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on Blais. If I'm the Rangers I consider starting Blais out on a 2-week conditioning stint and keeping someone else on the active roster. I don't actually know if you can send someone on a conditioning stint before you set your regular season lineup. @Amazing Kreiderman would likely know if this is possible.

My issue with Blais is that he doesn't belong in a top 9 role right now. And he hasn't played enough to show he deserves a spot above Vesey, Hunt, Rydahl or even Gauthier.

Lastly, I'll just say this, I love how hard Blais hits. I like that he actually has some offensive skill for the kind of game he plays. What I don't love is sometimes his lack of motor and being decent but not great defensively. For a guy who could be a very effective bottom 6er his game isn't necessarily the perfect fit at the moment. I think he's better than Gauthier, but I don't know that the defensive issues in his game are hugely different than Gauthier's. In any case, I am concerned that Blais is definitely getting a spot over a guy like Vesey who seems to have figured out how to play a bottom 6 role quite well. Likely what's going to happen is that we're going to not sign Vesey but then trade for a guy like Vesey (or just Vesey) at the deadline and give up a mid-round pick for him when we had a chance to keep him for a minimum salary at the beginning. But that just might be the salary cap world we live in now. If you're a contending team with big salaries, you simply cannot build a playoff effective bottom 6 without trading picks every deadline.

But back to Blais -- does he deserve a spot right now??? I don't want to be a hard on a guy who just came back from injury, but the forward group is in a vastly different place than it was at the start of last season when we had no choice but to play guys like Blais and Gauthier every day because VK fled and the kids were younger and less proven.
 
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will1066 said:
Goodrow makes multiple millions of dollars a year, which is multiple times what Brodz makes/would make. The latter is well behind. Well behind.
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Sure. Otoh goodrow money is not top six wingers money. Maybe my point is that Brodzinski is not like an obviously less talented player than those guys. Corey Perry makes a lot less than goodrow but I think he'd be ahead of him in line for that spot if he was on our roster.
 
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I don't mind Carpenter for PK and late game scenarios...

Watching him with Reaves even-strength may be rough...

Late game 'hold the line' lines

Kreider Zibs Goodrow
Trocheck Carpenter Kakko? Hunt?
 
EdJovanovski said:
Should be:
PP1
Zibanejad - Kreider - Kravtsov
Panarin - Fox
PP2
Trocheck - Chytil - Kakko
Lafreniere - Jones

Would give PP1 that one time option with Krav too, currently they don’t have one because Trocheck (right handed) and Kreider fill the same role
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The PP runs through Panarin who is on the right wall, replacing Trocheck with Kravtsov would do the opposite. Trocheck is in the bumper and Kreider is the net front presence they are in two different roles.
 
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on Blais. If I'm the Rangers I consider starting Blais out on a 2-week conditioning stint and keeping someone else on the active roster. I don't actually know if you can send someone on a conditioning stint before you set your regular season lineup. @Amazing Kreiderman would likely know if this is possible.

My issue with Blais is that he doesn't belong in a top 9 role right now. And he hasn't played enough to show he deserves a spot above Vesey, Hunt, Rydahl or even Gauthier.

Lastly, I'll just say this, I love how hard Blais hits. I like that he actually has some offensive skill for the kind of game he plays. What I don't love is sometimes his lack of motor and being decent but not great defensively. For a guy who could be a very effective bottom 6er his game isn't necessarily the perfect fit at the moment. I think he's better than Gauthier, but I don't know that the defensive issues in his game are hugely different than Gauthier's. In any case, I am concerned that Blais is definitely getting a spot over a guy like Vesey who seems to have figured out how to play a bottom 6 role quite well. Likely what's going to happen is that we're going to not sign Vesey but then trade for a guy like Vesey (or just Vesey) at the deadline and give up a mid-round pick for him when we had a chance to keep him for a minimum salary at the beginning. But that just might be the salary cap world we live in now. If you're a contending team with big salaries, you simply cannot build a playoff effective bottom 6 without trading picks every deadline.

But back to Blais -- does he deserve a spot right now??? I don't want to be a hard on a guy who just came back from injury, but the forward group is in a vastly different place than it was at the start of last season when we had no choice but to play guys like Blais and Gauthier every day because VK fled and the kids were younger and less proven.
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I'd start Blais on the 4th and let him work his way up in reduced NHL minutes.

The way he takes the body, he needs to be doing that against NHL opposition not some AHL scrubs. That being said, the Rangers only play 3 teams from the East out of the first 10 games - but that doesnt remove its value and impact on any game.

Does he deserve a spot? The same could be said for Carpenter, Hunt and Kravstov if you ask me, if you are going purely by what we saw in preseason.

Gauthier has been noticeable, but to me the experiment should be over. He's got great set of skills but cant finish. He doesn't bring much else to the table although he has brought more of a physical presence this camp. But he doesn't PK or shut down the other team defensively. I like Brodz better.
 
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EdJovanovski said:
This was probably satire. If you took one line from an early Soviet-era postmodern satirist playwrite with a veneer of the francophone absurdism of the late 1600's it wouldn't make much sense would it? If you took a tiny 1"x1" section of a renaissance painting it wouldn't make sense either. You can't just take 38 second clip and deduct anything from it when it comes to Krav. It will take YEARS for people to dissect this video and truly understand what he was doing. Through the eyes of a 2022 hockey fan, sure maybe he fanned on some of those shots. But in a few hundred years people will finally understand what he meant by it, it's provocative and meant to get people talking.
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The people will be talking about how he shoots like a bitch. Hahahaha
 
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EdJovanovski said:
This was probably satire. If you took one line from an early Soviet-era postmodern satirist playwrite with a veneer of the francophone absurdism of the late 1600's it wouldn't make much sense would it? If you took a tiny 1"x1" section of a renaissance painting it wouldn't make sense either. You can't just take 38 second clip and deduct anything from it when it comes to Krav. It will take YEARS for people to dissect this video and truly understand what he was doing. Through the eyes of a 2022 hockey fan, sure maybe he fanned on some of those shots. But in a few hundred years people will finally understand what he meant by it, it's provocative and meant to get people talking.
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God rest @TominNC's soul.
 
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duhmetreE said:
It really is braindead to put Trouba over him.

There is no objective or logical explanation for it. Trouba is a really bad and stiff PPQB

but seriously.... Fox should get the whole 2 minutes.
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There is one very good objective reason I thought of immediately. With four forwards out on your second unit....the unit most likely to transition to 5v5 if it doesn't score.....you might want a defenseman you really trust when that transition happens.
 
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EdJovanovski said:
One move he has done in the KHL is intentionally fanning on shots and scoring with them, he's playing mind games with goalies. I'm pretty sure he was either practising this move, or this was a satirist take on Ryan Strome.
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It's likely he was fanning on the puck on purpose not to show up his teammates. They would feel immense amounts of shame for not being able to shoot the puck like Vitali does and it would likely cause a mass exodus from the organization.

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He gets cised.
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I'm cised that GGG (Gallant Gets Geometry)
 
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Fitzy said:
The PP2 needs a right handed shot but you hope that ultimately becomes Trocheck and not Trouba.

For now though? Jones is gonna be playing only about 14 a game if he doesn't get special teams.
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And if he played special teams he would get 15.
 
Wonder if goodrow has any value around the league. I always thought he would be a good fit in Seattle with Gourde and he is exactly a Francis kind of player.

To go down a path ever further if a trade could be completed, Seattle could be the 3rd team involved to get Kane from the Hawks. Seattle could send Donskoi to the Hawks take Gooodrow and eat the 2nd half 50% retention on Kane.. So 2.625 mill. Not sure of Goodrows value but maybe they attach another asset which could go to the Hawks to get the price down on kane. It won't be much I am sure. Goodrow is better than Donskoi and the Kane retention is next to nothing in real cash. Hawks could then try and flip Donskoi at the deadline for a pick.

The question then would be what would the Hawks want in top of a 1st for Kane.

Oh and the Rangers would gain another mill in cap space with a goodrow kane swap at 75% retained. Additional bonus.
 
I've definitely given up on Gauthier in our org, but that's more because of who's on our team than him. Like he definitely has more upside than Blais imo. I could see him doing well enough on a bottom feeder, he gets so many chances just based on volume he'd probably earn himself some money on Arizona. Also think a team like Boston could make something out of him, or a Colorado... Teams that have a lot of structure and very versatile players, especially teams that ID guys' strengths very well
 
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TheDirtyH said:
I've definitely given up on Gauthier in our org, but that's more because of who's on our team than him. Like he definitely has more upside than Blais imo. I could see him doing well enough on a bottom feeder, he gets so many chances just based on volume he'd probably earn himself some money on Arizona. Also think a team like Boston could make something out of him, or a Colorado... Teams that have a lot of structure and very versatile players, especially teams that ID guys' strengths very well
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On Colorado, he'd be a 20-goal scorer (as I mentioned in another post). Nothing scientific to back it up, but just seems they are more competent than this organization at making players work.
 
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