Speculation: Roster Building Thread LXXX: MOAR sandpaper, guts & glory?

[SnowblindNYR]

I now see, ugh about Miller. Will he definitely miss the game tomorrow. I'm glad that Shesterkin will be back at least Quinn seems to have stopped his stupid rotation.

 

[Tob]

I'd be out on this hill if it were Torts, Strome, Nash or Glass.

This isnt about who youre a fan of, its about destroying someone's reputation based on no evidence or misleading evidence.

He knows that. He just doesn't like the fact that people are willing to defend DeAngelo. Same with the hordes of people on social media threatening Larry Brooks telling him to take down an article they don't like

 

[Avery16]

He knows that. He just doesn't like the fact that people are willing to defend DeAngelo. Same with the hordes of people on social media threatening Larry Brooks telling him to take down an article they don't like

I'm defending Brooks on this one, but go back and look at all the times I've trashed him on here.

 

[Tob]

 

[romba]

The ice has been particularly bad at MSG, will be good for the bois to get on the road a bit on Thursday

 

[CommaSynapse]

Let’s brainstorm some ideas on what they’re planning to do with the cap space they’re banking

Hopefully it’s something good because putting your young players on the taxi squad where they get paid less and nothing coming out it roster move wise would be very shitty of the team

A lot of teams are doing it to save space. Keeps options open for the deadline, for sure.

Not sure what to expect with the Rangers. Gorton has gotten the team into a pretty good place for expansion, so I could see us taking on a bad contract from a contender for the end of the year in exchange for something.

I wouldn't expect too many big deals until after expansion.

If nothing changes, we'd likely be leaving Hajek or TDA open on defense and two of Strome, Howden, Gauthier, Lemieux and Rooney up front. Under the rules, it would have to be at least two of Rooney, Lemieux, and Strome as they're signed for next year.

 

[Bluto]

The year is 2024, the Rangers enter the playoffs again after an early 2022 exit. The team, led by Kakko and Lafreniere, are beginning to come into their own and fire on all cylinders offensively. The only knock on them is that they are a bit soft. They enter round 2 of the playoffs where they face the hated Philadelphia Flyers and their old friend turned foe Tony DeAngelo. for 6 games the Rangers and Flyers go back and forth, the Flyers with their physicality wearing down and demoralizing the Rangers as the series goes on. The Rangers begin to slow down and the Flyers tie the series in game 6. Tony DeAngelo leads the Flyers in scoring and has grown as a person, deleting his twitter, keeping his cool in the locker room, and has even become a leader for the Flyers. By all accounts, he is loved in the room. Game 7 is a nail biter, 2-2 going into 2OT. Suddenly, Tony DeAngelo goes crease to crease, undressing K'Andre Miller to score the game winning goal. Bluto facepalms from his seats that he kept, much to the protests of his wife who does not understand why he flies to New York for the playoffs every year. As Bluto's face is firmly palmed, the blue haired, rich, white NYU student from Westchester in a 'hip' Lindros jersey whos daddy bought him season tickets as a 'congratulations for maintaining a 3.2 GPA in your freshman liberal studies program!' gift cries out, his breath foul from consumption of some Brooklyn IPA I've never heard of "It's not fair! White supremacy! That Nazi shouldn't be allowed in the NHL! Poor Miller doesn't deserve such trauma!" As DeAngelo is mobbed by his Flyers teammates and the Rangers hang their heads in defeat, posters flock to HFBoards, crying out with their finger tips about how a racist undressed a poor young black player who shouldn't have been subjected to such trauma. Twitter buzzes about white privelege, comparing DeAngelo's overtime winner with racist Tom Brady, who had the audacity to defeat a black QB in the Super Bowl during black history month on 3 separate occasions. Some blame Larry Brooks, the privileged white boomer journalist who was so evil, that he wrote a puff piece about DeAngelo which painted him in a light in which people might conclude that DeAngelo wasn't actually the second coming of Hitler. They remind each other of all of the amateur bloggers who mentioned unnamed, anonymous sources who claimed DeAngelo terrorized Miller with racist attacks in his rookie year. As the internet is set ablaze, and Bluto's palm melts into his face, he may need to go to the emergency room to have them separated from each other. The Flyers fan down the aisle in his number 77 DeAngelo jersey mocks and taunts the crowd "thanks for giving him to us for free!" Bluto cries out. He hates nothing more than seeing Philadelphia sports fans celebrate. The players begin to shake hands, Twitter and HfBoards rebuking every Ranger player who shakes the hand of Tony DeAngelo. "Sportsmanship should not be granted to neo-nazis" they cry. As DeAngelo goes to shake Miller's hand, they embrace. Joseph Conrad could not have thought of a more fitting ending. The perfect euphemism for the last 500 years of colonization as the former friends turned rivals in an act of mutual respect congratulate each other on a hard fought series and vow to see each other again. Twitter explodes, HFBoards crash, the colonists have won, we have entered the hockey heart of darkness. People retreat to their safe spaces and call their therapists as they feel the pain of K'Andre Miller embracing the man they claim traumatized him. The offseason begins and the Rangers bombard social media with highlights of the 1994 playoff run as if it is still relevant with promises that they will someday hoist the cup again, every video with comments "We gave him up for free".

 

[bl02]

That Hajek Bitteto pair stinks, and they have had the benefit of playing all their games with Quinn having last change.

Hopefully Miller is good and then Smith draws in for one of them.

Good point. they will start to get exposed when they are facing defensive zone draws against the likes of Ovechkin, Crosby, Barzal etc. Plus we can't win faceoffs so that surely won't help

 

[bl02]

damn no K'Andre now too? Obviously must have been that hit he absorbed the other day against Boston. Can we just cancel tomorrow and then thursday vs philly?

 

[SnowblindNYR]

The year is 2024, the Rangers enter the playoffs again after an early 2022 exit. The team, led by Kakko and Lafreniere, are beginning to come into their own and fire on all cylinders offensively. The only knock on them is that they are a bit soft. They enter round 2 of the playoffs where they face the hated Philadelphia Flyers and their old friend turned foe Tony DeAngelo. for 6 games the Rangers and Flyers go back and forth, the Flyers with their physicality wearing down and demoralizing the Rangers as the series goes on. The Rangers begin to slow down and the Flyers tie the series in game 6. Tony DeAngelo leads the Flyers in scoring and has grown as a person, deleting his twitter, keeping his cool in the locker room, and has even become a leader for the Flyers. By all accounts, he is loved in the room. Game 7 is a nail biter, 2-2 going into 2OT. Suddenly, Tony DeAngelo goes crease to crease, undressing K'Andre Miller to score the game winning goal. Bluto facepalms from his seats that he kept, much to the protests of his wife who does not understand why he flies to New York for the playoffs every year. As Bluto's face is firmly palmed, the blue haired, rich, white NYU student from Westchester in a 'hip' Lindros jersey whos daddy bought him season tickets as a 'congratulations for maintaining a 3.2 GPA in your freshman liberal studies program!' gift cries out, his breath foul from consumption of some Brooklyn IPA I've never heard of "It's not fair! White supremacy! That Nazi shouldn't be allowed in the NHL! Poor Miller doesn't deserve such trauma!" As DeAngelo is mobbed by his Flyers teammates and the Rangers hang their heads in defeat, posters flock to HFBoards, crying out with their finger tips about how a racist undressed a poor young black player who shouldn't have been subjected to such trauma. Twitter buzzes about white privelege, comparing DeAngelo's overtime winner with racist Tom Brady, who had the audacity to defeat a black QB in the Super Bowl during black history month on 3 separate occasions. Some blame Larry Brooks, the privileged white boomer journalist who was so evil, that he wrote a puff piece about DeAngelo which painted him in a light in which people might conclude that DeAngelo wasn't actually the second coming of Hitler. They remind each other of all of the amateur bloggers who mentioned unnamed, anonymous sources who claimed DeAngelo terrorized Miller with racist attacks in his rookie year. As the internet is set ablaze, and Bluto's palm melts into his face, he may need to go to the emergency room to have them separated from each other. The Flyers fan down the aisle in his number 77 DeAngelo jersey mocks and taunts the crowd "thanks for giving him to us for free!" Bluto cries out. He hates nothing more than seeing Philadelphia sports fans celebrate. The players begin to shake hands, Twitter and HfBoards rebuking every Ranger player who shakes the hand of Tony DeAngelo. "Sportsmanship should not be granted to neo-nazis" they cry. As DeAngelo goes to shake Miller's hand, they embrace. Joseph Conrad could not have thought of a more fitting ending. The perfect euphemism for the last 500 years of colonization as the former friends turned rivals in an act of mutual respect congratulate each other on a hard fought series and vow to see each other again. Twitter explodes, HFBoards crash, the colonists have won, we have entered the hockey heart of darkness. People retreat to their safe spaces and call their therapists as they feel the pain of K'Andre Miller embracing the man they claim traumatized him. The offseason begins and the Rangers bombard social media with highlights of the 1994 playoff run as if it is still relevant with promises that they will someday hoist the cup again, every video with comments "We gave him up for free".

Dude, paragraphs.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

damn no K'Andre now too? Obviously must have been that hit he absorbed the other day against Boston. Can we just cancel tomorrow and then thursday vs philly?

Do we know for sure that he's out tomorrow?

 

[East Coast Bias]

Ahh yes, if I was in trouble for mouthing off and having a bad attitude, I'd want to be libeled by a two bit blogger so people would think of me as a vile racist bully instead of a man child.

we agree in that we want his legacy to be accurate. Make sure his time here is correctly told historically.

I want him to be remembered for being a thin skinned, piss pants baby who screwed the team over royally rather than a victim that some want to portray him as.

 

[Tob]

we agree in that we want his legacy to be accurate. Make sure his time here is correctly told historically.

I want him to be remembered for being a thin skinned, piss pants baby who screwed the team over royally rather than a victim that some want to portray him as.

The truth of how he disgraced his opportunity and the height of his career with his immaturity will be remembered over time. However being libeled, potentially so egregiously that no NHL team would want the media backlash of acquiring him does in fact make him a victim. People from one side need to accept that Tony was waived because of his behavioral issues and not because of his politics and people on the other side need to accept that he's been wronged by really nasty rumors.

 

[Off Sides]

If DeAngelo is not traded, until either a grievance is filled or the Rangers file to terminate his contract, (perhaps those two things are interlinked) I am just going to assume both parties are not totally sure how their case/actions would be viewed by an outside party. Therefor I am just going to assume both parties probably share some, but not necessarily equal parts in the responsibility for the outcome.

 

[bl02]

Do we know for sure that he's out tomorrow?

Left practice for precautionary reasons. I guess we will know 100 percent sure tomorrow during morning skate but we probably see Smith with Trouba tomorrow.

 

[Tob]

The year is 2024, the Rangers enter the playoffs again after an early 2022 exit. The team, led by Kakko and Lafreniere, are beginning to come into their own and fire on all cylinders offensively. The only knock on them is that they are a bit soft. They enter round 2 of the playoffs where they face the hated Philadelphia Flyers and their old friend turned foe Tony DeAngelo. for 6 games the Rangers and Flyers go back and forth, the Flyers with their physicality wearing down and demoralizing the Rangers as the series goes on. The Rangers begin to slow down and the Flyers tie the series in game 6. Tony DeAngelo leads the Flyers in scoring and has grown as a person, deleting his twitter, keeping his cool in the locker room, and has even become a leader for the Flyers. By all accounts, he is loved in the room. Game 7 is a nail biter, 2-2 going into 2OT. Suddenly, Tony DeAngelo goes crease to crease, undressing K'Andre Miller to score the game winning goal. Bluto facepalms from his seats that he kept, much to the protests of his wife who does not understand why he flies to New York for the playoffs every year. As Bluto's face is firmly palmed, the blue haired, rich, white NYU student from Westchester in a 'hip' Lindros jersey whos daddy bought him season tickets as a 'congratulations for maintaining a 3.2 GPA in your freshman liberal studies program!' gift cries out, his breath foul from consumption of some Brooklyn IPA I've never heard of "It's not fair! White supremacy! That Nazi shouldn't be allowed in the NHL! Poor Miller doesn't deserve such trauma!" As DeAngelo is mobbed by his Flyers teammates and the Rangers hang their heads in defeat, posters flock to HFBoards, crying out with their finger tips about how a racist undressed a poor young black player who shouldn't have been subjected to such trauma. Twitter buzzes about white privelege, comparing DeAngelo's overtime winner with racist Tom Brady, who had the audacity to defeat a black QB in the Super Bowl during black history month on 3 separate occasions. Some blame Larry Brooks, the privileged white boomer journalist who was so evil, that he wrote a puff piece about DeAngelo which painted him in a light in which people might conclude that DeAngelo wasn't actually the second coming of Hitler. They remind each other of all of the amateur bloggers who mentioned unnamed, anonymous sources who claimed DeAngelo terrorized Miller with racist attacks in his rookie year. As the internet is set ablaze, and Bluto's palm melts into his face, he may need to go to the emergency room to have them separated from each other. The Flyers fan down the aisle in his number 77 DeAngelo jersey mocks and taunts the crowd "thanks for giving him to us for free!" Bluto cries out. He hates nothing more than seeing Philadelphia sports fans celebrate. The players begin to shake hands, Twitter and HfBoards rebuking every Ranger player who shakes the hand of Tony DeAngelo. "Sportsmanship should not be granted to neo-nazis" they cry. As DeAngelo goes to shake Miller's hand, they embrace. Joseph Conrad could not have thought of a more fitting ending. The perfect euphemism for the last 500 years of colonization as the former friends turned rivals in an act of mutual respect congratulate each other on a hard fought series and vow to see each other again. Twitter explodes, HFBoards crash, the colonists have won, we have entered the hockey heart of darkness. People retreat to their safe spaces and call their therapists as they feel the pain of K'Andre Miller embracing the man they claim traumatized him. The offseason begins and the Rangers bombard social media with highlights of the 1994 playoff run as if it is still relevant with promises that they will someday hoist the cup again, every video with comments "We gave him up for free".

Chris Kreider is a really big fan of you by the way Mr.Twain.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

I blame quinn for this horrendous HF Fanfic.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Left practice for precautionary reasons. I guess we will know 100 percent sure tomorrow during morning skate but we probably see Smith with Trouba tomorrow.

That would suck.

 

[Fitzy]

Rate my defenseman comparisons...

Fox = Rafalski
Lindgren = Klein
Miller= future Victor Hedman

 

[FireGerardGallant]

The year is 2024, the Rangers enter the playoffs again after an early 2022 exit. The team, led by Kakko and Lafreniere, are beginning to come into their own and fire on all cylinders offensively. The only knock on them is that they are a bit soft. They enter round 2 of the playoffs where they face the hated Philadelphia Flyers and their old friend turned foe Tony DeAngelo. for 6 games the Rangers and Flyers go back and forth, the Flyers with their physicality wearing down and demoralizing the Rangers as the series goes on. The Rangers begin to slow down and the Flyers tie the series in game 6. Tony DeAngelo leads the Flyers in scoring and has grown as a person, deleting his twitter, keeping his cool in the locker room, and has even become a leader for the Flyers. By all accounts, he is loved in the room. Game 7 is a nail biter, 2-2 going into 2OT. Suddenly, Tony DeAngelo goes crease to crease, undressing K'Andre Miller to score the game winning goal. Bluto facepalms from his seats that he kept, much to the protests of his wife who does not understand why he flies to New York for the playoffs every year. As Bluto's face is firmly palmed, the blue haired, rich, white NYU student from Westchester in a 'hip' Lindros jersey whos daddy bought him season tickets as a 'congratulations for maintaining a 3.2 GPA in your freshman liberal studies program!' gift cries out, his breath foul from consumption of some Brooklyn IPA I've never heard of "It's not fair! White supremacy! That Nazi shouldn't be allowed in the NHL! Poor Miller doesn't deserve such trauma!" As DeAngelo is mobbed by his Flyers teammates and the Rangers hang their heads in defeat, posters flock to HFBoards, crying out with their finger tips about how a racist undressed a poor young black player who shouldn't have been subjected to such trauma. Twitter buzzes about white privelege, comparing DeAngelo's overtime winner with racist Tom Brady, who had the audacity to defeat a black QB in the Super Bowl during black history month on 3 separate occasions. Some blame Larry Brooks, the privileged white boomer journalist who was so evil, that he wrote a puff piece about DeAngelo which painted him in a light in which people might conclude that DeAngelo wasn't actually the second coming of Hitler. They remind each other of all of the amateur bloggers who mentioned unnamed, anonymous sources who claimed DeAngelo terrorized Miller with racist attacks in his rookie year. As the internet is set ablaze, and Bluto's palm melts into his face, he may need to go to the emergency room to have them separated from each other. The Flyers fan down the aisle in his number 77 DeAngelo jersey mocks and taunts the crowd "thanks for giving him to us for free!" Bluto cries out. He hates nothing more than seeing Philadelphia sports fans celebrate. The players begin to shake hands, Twitter and HfBoards rebuking every Ranger player who shakes the hand of Tony DeAngelo. "Sportsmanship should not be granted to neo-nazis" they cry. As DeAngelo goes to shake Miller's hand, they embrace. Joseph Conrad could not have thought of a more fitting ending. The perfect euphemism for the last 500 years of colonization as the former friends turned rivals in an act of mutual respect congratulate each other on a hard fought series and vow to see each other again. Twitter explodes, HFBoards crash, the colonists have won, we have entered the hockey heart of darkness. People retreat to their safe spaces and call their therapists as they feel the pain of K'Andre Miller embracing the man they claim traumatized him. The offseason begins and the Rangers bombard social media with highlights of the 1994 playoff run as if it is still relevant with promises that they will someday hoist the cup again, every video with comments "We gave him up for free".

 

[CupSeeker]

That Hajek Bitteto pair stinks, and they have had the benefit of playing all their games with Quinn having last change.

Hopefully Miller is good and then Smith draws in for one of them.

this is untrue. They have had favorable matchups but they have played well, especially Hajek. And #25 has been playing his offside.

 

[Rangerfan4life90]

Rate my defenseman comparisons...

Fox = Rafalski
Lindgren = Klein
Miller= future Victor Hedman

Not sure Miller has the offensive projection of a Hedman, though.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

this is untrue. They have had favorable matchups but they have played well, especially Hajek. And #25 has been playing his offside.

That pairing has been better than anyone JJ.

 

[pld459666]

Let’s brainstorm some ideas on what they’re planning to do with the cap space they’re banking

Hopefully it’s something good because putting your young players on the taxi squad where they get paid less and nothing coming out it roster move wise would be very shitty of the team

I hope they can actually pull it off.

Would be nice to get a core asset at center before the summer.

 

[Avery16]

this is untrue. They have had favorable matchups but they have played well, especially Hajek. And #25 has been playing his offside.

Hajek is a lefty. Is he playing RD?