Confirmed with Link: Drury President and GM

[Kakko Schmakko]

Feel like the organization, and really Sather has always used the Post and more so Larry to get their message out. It's not really surprising that Brooks was the one to break the firings yesterday.

Brooks is probably the only Rangers writer that writes interesting, and provides good arguments, his opinions, and so on. while others just state the facts. He is the only one that reached out to ADA to get his side of the story and even got Staal to comment on ADA.

 

[Crease]

I appreciate Brooks but I feel like he’s putting an overly positive spin on recent events in hopes of currying favor with the new administration.

 

[Kakko Schmakko]

I appreciate Brooks but I feel like he’s putting an overly positive spin on recent events in hopes of currying favor with the new administration.

I view it as a positive too, there were red flags that did not sit well with me.

 

[bobbop]

Feel like the organization, and really Sather has always used the Post and more so Larry to get their message out. It's not really surprising that Brooks was the one to break the firings yesterday.

Elliot Freidman broke the firings

 

[17futurecap]

Elliot Freidman broke the firings

Both tweets are literally at 2:46 PM EST.

 

[Kakko Schmakko]

Both tweets are literally at 2:46 PM EST.

Brooks wins because there is more text in his so he began breaking the news earlier and Joe Thornton wannabe did not even mention Drury.

 

[haveandare]

I view it as a positive too, there were red flags that did not sit well with me.

Firing them impulsively with 3 games left is a bigger red flag than anything that either had done imo

 

[Kakko Schmakko]

Firing them impulsively with 3 games left is a bigger red flag than anything that either had done imo

maybe they were going to be fired after season ended. In any case I feel more excited than I was entire season about the team going forward. It has gotten too boring.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Chris Drury could give Rangers shakeup needed for Stanley Cup run

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The hockey department can become more diversified, not so that the franchise will receive plaudits on social media, but because those from varied backgrounds add differing and valuable perspectives. Analytics will play an important role in this regime.

“I think analytics are a big piece of the puzzle,” said Drury, who will add a number of support personnel. “You need as much information as you can when you’re trying to make the best decisions you can and I think in a lot of ways analytics peels back the layers of what you are looking at."
“Sometimes it confirms the eye test and other times it proves the eye test wrong, so you are always trying to find the way to make the right decision.”

The original plan was for Drury to become GM operating in concert with a team president. But Drury thought it was important to wear both hats.

“Of course I’m going to lean on people in different departments, but at the end of the day, I wanted to have the ability to do the things that I thought were necessary,” he said. “I think having both roles, the way they are set up, I’m going to have that ability.”
"

The weird thing is that IMO the organization had a spot for JD with Drury as our GM. With Gorton as our General Manager, I feel JD was too much hands-on to the point where it felt like we had 2 captains trying to steer the ship in different directions. I always felt there was a difference in philosophy between Gorton and JD. What Gorton needed was a President to oversee everything, whereas JD would be ideal to work with a rookie GM who needs some oversight and assistance.

Drury taking over both jobs could work but it's weird for me to look at this change and not wonder what the other scenarios could have been. I'm just happy Drury is taking over and not someone inexperienced like Messier. I have more faith in a guy who worked his way up over the years since retiring than a guy who just sits back, waiting for a job to be handed to him.

 

[Carlos Ranger]

Brooks wins because there is more text in his so he began breaking the news earlier and Joe Thornton wannabe did not even mention Drury.

Brooks wins because he tweeted it 27 seconds sooner than Friedman.

 

[cheech70]

Chris Drury could give Rangers shakeup needed for Stanley Cup run

The hockey department can become more diversified, not so that the franchise will receive plaudits on social media, but because those from varied backgrounds add differing and valuable perspectives. Analytics will play an important role in this regime.

Larry has a suggestion............Rangers aren't Woke enough.....and here I thought it was our toughness.....so we may need an eskimo so we improve the garden ice......maybe an Italian from the Cosa Nostra to prevent beatings from Wilson.....

 

[duhmetreE]

CSA will play a role with the NYR, it makes too much sense.

There's a human element to the team that needs to be addressed as well. Gorton might have been tone deaf. He's was a good evaluator of talent but we need some leaders.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

CSA will play a role with the NYR, it makes too much sense.

There's a human element to the team that needs to be addressed as well. Gorton might have been tone deaf. He's was a good evaluator of talent but we need some leaders.

CSA?

 

[duhmetreE]

CSA?

Clear Sight Analytics, Vally's company

 

[NYSPORTS]

I'm just happy Drury is taking over and not someone inexperienced like Messier. I have more faith in a guy who worked his way up over the years since retiring than a guy who just sits back

at 44 yrs of age i’m not overly comfortable with Drury yet you’re so right imo, Messier just waiting around has the feel of of nepotism alike a family member gets appointed by default. If he wasn’t such a nice guy and done so much for the Rangers he really could qualify as arrogant and kinda lazy waiting for the phone to ring.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

at 44 yrs of age i’m not overly comfortable with Drury yet you’re so right imo, Messier just waiting around has the feel of of nepotism alike a family member gets appointed by default. If he wasn’t such a nice guy and done so much for the Rangers he really could qualify as arrogant and kinda lazy waiting for the phone to ring.

Honestly, I have no problem separating the two. Messier deserves a statue in front of MSG for what he did for this franchise as a player in the early 90s. But that doesn't mean we should just allow him to do whatever he wants and stroll in here to run a billion dollar organization.

Messier comes across as very arrogant and I feel a lot more comfortable with Drury in charge who has worked his way up to where he is. No handouts, no shortcuts.

 

[UnSandvich]

Honestly, I have no problem separating the two. Messier deserves a statue in front of MSG for what he did for this franchise as a player in the early 90s. But that doesn't mean we should just allow him to do whatever he wants and stroll in here to run a billion dollar organization.

Messier comes across as very arrogant and I feel a lot more comfortable with Drury in charge who has worked his way up to where he is. No handouts, no shortcuts.

Yeah, Messier has had time to put in the work at lower levels. He could've asked Slats years ago about joining the coaching staff at the AHL level, and worked his way up. He chose not to.

 

[Jjksport]

No.

Because if they were THAT concerned about keeping their jobs, we would have bought at the deadline and Drury wouldn't have been hired. We would have hired some Dino-Lou esque guy who is still getting jobs because of shit they accomplished 20 years ago and is willing to do a bunch of stupid shit in order to get instant gratification.

We still have that in Sather! Hope he is still on the rebuild and continue build this team the right way, for long term success, not a quick win now mentality.

 

[Edge]

But my point is in this particular case if he wanted to get the most clicks and reads he'd probably gone the route of bashing the organization and telling us how incompetent it is.

No, that comes later. You gotta build the tower before you knock it down.

 

[RangersFan1994]

CSA will play a role with the NYR, it makes too much sense.

There's a human element to the team that needs to be addressed as well. Gorton might have been tone deaf. He's was a good evaluator of talent but we need some leaders.

Rangers need to improve their professional scouts at every level., they thought Hajek and Howden were NHL talent, but look more like NHL AHL depth journeymen if that. they also think Blackwell is a 2ed liner

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

The last 30 seconds of Drury's presser made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. In a good way. I gotta be honest.

 

[Edge]

When Sather took over we had almost no good players and close to zero good prospects. He did a decent job and we had some memorable fun moments the Czech line, Fleury, Barnaby, Avery, Prust, Bure, Jagr, Lindros, etc. He had done a bad job choosing coaches until Renney and had bad luck with goalies Blackburn injury, Richter's decline and injuries, etc. His rebuild was in 2004 was a huge success as we made the playoffs after that with a 100 point season and a monster 1st line.

Not disputing any of that, but he still spent 4 years dinging around unable to put together a roster, which necessitated the reset in 2004. Most people don't survive four years like that.

And in that same vein, the last of the Sather years left us depleted with a need for another reset and the accumulation of assets from which we are just now emerging.

Those things are part of the overall narrative, which includes the aspects you touched on above.

 

[bobbop]

CSA will play a role with the NYR, it makes too much sense.

There's a human element to the team that needs to be addressed as well. Gorton might have been tone deaf. He's was a good evaluator of talent but we need some leaders.

CSA already is contracted by the Rangers

 

[SnowblindNYR]

As much as I adore Vally CSA seems like the hockey version of PFF, completely subjective.

 

[BKGooner]

Wasn't it reported that Sather had a degenerative brain condition before he retired? Alzheimer's or dementia or something?