Drury signs extension

I quit on this team. Fuck this franchise. I’ll start rooting and watching again when Dolan dies.

 

lol what the fuck, I wish I had a job where I get rewarded a salary increase for doing a shitty job.

 

My sympathies. He probably told Jim he's his favorite guitarist...... too bad, Lou just became available. Couldn't be any worse.

 

Let's be real, is anyone that surprised by this...unfortunately I'm not, especially when you look at how terrible Dolan is as an owner.

In a lot of ways, this is a MAJOR insult and F YOU to the fans. Think about it, a ridiculously embarrassing pathetic season just ended, in 2 of the past 3 seasons the team embarrassed themselves, Drury is about to hire his 3rd coach, under Drury the Rangers will have 3 coaches in 4 seasons. And yet after all of that, Drury signs a big extension...are you f'ing kidding me. Even for fake appearances you'd think they'd wait until after next season to give him an extension.

They think the fans are such loser sheep, they can insult us and essentially say F you to us, and we'll still go to the games and standby the team. I'm telling you, EVERY single fan of this team should be absolutely insulted by this move, even if you are somewhat indifferent to Drury. The timing after everything that has gone down is truly repulsive.

You guys hit the nail on the head, Drury gets rewarded off of this season, and off his body of work as the in over his head Rangers Pres/GM... wow. It is really difficult to be a fan of this team.

 

Look at some of the AWFUL moves this guy has made, and it doesn't even count the coaching conveyor belt, doing nothing of impact at the trade DL last season, and keeping the core together after the Florida loss last season:

Gave Goodrow a ridiculous contract,
Signed Nemeth for 3-years at a ridiculous $2.5M per. Then had to trade a 2nd round pick to get rid of his contract after two seasons.
Made the hideous Buch trade to the Blues.
Traded away countless picks for rentals and never re-signed any of them - waste of picks.
Traded away 2nd and 5th round picks for Smith, a HUGE overpay, who was expected to play in a role he wasn't capable of playing.
Essentially flipped Smith for Soucy, therefore essentially traded 2nd and 5th round picks for a 3rd pair/depth dman.
Overpaid Igor at $11.5M. No matter how great Igor is, no goalie is worth that much. I would have played chicken with Igor and seen what other team would give him that type of money. Instead, the real pussy is Drury, and he caved.

Making a good J.T. Miller trade and a good signing of Trocheck, doesn't make up for mistake after mistake. The guy has been at best bad, and more like terrible, as the Pres/GM of the Rangers, in over his head and run it like amateur hour. The fact that he got an extension off his crap track record, and the timing of that extension, tells you all you need to know about the sad New York Rangers organization.

 

LOL
"I am pleased that Chris will continue to lead the Rangers hockey operations in his role as president and general manager," Madison Square Garden chairman and CEO James Dolan said in a statement. "Over his tenure, Chris has shown passion for the Rangers, relentless work ethic and a tireless pursuit of excellence.

"While we are all disappointed in what transpired this past season, I am confident in his ability to guide this organization to success."

 

Pleased, that sure is an interesting word. If Dolan is pleased with 2 of the past 3 seasons, not sure what else there is to say as that really does say it all.

 

This article tells it like it is. A VERY large % of Ranger fans hate that Drury got an extension and think he sucks at his job.

“When parody becomes real life lol I wouldn’t trust Chris Drury to manage a Starbucks but here we f–kin’ are,”
“Coool cool cool cool cool. Hey siri what would happen if I jumped off msgs roof. Would Chris drury be in any way liable and get fired then?”
“Is there any Ranger fan that is happy Chris Drury is extended and staying? Speak up now,”
“You have got to be effing kidding me?! Chris Drury should be fired,”

Rangers fans enraged over Chris Drury contract extension

 

I have a very different view of this. Friedman reported on 32T last week that the priority for rangers is to determine which core players want to be here. Then you have Post reporting that Dolan is participating in player exit interviews, which is rare. Then you have breakup day complete with Kreider’s SOB story about his friends being traded and Mika asking for “communication with management”. If that’s what they said publicly I can only imagine the whining that went on behind closed doors. 2 days later Dolan tells them all loudly and publicly that they will not be catered to and he is not going to hire someone to treat them with kid gloves. Buy in or gtfo. Isn’t that what we want?

It is a GM contract. He can be fired at any time. He does not have a NMC. It was clear he wasn’t being fired this summer so this essentially changes nothing. Larry said yesterday the team NEVER announces extensions for execs. This was done for a specific purpose.

If anything it may facilitate getting someone like Mika to think about waiving.

 

I get your point Prod, you are doing this as a show of strength and power and unity to the players, it's time to man up and stop being fat cat weak pussies. It's on you the players. Who is on board and really wants to be here. I totally get that POV.

My take, you know another way to do exactly that, bring in a Pres/GM who isn't very clearly in over his head. Have a new respectable Pres/GM, worthy of that status, run the team and have the balls to make the moves that are needed. Some fake show of toughness/unity/accountability, with the same Pres/GM who at best was complicit in the lack of accountability, is a weak move by a weak owner and Pres/GM.

I'd also add, how about we don't pretend that Drury hasn't been the guy running this organization. Who picked the players/kept the players here? Who picked 2 coaches in the past 3 seasons, soon to be 3 coaches in 4 seasons? How about we hold the in over his head Pres/GM accountable and not act as if we are going to show these players who is boss...shouldn't that have been Drury the whole time, but now it's real and the start of the accountability, and here's an undeserved extension for our failed Pres/GM to prove it.

So, while I totally get your POV, and it is possible that is what the goal message is, it is still 100000% the wrong approach and removes Drury from accountability for his time here. All of what you are stating is the potential goal of Drury's extension, which I acknowledge could be the case, is part of his job, and he should have been doing it already. Drury shouldn't need an extension to start holding the fat cat/maybe don't want to be here players accountable. He should have been doing that already from day one, and he should have made some core changes after the embarrassing NJ loss, but certainly after the loss to Florida last season.

How I see it is, you just rewarded a guy to maybe give him a show of power, when he should have had that power the whole time. That sends no message of accountability at all. If I were a player, it would send the opposite message of what you potentially rightly claim is the desired message. Actions speak louder than words...

It's weak as usual from this organization.

 

So how long is this extension anyway? lol

 

You would think Drury ended a long tradition of postseason success by the Rangers. I think the criticism has been so hyper concentrated on Drury instead of the bitches that got GG fired, top 3 scorers 100 points off last season's totals and it's because of Drury hurting feelings? I like the direction Drury is taking the team adding size and toughness, at the end of last year every board member but this guy ridiculed Drury for playing Rempe who overcame the same nonsense with the press finding nobodies to declare him unfit for the NHL. It should be an interesting off season.

 

Drury is the guy who kept the core intact after the "bitches" got GG fired. Drury is the guy who kept the core intact after they lost to Florida, and very clearly needed to change the core. Respectfully, I think that's the point being missed here, and I'm not sure why that is. Drury didn't just take over the Rangers organization last week, he's been here for years now. HE is the guy who kept the bitches, and pussies, and whiners together year after year. I am not sure why we act as if Drury is some new guy with little or no culpability for the players on this team, or the coaches many have knocked who have been leading the team. Drury has controlled all of that for years now, he owns "bad" coaches and whiny pussy players. That's the point being missed IMO. I agree the players are all those things, whiny fat cat pussies, but Drury put them/kept them together, he owns that, he's not separate from that.

And I totally agree Mess, no way is it all Drury's fault for this trainwreck of an organization, one Cup since 1940 says it all. But he has been running everything for years now, and his bad decisions are many more than his good decisions. And, his non-decisions, like not breaking up the core after the Florida loss, are awful, and this is not a second guess from me. And the trade DL last season, was flat-out dereliction of duty. That was a potential SC winning team that needed more, and he only brought in useless junk, including a complete panic of adding Roslovic at the last minute.

I will respectfully differ a little on the trade DL cap space last season. Chytil was on LTIR, so the Rangers absolutely had cap space to add more (and better) players than Drury did. Many have said the Rangers didn't have cap at the DL, but they did, Drury simply decided not to add big, and it was foolish.

But overall, I agree it isn't all Drury's fault, no way, but he has done a poor job, and those two things can go together. The Rangers organization as a whole, including the terrible owner Dolan, has fundamental issues, which goes much deeper than just Drury, we agree.

 

I think we need to be more realistic about the situation here. This team was in the conference finals last year. 2 of the last 3. They responded well to a new coach and set a franchise record for pts. So many GMs in sports generally and hockey specifically would rest on their laurels and use it as an excuse to not do jack shit, or at most tinker around the edges. Drury saw what we all saw last offseason. Despite the record setting regular season and how close the FLA series was on paper, the team was not good enough. The captain is a liability and needs to go, and he can take our longest tenured player with him. I think the fact that Drury was not satisfied and understands changes were necessary is a huge check in his favor. Who could possibly anticipate our 1C having an existential crisis about it and our captain declaring to the room that he is checking out? These are professional athletes.

We can (and have to the point exhaustion) debated the individual moves. That is not the point. There has already been a tremendous amount of turnover for one year and there is more to come. I don't personally think he did enough to deserve to stay, but looking at him as some sort of franchise sabotaging anti-christ is just too much. He has the mandate for at least 1 more year so let's see what he does with it.

 

White hot hatred for Drury aside, what Rangers GM are you comparing Drury to Chuck, Gorton, Sather? I'd put him above both expecting a first time GM to make stupid mistakes as we all have starting a new position. If Dolan fired Drury and hired Lou would you be happy? Gorton took over the Rangers with the same problems Drury had, bad contracts and no cap space. I liked his moves finally acquiring a punishing dman in Trouba and a legit scorer in Panarin but he was possibly the worst drafting GM in NHL history. The Rangers are a few players short now because of Jeff's incompetence drafting, six misses on #1 picks defies statistical probability. Drury was a huge upgrade over Gorton, the Rangers have come up short in the playoffs but at least they're playoff contenders now instead of laughing stocks being bounced around the ice by NHL bullies.

 

I am not comparing Drury to any other Rangers GM. As was clearly stated, the Rangers have not been a good franchise overall for decades, it's difficult to argue that when they have one Cup since 1940. I guess your argument is Drury doesn't suck as bad as Gorton or Sather, so therefore he is good since he's less bad.

I see it completely differently. If Sather and Gorton were bad, which I am not saying they were, but I'll use your rating of them, it doesn't make Drury good just because he may not be as bad (which again I am not saying, I am using your rating). That argument makes absolutely zero sense. My opinion of Drury as an in over his head Pres/GM has nothing to do with my opinion of how Sather or Gorton did as GM.

To me Drury is a bad Pres/GM, and I don't care if he is better or worse than Sather or Gorton, I simply think Drury is bad.

As for being realistic, let's do that:

1. The team has had embarrassing ends to their season in 2 of the past 3 seasons.
2. The Rangers have had 2 coaches over the past 3 seasons and soon will have 3 coaches over 4 seasons.
3. Drury did nothing of any impact at the trade DL last season, with a team that had a legit shot to win a Cup. That was absolute dereliction of duty IMO.
4. Anyone being real about the team 10000000000000% knew the core needed to be broken up after the Florida loss, Drury did nothing.
5. Drury has a laundry list of bad trades and decisions, and drama in his time as Pres/GM. I listed a bunch of things the other day.

That's me being real. I am not going to sit here and say well, Drury is better than Sather and Gorton (which I am not saying he was), therefore he must be good.

With that said, I actually agree with most of your last paragraph Prod.

We agree for sure he didn't do enough to deserve to stay and shouldn't be in his jobs anymore.
I never said he was a franchise sabotaging anti-Christ, he is not, he is just really bad at his jobs, and in over his head. That's it. He's not the devil or a bad human being. I even stated above, it's not all Drury's fault. He just should not be leading this team anymore.
And I also agree the ball is in his court now, all we can do is hope he gets it right this time with the coach AND with breaking up this stale core that very clearly obviously should have been broken up after the Florida series. I am truly rooting for him to prove me 100000000% wrong. I'd love to eat my words; unfortunately, I am doubtful I will have to.

So, we agree on a lot Prod. We'll see what late June/July bring.

 

Nothing as embarrassing as Wilson mopping the ice with Panarin and flexing at the Rangers bench at the Garden. Drury learned why you don't let the inmates run the asylum, he has changed the philosophy of the Rangers adding grit. After literally writing War and Peace with Drury one post at a time you never credit Drury's drafting but that would be a positive and we can't have that. Signing Carrick for a million, clearing the roster of all Gorton's awful busts to make room for prospects and even adding JT Miller for one of them. Who is it you'd like to be GM? I'd love to have Bill Zito from Florida but he's currently employed.

 

I agree, the Wilson episode was embarrassing. And when exactly did Drury learn not to let the inmates run the asylum? He certainly didn't know it before maybe now (we'll see if he actually knows it now by the actions he takes this summer), that's why GG was pushed out by the players (which you railed against at the time) and why he did nothing to start changing the stale core until this season/maybe this summer. I guess he had an Epiphany recently.

I am not going to sit here and name a bunch of people who I'd prefer over Drury. My general answer is there are plenty of people out there I believe can do a better job, be it former GM's, or current assistant GM's, or current/former scouts, or player personnel people. I am highly confident there are plenty of good people that would want the job of NYR GM. But it's irrelevant really as Drury is going nowhere thanks to Dolan. So, we'll see what his actions and results are with this newfound Epiphany of not letting the inmates run the asylum, I'm happy Drury has maybe seen the light after 4 years.