Third best player on the Rangers

[RangerLifer]

Goalies are often the most important player on a team. They can have huge impacts and you can't win without good goaltending.

You can't win without scoring either.

 

[egelband]

I voted Shesty. The guy is going to be a Vezina winner someday. DeAngelo, Fox, and Kreider right behind him.

As a goaltender, though. Not as a driver of automobiles.

 

[mti79]

In my opinion, too early to pick Fox or ADA and as much as I love Shesty and everything he's done so far, fact is he's played 10 NHL games so I'm not picking him as our 3rd best player.

Went with Kreider.

 

[EdJovanovski]

In my opinion, too early to pick Fox or ADA and as much as I love Shesty and everything he's done so far, fact is he's played 10 NHL games so I'm not picking him as our 3rd best player.

Went with Kreider.

DeAngelo's only 1pt from tying Kreider's career high in points, in 10 less games; as a defenseman lol

 

[kovazub94]

I read the poll as who “has been” so far this season to get the Rangers to this point so voted ADA. Going forward it must be Shesterkin.

 

[Whoot Whoot]

Igor or Fox

 

[BroadwayStorm]

IGOR for me

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I read the poll as who “has been” so far this season to get the Rangers to this point so voted ADA. Going forward it must be Shesterkin.

Yeah, I meant right now.

 

[mti79]

DeAngelo's only 1pt from tying Kreider's career high in points, in 10 less games; as a defenseman lol

Yes, he's having a great season. Can he do it every year? I didn't answer it as a one year assessment. Can Tony become the 3rd best player on this team? Yes. Is he there yet? In my opinion, no.

 

[GeorgeKaplan]

Why no Howden?

He’s #2

 

[LokiDog]

It’s between Shesty, Tony and Foxy. Kreider deserves all the credit in the world for what he does, but he isn’t as talented and won’t make as much of a difference to our success as the other three.

 

[Machinehead]

Fox and I honestly don't think it's close.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Kreider

 

[leetch99]

You know after letting it sink in....we have some pile of talent moving forward . Imagine if K'Andre and Kravs & Barron prove out plus Lundkvist along with KK and Chytil .....and add in NHL regulars like Panarin, Mika,Kreider,Buchnevich,Fox,Tony,Igor,and maybe just maybe Gauthier ! Plus that leaves out 56 million dollar Trouba . I sure hope Gorton is up for this task of handling all these assets and getting the contracts and dollars figured out . We could end up like the Hawks and win a Cup and then have to move guys out like they did after their first win ....but they also won 2 more after that . The future looks bright . BTW...picked ADA in the poll .

 

[lilphildub]

Too early to vote for Igor. Went for Fox

 

[CasusBelli]

Torn between ADA and Fox. Better player right now would be ADA, but Fox is younger and has more upside (not to mention two-way game and discipline).

 

[East Coast Bias]

Couple people got confused and thought it said 3rd best RHD and voted Trouba.

/ducks

 

[eco's bones]

I put Igor because I more or less have changed my mind about Alex and him since he was recalled. Not to get me wrong Alex is an excellent young goalie but Igor is better. I'm convinced now that Igor could be an elite goalie in this league.

This is about as far as I'm going to go with this kind of survey though--at least not without Kakko in it. He's the other guy I expect is going to be an elite player. Our right side D are all excellent players but they also have different functions. To be honest though the way Fox plays as a 21 year old rookie is pretty stunning. It's not just offense either. He is our smartest defensive defenseman.

 

[NYSPORTS]

You know after letting it sink in....we have some pile of talent moving forward . Imagine if K'Andre and Kravs & Barron prove out plus Lundkvist along with KK and Chytil .....and add in NHL regulars like Panarin, Mika,Kreider,Buchnevich,Fox,Tony,Igor,and maybe just maybe Gauthier ! Plus that leaves out 56 million dollar Trouba . I sure hope Gorton is up for this task of handling all these assets and getting the contracts and dollars figured out . We could end up like the Hawks and win a Cup and then have to move guys out like they did after their first win ....but they also won 2 more after that . The future looks bright . BTW...picked ADA in the poll .

I keep preaching cap b/c I agree. Ton of talent so figuring out the dollars is on,y easier if we don’t tie up a ton today. And yes, I’m thinking Kreider.

 

[Leonardo87]

No Greg McKegg in the poll? Come on now.

 

[Crease]

There are reasonable arguments for Kreider, Fox, DeAngelo, and Shesterkin.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

24 year old defenseman DeAngelo is going to pass Kreider's career best numbers by a decent amount and people think Kreider is the better player, yikes.

 

[EdJovanovski]

24 year old defenseman DeAngelo is going to pass Kreider's career best numbers by a decent amount and people think Kreider is the better player, yikes.

By no objective measure is Kreider better than DeAngelo, I think it’s mostly an emotional attachment to one of the few remaining home grown talents left from the old core

 

[eco's bones]

24 year old defenseman DeAngelo is going to pass Kreider's career best numbers by a decent amount and people think Kreider is the better player, yikes.

Kreider is the better LW. DeAngelo is the better RD.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Kreider is the better LW. DeAngelo is the better RD.

Can’t disagree with that lol