What is your most unpopular Rangers opinion?

[JT Kreider]

As someone who is not a Knicks fan.. I happen to think James Dolan is one of the best owners in all of sports. The team has a rep for taking care of its players with first class amenities, and Dolan has foot the bill no questions asked to bring in high priced players and to bite the bullet on their buyouts.

Its mystifying how different Dolan is as owner of the Rangers compared to Dolan owner of the Knicks and how All-Star players avoid coming to play for the Knicks like the plague but the Rangers will always be a/the top destination for the best UFA's.

 

[SingnBluesOnBroadway]

As someone who is not a Knicks fan.. I happen to think James Dolan is one of the best owners in all of sports. The team has a rep for taking care of its players with first class amenities, and Dolan has foot the bill no questions asked to bring in high priced players and to bite the bullet on their buyouts.

Its mystifying how different Dolan is as owner of the Rangers compared to Dolan owner of the Knicks and how All-Star players avoid coming to play for the Knicks like the plague but the Rangers will always be a/the top destination for the best UFA's.

Thankfully he has no knowledge about hockey or even interest.

 

[SingnBluesOnBroadway]

Kappo Kakko is not going to develop into an offensive superstar under this coaching staff. None of our kids will.

Odd because Strome, DeAngelo and Fox have. Zibanejad has had his best seasons. Panarin is having his best season.

 

[JT Kreider]

Thankfully he has no knowledge about hockey or even interest.

True. I guess he is so busy screwing up the Knicks like it's a middle school science project he forgets about the Rangers. When is the last time we have even seen him in an official Rangers capacity? When he crashed Torts press conference to say we were winning the Cup very soon and Torts told him to shut his stupid ugly face up with that BS?

 

[Cassano]

True. I guess he is so busy screwing up the Knicks like it's a middle school science project he forgets about the Rangers. When is the last time we have even seen him in an official Rangers capacity? When he crashed Torts press conference to say we were winning the Cup very soon and Torts told him to shut his stupid ugly face up with that BS?

 

[JT Kreider]

Lmfao

 

[CasusBelli]

Kakko is concerningly bad

He could be a 90 point forward or a 30 point forward. I think, more and more, he’s going to peak at 50.

 

[Ghost of jas]

This is one of the more interesting fantasy-like discussions. What would have happened if they were the ones awarded Lindros? Maybe no Messier. Does that mean no Cup? Lindros would still have to play in a division with Scott Stevens.

Or the other take, maybe they then would have kept an Amonte and Weight and Marchant (speaking of strength at center....Lindros, Weight, Marchant with an Ian Lapperierre as the 4th line center). Fun what if, but too much brain power to to try to reconstruct the past.

Messier was already a Ranger at that time.

 

[Ghost of jas]

Brandon Dubinsky should have been named captain instead of Ryan Callahan.

 

[Barnaby]

for some of us who weren't around/alive/conscious for 1994 this organization is a rotten **** heap of losers and will be until they win another one.

they literally and figuratively sold their souls for that cup and all we got was the decades of incompetence that followed. I don't even acknowledge 1994 much because it means nothing to me.

Millennial post of the year. I don’t care if you all loved a team and won a championship because I didn’t benefit from it.

 

[Barnaby]

Odd because Strome, DeAngelo and Fox have. Zibanejad has had his best seasons. Panarin is having his best season.

You know the rules.

Players play well despite the coach, and players fail because of the coach.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Millennial post of the year. I don’t care if you all loved a team and won a championship because I didn’t benefit from it.

People born after 94 are Gen Z not Millenials
Although I wasn’t born yet I’m still quite proud of ‘94; watch that Vancouver series a few times per year & bug my Canucks fan dad & uncle almost daily

 

[HFsNumber1Heel]

The Rangers had every right to trade Brian Leetch, despite his desire to stay. It was the right move for the franchise at the time.

Had Immonen, Kondratiev and Korpikoski turned out to be cornerstones, peoples opinions of that whole ordeal would be a lot different.

Someone said it here best: Petr Sykora did more for the Rangers that Brian Leetch did for the Leafs/Bruins combined.

 

[Bob Richards]

Having a highly paid, top goalie is synonymous with mediocrity in the modern cap era. Money is much better spent elsewhere.

Rangers having the best and by far the most consistent goalie of his generation in an era where the position has been incredibly devalued feels very appropriate lol

 

[BKGooner]

Popular opinion at the time of the pick: We don't need Fowler, we already have Del Zotto.

I subscribe to the you can never have enough quality dmen philosophy. Trade em if you don’t need em.

 

[Hi ImHFNYR]

HFNYR is a calm and reasonable place on the internet.

That's it

My phone screen was untracked until i read this

 

[NYR94]

Colin Campbell is the reason Robitaille didn't perform better here

I liked the NHL better when it was more rough and tumble. I miss enforcers.

For all the skill on display in today's NHL, it's not a better product. It's lost something over the years.

Retiring a jersey is about more than on-ice accomplishments. That's why Adam Graves deserves the honor.

The 1995-96 Rangers were better than the 1996-97 Rangers and actually would've gone further if they didn't make those TDL moves, or made smarter moves.

Sergei Zubov was a lot more frustrating of a player than people remember.

Chris Drury was a better Ranger than he's given credit for.

Jaromir Jagr was an amazing player, but the Rangers were never going to win with him as the centerpiece of the team.

I definitely agree about the 95-96 team being better than the 96-97 one. One of my favorite Rangers teams. But Smith went way overboard adding all that grit/experience in Berg, Momesso, Kurri, Churla, and McSorley. It's not like they didnt have tough players already like Messier, Graves, Verbeek, Samuelsson, Beukeboom, Laperierre and Langdon (I think he was a rookie?).

I miss the rough and tumble NHL too. Look at all the attention the Battle of Alberta has gotten the last two weeks. Other than that the league is mostly neutered.

 

[Tawnos]

Kovalev, not Messier, is the main reason the Rangers won the "guarantee game".

I would say that it was Keenan bumping Kovalev up mid-game to the line with Messier and Graves, as he did sometimes, that’s the main reason the won it.

 

[Tawnos]

Despite the fact that they’ve only won a single Cup, the Rangers are one of the more successful franchises post-expansion.

 

[Kakko Schmakko]

Taylor Pyatt
Christensen
Drury
Betts
Gomez
Malik
Messier

 

[MikeSteaks]

Edge should be muted by all.

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

We should all be wishing nothing but for success for Lias Andersson.

 

[JohnC]

We should all be wishing nothing but for success for Lias Andersson.

But HE slighted MY favorite hockey TEAM

 

[Inferno]

At the time...John Tortorella was a great coach and it was a colossal mistake firing him.

Currently...I like David Quinn a lot.

 

[Harbour Dog]

But HE slighted MY favorite hockey TEAM

This is a journey to read