OT: Let's Remember Some Guys

[nyr2k2]

Enver Lisin

@offdacrossbar won the lifetime "Good Sport" award for dealing with all the shit he took in the aftermath of that, and owning it.

 

[Mandar]

Bobby Sheehan,
0 NYR reg season games,
15 '79 playoff games under Shero

And he was pretty great in those playoffs

 

[markymarc1215]

Darroll Powe. 0 pts in 34 games.

Scott Fraser. 2nd line bust.

Stan Neckar. Beyond awful

Tony Tuzzolino and Chris Kenady. Nuff said

 

[Boris Zubov]

Stan Neckar. Beyond awful

Pronounced Nets-Cash. Never understood that.

 

[Ben Grimm]

These may not be the 7 best Rangers ever. ​

Wade Redden​

Chris Drury​

Bobby Holik​

Scott Gomez​

Darius Kasparaitis​

Michal Rozsival​

Donald Brashear - Those fans that are booing, I'll take you one-by-one.​

 

[Deleted member 23124]

These may not be the 7 best Rangers ever. ​

Wade Redden​

Chris Drury​

Bobby Holik​

Scott Gomez​

Darius Kasparaitis​

Michal Rozsival​

Donald Brashear - Those fans that are booing, I'll take you one-by-one.​

I'm still trying to forget "Not so Rozy" as well as "The Leak"

 

[cwede]

always had an appreciation for those skilled, older, instant-offense guys
joined over-30 and complemented the core productively
2 fave examples
Rousseau during the Emile peak, and
Rucinsky during Czech-mates seasons

 

[Profet]

Ugh... the main boards...

Did you guys know Scott Stevens wasn't a dirty player?

 

[will1066]

I will add:

Adam Hall
Michal Grosek

Pronounced Nets-Cash. Never understood that.

Howie Rose took pleasure in pronouncing his name.

 

[cwede]

Pronounced Nets-Cash. Never understood that.

coming to a play-by-play announcer near you:
Chmelar, pronounced ~"mel-oche"

as Monty Python told us "it's spelled Throat Warbler Mangrove" but it is pronounced "Luxury Yacht"

 

[NCRanger]

He had chronic knee issues that basically shortened his career. I'm not sure if they originated from that Canada Cup, however.

He was an Espo get, so it’s likely he wasn’t 100% when he became a Ranger.

I do remember him scoring early in the 3rd period of Game 5 of the Patrick Division Finals in 1990 (the Druce series). The Garden erupted.

I do remember him not being as good as his billing from Quebec.

 

[NCRanger]

Always a bit annoyed that both Rico Fata and Pascal Dupuis were both Rangers who went on to Pittsburgh and had better performance there as support plugs. Fata was faster than Kreider in a straight heat.

Pascal Dupuis was a Ranger for two weeks, and he was pretty good during that time.

 

[Ben Grimm]

The 2 Ranger goats: Andre Deveaux, Ryan Hollweg

 

[Boris Zubov]

He was an Espo get, so it’s likely he wasn’t 100% when he became a Ranger.

I do remember him scoring early in the 3rd period of Game 5 of the Patrick Division Finals in 1990 (the Druce series). The Garden erupted.

I do remember him not being as good as his billing from Quebec.

Was it the game where we knocked LaFontaine out or was that Game 1?

 

[NCRanger]

Was it the game where we knocked LaFontaine out or was that Game 1?

That was Game 1 vs the Islanders.

The Rochefort goal was against the Capitals.

 

[Fitzy]

IDK why people shit on Rozsival.

Guy was a #3-#4 defenseman. It wasn't his fault our blueline was so bad he had to play 26 minutes a game.

He was our Thomas Chabot of the time

 

[mti79]

These may not be the 7 best Rangers ever. ​

Wade Redden​

Chris Drury​

Bobby Holik​

Scott Gomez​

Darius Kasparaitis​

Michal Rozsival​

Donald Brashear - Those fans that are booing, I'll take you one-by-one.​

Drury was never going to live up to his expectations and his injury hurt. Wish he had just retired instead of forcing us to buy him out.

I loved Kasper and I don't care what anyone says.

 

[NYR94]

Todd White

 

[Fitzy]

Todd White

The great white spark!

 

[markymarc1215]

Pronounced Nets-Cash. Never understood that.

Haha yes how can we forget. He was the posterboy for a prototype defenseman during the DPE.

 

[Boris Zubov]

That was Game 1 vs the Islanders.

The Rochefort goal was against the Capitals.

Right, sorry my brain was elsewhere when I read your post this morning. Game 1 was the only game we won of that series...pretty convincingly if I recall. Game 4 of that series still is one of the worst losses in franchise history....because this is a franchise with a ton of haunting losses, that one never gets mentioned, but it was a real heartbreaker. Turned out to be Rod Langway's last playoff goal of his career...of course.

 

[markymarc1215]

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The 2 Ranger goats: Andre Deveaux, Ryan Hollweg

Deveaux was trash. I had no beef with Hollweg. Like Ortmeyer, he was an AHL talent but played with a lot of heart. Players like that in our system were non-existant for the last few years of the dark ages. So it was nice to see a few of them earn a spot.

Ortmeyer and Hollweg playing regular shifts is like if we had Johnny Brodzinski and Tim Gettinger playing every night. Not real full time NHL talent but they bring their lunch pail and hard hat every game.

 

[TopShelfSnipes]

These may not be the 7 best Rangers ever. ​

Wade Redden​

Chris Drury​

Bobby Holik​

Scott Gomez​

Darius Kasparaitis​

Michal Rozsival​

Donald Brashear - Those fans that are booing, I'll take you one-by-one.​

Rozsival was actually a decent player who would have been perfectly fine as a 4D. The trouble is this org, again, overvalued competent play as "good" and paid him to be the top D on the team, an expectation he could never reasonably be expected to live up to. Fans hated him b/c he was hesitant to shoot the puck, but I always thought he got a bad deal b/c people (including ownership) expected him to be something he could never be - James Patrick perhaps - and he got the boos for being exactly what he should have been expected to be, which was a middle pairing defenseman with some offensive skill who has OK in his own end.

Redden was good once, but aged quickly, and hid his decline feeding Zdeno Chara for 100MPH powerplay one timers for a few years before Chara was gone. Even with Chara gone, Redden had a while to look very bad In Ottawa, and to clearly establish for the Rangers and other potential suitors that close to half of his production was Chara-related...but the Rangers signed him to that stupid deal anyway.

Holik and Gomez always reeked to me as more of an FU to the Devils than any kind of addition. Gomez had one 30 goal year (the year the entire league went crazy), never scored more than 20, and was generally a 15-45-60 kinda guy on the Devils' second line. So naturally the Rangers thought he was a 1C. Holik was slow and great within the Devils system but not much outside. I think that became apparent as soon as he came over.

Kasparaitis never made sense. A team with no scoring that already had a great open ice hitter in Kloucek spends big money on an open ice hitter than can't score. A team that was about to run Dale Purinton out onto the ice for the most games in his career.

Drury was another mediocre 50 point player signed to lead the offense. Horrible deal. He was barely a 4th liner by the end. And now he's stealing money from the Rangers as a GM

Brashear was clearly finished by the time the Rangers brought him over. Could barely skate, was banged up, not a fraction of the fighter he was in his prime...but hey, tuffness, amirite?

 

[will1066]

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The 2 Ranger goats: Andre Deveaux, Ryan Hollweg

Andre Deveaux... nice one. Bel Biv Deveaux


More names as I kept thinking...

Peter Popovic
Steven Kampfer
Thomas Pock

Deveaux was trash. I had no beef with Hollweg. Like Ortmeyer, he was an AHL talent but played with a lot of heart. Players like that in our system were non-existant for the last few years of the dark ages. So it was nice to see a few of them earn a spot.

Ortmeyer and Hollweg playing regular shifts is like if we had Johnny Brodzinski and Tim Gettinger playing every night. Not real full time NHL talent but they bring their lunch pail and hard hat every game.

Hollweg invented the term "penalty machine."

 

[clmetsfan]

Deveaux was trash. I had no beef with Hollweg. Like Ortmeyer, he was an AHL talent but played with a lot of heart. Players like that in our system were non-existant for the last few years of the dark ages. So it was nice to see a few of them earn a spot.

Ortmeyer and Hollweg playing regular shifts is like if we had Johnny Brodzinski and Tim Gettinger playing every night. Not real full time NHL talent but they bring their lunch pail and hard hat every game.

I had a significant beef with Hollweg and his talent for giving the opponents 5-minute power plays. I also object to putting him in the same breath as Ortmeyer (even though they played on the same line) because Ortmeyer was a dynamo on the PK and thus a very useful player.