bl02
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They better not **** this up.
Thats ok Mr. Voracek will just go beast mode
They better not **** this up.
Not quite sure why Talbot would play tomorrow instead of Friday in Buffalo but okay.
Glad Claude is out tomorrow, we need every bit of help we can get till we get over this inconsistency.
Isles play well early on cause nobody takes them serious(plus I think they have faced the most backup goalies so far this season), once the big games matter, the second half the season, they crap the bed like always. They will be a bubble playoff team by the time its all said and done.
I hate the Islanders too, but this is definitely wishful thinking mixed with the fear of a competitive Islanders while the Rangers aren't doing well.
The only bad thing the Rangers did this off-season were sign Glass and not resign Stralman. It's still yet to be seen if we can contend without Stralman. We'll see.
That's two things.People get upset when they're not taken seriously around here, but then they post stuff about how Hank is horrible.
The only bad thing the Rangers did this off-season were sign Glass and not resign Stralman. It's still yet to be seen if we can contend without Stralman. We'll see.
Stralman was great last year but if a lack of Stralman hinders your ability to 'contend', are you really a contender?
Stralman was one of our most consistent D men last year, however the timing of injuries to McDonagh, Boyle and the suspension of J Moore really hasn't helped the pain of Stralman going.
Need the W tomorrow (in regulation please). Need a strong forecheck from the get go, some ****ing scoring from the 4th line for once would be nice too.
This still doesn't bode well for a team that is supposed to be a contender.
Stralman was great last year but if a lack of Stralman hinders your ability to 'contend', are you really a contender?
Well the man brought in to directly replace him got injured like 10 minutes into the season. We really don't even know what we have with Boyle yet.
Losing an elite 5v5 and 4v5 defenseman and replacing him with an aging PPQB that is best fit for 3rd pairing duty 5v5 would hinder pretty much every team's ability to contend.
McDonagh and Strålman were the linchpins of the Rangers defense and we're currently without both of them.
Even with McDonagh back our defense is terrible, somewhere around 22nd-25th in the league, and with McD out we are probably closer to the 27th-29th range.
It's a shame we're wasting a ~top-5 forward corps (if AV would remove Glass from the lineup) and a top-5 goalie with this travesty of a defensive corps.
We don't know what we have in Boyle yet? The guys played 16 years in the NHL.
Anton Stralman is so underrated. He truly may be the most underrated player in the NHL. The fact that there are Rangers fans who watched him for multiple years and STILL can't comprehend his value is just insane.
I knew it would be bad losing him. I didn't think it would be this bad. He was one of the 5 most valuable Rangers last season and we let him walk for a completely affordable salary. Disgusting management. He is also better than Girardi and will certainly be once both their contracts have played out, barring serious injury.
Tampa Bay in the off-season did exactly what we did under Neil Smith. Smith saw that Edmonton were letting go of a lot of their squad so he jumped on that and brought several core players to the team who already had experience playing together. We dealt Nicholls for Messier and added Graves, Beukeboom, Tikkanen, Anderson, and Lowe. The 93-94 cup team was in essence a transplanted Oilers squad.
The Lightning are trying a similar thing. Callahan, Stralman, and Boyle each offer quality in different areas and by having already played with each other, they lace the TB squad with stability in key positions. Callahan I think was overrated with us to a degree, but Stralman and Boyle never got the respect they deserved here. It's sad that Yzerman caught on before Rangers management on how valuable these guys are as players.
I'm curious how many more players will go to TB from us in the near future aside from the draft picks.
Losing an elite 5v5 and 4v5 defenseman and replacing him with an aging PPQB that is best fit for 3rd pairing duty 5v5 would hinder pretty much every team's ability to contend.
McDonagh and Strålman were the linchpins of the Rangers defense and we're currently without both of them.
Even with McDonagh back our defense is terrible, somewhere around 22nd-25th in the league, and with McD out we are probably closer to the 27th-29th range.
It's a shame we're wasting a ~top-5 forward corps (if AV would remove Glass from the lineup) and a top-5 goalie with this travesty of a defensive corps.
If the Oilers were a team that most likely only made the finals due to the emotion gained from a trade dead line added player's mother passing, and still lost in the finals, your analogy would fit like a glove.
I know everyone wants to pinpoint one exact reason, but although Stralman was an underrated player, I don't think we are floundering because of him, and if we were, it doesn't speak very well of this team.
Amazing so many people love Boyle now when I had to see so much of the board endlessly rip the guy for most of his career on this team.