Post-Game Talk: Game 22: New York Rangers @ Philadelphia Flyers, 1pm ET, MSG2

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I don't care. At this point, it's about getting the waste off the ice, not asset management.

Oh, I'm anticipating the weeping and wailing when we start moving some of these players and the return isn't what some think it should be. Always amazes me that people expect "A List" talent in exchange for Grade C-D players

 

[DuneGoon84]

Oh, I'm anticipating the weeping and wailing when we start moving some of these players and the return isn't what some think it should be. Always amazes me that people expect "A List" talent in exchange for Grade C-D players

You haven't had enough of this core ? Who cares start over

 

[Machinehead]

Oh, I'm anticipating the weeping and wailing when we start moving some of these players and the return isn't what some think it should be. Always amazes me that people expect "A List" talent in exchange for Grade C-D players

You're not generally wrong, but I think you're misreading most of the board here. We don't want a hockey trade that's going to hopefully get the team out of a funk, and nobody is under the impression that Trouba brings back a first and a prospect.

We simply want this core tossed in an incinerator.

 

[Paulie Walnutz]

No players’ only meetings, no closed door meetings, just….shrug our shoulders and say it wasn’t good enough

 

[RangerLifer]

Yeah, probably. The entire team should get hammered on the plane/train ride home.

It LOOKED like they were hammered in the first period.

 

[will1066]

You're not generally wrong, but I think you're misreading most of the board here. We don't want a hockey trade that's going to hopefully get the team out of a funk, and nobody is under the impression that Trouba brings back a first and a prospect.

We simply want this core tossed in an incinerator.

We're in a situation requiring TED Talk level innovative solutions

 

[Paulie Walnutz]

Maybe Drury should ask ChatGPT what to do

 

[grachevsceiling]

We're in a situation requiring TED Talk level innovative solutions

Hockey is a state of mind

 

[17futurecap]

Oh, I'm anticipating the weeping and wailing when we start moving some of these players and the return isn't what some think it should be. Always amazes me that people expect "A List" talent in exchange for Grade C-D players

“Ryan Lindgren is horrible

“I can’t believe we only got a third round pick for him!!!”

 

[Siddi]

DEFCON level?

 

[Fitzy]

Feels a lot like the 2015-2016 season that ended in a five game exit, in all the wrong ways.

Thing to do now is absolutely not trade more assets to play Eric Staal on LW.

 

[RangersFan1994]

Team is built like Drury was as a Ranger. Soft passive lazy overpaid. Sums up the vets on this team

 

[Machinehead]

Also, if you wanted to go on this direction, let's say we cleared out the entire aging core.

A group of Laf, Chytil, Kakko, Berard, Cuylle, Trocheck (who I'm not really counting among the usual suspects at this point), Fox, Jones, etc., plus a few signings, could at least be a competitive roster.

I don't think moving a new direction is always as black and white as being as horrible as possible.

The point is, the longer we wait to completely change course, the more time we waste. It's over.

Some of the longest, most agonizing rebuilds (San Jose, Chicago) were caused by "kicks at the can" and not tearing it up immediately.

 

[DanielBrassard]

Feels a lot like the 2015-2016 season that ended in a five game exit, in all the wrong ways.

Thing to do now is absolutely not trade more assets to play Eric Staal on LW.

That team made the playoffs, I’m not convinced this one will.

 

[Chytilmania]

Seems like they’re all scared and waiting for a trade to be made so they can breathe again.

 

[RangersFan1994]

Oh I think he wanted to move Trouba and got cockblocked. Drury is right to want to make some serious moves.

Tough time of year to do it though.

He could have kept Buchnevich. He cators to the vets and not the young players that are playing well. Keep giving out NMC and NTC like candy

 

[Synergy27]

It’s one thing if that puck was bouncing but id expect a squirt to bury this.

 

[huerter]

Can't handle it anymore. Can't watch it anymore. Joe and Sam must go. And the beat writers, and Maloney, and La Grecs. And Rangers twitter can stay over there while we go to Blue Heaven.

Scorched Earth.

 

[mike14]

Also, if you wanted to go on this direction, let's say we cleared out the entire aging core.

A group of Laf, Chytil, Kakko, Berard, Cuylle, Trocheck (who I'm not really counting among the usual suspects at this point), Fox, Jones, etc., plus a few signings, could at least be a competitive roster.

I don't think moving a new direction is always as black and white as being as horrible as possible.

The point is, the longer we wait to completely change course, the more time we waste. It's over.

Some of the longest, most agonizing rebuilds (San Jose, Chicago) were caused by "kicks at the can" and not tearing it up immediately.

The issues appears to (still) be, how do we get that true #1 center that you seem to need in order to truly be competitive?
We've tried to buy one for years and it hasn't worked.
They tend to go at the top of the draft (unless we win the lottery...) which usually means you do have to bottom out, but as you point out we likely have enough skill on the roster to avoid that.
So you're left in no-man's land waiting some insane draft luck at around pick #15

 

[Row I Goon]

(HF board tomorrow when they see the exact same lines and pairs dressed again)

 

[will1066]

Can't handle it anymore. Can't watch it anymore. Joe and Sam must go. And the beat writers, and Maloney, and La Grecs. And Rangers twitter can stay over there while we go to Blue Heaven.

Scorched Earth.

How about the power play?

 

[Machinehead]

Any hope of being fun this year hinged on Zibanejad being at least passable, Kreider staying good going on 34, and Miller being close to his 2022 season.

All of them have gone in the extreme opposite direction. Asked and answered. Stop playing wait and see.

 

[mike14]

Can't handle it anymore. Can't watch it anymore. Joe and Sam must go. And the beat writers, and Maloney, and La Grecs. And Rangers twitter can stay over there while we go to Blue Heaven.

Scorched Earth.

It was funny how disgusted Joe was with the team's play today

 

[UnparalledPark]

we're back on this bullshit eh?

To make a basketball analogy, Kakko is good at dribbling a basketball, he just can’t shoot, pass, or guard anyone with average or better speed. NOW is his time to show he can be a star. I’m still waiting

 

[will1066]

You know we're in a bad way when @Bob Richards makes appearances here in consecutive days but stays silent when asked if the Rangers are the Mets of hockey.