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Mats Zuccarelli said:
I agree with everything but players have always wanted to come to the Rangers. Always. Gorton didn't change that.
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This is true. The difference is, we actually used that as leverage instead of bidding against ourselves.

You really want to play for NY? Prove it. Shatty did just that, leaving $20mm+ on the table. Given Sather's history, I think there's a pretty good chance he wouldn't have been able to resist the temptation and we'd all would be moaning about a 7y deal instead of rejoicing over a 4y deal.

I imagine Shatty's camp tried to press, but Gorton seemed to show very little interest. Eventually they blinked.
 
Gotta say, Gorts has been amazing. He's making ballsy move after move after move...confidently reshaping this team. He hasn't been timid at all. Outstanding! A year or two ago, who would have thought we would be selecting twice in the first round, rebuilding the farm via those picks and UDFAs galore, dumping risky/bad contracts, signing useful free agents (and not over-paying), turning the D we've all been so critical of upside-down, etc, etc, etc... The guy is addressing everything...and doing it all within a few months.

The only need I can think of right now is a high-profile Center to replace Stepan. That's it. Or Mika can be that guy...and we just need to find a #2 Center.

Thank You Gorts!
 
Once it was clear that he wasn't going to be able to address the defense last off-season, I figured he would be retooling the D this off-season. I think he's done it in masterful fashion. Hurts to lose D Step but I'm excited to watch this new d core develop and play together.
 
Revel said:
Gotta say, Gorts has been amazing. He's making ballsy move after move after move...confidently reshaping this team. He hasn't been timid at all. Outstanding! A year or two ago, who would have thought we would be selecting twice in the first round, rebuilding the farm via those picks and UDFAs galore, dumping risky/bad contracts, signing useful free agents (and not over-paying), turning the D we've all been so critical of upside-down, etc, etc, etc... The guy is addressing everything...and doing it all within a few months.

The only need I can think of right now is a high-profile Center to replace Stepan. That's it. Or Mika can be that guy...and we just need to find a #2 Center.

Thank You Gorts!
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Gorton could be the best thing Sather ever did for the New York Rangers!
 
I have long been a Gorton fan boy and defended him when people went all knee jerk on him. If years down the line he is ever given free reign to do a full rebuild this team will become unrecognizably stacked. He's such a great GM, he laid the very foundation of the B's 2011 cup championship in something like a 6 month time frame IIRC.
 
At the beginning he made 2 faults.
1. The E. Staal Trade
2. Give Yandle not a Contract and not buy out Girardi last Season.

After this he made very good things.
 
boxhamster said:
At the beginning he made 2 faults.
1. The E. Staal Trade
2. Give Yandle not a Contract and not buy out Girardi last Season.

After this he made very good things.
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1. The Staal trade didn't work out but the more I think about it, the more it seems like a bad fit, not a bad trade. Staal clearly still had enough left in the tank, looking at his current season in Minny. It just didn't work out. He wasn't some washed up veteran that was doomed to fail

2. Sather giving Staal the extension before we even acquired Yandle made it nearly impossible to keep Yandle. Girardi's buy out last year wouldn't make sense because it had a very bad cap consequence and we didn't have a need for cap space because there wasn't a candidate to be signed, unlike this off-season with Shattenkirk
 
Didn't want Shattenkirk coming in but on that deal I can't say no.

He has a plan. I don't necessarily onow what it is but he has one. I'm good with that. Too often previously it seemed like we just did whatever.
 
Now he just needs to come up with a deal to move out Nash, Staal and picks for a young #1 center. :sarcasm:
 
Eric Staal trade was disgusting but other than that he's been great. The Stepan trade while largely being a cap casualty will be determined by how Andersson and DeAngelo pan out.


Overall a very nice job at getting younger while retaining talent and managing the cap. If we can get another year of progression out of Miller, Hayes, Skjei and Kreider I'm feeling really good about next year
 
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I continue to say he has hit homeruns on almost all of his moves. I think the Staal trade was just as much Sather as Gorton. Even if I don't initially agree with a move he makes he's earned my respect to the point where I will give him the benefit of the doubt.
 
How bad was the Staal trade really? Sure, we overpaid, but considering what Staal did last season in Minny, it might be more accurate to say that AV did a terrible job figuring out how to use him. If Staal played for us like he did last season for the Wild, who knows? Maybe we sneak by Pittsburgh that year and go even further? You can't underestimate the effect of a dominant scoring threat up the middle.

Anyway, Gorton has done an amazing job thus far. This team's window just got a little wider, and yet we are younger and arguably better.
 
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