Good Morning boys. I know BDL will appreciate the early post and the other was getting too long
ICYMI- reports last night were that Rick Tocchet is set to interview for the HC job for the Rangers. He’ll also interview with Seattle.
Also, Chris Kreider was nominated for the King Clancy award.,
UPDATE 5/19
Official announcement on Grier hiring:
https://www.nhl.com/rangers/news/mike-grier-named-hockey-operations-advisor/c-324824212?cmp=osc_nyr
5/20:
https://theathletic.com/2596036/2021/05/19/the-rangers-cap-situation-heading-into-the-offseason-how-signings-or-trades-now-add-to-long-term-uncertainty/
315 responses to “Playoffs, Some Housekeeping (updated)”
Watching the first few games of the playoffs and the way the games are played….a battle for every loose puck, a war in front of the net and along the wall, no space to fly through the neutral zone, coincidental minor penalties the rage because the officials don’t have the bawls to put a team down a man……..
As for acquiring the right type of player suited for playoff hockey, I would give the Gorton / JD tandem a grade of F.
I’m glad they are gone.
I hope Drury gets it.
The deals that frustrate me were O’Reilly, Kadri, Trocheck, and PLD. Any of them could have changed the fate of this thing dramatically.
O’Reilly was traded for a relatively reasonable package in the summer of ’18. Kadri was a hockey trade with Barrie as the center piece and had term left on a reasonable salary, Trocheck went for three prospects and they took on Haula then let him walk.
PLD went for two legit pieces and probably would have been tough to match.
At the end of the day Gorton didn’t have any interest.
Coos the worst part about McQuaid was that they let him go as a rental and he took a cheap shot and was done in by it.
Career over, concussion issues for McQuaid, nothing to show for the trade by either team and another hole that needed plugging on the Rangers’ roster. Talk about a damn shame across the board.
Only thing Drury gets is text messages from Sather to make sure he’s falling in line : D
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Peanut sounding like brooks, stealing the stuff I’ve been saying for years!
Good stuff btw and well articulated sir!
I’m annoyed with the lack of movement in the draft to get the right guys (I’m talking moves of less than ten spots) and the inability to get trades done for guys (like Bennett or kadri or marchment etc) by over valuing that extra mid round puck it might have cost…couple that with the organization’s inability to identify the kind of players you actually need to be successful and then acquire them….and it has turned into this under the hedgehog’s “stewardship”
Ha, Pageau!!!
Wonder if JD thinks highly enough of Quinn to bring him in for an interview?
James
I feel the same way about hertl that you do Monahan
Monahan & Hertl 20′ pole!
Rooney-Barron-reaves
sounds good
Kreider-Rooney-reeves
when we play Washington
Yzerman extended Jeff Blashill. He seems to be following the Jeff Gorton slow rebuild model. I’ll say this about Yzerman, he missed on a lot of high picks in Tampa, but he hit on a lot of them too. Brayden Point and Kucherov in particular, but others as well. Traded Drouin for Sergachev. Just looked up his Tony D. trade. He traded a young DeAngelo to Arizona for their 2nd round pick in 2016. With that pick, Yzerman picked Libor Hajek. Lol.
Rangers were taking zegras at 6OA if they didn’t move up to 2
And the rangers were gonna take lundell at 12-13 if they didn’t move up to #1.
It’s ironic actually, if we didn’t luck into the lottery, we would have the centers and be pining for some wingers
Honestly honestly honestly.
I don’t buy for a second that an elite forward who’s big and skates well can’t make the move to center from the wing. My entire life I felt this way. Guys should be able play either wing and if guys are elite and top players they should be able to play center.
I’d move kravtsov or laffy to center for a full season and see how it looks at the end of it. Personally
JPP-Torts moved Pierre Luc Dubois to center when he was only 19. Played with Panerin and Josh Anderson. I’d say that worked out pretty well.
Just to clarify, the part about moving PLD to center worked out well. Ironically, not one of those guys is still in Columbus, including Torts.
Meanwhile in Tampa NHL’s finest bending the blue line to neglect a Lightning delay of game.
Once upon a time almost Ranger Bennet with the only goal so far.
Suck it, refs!
I mean honestly.
The idea the best hockey players in the world, and I mean the best of them can’t shift over to center.
Or the concept that you determine at 18, 19, 20, that the kid is a winger and it’s too late in his development or something to make the switch.
I think it’s one of the more brain dead elements to hockey philosophy
JPP, fwiw, Laffy looked strong to me on faceoffs. Battling and winning a lot of the ones he took.
Great first period by the cats.
McDonut became a dirty player with the lightning.
Dirty player = playoff performer
Take no quarter
Who scored the first Florida goal?, I missed it.
Gotcha Wick, still don’t know understand by what metric Lias was deemed to be the most NHL ready. Guy screamed bottom 6C from the start.
If Laf or Kravtsov is learning center it likely be in Hartford for at least awhile and that presents potential issues for both (ie does Kravtsov still have an out to KHL), including from an optics perspective of putting Laf in Hartford to learn a new position different from the one he was just drafted first overall. Me thinks Dolan wouldn’t love or have the patience for that one.
Would be classic NYR; draft winger 1OA and try to make him a center
Wick, I’ve been calling for Gorton’s firing since the bubble.
Wicky that 405 was for you❤️
If they had Zegras and Lundell they’d still have Kravtzov and probably would have had the balls to convert Chytil to wing by now on a permanent basis. Add Barron to that mix and the roster is definitely more balanced going forward.
But that isn’t to say they didn’t make out with two excellent players..
Musky come back! There was something in everything about you
Panthers looking like the Rangers right now…
Nah, SN. Dirty does not equal “playoff performer” in McDonut’s case. He already had that.
Dirty equals dirty for him now.
Pete
Then you should have been doing bob McKenzie’s and Craig button’s and various other talking heads at that draft because after the pick they were all saying he was the most nhl ready centre available.
You’re debating the wrong topic with the wrong person. I was merely pointing out the consensus of the talking heads on Lias being the most nhl ready centre.
You should be debating with the hedgehog about why pick the most nhl ready centre if you’ve got thus “grand plan” for long term success instead of next few years. Tell him to pick the more talented guy that would be a better nhl centre that had time to develop in the system before fitting into the “grand plan” down the road…
Oh, that’s right lol…pr stunt
Peanut
Good on you, you’re catching on!
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James
I feel bad I didn’t get you anything:(
Here you go….
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Ha Pageau part deux
Come on pens!!!
Looks like the Tampa refs are back ….
Oooh…it’s getting chippy, love it!
Gotta love Jeff Carter. Very good pickup by the Pens.
Great game on the Island. I hope these two teams kill each other.
not trying to quarrel with you at all Wick. Just saying it was idiotic for them to leave talent and upside in the table at the 7th overall pick, regardless of anything else. I think that was Clark and by proxy Gorton thinking they were the smartest guys in the room and by all accounts they are not by a long stretch
Pete
I agree 100%
Cccp
It’s a great game, love the chippy play
What a great signing tanev was…way to f that up too hedgehog
I hope Pierre McTalkingPenis doesn’t get hired by ESPN.
GO PANTHERS!
Fourth liner tied the game for NYI. Fourth liner got the lead back for Pens.
What a hit by l’étang then Crosby…wow
SUCK A BIG ONE, FISH*ICKS!
…Fourth liner wins the game in Tampa
Crosby =Beast
Sorry tanev, not l’étang
F Tampa and F the fishies
I’ll say it now, gorton the hedgehog was worse than sather!
Now Wicky… tell us what you really think of Gorton lol
Weird, every team in the playoffs has a captain?!
Rangers don’t need one though, it doesn’t matter.
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With a new coach coming in, it might take another few years before they name a new captain. 2018 was the last time we had a captain. Going on four years without one.
Montreal is gonna be a tough out for the Leaves. I like Habs’ current roster.
Vegas captain mark stone is just ripping his team on the bench after they go down 2-0 in the game…Vegas goes on to score five straight goals. First and last goal of the five scored by mark stone.
#rangersthinkcaptainsdontmatter
Wow, Tavares did not look ok at all after that.
Tav kayoed, little doubt.
Scary moment. Last I read, Tavares is in the hospital overnight and will undergo more tests, but is doing okay so far. I didn’t think the fight was necessary. The incident was clearly an accident and Foligno obviously knew it.
I almost drove off the road when they attempted to sit him up and he keeled back while his legs were folded underneath him. That was an ugly moment. Where I normally just listen and take glances, it sucked me in as it happened was like a 1.5 and it made me do a full body shiver and then I felt the rumble strips
I know the Toronto trainers were panicked and it happened fast. But they know better than to try sitting him up right away after he was unconscious.
The post has an article on a famous college baseball game. It’s the 40 year anniversary of it. Yale vs Saint Johns. It famous because two future major league pitchers went head to head throwing 11 innings of shutout baseball. Frank Viola for Johns, and Ron Darling for Yale. Darling threw 11 innings of no hit baseball in the game. Why I am I bringing this up on a Rangers blog you ask? Because of this trivia question. Who was the Yale short stop?
Should have put this in the question, he was a future Ranger.
Bob Brooke?
I normally am a fan of fights. Like the landeskog one.
But, the foligno perry fight makes zero sense to me
There was nothing intentional or dirty with what Perry did. That could have been anyone.
Taveras should have been in a c-collar right off the bat
Easy to Monday morning qb as maybe the trainers didn’t see the mechanism
JPP
I implore you. You have mentioned several times lately of your posting whilst driving. Now watching videos. Reading blog posts etc.
Wtf man? You kill an innocent family with purposeful distracted driving you will never forgive yourself nor should we
This place can wait for your text stop
JPP —
cregg7 is absolutely right.
Don’t become a statistic, or create a statistic out of somebody innocent.
Your posts and innocent lives are worth waiting for.
Carp with a very interesting article up. Viewpoints from former Rangers players on the state of the team. Player C called Zibanejad scared, and was not a fan of Kreider leadership.
The idea that Gorton and JD knew the team was going to do something about it this off-season is utter garbage. There was no reason to put a team out there that was one dimensional. If you needed to add tougher placeholders, you do it,(last year and the 2 years before that), but the idea that first you build with all skill and then, once that’s all done, you begin to add will,
is a losing equation. Build a winning culture. Develop the younger guys. Build with balance. Find guys who are leaders and at least one who deserves to wear a “C”
All they had to do was look at 2008-2012 when they turned over the roster and built through two way play and will over skill to become a playoff contender and then cup contender.
Wasn’t that long ago…
Cregg/AA
Well said. I think that JPP might be using the talk to text app though. If I’m wrong then I absolutely agree but if you read his posts sometimes it seems more like dialogue than typing.
Wow Tavares looked like he wasn’t in good shape there. Hate to see that happen to anyone in a game.
Obviously unintentional on Perry’s part but props to him for answering the bell with Folingo.
If you’ve seen Perry throw down before, you know that he wasn’t looking to go right there. Seemed to hold back.
Is there a more gutless article format than an anonymous former player interview? If I read ‘Mr Dolan’ one more time I was going to throw up my cereal.
Did you learn anything reading that article? Less than zero…
Slats, re-introducing himself to the Press:
“You know that you could always count on on me to be straight up with you fellas…”
“What happened?”
“I dunno.”
JD likes DQ as Jackets coach?
‘Player C,’ LOL. Coward and nitwit combined. If he exists.
NEW POST
BDL – The Darling/Sweet Music face-off is one of the true highlights of college sports history even if you are not a fan of the game of baseball. Darling said it was exam week just before that game and the Coach posted a mandatory workout and only three Eli’s showed up. No, not you, St. Pete. 🙂
Guys this happened to Tavares at like 830 pm and I didn’t post until like 230 am when I got home and was reading the blog.
And believe me I am so dialed in when driving. I basically have the game on, but I’m listening to it like it’s the radio. I steal a glance the same manner in which you steal a glance at your gps.
Come on guys. Logically think through what I mean.
And by drive off the road I exgarrated to emphasis how uncomfortable a situation what happened was. I was In the right hand lane, looked over and got locked in for 2 seconds and felt the rumble strips as I momentarily into the shoulder.
I mean don’t act like you guys don’t do this every single day changing your radio stations or turning on a podcast or looking at your console screen to see who’s calling through Bluetooth, or to look into your mirror to look back at your kid.
Don’t kid yourselves no one out there have a better a handle on the road than me. You have no idea how dialed in I am, it’s a whole nother mode. It’s like I’m the captain of my ship. I got 377k on my car. I bought it with 196k in November of 2017. It’s a 2003. So in 4 years time, I doubled the miles that were put on the car in its first 14 years. That tells you how much I drive and I haven’t gotten so much as a ticket, let alone an accident. I understand the flow of the road and traffic and driver dynamics like I do hockey, it’s man hours spent.
I’m the type of driver who sees people losing control of their lanes in front of me and about cars like 6 inches from side swiping each other, I’m the one giving a beep or a flash of the brights to alert them to what’s about to happen.
If I ever post while driving it’s bc there’s literally no one else on the road and I don’t see headlights in front of me or behind me, it’s just road. But even so most times I send a string of posts as I stop whether it’s gas or food, or letting the dogs do their business or my own.
Come on guys. You know how many people I pass a day who are like going 10-15 mph below the flow of traffic In the passing lane and I gotta pass them on the right and as I pass they got the phones right in front of their steering wheels really texting while driving.
Also remind yourselves roads and driving a lot of the country it’s nothing like what it is in the tri-state area. Roads are bigger, winder, larger lane, 10x less cars. What you think of texting and driving or me having a game on a screen while I drive, is not what I am doing. Your viewing it through the lenses of what you think that looks like.
But I totally understand it and I’m happy to explain it so there you guys understand and other impressionable people who may read it understand I am not watching tv as I drive, I am not sitting there texting. I’m twitchy lookin sizing up what’s going on in front of me on the road, what’s coming from behind, what do I have on the sides of me. When I need to, my head is on a swivel processing everything that you need to on the road.
TomK 9:05 am post. Spot ON!
Did I miss anything? Rangers win last night?
re JPP’s earlier on the Toronto trainers – have to agree I was really surprised they did not prevent him from moving at all until he was stretchered off, the risk there was a severe neck injury was obvious. Not a big fan of the player but hope him a speedy recovery.
Beezle
We got 2” yesterday and 4” more last night and this morning!
It’s a good start!
Corey perry has always been one of my favourite players and will continue to be for a long long time.
Funny thing about Perry, he was available to be acquired twice in the past few years…nice work hedgehog, thanks for nothing.
You all get 5 minute majors for BANJing!
I want a match penalty James for watching the bolts.
Can you please send some here to New Arabia? Suppose to be back to 90 this weekend. Dog is very much missing the snow too. In the meantime I have to go get some ear plugs, forgot how loud it is around here!
Seeing I broke the blog… Gov. of VT said today he’ll lift all remaining restrictions the same day the state hits 80% of eligible Vermonters, even if prior to July 4th. Currently, nearly 75% of eligible Vermonters over age 12 have received at least one dose. Need to vaccinate 28K more to hit that bogey. Here’s looking at you North East Kingdom!