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Around The NHL Part XXVI

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Edge said:
I can honestly say that the only other era in Rangers history where I can remember having this bunch talent in the system was around 1991/92.

I'm not even sure that fans fully realize just how high the talent level and potential is right now.
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Do you think the Rangers are also going to do what they did c. 1994 w/r/t trading young talent for proven vets (Amonte, Weight, etc.)?
 
aufheben said:
Do you think the Rangers are also going to do what they did c. 1994 w/r/t trading young talent for proven vets (Amonte, Weight, etc.)?
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Not to the extent they did, no.

I believe you will see some youth traded down the road, but I don't think there's the same sense of desperation there was during that era and I don't think you can operate with that mindset into today's NHL.

I think Panarin/Zibanejad as established stars gives them a leg-up on where they were in 1991 when they traded for Messier as well.
 
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Am I missing the point why the NHL would put a game 7 on on in the middle of a weekday afternoon.
Unless they think replay ratings would be better.
I dont get it.
 
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Edge said:
Not to the extent they did, no.

I believe you will see some youth traded down the road, but I don't think there's the same sense of desperation there was during that era and I don't think you can operate with that mindset into today's NHL.

I think Panarin/Zibanejad as established stars gives them a leg-up on where they were in 1991 when they traded for Messier as well.
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God, I f*cking hope not. Watching all those guys get dealt was painful at the time. I knew even back then they didn't need to move most of them outside of what they sent the other way to get Messier.
 
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Brooklyn Rangers Fan said:
God, I f*cking hope not. Watching all those guys get dealt was painful at the time. I knew even back then they didn't need to move most of them outside of what they sent the other way to get Messier.
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I think it started to become an obsession for them. And we kept agreeing to steeper and steeper prices as other teams knew desperation was setting in.

I always felt that 1992-93 season was the turning point. Neil Smith operated a certain way prior to that year and a certain way after that year. Unfortunately, that pattern, coupled with a steep decline in the results produced by the Rangers scouting department, ultimately led to disaster.

It was also the inability of the team to make the right trades at the right time. I use Shanahan as an example of a guy they nearly acquired both in 1995 and in 1996. Both times they balked at the price, and I can't help but feel that move, along with a few others, might have sealed the Rangers fate.

But from a talent depth perspective, the Rangers should've seen a similar result to what Detroit experienced in the 1990s.
 
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Edge said:
But from a talent depth perspective, the Rangers should've seen a similar result to what Detroit experienced in the 1990s.
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I know we won the Cup but I'd be lying if I said I didn't think we might've won it without sacrificing some of that talent for some of the players we got and might've stretched it out longer than a year.
 
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