Game 22 Flyers vs. Rangers

Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Register Log in
Fox can be traded tmo for my money. His NTC that starts next year will be an anvil if he’s not traded. First goal completely on Fox. The 2nd one on that crack d duo of Trouba-miller. Rangers down 2-0 and being outshot 15-3 with IGOR making at least 5 or 6 great saves.
 
This team hanging their heads on the bench like a bunch of beaten dogs. They’ve given up.
 
Make the fourth line Miller-Zibanejad-Trochek. See how those pussies like that.
 
We'll see how long Drury waits to do his job. The clock has been ticking since June, and he has not done a thing. Lost a handful of players, only added Smith and Carrick, who are both pretty useless. Refuses to break up this stale and finished core. And still, we wait for the guy to do anything. It is a shame this organization continues to be run by incompetent people. The great Ranger fans suffer as a result.
 
Dave Maloney just called the rangers a bunch of pussies for being awol while 4 players go after panerin. He’s right. They are. Lavs reminds me of Boone without the bubbles just standing there on the bench emotionless doing nothing. Fire this retread already.
 
mrmel29 said:
Fox can be traded tmo for my money. His NTC that starts next year will be an anvil if he’s not traded. First goal completely on Fox. The 2nd one on that crack d duo of Trouba-miller. Rangers down 2-0 and being outshot 15-3 with IGOR making at least 5 or 6 great saves.
Click to expand...
Me and a few others have said you gotta trade Fox now before his NTC kicks in. He’s not going to get better as he ages obviously and he isn’t going to become a different type of player nor adapt his game to his declining skills. Move him now for important future pieces. Get Trouba out of here for some used cups, who gives a fuck about the return. Trade Miller because, like I said in a preseason threat, he’s awful and is a useless waste of size and just like Staal was he’s a road cone stick checking and not using his body. Shesty can be traded because there’s simply no way I’m tying up 12-13M in a goalie on a team that has this many holes. This is yet another rebuild we have to do and we have to make the tough decisions and choices regardless of feelings.
 
I predicted this team would struggle and now it’s coming true.
 
How about moving Panarin out here. Waive Vesey annd Brodzinski. Open up some spots for Othmann and Sykora.
 
Panzer started it, but most of us agree Fox should be dealt for a big return. If he isn't moved now, he'll be locked in for years. I mentioned this the other day, but no doubt at least one of Miller or Fox has to be dealt. I also expect Trouba and Lindgren to be gone before next season or sooner, I would be very surprised if either of those guys are back. I feel the Rangers should have at least 3 new dmen next season with Lindgren and Trouba gone for sure, and one of Miller or Fox gone.

Upfront is a different situation with clauses and such. And Igor I continue to say should be simple. Either he takes $11M per, or I trade him. It is that black and white to me. If Drury goes higher than that he's dumber than even I think. Ridiculous cap management to pay a goalie that much, especially for a team that is not very good with many holes.

But again, in order for any of this to happen Drury has to actually do something...
 
lol Igor is not even worth 11 million per year. Should be 8 or 9 or he can fuck off.
 
Look at his stats now. I said it before he is dumb for not taking that contract he was offered
 
Maybe eventually they'll learn that one-timers don't work.
 
There is a long list of players that need to be traded, but to me no doubt top of the list are Zibanejad and Trouba. I am so tired of both of them. Zibanejad it is unlikely can be moved due to his NMC, Trouba can/will be gone by next season or sooner.

I do wonder how much longer Drury sits around and watches this mess. And remember this, this whole mess and situation is Drury's doing. Don't ever forget that. He did nothing this summer except make the team worse, he is the one who said let's run this stale core back, and now he is the one in the difficult spot of having to try and do something at a time of year that trades don't usually happen. This whole disastrous mess is of Drury's own making. Please do not forget that.
 
5 straight losses. 21 goals against. 10 goals scored. Shesty can go fuck himself wanting the biggest goalie contract ever. I’d rather trade him and tank then pay him and continue to see this shit show go on for the entirety of his contract. Think of what the return would be for him, Fox and even Miller. That would be the beginning of a TRUE rebuild. Then you fire Drury, fire Lavi and get a REAL GM in here that has done this before and a coach that isn’t afraid of vets and benching them when they suck.
 
That was an embarrassing start from the guys out there cruising watching Flyers buzz the goal beating them to every loose puck to the coach working his gum with no emotion or answer to the onslaught. It seems unusual that so many players are making lackluster effort and having down seasons. I said over the summer that last year's postseason failure was primarily on Lav being outcoached but Drury certainly is right with him. I don't understand why Drury keeps announcing players are being dealt or they're on the block when there is no concrete trade in place, definitely affects team morale. If he's moving CK announce a deal, Trouba has already said he's not moving until next year so Chris will have to focus on the many other possibilities.

Berard is a perfect example of what a lazy hump Krappo has been over the years wasting a spot on the Rangers roster, Brett hustles every shift like Cuylle to Lav's credit he gave him 15 minutes and Cuylle 19 but then there's DJMeekass getting top minutes including the end of game with Igor pulled when he wouldn't get off the ice. and of course Fox was out there for 23 minutes . Someone needs to throw a helmet.
 
Lavs is obviously looking to get fired. He looks like Boone on the bench. Maloney after the first period basically called them a bunch of pussies for not coming to panerins defense. Berard needs to stay up here as the kid has a good motor and a good shot. I’m praying for Fox to be traded along with lindgren, miller, zman and countless others. Reduce zmans time or waive his ass and let him ride the busses in the minors. He’ll waive that NTC very quickly.. And oh yes fire the over his head dritu
 
JT Miller seems somewhat disgruntled in Vancouver, salary about the same as Mika, he's the kind of player the Rangers could use, with the cold weather Drury likes to sit on his hands to keep them warm.
 
J.T. Miller is a head case. That being said, he’s a better player than Zibanejad especially in the playoffs. Early on in his career, he didn’t score in the playoffs but the last two playoffs he does and he obviously does everything else better than Zibanejad. Zibanejad’s playoff numbers are deceiving most of them come on the power-play verse teams who can’t kill penalties.
 
Last edited:
There are reports the Rangers are interested in JT, but it might be a difficult deal to make due to the cap. For sure Kreider or Mika would need to be involved, and then you also have to factor in NMC's/NTC's. The situation Drury put himself in is not an enviable one, that's what happens when you are awful at your job, we'll see if he has the skills to wiggle out of it (he clearly doesn't but I needed a good laugh).

BTW - I thought Micheletti was great yesterday. He was critical of the team, it was maybe the most critical, and honest, commentary on their own team from an analyst I have heard in a long time. Good for him, he was spot on IMO.
 
Last edited:
Good article from Brooks, essentially a mess all around. He gets on Drury again, and rightfully so. His communication skills are awful, in addition to his overall lack of ability to do the job he is in. And Trouba has been terrible. Let's be real here, for the past year +/- Trouba has been simply horrific. Trouba and Zibanejad are the top two to go on my list (here's an excerpt):

The league-wide memo distributed by Drury, advertising that Chris Kreider and Jacob Trouba were among the many available, seems to have blown up in the GM’s face.

Why he would have sent that missive instead of peeling the paint off the wall in no uncertain terms in a face-to-face meeting with the team in the room either on an off day or after a game is beyond me.

The Rangers have a lame-duck captain who seems to have checked out. Perhaps that’s only natural. Trouba knows the Rangers had every intention of trading him in the offseason, before he used whatever leverage he could to block a deal. He knows he is on the block now.

I was wrong about Trouba. I had thought his bond with his teammates would exceed his distaste for the hierarchy. But, and likely subconsciously, Trouba has become a pedestrian, which is something no one would ever have said before.

He performed an olé while ushering Travis Konecny to the net for the 2-0 goal that would have made Roger Dorn from “Major League” blush. Over the past 16 games, in which the Blueshirts have gone 7-9, Trouba has been on for nine goals scored and 19 against with a 43.71 expected goal share. He has disappeared as a physical force.

This has become unhealthy.

This has become an untenable situation.
 
Miller is not bringing back Kreider and Zibanejad. Please. Not with his head case issues. If Zibanejad accepts a trade you probably have to throw in a marginal prospect.
 
Drury as we have said looks to be in way over his head. You can almost guarantee he will get walked all over with any trade he tries to make. The man has failed incredibly to better this group. Deadline pickups that you end up losing and then some when you don’t win the cup are useless.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 1 (members: 0, guests: 1)
Back
Top