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David Backes and Corey Perry fight after Perry sticks up his goalie after a poke at puck... i wish Rangers had a complete player like that...
 
Blues just lost 1-0 to Anaheim. 19-18 shots. Seriously, I don't get this idea that teams out west are some world beaters. 19-18! And these are considered the 2 best teams.
 
SnowblindNYR said:
Blues just lost 1-0 to Anaheim. 19-18 shots. Seriously, I don't get this idea that teams out west are some world beaters. 19-18! And these are considered the 2 best teams.
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Was actually a pretty good game. At least the pieces I saw.

The idea that shot totals determine quality of play says a lot.
 
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Brokedown, regressing, declining Kesler.

Who watched the Canucks game last night?
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There's no question of how good he still is. There's a question of how many games he gives you per season from here on and whether he's healthy when it matters. How many more years does he have at his current level? I'd say a solid three years of this play before he slows down much more, but there's still a gamble with him regarding health and the potential for injuries to slow him down quicker as well.

Frankly he's one of my favorite players but the price we'd pay to acquire him versus the risk involved makes me feel like its best to keep admiring his play from another team. As for the game last night and the complaints about shot totals, I agree with your sentiment.
 
SERE 24 said:
There's no question of how good he still is. There's a question of how many games he gives you per season from here on and whether he's healthy when it matters. How many more years does he have at his current level? I'd say a solid three years of this play before he slows down much more, but there's still a gamble with him regarding health and the potential for injuries to slow him down quicker as well.

Frankly he's one of my favorite players but the price we'd pay to acquire him versus the risk involved makes me feel like its best to keep admiring his play from another team. As for the game last night and the complaints about shot totals, I agree with your sentiment.
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All Cup winners gamble. LA gambled on Jeff Carter. Chicago gambled that they could win with Crawford by letting Niemi go. St. Louis just gambled on Miller and Ott. Bodton was active both deadlines of their last two SCF seasons.

How much longer do we wait? Its already been proven that guys like Dubinsky, Anisimov, Del Zotto and Korpikoski are just role players. Outside of last season, Stepan has been more of a complimentary player.

The Rangers need an impact center. Bernie Nicholls immediatley made the Rangers a better team. Messier made them a contending team. Both came st a price.

The fan base was obsessed with Tony Granato after his rookie season. Sandstrom was a 1st line wing. Both were under 26 when they were traded for Nicholls. Dahlen was a top-10 pick and a budding power forward. He was traded for Gartner.

Three fan favorites drafted and developed by the Rangers traded for two established stars. Two trades gave the Rangers their first division title in 50 years.
 
GWOW said:
All Cup winners gamble. LA gambled on Jeff Carter. Chicago gambled that they could win with Crawford by letting Niemi go. St. Louis just gambled on Miller and Ott. Bodton was active both deadlines of their last two SCF seasons.

How much longer do we wait? Its already been proven that guys like Dubinsky, Anisimov, Del Zotto and Korpikoski are just role players. Outside of last season, Stepan has been more of a complimentary player.

The Rangers need an impact center. Bernie Nicholls immediatley made the Rangers a better team. Messier made them a contending team. Both came st a price.

The fan base was obsessed with Tony Granato after his rookie season. Sandstrom was a 1st line wing. Both were under 26 when they were traded for Nicholls. Dahlen was a top-10 pick and a budding power forward. He was traded for Gartner.

Three fan favorites drafted and developed by the Rangers traded for two established stars. Two trades gave the Rangers their first division title in 50 years.
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Don't disagree with anything you said, though I do think all three teams you mention had way more complete and competitive rosters when they made those gambles than we do. If I felt we were in an LA minus Carter, or St. Louis minus Miller position, I'd be all for making a move to try and put us over the top. I just don't think we're Kesler away from being in the conversation. Maybe with another apt move before the deadline; a package of lesser prospects and Cally/Stralman to someone for one, higher quality kid whose ready to contribute AND a separate package for Kesler. I don't know; as I said, I don't disagree with you in principle.

My apprehension comes more from my feeling that we need more than just Kesler and worrying that Glen views a Kesler acquisition as the one move, pays a high price to acquire him, stands pat otherwise and the team whimpers out of the 1st/2nd round. Sure, it's possible to add another ingredient next year. I certainly wouldn't be unhappy if we acquired him. Like I mentioned, he's a favorite of mine for sure. I'd just feel better about it if I thought trading for Kesler made us a contender rather than a pretender. It feels, to me, like trading for Kesler at this stage is more pretending we're going deep than actually being primed for a run against Boston/Pitt/Chi/STL/etc.
 
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"He's big, he's tough, he's mean" about Chris Stewart by Anson Carter. I really don't know if he thinks that or if that's just the stock thing people say about players that are big and it wouldn't be a hockey broadcast without cliches.
 
SnowblindNYR said:
"He's big, he's tough, he's mean" about Chris Stewart by Anson Carter. I really don't know if he thinks that or if that's just the stock thing people say about players that are big and it wouldn't be a hockey broadcast without cliches.
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Or it might just be because Stewart is big, tough and has a nasty streak in his game? The fact that he's inconsistent with the latter doesn't mean Carter is wrong.
 
So many different reasons leaking about LaFontaine. That makes me think that it HAS to be a disagreement over Miller, that PL didn't have the final say like he thought he would. Otherwise, why wouldn't everyone, LaFontaine included, be saying that it was his decision because he wanted to go back to working for the NHL?

Something fishy going on.
 
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