Speculation: Roster Building Thread - Part XIII (Nanaki edition)

[Clark Kellogg]

Live stream. Up in the Blue Seats podcast:

 

[Leonardo87]

I feel like some of you…..a lot of you, don’t appreciate this team. They are a cup contender, what happens in the playoffs is uncertain for even the best teams in the league.

 

[TominNC]

Take a look at other teams. Our D sucks so bad yet we’re +16. No other team in the East is double digits. All teams will lose games all year. It’s like you jokers have never watched whole seasons before. This isn’t the NFL where every game is Armageddon.

 

[NYR94]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1851769963490742336

 

[CTTribe73]

Take a look at other teams. Our D sucks so bad yet we’re +16. No other team in the East is double digits. All teams will lose games all year. It’s like you jokers have never watched whole seasons before. This isn’t the NFL where every game is Armageddon.

Have you forgot where you're posting?

 

[haohmaru]

Without their two best players, no? Also, yesterday's game was a bigger ass kicking than you'll get in most blowouts.

Oh, yesterday was awful, no doubt. Still, it's a sample size of 1.x% of a season's worth of games. If it's a trend, that's worrying. So far, it's a one off.

 

[savebyrichter94]

 

[80shockeywasbuns]

That is not what he said. He tried to compare Laf and Kakkos early years to Mikas body of work.
As if a rookie player should receive the same leeway an established veteran with Mikas suscces does.

it’s just funny that when lafreniere doesn’t hit the ground running it’s because he’s a lazy golfer and a terrorist and when Mika sucks for a extended period of time it’s “oh no is he sad?”

 

[Siddi]

I don't think I went off on you. It's just one of those annoying things when fans of players seem to always excuse any and all bad play by said player. It doesn't matter if Laf or Kakko didn't deserve it either or even didn't deserve it more, the larger point is we should not do it with Mika.

Where in my post was I excusing Mikas play? The poster i replied to felt that Lazarus tweet was making excuses for Mika when players like Kakko and Laf didnt receive the same leeway during their struggles in their early years. I merely pointed out that there is a difference between rookie players and established star players with a proven track record.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Oh, yesterday was awful, no doubt. Still, it's a sample size of 1.x% of a season's worth of games. If it's a trend, that's worrying. So far, it's a one off.

Not nearly as bad but the Florida game was ugly too.

 

[Siddi]

it’s just funny that when lafreniere doesn’t hit the ground running it’s because he’s a lazy golfer and a terrorist and when Mika sucks for a extended period of time it’s “oh no is he sad?”

Whether it is right or wrong that is how reputation works.

I have no idea what is wrong with him but I do know that this team wont win unless he gets his head out of his ass.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

it’s just funny that when lafreniere doesn’t hit the ground running it’s because he’s a lazy golfer and a terrorist and when Mika sucks for a extended period of time it’s “oh no is he sad?”

He just looks sad all the time. Seriously, I'm concerned he's chronically depressed.

 

[EdJovanovski]

He just looks sad all the time. Seriously, I'm concerned he's chronically depressed.

Same with Elias Pettersson.

Fox also has had really poor body language for the past year or so, always rolling his eyes and tilting his head back when something doesn't go his way.

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

I think you trained psychologists should write a letter to the Rangers to let them know you guys think half the team is depressed

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I think you trained psychologists should write a letter to the Rangers to let them know you guys think half the team is depressed

It may just be his personality. Maybe he's just deeply introverted.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

Imo they need to stop using Mika in every situation, personally I think he either gets exhausted or is saving energy for a situation that may come up. There's no need for him to be on pp1 and pk1.

 

[bhamill]

It may just be his personality. Maybe he's just deeply introverted.

Maybe he’s a bit of an asshole.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Maybe he’s a bit of an asshole.

I never got that from him. I always felt like he's one of those "chill" guys at best and at worst a guy that's depressed or lacking confidence. The most positive way I can frame him is maybe he's one of those quiet dudes that has no personality but steals your girl because she likes reserved dudes that remind her of James Bond.

 

[CasusBelli]

Live stream. Up in the Blue Seats podcast:

Maybe he should ask for a trade.

 

[NYR Viper]

Liljegren and Maata traded already this year. The Rangers should look to move Lindgren to a team on the bubble who needs defensive help. That team can have the opportunity to use him all year or if they fall out of it, offer him a reasonable contract which, if he rejects, opens up the possibility to trade him as a rental somewhere.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Liljegren and Maata traded already this year. The Rangers should look to move Lindgren to a team on the bubble who needs defensive help. That team can have the opportunity to use him all year or if they fall out of it, offer him a reasonable contract which, if he rejects, opens up the possibility to trade him as a rental somewhere.

If it were up to the fans it would be Miller that is traded. Especially fans not on HF.

 

[nsvoyageurs]

Live stream. Up in the Blue Seats podcast:

I'm not a psychiatrist and don't want to play one on here. Whatever issues Zibanejad may (or may not) have he needs to get sorted out sooner rather than later.

I agree with Larry that the Rangers' development plan for Rempe seems to be rather (at best) incoherent and (at worst) nonsensical. Bringing him up for one game to fight someone doesn't do him any good. Send him back to Hartford and leave him there to play top 6 minutes.

 

[grachevsceiling]

I think the Brooks article on Zib’s ice time is classic Brooks pot-stirring. Nothing Mika says is that out of the norm, and neither is anything Laviolette says. He just manufactures a kind of contrast by alternating quotes between the two.

If I read anything into Mika’s comments it’s that maybe he feels like his role is changing on the team. He kind of went from that monster year to eventually being overshadowed by Panarin, Kreider, then Trocheck, and now, Laf. Of course, his big contract was signed too. It might be a combo of pressure, expectations, confidence, uncertainty with his role (and those things are all connected). And add to those factors that he’s always been somewhat Inconsistent.

 

[TominNC]

Can you imagine the handwringing here if Rempe was in Hartford and Wilson threw a check at someone?

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Can you imagine the handwringing here if Rempe was in Hartford and Wilson threw a check at someone?

Do you really think that a psycho like Wilson is deterred by Rempe? This is the most overblown nonsense we have in hockey. Maybe if Rempe was a psychopath too and tried to end his career or that of a teammate but thankfully he's not that.