Injury Report: Jesper Fast retires

[Eye of Ra]

Was he not a good player for you guys?

 

[McRanger92]

Underrated player and made Panairn better, we never should have let him leave but we had to give Brendan Lemiuex more icetime apparently.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

He was a bit overrated around these parts truthfully. Good defensive player but 4th line offensive talent. It got silly when he was getting 2nd line minutes on a regular basis. Still had a solid career.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Great 6th round pick that we got for a complete bust in Bobby Sanguenetti. Hoping it's a similar story with Cuylle and Andersson.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Sucks that his career ended getting hurt in a game that he easily could have been rested in.

 

[mti79]

He was a solid but not spectacular player. Guy could play anywhere in the lineup and make others better because he was so defensively responsible. Made the little plays that went unnoticed.

2015 playoffs vs Washington, down 3 games to one and Derek Stepan set up McDonagh to win in OT. Play was set up by Fast intercepting a pass and making the play to Stepan.

Game 7 of that series, again in overtime: Stepan wins it on a rebound from a Girardi blast. It was Fast week dug out the face off and got it to Yandle on the boards who passed out Girardi for the aforementioned blast.

Good luck in retirement Jesper.

 

[SA16]

A player who so strongly represented the country club atmosphere of this organization that he permitted the entire organization, media, and fanbase to spell his name incorrectly throughout his entire career. Whatever happened to attention to detail?

 

[frozenrubber]

He won the Rangers Players Player award FIVE(!) times.

Was he a top 6 talent, absolutely not. I'll never begrudge him for playing too high in the lineup, only begrudge the players who couldn't play as reliably/consistently as Jesper.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

A player who so strongly represented the country club atmosphere of this organization that he permitted the entire organization, media, and fanbase to spell his name incorrectly throughout his entire career. Whatever happened to attention to detail?

Who was it that REFUSED to spell his name as Fast and would write Fasth every post. Glad he left the Rangers just for that.

 

[will1066]

Was he not a good player for you guys?

He was a traitor

 

[Eye of Ra]

He was a traitor

Why

 

[will1066]

Why

I know the team didn't want to re-sign him, but he went to the Canes and even after Skjei killed him earlier

 

[eco's bones]

I know the team didn't want to re-sign him, but he went to the Canes and even after Skjei killed him earlier

......and then he helped kill Chytil.

 

[JohnC]

I was at this game. Kreider tied it with 2 mins left with Hank on his way to the bench. Didn’t think I’d ever scream so loudly again in my life until McD scored that OT winner.

 

[NYRnine94]

Solid player. For an organization that usually f***s up draft picks, he was good and he was drafted in the 6th round.

 

[Roo Returns]

Solid player. For an organization that usually f***s up draft picks, he was good and he was drafted in the 6th round.

He was a bottom sixer. They're more than fine with those.

 

[Roo Returns]

I was at this game. Kreider tied it with 2 mins left with Hank on his way to the bench. Didn’t think I’d ever scream so loudly again in my life until McD scored that OT winner.

Fast was a really good playoff performer for 2015-2017. He even had a few moments in the 2014 run.

I met him at a signing in 2015. Really nice guy.

 

[NYRnine94]

He was a bottom sixer. They're more than fine with those.

Who are they?

 

[Roo Returns]

Who are they?

Boyle, Prust, Fast were all fine bottom sixers over the last decade+. JT Miller was a third liner for a good part of his first tenure here. Oscar Lindberg was very good as the 3C in his short time here. John Mitchell was turned into an NHL player. Colin Blackwell is still kicking. Edstrom/Rempe/Berard are all NHL players, two of those three are bottom sixers and one has upside to maybe become a third wheel sidekick of a second line (Berard).

I'm not going to include Howden or Lemieux in this list.