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There Should Be No Captain Next Season

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It's interesting that they haven't named a captain

It's a long shot, but what would preclude the Rangers getting Callahan back at a lower price than what he asked for? Then what?
 
Matt4776 said:
To be honest, I don't give McDonagh a letter.

Staal and G already have letters. They aren't getting them taken away.

Next is probably going to be a forward. If Richie isn't bought out, he's likely battling Staal for the C, but if not definitely retains in A.

If he is bought out, I'd give the A to Boyle, then Zucc, then MSL in that order.
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There are too many variables right now. Are Richards (buyout), Staal (trade to CAR), Boyle/Zucc (FA) even on the roster next year?

I still want to buy out Richards, but if we don't, I think he gets the C. That said, if we were to win the cup this year, we could give Richards an extension, Nash a raise, and let Hank skate out as a forward for the rest of his contract, and I'd still be happy.
 
rangerlp said:
It's a long shot, but what would preclude the Rangers getting Callahan back at a lower price than what he asked for? Then what?
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We are three games from the stanley cup and people are still talking about bringing an overpaid RW back? Seriously?

This team is clearly close to contending this year (which I am shocked by). We have a hole on our top 6 LW (assuming Nash doesn't switch to his off-side) and we have and we have a clear hole at #1C. Both are incredibly more important to our future, sustained success, then bringing back Ryan ****ing Callahan to play on our 4th line.

I'd much rather leave Brian Boyle there at 2 million a year.

Bringing Callahan back is so laughable at this point. Why don't we just sign Gaborik for 8 million and go with:

Nash
St. Louis
Zuccarello
Gaborik
 
AHB said:
We are three games from the stanley cup and people are still talking about bringing an overpaid RW back? Seriously?

This team is clearly close to contending this year (which I am shocked by). We have a hole on our top 6 LW (assuming Nash doesn't switch to his off-side) and we have and we have a clear hole at #1C. Both are incredibly more important to our future, sustained success, then bringing back Ryan ****ing Callahan to play on our 4th line.

I'd much rather leave Brian Boyle there at 2 million a year.

Bringing Callahan back is so laughable at this point. Why don't we just sign Gaborik for 8 million and go with:

Nash
St. Louis
Zuccarello
Gaborik
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Callahan fanboys gonna fanboy.
 
AHB said:
We are three games from the stanley cup and people are still talking about bringing an overpaid RW back? Seriously?

This team is clearly close to contending this year (which I am shocked by). We have a hole on our top 6 LW (assuming Nash doesn't switch to his off-side) and we have and we have a clear hole at #1C. Both are incredibly more important to our future, sustained success, then bringing back Ryan ****ing Callahan to play on our 4th line.

I'd much rather leave Brian Boyle there at 2 million a year.

Bringing Callahan back is so laughable at this point. Why don't we just sign Gaborik for 8 million and go with:

Nash
St. Louis
Zuccarello
Gaborik
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Next thing you know, he would be on IR. I'd rather not take that risk.
 
After listening to the ESPN Hockey today podcast with Martin Biron it's pretty clear that Hank is the captain and leader of this franchise. Anybody else would just be a figurehead. So I say stick with three A's
 
Richards is definitely the acting captain and is having a pretty good playoff year. Based on the comments when Callahan got traded, I'm wondering just how much Callahan did before in terms of being captain anyway.

“There hasn’t been much of a change at all in the dynamic,” Brad Richards, an alternate captain since joining the Rangers at the start of the 2011-12 season, told The Post on Tuesday.

“Off-ice, there are some [housekeeping] issues that we have to make sure are being taken care of, but as far as the team goes, we have enough guys here who are comfortable with taking a leadership role and understand what that means,” said No. 19.
Callahan was for the most part a lead-by-example captain rather than a master orator, so it’s not as if the Blueshirts must confront a void in their time of need.

“Things that have to be said will still get said,” Richards said. “I’m not taking anything away from Cally, but he was pretty young and not that vocal.

“It’s not like he was 38 and had been in the league for 18 years, so everybody was looking to him to listen to what he had to say,” Richards said of the 28-year-old Callahan, a seven-year veteran who was in his third season as captain. “We have other guys here who know what to say and when to say it.

“I don’t want to make it sound like we don’t miss him. What he did on the ice, you can’t replace. It’s just that nothing is really going to change in the way we approach things in the room.”
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TheDave1022 said:
Richards is definitely the acting captain and is having a pretty good playoff year. Based on the comments when Callahan got traded, I'm wondering just how much Callahan did before in terms of being captain anyway.
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Exactly right which is why talk of who wears which letter is meaningless.
Who cares? I guarantee you the players don't. The guys who are the leaders will remain so regardless of the letter on their jersey.
Callahan wore the "C" and apparntly never had a peep to say.
Lundqvist and Richards are probably the two most vocal guys. Do you think Lundqvist needs an "A" or a "C" to speak his mind?

Boyle, Stepan, McDonagh , Dom Moore are all leaders in one way or another, but none of them wear a letter.
 
You can pretty much tell who the leaders are after each game. Why do you think the reporters go to the same group of players after a win, unless some player has a pretty big night. You always see Lundqvist, McD, Staal, Richards, Boyle, MSL
 
rangerlp said:
It's a long shot, but what would preclude the Rangers getting Callahan back at a lower price than what he asked for? Then what?
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No thank you. That ship has sailed. He made his bed.

McD Captain
 
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