Jeff Gorton got us into this mess, lets see him get us out of it. The players that he has gotten rid of are all having success with other teams. If he would of had the seeds to get rid of AV 2-3 years ago this core group we had here would of been fine. This team will be awful for the next 5 years!
I expect them to be better than awful, but not very good. I find that to be worse than awful in terms of them ever becoming very good.
I just do not understand the player evaluations. Moving the pending UFAs for picks, fine okay. Moving McD with a year left, okay I can understand that too. That is stuff a rebuilding team does.
Miller moved? A player they'd be lucky to get with a #8 pick.
Last summer, Smith, Shattenkirk, DD, #7, ADA added while Girardi, Stepan, subtracted, those are contradicting moves.
I am all for a real rebuild but that is not what I am feeling from their media stuff, they did add quite a few prospects, non blue chip, they added quite a few draft slots, none that normally supply blue chip prospects.
We'll see what they do with all that but they have cap space, they are going to use it. They are talking about winning, maybe sneaking into the playoffs, character, toughness, I at least have the feeling this is just the Rangers doing what they pretty much did after the last sell off when they finally traded Leetch. The Jagr era was born, yet they could never build a very good team around that because the only prospect that turned out to be a legit among the top of the league player for his position through all that up until even now was Lundqvist.
