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    Filip Zadina, 2018 6th Overall Draft Pick, Put on Unconditional Waivers for Purposes of Contract Termination

    in Hockey Around the Globe

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    2 hours ago, Phil said:

     

    Get 'im, @Niko!

     

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    I want the rangers to hire Phil for to run practices. Love to see him implement his strategy in games. He can yell at these young guys like Pinky yelling at his limo driver:

     

    “Look here baby, you’re hitting them corners too goddamn fast. You need to slow this game down. You almost made me spill this yak on my $200 suit! C’mon baby, get it to together. ”

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    Peter Laviolette Is Next Rangers' Head Coach; Signs 3-Year Deal

    in New York Rangers

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    1 hour ago, Pete said:

    - Cycling through retreads behind the bench — What you call a retread, the rest of us call "experienced". This is also not a negative. GG was the right coach at that time. He fucked himself.

    - Traded Buchnevich for nothing, creating a RW problem he still hasn't solved — The RW problem was created by Kakko and Kravtsov sucking. Did he draft either of them?

    - NMCs or heavy trade protection given out like candy — Name a GM who doesn't do this?

    - Busted Nemeth signing that cost him a 2nd round pick to get out of; and he replaced Brendan Smith, who was better and cheaper — Fair

    - Extended Reaves before he played a game — Fair

    - Brought in a broken down Kane at the deadline - proved to be ineffective and too hurt — He took a flier and paid nothing for Kane, who was better than anyone on the roster at RW at the time.

    - Botched the Shesterkin contract; stuck either trading him or giving him an anchor contract within only 2 more years — This is just dumb. Shesterkin has an agent who knows how to get max value. This deal doesn't happen in a vaccum.

     

    Good moves

     

    - Vatrano trade

    - Tarasenko trade

    - Chytil signing

     

    Neutral

     

    - Copp trade (worth it, but unnecessarily expensive)

     

    These are all good moves.

     

    Drury has much more good than bad on his resume and it wasn't even close. His deadline deals alone are fantastic, he doesn't give up too much and gets what the team needs. What he gives up, he recoups (bye Nils!).

     

    He's also only going into his third year. To expect every move to be magic is ridiculous.

    Agreed. I think there’s no other franchise/fan base in the league that wouldn’t have happy with the position Drury put them in to win.

     

    classic case of “you can lead a horse to water…”. He gave them the best opportunity to win. He can’t go out there and skate with them too, but he did everything he else in his power to give them the tools. It’s why the finish was so disappointing.

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    Rod Gilbert, Dead at 80

    in New York Rangers

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    https://www.instagram.com/p/CS5f5yfH97N/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

     

    Shows the type of guy Rod is.

     

    As a season ticket holder, I got to meet (and share drinks) with #7. He was absolute gentleman. While I always gravitated more towards players of my era, like Adam Graves who was also a gentleman, I can honestly say that Gilbert was always a pleasure and treated fans and season ticket holders like family.

     

    And he got funnier and funnier as the night wore on when you were at an open bar with him, lol.

     

    May he Rest In Peace.

    Daddy Come Home

    in New York Rangers

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    Scrolling through old Hank threads and seeing how many people wanted him gone, to keep Georgiev... Same people saying Georgiev is trash now and bring back Lundy a year later is just so satisfying haha.

     

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    Coyotes Renounce Rights to Controversial Draft Pick, Mitchell Miller

    in Hockey Around the Globe

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    Our attorney and the arresting officer said Michael would never be able to get a job in law enforcement and would have a very difficult time becoming a lawyer. He was 15 at the time. Not that those are professions he would personally pursue, but the options aren’t there.

     

    I don’t know how true that was, depending on what Michael was charged with. One of my best friends had 2 DWI’s in college and is a very successful lawyer now. He had to throw himself on the floor before the ethics committee when he passed the bar, but he was admitted.

     

    Guys in the nypd have been hired with marijuana convictions, dwi’s, etc.

     

    Short of rape and murder, there’s not much they can hold against you, especially as a juvenile.

    Coyotes Renounce Rights to Controversial Draft Pick, Mitchell Miller

    in Hockey Around the Globe

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    The letter, obtained by The Athletic, consisted of two lengthy paragraphs that painted his juvenile conviction as a life-changing event. There have been no further incidents, Miller said, adding that he?d had counseling, attended cultural diversity classes and had volunteered with physically disabled children.

     

    Seems to me like he paid his price. I don?t agree with what he did, but you can?t hang it over his head for ever. He did something incredibly stupid, faced legal consequences and did was he was mandated to do. How is this not employment discrimination?

     

    If someone got arrested for any other crime as a 14 year old, did their sentence, had the records sealed and was denied a job because of it, they?d have a good law suit in their hands.

     

    In NY, police departments can?t opt to not hire someone based on adult drug/dwi charges. He may be a garbage person, but if he?s done everything he was required to do, then this seems extreme and more of a PR issue than anything else.

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