Team of the Decade: 3rd Pairing RD

[Fitzy]

Cambot stole our hearts as the most favored Lundqvist backup of the decade.

Below are the NYR player stats for the decade... (Note, the second half of the 09-10 season is not included in these stats, unfortunately)

Player Season Finder | Hockey-Reference.com

Team of the Decade

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

Extra Forwards ______-_____

Defense
McDonagh-Girardi
Staal-Stralman
_____-_____

7th defenseman -_____

Goalies

Lundqvist
Talbot

Head Coach- John Tortorella

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[EdJovanovski]

Tony D

 

[Blue Blooded]

DeAngelo's quality clearly beats out Klein's quantity for me.

 

[Irishguy42]

DeAngelo's quality clearly beats out Klein's quantity for me.

Same.

Just need for someone to bite his ear off, have him get it sewn back on, and then come out and score the OT winner for him to fully create the mythos.

 

[nyr2k2]

Kleiner.

DeAngelo is clearly the best, but doesn't have the tenure.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Kleiner.

DeAngelo is clearly the best, but doesn't have the tenure.

Is this a teachers union or a hockey team?

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

Is this a teachers union or a hockey team?

He should have said sample size.

Klein or Sauer for the non-goldfish

 

[nyr2k2]

Is this a teachers union or a hockey team?

Hur hur!

I've been consistent on placing an emphasis on voting for guys that spent at least three or four years here over guys that have a season or two of good play.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Optimus Klein

 

[aufheben]

Picking Sauer simply because I think we'd have won the Cup in 2014 with him. At that point in his career he'd have likely been playing ahead of Girardi.

 

[kovazub94]

KK, the original

 

[Hi ImHFNYR]

Ada still has crap D and it was real crap last year. His 1 and q quarter season with only half his game being NHL level for a chunk of it...does that best Klein who was good for periods and sucked for periods over 3 seasons? Does it best sauer who was here for about the same time as ADA and was always great before being retired?

Tough. I'll give it to sauer. Better overall than Ada and Klein by a good amount. Played about as long for us as ADA has.

If Ada had this whole season then I'm guessing I'd vote ada

 

[Fitzy]

Looks like ADA may be well on his way to getting the most voted for 7th dman, though we will have to see.

 

[Sayba]

Picking Sauer simply because I think we'd have won the Cup in 2014 with him. At that point in his career he'd have likely been playing ahead of Girardi.

Except he didn't and that's a pretty big assumption.

 

[Crease]

For reference, Klein played about 225 games for the Rangers. DeAngelo 120 and Sauer 100. I'd go DeAngelo here, and I'm a big Klein fan.

 

[I Eat Crow]

Coach Klein for me.

 

[Fitzy]

We tend to deify players whose careers ended early before they got big contracts or declined. There's no certainty Cherepanov was going to be a star or that Sauer would have been successful after the Tortorella firing.

2k2 and I were on the Sauer team from day one but I don't think he deserved votes here.

 

[eco's bones]

Between Klein and DeAngelo for me. I went with Klein. Clutch player---real good defensively and he was a gamer. Tony for certain is better offensively though.

I never liked Dan Boyle. He was selfish and a primadonna. Loved Mike Sauer but he played less than 100 regular season games. Shattenkirk was a disappointment here.

 

[DanielBrassard]

Klein's last season was terrible so that's why I went with ADA. I'd be interested to see this poll at the end of the season because we'd have similar GP from ADA and Klein's first 2+ seasons with the team.

 

[Fugazy]

Klein pretty easily.

 

[Rempe73]

For reference, Klein played about 225 games for the Rangers. DeAngelo 120 and Sauer 100. I'd go DeAngelo here, and I'm a big Klein fan.

Same. I absolutely LOVED Klein. His decline was tough to watch, but still. Even then, I would choose ADA.

 

[OverTheCap]

I voted for Sauer because I've always had a soft spot for the guy and he was excellent in his short time here. That McDonagh-Sauer pairing was a thing of beauty. And of all the RDs listed here, I think Sauer was the best shutdown D of the bunch.

However, I was hesitant to cast my vote for him due to his shortened career, and Klein was a very close second due to his longevity.

 

[Machinehead]

Is this a teachers union or a hockey team?

Girardi and Staal are in their usual spots so that answers your question.

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

Heart says Sauer, but head says Klein.

 

[haveandare]

Went with Tony D. Had trouble deciding between him and Klein.

I think Tony does more offensively with less around him, so went with him ultimately.

Sauer was great for a while but too short a while. Not his fault of course but it is what it is.