Good morning, Boneheads!
Enjoy your day with you families and friends. Hockey can wait.
UPDATE: So the NHL will open new season with the rematch of ECF. Our boys will play Tampa Bay at the Garden.
Click here to see the entire NYR schedule.
Good morning, Boneheads!
Enjoy your day with you families and friends. Hockey can wait.
UPDATE: So the NHL will open new season with the rematch of ECF. Our boys will play Tampa Bay at the Garden.
Click here to see the entire NYR schedule.
134 responses to “Happy Independence Day!”
Happy 4th to everyone. I won’t let the possibility of Copp, Strome, Vatrano, Chytil, Kakko, Motte, Braun, Lundkvist, Hajek, Jones, Rooney and Lindgren leaving the team ruin my holiday 🙃🇺🇸
(Did I miss anyone?).
Happy Independence Day Boneheads!
Happy 4th Everyone!
Happy 4th. Don’t blow your fingers off. I heard a rumor that Kessel is showing up at Nathan’s today. He has been training for years for this event.
Happy 4th chucklefaces!!!!!
EddieJ
Yes, that race was crazy. I really feel for Leclerc a bit, another race where his team strategy really hosed him. That said, happy for sainz and especially for Mick, I thought he had maxx at the end.
I was watching the race with the Bianchi wreck, it was bad. I know he didn’t pass away until several months later…it was bad.
Upstate- you missed the GOAT! And the permeable Bulgarian.
He’s porous? Who knew?
The Goat returns!
True that, BW.
Mea culpa!
Gautier Update?
He’s driving around with georgiev looking for apartments
Don’t let Buch drive and they will be ok.
Kakko on the first line was good!
Benching him and not playing him in the top 6 was a coaching error
Just wondering, Wick- Have you ever been to a Formula 1 race? I went back in 2000 when they were racing at Indy. It was pretty cool.
Not a surprise at this point, but Drury is losing his hockey ops coordinator,(and former B.U. teammate), Mike Grier who will be named GM of the Sharks.
I remember Mike from his days at BU. He had linebacker size and was a hitting machine. The Grier family has a background in management in the NFL. It’s not surprising that Mike would take a similar path in the NHL.
Post Sports+ – Inside The Rangers
Minus a first-round draft pick, the Rangers need to be better at uncovering late-round gems.
The Rangers head into this week’s draft in Montreal with only four selections, the first coming in the second round at 63rd overall. Barring an unanticipated trade, the Blueshirts will sit out Thursday’s first round and will become the final team to call out a name the following day sometime around noon.
This represents quite a contrast from the previous five drafts in which the club owned an aggregate nine selections in the first round, yielding a (fill in your own modifier, please) crop featuring Lias Andersson, Filip Chytil, Vitali Kravtsov, K’Andre Miller, Nils Lundqvist, Kaapo Kakko, Alexis Lafreniere, Braden Schneider and Brennan Othmann.
(By the way, when the Rangers select this year, there is a chance that a center named Jack Hughes, this one out of Northeastern, will be available; how wild would that be to have one on either side of the Hudson?)
This will represent the second draft under president-general manager Chris Drury’s management team, which includes director of player personnel and amateur scouting John Lilley; assistant GM Ryan Martin; director of NCAA scouting Jamie Herrington; director of North American scouting Chris Morehouse; and director of player development Jed Ortmeyer.
The misses
Obviously, this group does not bear responsibility for sins of the past. Nor does it merit praise for past successes, such as Henrik Lundqvist at 205th overall in 2000 or Igor Shesterkin at 118th overall in 2014.
But a look at the club’s choices later than the first round from 2015-2018 provides an explanation for why the Rangers are lacking players in their mid-20s, for those are the athletes who would have reached gestation out of those four drafts.
The Blueshirts selected a combined 25 players after the first round in those four drafts, all of which were conducted under director of player personnel Gordie Clark. Glen Sather was the GM in 2015 before Jeff Gorton took command the following year.
At this counting (most of which can be done on one hand), the group has combined to record one goal and three assists in 38 games for the Rangers in addition to 60 minutes in goal. That’s the sum and substance of it: Morgan Barron going 1-1 in 18 games, Tim Gettinger 0-1 in 16 contests, Tarmo Reunanen 0-1 in four games and Adam Huska allowing seven goals in 60 minutes.
The absence of a first-rounder is nothing new for the Blueshirts, who went four straight years without one from 2013-2016, the picks having been traded in various deals for Rick Nash, Marty St. Louis and Keith Yandle.
Indeed, the Rangers became only the second team to ever go four straight drafts without a first-round pick, the Blues having been bereft of a first-rounder for six from 1990-1995, the final five lost to the Caps as compensation for St. Louis’ free-agent signing of Scott Stevens.
Beyond that, the Blueshirts did not get so much as a single game from the likes of Ryan Gropp, Robin Kovacs, Sean Day, Sergey Zborovskiy and Olaf Lindbom. There may still be hope for AHL Hartford’s 22-year-old winger Lauri Pajuniemi, selected 132nd overall in 2018, and there may or may not be hope for 24-year-old Wolf Pack winger Ty Ronning, the 201st selection in 2016 and due a qualifying offer by July 11.
There are always misses in the draft. And it is not as if the Rangers missed a bushel of future Hall of Famers. But how about Jordan Greenway, Erik Cernak or Anthony Cirelli instead of Gropp and/or Kovacs in 2015? How about Jesper Bratt hanging around until the sixth round in 2016?
There were options, and maybe some would have necessitated threading the needle. And perhaps this type of retroactive scrutiny is somewhat unfair and would shed a harsh light on just about every organization, GM and personnel director.
The fact is, though, that from 2015-2018, the Rangers swung 25 times after the first round in the draft and appeared to have gotten nothing more than an infield single for their troubles.
With a window of contention now open, the Rangers cannot afford that type of performance in Montreal this week.
Always appreciate when you do this 3CP.
Did MCD have a full no trade? Why the hell did he waive it?
Kypreos reported that they weer going to waive him and Columbus would claim him.
Donuts traded for Mismash, literally, LOL.
Every team that’s traded for McDonough, has won the trade.
And again!
The lightning “won” the trade in terms of cap space. Not many teams will make that deal without Tampa retaining salary. Nemeth makes about what Meyers makes. Why couldn’t Drury get this deal done? Things are not good. This is a problem. Drury asleep at the wheel? : D
So wait… to get a player with full no trade to waive his full no trade, all ya gotta do is threaten the player that he will be waived and some sht team.is going to claim him?! Wtf?
Drury can’t take on McD’s salary. Remember they moved him because they couldn’t afford his next salary. They still can’t.
So they blackmailed him into taking the trade to Nashville because he REALLY didn’t want to go to Columbus. Tampa found another loophole. Nice way to treat someone who helped you win 2 Cups. Let’s see if other teams follow their lead. Trouba and Kreider may be watching. In a few years they go from NMC to NTC.
They made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
EddieJ
No, I have not. I went to several CART races back in the day. Back when it was great racing with great drivers. I had an “in” with one of the bigger teams so spent quite a bit of time hanging in the boxes and pits etc…it was a blast.
Yep, NTC opens the door to shenanigans that a NMC does not.
Julien BrisBois must have been a fan of The Sopranos. Absolutely ruthless treatment of McDonagh.
McD was playing with a mangled finger last series ….Guess they think Sergachev can take on more minutes but still think D will be worse overall
Colin White bought out by Sens….interesting
Donuts goes from no tax to no tax.
It’s no secret why Tampa won after yzerman departed…Brisebois is a machine
Tampa also drafted well.
No salary cap (that I know of) for scouting departments. Rangers should have one of the top scouting staffs in the league.
Thé sens are looking for a young RD and a young RW for 7OA…
According to Friedman
Hey, Pierre Dorian, have we got a deal for you?!
Guess the big lazy in Columbus didn’t have quite the ranger connection or sway with mcdonut or the great guy smoozer some beats thought he did/was.
Friedman also said this morning that miller is likely moving after the boeser deal and most likely is caps or rangers.
His little note was the rangers might be looking at Evan Rodrigues as well as a 2C option.
Rodrigues?! If that’s true that says a lot more about the pending ranger ufa centres and Chytil than anything else does it not?!
EddieJ (and anyone else that cares)
Jamesgeau
No thanks on Evan Rodrigues. Or Friedman’s input over the last week.
The Evan Rodrigues that was 4C for Pens? Does he come with spicy pork and broccoli?
Brisebois says it’s not personal. It’s only business.
“….we’ll never know.”? I can venture a guess. Max is a really good driver.
JD promised scouting evaluations and unfulfilled changes when he came in. Did Drury get it done?
WOW! Congratulations to Mike Grier and his family! Best of luck to him as he makes history and a special thank you for his effort to help turn things around in NY!
Donuts would have LOVED to pay Ohio State taxes and another 2.5% to Columbus on his millions Not.
The big lazy…I mean easy sure was much ado about nothing.
He did go tax free to tax free. I doubt he would live in Columbus.
what was rodriguez’s face off percentage?
I think around 47% last season.
Belated 4th Greetings boneheads ZzZz GL Your 100% spot on with Gallant not playing Kakko. Very Stupid
Thx
👍
Gallant can be stubborn. It may have cost him a job or two.
We have the real deal.
White could be interesting. From what I’ve read, he’s a decent defensive center. Put up 41 points as a 22 year old, but uneven and a few shortened seasons since then. But he’s also on a terrible team, so could have two way center upside. And the price should be right.
He’s only 197lbs, so Wicky needs to feed him a few steaks 😉
Steaks with Gravy.
BC guy maybe Kreider can call him
Good morning, boneheads!
I’m kind of catching up a little.
Because of his age, White’s buyout is 1/3 of his contract, so he just lost $10M+ over the next 3 years. He’s going to want to recover it, at the very least. His numbers are average, and he’s had some injuries. I think he’s going to be a candidate for a one year, “show me what you got” contract. I’m not sure it should be in NY. I think the can do better than that in trade and/or UFA market.
Any other buyouts/moves I missed?
My last night’s Post went into Netherland. Not much of a Post, admittedly, but symptomatic of an increasingly sclerotic system.
Was in spam, coos. No clue why.
Thanx, ilb. Just mentioning it because others have had similar trouble and I want the poor souls to know no one’s picking on them. 🙂
Insanity continues.
The most disgusting part in all of this is that Fetisov, of ALL the people, is helping the authorities punish Fedotov and other players trying to leave. Fetisov claims his situation was different… he wasnt trying to leave but Soviet regime decided to sell him to the NHL for $$$… And that is coming from a guy who fought the Soviet system for years and refused to play for the CSKA.
A new (old) face of Russia… is to lie to yourself and believe in what was said.
Apparently, the situation is even worse. Kravtsov ain’t so dumb after all.
Is Shesty in the states?
Shesty report stated he was remaining in the states, yes.
CCCP,
Your 12:15 post had me recalling a quote attributed to John Hay, US Secretary of State, who, more than a century back, wrote this to President Teddy Roosevelt about Russian leaders: “Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.” Mendacity is a magical, relevant word…
Thought Georgie would have to get re-signed for a minute there James
Wasn’t Kravtsov supposed to here working out by now? It would be good to have sighting.
R.I.P. : Long-time NHL defenseman and current #SJSharks scout Bryan Marchment has died at the age of 53 in Montreal, per Kevin Weekes.
His son Mason currently plays for the #FlaPanthers.
Bryan played 926 NHL games from 1988 to 2006 for #NHLJets, #Blackhawks, #Whalers, #Oilers, #TBLightning, #SJSharks, #Avs, #Leafs, #Flames, recording 182 pts and 2,307 PIMs.
He joined the Sharks front office as an amateur scout in 2007 following his retirement, and has been with the organization since, with stints as an AHL development coach for young defensemen. 🕯
Did you guys hear they re-signed Gauthier??
I want to know where Panarin is right this moment.
Admiral
Every team should have a 🐐.
Terrible about Marchment.
Putin sucks!!
Post above updated
We play the islanders only 3 times. And none in 2023 (last game against them is Dec 22)
We play the Sabres 3 times. All in March and April when standings could be tight and in division games may mean much more.
Schedule makers are weird
Thank gooodness we get Calgary and ariZona twice each. I always want to see them. 🙄
Almost as riveting as the Dallas and San Jose games.
Who wants to see division rivals ? Excitement Must be overrated
Do we know when the schedule for next season will be released?
Nobody knows, Wick. It’s a total mystery!
DATE TIME (LOCAL) LOCATION OPPONENT
Tue. Oct 11 7:30 PM MSG Tampa Bay
Thu. Oct 13 7:00 PM AWAY Minnesota
Fri. Oct 14 7:00 PM AWAY Winnipeg
Mon. Oct 17 7:00 PM MSG Anaheim
Thu. Oct 20 7:00 PM MSG San Jose
Sun. Oct 23 5:00 PM MSG Columbus
Tue. Oct 25 7:00 PM MSG Colorado
Wed. Oct 26 7:30 PM AWAY N.Y. Islanders
Sat. Oct 29 1:00 PM AWAY Dallas
Sun. Oct 30 5:00 PM AWAY Arizona
Tue. Nov 1 7:00 PM MSG Philadelphia
Thu. Nov 3 7:00 PM MSG Boston
Sun. Nov 6 5:00 PM MSG Detroit
Tue. Nov 8 7:00 PM MSG N.Y. Islanders
Thu. Nov 10 7:30 PM AWAY Detroit
Sat. Nov 12 7:00 PM AWAY Nashville
Sun. Nov 13 6:00 PM MSG Arizona
Thu. Nov 17 7:00 PM AWAY Seattle
Sat. Nov 19 7:30 PM AWAY San Jose
Tue. Nov 22 7:30 PM AWAY Los Angeles
Wed. Nov 23 7:00 PM AWAY Anaheim
Sat. Nov 26 1:00 PM MSG Edmonton
Mon. Nov 28 7:00 PM MSG New Jersey
Wed. Nov 30 7:00 PM AWAY Ottawa
Fri.
Fri. Dec 2 7:00 PM MSG Ottawa
Sat. Dec 3 7:30 PM MSG Chicago
Mon. Dec 5 7:00 PM MSG St. Louis
Wed. Dec 7 7:00 PM AWAY Vegas
Fri. Dec 9 7:00 PM AWAY Colorado
Mon. Dec 12 7:00 PM MSG New Jersey
Thu. Dec 15 7:00 PM MSG Toronto
Sat. Dec 17 7:00 PM AWAY Philadelphia
Sun. Dec 18 6:00 PM AWAY Chicago
Tue. Dec 20 7:00 PM AWAY Pittsburgh
Thu. Dec 22 7:00 PM MSG N.Y. Islanders
Tue. Dec 27 7:00 PM MSG Washington
Thu. Dec 29 7:00 PM AWAY Tampa Bay
Sun. Jan 1 5:00 PM AWAY Florida
Tue. Jan 3 7:00 PM MSG Carolina
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Thu. Jan 5 7:00 PM AWAY Montreal
Sat. Jan 7 1:00 PM AWAY New Jersey
Tue. Jan 10 7:00 PM MSG Minnesota
Thu. Jan 12 7:00 PM MSG Dallas
Sun. Jan 15 5:00 PM MSG Montreal
Mon. Jan 16 7:00 PM AWAY Columbus
Thu. Jan 19 7:00 PM MSG Boston
Mon. Jan 23 7:00 PM MSG Florida
Wed. Jan 25 7:00 PM AWAY Toronto
Fri. Jan 27 7:00 PM MSG Vegas
Mon. Feb 6 7:30 PM MSG Calgary
Wed. Feb 8 8:00 PM MSG Vancouver
Fri. Feb 10 7:00 PM MSG Seattle
Sat. Feb 11 7:00 PM AWAY Carolina
Wed. Feb 15 7:00 PM AWAY Vancouver
Fri. Feb 17 7:00 PM AWAY Edmonton
Sat. Feb 18 8:00 PM AWAY Calgary
Mon. Feb 20 7:00 PM MSG Winnipeg
Thu. Feb 23 7:30 PM AWAY Detroit
Sat. Feb 25 3:00 PM AWAY Washington
Sun. Feb 26 5:00 PM MSG Los Angeles
Wed. Mar 1 7:30 PM AWAY Philadelphia
Thu. Mar 2 7:00 PM MSG Ottawa
Sat. Mar 4 3:00 PM AWAY Boston
Thu. Mar 9 7:00 PM AWAY Montreal
Sat. Mar 11 5:00 PM AWAY Buffalo
Sun. Mar 12 4:00 PM AWAY Pittsburgh
Tue. Mar 14 7:00 PM MSG Washington
Thu. Mar 16 7:00 PM MSG Pittsburgh
Sat. Mar 18 8:00 PM MSG Pittsburgh
Sun. Mar 19 7:00 PM MSG Nashville
Tue. Mar 21 7:00 PM MSG Carolina
Thu. Mar 23 7:00 PM AWAY Carolina
Sat. Mar 25 5:00 PM AWAY Florida
Tue. Mar 28 7:00 PM MSG Columbus
Thu. Mar 30 7:00 PM AWAY New Jersey
Fri. Mar 31 7:00 PM AWAY Buffalo
Sun. Apr 2 1:00 PM AWAY Washington
Wed. Apr 5 7:30 PM MSG Tampa Bay
Thu. Apr 6 7:00 PM AWAY St. Louis
Sat. Apr 8 7:00 PM AWAY Columbus
Mon. Apr 10 7:00 PM MSG Buffalo
Thu. Apr 13 7:00 PM MSG Toronto
I just saw the Rangers schedule for the coming season has anybody else seen it?
Thanks Coos!!!
Oooo I spy with my little eye…a birthday game against the fish sticks to celebrate being old (and the end of my last semester) with..
Has anyone looked into cap numbers for this summer? Will they be able to sign anyone?
James
It’s tied to the schedule!
Probably never happen, but interesting idea.
Maybe if someone has the time when the nhl releases the schedule, they should post it here ir put up a link or something.
Let me rephrase that. It will never happen.
Too funny not to share.
Passing on Wright, would be such a Gorton thing to do.
Is Wright any more can’t miss than Kakko was? By the time he contributes are Panarin, Kreider and Trouba gone?
Good morning, Boneheads!
Was going to link the draft order for today and tomorrow, but not after I read your posts this morning. Jackwagons :-0
The draft order is the rangers will trade for the first 5 picks but it will cost them gauthier, hajek, georgiev, Nemeth, and jones to do it.
E5
Is JT on the way to NY tonight?
Kristopher Letang re-signs with Pitt.
New York Rangers
@NYRangers
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OFFICIAL: #NYR have acquired a third-round and fifth-round selection in the 2022 NHL Draft, as well as a third-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft, from Colorado in exchange for goaltender Alexandar Georgiev.
Edmonton had their chance, fools!
This Drury guy is pretty …pretty….pretty….GOOD!
Makes you wonder about keumper and his future there
The funniest thing would be if (when) Georgie will get the Stanley Cup with Avs next season.
Kuemper did not impress me much in playoffs…anywat can’t pay him north of 5M if they are planning to retain Nichuken or Kadri
Friedman reporting that Kuemper is expected to hit the open market. Wonder if Georgiev is a backup-plan in case Sakic can’t find anything better. Francous isn’t really a proven starter. IOW, wonder if Georgiev gets traded again, but not our problem.
Letang for 6 years at 6.1 at age 35? That contract may be a problem in 2 years
I love this time of year…so much fun seeing what teams do
Georgie gets a shot at being the #1 for the cup winners. He should be pretty happy with that. Where is TDA headed?
Good luck to Georgie…hell of a landing spot for him
Let’s hope Nemeth is next!
Georgiev hit the jackpot. Good for him. He will do well in Colorado.
Avs over NYR in 7 confirmed for 2023.
I would commit personal auto-da-fé on the middle of MSG’s ice.
Hope is not a plan!
Someone is going to overpay Kuemper. As I said awhile back, if the Avs win more cups, he’ll be the Anti Niemi of this dynasty. He’s not bad, but he’s not that good either.
Will Georgie be Corey Crawford though?
Drury signs Chelios to short-term try-out contract.
Wen will next season’s schedule be released?
Wicky
Good point how about this.
Nemeth is next!
Napalm is no longer allowed in warfare. Use your fists.
How the hell did Drury get 3 picks for Georgiev?
I’m still reeling over the loss against tampon bay …beating us after we dominated them every game during the season . I don’t blame our goalie like past years . We just unravelled . It was painful . Kid line was awesome then it got changed? The new trades Copp and vettrano were really good , like really good BUT at the expense of Kids Kakko n Laffy? Those kids helped all season then trade deadline they get demoted for new guys? How does that help them develop? Oh no kids on top line cuz we wanna win the cup? New Flash / we lost and if anything they were damaged a bit . When can we ever just let the kids play and go down with them learning , least then losing would mean something.
So who’s replacing Georgiev? Garand? Lindbom? Louis Domingue?
depends on price but I would go for Halak
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