Blue Heaven Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 9 minutes ago, Br4d said: The Rangers fired their Euro scouting staff a couple of years ago. Kakko was probably reason #1 on that list although there were others. Kakko was the consensus #2 pick.....A blind scout would have taken him there, thats not the fault of the Euro scouting staff....As stated above its the Andersson/Krapsov draft that did them in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 32/32 teams would have taken Kakko at 2. You run this a thousand times and it never changes. Lundkvist probably had more to do with razing the Euro scouting department than Kakko did. That whole kinda crew of players taken around that time were promised all kinds of shit the team couldn't deliver on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 25 minutes ago, Br4d said: The Rangers fired their Euro scouting staff a couple of years ago. Kakko was probably reason #1 on that list although there were others. No. The entire world had Kakko at #2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 20 minutes ago, Br4d said: Kakko is not in position to shoot often enough to significantly raise his SOG. The best thing the Rangers could do for him right now is get him out of the habit of playing with himself in the corner. Yes, he possesses the puck fairly well. No, he can't get around NHL defenses to turn that into a shot very often and no, he is not a great passer out of that position either. Basically what he's good for right now is 15 seconds of possession in the OZ. He has no offensive moves worth mentioning. He's a black hole in the OZ. Totally disagree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdog99 Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 "...there must be something missing in your life." No shit larry. Its called the stanley cup. And its been far too long 1 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunny Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Lias Andersson Nils Lunqveest Vitaly Kravtsov Lindbom Remember when they drafted a couple Czech overagers? lol. It's pretty obvious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br4d Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 It's definitely not the Dominican baseball scouting problem. Down there everybody is dirt poor so when somebody gets an $800 signing bonus everybody including the scout is suddenly rich. This is how 29 year old "prospects" from the DR wind up clogging farm systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sod16 Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 In the great old TV series, “The West Wing,” the campaign strategy for New Hampshire Gov. Jed Bartlet as he ran for the presidency was distilled to four words that became a touchstone for his two terms in the White House. It was, “Let Bartlet be Bartlet.” Larry is liberal, so he can't properly credit the Let ___ be ____ line. It originated not on some TV show but in the Reagan White House in the early 80's, when establishment Republicans tried to push Reagan to the center, the constant mantra from Reagan's conservative staffers was "Let Reagan Be Reagan." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 34 minutes ago, Sod16 said: In the great old TV series, “The West Wing,” the campaign strategy for New Hampshire Gov. Jed Bartlet as he ran for the presidency was distilled to four words that became a touchstone for his two terms in the White House. It was, “Let Bartlet be Bartlet.” Larry is liberal, so he can't properly credit the Let ___ be ____ line. It originated not on some TV show but in the Reagan White House in the early 80's, when establishment Republicans tried to push Reagan to the center, the constant mantra from Reagan's conservative staffers was "Let Reagan Be Reagan." Maybe it's not because he's a liberal, maybe it's just because he wants to point at a frame of reference that isn't from 50 years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 On 1/18/2024 at 1:16 PM, Br4d said: Kakko is not in position to shoot often enough to significantly raise his SOG. The best thing the Rangers could do for him right now is get him out of the habit of playing with himself in the corner. Yes, he possesses the puck fairly well. No, he can't get around NHL defenses to turn that into a shot very often and no, he is not a great passer out of that position either. Basically what he's good for right now is 15 seconds of possession in the OZ. He has no offensive moves worth mentioning. He's a black hole in the OZ. Meh. Maybe. It seems that way when he's with 20/93. Maybe some other linemates gets him to do other things? I did notice that before he got hurt, he was most definitely changing his style and was trying more or some dirty goals infont of the net. The kid is built like a brick shit house. He's strong AF. I think we are going to see more of that. A dumbed down sort of change of pace to get him going. On this line, he's not needed to carry the puck. Zibanejad dipsey doodles around the perimeter enough. Another guy doing it, is why the metrics show that this line controls the puck at a high level. There's just no trigger man or a guy that will take the puck straight to the net. Kakko isn't there yet and Zibanejad is on and off with such attempts. A lot of selflessness is going on with 20/93 combos. They control the shit out of the puck, but it's always just down along the boards and maybe behind the net. This is what drove me nuts with the Wheeler complaints. Guy was always open sliding up and down the slot or in front of the net. Yet, the puck was always along the boards with no intention to bring it to the middle or to fling a puck from in back of the net to an open 17 at the faceoff dot waiting to pull the trigger. I fear that if they couldn't do that for Wheeler, how are they going to do it for Kakko, if he's deemed the trigger man on the line. What they will want to do with Kakko, is exactly what Wheeler was doing Maybe the handedness and the tiny upgrade in speed will make a difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty9 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 10 hours ago, Br4d said: It's definitely not the Dominican baseball scouting problem. Down there everybody is dirt poor so when somebody gets an $800 signing bonus everybody including the scout is suddenly rich. This is how 29 year old "prospects" from the DR wind up clogging farm systems. You saying they lying about their age like the DR baseball players Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br4d Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 24 minutes ago, lefty9 said: You saying they lying about their age like the DR baseball players No, I said it's not the DR scouting problem. The Ranger's scouting problem in Europe appears to have been based in an inability to project Euro talent at the NHL level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty9 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 2 hours ago, Br4d said: No, I said it's not the DR scouting problem. The Ranger's scouting problem in Europe appears to have been based in an inability to project Euro talent at the NHL level. Ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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