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It's hard to imagine an addition being more significant than Lindgren. The Rangers would need to add a top line RW that opens up both Panarin and Zibanejad to get into that ballpark and even then it's gotta be a guy who is a driver on that line not an efficient passenger. Kane is having a down season with injury concerns. Tarasenko is having a down season. I don't think either of them is worth giving up Lindgren this year or next.

Lindgren looks like a potentially necessary move to free up some cap space however that's in a scenario where you are doing it to sign Chytil and K'Andre and Lafreniere while unable to move any of the vets due to NMC. Doing it to extend a rental into a real deal ignores the fact that the Rangers have pressing cap issues elsewhere. This in the context that Lindgren is both young and affordable and is likely a top 10 player on this roster.

You have to give GG some credit for recognizing that the kids just play better on their own line. I'd never have believed that Lafreniere and Zibanejad were a worse match than Lafreniere and Chytil but it is clearly true. The extra pass last night from Chytil to Kreider at the end was like a glaring red light on that situation.

A lot of this teams talent is unmovable due to NMC and the young guys that aren't unmovable fit within the Shesty window. It's be really easy to trade a few young guys and find ourselves capstrung for the next 5 years and unable to get over the top.

Alternately just use the kid line on PP2 (as GG has been doing) and raise the time they get on the ice.

They should change the rule to reflect the position of the skate. "You cannot score a goal off of a skate blade that is not on the ice." That would resolve the intent issue pretty clearly and it would make replays a bit easier.

C setting an example after the break. He looked great last night and he did it in a way that you can't miss twice.

4 on 4 OT that ends at 10 minutes and goes to a shootout. Can't eliminate OT and make ties a thing and no point for the losers again because that would make teams go into a shell and play for the point at the end. I remember those games and they sucked. The extra point in OT lets the home-crowd go home with a consolation prize and the NHL isn't going to eliminate that.

The kids are rolling like they were in the second round last year. However we should also ask ourselves whether anybody has ever been as hot as Chytil and it turned out just to be a streak. The guy looks like he's going to be a 50 goal scorer.

So now we know why Chytil didn't take the shot at the end. He was just setting up his linemate to be the hero.

He's a dinosaur but he's our dinosaur.

The Crosby hit last year should have done that.

Rangers should keep the kids off the ice when he's on in the 3rd.

At the rate he's going Chytil might be the Rangers 2nd most valuable player right now.

Don't give GG any more veteran 4th liners. He does not know how to appropriately use them because he sees "vet" but not "4th liner". At least not until you trade or demote some of the existing vet 4th liners.

Where do you see the 4th line getting worked at this point? The +/- numbers suggest the 4th line is pulling their weight. We had issues earlier in the season but those have mostly worked out at this point.

All I'm saying is that the Rangers are winning nothing this year with 3 4th line RW's on the ice and Kakko. Right now any problem with the 4th line is due to the fact that we have 2 4th liners playing regularly in the top 9 including one on line 1. Adding 4th line players to this team is just going to get us ROFL-stomped by the teams with actual top 9ers playing in the top 9.

At 5v5 Panarin, Zibanejad and Vesey have been invisible. It's not a good lineup so far for the Rangers.

So I get this but do you really think the 4th line is a problem for this team right now, even if it doesn't have the best 4th liners on it at the moment? The answer is either for GG to stop acting like GG and slot the Kids in for 18 minutes a game or for the Rangers to acquire a top line RW that pushes Vesey to line 3. If that happens the 4th line is going to get 5-6 minutes a game anyway and whoever the Rangers acquire just doesn't matter even if they are better than what we have. Being thin in the top 6 is basically a result of Panarin - Zibanejad - whoever as line 1 and Kreider - Trocheck - whoever as line 2 with the kids getting 14-15 minutes a game as effectively line 3.

So I may be missing the point but aren't the Rangers swimming in guys that can play on the 4th line right now? The problem is the 1st line RW and maybe the 3rd line RW if you really don't want Vesey on a checking line with Kreider and Trocheck. 4th liners currently on the roster: Goodrow, Vesey (depending on 3rd line RW acquisition), Gauthier, Cuylle, Kravtsov, Lechyshyn, Blais, etc. The problem with the Rangers right now is the same problem we had at TDL last year: we are short a couple of players in the top 9 and we're promoting solid 4th liners to fill those slots. Add to this the fact that GG won't give the one kind of fixed line enough minutes with the kids and we look shaky all up and down the top 9. 4th line is fine - it just keeps getting robbed of the best two 4th liners (Goodrow and Vesey) to fill slots on line 1 and 3.

He's got a blonde on his arm and a drink in his grip and his girlfriend just took out her dentures and gave him a wink! Top of the world.

This all comes back around to how GG plays things the next month or so. If he keeps jerking the kids around they'll probably go on-again off-again fulfilling his view that they're not capable of being a solid line 2. Chytil is basically whacking him in the forehead over and over again at this point but I don't know that he sees it even through all the stars circling his head. I was really annoyed when the kids weren't in the rotation at the end of the Toronto game. That was just disrespectful of GG given how the game had evolved to that point.

It's only 5 months until the off-season (again)!

It occurred to me that the one piece we are missing from last year is the top 6 guy playing injured and slumping in the playoffs as a result. Kane could do that for us.

One of them always has his eye on the puck when it is loose and the other one is always carrying the puck with his eye on his teammates. I don't have a problem with they just don't fit. They're also both on the slight side and don't stand in front of the net much.