Kakko's days are numbered in NY, He speaks the truth and throws teammates under the bus

[Luigi Lemieux]

Rangers have been the best soap opera this season

 

[BB88]

Someone’s going to get a quality player cheap

 

[FIRE DRURY]

Has zibby been healthy scratched once this year?

Emotionally? Yes. Numerous Games. Most games, actually.

Physically? Nope. He's one of the vets that should have sat in the presser the way he's looked this season.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Good riddance

 

[FIRE DRURY]

Someone’s going to get a quality player cheap

Quality players are not moved for cheap. Drury will have bidders and get fair market value.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Send him to Anaheim
As punishment

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

You love to see it!!

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Good riddance

Are you on the coach's side here

 

[Rschmitz]

Would look really nice in a Lightning sweater

 

[MVP Zacha]

Rupp is not pulling any punches.

 

[PM88RU]

I mean what’s wrong with the Rangers? A dream place where UFA love to settle, a good prospect pool (Laf and Kakko are both solid) and …. pfff, nothing.

Got to ECF once(or a few times?) in last 15 years or so, nothing more.

Time for changes to be made?

 

[WarriorOfGandhi]

 

[BB88]

Quality players are not moved for cheap. Drury will have bidders and get fair market value.

I highly doubt he gets the market value with the mess he’s created

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

It’s like when the worst person you know makes a good point- Kakko seems to be correct here, but he’s also been a major disappointment often worthy of benching. These can both be true.

 

[Score08]

If Sweeney wasn’t an abject moron I’d be interested in seeing if something was possible between these 2 teams.

 

[QuizGuy66]

Always felt like they fumbled this guy's development right from the very beginning. To be a #2 overall going to a huge market with huge expectations that were further inflamed by Boomer Esiason relentlessly hyping him for months ahead of the draft was already gonna be a lot for an 18-year-old to bear. And they ended up having no support environment for him - really needed to have a fellow Finn on the team to take him under their wing (like the Devils did with always have a Swiss player or two around for Hischier when he came to the team). And then the kid gets off to a slow start and gets to be a scapegoat that loses valuable minutes.

His game starts to round into shape though not at the level of initial expectations and he gets continually jerked around and not communicated with.

Hope he lands in a good supportive environment that lets his late bloom take off.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Has zibby been healthy scratched once this year?

Don't love plus minus but intra team it can be useful. Kakko is a +10 while Zib is a -15. I'm gonna guess Zib hasn't sat once.

 

[UnSandvich]

It’s like when the worst person you know makes a good point- Kakko seems to be correct here, but he’s also been a major disappointment often worthy of benching. These can both be true.

He certainly hasn't this year. 2nd best goal differential on the team, 4th in points/60 at 5v5

 

[Romang67]

Don't love plus minus but intra team it can be useful. Kakko is a +10 while Zib is a -15. I'm gonna guess Zib hasn't sat once.

When one player is rocking a PDO of 106, it's probably not super useful.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Are you on the coach's side here

I don't like Kakko's comment because he's basically trying to say he's been better than other players, throwing his teammates under the bus. I don't think that's something you say publicly.

I think Zibanejad & Kreider are more deserving of the scratch than Kakko though. But I don't buy the narrative that Kakko hasn't gotten an opportunity, to start his rookie season he was forcefed top six minutes & PP1 time, he played himself off of it

 

[UnSandvich]

Don't love plus minus but intra team it can be useful. Kakko is a +10 while Zib is a -15. I'm gonna guess Zib hasn't sat once.

You would be correct

 

[HBK27]

This goes beyond the Rangers but it's asinine when coaches sit a player but don't communicate with them about why and what they want them to do differently.

Such a non-sensical "old school" way of thinking.

Yeah, this never makes sense to me and yet we see it happen time and time again in this league. Why wouldn't a coach pull aside the player, especially a younger player that's a regular in this league, and explain the line of thinking if you're going to make him a healthy scratch versus leaving the player guessing and often times pissing them off.

 

[UnSandvich]

I don't like Kakko's comment because he's basically trying to say he's been better than other players, throwing his teammates under the bus. I don't think that's something you say publicly.

I think Zibanejad & Kreider are more deserving of the scratch than Kakko though. But I don't buy the narrative that Kakko hasn't gotten an opportunity, to start his rookie season he was forcefed top six minutes & PP1 time, he played himself off of it

His rookie season...5 years ago? Yeah, sure Ed, okay.

 

[LevelingSolo]

Has he actually played good though?

 

[johnjm22]

Name	+/-
Will Cuylle	11​
Kaapo Kakko	10​
Filip Chytil	9​
Braden Schneider	6​
Jonny Brodzinski	3​
Zac Jones	3​
Adam Fox	3​
Chad Ruhwedel	2​
Reilly Smith	1​
Igor Shesterkin	0​
Jonathan Quick	0​
Matthew Rempe	0​
Connor Mackey	0​
Jimmy Vesey	-1​
Sam Carrick	-1​
Brett Berard	-3​
Victor Mancini	-3​
Jacob Trouba	-3​
Ryan Lindgren	-4​
Chris Kreider	-4​
K'Andre Miller	-5​
Vincent Trocheck	-5​
Adam Edstrom	-6​
Artemi Panarin	-6​
Alexis Lafreniere	-13​
Mika Zibanejad	-15​

I mean, he ain't wrong.