Clean tank, grab it!

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Good morning, boneheads!

Carp is asleep at the wheel, it seems. šŸ˜„

Busy at work, so I’ll just give a new post to Ā talk about tanking, playoffs etc.

 

UPDATE: Here is Carp’s story on the 10 top Rangers prospects.

76 responses to “Clean tank, grab it!”

  1. James G Avatar
    James G

    https://www.nhl.com/rangers/video/get-to-know-prospect-libor-hajek/t-277437422/c-58446703

    Quick interview with a ā€œnever will beā€ prospect:)

  2. Admiral Akbar Avatar
    Admiral Akbar

    Azzlanders lose another one. And still have this year’s Calder winner, as well as 2 first round picks.

    They don’t call ’em the Fish Tanks for nothin’!

  3. Bdl Avatar
    Bdl

    They will need to take two of the next three to be considered serious about the playoffs. One of them has to be FLA.

  4. simonkimbrell Avatar
    simonkimbrell

    Our players need to take a serious look at the Islanders guys, a 7-game losing streak is what is required here!! I mean make a few close to keep us interested and the seats full, but really we need to be putting up some donuts to keep get a better position in the draft lottery.

  5. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    Carp sucks us in than takes a vacation!

  6. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    If Tavares resigns with the fish tanks I question is sanity?

  7. simonkimbrell Avatar
    simonkimbrell

    You think Marc Staal is bad? He’s not even getting an honorable mention with this lot!!

    http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/22657298/nhl-nhl-worst-contract-quagmires

  8. tommyG Avatar
    tommyG

    Islaners are going to have 2 1st round lottery picks so there chances of getting far up in the draft are good. I just hope snow is the one still making the picks.

  9. Norm Merton Avatar

    I think Marc Staal is fine. A steady, effective veteran having a good year and getting paid too much for it, like the majority of 30+ NHLers under contract. McD will soon be similarly overpaid–it’s the salary structure of the league.

  10. James G Avatar
    James G

    Most of those guys in that article are going to get bought out. Especially Seabrook.

    By the way- 233 games/41 goals/ 23.5 million dollars in cap hits. That’s what this season has brought for Ladd, Okposo, Lucic and Backes after those 2016 signing frenzy. Moral of the story- beware of the UFA wingers!

  11. Papa Bear Avatar

    Clean the Septic Tank!

  12. Papa Bear Avatar

    James, Beware the Ides of March

  13. James G Avatar
    James G

    Exactly, Norm. Marc Staal = no different from Girardi in the sense that he would be an appreciated 2nd/ 3rd pair veteran without any real complaints from fans if it weren’t for the contract /cap hit. The problem is the premium paid around the league for Dmen in their prime which is exactly why there are so many bad contracts and why Mcdonagh was traded rather than extended for Seabrook- like money..

  14. Papa Bear Avatar

    Dirty Bathroom Staal > Marc Staal

  15. James G Avatar
    James G

    I’m your vehicle babe…I’ll take you anywhere you wanna go..

  16. Papa Bear Avatar

    Best on the road bathroom Staal in an emergency = Kohls.

  17. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    Something tells me the Rangers may go on a winning streak. They either just fall short of the playoffs or slip in to be knocked our in the 1st round. They will do this continuing the torture of Boneheads! The other concern is the fish tanks will be positioned right before us in the draft and select the player we targeted!

  18. James G Avatar
    James G

    Dirty Bathroom? was he the 5th brother? great family, Sam.

  19. Papa Bear Avatar

    Given a choice of 7-Eleven, WaWa or the woods during a late night dookie emergency, go with the woods.

  20. simonkimbrell Avatar
    simonkimbrell

    …and then it’ll be a Boston v TBL final so we’ll have the 14th, 30th and 31st picks which no one is bothered about, the Fish Tanks will win the lottery, sign Dahlin and re-sign Tavares.

  21. CraigWeather Avatar
    CraigWeather

    For the love of G-d, either go on a hot streak and get in, or start the tank tonight!!

  22. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    maybe Seabrook will become allergic to detergent used in uni

    see Hossa for precedence

  23. simonkimbrell Avatar
    simonkimbrell

    ..human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together…mass hysteria!!!!

  24. Rangers Report 2.0 Avatar
    Rangers Report 2.0

    Hello

  25. SN Avatar
    SN

    Papa – key is to go to Hotels; less traffic and wider Staals…

  26. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    As long as there’s a perceived need for veteran leadership (and experienced, if post-peak play) we will continue to see the dollars, dollars that by rights should be going to young studs in their prime productive years, go to the veterans who are no longer earning them. So when we see McD get overpaid the next few years, it’s baked into the cake–it’s affordable because it’s money you’re not spending on the Arvidssons. The trick would be to put together an entire team of Arvidssons. Good luck with that.

  27. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    Hello

  28. SN Avatar
    SN

    Trying to find the bad 30+ contract on TB Rangers and all I see if Cally’s deal. Especially on D and in goal. Killorn in 3 or 4 seasons may qualify depending on how cap moves and he performs.
    .
    Cally for St Louis saved us from that awful contract which Slats wasn’t offering anyway but the picks thrown in…oy! Ironically both of those NYR R1 picks turned into Azzlanders prospects/players – ’15 Joshua Ho-Sang and ’16 Anthony Beauvillier.

  29. SN Avatar
    SN

    if = is

  30. Bdl Avatar
    Bdl

    Shattenkirk is practicing. Reinforcements on the way.

  31. ilb2001 Avatar
    ilb2001

    Post updated above to include Carp’s story on the 10 top Rangers prospects.

  32. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    Rangers get in as underdog and go on a great run and advance to the Stanley Cup final only to lose 4 straight to Vegas Golden Knights.

  33. AnthonyM Avatar

    And Big Game Brass’s cap hit gets the game-winning goal in OT to win it all for Vegas.

  34. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    Tampa is top dog as far as I know of in terms of salary structure. Their most magical, Vasilevskiy at $3.5. 23 years old, 19th pick. Can’t think of a better value in the league, though there probably is one.

  35. Pete Avatar
    Pete

    Staal was an injured and flawed player when he was given that contract tho is the problem with him. Bad signing from the start

  36. Admiral Akbar Avatar
    Admiral Akbar

    Our beloved dysfunctional franchise can’t even lose when it’s necessary.

    One of these days I fear the Fishsticks will put it all together. Bound to happen.

  37. tommyG Avatar
    tommyG

    Admiral, it will happen eventually, when the fishsticks bring in a real GM, not a guy who retires as the fishsticks goalie and moves into the GM position.

  38. Admiral Akbar Avatar
    Admiral Akbar

    I hope Snow keeps his job.

  39. jpp Avatar
    jpp

    Greetings from the town cam Talbot played college hockey in.

    Some crimson tide alum: here’s some money, let’s start a hockey program

    Board members: hockey? Ice hockey? Uh ok, sure, you got it. we’ll do at the Huntsville campus.

  40. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence>Glenn Sather!

  41. SN Avatar
    SN

    Grabner’s deal is one of the most valuable veteran contracts in recent memory though am sure there are others.

  42. AnthonyM Avatar

    jpp – Nothing like hearing “Sweet Home Alabama” when the Chargers hit the ice. I got to see UAH when Iona went down there for a pair of games in 2000. We got down to Huntsville in time to see the CHL Tornado play featuring former 1st round pick Bryan Fogarty. By that time Fogarty was 31 and was finishing up a career wasted by booze and drugs. The Iona kids could not believe that he was a former NHL player, never mind a former 1st round pick.

    The thing I remember about the trip was how bad the ice was while watching the CHL game. I found out why the next morning while Iona was practicing. They had the doors open letting the nice warmish air into the arena.

  43. SN Avatar
    SN

    James – Back Itch, A Ladd Insane, Lou Cheech and Ricky Bobby are all anvil deals.
    .
    Okposo shows how good JT is in raising his line mates play and his output is not bad as the others, but he has two 2 top 6 pivots in Buff, just not at JT’s level. He is -29 which is, we are told, a meaningless stats, but nonetheless impressive in a bad way . He has 38 pts with 18 on PP so 20 5v5 pts for and on ice for 49 goals 5v5 against in 63 games. Wowza.

  44. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    Joe Smith
    ā€@TBTimes_JSmith

    #TBLightning Cooper said Ryan McDonagh won’t be back til the weekend at the earliest, so doesn’t look like a Rangers reunion Thursday

  45. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    Dan Rosen
    ā€Verified account
    @drosennhl

    Mika Zibanejad has the flu and isn’t expected to play tonight against the Jets at MSG. David Desharnais will skate between Chris Kreider and Pavel Buchnevich.

  46. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    Matt Calamia
    ā€Verified account
    @MattCalamia

    #NYR lines (no Zibanejad)
    Kreider – Desharnais – Buchnevich
    Vesey – Namestnikov – Zuccarello
    Spooner – Hayes – Fast
    Carey – Holland – McLeod

    Skjei – Gilmour
    Staal – Pionk (Shattenkirk rotating)
    O’Gara – DeAngelo

  47. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    #1 center David Desharnais you can’t make this stuff up!

  48. E3 Avatar
    E3

    Rangers 5
    Jets 0

    GWG Namestoolong

  49. SN Avatar
    SN

    Great Shatty’s back to save the day; can’t wait to see how that injury impacted his play in Dzone…

  50. simonkimbrell Avatar
    simonkimbrell

    Kreider the most defensive reward on the top line? The tank is back on course!!

  51. cooscoos Avatar

    Could Slats and Gorton , with their ‘speech’, signings, and trade choices, make it any more clear that they are fed up with this team’s pacifism and lack of fire? Any player here who doesn’t understand that translation needs some emergency ESL classes.

  52. cooscoos Avatar

    Figures that Haze would end up on a line with a guy named Spooner.

  53. cooscoos Avatar

    Staal is a back-up into the goalie, moving pylon shuffleboarder who belongs in a distant cornfield scaring crows, not confusing young D prospects.

  54. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    CCCP

    Roman Jedlicka
    ā€@jedl

    Jaromir Jagr is scratched from playoff game Kladno vs. Prostejov though he needs every single game to play in extreleague barrage. Last games he played seven seconds after opening faceoff and then went to lockeroom. Well, what does it mean? Maybe end of season due to knee injury.

  55. Pete Avatar
    Pete

    Tavares’ current deal is the best value in the league norm in my opinion at least. Tampa has a two year window before they will have some real cap issues to deal with

  56. Alex Avatar
    Alex
  57. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    Great. Holland back. He keeps getting chances, keeps saying, “AHL, please.”

  58. James G Avatar
    James G

    Shattenkirk is a defensive reinforcement? Funny part is they’ll probably sit O’Gara and he’s got more awareness around the net than Shatty will ever have.

    Knowing AV he will sit Pionk.

  59. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    Shatty just skated with the team. Not playing tonight and the fla trip is iffy for him.

  60. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    Bad news on Jags…. poor old man.

  61. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    New team motto should be: – “Character matters; leadership descents from character.”

    – Fortune cookie.

  62. cooscoos Avatar

    ShattRochelle will be a big upgrade on the PP, the main reason he was. brought here to begin with.

  63. cregg7 Avatar
    cregg7

    Carp’s article on the top 10 prospects brightened my spirits overall. Best list we’ve had in a long long time. The future looks strong!

  64. SN Avatar
    SN

    Was Graves on the list?

  65. AnthonyM Avatar

    SN – No Graves. It is a post-deadline list from Carp.

  66. jpp Avatar
    jpp

    I spent like 15 mins talking to Marc staal’s doppleganger. I couldn’t stop laughing to myself. There is a 5th Staal in northern Alabama.

  67. jpp Avatar
    jpp

    https://goo.gl/images/PqBZHT

    Picture him without the bangs, a beard, and his ears don’t look so big in person

  68. E3 Avatar
    E3

    Playoffs start tonight. Must win!!

  69. E3 Avatar
    E3

    I bloke the brog

  70. Pete Avatar
    Pete

    Don’t have access to Carp’s list, but unless Chytil meets all expectations or Lias/howden outperform expectations, we don’t have even one let alone multiple high ceiling offensive players in the system and nor do we likely have one top pair defenseman, let alone a future 1st pair. Hence why we need multiple high draft picks, a pick in the middle of the 1st round and two at the end isn’t likely to get it done

  71. Papa Bear Avatar
    Papa Bear

    Anyone have an extra roof rake? I got some palm leaves on my roof.

  72. SN Avatar
    SN

    The lack of top line or top pair players is made up by bottom 4 and middle six talent.
    Law of numbers or something like that….

  73. SN Avatar
    SN

    E3’s log broke the tank

  74. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    new post

  75. ilb2001 Avatar
    ilb2001

    NEW POST

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