Like they did with Gallant against the Devs? Once again sends a very clear message, this core MUST be broken up. Enough is enough already, get some f'ing balls Drury.
Get Miller out of here. Vets are sandbagging him and Drury. Sulking over Drury trying to trade Trouba. Now putting Kreider out there. Fuck these vets. Can’t produce past 3 rounds in the playoffs.
Robertson seems to be having a good season. Lefty d-man with size. He's got talent also. Probably one of the reasons Miller will be moved soon.
The question that begs answering is why does Lav allow it? it seems like someone with his stature would not allow these lapses every game. The Rangers front office did a lousy job with coach selection during a critical time in the team's history. Instead of continuing their trend of hiring established successful coaches after getting a once in a lifetime draft opportunity the Rangers hire a guy who had never coached in David Quinn to guide all these high draft picks and shocker, he's worse than Tom Renney. Then JD decides not to sign anyone to protect these top prospects despite orders from management and is rightly fired. Drury comes in and to a longtime fan like myself is a breath of fresh air, hires a former Redwings grinder no nonsense coach, signs an aging enforcer and shocker, they're in the playoffs and winning series but the coach is kind of mean singling out players who stink it up then to make matters worse he yelled at Drury about them so instead of listening to the coach Drury dabs the tears from his eyes and fires him. Lav is a good hire with his pedigree but he seems to be letting the inmates run the asylum, same mistakes every game which are masked by strong goaltending with little punishment, A red flag went up for me on Lav last year when he gave a hand wringing apology for Rempe's hits instead of stating the obvious factor that size difference played in the matter, dressing a player for the postseason then giving him 3 minutes of ice time is something even Quinn wouldn't do. Peter needs to tighten things up, first quarter of the season lapses can be attributed to rust or conditioning no excuses now.
Berard is a lot better than I thought he would be. Berard, Cuylle, Sykora, Othmann. These are all young players with non stop engines that take the body and want the puck. Something the vets no longer have on this team. Smith has been so much better than Kreider, Zibanedouche, Fox, Trouba and Trochek it's mind boggling.
We should all be thankful today that we don't have to watch this pile of crap team attempt to play hockey. Young players excluded.
