Moron Brooks talks about dealing Girardi and Callahan

http://nypost.com/2014/01/06/sather-...t-for-rangers/



Gee, thanks Larry. We have only been discussing that on this board for over a month. Larry is on drugs if he thinks he's going to get two, A prospects plus a draft pick for Girardi. At most he'll get something like this from Penguins

1st 2014
2nd 2015
Bennett

for

Callahan


1st 2014
Fraser
Morrow
Knight

for

Girardi

Basically three B level prospects and a 1st from the Bruins

 

...are you nuts?

 

Right now I'm siding with 31. This team is not as bad as people on here make it out to be. I mean every single loss you'd think they got blown out 7-0. Blow up the team, trade everybody, blah blah. Then the team puts up 7 goals and there's one thread about it. Never seen a fanbase overreact like this one.

Right now this team is 2 points out of a playoff spot. If Henrik gets back to form (he will) and if Nash starts scoring then we are not that far away. We're some size and a solid scorer away from being able to hang with the upper teams. We've already outplayed Boston, we've outplayed Pitt, we've outplayed LA. But reading this forum you'd think we're worse than Buffalo. If we get closer to march and nothing changes then yeah bite the bullet and sell. But to call ourselves sellers in early January when we're 2 points out is mind boggling.

 

Thats the issue, prod. We are not as bad as people think we are. We are also not a good team either, we are in between. It is the same story every year except 11/12 season. We are decent enough but not terrible. We don't ever draft high because of that. Lets look at bigger picture here. The next two upcoming drafts seem to be loaded with talent so lets for once have our pieces in place to get some serious talent and build a real contender and not to be pretenders.

 

Make that call in March is all I'm saying. It's January 6.

 

I still dont see the point of waiting untill March. They are not winning anything this year, may as well start mini rebuild now.

 

31, I am not the only one who thinks that way. If you actually read the board you would know.

 

You wait until March anyway because the closer you get to the deadline, the higher the price gets for rentals. Why trade Girardi now if we can let the bidding war in March drive his price up? Even if this team was in dead last (which we arent believe it or not) I wouldn't trade him yet.

 

This team has very little left on the farm that can be considered expendable at the deadline. If we are going to buyers who do we have that anyone would even want??? Saying we should be buyers is far more ridiculous than saying we should be sellers.

"Look at the east and say who CANT we beat" Well ok... I can pretty confidently say a healthy Pittsburg would dismantle this team in a seven game series. Hank would need to stand on his head like hes never done before. Our D isn't what it used to be either so that makes a superhuman performance goalie wise even more unlikely. What makes you think a series with the Bruins would go any better than it did last year? We have become SOFTER since last season, and last year we already looked like a bunch of pu$$$yss against them. Just because we had select few good games against them in the first half of the season you honestly think that we can take either of those teams in a seven game series? You gotta be kidding me. Hell, this team has to go 7 games to beat the likes of Washington every year to even make the second round... and if we do make the playoffs that's precisely who we will see in round one. We were a major part of fkin Philip Grubauer becoming the starter there and OV is having a better than normal year. So yeah this team that's worse than the previous 3 years squads is going to be able to what those groups couldn't. Just stop it.

 

I keep looking at the standings and the Rangers are not far behind many teams which is hard to believe. Part of the reason is they don't have many OT losses. They either win or lose in regulation. So their win total is pretty high.

 

Do we watch the same team every night? I don't see how anyone can think we have a legit cup chance this year without just being a total homer. Honest question: What about this team makes you think we can win a cup?

 

Like is Benoit Pouliot going to continue being a point a game player? Is Rick Nash magically going to start playing like the star hes supposed to be? Is the defense going to start shutting other teams down and helping Hank out? Love him, but when Mats Zuccarello is your best forward... your not going anywhere.

 

Good lord dude relax. I don't think anybody on here will say this team is going to win the cup but I think it's just as ridiculous to completely write them off at this point in the year. Hank has been awful Nash has been awful Stepan has been awful and THEY ARE STILL ONLY TWO POINTS OUT. Nobody knows where this team will be 2 months from now so lets save the season over talk for then.

 

Ok... well one of us will be bumping this thread in March.