Sean Day 32 games, 11 G, 14 A, +16. Getting better and better. Tyler Wall 13-4-1, 1.95 GA with .927% save for U-Mass.
Graves with his 5th last night for the incompetent, crap Pack. Gettinger with 2 G 2 A now 19 goals and 34 points in 37 game. He was a guy a lot of scouts thought should have gone way higher. 6'6, 220 as an 18 year old. Should be followed.
Is there ready talent to play for the Rangers in the Ranger pipeline? There may be just a handful and I'm not sure who these players are? If their top farm team in the AHL is any measurement of future Ranger talent, Gorton and team scouts have their work cut out for them. Ranger management has to do a better job. Get better hockey people to help prepare the kids. It is a joke what's going on with the Hartford farm team. Need to keep their 1st & 2nd round draft picks.
Graves is ready. I kind of think Shesterkin is ready but has a 3 year commitment. Hopefully, he gets out of that.
Gabriel Fontaine is quickly becoming my favorite prospect in our system other than Graves. He was used as the shutdown defensive forward for his team last year. This season he has 37 points in 37 games. Seems to get a lot of first stars. He has good size also at 6'2, 195. Scouting reports seem to be very good. Great worth ethic. Thinks the game very well. Started out as the shut down defensive forward. Now is averaging a point a game. Good size. Also said to be an excellent shot blocker. Not much not to like right now.
That Fontaine kid is definitely someone to keep an eye on. MSG showed the goal he scored last week that was very impressive.
Not really. Clark always finds one guy in each draft with little to work with. 2013 got us Buchnevich and Graves. Duclair was used in a trade. 2014 will give us Shesterkin and Halverson. Mantha and Iverson who they cut are having big overaged seasons in juniors. 2015 will give us Zborvskiy and Gropp and Kovacs still have a good chance to be something. Huska as well. 2016 is very promising. 2012 only gave us Skjei with few picks but that is enough. 2011 gave us Miller. Good enough. 2010 was tough with them trading McIlrath but at least they added a piece with Fast. They seem to find a good player in every draft. That is what you need to stay young enough.
Yeah, i mean more in the 97-07 dead period for the team. The last 10y have been more fruitful. I was looking over the list from the link. Staal Tyutin and Lundqvist came out of a few of those plus Call/Dubinsky.
Gropp is tearing it up now. 24 points in his last 15 games. Now with 46 points in 46 games. Great sign. He got off to a slow start but he might have been told to work on the defensive part of his game. Hat-trick last night in his teams 3-1 win.
Gropp with 1 G, 3 A last night. Now with 28 points in his last 16 games. I would figure he would play one year in the AHL but I would not rule out Gropp making the team out of camp if they deal Nash.
Gropp with 2 more points last night. Tambellini with hat-trick in the Pack's 3-2 win. Considering the crap team around him, he's having a decent season. Now 11 G, 17 A. 11 points in his last 11 games. Should be interesting to see what the organization thinks of him. Halverson with 32 saves. Playing much better.
So if Shestyorkin plays out the 3y K agreement he would be 24 when he arrives here and maybe plays behind 38y HL for his last year or so and then takes over.
Pretty stupid of him to sign a 3 year deal. He should have made it 2 at the most. However, Halverson is a guy that to me, will take a big step up. He always has the second year of a league. Gropp had 2 g 1 a last night. He and Barzal seem to compliment each other. Barzal is a great passer but has a weak shot and little finishing skills.
You'd think after one more full year of AHL action Gropp should be ready in 2018. If he's not used in some sort of deal.
I highly doubt he's included in any deal. His size, speed and skill set fits the system perfectly. That and forward depth in the system blows because they traded so many picks away.
