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bernmeister said:
Hagelin Kreider Callahan
would be terrific.
CK has amateur experience in the pivot, would it kill to give a few shifts there?
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He can't handle the defensive responsibilities of a winger, you want to give him a more crucial and difficult position?
 
Conine said:
Nash better need some kind of major surgery this off season or else Sather made one of his worst moves of his tenure here, bringing this guy in for 4 roster players. Completely gutting a team for a soft, slow, heartless player.
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Because he's retiring after this year? He still very green when it comes to the playoffs and he sees more attention than anyone else on this team. That said I AM worried about him and that's why he's in this thread.

BTW, trading Nash allowed us to trade Gaborik who brought back some very good assets himself.
 
BTW, I didn't mention Richards because I'll be shocked and extremely disappointed if he's on the team next year. The guy has been beyond useless, a liability if anything.
 
There's enough to say about the poor performance of many players, but here's another context. Given importance of salaries and cap hits, here's a view of our forwards production in terms of their cap hit per point (displayed in $1,000k / point). I've provided the figures based on the regular season and the playoffs to show the disparity.

PO Regular
Mats Zuccarello $117 $88
Carl Hagelin $175 $36
Derek Stepan $292 $20
Derick Brassard $320 $291
Taylor Pyatt $388 $141
Arron Asham $500 $500
Brian Boyle $567 $340
Ryan Callahan $855 $138
Chris Kreider $1,325 $442
Derek Dorsett $1,633 ---
Rick Nash $1,950 $186
Ryane Clowe $3,625 $453
Brad Richards $6,667 $196

It's just a rough analysis, and it doesn't really identify anything too surprising, but illustrates a few points within the context of the salary cap. (1) Richards and Nash clearly haven't produced - no surprise. (2) That being said, every single forward has seen a decrease in their production with the exception of Asham. (3) Finally, it does provide some perspective on who have been our best bargains. Clearly Hags and Step were great for the $ in regular season, and its no surprise that they will be due raises this year. But Zuc, Pyatt and Brassard have done well given investments in them.
 
Richards and Del Zotto don't deserve to step foot in the Garden.

Both have been putrid.

It amazes me how bad of a hockey IQ MDZ has. It's like at points he can't even follow the puck on the ice like a person who doesn't follow hockey has trouble following the puck on TV.
 
Who is this guy "Richards" everyone is talking about?

Oh wait, the 4th liner who got 8 min last night? That Richards?

Biggest fail of them all if you ask me. Hes killed this team on so many levels.
 
IBleedNYRBlue said:
Richards and Del Zotto don't deserve to step foot in the Garden.

Both have been putrid.

It amazes me how bad of a hockey IQ MDZ has. It's like at points he can't even follow the puck on the ice like a person who doesn't follow hockey has trouble following the puck on TV.
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He's been bad. Real bad. Disappointing.
 
Everyone outside of Lundqvist, Brassard, Callahan and McDonagh haven't brought it this series as far as I'm concerned. I might give Stralman, Asham and Zuccarello a break based on their pay grade. Dorsett and Moore because they're fairly new and have done some good.

Richards, Del Zotto, Nash...the whole bunch. Embarrassing. You almost wish we didn't make the playoffs with this performance.
 
RangerFan10 said:
Everyone outside of Lundqvist, Brassard, Callahan and McDonagh haven't brought it this series as far as I'm concerned. I might give Stralman, Asham and Zuccarello a break based on their pay grade. Dorsett and Moore because they're fairly new and have done some good.

Richards, Del Zotto, Nash...the whole bunch. Embarrassing. You almost wish we didn't make the playoffs with this performance.
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We have players that don't appear to be built for the playoffs (Nash, Stepan, etc.), and a coach that has been tuned out.
 
KreiMeARiver said:
We have players that don't appear to be built for the playoffs (Nash, Stepan, etc.), and a coach that has been tuned out.
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I'm not sure that's fair on Nash. Not an excuse, but none of his playoff appearances seem to have been ideal. I feel like if Nash was on last year's team he would've put up numbers.

He's looked good this series. Unfortunately not many others have.
 
HockeyBasedNYC said:
Who is this guy "Richards" everyone is talking about?

Oh wait, the 4th liner who got 8 min last night? That Richards?

Biggest fail of them all if you ask me. Hes killed this team on so many levels.
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RangerFan10 said:
Everyone outside of Lundqvist, Brassard, Callahan and McDonagh haven't brought it this series as far as I'm concerned. I might give Stralman, Asham and Zuccarello a break based on their pay grade. Dorsett and Moore because they're fairly new and have done some good.

Richards, Del Zotto, Nash...the whole bunch. Embarrassing. You almost wish we didn't make the playoffs with this performance.
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Nash brought it this series as much as Lundqvist, 1 game.
 
Stepanformayor said:
You can blame the players all you want but this is about the system they play!! Torts has to go!!
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Leaf fan coming in peace, praying you guys smash the **** out of the Bruins for us. But yeah, this.

Torts has been the Ron Wilson of your team, he has never had a good powerplay(RW was PK but same difference), he has destroyed your potential superstars to reward blue collar guys which is fine but he has failed to coach superstars such as Gaborik, Nash, Richards, Hagelin(on the PP at least). I think they need to give the players a pass(even Richards unless you really don't mind buying him out for big $). Yeah the playoffs were disappointing but your coach is a side show, his press conferences and interviews are a joke,

Get someone in that can coach and is creative. You have some of the top players in the league, find a coach that can tap into their talent and make the most of them instead of just crap talk them and put them on the 4th line or take them off the powerplay. Get it done before Henrik's time is gone, you won't find another like him in decades - he is world class.
 
SnowblindNYR said:
Because he's retiring after this year? He still very green when it comes to the playoffs and he sees more attention than anyone else on this team. That said I AM worried about him and that's why he's in this thread.

BTW, trading Nash allowed us to trade Gaborik who brought back some very good assets himself.
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Go back and watch Nash in the Olympics, he is far from heartless. I think maybe he just has an adjustment period from coming from CBJ which was a team that was irrelevant and never played an important game in the history of the franchise(until after Nash was gone at least). He is still top 15 players in the league when it comes to forwards. Your coach is a spaz and I am pretty sure none of the stars on your team enjoy tolerating his crap.
 
pucci2001 said:
Leaf fan coming in peace, praying you guys smash the **** out of the Bruins for us. But yeah, this.

Torts has been the Ron Wilson of your team, he has never had a good powerplay(RW was PK but same difference), he has destroyed your potential superstars to reward blue collar guys which is fine but he has failed to coach superstars such as Gaborik, Nash, Richards, Hagelin(on the PP at least). I think they need to give the players a pass(even Richards unless you really don't mind buying him out for big $). Yeah the playoffs were disappointing but your coach is a side show, his press conferences and interviews are a joke,

Get someone in that can coach and is creative. You have some of the top players in the league, find a coach that can tap into their talent and make the most of them instead of just crap talk them and put them on the 4th line or take them off the powerplay. Get it done before Henrik's time is gone, you won't find another like him in decades - he is world class.
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Hagelin is not a superstar. Most of the rest I agree with. Though Richards this year is not Torts' fault the guy is as washed up as washed up gets.

It's funny how fans of other teams have a really high opinion of the Rangers' roster and Rangers fans think it sucks. I'm much closer to fans of other teams with the caveat that some of our most important players have sucked in the playoffs. Stepan and Nash can turn it around. The Olympics are a good point about Nash. This is really his first SC playoffs, the first was a caveat against one of the best rosters post lockout, on a ****** team and he got 3 points in 4 games (not great, not bad). Callahan however I have all but given up as being a playoff performer. Maybe another coach can help. I really want Torts gone.
 
Snow, your comment about other fan's percpetion of the Rangers talent level is true. They think we're one of the most talented teams in the league and are filled with stars. I think we underestimate it a bit, and the truth is somewhere in the middle, but interesting nevertheless.
 
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