Kreider is better than Buch and made a bigger impact on his position here than Skjei did. You seem to forget how much slack Skjei caught here his last season. And Trocheck has been a great signing, what more do you want from a 2C? He's been better than Strome. Lundkvist left because he asked for a trade, I'm pretty certain he would have gotten another crack this season considering the revolving door at 6 D.
2000-01 was Sather's first year running the Rangers. I seem to recall Sather trying to get both Tkachuk and Khabibulin in the same trade but it was earlier that season. The Coyotes were having ownership issues. The Rangers would have paid most of the money left on Richter and Fleury. Theo was the player I didn’t remember. Then Khabibulin was traded to TB near the deadline in 2001 and Tkachuk went to STL that same deadline. Sather wanted to make a big trade for just Tkachuk but he was traded to the Blues after the Blues tried to acquire Lindros. The Blues doctors looked at the medical records and told the Blues management to forget about Lindros. The Rangers ended up with Lindros after not getting Jagr that summer.
Explains a lot to me. Sorry it doesn't to you.Those Bruins players have been together a while. It doesn't explain how the team is so dominant this year. The difference is the coach. Montgomery has implemented a terrific system for that team.
Once the Rangers figure out they have peaked under Gallant, they can get the right coach in here to implement a legitimate system:
Read closely. “Close to being a net negative” or soon to be however you want to phrase it. He’s leaving his prime and if he wasn’t playing with Mika or netfront on our PP he would be a middle 6 winger. On the bruins a legit cup contender Kreider is their 3rd line left winger.
Kredier is performing well above his salary and he'd be on the second line ahead of both Debrusk and Foligno if he were on Boston. You're just making stuff up now. It's funny you had use the best team in the league to try and make your point.
What more do they want from this guy?
Swap Buch, Fast, Robertson and Johnston in for Kreider and I think you have a better team.
6.5M is 2nd line pay for a UFA and he has 71 goals in a season and a half l. It's one of the great non-elc or bridge value contracts in the league.
4-1? Lol, sure. Why not add McDavid to the list while you're at it.
Add another 10 in the playoffs last season. Led the team. But sure, he's easily replaceable.
I guess they want him to be Buchnevich now, who this board also shit on when he was here.
Wait if there was perfect hindsight and the cap was magically $3m more because reasons the Rangers would be better? Big, if true.
Buchnevich became a PPG player the day he left the Rangers and I have no doubt Kreider is also suffering from whatever poison James Dolan has been putting in his forwards' eggs for 20 years.
exactly. This team is not going to win a cup with this core.
they haven't figured it out by now, I don't have high hopesThose Bruins players have been together a while. It doesn't explain how the team is so dominant this year. The difference is the coach. Montgomery has implemented a terrific system for that team.
Once the Rangers figure out they have peaked under Gallant, they can get the right coach in here to implement a legitimate system:
Kreider is the whipping boy for the "we suck at drafting and developing first round talent" crowd and they're completely oblivious to the irony of it all. We never get good non-Kredier players!!!
If not signing Kreider to that contract because we traded him for Robertson and a 1st allows us to keep Buch and Fast, then yeah its 4-1. You're telling me Kreider prevented us from getting McDavid too?! Damn.
Such an absurd suggestion. There’s no chance of this occurring. l Good opportunity for me to refresh myself with the “block” button. Absolutely brutal.
