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OhYeahAndVesey said:
It's hard to rate Drury because I honestly don't think he's calling the shots. I'm sure I'll get a lot of shit for saying this, but a good deal of these moves REEK of Glen Sather's tobacco stained, papery, old man fingers.
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Or Dolan's. You can view these recent moves as the result of a "Get tougher, NOW" overreaction by Dolan to a few games at the end of last season.
 
The team is better imo, but that was gonna happen with some cap space anyway, I'd guess goodrow would have likely worked his way here anyway, Buch might not have been moved, we probably would have gotten one of Tinordi or Reaves type player. I think the grade needs to be made when the season starts, its not fair to criticize or praise the guy in the middle of his vision for this team. At this point id still prefer Gorton but lets wait and see.
 
Can't bring myself to give him better than a C+ as things stand. Until the players and team prove my concerns negligible.

Thought the Buch trade for Blais and a 2022 2nd was pretty bad.

Thought outside of Korczac, Vaisalanen and Lamb as value picks, our draft was poor asset management. I do like Othmann, but not over other players that were still available like Lucius.

Really like the Goodrow pickup.

The Reeves deal might actually be my favorite of his moves thus far.

Hunt is a decent pickup.

But I definitely don't think we needed all of Hunt, Reeves and Blais. 2 of those 3 would have been fine. Preferably Reeves and Hunt so we would still have Buch to trade for something better.

Nemeth is an ok pickup. And I am genuinely unsure where he fits into the D. I think he could very well end up being 7th D man. Depending on how they feel Jones and Lundqvist are progressing. But I would honestly rather give Jones at least a chance ahead of Nemeth. And Lundqvist too, unless he needs some AHL seasoning.
 
brakeyawself said:
Can't bring myself to give him better than a C+ as things stand. Until the players and team prove my concerns negligible.

Thought the Buch trade for Blais and a 2022 2nd was pretty bad.

Thought outside of Korczac, Vaisalanen and Lamb as value picks, our draft was poor asset management. I do like Othmann, but not over other players that were still available like Lucius.

Really like the Goodrow pickup.

The Reeves deal might actually be my favorite of his moves thus far.

Hunt is a decent pickup.

But I definitely don't think we needed all of Hunt, Reeves and Blais. 2 of those 3 would have been fine. Preferably Reeves and Hunt so we would still have Buch to trade for something better.

Nemeth is an ok pickup. And I am genuinely unsure where he fits into the D. I think he could very well end up being 7th D man. Depending on how they feel Jones and Lundqvist are progressing. But I would honestly rather give Jones at least a chance ahead of Nemeth. And Lundqvist too, unless he needs some AHL seasoning.
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I think that’s a fair grade. I was really hoping we signed Savard over Nemeth for 3rd pair duty. He would be perfect on 3rd pair. Would have had absolutely no problem giving him the extra 800K- million bucks, but I get why Drury didn’t want to go 4years instead of 3. He would have made an ideal partner for lundkvist imo, and would be a better asset to trade then nemeth when Robertson/Jones are ready for duty.
I was Big on Lucius before the draft. I was really surprised that he fell that far considering his talent. He has excellent hands/vision. His skating isn’t the best, not the worst either, but that’s the same gripe with Othmann so I don’t understand why not just draft the center. I think him only playing 18-20 games was a large part of it.
- love Goodrow. He brings everything we sorely need, even at 6 years. That’s UFA.
- I don’t hate the Buch deal. Would have liked a straight 1st, but I’m happy the 2nd was next year as opposed to this year, and I’m higher on Blais then Most on here I think
- Reaves for 3rd is solid
-Nemeth is solid, Though would have preferred Savard.
-Hunt is Fine
-Keeping Rooney is fine
-Gallant is great

right now I give him a C + but it’s incomplete. I can’t give him a final grade because this isn’t our final roster yet. I didn’t think we had a particularly bad draft, all our kids 1 year older is a Plus and Barron for a full season is a plus. So as of now, I’m pretty excited to see the final product.
 
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jay from jersey said:
I think that’s a fair grade. I was really hoping we signed Savard over Nemeth for 3rd pair duty. He would be perfect the. Would have had absolutely no problem giving him the extra 800K- million bucks, but I get why Drury didn’t want to go 4years instead of 3. He would have made an ideal partner for lundkvist imo, and would be a better asset to trade then nemeth when Robertson/Jones are ready for duty.
I was Big on Lucius before the draft. I was really surprised that he fell that far considered his talent. He has excellent hands/vision. His skating isn’t the best, not the worst either, but that’s the same gripe with Othmann so I don’t understand why just don’t draft the center. I think him only playing 18-20 games was a large part of it.
- love Goodrow. He brings everything we sorely need, even at 6 years. That’s UFA.
- I don’t hate the Buch deal. Would have liked a straight 1st, but I’m happy the 2nd was next year as opposed to this year, and I’m higher on Blais the. Most on here I think
- Reaves for 3rd is solid
-Nemeth is solid, Though would have preferred Savard.
-Hunt is Fine
-Keeping Rooney is fine
-Gallant is great

right now I give him a C + but it’s incomplete. I can’t give him a final grade because this isn’t our final roster yet. I didn’t think we had a particularly bad draft, all our kids 1 year older is a Plus and Barron for a full season is a plus. So as of now, I’m pretty excited to see the final product.
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Fair assessment until things become more clear.

The Lucius thing is going to bother me until Othmann becomes a top 6 winger or Lucius completely busts. Otherwise, I think it's going to bug me forever lol. And yea, Lucius had all the positives, more positives even and the same few negatives as Othmann. Both supposedly have wicked shots. Both can play physical and hard. The only thing Othmann might have more of is agitator mentality. Which to me isn't enough to pick him over Lucius.

And I would have absolutely preferred Savard to Nemeth. I honestly don't know if Nemeth, but mid season, will be able to hold of Jones/Robertson if both or either of them progress. We will find out more of that in preseason. But I think people are sleeping big time on Jones and he's always been ahead of the curve. Robertson, probably a bit behind him, but I haven't watched him play as much either. Now I don't think either would have pushed ahead of Savard. I think Savard would have been the clear starter for the entire season regardless of Jones or Robertson. But I am not as certain about Nemeth. Which would be fine honestly, if Jones say moved ahead of him and picked up a bunch of starts. We would still need good depth. But this is all just speculation obviously until we actually see all of them on the ice.

I worry people are assuming Lundqvist is ready when I am not sure if he will be. That's another thing I don't think we will know until preseason. He may need just as much seasoning or more than Jones and Robertson. All 3 might need some AHL time or none of them. Heh, I doubt it's the latter though. But Miller and Fox were thrown into the fire around the same point in their progression and they both handled it well. The things I hear about both Jones and Lunqvist make me think they can also. Robertson, just don't know either way.

And I am very very excited about Gallant. Crossing my fingers he's the right guy for the job.
 
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So far, so good. No big mistakes. I think the decision to move on from Buch makes sense. I’d like them to move on from Strome too but they also don’t have any depth at the center spot.
So his hands are tied.
If they can avoid Eichel or at least avoid getting fleeced, I’ll be impressed.
And doubly impressed if Drury can get a second rounder for Georgiev.
 
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B or a B-

Buch trade awful

Only one long term contract and it’s less than 4 million, that’s good

Just getting Howden and Hajek off the roster is going to be a huge improvement.

I think Nemeth is a big upgrade over Smith as the vet dman,3 years seems excessive, but cap space in this league has become easily movable. Going into his third season, the Rangers will have no buyouts on the books, so worst case that’s an option.

I don’t mind grit and toughness, but it’s become excessive at this point.

Lot of forwards, it honestly feels like another big move is coming.

Giving Igor a number in the high fives or low sixes also seems high, I know this hasn’t happened yet.
 
F

Buch trade was terrible.

Nemeth three years at 2.5 million? Wings fans said he was worse than Staal and Avs fans said he cost them the playoffs. I'd rather stick a kid in the lineup.

Goodrow was a decent idea and then he goes an gives him six years. You gotta be kidding me.

Complete overkill on "enforcers".
 
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Depends on whether the Buch trade was his best under the directives of Dolan+Sather. If he was told to find the best deal and cut bait because we don't want this guy on our roster next year and we don't want to wait until the deadline even if we can sell high, then he did his best. If not, I will downgrade his grade by 1 letter and 1 +/=/-. Clearly this team had issues with grit and he's addressed them. Then there's the owner's demands for face punches. If I throw myself in his seat with Dolan and Sather lurking, it's probably been tough. I'll give him a B.
 
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EdJovanovski said:
Then they had more than enough cap flexibility to keep him for now and not disrupt our chemistry as much
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I don’t necessarily disagree but if the motivation for moving him was also to get Kakko, Kravstov and maybe Laf more time at RW, keeping him for now doesn’t help that
 
I'm at a B- so far. While I think the Buch return was terrible, I 'm not as super aggravated as many of you are. I assume that was the market and I understand why moving him now vs waiting until the market improved was preferred... and the delta between those returns probably was the cost to the kids development. I definitely get all the arguments.

I'm mostly worried at this point they are over course correcting or simply course correcting too quickly. I'd like to see what a little more toughness, a little more seasoning from the youngins and Gallant could do first and adjust from there. I feel like these type of pieces can be added/had year long if they were needed so you don't need to overhaul the entire bottom six at once.
 
Hoped for a little more for Buch but you get what the market is willing to pay. Its not like several teams were offering 1st round picks for Buch and Drury said nah I would rather have a 2nd round pick. Buch was traded for cap room and to open a top 6 wing position for lower paid high draft choices. Only time will tell if that was the right move. I like getting bigger on defense. I like getting Reeves. I like adding some hitting up front. I think the only question is do we trade for another center.
 
Underwhelming would be an understatement. If these are the only moves that are going to be made then why couldn’t they be done by gorton and jd. Very unimpressed so far.
 
C/C-

Giving away Buch for nothing...
6 years for Goodrow...
Drafting a LW w/their 1st rounder...

Sure wish this was a poll though...
 
Buch trade is an F for me. I'd much rather have taken a chance on his value at the deadline, while also seeing how things play out under Gallant, than have traded him for peanuts.

Everything else though, hovers right around a B (aside from hiring Gallant, which was an A+, if an easy decision).

Solid draft, nothing egregious nor amazing.
Liked picking up Goodrow, don't like what we're paying him.
Liked picking up Reaves, wish he hadn't costed quite as much.
Vet LD - check.

The Buch trade casts a long shadow for me though. So, like a C/C- maybe.
 
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