I agree with that @egelband - we are not buyers. But don`t move all above 27 years old, because it will not go well next season.
Won't matter...even Arizona had won 2 games in a row. We've not exactly played well in either game. Henrik was fantastic tonight
Its not about Henrik Lundqvist anymore, unfortunately. It's about the next 15 years of this franchise.
Im not predicting anything, I'm just thinking realistically whats the most likely outcome. This roster is flawed as is.
Those avatars were so ****ing awesome.
sell everyone over 27
long live henrik
team cant even lose properly. 2 wins and now gorton is a buyer. you watch
Guys like ADA and Pionk can be part of the future here. I want to see these guys do well. Even if it means we win some games that make us draft 15th instead of 9th