RJWantsTheCup Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 Maroon was traded for a 7th rounder plus Tampa is retaining 20% of his salary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 2 hours ago, RJWantsTheCup said: Maroon was traded for a 7th rounder plus Tampa is retaining 20% of his salary. To Minnesota. It all lines up perfectly for Drury to get Zuc & Maroon at the deadline. Fixes the top 6 RW issue and adds some toughness. Both have tons of experience. Just need them to suck so badly that they'll tear it down midway trough the season now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 There's really no room for such a player right now. I'm not dumping Goodrow to bring in a tough guy. Heck, I'm not even dumping Vesey for one. Trouba, Schneider, Goodrow, Harpur is the best they can do for the task and its not bad. Laviolette will have Goodrow on his game with the pest stuff. Schneider will be a year older and more experienced. Trouba is Trouba. Heck, maybe Trocheck and Kreider can play a more in your face game than we've seen. I think the teams attitude is going to be a bit different and more lunch pail. That will make them harder and more pesky to play against. This is where Laviolette and his staff come in. If they can turn that switch on for this roster, its all they'll really need in terms of toughness. It'd be nice to have a heavy weight to back that up, but I don't think it's a necessity. Maybe when they trade Lafreniere that will clear a space for a rugged winger. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 Wow, I completely forgot about Harpur. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4EverRangerFrank Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Question answered: Ozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flynn Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 This team didn't lose to Jersey because it wasn't tough enough. Adding a Tough Guy is a solution in search of a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 On 7/3/2023 at 11:24 AM, Sharpshooter said: Wow, I completely forgot about Harpur. lol Odds are Harpur will patrol and clear the front of the press box buffet or the net in Hartford barring injuries. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 28 minutes ago, Flynn said: This team didn't lose to Jersey because it wasn't tough enough. Adding a Tough Guy is a solution in search of a problem. Maybe not physically (although they got skated around, beaten to most loose pucks, lost almost every battle that mattered) but having no heart would qualify as being mentally weak. They didn't need a face puncher necessarily that night they needed about a dozen plus heart transplants. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flynn Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 I'm really hoping a real honest to God structure will make a massive difference. Changing the "How" hopefully gets these fuckers playing with a bit more focus. Gallant was a gym teacher who rolled out some basketball's with the objective of keeping the class busy so he could drink his coffee and read the paper in peace. The old saying "don't confuse effort with results" applies here- I don't think they were lazy, or didn't try- they just had no real consistent program to conform to, and it led to a lot of freelance horseshit on both ends. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 (edited) I think both were true and in spades, at minimum though even with the worst coach of all time behind the bench (Gallant is far far from that imo) or no coach for that matter as a team you can't lay that kind of egg in game 7 against your biggest rival in the playoffs, not with all the "leadership" type guys on the roster. They weren't even in the game, never made it competitive, nobody stepped up. Sad. As a result we get this, an incredibly painfully long offseason to go round and round. Not how any of us drew it up going into last season. Edited July 11, 2023 by jsrangers 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangersLEETCH Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Trouba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Trouba's helmet. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Al Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 (edited) Look for them to bring in a possible tough guy as a PTO during training camp. Edited July 14, 2023 by Lord Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 19 minutes ago, Lord Al said: Look for them to bring in a possible tough guy as a PTO during training camp. They just brought in 10 guys at the league minimum. I wouldn't look for them to be bringing in anyone on a PTO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangersIn7 Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 (edited) The tough guy era is basically over. I don’t know how, in the same paragraph, we can talk about being speedier and more skillful, and also mention how we need a tough guy. I’d like a team of 12 Matthew Tkachuk’s But players like him are rare, and difficult to acquire. Also… guys like Igor and Foxy, and Panarin…, they don’t exactly grow on trees either. How many times have we seen a tough guy win a fight, but then go minus-8 in 10 minutes of ice time over his next 12 games?, which then causes us all to bitch how that guy sucks at hockey. I loved watching Boogaard thunder a guy and just kick his ass. I hated watching him get embarrassed and exploited in the interim between his impactful moments in games. You need hockey players that can play. Most guys don’t fit into both bags. Edited July 14, 2023 by RangersIn7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siddious Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 Era of the tough guy who does nothing but tuff guy stuff is surely over. teams are too good to allow a guy to take up a spot who does nothing to help the team win. like someone else said you. We’d guys like Tkachuk on this team which this playoffs showed is still a huge necessity. i know othman isn’t going to be Tkachuk good but I hope he can at least become a 2nd line guy who brings those elements for us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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