Drury finally did well

Pretty interesting looking back at what moves the Rangers pulled off in '94.

Neil Smith killed their future with those deals in 94. He was a moron. He didn’t have to deal all young players. They probably would’ve still won having Mess, Leetch, Graves, Kovalev, Larmer, Richter. That team core was awesome.

You don’t go 100% in unless you are sure your team will be an impossible out in the playoffs. That is not the case with any of these teams a couple of the Ranger teams with Lundqvist. I thought that was the case.

The NHL playoffs are wide open, with many upsets. Teams go far every season that you did not expect. The # 1 team never wins. To apply the logic, you did yesterday of guarantee, or today with impossible out, is over the top. If you waited for that you would never be aggressive, it doesn't happen in a very tight cap, strict, many teams have a chance league. You need to take your chances when you feel your team is good enough to make a run, and then you let the chips fall where they may. By your logic a team would never go for it, because in today's NHL is it very difficult to be an impossible out or guarantee anything.

What's done is done now, so let's see how it plays out. While the moves have grown on me a little bit, I do not believe the Rangers are a legit Cup contender any longer and will most likely lose in round 2 against the Canes, but the NHL playoffs are wide open, so who knows. In a weird way, it is almost beneficial to finish 2nd in the Met as they will play a team from the same group (WSH, PHI, NYI), except TB and Detroit are added if they win the Met. Either way, the Rangers need to focus on playing well and gelling. If they play the Canes in round 2 they'll be a huge underdog, but upsets happen, so drop the puck and go from there.

Drury's comments after the trade DL:

“I would’ve been fine [trading the first-round pick] if the deal made sense,” Drury said on a conference call with reporters Friday evening. “Whether it was a good prospect, a first-round this year, next year, whatever it was, I didn’t go into it with any preconceived rules or notions. It was just, let’s make the best deals we can to fill the spots that we think we need filled to make our team better. I feel like that’s what we accomplished.”

“Every lineup is looking for balance and we’re no different,” Drury said. “[That first line], whoever’s been on that wing, they’ve done really good things in the neutral zone and the D zone. I think they collectively would like to do a little more offensively and are pushing toward that, but we certainly have a lot of faith and belief in Chris and Mika and whoever is on the right wing with them.”

Drury made a point to say he didn’t go into it looking to acquire a certain type of player. Instead, it was about finding the best fit that he could.

Neil Smith's downfall was not resigning Messier, one of the dumbest, career killing moves in NHL history

I am not disappointed as well cause it doesn’t matter who we would have gotten . if sheterkin panarin Zibs and kreids are not on their games it ain’t gonna matter .


I like it , now we the underdogs!

should be fun rest of way

go rangers