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Drury is going to pull a shocker, well before the trade deadline. Pretty confident to say that. I think this team is on the border of having something special but definitely needs a little bit of a shake up.
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Oscar Lindberg
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So the plan to improve the team is to trade away the guy who is probably the second best defenseman they have and keep the shitty ones?
Thats a plan for success
His goal with 5 minutes left in game 7 versus Pens a couple years ago has earned him the nickname 5 minute Mika and some grace but its near its expiration point.
McRanger92
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They can probably trade Trouba in the summer and I assume Goodrow will get bought out. Other than that we are stuck with the love birds (not that I want to deal Kreider) and Panarin. No one will take Igor if he keeps playing like this but at least management should know not to sign him.
If this season keeps going the way it is, they really should retool for a year. Empower the youth like Lafreniere, Kakko and Cuylle. Call up Othmann, Sykora, Edstrom types. Id be stripping A's from guys already. I'd also make Fox the captain and tell Trouba to kick rocks. His first season as Captain the team goes all in then no shows against the Devils; he spends the summer becoming a painter...I get that these guys are allowed to have interests outside of sports but what an awful look. Whether right or wrong (and the uninspired play by the whole team makes me think Im right) it feels like the leaders of the team dont care. It's 3 different coaches and they still play the same way. We are spinning our wheels until a message is sent via trade or by the coaching staff. The roster isnt good enough and everyon knows it.
If this season keeps going the way it is, they really should retool for a year. Empower the youth like Lafreniere, Kakko and Cuylle. Call up Othmann, Sykora, Edstrom types. Id be stripping A's from guys already. I'd also make Fox the captain and tell Trouba to kick rocks. His first season as Captain the team goes all in then no shows against the Devils; he spends the summer becoming a painter...I get that these guys are allowed to have interests outside of sports but what an awful look. Whether right or wrong (and the uninspired play by the whole team makes me think Im right) it feels like the leaders of the team dont care. It's 3 different coaches and they still play the same way. We are spinning our wheels until a message is sent via trade or by the coaching staff. The roster isnt good enough and everyon knows it.
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If Nashville is putting Saros on the block, we should put Igor on the block, and control the goalie market.
This is probably the only time in a cap era there might be a bit of a feeding frenzy for goalies too; and goalies notorious for getting bad value in trades. This here might be the exception
This is probably the only time in a cap era there might be a bit of a feeding frenzy for goalies too; and goalies notorious for getting bad value in trades. This here might be the exception
Brutananadilewski
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After what happened last season and continuing into this season:
*Puts on body armor*
Fox is the valuable trade chip, and honestly the one that would entice a team to also take Zibs (Taking into account his NMC).
I'm sorry, he isn't as assertive with the puck, also prone to defensive lapses (Nothing on the scale of a Trouba or Miller), but his skating...woof!!
Maybe he can improve his skating like Laffy did....
2014... That was Torts' team coached by AV.
Or the plan is to trade the guys that suck to get All Stars back? At this point in Miller's development, a hard choice has to be made as to if he will ever become a great player. In my mind, I'm starting to think that isn't going to happen. And while we wait, we live with his horrible defense with thie occasional fantastic rush to get the fan base still believing in his potential.
McRanger92
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Ill get flamed for this take but the Rangers should hire Messier in the role Davidson once had.
Lavy is keeping cool which is a good strategy at this point in the season. The D is messed up and not an easy fix. Igor looks like he has tourette syndrome with those blinking eyes and shrugs. Keep the 1st rder and get a big D man and hope Igor improves. Lavy will turn up the heat with the players in the spring and then we will see how they respond. Major adjustments can only happen in offseason. Remember our 3 yr window becomes 2 after this season.
Oscar Lindberg
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It’s totally unconscionable to trade Fox.
Literally the only way it would make even a sliver of sense is if the plan is to tear it down to the studs and hard rebuild. Like worst team in the league rebuild over multiple years.
And even then trading Fox would still be a stupid decision
McRanger92
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Idk about others but Fox looks like one of the players who actually gives a shit on this team. It's not his fault the rest of them are playing reactive hockey. He has scored more goals going to the net in the last few weeks than 90% of the forwards. Opposing teams dont even put a body on his D partner in the offensive zone lol
Brutananadilewski
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That was the similar sentiment with Shesterkin:
The Heir Apparent to Lundqvist, to at least he won't be able to get ridiculous money from us, to irrelevant if he signs or not with us.
We're witnessing more than just Fox "slowing the game down."
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mrmovies779
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At some point you see the problem isn't coaching,but the core of the team...the"leadership"...They've fallen back into Gallants style of play and these terrible losses and defensive breakdowns are piling up.
Kreider and Trouba have their no trade clauses drop to partials this offseason AKA they can be moved to a place not on their list with out their permission.
Kreider is who I was referring to BTW. I don't think he's the guy whose most deserving to be moved (far from it, even if he drives me nuts he's still a bargain at his current deal) but he's the easiest to move. We've gotten to the point where we will know whether or not we can really move forward with this core and if it blows up again then the answer is obviously no.
EdJovanovski
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I swear if it weren’t for his backstory people wouldn’t give the guy so much leeway. He has been bad for a couple years now, and imo is one of the most overrated players in the NHL. He is a symptom of everything wrong with our team, he tries to slow down the fastest sport there is. Swap Fox with Q Hughes for instance and we’d be a far far far better team
Daves a mess
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See, I'm a Torts guy ( sacrilege here) and thought of that exact squad too, but they were ground to crematorium grade dust in the finals by 3rd and 4th line players.
Agree. Closest team since the 94 squad as far as guts though.
LOL.
Literally had the best year of his career last year and finished 2nd in Norris voting (would have won if he had a competent offensive partner since he would have likely been within an ear shot of Karlsson's production) which would have been his 2nd Norris.
Slowing down the game not a bad thing. Every elite player in this league does this.
I don't think you have the worst takes here, but you're close.
Bad for a couple of years haha. Get the f*** out of here.
I agree. Trading one of those guys in the summer would be an impact move and will probably need to happen if there's another 1st round exit. But, for this year, that's not an option.
TopShelfSnipes
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IMO Kreider is part of the solution and not part of the problem.
The biggest problems on this team in no particular order are Igor, the defense not named Fox, Gus, or Schneider, the lack of center depth, our 1C playing like a 2C/powerplay specialist, and Barclay Goodrow's contract.
Kreider gives us something few players in the league do, is still really good at it, and it's also a skill that tends to age better than if he was still playing the speed game.
Man what a leap he took with that one. He has been brutal.
Boris Zubov
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These guys don't play Lav's style or Gallant's style...they are playing Ryan Strome's style, which he made perfectly clear when he told the press the coaches need to trust the players to make the right decisions. This core refuses to listen to coaching & even when Lavi tried to change the system, at the first sign of adversity they immediately revert back to the pond hockey they are just way too comfortable playing.
Daves a mess
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If Mess would of put his ego aside and took a entry level spot, maybe in Hartford, he prob could of earned it. He wanted the prime real estate from day 1.
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