Carp all out on Gorton. Since that’s so, I’m with him. Who am I to disagree with his long hockey history and knowledge? Plus, I want him to be correct.
I have a friend whose favorite teams are all out of town and I convinced him to sign up to The Athletic during the last Facebook sale go-arounds. He is upset that there is no Colts or Wizards coverage, but is happy to read about the Orioles and Penguins. No he is not from Baltimore, born and raised in Crestwood.
As a kid he had a crew cut like Boog Powell so he rooted for the O’s and followed up with Baltimore-area teams. I still can’t figure out the Pens, but I can attest he was a fan long before Mario. When I met he told me his first favorite player was someone I probably never heard of – Syl Apps Jr. After schooling him. he learned never to doubt me when it comes to hockey or any sports for that matter 🙂 I should have know he was off when he wore a Gary Rissling jersey the first time we ever payed hockey.
Thanks for the subscrips, kids. … I think Colts and Wizards will eventually be covered. Things are moving fast at The Athletic.
Rangers Report 2.0
I’m enjoying it, although, not so much use for it in the summer. Yes, I understand theres still a lot of content; it just hasn’t interested me.
St Pete Eli
The endless summer ugh!
Pete
Not saying it’s the case with Lias by any means, but some picks are bad picks at the time they are made given when said player was taken and/or who was still available at that time-see Mcilrath and Jessiman.
simonkimbrell
I got 2/10 on the ESPN Gretzky quiz……i hang my head in shame 🙁
Roster looks good – a few graybeards in there too: Sundin, Alfredsson, Forsberg. Presumably its Auntie v Hank in nets. Surprise addition for me is Artem “AK47” Anisimov.
I’ve been in Guatemala for the last week and doesn’t look like I missed much on the blog. When in Traverse City? At least we can have some hockey to talk about then.
CCCP
I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m…. sort of, kind of… maybe free…
Meet your new master, America – Mark Zuckerberg! lol He, and the new iPhone boss… Billionaire owners of giant corporations controlling public discourse deciding what you can see and read
And LIBERALS celebrated this! LOL
No politics, I know but fugg it! Slow summer days!
Coos – Thank you, but no thank you. If I did cover the Gaels Iona would probably get rid of the hoops program – and I can’t afford to be known as the person responsible for that!
When Iona got rid of the football team I was heavily involved in the Governance structure at Iona (and continue to still be involved). Many a football parent included me in their correspondences to Br. Liguori and other powers-that-be. I also got included on a few messages from parents who had problems with Iona in reference to their child’s financial situation.
If they bring back the hockey team (ha ha ha), then I promise to come out of retirement 🙂
Anthony – skimming some of your work in RangerRamblings, I’m struck, as I always am, when I read about a 6’2, 195 lb. eighteen or nineteen year old described as: Needs to get stronger. When I was that size and age, I could lift anything in the room or the gym over my head while gnawing on a bologna wedge. 🙂
St Pete Eli
When I was 18 I was in the military looking to crush the enemy and take no prisoners! Let’s hope our new look Blueshirts adopt the same principle whether they are 18, 28, or Lundqvist!
I guarantee you that Moses was a picker. You wander through the desert for forty years with that dry air. …..
You telling me you’re not going to have occasion to clean house a little bit.
James, when I was in the Service, no one from around the country knew what a wedge was, even Manhatttanites (hero). I think it’s a Yonkers/Westchester thing. 🙂
AV with sever ball pain goes to doctor and after consultation, doc says he can see nothing wrong, but only remedy is removal of gonads. Unable to stand the pain, he agrees, operation done.
Feeling great after the operation, he goes into Men’s Store to purchase new wardrobe, starts with jockey shorts. Clerk measures him, says hee’s a 42, I’ve always been a 38, he says. Clerk says, ‘No, you can’t wear a 38. You wear a 38, your balls will start to ache like the hammers of hell.”
Alex
hmmmm. who could this be?
Whiskey India Charlie Kilo Yankee says:
August 11, 2018 at 11:09 AM
Testing…
CCCP
Good eye Alex!
Bdl
Tkachuk signing with Ottawa.
Tkachuk is better than Wahlstrom.
CCCP
Kravtsov is better than Tkachook and Wahlstrom.
Whiskey India Charlie Kilo Yankee
Still think Bouchard was the guy to take at that spot, but kravtsov was fine, wahlstrom quite overrated.
CCCP
Bonjour, vieil ami!
Bdl
Wahlstrom has a bit of Pavel Brendl in him.
Whiskey India Charlie Kilo Yankee
Cccp
Hello brother. Thanks for all of your help (ilb too). I had to reset everything on my avatar account twice and change emails, but as you can see. I can actually “like” posts and comment lol.
CCCP
Good to have you back!
CCCP
Hopefully, Wahlstrom has a lot of Pavel Brendl in him.
Whiskey India Charlie Kilo Yankee
Glad to be back.
👍
Alex
Jeff Marek
Verified account
@JeffMarek
Snooping around on the Brady Tkachuk story, there is a strong belief from most corners that he ends up playing with the London Knights this season.
@ChelHawkey12
Replying to @JeffMarek @FriedgeHNIC
London is gonna be stacked this year. They already added Adam Boqvist and now they add Brady Tkachuk. With Evan Bouchard already on the team. That’s 3 of the top 10 picks in this year’s draft class.
It’s hard to keep a good Wicky down. That’s right, I said hard 🙂
Welcome back Wicky!
Coos – There is strong and then there is “hockey strong”, I guess.
St Pete Eli
Return of the Wickmeister!
Hockey Sittoo
In a defensive battle for the ages, Team Henke prevailed over Team Zucca 10-7 in their charity match in Oslo. Apparently Zucc scored 4 or 5 goals on Hank who resorted to flipping the net over on Zucc’s 4th breakaway in the 1st period (resulting in a penalty shot which Hank managed to stop!). Artie “The Sniper” Anisimov led the way for Team Henke scoring a Hattie on our favorite Finn Auntie Raanta! As you can tell I’m fairly desperate for the hockey season to begin….
Dolan has a new song out about the Me Too Movement and how unhappy he is that his buddy, Harvey Weienstein, was groping and raping women for decades. Not sure what he’s pissed about. Not getting a call to join in?
Whiskey India Charlie Kilo Yankee
Thanks everyone! It’s great to be able to post again.
Whiskey India Charlie Kilo Yankee
Sorry for the technical issues on my end kept me away….
Hate to think that we might have an over -the- hill goalkeeper. Say it ain’t so.
St Pete Eli
Never fear coos Boy George is waiting in the wings!
DaveB
Booby – gave my dad the Athletic for Father’s Day. The T-shirt is my go-to lawnmowing outfit.
DaveB
It’s a shame our aggressiveness at the 99 draft was such an absolute disaster. The right picks in that situation give you franchise cornerstones.
Though – that was a notoriously bad draft. After the Sedins, the next best player in the top 10 is a toss-up between Tim Connolly (super skilled, super short career) and Taylor Pyatt.
One has to wonder – was it just a bad draft, or was it due to the nature of the pre-cap era NHL. Younger players didn’t get as long a leash, or as many chances to break in, as they do now – the cap basically requires that you play kids while they’re cheap.
James G
The Wedge Inn, Coos
James G
They blew it in multiple drafts. We’ve all seen the names that came and went back in the early 2000s after their selection of trash
James G
Here’s the thing. If you pick 4 or 5 or whatever overall- this is my question. The guy you pass up-this year it was Whalstrom- but whoever you pass on. Is that the guy that is “ranked for that spot”? Or is it the player that 30 other Gms would take if in your shoes? I agree the first situation doesn’t mean much. But differing from 30 other guys in agreement (while bold) usually isn’t smart. In fact it’s usually a result of thinking you’re smarter than everyone. Read: Sather mentality
Another great article by George Grimm. It is interesting that he mentioned the car accident prior to the 48-49 season that cost the Rangers four players. If circumstances had played out differently, the Rangers would have been the team that broke the color barrier in the NHL.
The Rangers offered Herb Carnegie a contract to play for one of their minor league affiliates. Carnegie passed because he was going to make more money playing in the Quebec Senior Hockey League that he would in the minors. Had Herb signed with the Rangers odds are he would have been up with the Rangers and ended up making about as much money as he did in the QSHL.
Bdl
James,
You take the guy you like best, and don’t worry about what the other teams think. Wahlstrom fell, and I suspect there was a reason for that. If the Islanders hadn’t taken him, I suspect he would have fallen some more.
Whiskey India Charlie Kilo Yankee
While on paper, Lou and the fishies had 2 guys fall in their laps, the game is played on the ice and I think Detroit really had a great first round.
Both guys the fishes got were overrated imho.
The first team to spit the bit in the draft was Arizona at 5. Hayton is a good player and a first rounder, but I would put him below andersson and howden as far as on ice nhl contributors go.
No they don’t CCCP. Product of going off the board. If you swapped out Kravtsov and Andersson for Wahlstrom and, just to be fair, Gabe Vilardi, we’d be a consensus top-5 farm system right now. At least according to the experts. Personally, Im happy with Andersson and Kravtsov.
DaveB
“Chris Drury said recently to the NY Post that internally the Rangers are “excited” about the players they acquired and that feedback from around the league confirmed that.”
It makes it sound like they conducted a robo-call phone poll to the other 30 GMs.
Is Ryan Lindgren a high character player that the fans will love? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no. Continuar en espanol presione numero siete.
Think Rotter had decent summary at the end there. Restocked the system but don’t yet have enough high end talent in there. Another high first round pick this year and a couple towards the back which they could package to move up is what we need. If they can then add a guy like Panarin as a UFA they will be even further along.
DaveB
I wouldn’t disagree with that assessment Pete.
To me, a successful 18-19 season will consist of:
– tons of ice time for Lias, Chytil, and any other young guns who make the team and deserve to be here
– More high picks and prospects at the deadline for guys like Hayes and Zucc.
– Jettisoning of a revitalized Smith for whatever we can get
– A top 3 pick in 2019.
If we add lights-out prospect with a top pick, one or two more in the mid-to-late R1, and a prospect winger with some upside in a trade…that’s huge.
CCCP
We will win the cup next year. Book it.
DaveB
I’ll take Either or
DaveB
Though if the consensus is that we’re in good shape but don’t have a high end prospect – the team obviously feels different. I’d say they think Chytil is possibly first line material. And they certainly are projecting Kravtsov to be a star. So who knows…maybe we do have high end talent, but nobody knows except Off the Boardie…
CCCP
Buchnevich will lead this team in scoring this year. He’ll take a huge step forward. 30 goals 70 points. Book it.
TomK
I’d love to find the Rangers ahead of schedule by season’s end, but even if they’re able to sneak into the playoffs, they should still trade Hayes and Zucc for more high picks and prospects.
Based upon the restraint Gorton has shown thus far, that’s exactly what he’d do.
cregg7
In the letter Gorton mentions a makeover with high character and speed guys. It’s exactly the opposite of how to describe Hayes who at times seems unmotivated and aloof but oozes skill. Nice kid. More of a follower and complementary player where 6mil a year would be unwise long term. The one year deal solidified that sense. Will be interesting to see if he got in even better physical shape heading into this year after he recognized the dividends paid with his weight loss and conditioning regimen in past offseason. Playing for a big contract should be motivation
Hope buch shows is he won’t be lazy and the next “enigmatic Russian”. Let’s hope he takes a big step forward this year and in 2019 plays with kravstov maybe with chytil in the middle.
Gorton won’t stray from the gameplan. Probably best if they’re competitive then sell again at the deadline and get into the lottery. And if Tampa wins the Cup.
St Pete Eli
Love your optimism Carp my thoughts exactly!
SN
Everyone ready for bad hockey in September? This roster is a bridge to hopefully better days. No matter how you stack it, this D sucks eggs.
.
Tiger is a beast
“I’ve said it another a times, it was a heck of a run by a lot of players. We were close to top of mountain. ..”
Is Drury becoming Russian , Czech, or Chinese?
simonkimbrell
This season is more of an audition than anything else – for the young vets to step up and show they can lead, for the new kids to prove then can hack it at this level and find their roles.
This season should be considered a success based on achieving as many of the following:
Butch, Zika and Kreids proving they can bring it every night and put some points on the board
Chytil and Andersson playing important minutes
Skjei, Smith, Shatty proving they are worthy of the faith shown to them
Getting a good return on Zucc and Hayes
1 or more of the kids grabbing a spot on the team (Hajek, Howden, Lindgren, Ronning)
103 responses to “Rangers Offseason Evaluation of Jeff Gorton by Carp.”
Just bought my dad a subscription to The Athletic, but I’m keeping the free t-shirt.
Great piece, Carp. Especially enjoyed the way you addressed the off-the-board nonsense.
The places I go do not allow tee shirts. I have to find some new places.
Carp all out on Gorton. Since that’s so, I’m with him. Who am I to disagree with his long hockey history and knowledge? Plus, I want him to be correct.
I have a friend whose favorite teams are all out of town and I convinced him to sign up to The Athletic during the last Facebook sale go-arounds. He is upset that there is no Colts or Wizards coverage, but is happy to read about the Orioles and Penguins. No he is not from Baltimore, born and raised in Crestwood.
As a kid he had a crew cut like Boog Powell so he rooted for the O’s and followed up with Baltimore-area teams. I still can’t figure out the Pens, but I can attest he was a fan long before Mario. When I met he told me his first favorite player was someone I probably never heard of – Syl Apps Jr. After schooling him. he learned never to doubt me when it comes to hockey or any sports for that matter 🙂 I should have know he was off when he wore a Gary Rissling jersey the first time we ever payed hockey.
If coos is with me, then who can be against me?
Thanks for the subscrips, kids. … I think Colts and Wizards will eventually be covered. Things are moving fast at The Athletic.
I’m enjoying it, although, not so much use for it in the summer. Yes, I understand theres still a lot of content; it just hasn’t interested me.
The endless summer ugh!
Not saying it’s the case with Lias by any means, but some picks are bad picks at the time they are made given when said player was taken and/or who was still available at that time-see Mcilrath and Jessiman.
I got 2/10 on the ESPN Gretzky quiz……i hang my head in shame 🙁
Bananarama- Cruel Summer
Its nearly here…..
http://summerclassic2018.com/en/home
Roster looks good – a few graybeards in there too: Sundin, Alfredsson, Forsberg. Presumably its Auntie v Hank in nets. Surprise addition for me is Artem “AK47” Anisimov.
Hey Anthony – ‘The Athleetic ‘ needs an Iona basketball writer. Trow da hat in.
$10 and a discounted ticket
I’ve been in Guatemala for the last week and doesn’t look like I missed much on the blog. When in Traverse City? At least we can have some hockey to talk about then.
I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m…. sort of, kind of… maybe free…
Meet your new master, America – Mark Zuckerberg! lol He, and the new iPhone boss… Billionaire owners of giant corporations controlling public discourse deciding what you can see and read
And LIBERALS celebrated this! LOL
No politics, I know but fugg it! Slow summer days!
United Fruit Company
….I thought you are talking about some gay bar.
Achoo!
choo choo twain
bris you
Testing….
Coos – Thank you, but no thank you. If I did cover the Gaels Iona would probably get rid of the hoops program – and I can’t afford to be known as the person responsible for that!
When Iona got rid of the football team I was heavily involved in the Governance structure at Iona (and continue to still be involved). Many a football parent included me in their correspondences to Br. Liguori and other powers-that-be. I also got included on a few messages from parents who had problems with Iona in reference to their child’s financial situation.
If they bring back the hockey team (ha ha ha), then I promise to come out of retirement 🙂
Anthony – skimming some of your work in RangerRamblings, I’m struck, as I always am, when I read about a 6’2, 195 lb. eighteen or nineteen year old described as: Needs to get stronger. When I was that size and age, I could lift anything in the room or the gym over my head while gnawing on a bologna wedge. 🙂
When I was 18 I was in the military looking to crush the enemy and take no prisoners! Let’s hope our new look Blueshirts adopt the same principle whether they are 18, 28, or Lundqvist!
Does Hayes need to get stronger? Or does he merely need an attitude adjustment? I’ll bet the latter.
You’ll likely only have to wonder about that for a few more months.
Wonder Bred
I guarantee you that Moses was a picker. You wander through the desert for forty years with that dry air. …..
You telling me you’re not going to have occasion to clean house a little bit.
I was bread in old Kentucky, but I’m just a crumb up here. 🙂
Was Moses Malone related to Sam Malone? Guess I’ll have to ask Norm.
NORM !!!
‘Beer Me.’
Thanks, Coos. Now I want a wedge from Anthony’s!!!
James, when I was in the Service, no one from around the country knew what a wedge was, even Manhatttanites (hero). I think it’s a Yonkers/Westchester thing. 🙂
Wedge? AV knows all about those 🙂
Coach Wedgie.
AV with sever ball pain goes to doctor and after consultation, doc says he can see nothing wrong, but only remedy is removal of gonads. Unable to stand the pain, he agrees, operation done.
Feeling great after the operation, he goes into Men’s Store to purchase new wardrobe, starts with jockey shorts. Clerk measures him, says hee’s a 42, I’ve always been a 38, he says. Clerk says, ‘No, you can’t wear a 38. You wear a 38, your balls will start to ache like the hammers of hell.”
hmmmm. who could this be?
Whiskey India Charlie Kilo Yankee says:
August 11, 2018 at 11:09 AM
Testing…
Good eye Alex!
Tkachuk signing with Ottawa.
Tkachuk is better than Wahlstrom.
Kravtsov is better than Tkachook and Wahlstrom.
Still think Bouchard was the guy to take at that spot, but kravtsov was fine, wahlstrom quite overrated.
Bonjour, vieil ami!
Wahlstrom has a bit of Pavel Brendl in him.
Cccp
Hello brother. Thanks for all of your help (ilb too). I had to reset everything on my avatar account twice and change emails, but as you can see. I can actually “like” posts and comment lol.
Good to have you back!
Hopefully, Wahlstrom has a lot of Pavel Brendl in him.
Glad to be back.
👍
Jeff Marek
Verified account
@JeffMarek
Snooping around on the Brady Tkachuk story, there is a strong belief from most corners that he ends up playing with the London Knights this season.
@ChelHawkey12
Replying to @JeffMarek @FriedgeHNIC
London is gonna be stacked this year. They already added Adam Boqvist and now they add Brady Tkachuk. With Evan Bouchard already on the team. That’s 3 of the top 10 picks in this year’s draft class.
I’m man enough to say, I missed you Wicky.
It’s hard to keep a good Wicky down. That’s right, I said hard 🙂
Welcome back Wicky!
Coos – There is strong and then there is “hockey strong”, I guess.
Return of the Wickmeister!
In a defensive battle for the ages, Team Henke prevailed over Team Zucca 10-7 in their charity match in Oslo. Apparently Zucc scored 4 or 5 goals on Hank who resorted to flipping the net over on Zucc’s 4th breakaway in the 1st period (resulting in a penalty shot which Hank managed to stop!). Artie “The Sniper” Anisimov led the way for Team Henke scoring a Hattie on our favorite Finn Auntie Raanta! As you can tell I’m fairly desperate for the hockey season to begin….
I’m tired of these Team Gretzky/Team Orr things. Tied, I say.
Tired
Can we just start the season already? Man this extended period of no hockey sucks….
Dolan has a new song out about the Me Too Movement and how unhappy he is that his buddy, Harvey Weienstein, was groping and raping women for decades. Not sure what he’s pissed about. Not getting a call to join in?
Thanks everyone! It’s great to be able to post again.
Sorry for the technical issues on my end kept me away….
Basically, it’s not you it’s me 😉
https://insidehockey.com/retro-rangers-post-war-recovery/
George Grimm retro ranger article after WW II
Assuming that comp to Brendl is not a compliment.
crush the enemy
Lundqvist flips the net over on a Zuccarello breakaway
https://streamable.com/n7c2u
Hate to think that we might have an over -the- hill goalkeeper. Say it ain’t so.
Never fear coos Boy George is waiting in the wings!
Booby – gave my dad the Athletic for Father’s Day. The T-shirt is my go-to lawnmowing outfit.
It’s a shame our aggressiveness at the 99 draft was such an absolute disaster. The right picks in that situation give you franchise cornerstones.
Though – that was a notoriously bad draft. After the Sedins, the next best player in the top 10 is a toss-up between Tim Connolly (super skilled, super short career) and Taylor Pyatt.
One has to wonder – was it just a bad draft, or was it due to the nature of the pre-cap era NHL. Younger players didn’t get as long a leash, or as many chances to break in, as they do now – the cap basically requires that you play kids while they’re cheap.
The Wedge Inn, Coos
They blew it in multiple drafts. We’ve all seen the names that came and went back in the early 2000s after their selection of trash
Here’s the thing. If you pick 4 or 5 or whatever overall- this is my question. The guy you pass up-this year it was Whalstrom- but whoever you pass on. Is that the guy that is “ranked for that spot”? Or is it the player that 30 other Gms would take if in your shoes? I agree the first situation doesn’t mean much. But differing from 30 other guys in agreement (while bold) usually isn’t smart. In fact it’s usually a result of thinking you’re smarter than everyone. Read: Sather mentality
Another great article by George Grimm. It is interesting that he mentioned the car accident prior to the 48-49 season that cost the Rangers four players. If circumstances had played out differently, the Rangers would have been the team that broke the color barrier in the NHL.
The Rangers offered Herb Carnegie a contract to play for one of their minor league affiliates. Carnegie passed because he was going to make more money playing in the Quebec Senior Hockey League that he would in the minors. Had Herb signed with the Rangers odds are he would have been up with the Rangers and ended up making about as much money as he did in the QSHL.
James,
You take the guy you like best, and don’t worry about what the other teams think. Wahlstrom fell, and I suspect there was a reason for that. If the Islanders hadn’t taken him, I suspect he would have fallen some more.
While on paper, Lou and the fishies had 2 guys fall in their laps, the game is played on the ice and I think Detroit really had a great first round.
Both guys the fishes got were overrated imho.
The first team to spit the bit in the draft was Arizona at 5. Hayton is a good player and a first rounder, but I would put him below andersson and howden as far as on ice nhl contributors go.
This is why everybody hates Whiskey India …
But nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee
Yeah, everyone hates the guy with the phonetic spelling of his name 😉
Alexander Graham Bell?
phone etic
fun ethics
https://www.sny.tv/rangers/news/where-the-rangers-have-prospects-land-on-a-top-50-list/290000428
Our prospects get no love at all.
No they don’t CCCP. Product of going off the board. If you swapped out Kravtsov and Andersson for Wahlstrom and, just to be fair, Gabe Vilardi, we’d be a consensus top-5 farm system right now. At least according to the experts. Personally, Im happy with Andersson and Kravtsov.
“Chris Drury said recently to the NY Post that internally the Rangers are “excited” about the players they acquired and that feedback from around the league confirmed that.”
It makes it sound like they conducted a robo-call phone poll to the other 30 GMs.
Is Ryan Lindgren a high character player that the fans will love? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no. Continuar en espanol presione numero siete.
Happy birthday Mr Rosen!
Think Rotter had decent summary at the end there. Restocked the system but don’t yet have enough high end talent in there. Another high first round pick this year and a couple towards the back which they could package to move up is what we need. If they can then add a guy like Panarin as a UFA they will be even further along.
I wouldn’t disagree with that assessment Pete.
To me, a successful 18-19 season will consist of:
– tons of ice time for Lias, Chytil, and any other young guns who make the team and deserve to be here
– More high picks and prospects at the deadline for guys like Hayes and Zucc.
– Jettisoning of a revitalized Smith for whatever we can get
– A top 3 pick in 2019.
If we add lights-out prospect with a top pick, one or two more in the mid-to-late R1, and a prospect winger with some upside in a trade…that’s huge.
We will win the cup next year. Book it.
I’ll take Either or
Though if the consensus is that we’re in good shape but don’t have a high end prospect – the team obviously feels different. I’d say they think Chytil is possibly first line material. And they certainly are projecting Kravtsov to be a star. So who knows…maybe we do have high end talent, but nobody knows except Off the Boardie…
Buchnevich will lead this team in scoring this year. He’ll take a huge step forward. 30 goals 70 points. Book it.
I’d love to find the Rangers ahead of schedule by season’s end, but even if they’re able to sneak into the playoffs, they should still trade Hayes and Zucc for more high picks and prospects.
Based upon the restraint Gorton has shown thus far, that’s exactly what he’d do.
In the letter Gorton mentions a makeover with high character and speed guys. It’s exactly the opposite of how to describe Hayes who at times seems unmotivated and aloof but oozes skill. Nice kid. More of a follower and complementary player where 6mil a year would be unwise long term. The one year deal solidified that sense. Will be interesting to see if he got in even better physical shape heading into this year after he recognized the dividends paid with his weight loss and conditioning regimen in past offseason. Playing for a big contract should be motivation
Hope buch shows is he won’t be lazy and the next “enigmatic Russian”. Let’s hope he takes a big step forward this year and in 2019 plays with kravstov maybe with chytil in the middle.
Gorton won’t stray from the gameplan. Probably best if they’re competitive then sell again at the deadline and get into the lottery. And if Tampa wins the Cup.
Love your optimism Carp my thoughts exactly!
Everyone ready for bad hockey in September? This roster is a bridge to hopefully better days. No matter how you stack it, this D sucks eggs.
.
Tiger is a beast
My Torts ex lax y
I don’t think there was much defense played in the Summer Classic……Hank flipping the net was more a case of “i had enough of this sh!t last season!”
“I’ve said it another a times, it was a heck of a run by a lot of players. We were close to top of mountain. ..”
Is Drury becoming Russian , Czech, or Chinese?
This season is more of an audition than anything else – for the young vets to step up and show they can lead, for the new kids to prove then can hack it at this level and find their roles.
This season should be considered a success based on achieving as many of the following:
Butch, Zika and Kreids proving they can bring it every night and put some points on the board
Chytil and Andersson playing important minutes
Skjei, Smith, Shatty proving they are worthy of the faith shown to them
Getting a good return on Zucc and Hayes
1 or more of the kids grabbing a spot on the team (Hajek, Howden, Lindgren, Ronning)
Happy trails coos!
Good morning, boneheads!
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