The goaltending free agent market this year is dire, so inevitably someone is going to overpay for Jake Allen as possibly the best name on the market. I don't want the Devils to be the team holding the bag. Daws isn't so underwhelming that we'd be significantly worse choosing him as the backup.
I think that they'll bounce back enough to be a wild card team. They're not very good but I don't see them going through another stretch of 16 games or so where they were arguably the worst team in the NHL. I'm not familiar with Sullivan's system, though, so if he isn't good with the defensive structure that they desperately need, I might end up being wrong.
Its need not to panic, its need to draw conclusions and act accordingly. To do this, the Devils must find a player who will either play the role of a third line center, but is capable of being competent enough as a second line center, or find a winger in the top 6 who is capable of playing center. Both are possible. But for this, substantial work needs to be done to free the cap.
Shestyorkin can take a part of our points by his own in better shape, Perrault can make an impact, Othmann can make a next step to be NHLer, Lafreniere and Cuylle will develop, overall their team can take a part of our points. This team were president trophy winner year ago, and even with some aging guys, they still have Panarin (yap, NHL. business), Shestyorkin, Fox and some young NHLers and pre-NHLers I named before who can help them to return to the play off hunt and take away some parts of our points.
So because Othamann didnt crack their line up yet so we should not worry about rangers at all? That was his first season, its not the time to pencil him out. And its not a time at all to pencil out rangers because one 21 yo rookie didnt pan out yet or even will never pan out. He is the most minor piece on this list.
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We complain about our player development but who was the last Ranger prospect to really live up to a high billing? Adam Fox was already pretty well developed before getting there but if you want to name him that was a few years ago. Lafreniere hasn’t even been close to living up to his billing other than maybe two years ago, then he regressed again this year. Kakko had to leave to blossom and those are just the guys who weren’t outright busts. Shesterkin was also a few years ago, not even a highly rated prospect and goalies are different, they do churn out goalies like nobody’s business. Skaters otoh…
Rangers have been making shitty high picks since the dawn of time.
Absolutely nobody comes to mind. I'm not kidding. I was going to say Ryan McDonagh, but he was drafted by the Habs and did a lot of his development at Wisconsin before going over to the AHL. And since I don't consider Adam Fox to be a Rangers developed prospect, I have to reject McDonagh by that same logic. It's been a problem for decades.
Kreider is the first one that comes to mind, and he was mostly a college product. Shestyerkin developed in the KHL and didn't get high billing until he excelled there.
damn. how could I missed that hard. My mistake.
Im more of the hope that Jack gets past all this. Bratt got through early career wear down/injuries. Hopefully jack can too.
Zibs seemed pretty adamant that he's not going to waive his full NMC.
I'd have Jack spend whatever time he needs after his shoulder rehab to work on overall strengthening before his return. Even if he starts the season a bit late. They need him more at the end of the season than at the beginning.
I’m thinking maybe he had throat surgery at some point after the deadline. Since he usually doesn’t wait this long to talk. And he seems to love to hear himself talk. So maybe he’ll show up to the presser with one of these
