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
Post-Game Talk: Game 22: New York Rangers @ Philadelphia Flyers, 1pm ET, MSG2
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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.
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No players’ only meetings, no closed door meetings, just….shrug our shoulders and say it wasn’t good enough
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It LOOKED like they were hammered in the first period.
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We're in a situation requiring TED Talk level innovative solutions
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Maybe Drury should ask ChatGPT what to do
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“Ryan Lindgren is horrible
“I can’t believe we only got a third round pick for him!!!”
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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.
Thing to do now is absolutely not trade more assets to play Eric Staal on LW.
Team is built like Drury was as a Ranger. Soft passive lazy overpaid. Sums up the vets on this team
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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.
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
It's all so tiresome
That team made the playoffs, I’m not convinced this one will.
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Seems like they’re all scared and waiting for a trade to be made so they can breathe again.
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
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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.
Scorched Earth.
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
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(HF board tomorrow when they see the exact same lines and pairs dressed again)
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Machinehead
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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.
All of them have gone in the extreme opposite direction. Asked and answered. Stop playing wait and see.
It was funny how disgusted Joe was with the team's play today
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
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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.
