Scared or Excited for Drury's moves?

[KirkAlbuquerque]

I honestly like all of his player picks... what he's paid is scary

Yeah. I like Goodrow and Blais. The value is poor though.

 

[Zamboner]

This is so depressing. Drury (and Sather) really capitalized on the "not tough enough" hysteria at the end of the year to wrestle the team away and go back to the type of moves that failed and put the Rangers in a rebuilding phase in the first place.

Whatever success this team has will (probably) come from the Gorton/JD personnel, who will naturally get better, then these snakes will take credit for it and pretend having Doug the Thug and Ross the Boss on the fourth line is the reason.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Imagine if we evaluated Gorton on the Eric Staal trade.

Oh right, that was also that Slats.

Think you should wait till he makes a few decent moves before trying to defend him. Right now he has done garbage. At least Gorton made 4 good moves before 1 bad move.

 

[brakeyawself]

I was VERY optimistic only 2 days ago....... now I am looking for a bucket to puke in.

Things can still work out sure. These might end up being, in the long run, "the right moves." Or at least, "not the worst moves". But they don't seem like the best use of assets, whether it be the Buch trade chip or the 16th pick with arguably better, BPA's still on the board. Both those who play center and those who don't.

Maybe Othmann was the BPA on Drury's board. But overall, Lucius, Lysell, Wallstedt and arguably even Svechkov were most often ranked higher. Maybe Svechkov was around the same level. But I would even add to that last Bolduc and Ceulemans who I personally thought bring a higher ceiling to the table.

And Buch for Blais and a 2nd still makes me hurl. Not like hurling because you're in love. But hurling because you picked a really terrible road side food stand for lunch.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

 

[brakeyawself]

My biggest fear is that Drury will include Nils or Schneider is any potential Eichel trade

Luckily, I think the actual chances of Eichel coming to the Rangers are slim to none.

At least, I will believe it when I see it.

But if Drury keeps making choices like he made today, we could see Eichel here as early as next Friday and be missing some of our best future players. Who of course will all turn out to be studs while Eichel flounders on and off the IR for the rest of his career.

 

[Taluss]

* now will be changing vote to crapping my pants

 

[Platano King]

What. the. f***.

Why. We were doing so well. What the f***????

 

[LokiDog]

What the f*** is going on?

I was a-okay with the Goodrow move. I think I have a brighter view on him than many, but I expect him to be used on Panarin’s wing and as a utility guy all over the lineup, so I can live with the price.

I was pretty meh about the Buch trade. Love getting Blais and what he’ll bring to the table, but that’s the kind of guy I’d do Gauthier and a late 3rd for. Hated the quality of return for Buch, but was happy to have Blais on board.

I’m fine with the player we drafted and where he was drafted, in a vacuum, but baffled that we drafted another LW.

Now keep an eye on Zib? If we move Zib, get Eichel and keep Strome I’m not even sure we’re better than we would be just keeping Zib and Strome. What the heck is going on?

 

[Zynbanejad]

I’ll actually just stop watching this team if we drop Mika and swap him with Eichel and lose other assets in the process. Gross.

 

[NewLife]

Drury surely have a gun to his head.

 

[Casper The Soy Ghost]

If we get Eichel just move Strome as a part of the deal, cap reasons. Pay a team to take on Kreider. Tell Kreider you'll be glued to the 3rd line with no PP time, please accept the trade.

Boom we can keep Zibanejad and we got Eichel!

 

[Zamboner]

Keeping an eye on the insane asylum where I'm going to end up if this continues.

 

[Kodiak]

The problem with Drury’s recent moves is that they feel so reactionary. We had the Wilson incident, and Drury wants to address it immediately, and as a result he is over-correcting. There’s nothing wrong with making the team tougher. There’s nothing wrong with identifying the guys you want and going after them. But Drury is consistently overpaying to make it happen right now.

The problem with being reactionary is that you can’t really follow a plan. Having a plan requires forethought. It requires a goal and a reasonable pathway to that goal. It requires measured responses to incidents to maintain the path. Say what you want about Gorton, but he seemed to have a plan and was sticking to it. This feels like we are overreacting to the last big incident and we will continue to do so until the next big incident, at which point we will change course and overreact to that. That is not having a plan. That’s flying by the seat of your pants.

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

I think I get it...



Drury never forgot those boos from Rangers fans. He vowed revenge.

 

[DutchNYR]

Watching the draft coverage on ESPN is really making me miss Gorton and JD. Just seem calm and reliable. With the last two Drury moves, it seems like he doesn't understand value at all

If you're president and GM of an NHL-franchise and also GM of their AHL-affiliate, reliability can't be one of your traits either.

 

[tlk]

All depends on what will transpire. It's very early days - the jury's out.

 

[AIexisLafreniereNYR]

I think I get it...



Drury never forgot those boos from Rangers fans. He vowed revenge.

Those boo’s will be a lot worse come season time at this rate. they’ll be chanting for his head

 

[SRHRangers]

Still me this morning

 

[NYRangers0723]

My only issue is that they seem to be paying a big premium price for “grit and toughness”.

 

[AIexisLafreniereNYR]

Is there an option for crippling anxiety?

 

[NYSPORTS]

This is so depressing. Drury (and Sather) really capitalized on the "not tough enough" hysteria at the end of the year to wrestle the team away and go back to the type of moves that failed and put the Rangers in a rebuilding phase in the first place.

Whatever success this team has will (probably) come from the Gorton/JD personnel, who will naturally get better, then these snakes will take credit for it and pretend having Doug the Thug and Ross the Boss on the fourth line is the reason.

Tampa got swept by Columbus. Com’on, the Rangers were pathetic on the boards and at grinding. I don’t agree with the trade and wish #1 pick came back yet the roster was pretty soft.

 

[tlk]

My only issue is that they seem to be paying a big premium price for “grit and toughness”.

or it's just the market combined with our cap situ.

 

[NYRangers0723]

or it's just the market combined with our cap situ

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that’s cool agree to disagree. Anyway I’m not pissed just a bit perplexed

 

[NYSPORTS]

My only issue is that they seem to be paying a big premium price for “grit and toughness”.

two things imo

#1 - the future salary cap crunch is the issue. That doesn’t sink in with everybody. Especially the group who wants to keep everybody and offer bridge deals across the board

#2 - Time, amazingly camp opens in Sept and we’re already close to August. If you don’t move pieces now you may not have them. We’re still in a Covid world.