A few articles around about last night, click here, here, and here. I’ll read it later. Also, LB about Sammy Blais and his career, click here.
184 responses to “Rangers-6, Panthers-2”
tomk19
Brooks used the words “Dog’s breakfast.” If I remember correctly, he was describing the current state of the 4th line.
Bdl
I like the set up of the top 3 lines for this current team. I don’t think I’d like them for game one of the playoffs.
I’d have Blais replace Kravtsov on the 4th line. It would give them two hard working lines.
Bdl
Lafrenier has been playing much better of late. It was good to see him get rewarded with a goal.
Calhob
Couple “dirty area” hard working goals. That’s the sign of a team scrapping to win. Not all the game was great, but they got it done in the 3rd period. Again.
It would be crazy if Florida even missed the playoffs.
cooscoos
I tried to explain the problem to the Dallas kicker, but he kept missing the point.
bobbyo2019
lines disjointed but kid line was good…. they beat a 3rd string goalie as they should. They said Laffy had a breakaway but he kind of got caught and shot it wide. I really can’t remember the last time he had a clear breakaway.
James G
Playing panthers after the B’s you see dramatic contrast. This wasn’t playoff hockey by any means but Shesty had a great night. You open it up you’re going to have 35 shots against every night
James G
GG is on Sammy’s side. I don’t think it’s lost to the organization that the kid can play and has suffered due to the injury. I’m pulling for him to find his game
cooscoos
Still major PO’d that little Buttman and the League let Subban away with his evil maimings for over a decade. WHY?
bobbyo2019
Free Sammy! that 4th line aint gonna work
Old Ranger Fan
The sample size of him playing healthy with the Rangers is so small it’s hard to say what Sammy is actually capable of. I suspect he will be with another team next year unless he takes a pay cut.
Old Ranger Fan
If they play against the Leafs the way they played in the first 40 minutes last night it will be ugly. They need to play a tight defensive game against them like they did in MSG earlier this season. Trading chances is not a formula for success. The Leafs have too much firepower.
James G
I like seeing the Chytil line play with confidence because they’re putrid together when they don’t have it.
Panarin with 93&20 reminds me of the infamous Zucc-Stepan-Nash trio that still haunts my dreams.
Wicky
Yeah, if it wasn’t for laffy’s continual work and effort last night, that line wouldn’t have looked as good.
Meeka line was bleh.
Liked the second line though, those guys were on it all night.
Team is still trying to figure out how to make what they have work for now, but they won a game they should have so take the 2 points and move on.
Vital vitali…ooof
Wicky
I wonder if there’s a “responsible” limit to the amount of coffee one should drink in the mornings?!
Nah…that’s silly, never mind 😉
St Pete Eli
I had to watch the game this morning. I was recruited to pick up my Grandson from Kindergarten and his dad didn’t pick him up until 9. Needless to say my wife and I were gassed. After he left I passed out on the couch. I agree Wicky when they are playing with confidence the yoot line looks good. The 2nd line looked real good. I think if The Enigma figures out the right side they will be much better. Drury needs to upgrade line 4 but we all know that don’t we?
Wicky
Anyone see how many guys had to take draws for Chytil? Laffo busto and Vermont did…was there anyone else?
Jeezus, the guy can’t play 200’ consistently doesn’t score nearly enough to offset that lack of 200’ play plus isn’t reliable enough at the dot…and he’s in a contract year?! Come on puffy chytils, man up or something.
Drury needs to seriously evaluate that spot.
St Pete Eli
Cuylle on Broadway!
Wicky
St Pete
Good on you and the grandparent duties lol, those kids don’t run out of batteries do they? 😉
I think it was James who said the confidence thing, I just noted laffo’s work made them a lot better.
Wicky
Yeeeeesssss…wild bill!!!!
James G
Chytil will probably be a wing on his next team.
We’ve beaten the horse to death on this one but they need a different element in the lineup imo
Wicky
Speaking of batteries…anyone else see that awkward aasen hit robocop took into the boards last night? It wasn’t just crushing but it was clearly forceful and the way he went into the boards then landed….oof.
He has to be made of vulcanized rubber or something.
James G
Yeah Blais to Hartford. Cuylle gets his chance.
Wicky
James
Yeah, wing for sure on a team that doesn’t need additional physical or 200’ play.
Wicky
Not surprising re Blais, he should have been on IR for the season with that injury.
St Pete Eli
Chytil, Kravtsov, and Jones, trade chips?
Wicky
St Pete
You have to think so…makes the most sense.
Maybe blais and kakko as well depending on return and $$$$ etc.
Draft picks too.
Bdl
Does Cuylee get to play, or is this just a reward for his all star nod in the AHL?
If he plays, it’s pretty clear who he would replace in the lineup. Cough, cough, Kravtsov.
St Pete Eli
Wicky
Agreed on draft picks. I don’t see them trading Kakko unless the deal really favors the Blueshirts. I believe the Fragile Finn will be an offensive possession machine. With the right center Lafreniere and Kakko could be a force to be reckoned with in a year or two.
Wicky
St Pete
You certainly don’t just throw kakko out there for S&Gs. With kakko and his 2.1 this year and next it’s about is he the piece that is needed to address a long term centre acquisition.
He plays RW which is less deep but we’ve seen with laffo that it isn’t as important as ld/rd, the organization is deep enough on the wing that you CAN move kakko to settle the centre position.
You don’t give him away or use him on a rental though, that’s for damn sure.
Wicky
Bdl
Not vital vitali….nooooooooooo
Bdl
Of Cuylee does play, and Kravtsov does sit, who is the next target of the Kravtsov crowd?
bobbyo2019
If they aint gonna play Sammy it makes sense to see what Cullye has before deadline and if hes a fit on 4th line
bobbyo2019
Kravstov doesnt fit on 4th ….maybe with Trocheck and Vesey line if Goodrow centers 4th line
Wicky
Bdl
It’s been Lafrenière but rest assured the bruncher vital vitali crowd will make sure to try and bring up speed of players every chance they get because they don’t know any better and then will go out of their way to try and pump up their other boy Chytil every chance they get.
It’s always about certain players and not what’s better for the team with them.
Bdl
Kravtsov doesn’t fit. You could have stopped right there.
Bdl
Wicky,
My guess is it will be Jake. The attacks will start the second they realize that Kravtsov may sit.
Wicky
Bdl lol. But but but but
Vital vitali baby!!!
Wicky
I forgot about him, it’s possible. They’ll start grasping at straws and say play a winger at centre like Goodrow to justify another winger spot for vital vitali.
That’s a great call on your part!
ilb2001
That Vesey-Trocheck-Goodrow line could be golden in April/May…..If they had Sam Bennett playing behind Zibanejad. Florida is 2 games over .500 with negative +/-. They all but finished with their playoffs race. What would you offer to Florida to get it done?
Wicky
Not to be glossed over in all this, blais has had a rough go. That injury was no joke and several here have pointed out how he just hasn’t looked right since. I remember him with the blues and he’s a shell of his former self right.
I’d have liked to see them put him on IR for the season for him to really get back but they obviously didn’t. He’s a heck of a player and teammate and seemingly took the demotion line a pro. With him being on a 1 year deal, this may be it for him as a ranger (by deadline or summer). Hope he gets back to a 100% health and wish him the best of luck wherever he ends up.
Wicky
Chytil and a second to start.
Wicky
And great call Ilb re that line.
Bdl
I would offer Florida Panarin. 😁
ilb2001
Nobody is complaining about “me” only Panarin this morning? That “selfish” player with three primary assists? A few world class set up passes that only few players in the league can make.
Wicky
Ilb
Odd isn’t it 😉
ilb2001
For salary cap junkies…Conditioning stint doesn’t give any cap relief. Blais’ AAV still counts against it. Plus Cuylle’s
Bdl
The Rangers have two games left before the break. Cuylee will go back down during the break.
Bdl
The question is, is Cuylee here as an extra body, or does he get a game or two?
ilb2001
I hope he does, BDL.
Wicky
Bdl
He’ll definitely go back down over the break. You also have to think drury is going to be finalizing some things on the break as well.
Bdl
Do they still believe in/have plans for Blais? They could have waived him if they have given up on him, and hope somebody claims him. Clearing his 1.4. I think it more likely that the Rangers still see him as someone who can help in the playoffs, or there is a team with interest, and they want to see him play a lot.
ilb2001
Wicky, I know you would offer Chytil for a new toilet seat, but realistically Chytil’s contract next season will likely look like Bennett’s.
tomk19
The Vesey Trocheck Goodrow line looked good last night. Naturally, people on Twitter can’t wait to put Goodrow at 4c so they can move Kravtsov up to the top 6. 🤦
Wicky
I agree, it’d be nice to see him get in a couple of games.
Bdl
Bennett would be sort of a salary dump for Florida. Probably a mid round pick, and a B/C prospect.
Bdl
Now I can’t like posts.
Tom,
I like your post.
Wicky
Ilb
I wouldn’t. And I know kidding aside you know that.
I agree re his contract and that’s what you and I covered here a week or so ago.
And that’s the point from the rangers standpoint that’s important, you get a far better overall player for similar dollars, the kind of thing drury needs to do in a couple of spots in truth.
You offer Chytil because he’s due a new deal and Bennett is already locked in for a couple more seasons, it’s a centre for centre and an upgrade. Panthers get a little younger and you start at a second rounder and go from there. If Florida wants more you deal but can overpay a bit if necessary.
All depends on his health of course lol
Wicky
If it takes less and you don’t move Chytil in the deal, that’s great.
It doesn’t change anything regarding chytils future here though with his new contract due. It just gives drury the Chytil piece to move at some point before the deadline or in the summer.
Either way, a hypothetical good situation for the rangers.
James G
I think it’s much sweeter when you actually post it to someone, BDL. You’re a nice man for liking Tom’s post.
bobbyo2019
Lets throw a parade for Laffy who has one goal in last 20 games and trade the best young guy on that line
Wicky
I agree…I think the “like” feature should just go away and folks should have to post how they feel about other’s posts.
Much more sincere 😉
Wicky
You nailed it Bdl…here come angry brunchers lol.
Bdl
Why attack another player, while defending another. Cant you just say, I don’t t agree about Chytil, I think he’s very good?
bobbyo2019
Not attacking anyone …Laffy hasn’t been good enough and Chytil has been good and we are void of center depth right now.
Wicky
Lol…but but but but
Lmao
Wicky
Clear lack of hockey knowledge here with another bad bruncher take…I’d say I’m shocked but…
bobbyo2019
dont be shocked when Chytil is still here in March
Wicky
I won’t be, I’ve said as much.
James G
I love that BDL is calling Leschyshyn “Jake” to avoid spelling it 😂
James G
Gonna be one of these days?
Wicky
Jeezus, do you really blame him?
I was trying to find a way to abbreviate bad decision Leschyshyn acquisition because I hate typing it lol
Bdl
26 points for Chytil.
21 for Lafrenier.
Wicky
Bdl
Lafrenière is the better all around player and it isn’t close. Chytil may finally break 30 points in his 6 nhl experienced season it took Lafrenière all of 2. Lafrenière hits and plays 200’. He’s probably better at draws this year than Chytil too judging from guys that are taking draws for Chytil.
Again, it’s about trying to justify their bad takes on Chytil and caring more about that than rooting for the rangers.
Personally I’d love to see Chytil score 100 goals and the rangers win the cup, but I’m also a realist and a ranger fan and if a guy doesn’t fit, he just doesn’t fit.
🤷🏻♂️
Bdl
Cuylee in tomorrow. Going to be interesting to see him.
Gravy
Cullye rotating with Kravtsov and Cullye confirmed to play so 1+1=2.
Wicky
They play the leaves tomorrow, who do they play Friday?
Wicky
Gravy
Will you be on time tomorrow or should we have Ilb contact the league and move the game start back?
😉
Gravy
No soccer practice for little Miss Gravy so we should ok 🙂
Gravy
She’ll be 13 in 3 weeks so not so little anymore 🙁
Wicky
Thank you sir!!
Wicky
Wow…they freaking grow so fast
Wicky
Good on you for your priorities btw
Wicky
Jamesgeau
Gravy
Yes, and I wasn’t allowed to check the score until we got home so we could catch up together 🙂
Gravy
Gravy Jr. couldn’t care less about sports. My daughter is turning into a rabid NYR fan. Funny.
bobbyo2019
Laffy 6 Goals ….Goatboy 6 goals with half the ice time
Wick, Friday they play VGK – Golden freaken Nights…
Wicky
Thanks 4 ever
Wicky
It’s really great that a hockey convo about a trade scenario that improves the team (have to give to get) and a young player call up turns into hate on Lafrenière. Way to go brunch crowd…bravo!!
James G
NHL radio always gives me things to ask you guys about so let me ask you guys…Are you impressed by the Bruins?
Obviously they have a chance to set the record for wins in a season and that’s news so they have to talk about it but what do we know about the President’s trophy? And yet….they’re talking about Boston should be favorites for the Cup. I guess to me it just takes away from the purity aspect of the sport. I mean it’s the toughest trophy to win in professional sports for a reason. The Wings didn’t win it all in 1995-96 and the Lightning didn’t come close in 2018. Boston themselves had that big season in 13-14 and didn’t make it past the semi final.
The regular season means little as far as what teams can do come post season. I’ve realized that with the last two runs the Rangers have made more than any other. That said, I’m not sold on Boston. I wouldn’t want the Rangers to have to go through them but I’m not sold on them..
there is no hate just observation… and I started the brunch references…and if moving Kravstov gets us Greenway I will drive him to Minnesota
Gravy
Every year the President’s Trophy winner goes in as the favorite to win because analysts and experts say they don’t see weaknesses and can’t see them beat. 95% of the time, they don’t win the Cup.
Bruins is the perfectly balanced team, kind of clichéd well oiled machine, with a good long-played connection between players, few bona-fide stars and on the peak of it critical collective age, constructed and tough/ heavy enough for POs. Another question – could they, being all that (age, etc.) keep up with the many, unforgiving series against the others good, younger/ faster teams after long regular season.
Gravy
I thought I was exaggerating, but it’s 17 out of the last 19 seasons (89%).
tomk19
I think the Bruins are legit. They’re not the Lightning who got swept in the first round by CBJ a few years ago. They can play any which way. They have goaltending, defense and forwards who know how to win. (Oddly, they didn’t strip it all down to the studs and do a full rebuild). They just got their 2c back. Can’t remember who it was (Friedman?) who wondered if this was their version of “The Last Dance?” Unlike Jordan and the Bulls, this team has been to the finals a lot, but hasn’t won it all since 2011. My only reason to maybe question them is that they may have peaked too soon. With that said, I think a good trade deadline could put the Rangers in a place to beat them.
Chytil me with your best shot
Filip Chytil career to date:
GP G A PTS +/-
292 55 64 119 -14
Same Bennett over first 4 full seasons:
GP G A PTS +/-
312 55 61 116 -52
Bennett’s next 2 seasons:
GP G A PTS +/-
100 18 21 39 -3
Last year was Bennett’s best with 49 points.
It was only his second season scoring more than 15 goals.
This year Chytil has been more productive on a per game basis and is +12 , vs Bennett’s -3.
Keep pounding away at that narrative ….
ilb2001
TomK- I also wonder if they can withstand physically demanding multi-game series. Their core of most important players is around 35 years of age, some older.
bobbyo2019
Agree on Bruins and age factor..especially Bergeron…but with their record they can rest a lot of guys down the stretch
Loneranger
The Bruins of two/three decades ago were the same way. They were an older team that worked real hard digging in the corners forechecking their buts off but they folded like a cheap suit come playoff time. In this league you have to ration the gas that you have in the tank.
Wicky
Craig
Lol…brilliant
Wicky
Lol, bruncher trolls…wonder who liked that comment.
Wicky
Shocked it didn’t include a skating in a straight line comparison.
Lmao
Wicky
Jamesgeau x2
Wicky
Where’s Bdl, he was prophetic this morning about the bruncher crying.
Total props to him, he called it spot on!
Wicky
And shame on you Ilb for suggesting Bennett
Wicky
Craig
My fave pillow hands moment…Simon having to chase him all over the ice to get hugged…
Best part, it had the greatest ranger enforcer ever petr nedved involved
Ranger stuff starts about 1:10 in btw
Wicky
Jamesgeau x3
Wicky
I think coos was the other big admirer along with me of nedved’s pugilist acumen.
Yeah, – toxic masculinity in a purest way. Love it. My all time favorites – Colton Orr and Simon (minus his decapitating stick in a neck)…
cooscoos
And eddie, Wick. (E3)
Gravy
Hope E3 isn’t stuck on a bowl somewhere.
Upstate Ranger
Regarding the Bruins, I think back to the 2008 Super Bowl — the 13-6 Giants beat the 18-0 Patriots. The Bruins haven’t really tasted defeat to date. Now, if they endure a 7-8 game losing streak and right the ship afterwards, I’d be more inclined to anoint them.
Wicky
Thanks Akbar and coos
Wicky
4ever
Yep, agree on Simon (and thé décapitation).
Old Ranger Fan
As I recall this is about the same time of the season that they brought up Igor and Schneider. Let’s hope it goes as well.
Wicky
ORF
Good call
cooscoos
3C says he will make arrangements to be back in NY when the Super Bowl is held in Flushing.
Old Ranger Fan
Cullye is their last chance to get something out of the Stepan/Raanta trade. I’m sure he will be better than Emerson Etem.
cooscoos
Etem was more than just an item. He was a piece of work.
St Pete Eli
coos
My dad was from Flushing.
ilb2001
Good morning, boneheads!
Hey, my wife is from Flushing. Her mom still lives there. What’s wrong with that?
cooscoos
Eli, he must have had a bowl growing up. 🙂
St Pete Eli
coos
Yes he always said it was a drain on him.
cooscoos
Desi Arnaz had a Ball.
Upstate Ranger
My brother was born in Flushing 🙂
cooscoos
I think the guy who disproved Stephen Hawking re: Black Hole Theory was from Flushing.
(true) His father was plumber and the kid went with him on weekend calls. He later became a theoretical physicist (true) and stated that his insights into Black Hole Theory were sparked by plumbing insights he gained as a kid working with his Dad. Incredible story. And all true.
St Pete Eli
My mom was born in Brooklyn.
cooscoos
Leonard Susskind. Can’t verify Flushing.
Upstate Ranger
“The hope is that Cuylle can give the Rangers’ fourth line more of a physical look with his 6-foot-3, 211-pound frame.
“’I think just my hard work, my work ethic,’ he said of what he wants to bring to the Rangers.
“I’ve been scoring a bit down in the AHL and I think I’m just going to bring lots of energy on the forecheck here and maybe try to put a couple goals in the net, as well.”
(NYP)
Make it so, young man.
St Pete Eli
coos
That’s because he’s backed up.
cooscoos
Yoosed to be you knew someone was from Brooklyn first sentence they spoke. No longer true. Any REAL Brooklynites left?
cooscoos
Mr. Sniffles sez Krapsoft belongs top six or top 9, not 4th line. Since he can’t legitimately crack top 9, saying he’s not a 4th liner is no complement. GG is too kind.
cooscoos
What ever happened to our interesting Poster from Lake Placid? SeeDubb?
cooscoos
Susskind wasn’t sure that he could hack quantum field theory at Cornell, but he plung(er)ed in. BTW, CCNY undergrad. Local boy makes good.
cooscoos
South Bronx, sorry.
Wicky
Bushwick
cooscoos
Dolan fines Kreider for broken laptop repair. Quoted as saying: “He’s got plenty of my money and he broke it, on camera! Why should I have to eat the repairs?”
Wicky
Anyone ever heard loons calling at night?
Wicky
The elk steak and Guinness was exceptional last night.
Wicky
Anyone here from New Hampshire?
Wicky
Armadillo was a very well made documentary.
Wicky
They used to blame potatoes for syphilis.
Wicky
I read this great book the other day by Harding the other day called The Last Battle. It was very good.
Wicky
There’s this pizza joint down on the corner, it’s basically part of a fuel station, and the supreme is just so damn good.
Upstate Ranger
Have heard them early in the morning, Wick. Haunting.
Upstate Ranger
Read that mountain lion tastes like pork.
Loneranger
What are you smoking. too freeken early in the morning
Wicky
I had this instructor at university that had a full 300 student capacity lecture hall for his course and he’d randomly shift from the topic of his course (geography) to archeological digs he’d participated in that were not evenly remotely close to the subject matter. It was a crazy Ivan out of nowhere.
Every class though, there was this kid that would sit in the second to last row of the lecture hall and read the USA Today full spread open every section…I always wondered how the hell the kids in the row behind him saw anything the whole semester. 🤷🏻♂️
Wicky
Upstate
They really are.
Wicky
Lone
Coos isn’t smoking anything, leave him alone.
Wicky
Upstate (x2)
I always thought it tasted like goat, but I can see the pork similarities as well.
Admiral Akbar
Blog is awesome this morning!
Wicky
Akbar!!!!!
It’s a trap!!!
Wicky
Monkey was the odd tasting meat. I really thought it would be greasy like a trash panda (thanks to a government sponsored back 40 safari) but it wasn’t.
Upstate Ranger
How do you “prepare” mountain lion?
Wicky
Looking at the draft there are a lot of stud defencive guys out there for early picking. If teams go QB early like many think, some great D line and CB options out there.
Wicky
Upstate
Step one…make sure it’s dead.
Open flame grill (after gutting, skinning, etc obviously ;))
St Pete Eli
I actually had monkey meat when I was in the Philippines. It tasted like monkey meat with a hint of banana peel.
Wicky
St Pete
With a sprinkle of lice too?
St Pete Eli
It came on a stick very tasty 😋
ilb2001
WTB?!!!
Scottsdale Dad
Re coos 8:32…born & bred in Brooklyn and have the unmistakable accent. A few weeks after arriving here we were getting gas and the attendant mocked my accent. When he asked what brings you here, I responded “witness protection program.” He replied “ have a nice day sir.”
Gravy
I miss Kravtsov.
CraigFormerWeatherNowPR
I miss Evgeny Grachev.
cooscoos
Wick – to this day, an easy ‘A’ is always packed, no matter the topic.
cooscoos
“Look, Dad. I got an A in Spherical Geometry!”
Wicky
I miss Mikhail Pashnin
cooscoos
Scottsdale – I have a thick sweatshirt that reads in front: WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM. The back sez: YOU DON’T KNOW ME!
Scottsdale Dad
Coos….that describes half my NY neighbors
ilb2001
Just realized. The game is TNT exclusive tonight.
richinhagerstownbywayofbrooklyn
Scottsdale….I’ve used the Witness protection as well. Works like a charm on nosey people.
ilb2001
My Siberian accent doesn’t need any explanations. They walk away without any questions 😃
Gravy
No one fears a suburban NY accent :/
James G
How many shifts does Cuylle get before he’s dubbed a career fourth liner by the critique crowd tonight?
Kidding aside, it’ll be nice to see him play with the big club maybe add a needed element
184 responses to “Rangers-6, Panthers-2”
Brooks used the words “Dog’s breakfast.” If I remember correctly, he was describing the current state of the 4th line.
I like the set up of the top 3 lines for this current team. I don’t think I’d like them for game one of the playoffs.
I’d have Blais replace Kravtsov on the 4th line. It would give them two hard working lines.
Lafrenier has been playing much better of late. It was good to see him get rewarded with a goal.
Couple “dirty area” hard working goals. That’s the sign of a team scrapping to win. Not all the game was great, but they got it done in the 3rd period. Again.
It would be crazy if Florida even missed the playoffs.
I tried to explain the problem to the Dallas kicker, but he kept missing the point.
lines disjointed but kid line was good…. they beat a 3rd string goalie as they should. They said Laffy had a breakaway but he kind of got caught and shot it wide. I really can’t remember the last time he had a clear breakaway.
Playing panthers after the B’s you see dramatic contrast. This wasn’t playoff hockey by any means but Shesty had a great night. You open it up you’re going to have 35 shots against every night
GG is on Sammy’s side. I don’t think it’s lost to the organization that the kid can play and has suffered due to the injury. I’m pulling for him to find his game
Still major PO’d that little Buttman and the League let Subban away with his evil maimings for over a decade. WHY?
Free Sammy! that 4th line aint gonna work
The sample size of him playing healthy with the Rangers is so small it’s hard to say what Sammy is actually capable of. I suspect he will be with another team next year unless he takes a pay cut.
If they play against the Leafs the way they played in the first 40 minutes last night it will be ugly. They need to play a tight defensive game against them like they did in MSG earlier this season. Trading chances is not a formula for success. The Leafs have too much firepower.
I like seeing the Chytil line play with confidence because they’re putrid together when they don’t have it.
Panarin with 93&20 reminds me of the infamous Zucc-Stepan-Nash trio that still haunts my dreams.
Yeah, if it wasn’t for laffy’s continual work and effort last night, that line wouldn’t have looked as good.
Meeka line was bleh.
Liked the second line though, those guys were on it all night.
Team is still trying to figure out how to make what they have work for now, but they won a game they should have so take the 2 points and move on.
Vital vitali…ooof
I wonder if there’s a “responsible” limit to the amount of coffee one should drink in the mornings?!
Nah…that’s silly, never mind 😉
I had to watch the game this morning. I was recruited to pick up my Grandson from Kindergarten and his dad didn’t pick him up until 9. Needless to say my wife and I were gassed. After he left I passed out on the couch. I agree Wicky when they are playing with confidence the yoot line looks good. The 2nd line looked real good. I think if The Enigma figures out the right side they will be much better. Drury needs to upgrade line 4 but we all know that don’t we?
Anyone see how many guys had to take draws for Chytil? Laffo busto and Vermont did…was there anyone else?
Jeezus, the guy can’t play 200’ consistently doesn’t score nearly enough to offset that lack of 200’ play plus isn’t reliable enough at the dot…and he’s in a contract year?! Come on puffy chytils, man up or something.
Drury needs to seriously evaluate that spot.
Cuylle on Broadway!
St Pete
Good on you and the grandparent duties lol, those kids don’t run out of batteries do they? 😉
I think it was James who said the confidence thing, I just noted laffo’s work made them a lot better.
Yeeeeesssss…wild bill!!!!
Chytil will probably be a wing on his next team.
We’ve beaten the horse to death on this one but they need a different element in the lineup imo
Speaking of batteries…anyone else see that awkward aasen hit robocop took into the boards last night? It wasn’t just crushing but it was clearly forceful and the way he went into the boards then landed….oof.
He has to be made of vulcanized rubber or something.
Yeah Blais to Hartford. Cuylle gets his chance.
James
Yeah, wing for sure on a team that doesn’t need additional physical or 200’ play.
Not surprising re Blais, he should have been on IR for the season with that injury.
Chytil, Kravtsov, and Jones, trade chips?
St Pete
You have to think so…makes the most sense.
Maybe blais and kakko as well depending on return and $$$$ etc.
Draft picks too.
Does Cuylee get to play, or is this just a reward for his all star nod in the AHL?
If he plays, it’s pretty clear who he would replace in the lineup. Cough, cough, Kravtsov.
Wicky
Agreed on draft picks. I don’t see them trading Kakko unless the deal really favors the Blueshirts. I believe the Fragile Finn will be an offensive possession machine. With the right center Lafreniere and Kakko could be a force to be reckoned with in a year or two.
St Pete
You certainly don’t just throw kakko out there for S&Gs. With kakko and his 2.1 this year and next it’s about is he the piece that is needed to address a long term centre acquisition.
He plays RW which is less deep but we’ve seen with laffo that it isn’t as important as ld/rd, the organization is deep enough on the wing that you CAN move kakko to settle the centre position.
You don’t give him away or use him on a rental though, that’s for damn sure.
Bdl
Not vital vitali….nooooooooooo
Of Cuylee does play, and Kravtsov does sit, who is the next target of the Kravtsov crowd?
If they aint gonna play Sammy it makes sense to see what Cullye has before deadline and if hes a fit on 4th line
Kravstov doesnt fit on 4th ….maybe with Trocheck and Vesey line if Goodrow centers 4th line
Bdl
It’s been Lafrenière but rest assured the bruncher vital vitali crowd will make sure to try and bring up speed of players every chance they get because they don’t know any better and then will go out of their way to try and pump up their other boy Chytil every chance they get.
It’s always about certain players and not what’s better for the team with them.
Kravtsov doesn’t fit. You could have stopped right there.
Wicky,
My guess is it will be Jake. The attacks will start the second they realize that Kravtsov may sit.
Bdl lol. But but but but
Vital vitali baby!!!
I forgot about him, it’s possible. They’ll start grasping at straws and say play a winger at centre like Goodrow to justify another winger spot for vital vitali.
That’s a great call on your part!
That Vesey-Trocheck-Goodrow line could be golden in April/May…..If they had Sam Bennett playing behind Zibanejad. Florida is 2 games over .500 with negative +/-. They all but finished with their playoffs race. What would you offer to Florida to get it done?
Not to be glossed over in all this, blais has had a rough go. That injury was no joke and several here have pointed out how he just hasn’t looked right since. I remember him with the blues and he’s a shell of his former self right.
I’d have liked to see them put him on IR for the season for him to really get back but they obviously didn’t. He’s a heck of a player and teammate and seemingly took the demotion line a pro. With him being on a 1 year deal, this may be it for him as a ranger (by deadline or summer). Hope he gets back to a 100% health and wish him the best of luck wherever he ends up.
Chytil and a second to start.
And great call Ilb re that line.
I would offer Florida Panarin. 😁
Nobody is complaining about “me” only Panarin this morning? That “selfish” player with three primary assists? A few world class set up passes that only few players in the league can make.
Ilb
Odd isn’t it 😉
For salary cap junkies…Conditioning stint doesn’t give any cap relief. Blais’ AAV still counts against it. Plus Cuylle’s
The Rangers have two games left before the break. Cuylee will go back down during the break.
The question is, is Cuylee here as an extra body, or does he get a game or two?
I hope he does, BDL.
Bdl
He’ll definitely go back down over the break. You also have to think drury is going to be finalizing some things on the break as well.
Do they still believe in/have plans for Blais? They could have waived him if they have given up on him, and hope somebody claims him. Clearing his 1.4. I think it more likely that the Rangers still see him as someone who can help in the playoffs, or there is a team with interest, and they want to see him play a lot.
Wicky, I know you would offer Chytil for a new toilet seat, but realistically Chytil’s contract next season will likely look like Bennett’s.
The Vesey Trocheck Goodrow line looked good last night. Naturally, people on Twitter can’t wait to put Goodrow at 4c so they can move Kravtsov up to the top 6. 🤦
I agree, it’d be nice to see him get in a couple of games.
Bennett would be sort of a salary dump for Florida. Probably a mid round pick, and a B/C prospect.
Now I can’t like posts.
Tom,
I like your post.
Ilb
I wouldn’t. And I know kidding aside you know that.
I agree re his contract and that’s what you and I covered here a week or so ago.
And that’s the point from the rangers standpoint that’s important, you get a far better overall player for similar dollars, the kind of thing drury needs to do in a couple of spots in truth.
You offer Chytil because he’s due a new deal and Bennett is already locked in for a couple more seasons, it’s a centre for centre and an upgrade. Panthers get a little younger and you start at a second rounder and go from there. If Florida wants more you deal but can overpay a bit if necessary.
All depends on his health of course lol
If it takes less and you don’t move Chytil in the deal, that’s great.
It doesn’t change anything regarding chytils future here though with his new contract due. It just gives drury the Chytil piece to move at some point before the deadline or in the summer.
Either way, a hypothetical good situation for the rangers.
I think it’s much sweeter when you actually post it to someone, BDL. You’re a nice man for liking Tom’s post.
Lets throw a parade for Laffy who has one goal in last 20 games and trade the best young guy on that line
I agree…I think the “like” feature should just go away and folks should have to post how they feel about other’s posts.
Much more sincere 😉
You nailed it Bdl…here come angry brunchers lol.
Why attack another player, while defending another. Cant you just say, I don’t t agree about Chytil, I think he’s very good?
Not attacking anyone …Laffy hasn’t been good enough and Chytil has been good and we are void of center depth right now.
Lol…but but but but
Lmao
Clear lack of hockey knowledge here with another bad bruncher take…I’d say I’m shocked but…
dont be shocked when Chytil is still here in March
I won’t be, I’ve said as much.
I love that BDL is calling Leschyshyn “Jake” to avoid spelling it 😂
Gonna be one of these days?
Jeezus, do you really blame him?
I was trying to find a way to abbreviate bad decision Leschyshyn acquisition because I hate typing it lol
26 points for Chytil.
21 for Lafrenier.
Bdl
Lafrenière is the better all around player and it isn’t close. Chytil may finally break 30 points in his 6 nhl experienced season it took Lafrenière all of 2. Lafrenière hits and plays 200’. He’s probably better at draws this year than Chytil too judging from guys that are taking draws for Chytil.
Again, it’s about trying to justify their bad takes on Chytil and caring more about that than rooting for the rangers.
Personally I’d love to see Chytil score 100 goals and the rangers win the cup, but I’m also a realist and a ranger fan and if a guy doesn’t fit, he just doesn’t fit.
🤷🏻♂️
Cuylee in tomorrow. Going to be interesting to see him.
Cullye rotating with Kravtsov and Cullye confirmed to play so 1+1=2.
They play the leaves tomorrow, who do they play Friday?
Gravy
Will you be on time tomorrow or should we have Ilb contact the league and move the game start back?
😉
No soccer practice for little Miss Gravy so we should ok 🙂
She’ll be 13 in 3 weeks so not so little anymore 🙁
Thank you sir!!
Wow…they freaking grow so fast
Good on you for your priorities btw
Jamesgeau
Yes, and I wasn’t allowed to check the score until we got home so we could catch up together 🙂
Gravy Jr. couldn’t care less about sports. My daughter is turning into a rabid NYR fan. Funny.
Laffy 6 Goals ….Goatboy 6 goals with half the ice time
Kravtsov leave for Russia yet?
Not vital vitali…noooooooooo
Gravy
That is great stuff!!
Wick, Friday they play VGK – Golden freaken Nights…
Thanks 4 ever
It’s really great that a hockey convo about a trade scenario that improves the team (have to give to get) and a young player call up turns into hate on Lafrenière. Way to go brunch crowd…bravo!!
NHL radio always gives me things to ask you guys about so let me ask you guys…Are you impressed by the Bruins?
Obviously they have a chance to set the record for wins in a season and that’s news so they have to talk about it but what do we know about the President’s trophy? And yet….they’re talking about Boston should be favorites for the Cup. I guess to me it just takes away from the purity aspect of the sport. I mean it’s the toughest trophy to win in professional sports for a reason. The Wings didn’t win it all in 1995-96 and the Lightning didn’t come close in 2018. Boston themselves had that big season in 13-14 and didn’t make it past the semi final.
The regular season means little as far as what teams can do come post season. I’ve realized that with the last two runs the Rangers have made more than any other. That said, I’m not sold on Boston. I wouldn’t want the Rangers to have to go through them but I’m not sold on them..
James
They’re a good team.
You’re welcome 😉
I’ll just leave this here….
there is no hate just observation… and I started the brunch references…and if moving Kravstov gets us Greenway I will drive him to Minnesota
Every year the President’s Trophy winner goes in as the favorite to win because analysts and experts say they don’t see weaknesses and can’t see them beat. 95% of the time, they don’t win the Cup.
Bruins is the perfectly balanced team, kind of clichéd well oiled machine, with a good long-played connection between players, few bona-fide stars and on the peak of it critical collective age, constructed and tough/ heavy enough for POs. Another question – could they, being all that (age, etc.) keep up with the many, unforgiving series against the others good, younger/ faster teams after long regular season.
I thought I was exaggerating, but it’s 17 out of the last 19 seasons (89%).
I think the Bruins are legit. They’re not the Lightning who got swept in the first round by CBJ a few years ago. They can play any which way. They have goaltending, defense and forwards who know how to win. (Oddly, they didn’t strip it all down to the studs and do a full rebuild). They just got their 2c back. Can’t remember who it was (Friedman?) who wondered if this was their version of “The Last Dance?” Unlike Jordan and the Bulls, this team has been to the finals a lot, but hasn’t won it all since 2011. My only reason to maybe question them is that they may have peaked too soon. With that said, I think a good trade deadline could put the Rangers in a place to beat them.
Filip Chytil career to date:
GP G A PTS +/-
292 55 64 119 -14
Same Bennett over first 4 full seasons:
GP G A PTS +/-
312 55 61 116 -52
Bennett’s next 2 seasons:
GP G A PTS +/-
100 18 21 39 -3
Last year was Bennett’s best with 49 points.
It was only his second season scoring more than 15 goals.
This year Chytil has been more productive on a per game basis and is +12 , vs Bennett’s -3.
Keep pounding away at that narrative ….
TomK- I also wonder if they can withstand physically demanding multi-game series. Their core of most important players is around 35 years of age, some older.
Agree on Bruins and age factor..especially Bergeron…but with their record they can rest a lot of guys down the stretch
The Bruins of two/three decades ago were the same way. They were an older team that worked real hard digging in the corners forechecking their buts off but they folded like a cheap suit come playoff time. In this league you have to ration the gas that you have in the tank.
Craig
Lol…brilliant
Lol, bruncher trolls…wonder who liked that comment.
Shocked it didn’t include a skating in a straight line comparison.
Lmao
Jamesgeau x2
Where’s Bdl, he was prophetic this morning about the bruncher crying.
Total props to him, he called it spot on!
And shame on you Ilb for suggesting Bennett
Craig
My fave pillow hands moment…Simon having to chase him all over the ice to get hugged…
Best part, it had the greatest ranger enforcer ever petr nedved involved
Ranger stuff starts about 1:10 in btw
Jamesgeau x3
I think coos was the other big admirer along with me of nedved’s pugilist acumen.
Amusing “blast from not too-far past” article:
https://thehockeynews.com/news/islanders-shelving-ice-girls-a-huge-step-forward
Wick – awesome video!
I miss that stuff once in a while in hockey
Yeah, – toxic masculinity in a purest way. Love it. My all time favorites – Colton Orr and Simon (minus his decapitating stick in a neck)…
And eddie, Wick. (E3)
Hope E3 isn’t stuck on a bowl somewhere.
Regarding the Bruins, I think back to the 2008 Super Bowl — the 13-6 Giants beat the 18-0 Patriots. The Bruins haven’t really tasted defeat to date. Now, if they endure a 7-8 game losing streak and right the ship afterwards, I’d be more inclined to anoint them.
Thanks Akbar and coos
4ever
Yep, agree on Simon (and thé décapitation).
As I recall this is about the same time of the season that they brought up Igor and Schneider. Let’s hope it goes as well.
ORF
Good call
3C says he will make arrangements to be back in NY when the Super Bowl is held in Flushing.
Cullye is their last chance to get something out of the Stepan/Raanta trade. I’m sure he will be better than Emerson Etem.
Etem was more than just an item. He was a piece of work.
coos
My dad was from Flushing.
Good morning, boneheads!
Hey, my wife is from Flushing. Her mom still lives there. What’s wrong with that?
Eli, he must have had a bowl growing up. 🙂
coos
Yes he always said it was a drain on him.
Desi Arnaz had a Ball.
My brother was born in Flushing 🙂
I think the guy who disproved Stephen Hawking re: Black Hole Theory was from Flushing.
(true) His father was plumber and the kid went with him on weekend calls. He later became a theoretical physicist (true) and stated that his insights into Black Hole Theory were sparked by plumbing insights he gained as a kid working with his Dad. Incredible story. And all true.
My mom was born in Brooklyn.
Leonard Susskind. Can’t verify Flushing.
“The hope is that Cuylle can give the Rangers’ fourth line more of a physical look with his 6-foot-3, 211-pound frame.
“’I think just my hard work, my work ethic,’ he said of what he wants to bring to the Rangers.
“I’ve been scoring a bit down in the AHL and I think I’m just going to bring lots of energy on the forecheck here and maybe try to put a couple goals in the net, as well.”
(NYP)
Make it so, young man.
coos
That’s because he’s backed up.
Yoosed to be you knew someone was from Brooklyn first sentence they spoke. No longer true. Any REAL Brooklynites left?
Mr. Sniffles sez Krapsoft belongs top six or top 9, not 4th line. Since he can’t legitimately crack top 9, saying he’s not a 4th liner is no complement. GG is too kind.
What ever happened to our interesting Poster from Lake Placid? SeeDubb?
Susskind wasn’t sure that he could hack quantum field theory at Cornell, but he plung(er)ed in. BTW, CCNY undergrad. Local boy makes good.
South Bronx, sorry.
Bushwick
Dolan fines Kreider for broken laptop repair. Quoted as saying: “He’s got plenty of my money and he broke it, on camera! Why should I have to eat the repairs?”
Anyone ever heard loons calling at night?
The elk steak and Guinness was exceptional last night.
Anyone here from New Hampshire?
Armadillo was a very well made documentary.
They used to blame potatoes for syphilis.
I read this great book the other day by Harding the other day called The Last Battle. It was very good.
There’s this pizza joint down on the corner, it’s basically part of a fuel station, and the supreme is just so damn good.
Have heard them early in the morning, Wick. Haunting.
Read that mountain lion tastes like pork.
What are you smoking. too freeken early in the morning
I had this instructor at university that had a full 300 student capacity lecture hall for his course and he’d randomly shift from the topic of his course (geography) to archeological digs he’d participated in that were not evenly remotely close to the subject matter. It was a crazy Ivan out of nowhere.
Every class though, there was this kid that would sit in the second to last row of the lecture hall and read the USA Today full spread open every section…I always wondered how the hell the kids in the row behind him saw anything the whole semester. 🤷🏻♂️
Upstate
They really are.
Lone
Coos isn’t smoking anything, leave him alone.
Upstate (x2)
I always thought it tasted like goat, but I can see the pork similarities as well.
Blog is awesome this morning!
Akbar!!!!!
It’s a trap!!!
Monkey was the odd tasting meat. I really thought it would be greasy like a trash panda (thanks to a government sponsored back 40 safari) but it wasn’t.
How do you “prepare” mountain lion?
Looking at the draft there are a lot of stud defencive guys out there for early picking. If teams go QB early like many think, some great D line and CB options out there.
Upstate
Step one…make sure it’s dead.
Open flame grill (after gutting, skinning, etc obviously ;))
I actually had monkey meat when I was in the Philippines. It tasted like monkey meat with a hint of banana peel.
St Pete
With a sprinkle of lice too?
It came on a stick very tasty 😋
WTB?!!!
Re coos 8:32…born & bred in Brooklyn and have the unmistakable accent. A few weeks after arriving here we were getting gas and the attendant mocked my accent. When he asked what brings you here, I responded “witness protection program.” He replied “ have a nice day sir.”
I miss Kravtsov.
I miss Evgeny Grachev.
Wick – to this day, an easy ‘A’ is always packed, no matter the topic.
“Look, Dad. I got an A in Spherical Geometry!”
I miss Mikhail Pashnin
Scottsdale – I have a thick sweatshirt that reads in front: WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM. The back sez: YOU DON’T KNOW ME!
Coos….that describes half my NY neighbors
Just realized. The game is TNT exclusive tonight.
Scottsdale….I’ve used the Witness protection as well. Works like a charm on nosey people.
My Siberian accent doesn’t need any explanations. They walk away without any questions 😃
No one fears a suburban NY accent :/
How many shifts does Cuylle get before he’s dubbed a career fourth liner by the critique crowd tonight?
Kidding aside, it’ll be nice to see him play with the big club maybe add a needed element
2 shifts James. Then he’s a career 4th liner.
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