Player Discussion Matt Rempe - See Mod Note Post 769

[SA16]

Yes, those Rangers would not have started any fights but you can not assure anyone that Carter and Janssen and such would not have jumped Gaborik, Stepan, Richards and Zuccarello though!! As a coach you can not put those players you mentioned in that position, you have to put your toughest players out on the ice!! Could only imagine the headlines if one of those players was jumped and injured! It is a amazing how in todays society the victum is at fault! Your thought process is just horrible and everything thats wrong in todays society. I guess you also believe the home owner is to blame when the criminal breaks into their house and gets shot!!

So the Rangers would have got a 5 minute powerplay and those other players would have been ejected from the game?

They would not have done that anyway. When was the last time a goon randomly jumped a star player in a predetermined fight for no reason? People always say this stuff and it doesn't happen anymore.

 

[Hunter Gathers]

Torts caused the brawl. If he just put out his first line knowing the other team had the 4th line out nothing would have happened. I can assure you Gaborik, Stepan, Richards, Zuccarello etc. would not have been out there fighting Carter and Janssen and such.

Yeah, I'm sure the Debbies would have just done a quick change rather than have their goons attack our stars.

Yeah. Sure. OK. LOL.

Blaming Torts for that is utterly laughable.

 

[Gordon Bombay]

If I remember correctly Torts was pissed after the game and was calling it bush league that the Devils sent him that starting lineup. He had no choice but to answer that bell

 

[JoeGarelli]

cam jassen is also a meathead.. he ended kaberles career with a late late hit, he had no regards for star players..

"you might get a 5 minute powerplay"? lol, has that ever happened? maybe a ranger star gets hurt, especcially with janseen. torts did the right thing.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Rempe is god!

 

[broadwayblue]

Rempe has logged 5:03 of ice time in three career games against the Devils and has been ejected every time.

That has to be some kind of record, no?

 

[Pantokrator]

I've said this before, but I am a Flyers fan who loves Rempe. I love a guy who embraces his role and relishes it. I don't want a return to goon hockey, but I hope Rempe can become a solid depth player who can dish it out when need be.

 

[tlk]

Likes to everyone in this thread!

 

[EdJovanovski]

Since the call up…

With Rempe:
11-2-1
Without Rempe:
5-3-0

 

[EdJovanovski]

 

[NickyFotiu]

It turned into a galvanizing moment for the playoff-bound Rangers.

"I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a team-building exercise, in a sense" said captain Jacob Trouba, who was among the five Rangers' fighters and one of four who was then tossed from the game. "We're all in this thing together. He's not left out there on his own. We're all with him, every step of the way."

Upon watching the replay, Rempe said he came away most impressed with Miller, who had his way with Marino in his first career fight.

They were among the last players to engage, with Miller coolly describing how it went down.

"I was watching the fireworks go off, and all of a sudden I saw one of their guys come over to our side of the ice," he said. "He looked at me, kind gave me a nod, and I was like, ‘Eh, why not?’ I thought it was going to be a bad idea. I guess he found out."

 

[NickyFotiu]

"I want to show to the coaching staff that I can be a really effective player in playoffs," said Rempe, who's appeared in 14 games so far but has only accumulated 76 minutes of total ice time. "I’ve just got to keep working every day. When I was out of the lineup, I’m working with the coaches on everything and just trying to try to get better.

"I want to be a good player. I don't want to just be known as a guy who just fights. I want to be known as a guy who's tough, but I want to be known as a guy who, ‘Wow, this guy is a very effective bottom-six forward who can skate, be really good checker, can be physical, be good defensively, maybe eventually be a penalty killer one day.' That's what I want to be."

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

the main boards told me that fighting will make people not want to watch hockey ever again

 

[Row I Goon]

My social media feeds blew up yesterday with that line brawl. It’s polarised the hockey community and even made the evening news in Australia.

So much better than the usual 2 or 3 players everyone fawns over.

the main boards told me that fighting will make people not want to watch hockey ever again

Yeah, folks say that. But they’re full of shit.

 

[RangersFan1994]

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

My social media feeds blew up yesterday with that line brawl. It’s polarised the hockey community and even made the evening news in Australia.

So much better than the usual 2 or 3 players everyone fawns over.


Yeah, folks say that. But they’re full of shit.

Beta male talk. Probably guys who've never played the game or any competitive sports for that matter. Fighting is beautiful and exciting and it's one of those chaotic things that makes life interesting. I'll never understand it any other way,

 

[PuckLuck3043]

the main boards told me that fighting will make people not want to watch hockey ever again

This is probably why it's not a good idea to believe anything on the main boards. Everybody was talking about last night's game. It was a banger.

 

[nyr2k2]

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Well, I'm not sold on him truly becoming a regular player, but the kid is a f***ing gem of a personality.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

I like how Debbies fans only talked about the main event fight where their guy had the slight advantage and forget the other 4 where they got pummeled, lol.

 

[eco's bones]

Rempe's been talking to Darcy Hordichuk too. 'I'm just so pumped to be seeing these Rempe's coming into the league. I said dude don't change a thing'. All the old guys just love him.

 

[bleedblue94]

I understand the NHL's "unofficial" concerns about CTE and concussions for liability reasons, but if players chose to engage in this then the league should embrace it. The NHL and hockey as a whole was entirely relevant EVERYWHERE because of this. It is the kind of reach that you generally cannot even play for, yet the league continues to run from it. The rule itself is idiotic because even without the rule this kind of thing would not happen regularly. If the players came back even with 10 min misconducts, the rest of the game viewers would have been on the edge of their seats waiting to see what might happen next. That is the beauty of the sport, the multi directional types of entertainment that it can offer during any given game, yet the league would rather focus on these stupid f***ing offsides reviews and limiting fighting rather than giving fans more actual content that can span so many different ways organically. Even if you allowed the rules of the 70s and 80s, the players of today are never going back to that kind of goonery because many of them are scared of it. The league's national broadcast partner was GUSHING about this last night and featuring almost every angle of it to promote the NHL product. The league just needs to embrace that this is still a violent game by nature...

 

[LeetchisGod]

I like how Debbies fans only talked about the main event fight where their guy had the slight advantage and forget the other 4 where they got pummeled, lol.

Macdermid is one of the toughest guys in the league and has years of fighting experience. He should have the advantage against a 21 year old rookie that hasn't grown into his body yet.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

Macdermid is one of the toughest guys in the league and has years of fighting experience. He should have the advantage against a 21 year old rookie that hasn't grown into his body yet.

This is true.

 

[noncents]

does anyone believe rempe can be an effective hockey player?

 

[E-Train]

Macdermid is one of the toughest guys in the league and has years of fighting experience. He should have the advantage against a 21 year old rookie that hasn't grown into his body yet.

Exactly. Rempe at 29 will be much stronger than 21. Even with that disadvantage he landed a couple of flush shots to MacDermid’s face. Looking the heavyweight champ just a few years out.

Now taken on all the top guys in his 2nd pro season. Who would’ve imagined coming into Hartford out of the WHL