GordonGecko

If you've seen his instagram you know he's a low level vigilante in Manhattan and one of his favorite causes is going after cars that break traffic laws

Well he saw a car in the bike lane and intentionally rammed it. He refused a plea deal and he's get hauled to criminal court:

Ex-Ranger Sean Avery rejects plea deal in criminal mischief case

https://pagesix.com/2019/07/15/ex-ranger-sean-avery-rejects-plea-deal-in-criminal-mischief-case/

It seems like every day that passes with no news of trades or signings, the Rangers are going to have a more difficult time getting their cap space figured out. It just seems like teams are signing players every day and their cap space gets tighter and tighter. Meaning the options for the Rangers gets really limited to which teams they can make a deal with. Does anybody have a tidbit in the rumor mill? Just seems eerily quiet.

I'd like to submit a nickname for Kakko that I saw on twitter that I thought was awesome: K2

 

The dude's cold blooded. I love it. Discuss.

I don't get it, I can't walk 15 feet in Manhattan without tripping over a homeless person, and the freeway to La Guardia had so much garbage lining it we looked like Japanese tourists we were so excited. Never seen anything like it.

 

On the other hand, I thought Jersey was much cleaner, especially heading north.

NJ is known as the armpit of America. It's actually a sprawling state divided into a NYC service area, a Philadelphia service area, and the Jersey Shore. It is true it gets quiet and clean once you get away from the main roads and peak behind the road sound barriers, but that's not what you see driving on the turnpike or anywhere near Newark / Trenton / JC etc..

I wish the Rangers had 3-4 million dollars more to play with the cap

Dan Girardi says hello

I'd like to think that in general, living in NYC and playing in MSG is favorable to many athletes.

It is for many, but then again the cost of living in NYC is significantly higher than other American cities. That's why the pay is so much higher here for everyone except salary capped professional athletes. Dolan is laughing all the way to the bank, insane revenues and he's not allowed to put it back in the team.

But that's New York, what about a player in San Jose with even worse California income taxes and not much to do to have fun. It's just not a level playing field, all teams in taxed states should have the option to give players a cap-exempt bonus roughly equal to their extra tax burden versus zero income tax states

Not my problem or the Rangers. Cap is the cap, no matter what taxes there are. If he wants more money there are other teams to accommodate him.

It is the Rangers problem, either they miss out on a free agent because they are willing to take less and net the same in Nevada, Texas, Florida, whatever - or teams in those states can fit more talent under the cap than the Rangers because the players can take a discount and net the same and they are tougher competition

This seems like good news for the Rangers on the Kreider front, no?

 

I'd gladly keep Kreider for south of 6m

Unlike Karlsson, Kreider has to pay income tax in NY. Nevada is a tax free state so the Knights have a big advantage

Kaka in Russian means "shit"

that's what it means in every language, except apparently in the nordic countries. He's Kakko not Kakka though

The guy from Game of Thrones who plays Jaime Lanester is from Denmark, his wife's name is Kakka

This off season is crazy, Gorton is insane.

 

New additions since last season:

Shesterkin

Rykov

Fox

Trouba

Kravtsov

Kakko

 

And all we gave up was a couple months of Hayes, Pionk, a 2nd and a 3rd.

 

 

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Gorton's moves since February, plus we're getting either Kakko or Hughes, and he signed the two Russians (Igor & Kravtsov):

Essentially 2 months of Hayes and Pionk for Trouba...nice.

Rangers give up:

- 1 month of Kevin Hayes

- Neal Pionk

- 2nd round pick

- 3rd round pick

In exchange for:

- Jacob Trouba

- Brendan Lemieux

- Adam Fox

that is a fucked up thing to say, Brooks

brooks is a fucked up guy

This thread is like the Bermuda Triangle of posts

Ghostly posts are here but then they're not

Damn....was hoping the combine would be his chance to sell NJ on him.

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I think we'd be lucky to get Hughes if that's what it comes to, but Kakko would be part of the "sped up rebuild" where as Hughes would require a few years of seasoning first.

 

I think the draft dictates, at least in part, what happens this summer.

yeah pretty much agree with this. hughes or kakko, slow or fast

Two very manageable diseases- shouldn?t make a difference unless Kakko is a moron which if he?s gotten this far

I can think of worse diseases for an athlete than one which forces him to eat protein all the time :)

By those standards, Dylan McIlrath is as much of a draft success as Alexander Ovechkin. Both count as 1 in that statistic. Important to remember.

 

Anyway, nice graph and interesting numbers. How are 1st rounders counted? Average of all 1st round picks or only picks 15-31? The latter would be the most relevant, since lottery picks are so rarely traded.

You would have to perform a much more detailed analysis, but it's not that hard to do. The TSN guy looked at 10 years of draft picks from 2000-2009. You can put all those players in a simple database along with their lifetime stats and run a bunch of quick queries, like narrowing it down to top 15 picks vs back 16 in round 1, or having a chart with different criteria for an "NHL PLayer" like X points scored for forwards or

What does "become an NHL'er" mean in this context? Get signed? Play a game?

50+ games played

what really hurts is picking that bust in the first round outside of that 80% hit rate

This can't be right. Over 30% chance of getting atleast 1 NHL player out of two 7th rounders? Thats wrong.

No that's correct, the odds of a 7th rounder becoming an NHL player is almost like 18% - those are the stats. The odds of 1 of 2 hitting is additive, so around 35% is right. The chance of BOTH making it is a multiplier, so then it would be more like 4%

The hit rate really flattens out from round 4 to round 7:

http://images.tsn.ca/images/stories/2015/2/12/yost-draft1_53958.jpg

According to TSN's research, two 2nds has roughly a 20% chance of producing an NHL player.

 

https://www.tsn.ca/playing-the-percentages-in-the-nhl-draft-1.206144

 

http://images.tsn.ca/images/stories/2015/2/12/yost-draft3_53999.jpg

That's the wrong chart. The odds for one out of the two making it is actually 70% (2+2)

http://images.tsn.ca/images/stories/2015/2/12/yost-draft2_53987.jpg

This fan base is embarrassing.

I thought the Jets fan base was embarrassing and the Giants fanbase was classy

Glad that’s what you got out of my post. But then again your conclusion is Gettleman is a racist because he picked Jones, so it doesn’t surprise me.

He is racist, before the draft people said he would never pick a black quarterback and he delivered