The outrage of Jesper Fast

[Chimpradamus]

I know, in all things considered this is a small piece, but what the hell happened to Jesper Fast?! The organization just dumped him. Just like Strålman ahead of Fumblardi and pirate Staal. It's in my mind completely unbelievable and it's kind at that point - among many others - that I stop having any confidence in the decisions from the front office. As it didn't already happen @ 2007 when Jagr, Straka and Nylander were dumped for overpriced garbage. It has been a huge revolving door of incompetence, not knowing how to form a strategy to create a team from. Gaborik signed for Torts, Nash signed with Vigneault. Do I need to say more? Idiotic signings paired with the strengths of the players. Imagine they were signed the other way around as a form of STRATEGY?

Anyhow, here this organization is. They lack a priceable, skilled and hard working bottom 6 player. Nevermind dumping Buchnevhich for peanuts, but this organization felt signing Jesper Fast to a measly $2m deal was too much. So they didn't even try to challenge his UFA status. In my mind, that's crazy. The way NYR handled the services of Fast were disgusting.

So far in Carolina he has 6G+2A in 22 games. Good numbers for a third liner. But it's the other stuff he does with quality. All the stuff for a position this organization now traded for instead to cover up for, without his history with the team. FOR FU....

I just don't get it. Can you calm my mind how this NYR organization considered throwing Fast under the bus while paying resources to sign Blais or Goodrow? They're good players, but what the heck happened? What was the major difference? The only redeeming factor is Drury hasn't done this stupid mistake - yet. Dolan knows how to get a timid, mediocre GM for a cause way above his head.

What do I want to say with this post? Well, in the end, Dolan is a very bad owner. He's not the standard useless owner of an NHL entertainment franchise, but he's still at least very, very mediocre. And dumping Fast is an easy explanation to present this.

When will a NYR roster get the chance to get a real soul in the locker room before half the team is exchanged every goddamn season or dumped for no reason? Can I feel any hope this will ever change with this owner? What do you say?

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[will1066]

Im outraged

 

[zlev]

Didn't Jagr f*ck off on his own to the Czech Republic for a huge amount of money?
The Gaborik signing was one of the only times up to that point that a star free agent came here and produced immediately
Nash was traded for when Torts was still the coach

 

[effen]

Fast didn't want to be here.

 

[Lion Hound]

I know, in all things considered this is a small piece, but what the hell happened to Jesper Fast?! The organization just dumped him. Just like Strålman ahead of Fumblardi and pirate Staal. It's in my mind completely unbelievable and it's kind at that point - among many others - that I stop having any confidence in the decisions from the front office. As it didn't already happen @ 2007 when Jagr, Straka and Nylander were dumped for overpriced garbage. It has been a huge revolving door of incompetence, not knowing how to form a strategy to create a team from. Gaborik signed for Torts, Nash signed with Vigneault. Do I need to say more? Idiotic signings paired with the strengths of the players. Imagine they were signed the other way around as a form of STRATEGY?

Anyhow, here this organization is. They lack a priceable, skilled and hard working bottom 6 player. Nevermind dumping Buchnevhich for peanuts, but this organization felt signing Jesper Fast to a measly $2m deal was too much. So they didn't even try to challenge his UFA status. In my mind, that's crazy. The way NYR handled the services of Fast were disgusting.

So far in Carolina he has 6G+2A in 22 games. Good numbers for a third liner. But it's the other stuff he does with quality. All the stuff for a position this organization now traded for instead to cover up for, without his history with the team. FOR FU....

I just don't get it. Can you calm my mind how this NYR organization considered throwing Fast under the bus while paying resources to sign Blais or Goodrow? They're good players, but what the heck happened? What was the major difference? The only redeeming factor is Drury hasn't done this stupid mistake - yet. Dolan knows how to get a timid, mediocre GM for a cause way above his head.

What do I want to say with this post? Well, in the end, Dolan is a very bad owner. He's not the standard useless owner of an NHL entertainment franchise, but he's still at least very, very mediocre. And dumping Fast is an easy explanation to present this.

When will a NYR roster get the chance to get a real soul in the locker room before half the team is exchanged every goddamn season or dumped for no reason? Can I feel any hope this will ever change with this owner? What do you say?

It was hard not to like Fast as a player. Did it all up and down the lineup for the NYR. With that said, does Fast feel the Rangers threw him under the bus? I doubt it. Fast im sure is pretty happy with all three contracts he got from them. A tad under $10 mil total. He was with the big club for 7 years. Thats a good run.

With that said, barring Injury. I would take Goodrow or Blais over Fast. Both players bring a different element to their games that was sorely missed in NY.

 

[Mandar]

OP……Join us here in 2021…it’s pretty cool. Soon to be 2022….

 

[PuckLuck3043]

I know, in all things considered this is a small piece, but what the hell happened to Jesper Fast?! The organization just dumped him. Just like Strålman ahead of Fumblardi and pirate Staal. It's in my mind completely unbelievable and it's kind at that point - among many others - that I stop having any confidence in the decisions from the front office. As it didn't already happen @ 2007 when Jagr, Straka and Nylander were dumped for overpriced garbage. It has been a huge revolving door of incompetence, not knowing how to form a strategy to create a team from. Gaborik signed for Torts, Nash signed with Vigneault. Do I need to say more? Idiotic signings paired with the strengths of the players. Imagine they were signed the other way around as a form of STRATEGY?

Anyhow, here this organization is. They lack a priceable, skilled and hard working bottom 6 player. Nevermind dumping Buchnevhich for peanuts, but this organization felt signing Jesper Fast to a measly $2m deal was too much. So they didn't even try to challenge his UFA status. In my mind, that's crazy. The way NYR handled the services of Fast were disgusting.

So far in Carolina he has 6G+2A in 22 games. Good numbers for a third liner. But it's the other stuff he does with quality. All the stuff for a position this organization now traded for instead to cover up for, without his history with the team. FOR FU....

I just don't get it. Can you calm my mind how this NYR organization considered throwing Fast under the bus while paying resources to sign Blais or Goodrow? They're good players, but what the heck happened? What was the major difference? The only redeeming factor is Drury hasn't done this stupid mistake - yet. Dolan knows how to get a timid, mediocre GM for a cause way above his head.

What do I want to say with this post? Well, in the end, Dolan is a very bad owner. He's not the standard useless owner of an NHL entertainment franchise, but he's still at least very, very mediocre. And dumping Fast is an easy explanation to present this.

When will a NYR roster get the chance to get a real soul in the locker room before half the team is exchanged every goddamn season or dumped for no reason? Can I feel any hope this will ever change with this owner? What do you say?

At the time there was uncertainty about the cap and Gorton/JD did not want to extend players beyond 2 years, supposedly Fast wanted 3. I guess they thought he was easily replaceable. It was just a stupid mistake not signing him to that contract, nothing more. GM's don't get everything right. We probably should have kept TDA and got rid of Georgiev instead, or maybe not trade McDonagh and JT Miller for Hajek and Howden, or maybe not pick Lias Anderson at number 7.

 

[SML2]

You can't pay all your 3rd and 4th liners veteran contracts. What Fast brought to the team is a role you should be able to fill with a younger, cheaper option. It's not always about the money, but young players have to feel like there's a shot to make the big club when they are drafted and not just blocked forever on a stacked roster.

 

[eco's bones]

Fast is a good player but FWIW I’d rather have Goodrow than Fast.

 

[The S5]

It was hard not to like Fast as a player. Did it all up and down the lineup for the NYR. With that said, does Fast feel the Rangers threw him under the bus? I doubt it. Fast im sure is pretty happy with all three contracts he got from them. A tad under $10 mil total. He was with the big club for 7 years. Thats a good run.

With that said, barring Injury. I would take Goodrow or Blais over Fast. Both players bring a different element to their games that was sorely missed in NY.

No chance either of those guys before Jesper. He's more skilled and plays harder than Goodrow. He's way more responsible and consistent than Blais.
Fans in Carolina are finally seeing the value of Fast.

 

[Ola]

Fast didn't want to be here.

Exactly, there have been a lot of stuff going on.

 

[RGY]

Can we please lock this thread and move on. He is gone. He aint coming back.

 

[HFBS]

Fast was a case of other teams being willing to pay him more than the Rangers were and the Rangers knew it so they didn't waste everyone's time chasing after him. I like him but the difference in what he now makes pays for guys like Panarin. Not defending the Goodrow contract but that was a similar situation going the other way.

 

[SA16]

What happened is he was a FA and chose to play somewhere else.

 

[Idlerlee]

When was the last time the NYR gave one of their fan favorites a decent sendoff that didn't taste of bitter bile but rather a reasonable hockey trade?

 

[Barnaby]

It sounded like he wanted to move on anyway. I liked him as a player but he was replaceable. The organization has to earmark a price they’re willing to pay and stick to it. It’s also something to remember that the Panarin-Strome-Fast line was miserable in the play ins against Carolina so they probably weren’t eager to overpay him in the offseason.

 

[Chimpradamus]

Fast was a case of other teams being willing to pay him more than the Rangers were and the Rangers knew it so they didn't waste everyone's time chasing after him. I like him but the difference in what he now makes pays for guys like Panarin. Not defending the Goodrow contract but that was a similar situation going the other way.

That's the thing. He settled in Carolina @2m as an UFA. NYR couldn't meet his payment demands compared to what? A spit in the face? Goodrow has a $3.6m contract. Sure, Blais is @ $1.5m but he was traded for giving up Buchnevich for nothing. I just cannot grasp how Fast was so easily dumped. So what was NYR meaning was a suitable payment to keep him? League minimum or what? Maybe Fast was needed to pay the organization to stay, what was the demand?

Fast was a great team player and could even contribute once and there in the upper lines when needed to. But he was just dumped. I don't get it. The lingering qualities of "giving the GM reach of whiskey and the keys to the Lamborghini" still lingers. Will Drury not act like an idiot carried by the leash by Dolan, a total idiot?

It was hard not to like Fast as a player. Did it all up and down the lineup for the NYR. With that said, does Fast feel the Rangers threw him under the bus? I doubt it. Fast im sure is pretty happy with all three contracts he got from them. A tad under $10 mil total. He was with the big club for 7 years. Thats a good run.

With that said, barring Injury. I would take Goodrow or Blais over Fast. Both players bring a different element to their games that was sorely missed in NY.

Sure, I can respect that opinion if you believe they're better. I just think it's weird he was dumped for nothing. We got Blais through a trade for trading Buchnevich for... Blais. It just feels very odd.

 

[THE BIG WHISTLE]

No chance either of those guys before Jesper. He's more skilled and plays harder than Goodrow. He's way more responsible and consistent than Blais.
Fans in Carolina are finally seeing the value of Fast.

More skilled than Goodrow, yeah that would be a big fat NO!
In fact, I think Dryden Hunt is better than Fast. Maybe if Fast would have used an adult stick instead of the junior stick, he might have added some offense

 

[Krams]

Closed, Fast hasn't been a Ranger in three years and we're 14-4