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Mikos87 said:
Same here, hope MDZ earns a look. CLB doesn't have a lot of depth in their defense core compared to last year. Think they gave away Nutivaara and Murray.
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w a taxi squad he would have to suck in Camp not to get some sort of contract to Atleast Travel w the team
 
Rongomania said:
Brass always stepped up.

I just don't think it's a good comparison at this exact moment in time.

I hope since he's locked in with us he keeps progressing, and I could see the comparison if he continues to play better. If he adds some clutch he'll be quite the important player for us.
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The only comparison to Brassard was due to a "disappointing" reputation in terms of results to date vs draft position and expectations when each joined the Rangers.

Otherwise holding Strome "responsible" for no production in a 3 game stretch in the summer after months of hockey break is ridiculous. The same way I feel about holding it against ANY Rangers player but if you had to go there you'd start with other more starie Rangers before getting to Strome.
 
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I'm ready to go with the team we have. No need to add older players. Seeing some youngsters sprinkled in here and there during the season will be fun. Watching the guys we have grow even if they miss the playoffs will be entertaining. Knowing that so much more is coming will cover the down periods. This isn't last year's team. For one, there's Laf. Then when you have so much youth, there's the expected improvement for a few seasons. I like them all, let's play some hockey.
 
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TominNC said:
I'm ready to go with the team we have. No need to add older players. Seeing some youngsters sprinkled in here and there during the season will be fun. Watching the guys we have grow even if they miss the playoffs will be entertaining. Knowing that so much more is coming will cover the down periods. This isn't last year's team. For one, there's Laf. Then when you have so much youth, there's the expected improvement for a few seasons. I like them all, let's play some hockey.
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I would prefer to add a vet of quality to the bottom 6. You absolutely can get a bargain deal for someone like Brassard. Soderberg. Boyle. There are not just “some” youngsters sprinkled in, there are a lot. We have shoehorned Howden into in NHL spot and it certainly hasn’t helped with his development, could even say it has stagnated. I am not looking to rush Barron, whether that is on the 4th line next to Howden or if Howden continues to struggle at the center position. I would rather have a proven veteran to bridge the transition gap. I like Brassard because he can shift from Center to wing. He provides flexibility.
 
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Ben Hutton to Rangers please. would him on a 3 year at 2.0 cap be enough to sign him. only 27 years old too. underrated player.
 
RGY said:
I would prefer to add a vet of quality to the bottom 6. You absolutely can get a bargain deal for someone like Brassard. Soderberg. Boyle. There are not just “some” youngsters sprinkled in, there are a lot. We have shoehorned Howden into in NHL spot and it certainly hasn’t helped with his development, could even say it has stagnated. I am not looking to rush Barron, whether that is on the 4th line next to Howden or if Howden continues to struggle at the center position. I would rather have a proven veteran to bridge the transition gap. I like Brassard because he can shift from Center to wing. He provides flexibility.
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How are you fitting Brassard into the remaining cap space? Boyle is ancient. We have some vets to take up space if needed. And they can be pushed aside for youth. It's only 4th line where you could maybe slot someone, but even there we have guys to use. The third line should be solid.
 
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TominNC said:
How are you fitting Brassard into the remaining cap space? Boyle is ancient. We have some vets to take up space if needed. And they can be pushed aside for youth. It's only 4th line where you could maybe slot someone, but even there we have guys to use. The third line should be solid.
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Brassard would replace a guy who is then sent down, so you clear that cap hit.

As long as the cap hit is hovering around 1m, you can make it work.
 
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SA16 said:
Strome has nothing to do with Zibanejad/Panarin playing together. Playing the two of them together didn't make sense from the day they signed Panarin and our 2C was even more unknown at the time.
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Don't know if you're responding to someone but Strome had everything to do with Quinn's splitting Zibanejad and Panarin. Don't you recall the line combos when the season started? Panarin-Zibanejad-Buchnevich line was super hot and producing but unfortunately noone else did. Chemistry between Panarin and Strome allowed Quinn to split our two best forwards and have 2 high producing lines instead of just one.
 
Amazing Kreiderman said:
Brassard would replace a guy who is then sent down, so you clear that cap hit.

As long as the cap hit is hovering around 1m, you can make it work.
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Putting salary considerations aside for now, Brassard should be viewed as a winger at this point and only an emergency C maybe.
 
kovazub94 said:
Don't know if you're responding to someone but Strome had everything to do with Quinn's splitting Zibanejad and Panarin. Don't you recall the line combos when the season started? Panarin-Zibanejad-Buchnevich line was super hot and producing but unfortunately noone else did. Chemistry between Panarin and Strome allowed Quinn to split our two best forwards and have 2 high producing lines instead of just one.
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I think you’re misremembering the timing.
Mika went down with the “neck” injury
Strome replaced Mika and showed good chemistry with panarin.
Then when Mika came back they started with the mika kreider buch line that worked well.
But people are forgetting that chytil got 2nd line center time and was playing well at that spot too. Strome got a great opportunity and ran with it, but I feel like chytil might’ve done just as well if not better than he did.
 
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kovazub94 said:
Don't know if you're responding to someone but Strome had everything to do with Quinn's splitting Zibanejad and Panarin. Don't you recall the line combos when the season started? Panarin-Zibanejad-Buchnevich line was super hot and producing but unfortunately noone else did. Chemistry between Panarin and Strome allowed Quinn to split our two best forwards and have 2 high producing lines instead of just one.
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They split them up because Zibanejad got hurt. It had nothing to do with Strome. Then they moved Strome there because they were forced to and it worked. It also worked with Chytil there in his 120 minutes. And I'm willing to bet it could have worked with anyone reasonable there (no, not Brett Howden). Chemistry between Panarin and Strome couldn't have been the reason he split them up anyway because how would they have even known this chemistry existed? It was just the first thing they put together after Zibanejad got hurt.

Playing your two best players together is almost always a bad decision for any team. It's even worse for a team that has limited depth.
 
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Amazing Kreiderman said:
Incorrect. We have $879,367 in cap space due to PBs, which is also why Barron's cap hit would be $1,775,000
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Correct, but that is with a 23 man roster. Consider using 21 men and an available taxi squad of 6 players and then there are certain possibilities left. A bummer that the league punished the NYR with the ELC bonus overages not opening more possibilities (don’t flame me here, just quoting Uncle Larry).
 
BBKers said:
Correct, but that is with a 23 man roster. Consider using 21 men and an available taxi squad of 6 players and then there are certain possibilities left. A bummer that the league punished the NYR with the ELC bonus overages not opening more possibilities (don’t flame me here, just quoting Uncle Larry).
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How did the league punish the Rangers? I don't see why they bonuses would be prorated anyway with regards to the cap. Salaries and other bonuses aren't so why should these be?
 
there will be plenty of new faces and sophomores in need of NHL experience and development. The HC and staff has to do the teaching.
 
slater417 said:
I think you’re misremembering the timing.
Mika went down with the “neck” injury
Strome replaced Mika and showed good chemistry with panarin.
Then when Mika came back they started with the mika kreider buch line that worked well.
But people are forgetting that chytil got 2nd line center time and was playing well at that spot too. Strome got a great opportunity and ran with it, but I feel like chytil might’ve done just as well if not better than he did.
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SA16 said:
They split them up because Zibanejad got hurt. It had nothing to do with Strome. Then they moved Strome there because they were forced to and it worked. It also worked with Chytil there in his 120 minutes. And I'm willing to bet it could have worked with anyone reasonable there (no, not Brett Howden).

Playing your two best players together is almost always a bad decision for any team. It's even worse for a team that has limited depth.
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I could be misremembering but I thought the split happened before Zibanejad's injury. Regardless - my post was meant to say that Zibanejad and Panarin were originally meant to play together.
 
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