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great job by Rangers letting this guy go.. depth does not hurt
The irony of the whole thing is that his biggest knock was his height.
So the pens announcers questioned if Anaheim tanked on purpose to get their top guys... hey pens how about you take a look at yourself
and yet the Rangers have 2 guys that are about his height on this team.. something had to make him choose the Canes over Rangers...
Weren't their top guys lower first round picks anyway?
yes and some fans said they had no problem trading those type of 1st round picks if we continue to make the playoffs
yes and some fans said they had no problem trading those type of 1st round picks if we continue to make the playoffs
Except they were in an anomalous draft year.
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Did the Ducks' second goal last night remind anyone else of the "controller" disconnect goal from last year's playoffs?
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I can't believe the Canucks were sitting at 23-11-6 at one point in this season. Have posted a record of 5-16-4 since that high water mark in December where they looked like a surefire playoff team. And all of those wins have been by one goal, two coming in OT. Yikes.
Need moar jam? No grind? Lack of Boyle?
Need moar jam? No grind? Lack of Boyle?
Talk about the worst of both worlds. ****** season, mediocre pick (relatively) probably.
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I was proud of that team. You hate to lose a game like that but the Rangers had no business even making it interesting against the top-seeded Capitals. Here's a refresher of the lineup they threw out there against Ovie n' Friends.
Ruslan Fedotenko - Brandon Dubinsky - Marian Gaborik
Vinny Prospal - Artem Anisimov - Derek Stepan
Sean Avery - Brian Boyle - Brandon Prust
Wojtek Wolski - Erik Christensen - Chris Drury (C)
Marc Staal (A) - Dan Girardi
Ryan McDonagh - Michael Sauer
Bryan McCabe - Matt Gilroy
And that was with Gaborik playing like crap, so yeah...
Plus, it was the year that the team really came together, and they gave us a hell of a ride a season later.
Top 4 D and goaltending was good, the rest wow. I didn't remember it being that bad.
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The 10-11 team was a lot of fun. Played their hearts out. Was the first of the two year Black and Blueshirts era. Can't believe it only lasted two years. If Cally was healthy that series, you know the results could have been different.
In other around the NHL news, Jared Cowen has been scratched lately? Wow, Ottawa is a mess this year.
Also the Blue Jackets recalled St. Dennis so I'm guessing Erixon is still down there. That's crazy as he's waiver eligible next season and has put up pretty good numbers in the AHL.
In other around the NHL news, Jared Cowen has been scratched lately? Wow, Ottawa is a mess this year.
Also the Blue Jackets recalled St. Dennis so I'm guessing Erixon is still down there. That's crazy as he's waiver eligible next season and has put up pretty good numbers in the AHL.
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Yes, it was. I was at Game 3 (Dubinsky scored the game winner in the last 2 mins) with my dad. I remember commenting on how the Rangers just had no hope of producing enough offense to really make a run, and that all I wanted them to do was make that day at MSG a memorable one. They did and I knew the future was bright
I was one of the only people who had the Rangers as a top team the following year, and it's because of the guts that 2010-11 team showed with a complete lack of skill. I'll always have a soft spot for those 2010-12 teams, although I suspect that the style they played would not have ever brought a Cup to NY.
Yes, it was. I was at Game 3 (Dubinsky scored the game winner in the last 2 mins) with my dad. I remember commenting on how the Rangers just had no hope of producing enough offense to really make a run, and that all I wanted them to do was make that day at MSG a memorable one. They did and I knew the future was bright
The 10-11 team wasn't THAT different from the 11-12 team. They just added Richards and Gaborik woke up.
Jared Cowen has been outright terrible. The guy doesn't know how to play NHL level defense, he's constantly out of position and has horrible footspeed so he can't catch up to any of his mistakes. He keeps getting icetime and chances because "he's big!" when he's just outright completely terrible. Like worse than Stu Bickel terrible because Cowen was getting big icetime minutes as well.
I don't know if it was his knee blowing up that hurt his development but realistically it's probably more than he never had the hockey iQ to be the player Ottawa expect him to be. Maybe he'll surprise everyone and come back and play as a good positional defensive defenseman but right now, maaan he's bad
I don't know if it was his knee blowing up that hurt his development but realistically it's probably more than he never had the hockey iQ to be the player Ottawa expect him to be. Maybe he'll surprise everyone and come back and play as a good positional defensive defenseman but right now, maaan he's bad
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Lol!
@TSNBobMcKenzie says that the #leafs & #wild had offers for Vanek significantly better than the MTL's, but NYI would not retain any salary
@TSNBobMcKenzie says that the #leafs & #wild had offers for Vanek significantly better than the MTL's, but NYI would not retain any salary
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The Rangers lost the 2012 Conference Final a couple of weeks before they ever stepped onto the ice for Game 1 against the Debbies.
There are so many things you can look to. Did the lockout kill it? Maybe you keep it completely intact for 2012-13?
Personally, hindsight is 20/20, and I would have just signed Prust and Feds and taken another run at it, but I can completely see why Sather made the move for Nash. It's just a no brainer when you can get a player of Nash's caliber for two guys who were almost spare parts in the playoff run. But combined with the loss of Prust and Feds, it turned into too much of a turnover for a season with no training camp. At the same time, for Torts to not be able to compete as a top team with the lineup he was given in 2013 showed his huge deficiencies as a coach. You can whine about the lack of depth in the bottom 6, but that Top 6 (Nash, Gaborik, Hagelin, Richards, Callahan, Stepan, Kreider) combined with that defense and goaltending... man... the team was stacked and should've coasted to a playoff berth. But no, Torts mismanaged the lineup and necessitated an emergency reworking of a lineup with 3 weeks to go, a lineup that was subsequently dismantled by a seasoned Bruins team.
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Callahan was out for that playoffs, too. So in 2011-12 you are basically subbing in Gaborik, Richards, and Callahan for Crappy-Gaborik, Wolski, and Christensen... 3 absolutely useless players. Night and day.
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In 11-12 McDonagh had a 40 game season under his belt, Del Zotto played insane, you couldn't really ask for more out of Bickel, Woywitka, and Eminger. That was a great season almost everything was going right for us we were getting all the bounces.
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