Ranger signings/walks that you hated

[Clown Fiesta]

Not signing Stralman and in turn signing Boyle is the most infuriating recent example I have.

 

[n8]

walks: Verbeek, Stralman, Jagr, Messier
non-signings: Chara, Selanne, Sakic

signings: Redden, (unnecessary and more importantly overpaid goon signings in the cap era (Brashear, Boogaard, Glass, etc)

 

[Barnaby]

Messier, Verbeek, Jagr walking...

Gomez, Brashear, Redden signings

 

[Kaapo Cabana]

Messier, Verbeek, Jagr walking...

Gomez, Brashear, Redden signings

but why? He was really good for us for a while and eventually netted us McDonagh

 

[Vickers8]

not signing stralman and in turn signing boyle is the most infuriating recent example i have.

+100

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Not signing Stralman and in turn signing Boyle is the most infuriating recent example I have.

You mean the same Anton Stralman who needed 3(!) seasons with the Rangers to get 38 points but then after signing with Tampa had 39 in 1 season?

There was no indication he would be producing at all. Boyle had a history of adding points on the power-play and making that a lethal weapon.

Hindsight is 20/20 and nobody could have predicted Stralman to produce better than Boyle.

 

[Florida Ranger]

You mean the same Anton Stralman who needed 3(!) seasons with the Rangers to get 38 points but then after signing with Tampa had 39 in 1 season?

There was no indication he would be producing at all. Boyle had a history of adding points on the power-play and making that a lethal weapon.

Hindsight is 20/20 and nobody could have predicted Stralman to produce better than Boyle.

Stralman was very sound defensively. He was our best defenseman in the 2012 & 2014 playoffs, IMO.

 

[pld459666]

Quintal jumps out as he made it abundantly clear that he did not want to play for the Rangers and only came here because we offered the most money.

I believe I read somewhere that he actually cried when Montreal declined to match the offer.

 

[JohnC]

38 year old Boyle coming off what Sharks fans deemed a pretty bad year brought on by this hit (that hospitalized him):



Over 27 year old Stralman that was the most important part of the team's shutdown pair that year?

Obviously the term is different but the same cap hit too :/

Looks pretty ugly to me

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Stralman was very sound defensively. He was our best defenseman in the 2012 & 2014 playoffs, IMO.

We should have kept him over Girardi because he was a great defenseman. Don't judge the Stralman saga because of what we did signing Boyle. Stralman didn't bring the offense