Around the League 2024-25 season

[GoldenBearHockey]

Berard-Brodzinski-Kaliyev

Looks like AK is playing on the 4th line with Brodz.

Todd McClellan new coach of the NYR? I mean, I was told only LA would put a sniper on the 4th line......

 

[AbsentMojo]

Looking at the TOI 3rd and 4th lines are playing about the same minuts. Not sure how the rangers look at it, but to me a line with Rempe on it is the 4th line.

 

[johnjm22]

 

[Schmooley]

Looking at the TOI 3rd and 4th lines are playing about the same minuts. Not sure how the rangers look at it, but to me a line with Rempe on it is the 4th line.


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Dont know if hes gonna last long there. He needs to be handled differently and put in a specific situation. Thats a coach and team on the ropes with no time for it. He may be better off playing in Europe anyway.

 

[King'sPawn]

Todd McClellan new coach of the NYR? I mean, I was told only LA would put a sniper on the 4th line......

I mean, Lafreniére has been underwhelming as a first overall and they basically gave away their second overall pick in Kakko.

The Rangers haven't made very good decisions with developing forwards either.

 

[AbsentMojo]

Dont know if hes gonna last long there. He needs to be handled differently and put in a specific situation. Thats a coach and team on the ropes with no time for it. He may be better off playing in Europe anyway.

Im interested to see how he's handled. They will give him a honeymoon since he hasnt played in over a year, so I dont expect a quick demotion... here at the half way point, the Rangers are 4 points out of 8th in the conference.. so it may go either way. If it ends up being a tank/retool he could be kept around to see if he fits a role they need.

 

[lumbergh]

Berard-Brodzinski-Kaliyev

Looks like AK is playing on the 4th line

No points, no shots, +0, in 8:31 for AK34

 

[tny760]

No points, no shots, +0, in 8:31 for AK34

he wasn't as bad as the stat line would indicate

 

[Axl Rhoadz]

he wasn't as bad as the stat line would indicate

When do I get to blame the coach?

 

[kingsfan28]

he wasn't as bad as the stat line would indicate

Pretend for a moment that I don't know anything about advanced stats. If you're more on the left side, it's bad right?

 

[Herby]

PLDud had 2 goals last night including game winner in OT. They actually start him in OT.

He's right back to where he's been most of his career, maybe it's surprising with how awful he was with the Kings, but maybe not, sometimes guys just have bad years or are bad fits.

He's a big guy, with a pretty high skill level, questionable hockey IQ and questionable motor/compete level, who was way overdrafted but has been able to still be a 60-65 point second liner.

I mean, Lafreniére has been underwhelming as a first overall and they basically gave away their second overall pick in Kakko.

The Rangers haven't made very good decisions with developing forwards either.

I just never saw it with Lafreniere, at no point in his career has he ever resembled the type of player you'd expect from a #1 OA pick. I used to get into it with Rangers fans about this, I was told it was to soon and "He's just a kid" but even teenage difference makers usually show something. As @Sol always points out about Kopitar's first game vs Anaheim, I remember Kane's rookie year in Chicago he came out guns blazing that first month. The good picks in the Top 5 of drafts should for the most part be development proof. I am not saying you can't blame development or deployment completely, but in the case of the Kings and Rangers Top 5 picks, it's just way more likely that the teams (and to be fair the scouting community as a whole) were just wrong on what types of players they were going to be.

And just to add to this post, I was going to post this the night of but the site was down. I went to the Milwaukee-Manitoba game on Wednesday night with my kid, and what has become of JAD is incredible (in a bad way), this guy made the Kings out of camp as a 19 year-old, and then during the Covid year showed some potential to be something similar to what Turcotte is right now, and here he is at 25 playing a bottom line role and struggling to do that in the AHL. I wasn't even aware he had left the Nashville organization and was picked up by the Jets. I know it's a fine line for a lot of these guys, but this has sadly been quite the fall for a guy many of us had high hopes for.