Thirty One
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Injury Report: Derek Stepan (11/6: Will return Saturday)
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Anyone who would deal a number 1 dman because their center will be out for about 6 weeks is nuts.
If you want to see ugly, take a gander at your top 6 without Staal.
Never make a deal out of panic, especially in September.
AWall THE CLAW
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Ya gotta love Marty. The team is in a tough spot and he's the one who reaches out, after almost 2 decades exclusively on the wing, to pay center on the team's top line. Callahan was my favorite Rangers for a long time, but if he had to traded for anyone, I'm glad it was Marty. There's no way he's ever playing for another team, I really hope he's got a couple more years left in the tank because he's the exact type of teammate you need on and off the ice.
Thirty One
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Did anyone else get flashbacks of Gary Sheffield offering to play third base when Aaron Boone got hurt?
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Zil
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I will happily follow that tradition and take the Texas team's best player at our position of need.
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I love the fact that Marty would volunteer for it but I think that size would be an issue. I guess it would only be for a couple of weeks though so it wouldn't hurt to try it out I suppose. I would at least try it out for a couple of games in the preseason and see what happens.
Your memory tells you that a lot of people thought the Rangers might win the Cup before last season started?
I just looked through a bunch of mags and websites that say otherwise. Most people were more concerned with making it to the playoffs at all..
Thirty One
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I certainly did: http://rangersunlimited.com/2013/08/20/2013-14-eastern-conference-projections/
Others in the stat community did as well. I believe Ian Mendes picked them to win the Cup off the top of my head.
JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK
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Maybe.
Kind of like Colorado was going to last season.
I remember when I posted here a month into the season last year that I thought Colorado had a chance. One poster promised me they would be dead last by February.
Experts and fans get fooled on a regular basis. It's a crapshoot in hockey, much more than in other sports.
Just so this doesn't get away from us, I'm gonna re-post it every so often. post 207 in this thread
It's early, but it certainly DOES look true, with one clarification; it is not that we don't need Stepan or in any way am I suggesting he is useless/worthless. I am simply saying he is dispensable, not indispensable, and is worth more to us in trade than to keep, esp with the rise in his contract.
Everyone who said Hayes and Miller weren't enough, you are being proven wrong.
I take more than my share of lumps, which is fine, cause I ask for frank opinion including criticism; but now that my critics are being proven wrong --- time to fess up is coming SOON.
The real world imposes on me.
I'll follow up when I can.
Peace, go Rangers!
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Dude, it's been 3 preseason games against weak competition. Absolutely nothing is being "proven."
Sometimes I wonder if you're not actually a satirical account.
Youth is prevailing AS I SAID IT WOULD. You stop. Prepare, for the results of the season to continue this trend, and after enough time, to then admit you've been wrong in your overall criticism of my posts.
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Black Hawks not weak, didn't consider any opponent laying down, just outplayed.
It is early.
I'm just setting it up so that the guys who pilloried me for pushing the youth --- which is turning out to be the correct move --- can admit they were wrong and I was right.
Agreed. I like the play so far from them and Duke, Haggs, and Fast. It is encouraging. But the Flyers are nothing to write home about.
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Arguments with bernmeister are scored by the rules of Calvinball so he's always winning.
Most of us want the youth to succeed. Most of us will be ecstatic if we're a great team sans Stepan because of the youth. It makes for fun problems: figuring out who to keep, who gets traded, re-signed, etc. You being "right" isn't going to piss many people off given that it implies team success and a winning record. If it does irritate people, that's just them being silly about not wanting to be proven wrong against a guy who, let's face it, can be a little intense in his posts. I myself have called you out numerous times. And then I've gone back to apologize and admit you were right where I was wrong once. If you're right, I'll even help you call out those who shouted you down.
All that said, it's SO early to be calling this with that much confidence that it's obviously going to rub some people the wrong way. That's normal. You're a... "unique" poster. Not always in a good way. Not always in a bad one either. Just saying.
Mostly, we should all just be cheering for the same thing here. If Hayes and Miller can step up and be what you say, and what we all hope... then having Step, Brass, Miller, Hayes, Moore as center depth is a great thing. But we're never trading Stepan for Kadri.
You act as if no one else thinks that the team would do well injecting youth into the roster. You do realize that you are posting on a message board that is dedicated to discussing hockey prospects, right?
Additionally, you're acting as if people actually care about who you are. Maybe it's possible that people just disagree with your opinion and that you're just another random unimportant poster on a message board who isn't anything special and doesn't have "detractors."
The kids are playing well, it's encouraging, it is still way too early to draw conclusions based on that, and frankly no matter what happens with the kids it has nothing to do with you and no one owes you a thing.
Hire Sather
He Is Our Star
You really trying to take bows after 2 preseason games?
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