Team Discussion: General Practice/News Thread (MOD Post #1)
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Gardner McKay
RIP, Jimmy.
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Duke going to the WJC.
Larry Brooks @NYP_Brooksie 1m1 minute ago
Anthony Duclair, The Duke of Broadway, will be going to World Juniors for Team Canada #NYR
Larry Brooks @NYP_Brooksie 1m1 minute ago
Anthony Duclair, The Duke of Broadway, will be going to World Juniors for Team Canada #NYR
No doubt Fast is coming out of the lineup. No way AV healthy scratches Tanner Glass. No way.....
Gardner McKay
RIP, Jimmy.
At this point I don't know whether to
or 
. Fast has been playing his best hockey to date. It has only been a few games but IMO he looks like a completely different player (certainly not the same player from earlier this year and last year).
At this point I don't know whether to
He's the same player he's always been, he's just settling in. He had 14 games of NHL experience prior to this year. Not many guys will show you what they're really capable of in that short time frame of their NHL debut. Same for Miller--looks like a "new player," is really just the same guy, getting comfortable. Fast hadn't really been playing his game at the NHL level--the game we see at the AHL level. When a kid is successful in the AHL playing one way and comes up to the NHL, plays the same game, and isn't successful, that can be worrying. When a kid comes up to the NHL and isn't playing that same game, it's more than likely his struggles are because he just isn't comfortable. Now we're seeing Jesper do his thing in the NHL the way he was doing it in the AHL (and SEL, for that matter). I'm probably nitpicking, but I just want to reinforce to everyone my "don't be so hard on young players who don't immediately look NHL-ready" mantra. You know I like doing that.
Anyway, yes, Fast should be in the lineup every night, the other guy obviously shouldn't be, but unfortunately the team hasn't yet gotten to the point where they're willing to acknowledge that.
Great article on the salary cap increasing next year and what it means for us...
http://www.blueshirtbanter.com/2014...y-cap-going-up-means-for-the-new-york-rangers
http://www.blueshirtbanter.com/2014...y-cap-going-up-means-for-the-new-york-rangers
RangerBoy
Dolan sucks!!!
$73M cap is based on 88 cents. It closed in the low 87 cents range yesterday. Bettman told the BOG the projection was based the loonie staying at 88 cents. It's projected to decline into the mid to low 80 cents range in 2015. It's a huge issue for a league which draws 35% of their revenue from Canada.
Gardner McKay
RIP, Jimmy.
He's the same player he's always been, he's just settling in. He had 14 games of NHL experience prior to this year. Not many guys will show you what they're really capable of in that short time frame of their NHL debut. Same for Miller--looks like a "new player," is really just the same guy, getting comfortable. Fast hadn't really been playing his game at the NHL level--the game we see at the AHL level. When a kid is successful in the AHL playing one way and comes up to the NHL, plays the same game, and isn't successful, that can be worrying. When a kid comes up to the NHL and isn't playing that same game, it's more than likely his struggles are because he just isn't comfortable. Now we're seeing Jesper do his thing in the NHL the way he was doing it in the AHL (and SEL, for that matter). I'm probably nitpicking, but I just want to reinforce to everyone my "don't be so hard on young players who don't immediately look NHL-ready" mantra. You know I like doing that.
Anyway, yes, Fast should be in the lineup every night, the other guy obviously shouldn't be, but unfortunately the team hasn't yet gotten to the point where they're willing to acknowledge that.
Fair enough. The difference between Miller and Fast is that Miller on multiple occasions has looked like he was getting comfortable only to follow it up with a string of extremely disappointing games on both sides of the puck. Miller has a long way to go.
The cap will not be going up much. I don't see anything that would stop the Canadian dollar from falling further. A low 80c range would be a DISASTER for us.
Off Sides
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I largely agree, if the Canadian dollar falls to closer to 80 cents, and it happens quicker than they are anticipating (which I think is plausible), that 73M cap is probably a pipe dream.
trilobyte
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I was in agreement with the choice to keep Duclair up as long as they did (even though I thought he could have been deployed more often in the top lines during his stint), and coincidentally I am also in agreement with his being sent back for WJC duty. It actually looks like a win-win for the Rangers, and oh yeah, Team Canada too 
Gardner McKay
RIP, Jimmy.
This is such a load of BS. Although it isn't likely to drop below 71m if something major happened in Canada and the Canadian dollar fell drastically, it is possible to see it go below 70m. I will gladly eat a pile of crow from all 100,000+ members on HF of the cap goes to 75 million. It's a pipe dream.
Leetch66
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If we keep it up we are on pace for 21 Team Shutouts and possibly miss the playoffs....
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TheTakedown
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The other half of the Canadian TV deal $ will go into next years cap (players opted , so assuming there is no Canadian dollar growth/recovery, the minimum the cap will go up is $2M, which is a $71M cap... If the dollar closes at even .85¢, you're looking at a $71.5-72.5M cap.
Gardner McKay
RIP, Jimmy.
EuroFlair;94140963[B said:
No it is not. It is a big piece of the pie though. As RB posted earlier, Canada accounts for 35% of the leagues revenue. Anytime there is uncertainty with 1/3rd of the revenue of your business it will have a significant impact.
