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shrink to insignificance!

BTW, here's the all-time gpg leaders for the Rangers.

1)Verbeek (only 88 games as a Ranger)
2)Gartner
3)Poddubny
4)Larouche
5)Bill Cook
6)Jagr
7)Gaborik
8)Murdoch
9)Esposito
10)Sandstrom

Out of those, the only ones I might have guessed would be Gartner, Jagr, Gaborik, and maybe Esposito.

while being nauseated during habs bruins on Sunday they had a piece on Marchand and said his nicknames are Nose-faced Killah and Little Ball of Hate.

Pat Verbeek was the little ball of hate.

I'm not a huge nickname guy, I use them in many cases especially when typing because it shortens the name like JPP.

But in watching Verbeek as much as I did, much live in Hartford at Whalers games, never was there a more perfect nickname in sports, though as I understand it he didn't get the nickname until joining the Rangers.

Do we recycle nicknames now? Is that acceptable?

Verbeek apparently "ok'd" it, but I'm not ok with it.

What's next calling Connor McDavid Mr Hockey or Jagr the great one.

In comment 13360703 Greg from LI said:

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shrink to insignificance! BTW, here's the all-time gpg leaders for the Rangers. 1)Verbeek (only 88 games as a Ranger) 2)Gartner 3)Poddubny 4)Larouche 5)Bill Cook 6)Jagr 7)Gaborik 8)Murdoch 9)Esposito 10)Sandstrom Out of those, the only ones I might have guessed would be Gartner, Jagr, Gaborik, and maybe Esposito.

95-96 was a strange year - I thought that team could do some damage! A couple of trades too many!

If Verbeek and Messier played every game (they missed a few games that year), they would have both scored 50 plus goals!

In comment 13360716 pjcas18 said:

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Do we recycle nicknames now? Is that acceptable?

Society fell when Ladanian Tomlinson was "LT" and the people did not riot in the streets

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In comment 13360716 pjcas18 said: Quote: Do we recycle nicknames now? Is that acceptable? Society fell when Ladanian Tomlinson was "LT" and the people did not riot in the streets

It wasn't just Giants fans who relabeled him LdT?

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In comment 13360720 Deej said: Quote: In comment 13360716 pjcas18 said: Quote: Do we recycle nicknames now? Is that acceptable? Society fell when Ladanian Tomlinson was "LT" and the people did not riot in the streets It wasn't just Giants fans who relabeled him LdT?

One of my favorites was "Complainian Tomlinson"

At least, in the middle of the season I did. They fell apart late in the year, though, losing a bunch of games in the last month. Seemed like they might have righted the ship by winning 4 straight against the Habs after falling down 0-2 at home in the first round, but Jagr and Pepe LePew killed them in the second round.

For one thing, he was a much better player than Marchand. For another, he was much nastier. Marchand is a fucking rat, a flopper who throws occasional cheap shots. Verbeek was a mean sonofabitch who hurt people.

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At least, in the middle of the season I did. They fell apart late in the year, though, losing a bunch of games in the last month. Seemed like they might have righted the ship by winning 4 straight against the Habs after falling down 0-2 at home in the first round, but Jagr and Pepe LePew killed them in the second round.

This year frustrated me as I think the team prior to the Kurri, McSorely, Churla trade was good enough to contend. I thought they were well balanced with Messier / Ferraro as C1 and C2. Even though the Zubov/Nedved trade was already completed, We could have still hung on to Norstrom.

Neil Smith made some good deals and some bad deals, but that Kings trade was putrid. Purely reactionary because hacks like Uncle Larry kept saying that the Rangers had to goon it up to beat the Flyers, so they gave away Ferraro, Laperriere, Norstrom for two aging goons and the utterly washed up Kurri.

They also traded for noted idiot Sergio Momesso (aka Stoogio Momasshole, as the old Rangers e-mail digest people dubbed him) who made Puliot look like a very smart player. No one took dumber penalties at worse moments than Momesso.

It killed me for many years to see Norstrom playing at an All-Star level for the Kings while the Rangers were so desperate for solid defensemen. Exposing Schneider to the expansion draft was pretty damned stupid, too.

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Neil Smith made some good deals and some bad deals, but that Kings trade was putrid. Purely reactionary because hacks like Uncle Larry kept saying that the Rangers had to goon it up to beat the Flyers, so they gave away Ferraro, Laperriere, Norstrom for two aging goons and the utterly washed up Kurri. They also traded for noted idiot Sergio Momesso (aka Stoogio Momasshole, as the old Rangers e-mail digest people dubbed him) who made Puliot look like a very smart player. No one took dumber penalties at worse moments than Momesso. It killed me for many years to see Norstrom playing at an All-Star level for the Kings while the Rangers were so desperate for solid defensemen. Exposing Schneider to the expansion draft was pretty damned stupid, too.

Agree almost completely!! I wasn't a big Ferraro fan. This was all part of the Colin Campbell ethnic cleansing of all non-English speaking, non-Canadian players. He would have dumped Leetch and Richter if he could have gotten away with it.

...a lot of influence on the roster. There were two Messier books I read ("Dragon Slayer" and a book by an author Jeff Klein), Petr Nedved's first departure wasn't any secret. During the 96-97 season, Nemchinov and Brian Noonan were traded for Esa Tikkanen and Russ Courtnall (the latter was acquired to absorb an injury to Alexi Kovalev). According to one of the books (not sure which one), Messier was livid as he was really close with Nemchinov.

(which was weird because he was coming off a 26-39-65 season....hit the skids in a hurry) but that dude was FAST.

Tik did have a terrific 1997 playoffs. He was a key guy in the upsets of the Panthers and Devils.

Jari Kurri was Dead Man Skating.

Sarge's offense had mostly evaporated by the time of that Vancouver deal, but he remained one of the league's best defensive centers for years to come. His ring with the Devils proved that - you didn't play for Jersey back then if you couldn't defend.

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...a lot of influence on the roster. There were two Messier books I read ("Dragon Slayer" and a book by an author Jeff Klein), Petr Nedved's first departure wasn't any secret. During the 96-97 season, Nemchinov and Brian Noonan were traded for Esa Tikkanen and Russ Courtnall (the latter was acquired to absorb an injury to Alexi Kovalev). According to one of the books (not sure which one), Messier was livid as he was really close with Nemchinov.

Nemchinov was a good player. Solid at both ends and quietly tough. Another Coach Soupy castoff. He hated Sergei Zubov too.

vs Isles.

Peumpel gets the nod.

Smh.

I originally posted in the wrong thread. Smh again.

He's getting run over Lindberg and Buch. Frustrating. But I suspect it has more to do with wanting to play Vesey in the top 9 and Buch not fitting on the 4th line. Due to depth, one of Vesey, Grabner, or Buch has to exit to top 9 if everyone is healthy.

jump the gun here. Buchnevich looked to be struggling a bit defensively. If he is scratched for a string of games, I would be upset. Maybe just a night off in the press box can be helpful.

Buchnevich has more points in 24 NHL games than Puempel has in 70.

For a player with as high of a ceiling as Buch, I'd just like to see him get a sustained run of time in the lineup to really get established and comfortable. Thanks to his injury or whatever that whole thing was, he hasn't had that, has been jacked up and down he lineup to boot, and oddly, has spent virtually no time playing alongside the Kreider-Zib combination he looked so amazing with in preseason.

I'm not going to lose my mind about it for now.

I keep reminding myself that as frustrating as AV has been managing he the forwards in real time, the results with Kreider and Miller and Hayes so far have been fucking awesome. He deserves my patience.

I give him some leeway with the forwards. The development of our young guys under his watch has been promising and he's shown good in game instincts, like bumping Vesey back up the other night when he saw he had good jump. Buch will be ok

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