Good morning, boneheads!
I was looking for some relevant hockey news this morning and came across this story. I am aware most of us know what happened in 1992, but this one includes a few articles from local newspapers and also describes the aftermath of this trade.
Click here to read the story about Eric Lindros trade ( courtesy of NBC Sports ) that happened and didn’t happen.
319 responses to “While We Are Waiting for Hockey…”
On the forwards,
Anderson, and Howden were easily the best two forwards. Smart hard working players. Chytil had an off night. Fought the puck all night. Gettinger seemed to put himself in the right places. He just could not finish. Ronning, and Lindqvist struggled to find room. Meskanen scored in the first ( quick release), but was a much better player in the second and third. Fontaine was also better in the second and third. Of the guys we don’t know ( at least I don’t), Stukar was pretty good. He had one and one, and was on the puck a good part of the night.
Dallas controlled the play for big chunks of the game. They were the bigger, heavier team. There top prospect, Heikennin, is a flat out stud.. I understand why Ottawa won’t do the Karlsson trade without him, and why Dallas won’t do it with him.
That was so good, I am going to watch it again!
https://www.foxsportsgo.com/replay/442646/477029297
Bdl- I’m up here if your up here. I’ll buy you a hot dog at the concession stand
Great offer Jpp, but I’m sadly not there. And only one hot dog will not cut it. 😀
Insert your best stuff here.
If I had the $ to do it, I’d buy 300 donuts and pass them through the bleachers towards schoeny. That guy has always made me laugh
Ho Chi Minh Trail, 2-1.
This convo certainly beats yesterday’s Ad-nauseum on football.
Nice to see some hockey talk!
Bdl
Great assessment. Couldn’t agree more about lingren.
Also think the chytil evaluation was spot on.
Howden and Anderson are the two forwards that I am most excited about…by quite a bit.
I really like Fontaine, he’s not at the level of howden or Anderson but I’d love to see him in the rangers bottom 6 in a season or two.
Haha, the name of the liberty quarterback is Buckshot Calvert…that’s awesome!
Go Army!!
Arm Me!
The Undertaker in the AHL, fighting for a spot with Detroit.
Does having hope for the future of the Blueshirts make me an idiot? Will all these prospects & and draft picks amount to anything more than the same old disappointment? I have to believe good things are just around the corner or my next residence may end up being the rubber room!
rub her room
Chytil still not looking “comfortable”.
Minny playing physical.
Gettinger buries one finally!
Howden=stud
Fatso jr playing well so far
Am I BANJing?
Getting chippy…thank you
Chytil with a good pass to mescal tequila
They seem to run out of gas about half way through the second. Taking dumb penalties didn’t help either. Let’s see if they can hold the lead better than they did last night.
I think Chytil wants to stay in ny so bad this year that he’s pressing to impress. Playing alongside and seeing howden’s Moxie may have him trying to do too much. He looks frustrated every time he comes off the ice
Greenway is a man among boys.
They keep falling down. A sure sign they are gassed.
I like #97. He really getts me.
I figured Howden was 100% Hartford Bound (The Incredible Journey) because of the positional squeeze. Now, 1.5 games into Traverse City – not so sure.
Like lindgren a lot
And penalties mount.
Gettinger growing on me
Howden out-fighting greenway on a critical d zone draw
Only caught the last 10 minutes. Andersson has big pair.
These guys should let me take them out to dinner so they let loose alittle bit. I feel like rocassiro or whatever his name is looking over everyone’s shoulder.
F PR talk. 😉✌️
Chtyl seem to get his legs a little bit as the game went along. Ronning was pretty invisible. Was Day scratched? Am I hallucinating or can Mescaline shoot the puck?
Maybe a big round booth at the local applebees
Serena Williams is a whinny jerk.
He sure is
Lindgren is a buzzsaw. Definitely the kind of guy you want in a foxhole whiskey tango bravo. Needs to learn the flow and timing of games In terms of when to do his thing and when to play it straight. As a D- if your in the box a lot your gonna F up the flow of the rotations and gas guys and most importantly, not be able to be on the ice.
Gettinger is getting it? Kid is huge, and he gets around well, looks like a different player than the kid I saw like 3 or 4 years ago. If he plays with authority, he doesn’t have to play to hurt people, but if he plays hard and honest, i see alittle Bboyle
Hajek had a nice 1st. Like shot out of a cannon period. Keane too had a good 1st. I think he’s a player that the current nhl game favors. He’s def. a rover at this point, if he can focus on the honing the defensive side of breaking up plays and then turning it and grabbing the puck in the d zone and finding the path out of the zone into transition, he’d be able to shift the rink pretty well. All these guys need to get better and quicker at their decision making in different situations, just like QBs go through their reads. They need to develop the eye to quickly scan the ice, and through watching hockey/being coached, know the options, know the safe play. Play aggressive play poised, and as a dman carrying the puck, learn to wide eye things and scan the situation instantaneously and make the right play based on the options and your strengths as a player. A guy like Sean day, when he attempting to take the zone, when he’s gonna for it, he should know that even if I cant find a play to to make (pass/nifty deke) I can always shield the puck, attack the zone with a couple of powerful strides and softly dump it into the corner for one of my forwards while I then get back into position. These guys gotta learn how to combine their skills and talents with the seeing/knowing the high percentage plays and then compete like warriors
Mescaline is gonna make the team
Neo: You ever have that feeling where you’re not sure if you’re awake or still dreaming?
Choi: All the time. It’s called mescaline, it’s the only way to fly.
I’d like to see Meskanen make the team as well, but when looking at him in this tournament, you have to take into account that he is 23.
Bdl. I’m well aware of the age, most of minnesota’s Roster were pre97 birthdays, they were an older team. . It’s the RHS, skating, and competitiveness. And who knows if Meskanen makes the team. But mescaline: would ‘make’ the team 😉
Good morning, boneheads!
JPP, I believer you’re right there watching it live. Do you want to write something about it? I think you’ve done before. If yes, you can email it to me at ilbster@yahoo.com
THE Howden!!!!
New Traverse City post??
Could be a lot of sandpaper and eventual leadership if/when Howden and Lindgren make it, not to mention Andersson. … and if coach Q can get through to Gettinger to use his girth …
Baseball break:
https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1038514603137945601
If Meskanen makes the team, what does he make it as? A 4th liner? Not sure he has a prototypical 4th line game.
There is room on the right side, unless I’m forgetting somebody. Zucc, Buchnevich, and Fast on the right side. The left is pretty crowded, so someone could certainly move to the right. Kreider, Vesey, Spooner, Namestnikov.
Good point about Mescaline’s age. Older players usually standout in this tournament as they used their experience and strength to separate themselves from their younger competitors. Few players in this tournament will be on NHL roster this year. That really is his goal. Let’s at least see how he does against guys his own age.
Didn’t Names and Spoon play on the right side also last season? Only righty shots on the wing on the roster now; Lindgren, Meskanen, Fast, and Ronning.
Leaves PP2 with no righty shots unless Zika plays both units…
Past-Time?
Great “give the kid the ball” guy. Cute kid. Great parenting sending her back to say thanks.
Past-Time. LOL. I noticed that too.
https://twitter.com/NYRangers/status/1038819391914352640
If mezcal makes the team not sure how we’d fit both Names and Spooner on a regular basis and even more so if Chytil and Anderson are here and Gorton/Quinn don’t switch Hayes to wing. Need to see how Camp goes to see if this even becomes an immediate issue but they didn’t leave themselves a ton of roster flexibility by signing both Names and Spooner to those deals
that page doesn’t exist. It is well pass it’s time.
Now Francesa bills you for ‘inside’ info on whom to bet and how to go broke.
try this one:
https://twitter.com/NYRangers/status/1038822087048286210
Those clips got my saliva flowing.
Pervert City Tournament, starring Boychuck, Clutterbuck, Hickey, Kink-aid, Lappin.
Saw Goodell again at Lange’s in Bronxville. He couldn’t decide what to order.
Ilb. I have something in mind, I don’t know if they’ll humor me. I want to ask slats, gorts, gordie, Quinn, and drury one question each. Half-gag, half serious. I was thinking of the question for each one of them on my way help. Its all for shis and giggles anyway
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But regardless if you want I’ll do a recap at the end.
*up
Meskanen, andersson, fast wouldn’t be your prototypic 4th line to began with.
Did you pick up the poor guy’s tab, coos?
Jez Pete.
Gorts has said how many times if someone should be on the roster, he can and will move someone to a team that will be a better fit and role for them.
Also this is what traverse and training camp is about, seeing what these guys look like they got for the upcoming season. So far Meskanen has been a +, and hitting on these free agents is such a bonus
SN
The only one of those guys you listed I’d be remotely interested in seeing on the rangers at this point is mezcal.
So one of my nephews pleaded with me to join his stupid yahoo fantasy football league so I cracked like an egg an set up a stoopid yahoo account.
Of course the draft glitched 3 different times on my turn, then I couldn’t make rosters moves and it finally got fixed 10 minutes into the early game starts.
Freaking yahoo.
Whiskey India broke the blog.
Speaking of fantasy… Salma Hayek wants me to leave my wife for her.
Speaking of another fantasy that is hockey, when will the Yahoo Bonehead league be open? Any available spots for this year? Wicky wants to join.
Here they are! Your 2018-2019 New York Rangers!
http://i68.tinypic.com/1zq7dja.jpg
Is there a baby Adam Graves in there someplace?
Vesey 🙂
Why is Spooner wearing a Boo Nieves hat?
Ya boys must have heard y’all talking football this weekend.
Shona Tova! May this year be sweeter than the previous year. May this year bring happiness, love, and Hughes.
Wonder who footed the bill?
Anyone?
Ha, Shona tova my fellow crazy Yiddish rusk
Cccp,
Like schoeny, you make me laugh
Whenever i tell anyone Jewish, ‘yeah my mom Jewish, my dad was catholic’ I was raised observing all the holidays. They say your mom’s, your Jewish. Never fails. Never ever fails
Ari labe- lion heart, heart of the lion 😉
I didn’t make it up
Funny story about that. It was a education department chairperson from university of west Georgia. Guy grew up on a farm in Georgia. Met a Jewish girl and converted full orthodonx, he asked me my name and he told me the origin and meaning. Funny world huh
Jez
How GMs look terrible for not trading for this Mack player. Why didn’t the giants trade the draft picks for him. That was the most dominant series of plays by a guy I’ve ever seen. Not tackles: strip/fumble which he almost returned, interception for return, how many pressures. Crazy player
And no kidding that’s the first football I’ve watched in a long time. That was impressive.
Oddly though, I tuned into the stream of the super bowl and with a min left and saw the biggest play of the game, Thw turnover at the end. I thought it was ironic as soon as I turned in the pats lost the game on the next play.
Banjing
By a lake
In the moonlight
Of course I’m up here. And the news comes on after the football and I see there’s a hurricane up my zzz back home in SC. Gonna have to dip out of Tc after tomorrow’s game. Duty calls
Ha ha, you said duty
😉
F man. I need a pvt jet tonight. The universe is always throwing curveballs and choices at you. I meet it with heart, love and a funky off-kilter attitude towards it. And I let it ride. And I meet it all knowing I got this cuz I’m relentless. Things would be easy if it were a game of hockey. I wish I could play and let out all sorts of energy, but I can’t. So I want a team that plays the way I want to play. Throw me a freakin bone boys
How’s that for direct?
Patches is leaving for Vegas. Decent haul for Habs but Knights gave up a lot for Tatar and then shipped him out so not such a great move at last deadline.
Right on the money SN. Thought I think it’s an absolute haul by Habs for a guy on an expiring contract, but then remembered Tatar’s play after leaving Detroit.
And true – VGK gave up a ton for Tatar, inexplicably.
I wonder if it nets out as “highly paid change-of-scenery guy, top prospect and R2”
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