Did any of you complainers actually watch the team last year? All we did was look great and skilled vs. crap teams (Buffalo, NJ and Philly)...while we had our asses handed to us most of the time, and couldn't score, vs. the actual good playoff teams (NYI, Boston, Pitt). While Washington was the one playoff team we actually played decent against, until Tom Wilson tooled our entire team like we were a HS team.
And that was all in the regular season. Did you watch the playoffs? I don't think so, seems like you complainers tuned out NHL once they started. Because the playoffs were ramped up exponentially and those good, tough teams were that much tougher and heavier to play against. Any Rangers fan who thinks that team as constructed last year would ever do damage in the playoffs, is clueless as a hockey fan.
This isn't 80's and 90's hockey, but you still can't be all skill. You need defined roles and hard to play against lines. Bottom 6 cannot just be a bunch of young skilled players, learning on the fly. That was fine during rebuilding. But now it is time for those young players to step up to top 2 lines, and for bottom 6 to get tough...in order to take the next step to make playoffs and have a chance once we get there.
Goodrow, Blais, and Reaves are all great additions to get to that goal. I hated the Buch trade like all of you complainers. But unfortunately with the cap, not to mention a flat cap, we couldn't have realistically kept him past this year. So instead of keeping him for one more season and losing him for nothing, they got something for him and opened up another top 6 wing spot for all of our young "studs" that all you complainers want to see playing more. It sucks, but it is the salary cap world of the NHL.
Zibanejad, Panarin, Lafreniere, Kakko, Strome and all the defensemen are pleased as punch that the Rangers signed Ryan Reaves. If you don't believe that, you don't understand the NHL.
for only two years, 2.5 mill AAV. Apparently Rangers weren't very interested, as that isn't a lot of money. That deal also makes the Goodrow deal look a lot worse IMO.
for only two years, 2.5 mill AAV. Apparently Rangers weren't very interested, as that isn't a lot of money. That deal also makes the Goodrow deal look a lot worse IMO.
I'd rather have Goodrow than Ritchie. But at those two deals, I'd have to choose Ritchie. Ritchie plays heavy and is tough to play against, similar to Goodrow...and but has real goal scoring ability.
Perhaps, because other teams were after him, too? So you sweeten the pot to get him.
This off-season has been atrocious.
They have replaced their bottom six. What is atrocious? Buchnevich was gone when Gorton re-signed Kreider.
And that was all in the regular season. Did you watch the playoffs? I don't think so, seems like you complainers tuned out NHL once they started. Because the playoffs were ramped up exponentially and those good, tough teams were that much tougher and heavier to play against. Any Rangers fan who thinks that team as constructed last year would ever do damage in the playoffs, is clueless as a hockey fan.
This isn't 80's and 90's hockey, but you still can't be all skill. You need defined roles and hard to play against lines. Bottom 6 cannot just be a bunch of young skilled players, learning on the fly. That was fine during rebuilding. But now it is time for those young players to step up to top 2 lines, and for bottom 6 to get tough...in order to take the next step to make playoffs and have a chance once we get there.
Goodrow, Blais, and Reaves are all great additions to get to that goal. I hated the Buch trade like all of you complainers. But unfortunately with the cap, not to mention a flat cap, we couldn't have realistically kept him past this year. So instead of keeping him for one more season and losing him for nothing, they got something for him and opened up another top 6 wing spot for all of our young "studs" that all you complainers want to see playing more. It sucks, but it is the salary cap world of the NHL.
Agreed.
Goodrow is a better player.
Look at what Blake Coleman was paid.