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EdJovanovski said:
With Kravtsov making a triumphant return and putting up a 70pt rookie season inspiring a Disney film about how the troubled boy in the Bart Simpson pajamas turned into a New York Ranger legend.
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It has to be Disneyfied for drama. He has 76 goals at Game 82, and he scores 77 to break the all-time rookie goals record, earning Drury's respect finally.
 
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hpNYR said:
Really sounds like Drury is a d-bag to be quite honest. Doesn't shock me either with some of the interviews he's had as a player here.

These are kids. You need to assert yourself properly and know what buttons to push for each kid. Macho man Drury.
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He paved the way for Kravtsov to make the team. Not only did Kravtsov not seize the opportunity, but it wasn't particularly close. He got handily out-played for the last top 9 wing spot by a guy who most of us saw as a 3rd/4th line tweener with a bit of upside. He didn't even particularly separate himself from the guy who ended up with the 13th forward job. On top of all of that, they kissed Krav's ass in the media when they cut him. Tell me, how is someone in authority supposed to inform someone that they didn't make the team when the player refuses to believe that he's not a top six player right now? The only way they could have been nicer about it is if they'd hired a fluffer for the meeting.

Wild shot in the dark here--it isn't Drury's fault that Kravtsov is seemingly incapable of out-performing his competition (or even making it close enough for them to include him ala Lundkvist). I am legitimately baffled at how many people think it's the GM's fault that the player didn't earn a spot when literally every measurable evaluative criteria demonstrates quite clearly that he didn't earn a spot.

He hasn't proven a damn thing. Not in pre-season. Not in the NHL last season. Not in the AHL. For him to try and dictate that he should be playing (and in the top six by some accounts) is laughable. Drury basically responded with "We want and need you to be in that top six. Now go down to the AHL and show us that you belong there." And Drury's the villain?

Actual footage of Kravtsov playing cards with Gallant and Drury:

 
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smoneil said:
I'd put better odds on his bouncing around to a few teams over the next 3 to 4 years before packing it in and going back to the KHL (just like Pavel Brendl, who had considerably more talent than Kravtsov, and a similar attitude).
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This is the the problem with our conversation. Your concern is that Kravtsov doesn't belong or will never reach his potential. When my concern is the team, and its management. This team was weakened, all due to management's maneuvers. This kid payed his dues, when through hell, improved upon his return, and then gets demoted for Libor Hajek. This was management's decision. And now with Kakko out, you have Gallant calling Kravtsov personally to return. You don't see the irony in this? How can the Ranger's Organization be so shortsighted not to see how he was an important piece to this team. And now they are screwed. They will get nothing for him, and the team will be weakened by his absence. And it didn't have to be this way. Maybe he might not have stepped up and been a good replacement for Kakko, but now we will never know, all due to the shortsightedness of their actions.

because you were, repeatedly, claiming that I don't understand "logic," and I am literally a specialist in it.
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Well, you coulda fooled me. Because you cannot grasp this very easy to understand picture,... that continues to strengthen with each passing day, as the team tries to handle the colossal mishandling of a situation that they themselves created. All to protect a Libor Hajek, or a Dryden Hunt?

Barring a MAJOR attitude change, Kravtsov will be lucky to carve out a "Vlad Namestnikov" level NHL career
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You really think this might put a damper on his Hall of Fame career? Well, my only concern is the immediate future of this club, and how management threw caution to the wind and derailed our chances for a more successful season. You think Shesty will stand on his head, night in, night out? Or that Panarin and Zibad will supply all the scoring we need? We need balance, balance in our lines and Kravtsov would have made a difference. Now opposing teams can concentrate on shutting down the one or two decent lines we have.
 
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John Davidson sitting in his office reading about Drury verbally abusing his players in Hartford as the root cause of these problems after being stymied in the initial investigations in 2019 and Lias not wanting to take his phone call to explain what went wrong

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UnSandvich said:
Tbh if those reports are true, i can understand Kravtsov not wanting to play for Drury. There's a level of "suck it up & deal with it" to any job, but when you get berated in front of the entire rest of the team by the same person, multiple times, I can understand him believing Drury's got a personal issue with him (rightly or wrongly). And at that point, if i'm Kravtsov, i'm not doing you any favors beyond what it takes to get myself out of town quicker.

It's a shitty situation all around, and one that should've been dealt with WELL before it reached this point.
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You realize in team sports plenty of guys have been berated in front of the whole team?


What do you think they do in video review sessions? Do you think they blur out the responsible party so they aren't embarrassed?

Outside of country mates on the team, don't you think like most of his teammates felt like he quit? Now especially?
 
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Well Drury can't bring him back straight to the NHL now. Simple as. There are things to consider as what kind of message does that send to Schneider, Barron, Jones.

Refuse your assignment and get rewarded?
 
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Crease said:
Not that I don’t believe the reports, but I’m having a difficult time visioning Drury yelling at someone. Just never saw him as that kind of guy.
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These days people too often tend to take term "yelling at" someone and apply it to simply being scolded, like a parent or boss or anyone with authority simply saying "don't do that" or "don't act like that" is yelling at someone.

Who would be saying that Drury yelled at Vitali? You think Drury is going to the press and saying yeah I yelled at him and he didn't listen. This shit is coming from Vitali's camp. "He yelled at meeeeeee"

Sounds like half this board posting in gameday threads
 
hpNYR said:
Really sounds like Drury is a d-bag to be quite honest. Doesn't shock me either with some of the interviews he's had as a player here.

These are kids. You need to assert yourself properly and know what buttons to push for each kid. Macho man Drury.
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These players are called kids because they are young relative to other NHLers.

Believe it or not, they are actually f***ing adults.

This is some brain dead shit
 
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Alluckks said:
These days people too often tend to take term "yelling at" someone and apply it to simply being scolded, like a parent or boss or anyone with authority simply saying "don't do that" or "don't act like that" is yelling at someone.

Who would be saying that Drury yelled at Vitali? You think Drury is going to the press and saying yeah I yelled at him and he didn't listen. This shit is coming from Vitali's camp. "He yelled at meeeeeee"

Sounds like half this board posting in gameday threads
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As a school bus drive I deal with this shit all the time.

Nevermind the bus is a loud environment. Or the fact 2 or 3 out of 60 kids on the bus are a PITA and need a stern voice once in awhile when this "coddeling" bullshit doesn't affect them in the slightest.
 
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Cmox said:
Nobody else is wondering how and why he missed the team bus when they’re we’re in the f***ing bubble? :laugh:
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probably another tantrum

children to irrational things when they're upset. I use the term child in a loose way. He has a childs mind. Arrested development is a national crisis.
 
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