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Goorow and Blais have no chance being in the top 6. Just look at their career offensive production. Kakko is on the top 2 lines this year. As far as Kravtsov. I think he's gone in a deal for either Eichel or Dvorak.

He was ranked in the late teens an early 20's pretty much everywhere. Othmann is a lazy moron. He generally is clueless. This like Cuylee is another player which this pansy team has been lacking for a long time. No more soft euro's. Or soft college players who don't hit. They don't win playoff games. Not to mention our players are easily the worst in the entire league at getting the puck through to the net. Hitting the net. Shooting the puck. Getting open for shots in tight areas. Essentially the Rangers entire game plan is to make 3 or 4 east-west passes and try to shoot it into an open net. We now have two power forwards in the system with excellent shots and hands. I'm trying to figure out when the last time that happened. Maybe never. The euro-pansy days of the Rangers are over. Better get used to it.

Buchnevich is a losing player. He's soft. He has no toughness. Using your stick, taking dumb penalties is not toughness. In 8 games vs. the Islanders this season Buchnevich had 0 points in 7 of them. That basically sums him up and several other pansy forwards on this team. Most of the Rangers fan base doesn't seem to want to accept the fact that hockey is a 4 line game. That size on defense matters. That physical play matters. Having third and fourth lines that can shut down other teams best lines matters. Winning faceoffs matters. As great as Messier, Richter and Leetch were, the Rangers don't win the cup without Matteau. They don't win the cup without that Noonan line. Noonan who really scored the game winning goal in game 7. They don't win the cup without McTavish winning a crap load of draws on the 4th line. You have to win games 1-0, 2-1, 3-2 in the playoffs while playing north-south hockey. Not this east-west finesse crap the Rangers have been doing the past 3 years.

Nonsense. Team doesn't need leadership. The future leaders of this team are Schneider, Lafreniere, Lindgren and Fox by his play. They just need time. The team needs players that can win freakin faceoffs and guys that can play big when the games get physical. That crap about Eichel not being a leader is just that. Crap. Buffalo is a loser organization. They have been drafting high forever and they still suck because the people running that organization are morons. I think Lundkvist will be a stud but we need a Schneider more than a Lundkvist. So if they sent Strome, Buchnevich, Jones and Lundkvist to the Sabres for Eichel and their highest 2 second rounders this year then do it. Eichel has played with schmucks his entire career. If he's physically sound, it's a win giving up a package like that. Me, I'd rather go for Horvat or Larkin.

Fox is a tremendous player but he's not moving any of those forwards on the Islanders out of the crease. Jones isn't anywhere near the player Fox is.

It's unfortunate for Lundkvist who I have loved as a prospect that Fox was here vs. Rangers fans who are OK with having 2 or 3 smaller defenseman are entitled to your opinion. However, I can assure you that your opinion means absolutely nothing to ownership, Drury, Sather and Messier. Sather is in Dolans ear. Messier basically called the team a bunch of soft pansies and he's right. The idiotic AV thinking will no longer be tolerated here. The Drury promotion stamped that. AV was a clown. All he wanted was puck moving defenseman. He didn't value size on defense. Toughness on defense. Stay at home defenseman to clear the crease. Thus why the team got worse and worse on defense with him as coach. It's also why Gorton gave away Graves for nothing. Those days are over. This team will get bigger, tougher and meaner all over the roster. Bank on it. Especially on defense. Colorado won't be able to protect Graves. So unless they give up a pick to tell Seattle who they want to take, he will be claimed. I personally think this draft is weak. I wouldn't be opposed to acquire Graves and Kadri in a Buchnevich deal, then trading our first rounder to Seattle to dictate to them who they will take. That being said, I think the only player that makes sense in this draft is Tyler Boucher. Big mean, nasty wing that is ranked 36th in the draft. So, if they keep their first rounder, I'd trade back, try to pick up a nasty role player, take this kid later in the first round.

For starters, the game was nothing like today years ago. The weight training is superior. Players are bigger, faster and are much stronger. There is a difference being 6'2, 197 pounds compared to 5'10, 180 pounds. A huge difference. Again, do some research and look at the height and weight of the defenseman for the teams winning cups. They might have one guy under 6 feet. Fact. Can't be disputed. If you think you are going to win playoff series with 2 or 3 defenseman who are 5'10, 180 pounds, you are living in a world of make believe.

Reinhart is always noticeable. Buchnevich is vastly overrated by Rangers fans. He stinks in big games. Every time the game gets physical, he vanishes and can only retaliate with his stick and takes dumb penalties. Reinhart is a much better player. He's just stuck on a crap team. In 8 games vs. the Islanders last year Reinhart had 4 g, 3 A, -1. That with a coach that the team hated to begin the season. Vs the Rangers he had 4 G 5 A in 8 games -2. So, how you say he isn't noticeable is a joke. In 8 games vs. the Isles Buchevich had 2 G, 1 A, 0. Poor numbers considering he's on a top line. vs Buff in 8 games he had 1 G 6 A +2. You put Reinhart on this team, you're quickly see just how much better of a player he is than Buchnevich. Which is why you are going to have to throw in a Jones. That might not be enough. You might have to send over Buchnevich and something more significant. The year before in 3 games Buchnevich had 1 g, 0 A vs the Islanders. To me, Reinhart is figuring out how to score vs. the better defensive teams. Buchnevich is not. That and Reinhart has had a completely inferior supporting cast to work with. Especially on defense where those guys suck at moving the puck.

I think he gets traded. Look at the size of defenseman cores that win the cup each year. Look at the size of the defenseman in the last 4 teams standing this year. You don't win with shrimps on defense. Jones will never play here long term. Lundkvist probably not more than a year. You can carry Fox. That's it. The rest have to be big or at least 6'0 and physical. Fox, Miller, Schneider, Robertson, Trouba, Lindgren. That's how I see it going forward long term. Size on defense is a huge factor in the playoffs.

I'd much rather they moved Buchnevich, Jones and Blackwell for Reinhart and a pick. Reinhart has a tremendous shot. He doesn't pass up shots. He's a north-south guy. Tough. On a better team he will pump in 35-40 goals every year. He's the guy I would target there.

Brooks is an awful hockey writer now. Used to be very good. I don't even make it past a couple of lines in his crap now before I move onto something else.

Barron and a guy like Richards are far more important to the teams future than Fast. The Rangers are an atrocious faceoff team and it hurts them badly all the time. Richards and Barron both have the ability to be plus faceoff guys are were elite defensive players in college. There is no need to not let them try and make this team.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Carolina.

If the Rangers don't plan on signing Strome, I see them signing Fast. Brooks is a senile, old fart. 90% of the stuff he writes now is absurd.

Rangers will not trade Georgiev for a crappy second rounder and prospect. Second round picks turn out to be a good player about 11% of the time. 89% bust rate. Georgiev is younger than Shesterkin. A team will either have to offer up a first or a top 4 defenseman, top 6 winger. Otherwise, they can kiss off. Once again a team like Edmonton shows it's goalies suck. Gorton was after Puljujarvi before. However, guy I would be focusing in on as well is McLeod. He's big, very fast and has the potential to be an elite PK guy with some offense. Kind of trade this organization needs is something like Georgiev and Andersson for Puljujarvi and McLeod. That's the type of move they need to make but it comes with big risk. If Shesterkin goes down and Hank retires, who will take the nets? Can Wall be ready that quick? Will Huska take a big step up?

Smith blows and he should never play another game for this organization. Skjei was a good kid. He always played hard. I thought his off-season conditioning was garbage. He always stunk the first 25 games to start the season. Better off giving the money to TDA who is elite on the PP. I'm surprised nobody took Staal. He's played well this year and he would have cost nothing. Basically a salary dump. Considering how teams were over paying for players. He would have been a good bargain. Once again Lou showed he's a senile buffoon and was washed up years ago as a GM.

Add on another 30 to 40 points for Kreider that he never gets because of the screens he provides in front of the net. Get rid of Skjei. That is the move. Maybe Trouba also.

Rumors out there about Skjei for Trochek. One, that would take away all leverage for Stome in the off-season. Two, he would probably do better offensively than Strome with Panarin. Three, he's a plus faceoff guy. Four, he's on a good contract that last a while longer. Five, dumping Skjei frees up a spot for another young defenseman ready to make the jump. Downside, Strome is a lot better defensively than Trochek and this team already gives up too many shots on goal.

People should not be excited to deal Lundqvist. It's disrespectful. He carried this sorry ass organization for over a decade. It would be one of the saddest days in Rangers history if he's dealt. That being said, I understand the positives and reasons for the move. It's business. I only wish Sather could have added that big offensive player to get him at least one cup. Hank's team never scored for crap in the playoffs for him. Sather went all in on Nash and failed miserably. It wasn't the right guy.

The Rangers are an elite organization drafting or signing defenseman and goalies. Forwards they are average if that. They used the power of their defenseman prospect core to get a hulking forward with finishing skills for a guy that had zero chance of making this team. That's how you put together a cup winning roster. Carolina on the other hand is elite at drafting forwards. They were supposed to have this amazing defenseman prospect core but to be honest, they haven't lived up to their hype. A big part of that is Fox screwing them over. That set back their organization on an immense level. If he was there, that team would be 10 to 20% better.

Lindgren is very talented and will be in the league 10 to 15 years. Essentially, he's Dan Girardi all over again. The fact that weasel was talking crap is a compliment. It means Lindgren is on his radar. If he was the clown he made Lindgren out to be he wouldn't waste his time. Sour grapes by the hook nose, rat. His team got taken to the woodshed by Gorton in the Nash deal.

Buchnevich freakin sucks. Yet, I believe there is a team dumb enough to offer up a 2nd and a good, hard nosed, physical nhl ready role playing prospect with 25-30 point potential.

Some stuff flying around that they turned down Kapanen and Bracco. I find that hard to believe. More like that is what they are asking for Georgiev. Hank carried this organization forever. Teams never scored goals for him in the playoffs. This has to be embarrassing for him. Unfortunately, they probably are trying to show him what is going to happen. Retire, organization pay his remaining salary, buyout or accept a trade. Always sad to see the end for an all time great player for the team you cheer for. Never ends well. Hank is really putting the team in a tough spot. The best thing going forward is to have Georgiev and Shesterkin here. Not Hank.

Long, long, overdue. If JD and Gorton can get anything for this guy, they should receive the highest honor the U.S. can award a civilian. So tired of watching this idiot attempt to play smart hockey.

I really like this coach but he has screwed up a lot on Andersson. Initially upon his arrival here I thought Lias was over confident and needed some improvement on his skating. However, since the pre-season he has easily been one of the top 5 forwards on this team. His defensive play has been elite most of the time. Yet, Quinn keeps putting him with poor offensive linemates. I am a solid fan of Howden long term. He's a playoff type of guy that you need. However, Lias has outplayed him badly. Quinn continues to not reward Lias yet seems to reward other players who continue not to earn his praise. At this point, Gorton needs to step in. Quinn has shown more faith in Smith which is completely absurd. This is a rebuild. Not a comedy show. I'm sure the Rangers would love to build Smith up in order to dump him. However, you don't continually screw over the 7th pick in the draft who is 5 times better this year than last because you want to get rid of a mistake. Unless you know nothing about hockey it's easy to see that Andersson is a much better player than 4 or 5 players getting more ice time than he is on a nightly basis.