Team of the Decade: 2nd Pair Right Defense

[Fitzy]

Dubinsky, who had a somewhat short but productive stint for NYR this decade (Including leading the NYR team in scoring in 2010-2011 season) beat out Miller and Hagelin for second line LW.

Next is second pairing RD.

Below are the NYR player stats for the decade...

Player Season Finder | Hockey-Reference.com

Team of the Decade

Forward
Kreider-Stepan-Gaborik
Dubinsky-Zibanejad-Zuccarello
____-_____-Nash
____-_____-_____

Extra Forwards ______-_____

Defense
McDonagh-Girardi
_____-_____
_____-_____

7th defenseman -_____

Goalies

Lundqvist
_______

Head Coach- John Tortorella

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[Fitzy]

I went with Stralman over Klein, but by a much smaller margin than perhaps many others might.

Stralman gave us two good and one great years. Klein gave us two and a half good years and one mediocre year.

 

[Jaromir Jagr]

Rick Nash should not be on the third line.

And hopefully our RD of this next decade is significantly better than that of the past decade.

 

[kovazub94]

I went with Stralman over Klein, but by a much smaller margin than perhaps many others might.

Stralman gave us two good and one great years. Klein gave us two and a half good years and one mediocre year.

Same. Not much back and forth, I mean, but I’m voting Klein for the next RD spot.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

Rick Nash should not be on the third line.

And hopefully our RD of this next decade is significantly better than that of the past decade.

Rick Nash should be on D on this chart


Also why no love for Sauer y'all?

 

[Cassano]

If management chose to re-sign Stralman instead of the washed up Dan Boyle experiment, that's another finals appearance.

It's one of the biggest blunders in franchise history. Not as bad as Zubov departure, but up there.

We probably get smoked by the Blackhawks that year though.

 

[Cassano]

Also why no love for Sauer y'all?

He only played like 100 NHL games. If we are making roster on peak performances he is probably our 1st or 2nd pair RD.

 

[Maximus]

I went with Stralman over Klein, but by a much smaller margin than perhaps many others might.

Stralman gave us two good and one great years. Klein gave us two and a half good years and one mediocre year.

Yeah it's really not that close as Stralman has to be the guy here tho I do agree with you that Klein was a severely underrated pickup for us at the deadline back in '14 and was a huge reason we made it to the Cup final vs the Kings.

 

[nyr2k2]

Stralman. I think this is pretty easy. Easiest since the McDonagh poll.

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

My heart says Sauer, but my head says Stralman. Stralman.

 

[SingnBluesOnBroadway]

Wow. Looking at this lineup, even at this stage, just amplifies how good Henrik Lundqvist has been.