Comments on: Cherepanov coming to town

By: Antonis

Antonis — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:05:52 +0000

Nice…

By: Robby Bonfire

Robby Bonfire — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:38:55 +0000

O.K., get real. I am NOT comparing anyone’s youth with Pittsburgh’s youth, and you know it. I am looking for the Rangers to at least become COMPETITIVE by opening the pipeline so that young players, in abundance, can come in here over the next two seasons, and establish themselves as belonging here. NOW is the time to start, not in two years when the tank on Nylander, Straka, Shanahan, Jagr, et al, reads EMPTY.

You don’t see Nylander re-signing as having significance beyond that signing. I do. The pipeline into New York remains open for older players, and virtually closed to younger players. Hartford will probably dominate the AHL, this coming season, led by three-four players who should contributing in New York. That is a joke and a travesty.

Now go put words in someone else’s mouth, Devils fan.

By: LI Joe

LI Joe — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:11:42 +0000

Robby – just curious where else do you post re the Rangers – would love to read some of your historical words of wisdom and snobbish attitude – since you have been posting here approx 1 month.

Staal will probably make the team so that has nothing to do with Nylander signing. If he’s as good as I think he is and most experts say he is.

I fully expect Pittsburgh to win 2 or 3 cups in the next several years. Please do not insult anyone’s intelligence here by comparing our youth to Pittsburgh’s. AND yes if we had Sid the kid he would have been on the Rangers playing significant minutes. It would not bother me a bit if you flew the coop and became a Penguin fan.

By: Robby Bonfire

Robby Bonfire — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:42:35 +0000

“Nylander is a center while Staal is a d-man.”

Amazing – you actually cannot read the deeper implications of re-signing Nylander? You don’t want to acknowledge that yet ANOTHER season will pass with no committment or intelligent plan to phase the best young talent onto the parent club roster? You actually don’t grasp that this means that the moron in the executive suite is just out to plug the leaks in the dike with short-term plastic patches, rather than promote from within, so that he might as well be a Devils or a Penguins fan, he does them such favors?

Who do you think will win a Stanley Cup sooner, Pittsburgh or the Rangers? Can’t wait for your answer.

By: LI Joe

LI Joe — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:23:38 +0000

Robby – Nylander is a center while Staal is a dman. With getting rid of Rachunek there is room for Staal. As I’ve stated previously the playoff run last yr will serve players like Callahan and Girardi well for the future.

By: Robby Bonfire

Robby Bonfire — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:02:15 +0000

Well, the latest is they are re-upping Nylander. That stalls Staal and other young player’s being added to this season’s lineup, as the team is now committed to
“going for the Cup” in 2008. As usual they will catch ice shavings in a tin cup, not champagne in the Stanley Cup. What a joke! Sather NEVER can move on from his almost incestual facination with OLD!!! GUYS!!!

By: LI Joe

LI Joe — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:08:17 +0000

Robby – now you’re counting Tyutin as an old guy?

By: Robby Bonfire

Robby Bonfire — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:22:17 +0000

Pittsburgh promotes top prospects at 19, New York stonewalls top prospects until they are 22-23, and most prospects until they are 24-25. You give the Rangers and Sather too much – hypothetical – credit for doing the right thing, when the track record proves contrary. Somehow they would have mishandled Crosby and Malkin, and Fleury, and Jordan Staal.

I will rest my case on Marc Staal. Bet you he DOES NOT MAKE THE CLUB, coming out of training camp. If I am wrong, and I hope I am, a new day is truly dawning for this organization. BUT, if my worst fears are realized and they start to treat Staal and Sanguinetti in 2007 as Tomas Pock and Nigel Dawes were treated in 2006, like leper colony rejects, well that will set this organization back, light years, and prove my point. (And don’t bother to tell me that Pock and Dawes are not franchise players, thank you.)

I really and truly hope I am wrong here, and that Staal gets the nod over some vastly inferior competiton coming from Pock, Malik, Tyutin, and (ugh!) Mara. I want what is best for the club, period. We are just going to have to wait a few weeks to see what shakes down in September.

By: Chris F.

Chris F. — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:41:07 +0000

Robbyonfire:

You’re crazy. Malkin and Crosby would both be playing at MSG, for the revenue it would bring in alone, if not because the management wanted to give them a shot. The whole world (of hockey) was waiting to see Crosby play—he could make a mint in NY, for himself and the organization.

By: NYRCUP07

NYRCUP07 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:20:24 +0000

For next year’s NHL award ceremony, I suggest the a new award for biggest idiot among NHL fans which could be named after Ivana. I’m sure that we are all better informed that your scouting accounts are that Cherapanov is not a fast skater. I guess the morons at the two major scouting services who had him rated 2 & 5 respectively were just evaluating his street hockey skills. According to you, we should probably take the big gritty guy, who can roof the orange ball.