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Jordan Nolan! He's one of those people with a first name as a last name. Part of an amazing name-chain in the NHL.
Michal Jordan Nolan Patrick Roy Radke
Speculation: Roster Building Thread Part IX: Trying To Reason With The Upcoming Season
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Jordan Nolan! He's one of those people with a first name as a last name. Part of an amazing name-chain in the NHL.
Michal Jordan Nolan Patrick Roy Radke
Leafs need to sign Marner & Matthews, but they have 5 other RFA contracts + 4 UFA next 2019/20 season and they only have 13.3 mil $ cap space left after they signed JT from Islanders. And they have not yet signed W. Nylander hence all the media focus in Canada recently. Jeff Gorton should be opportunistic here and call Canada for possible trades before the season start. 
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Dolan sucks!!!
Some of them will make up the Rangers next core group.
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Amazing Kreiderman
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Can we please get rid of this clown? He can't even get the names correct. What an amateur
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Training camp is barely a week old... D pairings aren't anything resembling set yet.
NAFTA talks are not going well between Canada/US, and sadly Trump will impose tarifs of 30% on goods coming in from Canada. I don't think Gorton will overpay to get Willy...Leafs need to sign Marner & Matthews, but they have 5 other RFA contracts + 4 UFA next 2019/20 season and they only have 13.3 mil $ cap space left after they signed JT from Islanders. And they have not yet signed W. Nylander hence all the media focus in Canada recently. Jeff Gorton should be opportunistic here and call Canada for possible trades before the season start.
Seems like he got the goaltending tandem for tonight wrong too. But Brooks breaks things a lot of the time. He’s got sauce.
Mcquaid is not a first pair D. Skill level aside, I don’t think he can physically take the minutes, which will be approx double his ATOI in Boston. On skill level, he’d get undressed every shift by other teams’ top lines.
Something has to shake out with Pionk and ADA. I don’t believe that either will be starting in Hartford. The one thing Brooks said that makes sense- we probably will start with 8D.
This probably leaves OGara and Gilmour in Hartford, with Lindgren, Hajek, Day, (Rod) Bigras, Pedrie and Crawley.
76Skjei/22Shattenkirk
18Staal/44Pionk
42Smith/77DeAngelo
33Claesson/McQuaid
Something has to shake out with Pionk and ADA. I don’t believe that either will be starting in Hartford. The one thing Brooks said that makes sense- we probably will start with 8D.
This probably leaves OGara and Gilmour in Hartford, with Lindgren, Hajek, Day, (Rod) Bigras, Pedrie and Crawley.
76Skjei/22Shattenkirk
18Staal/44Pionk
42Smith/77DeAngelo
33Claesson/McQuaid
haveandare
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He's talking out of it in terms of Shattenkirk's play. Yeah, he was hurt and didn't do everything he can, but he was putting up points at a ridiculous rate for a few weeks. The article makes it sound like he was total garbage all year long.
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It feels like a big portion of Rangers fans hate offensive defensemen because they’re not Brian Leetch
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Just to be clear, I wouldn’t trade him because I don’t like him. Big Shattenkirk fan, wanted him here for a while now. But Pionk and ADA are pushing and we are probably a couple seasons away for being a Cup threat. If the return was great (and coming off a good season on this sweetheart contract, it should be) you’ve got to take that.
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Well sure...and the penguins won a cup with Letang hurt, that doesn't mean they should hire a Hitman to take him out.
Or should they.....hmmmm....
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Barring an epidemic striking only RHS on this team, Smith not likely to play RD again for us. It’s not even his dominant side, and we have Shattenkirk, Pionk, ADA and McQuaid all as natural RD. More likely Smith or Staal get moved after this season, but either way Smith is a LD now.
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Rempe73
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Maybe now, but what about in 2-3 years? Shattenkirk will decline (if he hasn’t already started to), and ADA may or may not flourish. The potential is there, we are rebuilding, we aren’t focused on winning, and Shattenkirk is taking up the role that could be ADA’s and/or Pionk’s. Maybe they won’t excel in that role now. Maybe they never will. But Shattenkirk does not fit into the Rangers’ time frame to win. We don’t really need him, honestly. He’ll be around 34 by the time we start competing for the Cup again (not extremely old, but still pretty old).
Also, I’m not saying that we have to get rid of him. We can keep him for now. No need to rush anything just yet, but if the choice was between him, Tony, and Neal, I would trade Kevin in a heartbeat.
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