Good morning, boneheads!
Today is the 7th Birthday of our little one, so I won’t spend too much time on the blog.
This is the article from Larry Brooks, Click here to read it. One thing I want to mention and disagree with him:
“There are good reasons for a team under construction not to buy out players”.
Says who, Larry Brooks? You do what you need to do to keep the players you want. And if you can’t move players, you buyout dead wood. In fact, being under construction means that you will have a good amount of players under control for a few years. Plus, in this case, your most troublesome buyout numbers ( 2020-21 season) will be offset by removing Spooner, Beleskey, by Girardi’s buyout numbers going down, and by some expiring contracts. If Buchnevich, Kreider, DeAngelo aren’t here because they were reluctant to buyout one ( or more ) of the 3 albatross contracts, the construction will be delayed, and not accelerated.
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The Sharty buyout seems to make the least sense given the cap hit next year. Staal makes the most sense but will they have the cajones to pull the trigger on the old plow horse?
ilb’ed.
Last Game 7 vs. Caps, 2015. Lundqvist 35 of 36, .972. Team overcame him giving up that goal. Stepan!
Ovi and Hayes with the other goals. Them were the days.
Reality is trading Names for a pick provides the cap cushion they need for this season
oops! 2nd-to-last game 7!
May 2015, Game 7 ECF – Bishop check mates King.
Games 2 or 3 were not his best form…
2 Henrik Lundqvist L 6 26 20 .769 0 0 60:00
1 Henrik Lundqvist L 6 40 34 .850 0 0 62:57
.928, .211 that year in the playoffs.
2.11
Needed to give Hunwick and Glass more ice time that game 🙂
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hank was the reason we won many playoff series without a doubt, but he was the biggest reason we lost to tampa in the 15 playoffs and he was average to below average against the devils in 13 playoffs and kings in the finals in 14. Never could put together that complete playoffs performance that you need from your goalie in order to win a cup
tom, buch ultimately may not put it altogether at the end of the day, but he is still a young player finding his way in the nhl and clearly loves being a Ranger and Quinn seemed to get through to him at the end of the year. And he obviously would want to play with his countrymen, so don’t think he’ll be a bad influence. Plus you are not getting a lot back for him in a trade.
Names and Strome have been in the league longer but have only proven that they are mediocre players, with Names in particular overpaid.
SN, i don’t think anyone wants Names at that cap hit and i can’t blame them
Games two and three are why there was a game 7 against TB. Caps had them all but done in 2015, till Kreider saved their bacon in games 5 and 6.
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Think about what Kreider did in 2015 against the Caps. Tying goal in game 5 in the last minute, and he of course was the net front presence on the OT winner. Grabbed game 6 by the throat in the first period with two goals. The first early, and on a great individual effort. The second late, by of course being right in front of the net. And he was of course the net front presence on Stepan OT winner in game 7. He’s going to missed terribly when he’s gone.
Hank needed to score a couple of goals against Tampa in game 7. Bishop did not. Checkmate!
Not criticizing Hanks game 7 performances. Criticizing the reason he was in so many game 7s. The middle games of the round where he let them down and forced them to have to win in 7, instead of 4,5 or 6.
ilb, wish ilbette a very happy birthday from Mrs. Doodie, Doodie Jr., Middle Doodie, and Baby Doodie.
oh, and me.
In game 6, HL with 42 of 45 to hold on to what had been 4-1. Game 5, 28 of 29. And atta boy Kreider, but c’mon. The stats speak for themselves, and it requires tortured arguments to lay playoff losses on Lundqvist. He will always wonder what might have been if he’d had a Cup-roster team in front of him and can be proud of leading the merely good ones as far as he did.
In any event, good preseason warmup for the Hump-Hank sweepstakes sure to feature this season!
He did have a cup – roster in front of him. Those 13/14 and 14/15 teams were cup winning rosters. Those teams do not get enough credit for how good they were. I, for one, certainly lay the blame of the cup finals at his feet. He let them down.
ilb,
Happy sweet 7 to your little princess. It is still a long, long joyous way to 26. Best wishes to her and congrats to you and your lovely wife.
This is not to say I don’t think Hank was great. I think he was great. He’s a HOFer. He was just never quite good enough in the playoffs.
“I, for one, certainly lay the blame of the cup finals at his feet. He let them down.”
I disagree here, strongly.
And the 14-15 team absolutely let him down, not the other way around, no two ways about it.
They didn’t get it done; turn the page, jeez, some here just like to argue. Perpetual strawman BS.
Happy birthday little ILB
Don’t let wicky ruin your birthday.
He’s a real party pooper
🚽
Lotta games for Hank on Ranger teams that were offensively impaired.
Like it or not his career will be somewhat defined by SCF performance and game 7 vs Tampunks.
Once again if there is a middle ground to be found I’d sign Kreider
But why would he not demand the Hayes contract?
The thing of it is that the 14 team that made the SCF didn’t belong there. They got hot at the right time and had a spark from Marty St Louis that fueled their run. That said if they were gonna have a chance to win they’d need Hank to steak it. He couldn’t. End of story for most people despite the fact that the team in front of him was back on their heels for 5 straight games.
The buyout situation is tough. Shatty makes sense. Staal makes even more sense. Either way it ya addition by subtraction defensively.
As for the mystery intangibles they associate with Staal? No idea but it seems like they have to use a buyout to keep the guys they want/need.
Happy birthday to the little one, ILB.
Hopefully you’re home now so that Wicky doesn’t hog all the birthday cake for himself.
And agree 100% BDL. Kreider saved their butts against the Caps and Stepan obviously was a big factor making the play on two OT winners.
Is the charp live now?
Re the D, the ideal set up to me is
SkjeL trouba
Hajek shattenkirk
Lindgren fox
Smith is your 7th
I’d send deangelo packing and buyout staal.
I do think shattenkirk is tradeable though.
doodie, in games 2 and 3 against Tampa hank let in 12 goals. Game 3 is the standout as the Rangers scored 5 goals and still lost in OT on the weakest of goals.
in two games vs the kings the rangers had 2-0 leads and lost both games. there were other culprits in those games for sure (staal, richards spring to mind), but he wasn’t at his best when they needed him the most. It happens, but no reason to say he was let down by his teammates in those games
Pete you can make that same argument about game 3(I think) against Ottawa in 16.
I’m not going to relitigate this. It’s wrong, that’s all I’m going to say.
sadly i don’t think there’s anyway staal gets bought out this year and my guess is not next year either. the organization clearly likes him
Wick, unless the rangers are giving up a good asset in the deal and eating cap (or taking on a bad deal) i don’t think shatty is tradeable because otherwise he’d already be gone and same for Smith and Names
The ’14 team was facing the refs as well as the Kings in the SCF. Hard to win in those circumstances, especially for an underdog.
If Hank stole a game it’s still an uphill battle from there. Granted the whole dynamic of the series could be different, but there’s no guarantee much changes.
The rangers lost against Tampa due to coaching, the kings due to hank, and the sens due to glass and coaching.
They lost to Tampa because of injuries IMO
Pete
Just my opinion of course but I think they are seeing how a few things play out and I’m not 100% sure they want to be rid of shattenkirk or feel he’s the dreck that many fans do.
The better team won the 2014 SCF. You can hang it all on Hank if you want though.
Buyouts
I actually went and crunched some numbers. If we buy out Shattenkirk that’s all we NEED to do for this year. Assuming all the RFA’s come in around where we expect, we’d be a tad under 500,000 below the cap.
His numbers next year go way up but it’s not actually a problem. Girardi’s numbers go down 2.5, Beleskey is off the books (825,000), NTL is off the books (4.0) and we have only Fast and Strome?, besides Kreider, to sign. Neither of the former figure to be getting a raise. So, to crunch, Shat’s numbers go up 4.6, we’ve saved 6.5 (allowing for elc to replace NTL) and assume cap goes up by 2. We’ve room enough to give Kreider 7 and still be comfortably (almost 2 million) below cap next year.
Problem is, of course, we’ve very little wiggle room this year but now it’s possible to retain salary (1 million) on NTL to make a trade more palatable and gain that extra space.
Here in all its glory/gory, assuming it makes it past the blog spam filter. HL performance, picked up in general at the point it mattered. Goals given up in the parens are his goals, not game goals. Sorry if formatting sucks. My take, HL and NYR played more games than they needed to. Killer instinct almost always lacking.
05/06: Devs L(6) L(4) L(3) L(4)
06/07: Sweep ATL
Buf 2-2, L(2) L(5)
07/08: Devs 4-1 (game 3 loss)
Pit down 3-0 W(0) L(3)
08/09: Caps up 3-1 L(4) L(5) L(2)
10/11: Caps down 2-1 L(4) L(3)
11/12: Ott tied 2-2 L(1) W(2) W(1)
Caps up 3-2 L(2) W(1)
Devs up 2-1 L(3) L(4) L(3)
12/13: Caps tied 2-2 L(2) W(0) W(0)
Bos down 3-1 W(3) L(2)
13/14: Phi up 3-2 L(4) W(1)
Pit down 3-1 W(1) W(1) W(1)
Mtl up 3-1 L(4 pulled) W(0)
LAK down 3-1 W(1) L(3)
14/15: Pit up 3-1 W(1)
Caps down 3-1 W(1) W(3) W(1)
TB tied 2-2 L(2) W(3) L(2)
15/16: Pit tied 1-1 L(2) L(4) L(6 pulled)
16/17: Mtl tied 2-2 W(2) W(1)
Ott tied 2-2 L(5) L(3)
Staal saves 2.8 then 2 over the next 2 years so probably not enough on its own if Trouba gets a big deal
Btw, thanks to Dolan, Panarin is now the most highly paid athlete of Russia and the second highest paid hockey player in the world.
Girardi, singing in shower: “I have a structured settlement and I need CASH now!”
buyout Shatty. use Smith as swingman on 22 man roster.
problem solved.
4.35m against the cap is too much for a swing man, especially one who isn’t very good in either role.
CCCP perhaps technicall true but Ovy wins this one. At end of his contract his career earnings will be 135.5. Breadman 100.5 Ovy would be 36 at start of a new contract, breadman 35. And Ovy had some good stock markets too.
Shatts gave us a hometown discount, but it’s Gorton who was 20% off.
@anerin – see my post from yesterday, you still need to do more than just buyout Kirk unless you play down a man on the roster.
they may not wick and he’s the guy i’d rather have over Staal, Smith and Tony D as well. but do think he’d be very hard to trade. may need to retain $2m in salary on Names to move him, but if you do that, buyout smith and then buyout or move strome i think we’d be ok this year and can then reassess shatty/staal buyouts next offseason
Why did Gorton give Smith so much $? He correctly saw that we needed toughness – but you can find toughness for $750 thou.
FWIW, the charts are very kind to Shattenkirk from last season, but only at ES. He was actually dreadful on the PP, which is supposed to be his calling card.
I do not completely agree with the charts in this instance. I agree with somethings the charts are reflecting, which is that he was probably the second best among last year’s defensemen at exiting the d zone and entering the o zone with possession, which was a low bar. And he was also pretty good, relatively speaking, in the offensive zone. He was definitely victimized, to an extent, by having his three most common partners be Claesson, Smith, and Staal. And while I do think he had some bad luck that led to his gaffes frequently ending up in the net, his game is nowhere near where it used to be.
I think a lot of people hate him because of the style of player he is and the big ticket he signed that he absolutely has not even been close to living up to, but he is definitely better than some of the other dreck that was on our defense last year and this year. Pionk and Smith were not NHL-caliber defensemen. They didn’t even offer Claesson a QO. Staal is also horrendous. Shattenkirk, of course, makes much more money than they do, but he is definitely better than they are. Again, I’m damning him with faint praise but I can only compare him to his teammates.
Pete
Smith like all the other S defense and Henrik, is a sunk cost. Making the best of a bad situation. Doesn’t look like any of them are tradeable (not counting Skjei) even with retained salary.
He also has some snarl in his game which is lacking in our lineup.
Shots in the LA-NY final: 194-146. If only the Rangers had had better goaltending. And the one game shots went the other way? All three Kings goals off Ranger deflections. GD Lundqvist!
A couple of series stand out to me. The Devils in 12. Down 3 zip in game 5. Came back to tie it, only to have Hank give it right back. The finals against LA. 2 zip lead in game one. 3 seperate 2 goal leads in game two, and a third period lead in game 5 he has to lock at least one of those games down, if not two. The last one is the series that brought us to where we are today. The Ottawa series. AV was brutal, that’s the biggest issue, but Hank did no favors to the team in that series. He was flat out awful.
This is not to say he did not have great moments. He had way more great than bad.
Also, for what it’s worth, something interesting statistically about DeAngelo. He was the player on the team last year with the highest percentage of controlled zone exits (as opposed to just dumping it out which is much more likely to lead to another zone entry by the other team) as well as the player with the highest percentage of offensive zone entries with possession (as opposed to playing dump and chase, which is less likely to produce scoring opportunities, especially with the makeup of this team). Not only that, but he was among the best players in the entire league at these particular and valuable skills.
Of course, the flip side of that coin, and why DeAngelo isn’t a good defenseman, is that he was among the worst in the league at defending the opposing team from doing the same thing to us. In other words, with him on the ice, the opposing team would have a very high chance of exiting their defensive zone and entering our offensive zone with possession. He is also particularly bad (though definitely not the worst) at defending those possessions in order to retrieve possession and make use of the valuable portion of his skillset.
Bottom line, when he’s on the ice, prepare to be entertained.
Noted for the record, from Carp, Staal vs. Shatty, “not even close”, I believe was the expression. Guess in which direction.
I shouldn’t say the charts say Shatty was dreadful on the PP. Pionk was dreadful. Shattenkirk was simply ineffective. But when he’s paid big bucks to be a top PPQB, the bang for your buck is dreadful.
Carp loves Staal, though. He’s always much higher on him than most other people.
a lot of people thing Shatty is tradable with the exception of every GM in the NHL
Staal , like Richie Rich, gives (gave) the working Press interviews anytime, anyplace. For that, they give him 10 extra points.
Bev is very talented with puck on stick; biggest issue with Sharty signing is they had already traded for Bev to begin the rebuild. Sharty is the absolute last thing they needed at that point.
I was never a fan of the Shattenkirk signing ( was a fan of the Smith signing). The signs were there with the Blues, and then the Caps. I would still keep him this year. Staal, and Smith should be bought out before Shattenkirk. The left side is deeper organizationally than the right. Hajek/Lindgren/Rykov could step right in. The right side as Keane signed to a contract, but I don’t think it would be a smart idea for him to be the extra RD behind Trouba, Fox, and Tony D.
neither Shatty or DeAngelo are good defensively but DeAngelo can skate and bring same offense -powerplay impact as Shatty for alot less
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Wasn’t very nice of Trotz to warn the NHL of Shatty’s foibles, but his evaluation should have been heeded.
I’m with Norm on the Hank front
Sure now I wish his 8.5 mil wasn’t hamstringing our cap but our success would not have been as great without him as the backbone of those teams.
Just couldn’t get it done as a team back then. And hank I’m sure would say I’m any interview that he wants every goal back. If we lose 1-0 he wants that one back.
Every goalie has games where goals are scored. Just because some ransoms game 3 he let’s in five doesn’t mean he cost us the series when he bounces back when it counts
Did you see Bennington this year who is now a Stanley cup champion?During the finals there were some calling for his head after one game and saying Allen should get the start. Good grief
Random not ransoms
https://twitter.com/baamboo22/status/1151876221145427969?s=21
Small market = Long Island? Ha!
No games in a series are random. If the goalie gives one away, it means you have to play at least one more. The more the games add up, the more beaten down the team gets.
Trade Namestnikov, trade Strome. Then you don’t have to worry about buy outs. I’d even buy out Namestnikov before wayyyyyy before buying out Staal or Smith. You save almost as much money as you would buying out Smith or Staal and for a much cheaper and shorter cap penalty after this season.
That is logically true BDL
Just don’t think you lay blame so easily on one player when SC champs are crowned as a team
Sounds like you hate hank. Didn’t know that before.
It’s not only Carp on Staal. Hockey people are decidedly pro-Staal relative to social media types. Doesn’t make them right, just makes them experts.
When Hank publicly called out Step, he was obviously at the end of his rope. And for good reason.
‘Experts’ my azz.
Cregg,
I don’t hate Hank. Just an opinion on him.
Doodie,
If they could trade Namestnikov, they would have already.
Hockey people? Pray tell…
FYI – Carp is a reporter not an analyst.
If I think Staal should be bought out or traded, does that mean I hate him too? Coos will certainly tell you that I don’t hate Staal. that doesn’t mean I don’t see what I see. And I see a guy who’s best days are way behind him.
To the argument that a goalie giving up a mid-series game wears his team down, again, that only applies to teams who are being worn down, the lesser team in other words. So, sure, Lundqvist didn’t steal the final series against LA, though he sure stole other series, in particular the Penguins that year, whom they had no business beating, to get them as far as they went. Down 3-1, he saved of 102 of 105–steal. That folks expected him to do that for the next 5 is part of the perception problem.
Carp for the last couple of years has had someone in the Rangers organization giving him solid info. My guess is if Carp is saying Staal over Shattenkirk, that’s what the Ranger organization thinks as well.
Uh… ‘Unlikely we will sign Panarin.’
Sorry, when I wrote, “It’s not only Carp on Staal. Hockey people are decidedly pro-Staal…” I was drawing a distinction between Carp and hockey people (such as Gorton and Quinn). They are decidedly more expert than we are, or at least we’d hope so! So when somebody writes that Shatty is “definitely” better than Staal, I merely offer the observation, that’s all.
Playing extra games you could have prevented playing, wears a team down. Winning in 5, instead of 7, makes a difference in the long run. Especially in the first two rounds.
He didn’t need to steal the LA series. He just needed to do his job. If your team gives you two goal leads, and leads in the third period, your job is to lock it down. His team was doing there jobs. They had leads.
Staal seems a shy, low-key, quality human being. Hockey? Uh…no more.
Yeah, he missed that one Coos.
Hockey people is Gorton, the Asst GM who signed Staal and DQ, the coach who has no option but to play him on an awful D.
At least we are not hearing how the NYR D is the best anymore…
Bwahahahaha!
Having the trust of the NYR brass cuts both ways; inside access but served up to offer the best possible faced the org.
A Faustian bargain for an objective reporter serving their readership
Faced the org = face of the org
Staal on 3rd pair will be just fine… and Staal over Shattenkirk was established last year…Shatty was the one benched and he was off 1st powerplay unit most of year …that speaks volumes to what organization thinks..Quinn didn’t seem to let his friendship to get in the way of those moves last year so why should it change this year…If Shatty sticks around he may be watching alot of games this year .
There are zero Ranger vets whose best days aren’t behind them. Lundqvist, Staal, Shattenkirk, [Smith]. That’s not a lot of vets, not the biggest problem facing the Rs this season.
Staal apologists: The blind leading the blind.
Pathetic D, pathetic D coaching drove Hank to tears.
Quinn played Staal because he wanted to win the game in front of him, and he was in any hockey guy’s top 6. (The Rangers’ top 6, that is.)
playing with Staal dropped the Corsi for every other defenseman on the team.
Staal played the most minutes (668) with Neal Pionk. With Staal, Pionk’s 5v5 Corsi was 41.42%. Pionk played 495 minutes with other partners and his Corsi increased to 47.61%. Tony DeAngelo played 389 minutes paired with Staal and had a Corsi rating of 43.67%. Without Staal he played 599 minutes and his Corsi was 47.31%. In fewer minutes, there was the same result for Kevin Shattenkirk, Brady Skjei and Brendan Smith.
Yet, Coach David Quinn continued to put Staal in the position of defending against the opponents top lines. Staal led the team in defensive zone starts and was on the ice for the most defensive zone faceoffs of any Ranger.
My thoughts, through all the conversation of the past and why the Rangers didn’t win the cup there’s plenty of blame to go around for why they came up short. Having said that I would have to agree with James, the biggest issue with why they didn’t win the cup was they were offensively challenged when it counted the most. The Minx has spoken!
let’s not let coaching usage define quality. Lots of crappy defensemen get played a ton and that doesn’t make them good players.
As for our own coach, as an example, Quinn used Staal-Pionk a ton on the PK despite the fact that any eye test or statistical analysis clearly shows them to be one of the worst penalty killing duos in the entire league, if not the worst.
I love it–Quinn peering down at his tablet and watching those Corsi proxies. It’s great that the advanced-stats folks are doing what they’re doing, but until those stats are predicated on other than shots and blocked shots, it’s garbage-in, garbage-out. All of it will get better once they generate enough revenue to catch up to soccer and get more game input. Could be a long wait.
Staal for all of his on ice performance issues still wasn’t the worst defensive player the last two seasons.
Guy has been a good teammate and is respected by most the league as well as the organization and that I’m sure includes JD.
That in a nutshell is why we don’t hear anyone saying he’s a guy they’d like to buyout despite what we may think about it.
I think the fact that this roster is/was inundated with “puck moving dmen” at times is what has a lot of us tired of Shatty. He hasn’t had a single “big moment” and will leave behind no Ranger legacy other than “being from New Ro”….who cares? I mean I’m from new ro too. Haven’t seen a check for four million yet.
Oh I’m sorry make that SIX million.
Norm, the deeper analysis IS predicated on much more.
For instance, I just mentioned DeAngelo’s zone entry and exit percentages. That has nothing to do with shots.
LA kicked our butts from mid point of each game through ot. One way traffic. That was also their 2nd cup in 3 years and they beat a great Chicago team to get to finals. Sometimes the other team is simply better.
We lost game 7 to Tampa due to injuries. Yes it’s part of the game.
Rather than sticking your head in the sand and just assuming it’s worthless, you should actually read about it.
I used to think it was all nonsense as well. Obviously, I’ve since been convinced that it is extremely valuable information.
closer to SEVEN million James.
James – Agree Staal was the shiny cr@p in the shiht parade that is/was the NYR D…
Happy 7th to your little one!
not saying that coaching usage defines quality just pointing out what it says about the organization’s opinion of Staal vs. Shattenkirk . Quinn didn’t have many defensive options last year. Trouba should help along with Staal’s advanced stats (yippee!)based on third pair minutes and match ups.
I’m talking about Corsi being predicated on shots ‘n’ blocks, RR2. And a bit immoderate of you (get it?) to stick my head in the sand given just about all I do here is look stuff up. 🙂
Vancouver is paying Tyler Myers 30 million over 5 years. Erik Gudbranson and Jack Johnson continue to be well-compensated defensemen. The Leafs are paying Codi Ceci 4.5MM.
In other words: organizations can be wrong.
OK, but even in that regard, people doing advanced stats work don’t just look at corsi. It’s one stat. It’s just like how you can’t just look at a guy’s TOI to determine whether he’s good or not.
https://www.nhl.com/rangers/news/rangers-agree-to-terms-with-free-agent-forward-phillip-di-giuseppe/c-308291586
RR2, I’m a confirmed nerd and I like the idea of advanced stats, they’re getting better, and Sznajder in particular is doing good work, but it’s still in its infancy. Corsi is a ship that’s sailed, IMO. Served its purpose, groundbreaking and all that, but too little input. I mentioned soccer, which is insane in its number of inputs, and there’s also baseball, where you have fielders standing in highly probably good positions. Hockey’s not there yet, unless there’s stuff I don;t know about yet–highly probable!
I think advanced stats have a role just somewhere in the middle between the stat geeks and the naysayers
I have no interest in filling my brain with them though but I’m glad some people are willing to look at them (like how Vally explains some plays).
I don’t want to get stuck in a quagmire or watching a game with those goggles on (let alone playing it)
How do they decide what stats are relevant and where the gold standard lays?
Like…if you don’t play the game the way Crosby plays it and have a different score on measurables than you suck. If you post possession number like the most recent norris trophy winner than that means your good?
Can you win and MVP or a Norris with some advanced stats looking like doo doo but others showing your the best in the league at something?
Vally’s company, Clear Sight Analytics, has a ton of proprietary data and metrics that are not publicly available. I’ve heard some people who have been able to see some of their data and they were all thoroughly impressed.
Cregg, why don’t you read about their methodologies, then?
Norm, baseball is the ultimate stat sport because of the incredibly high number of controlled interactions.
Hockey is trending towards where soccer is. What is holding it back are a bunch of stuffy old “hockey men” who refuse to see the value in it. Soccer, especially at the high-stakes European level, was much more responsive to change and to spending money to figure out what works best. Ditto for basketball.
@anerin – see my post from yesterday, you still need to do more than just buyout Kirk unless you play down a man on the roster.’
Which the Rangers have been doing a good deal of for the last 3 years anyway. And, if you haven’t noticed, Quinn is not a coach who is comfortable moving guys in and out of the lineup. It’s a tool he uses for getting someone’s notice rather than tactically. I think he would be happier with a 22 man roster than a 23 man roster.
As we get closer to trouba’s and Buchnevich’s arbitration hearings it appears that the only solution is for the rangers to go with the buyout options. I think teams who have cap room don’t want to help teams who need to shed salary and why the rangers haven’t been able to make trades to free cap space.
Baseball has 3+ times the revenue of hockey. Soccer infinitely more 🙂
Coincidentally, I recently discovered that Sjznader blocked me on Twitter because of a harmless joke about a typo
tommy, then why have teams been trading with the Leafs and Lightning?
What, did he spell his own name incorrectly?
Oh, crap, now I’M blocked.
ha, I wonder why.
it doesn’t really matter. CJ Turturo has great dataviz using Szjnader’s data.
His recent tableau that compares NHL players to pokemon is pretty amazing.
There is now a good portion of hockey fans who no longer watch the actual game. They will go directly to the advanced STATS and then tell you who was good, and who was bad. For example, no person who actually watched Kevin Shattenkirk play last year will tell you he was good. But during this off season people are telling us that Shattenkirk was actually good last year based off is ” underlying numbers”. I can’t respect that opinion. My eyes do not lie. I understand for some it’s a way to confirm what they saw, and enhance their enjoyment of the game. I do that with the regular box score. just as looking at the regular box score, and seeing that Joe Smith was plus three in 12 minutes of ice, after not having watched the game, and then coming to the conclusion, Joe Smith was good and had a major effect on the game, would be silly. I think using the underlying numbers without having watched the game would be silly.
Also I want to apologize to Coos and Norm for that paragraph above. I know it’s a grammatical nightmare. I lost my way a bit, and couldn’t find my way back. But I think I managed to make a point.
so no talk about the new guy?
NYR Stats & Info
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Phillip Di Giuseppe, 25, has skated in 150 career NHL games over parts of four seasons with CAR and NSH, registering 14 goals and 27 assists for 41 points. In his NHL career, Di Giuseppe’s team has recorded 52.05% of shot attempts at 5-on-5 when he has been on the ice. #NYR
In high school hockey, which I know a little bit about, even with a stud on the other team it’s about the little things, the mistakes you don’t make, all that, which make the biggest difference if the two teams are competitive. I have to imagine coaches believe the little things are even more important at the NHL level, and that’s where the eye test is always going to matter the most, as much as advanced stats help. When those stats tell as precise a story as the eye–a guy making a lazy line change, not taking the hit to make a play, losing his gap, rink-turning away from the play, etc., then you can learn about last night’s game from them.
Good god, BDL, it’s a blog. Can;t execpt perfect speling or grammer on a bolg.
More Russians
https://twitter.com/BroadStBull/status/1151867276980887552?s=20
doodie, because the leafs and lightning had players that were good players, nobody wants the rangers garbage like shattenkirk, staal, smith, Namestnikov or strome and there bloated contracts.
BDL, anyone looking at just stats is doing it equally wrong as someone who ignores them completely. They are there to get you to question what your eyes are telling you and/or help you understand why your eyes are correct. Sometimes I find that looking at the stats helps me notice things my eyes missed. Sometimes I find that the stats say things that my eyes don’t agree with, no matter how hard I look to find what the stats say.
More information is always good.
Zaitsev isn’t good. Marleau isn’t good (though they paid quite a bit there).
JT Miller is an OK player but not a first round pick.
Just FYI, AnthonyM, one of the few posters in here worth reading, has passed away. RIP.
https://twitter.com/broadstbull/status/1151867276980887552?s=21
WHAT!?
FYI- seriously, when, how, and how do you know?
i hope to god that’s not true about Anthony.
know he works at Iona
I really hope that’s not true. He was posting as recently as last week.
His last post was about Young Frankenstein
i think it is true. looked up ranger ramblings
came up with anthony mastantuoni
googled that name and saw his obit and his wifes
God bless his soul
Terrible news.
A New York Rangers Blog » About Anthony … – Ranger Ramblings
http://www.rangerramblings.com/about/
Anthony Mastantuoni covers the New York Rangers via Ranger Ramblings for NY Sports Day . He spent 10 years writing two columns for Ranger Fan Central …
God I hope that’s not true about Anthony.
oh god damn it. This sucks.
https://www.yannantuonofh.com/notices/Anthony-Mastantuoni
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Wow. I really hope Anthony is alive but who would post that if it weren’t true so u have to expect it is.
Thank you FYI for sharing the info so we don’t go on wondering why he is not posting. I may have to tell my wife or put in my will to let you guys know if that happens to me.
He was a fantastic poster to read and share the Rangers with!
RIP AnthonyM
Just absolutely devastating news.
Going to miss talking prospects and draft with him
Only 55 years young
Wasn’t he the one mentioning the recent hospital or Nursing home stay he had to treat a difficult wound infection a couple months back?
He was our very own draft guru
his wife was at the same place a few years ago
Rosemary MastantuoniRosemary Mastantuoni passed away on May 20, 2016 at the age of 56. She was born on February 27, 1960 in the Bronx, NY to Louis and Elizabeth (Cullen) Castaldo. Rosemary was the youngest of 9 children. She is survived by her loving husband; Anthony, sisters and brother in laws;…
Happy he got to see the Rangers draft Kaako
The only blessing is that he is with his wife now, who he missed so dearly.
Distressing in the extreme.
yes Cregg
bad case of diabetes
which made me think it was true unfortunately
Doodie all ball breaking aside, I’m gradually trying to read up and be more knowledgeable on some of this stuff. It’s good to know all the details even if you don’t necessarily agree with those details.
I think he died of a broken heart.
he seemed like the kindest of souls. nobody would get mad at him.
makes me think of Tony from Az too
Oh crap….
Can someone let Carp know, please?
Dead Horse, it wasn’t who you said it was. I can tell by checking IP addresses.
I didn’t know Anthony. Anthony, rest in peace.
you can see his pic with rosemary on his facebook page
Absolutely terrible news. He was among my friends on FB. Great guy and faithful Ranger. Thoughts and tears. RIP.
AnthonyM homepage
We will miss you, Anthony.
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Awful news. Wicky and I just found out. I don’t want to put up a new post, I’m still hoping it’s not our Anthony. I’m probably just denying it. I’ve never met him, but I knew him more than just a blog poster. We’ve had a lot of behind the scenes conversations, especially when his wife was very sick. He was a soft, loving person with a big heart. RIP, AnthonyM. We will miss you.
Omg
Thoughts and prayers for anthonym’s friends and family
And I’ll be praying through the day that he is already reunited with his wife and dancing the stars
RIP AnthonyM
This is heartbreaking. Kindest of souls and a true blue Ranger fan.
Rest In Peace.
Heartbroken. Sucks cuz it sounded on the outside like he wanted to keep going.
Maybe deep down he just wanted to be with his wife.
Godspeed Anthony
Unfortunately, it is our Anthony who passed away. RIP Anthony.
We lose another Anthony… hope they both wear pants wherever they are.
Really sad news about Anthony’s passing, he will truly be missed, RIP Anthony!
RIP Anthony. You are an awesome guy! Thanks for all your insight, conversations, and friendship.
You will be missed but always remembered!
Rest in Peace Anthony
Anthony you’ll Be irreplaceable.
I can only say thank you for the wonderful conversations.
That first Kakko goal will be for you my friend. Rest well now that your Rosie is beside you again.
https://twitter.com/HockeyStatMiner/status/1151970122791313414
My eyeballs did not like trying decifer that chart c3. My brain energy is too low this late in day
Yeah, too much of too much in that chart…
I’m late to the game, but RIP AnthonyM. Truly terrible news.
Very sad to hear of Anthony’s passing. A really sweet guy and full blown Ranger fan. Rest In Peace friend.
Sorry to hear about AnthonyM. His knowledge, class and passion will be missed. R.I.P.
Just awful news about Anthony. A stark reminder of how short we’re on this planet. So live …and love with all you have.
SN…. another big Dave fan I see. Saw them for night 1 at SPAC last night. Appropriate song to post….
*last weekend
So sorry to hear about Anthony. Never spoke to him directly, but came across as a knowledgeable fan and a good guy. Rest In Peace.
Very sad news. RIP AnthonyM.
RIP AnthonyM. Shocking news. Shocking.
Rest peacefully, AnthonyM
This place won’t be the same without you, fellow Bonehead.
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