Post-Game Talk: I don't have anything clever to put in the thread title

[SnowblindNYR]

I don’t think anyone wants to burn it all down and start over. They want some hockey trades made with this core getting ripped apart, ala what Florida did

Oh not calling anyone up but I've read that we should trade everyone. If it's hockey trades, I guess that's different. But how often is a trade like the Tkachuk trade available?

 

[Filip Chytil]

 

[hackeyman]

I'm done with Drury and that's the hill I'm drying on so buckle the f*** up.

I'm gonna make @GoAwayPanarin look like he likes Panarin in comparison.

If Drury doesn't move Panarin , then for sure he has to go.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Kid still didn't come close to peaking. His skating, zone entry, puck handling, shooting are there.

I'm calling it now. I was a Debbie Downer when it came to Kakko. Said he'd only get 15, he got 19.

Laffy is hitting 90 points next season. Money in the bank!

If he gets PP time he can hit it. He had had almost 40 even strength points in the last 50 games.

 

[huerter]

Rememeber when I told that Igor hater to pay attention to the way Florida talked about him after the series...Well pay attention.

 

[17futurecap]

“I blew the game in the first period doing god knows what”

 

[irishlaxburger2]

I hope that’s just Weekes trying to get Benoit one last contract before retirement

 

[majordomo]

I don't know how you get him waive the NMC, but Trouba needs to go to Utah as their inaugural captain. The new owner will want to look like he's spending, and Trouba is a 'name'...
This is their current D corps
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He doesn't have to waive it....it is now a limited-NMC....he has to provide a list of 15-teams he can't be traded to.

 

[huerter]

If he gets PP time he can hit it. He had had almost 40 even strength points in the last 50 games.

He does get PP time, and plays die with him constantly.

 

[mas0764]

Mika’s play this year and last has earned him a demotion to PP2 next season. Laviolette is crazy if he expects that one timer (which hasn’t been effective in 2 years) to be a top option on the PP. it just doesn’t feel dangerous when your go to looks are a pass on a tee for Zibanejad or a Kreider deflection. 2 things Florida pretty easily took away, and it neutered Panarin as a threat indirectly imo

All Mika produces is on the PP.

I don’t disagree that he needs to be off it, but if you take him off PP1, he’s like a 35 point middle six center who goes inexplicably cold for long stretches, and then that again is not how to build a winning team.

He has to go too. If there’s no way to move him then the GM is just wasting time.

 

[17futurecap]

 

[Feel Shame]

actually... simply put (if you're old enough to remember this)...

This year's team was the Bernie Nicholls Rangers.

Not the Mark Messier Rangers.

Mark Messier circa 1991 is EXACTLY what this team needs.

 

[Tob]

Well if you're comparing yourself to @Tob then yeah.

No one has made me laugh harder than Tob. His comments on Peter Holland when he played here are etched into my mind for eternity and there are times where I will just randomly remember what he said and start laughing to myself. I did this while designing a rehab program for a client who just had a knee replacement and he wasn't very happy about it.

Stop juggling my nuts

 

[Filip Chytil]

 

[RangersFan1994]

What a loser. Overpaid bum

 

[Brutananadilewski]

He does get PP time, and plays die with him constantly.

On PP2. With a fraction of time. With Lavy having a brainfart in one game by sending out Kakko, Ros, and Wennberg instead.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

He does get PP time, and plays die with him constantly.

I mean he gets PP time with the likes of Trouba. I think he would be good in a PP1 role. And if he's not great at it, he can improve over time. You improve by playing with the PP1 not that horrendous PP2 that we have.

 

[McRanger92]

All Mika produces is on the PP.

I don’t disagree that he needs to be off it, but if you take him off PP1, he’s like a 35 point middle six center who goes inexplicably cold for long stretches, and then that again is not how to build a winning team.

He has to go too. If there’s no way to move him then the GM is just wasting time.

“If the GM doesn’t make an impossible trade, he should be fired” I’m happy you aren’t my boss

 

[BleedBlueNYR]

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Sickening picture. Roslovic and Wennberg were terrible acquisitions.

 

[DialUp]

Mark Messier circa 1991 is EXACTLY what this team needs.

That player didn't exist or is not available.

 

[mike14]

He doesn't have to waive it....it is now a limited-NMC....he has to provide a list of 15-teams he can't be traded to.

True, but 'waive' was much quicker to type than 'I don't know how you convince Trouba to make sure that Utah isn't included on his no-trade list'.
Although now that I have written it anyway, yes I should have just put it in the original post...

 

[Filip Chytil]

 

[ColonialsHockey10]

I probably need a few days to decompress before I can really think constructively about this team’s future.

Unlike last year, there is a lot to look forward to. We’re in a much better place. Laf was the highlight of the season for me. That’s good.

But I truly believe the Rangers lost this series more than Florida won it. There are some seriously rotten players on this core. No team is winning with Zibanejad and Panarin playing meaningful minutes. It’s like Matthew’s and Marner. These guys are losers - it’s their DNA.

 

[irishlaxburger2]

If you’re the Rangers, do you hire Valiquette to replace Benoit?

Seriously.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Stop juggling my nuts

I'll juggle all 4 of them as much as I want.