Several different advance stat models have him as a middle 4 AHl player. I can also post multiple vidoes of him getting crushed 1v1 in his own zone from this season. So besides not thinking you have a single clue what you are talking about i also doubt you can put together of string of words that are worth responding to.
Yeah and he plays 18 minutes a game for an organization, who in less than two years, has rebuilt this team into a possible playoff contender. What are they thinking of, in starting a middle AHLer?
Staal has a career of being used to an elite goalie bailing him out. I have no clue why NYR bought out Girardi instead of him. Personally, I might have been going with Staal first, but that's very hard to say. They're both terrible.
I beg to differ. The Rangers for years were always up there in being a top defensive team. Once Girardi and McDonagh left, Hank was left out to dry and we fell to being one of the worse teams defensively. It is easy to say an Elite goalie bails a team out. But we all know it's a full team effort. This year alone is a classic example. It is night and day between the first half of the year and the second,... on how we have learned to play D as a team. It's not all Shesty and Georgie. They are the first to admit how well the guys are playing in front of them.
Also because of the number of games he's played as a Ranger. People like to minimize the achievements of players they don't love.
