Toggle sidebar

Confirmed with Link: Rangers claim Arthur Kaliyev from LA

NYRFANMANI

NYRFANMANI

Department of Rempe Safety Management
Apr 21, 2007
15,034
4,997
yo old soorbrockon
Even if Kaliev is a wierdo headcase, that can't skate:

Count me as pleasantly surprised and content at the first ever waiver claim I can remember.

Free asset, that what I'm talking about!
 
  • Like
Reactions: gabevh3
eco's bones

eco's bones

Registered User
Jul 21, 2005
27,056
14,308
Elmira NY
leetch99 said:
Do you remember Ranger draft pick Chris Doyle ? He was drafted a few years back and was a shooter type guy...he played on a PEI Senior B club on the weekend . I asked a friend who was there and he said he still has the shot but it was going to take a bit for the rest of him to catch up with it.

They were also supposed to have Dave Ling dressed who had a cameo in Columbus. He was a former Canadian Major Junior player of the year at one time ...anyways he ended up skipping out on the Island team and signed with an Ontario club prepping for an Allan Cup run.

The next big gun they come out with likely will be Turk as a coach...he lives right where the team is located and Dion Phaneuf dressing[he lives here half a year] ....I would not be one bit shocked....old guys never get it out of their systems. Probably see Brett Gallant out with them as well...he is currently coaching a local girls team at the moment . With Brett Gallant-Ling the shit disturber and Phaneuf...they might be tougher than the Rangers .
Click to expand...

Doyle's the one I think that had problems with the law----just looked it up because I thought it was a rape charge. When he was 19 he got into an altercation with a 21 year old girl---broke her nose and she had lacerations on her face and he smashed up a computer. After that his career kind of hit the skids.

To go further with the story. That happened in 2009 and in 2010 he was before a judge. Turns out Doyle had gone to an ex girlfriend's house and he was drunk and he had an argument with her and smashed her laptop. Apparently his ex-gf had a friend with her and as Doyle left the apartment he slammed the door and the friend was in the doorway and got the door in her face and that's where the broken nose comes in. So in court Doyle pleaded guilty to a destruction of property for the laptop and the judge struck down the assault charge though he did call Doyle as asshole.
 
Last edited:
  • Haha
  • Love
Reactions: leetch99 and Ail
Row I Goon

Row I Goon

Registered User
Sponsor
Nov 14, 2018
3,816
8,358
will1066 said:
Dear hockey gods,

Yeah, we know we f***ed up with Kakko. And we're probably f***ing up Lafreniere. But we don't ask for much. One championship in 30 years and we just want one more. Do you have it in your hearts to give us one more chance, by letting us discover a gem in Kaliyev? We probably don't deserve it. After all, we still gave eleven-and-a-half-million dollars a season to have goaltending services. But you've already flogged us pretty stupid well this season for our transgression of winning the President's Trophy last season on smoke-and-mirrors play. Our pants are now down, and our ass cheeks have taken on the pattern of a candy cane. It hurts, we're embarrassed, and we're learning a hard lesson. We're lower than low, trolling the garbage bin that is the waiver wire for scrap parts. Please give us a tiny victory, a smidgen of happiness with Kaliyev. We're doing our best to course-correct. We're not even picking good-looking players; Kaliyev would not be described as having a GQ appearance. He's a local NYC product. We are trying to learn.

Thank you,
A Rangers fan
Click to expand...
IMG_2294.jpeg
 
  • Like
Reactions: will1066 and Ail
kovazub94

kovazub94

Enigmatic
Aug 5, 2010
13,566
9,220
Sol said:
There’s a reason why no kings fan is happy about this. He has a great shot.. the issue with his time here in LA was the fact that the Kings were making him play like a damn grinder then you add onto the fact his line mate was PLD who didn’t do anything the entire season then yes he struggled. Anyone who played with PLD struggled because that lazy bastard never did anything besides coast.

They set up Kaliyev to fail time and time again. The Kings completely screwed him. Most honest Kings fan would tell you this.
Click to expand...
There’d been a large cohort of Rangers fans who’d tell you that when the team traded Anderson to LAK that he got screwed by the Rangers organization.
 
  • Like
Reactions: NickyFotiu
chosen

chosen

Registered User
Aug 2, 2005
12,612
5,114
ASPG
Raccoon Jesus said:
Hey guys, coming in peace

Little background on Kaliyev

was hurt this year, was blackballed last year after asking for a trade. He was good-to-excellent in his role, but in typical Kings fashion was dicked around in favor of vets (Kings had to justify their poor investments on PLD and Fiala), and his confidence took a dump, and I'm sure you guys have an idea of what happens to scorers when they're moody/lacking confidence. One of his last shifts with the Kings he fired a one timer wide and promptly broke his stick in frustration. Dude just needs someone to believe and McLellan and Blake were both publicly f***ing assholes to him.

In short--enigmatic/moody/medium-maintenance. Needs to be deployed with responsible-ish players who can carry the puck because you don't want him lugging it anywhere. But better on the boards and great in cycle, one of the only Kings in recent history who can snipe even elite goalies from anywhere, and when he's feeling it he's an absolute weapon on the PP.

I had posted this on our forum the day of:

On a team full of two-way players, you can afford to use a Kaliyev on a line as such, where they were utterly dominant:


1736120915265.png



You see his numbers turn to shit when he was put with losers like PLD and when buried on the 4th line with 5 minutes per game and one shift per period

But in an effort to get their money's worth on several poor investments, they buried Kaliyev to forcefeed Fiala and PLD, and it's been all downhill since.

And funny enough, their numbers were better with Kaliyev than when force fed Fiala:


1736120989023.png



Maybe you don't want a sensitive player/personality to manage, or one you can't plug and play (especially if you're f***ing lazy like Koala), but the results were absolutely there when used correctly. Also don't forget around the same time he was in the top 10 in the league in power play productivity rate so it wasn't just 5v5 with Danault/Moore. When he was getting minutes, he was a factor. When he was buried, he wasn't. It's that simple--and sure we can make other observations about his pouting and 'drive' and whatever but the facts are the facts. Just another situation where they made a decision based on poorly-chosen vets over youth in order to justify a dogshit investment return.



I'm big on his upside as you can probably tell. At worst it's a fresh start and a free shot at a project. With some of the offensive talent you have on the PP especially, him being an option rather than THE option is going to open up some opportunities. Wishing him and you well.
Click to expand...

...when he's feeling it...

Is disturbing.
 
kovazub94

kovazub94

Enigmatic
Aug 5, 2010
13,566
9,220
chosen said:
...when he's feeling it...

Is disturbing.
Click to expand...
I mean is it possible for the team to give Kaliev the right opportunity and for him to have a wake up call so it works? Yeah, (there are plenty examples of this) but I will keep my reservations until I see it (because there are even more examples of it not working out also)
 
McRanger92

McRanger92

Registered User
Jun 7, 2017
13,348
24,964
Boris Zubov said:
The last one, I believe, was LeShitshow.
Click to expand...

Kaliyev has a lot to live up to to surpass Matt Puempel's Rangers waiver claim career

kovazub94 said:
I mean is it possible for the team to give Kaliev the right opportunity and for him to have a wake up call so it works? Yeah, (there are plenty examples of this) but I will keep my reservations until I see it (because there are even more examples of it not working out also)
Click to expand...

He's going to Europe in all likelihood if he doesnt show anything in NY. I like guys who are motivated and have something to lose coming in. Especially young guys with draft pedigree that come for free.
 
Last edited:
Ail

Ail

Based and Rangerspilled.
Nov 13, 2009
29,576
6,134
Pennsyltucky
Wow Rangers with a great waiver claim, no risk and good upside. Too bad this is the completely wrong environment for this kid to find his game again. Don't see this working out at all here. Happy to eat crow as always.
 
  • Like
Reactions: leetch99 and NYR Viper
Fitzy

Fitzy

Very Stable Genius
Jan 29, 2009
36,064
23,644
Machinehead said:
I mean, the Rangers' history with these type of projects is actually really good, so it's odd to see statements to the contrary.

Stralman, Pouliot, Brassard, Strome, uh...Mika Zibanejad?
Click to expand...

I think the difference here is that all those players were NHL regulars when they came here. Reclamation projects like Vinny Prospal or Stralman when they're 27-33 is different than the reclamations we did with Puempel or Lesh- those are situations more like LA taking Lias Andersson from us.

Kaliyev has NHL seasons under his belt but not quite on the 'established' level of those guys.

Still a very good move though since this team is very much in the tinkering phase and we have time to experiment. Puempel we never gave enough time in the top 6 to prove himself even if it would have been a bust.

My anecdotal observation this season (However the perception may be skewed by latent frustration at the results) is that NYR's actual conversion has been poor this season. We've not been 'clinical' as the associaton football folks say. More shooters could help. I'm shocked Vatrano was re-signed instead of dealt for deadline haul. Teams need a good shooter. Some days I think we could get 25 goals out of Brandon Pirri/Greg Carey if we put them on the top PP unit even if they were not NHL level at anything else.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Ad

Latest posts

Upcoming events

Ad

Ad

Top Bottom
X