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Good question – which is the real Rangers feeder system, veteran rejects from other teams, or our own top propects who are ready to take their place in the limelight? I hope management learned from last year’s disasters, wherein only Avery, of all the outside the organization, in-season acquisitions, panned out. I want to see this team get BETTER over the course of this season, not get top-heavy with more dead wood like we brought in last year, especially with the talent we now have just a phone call away.

ALL YOU GUYS BASHING THE RANGERS STAFF – Are you for REAL?!? Jesus…in the two decades I’ve watched this team, this is the first time I’ve SEEN a coaching staff, with a slight exception to Keenan’s abrieviated tenure. For so many years, this team has suffered an utter dearth of leadership at the top. Now they’ve got guys that have literally pulled the Wolfpack from the junk heap to create one of the best feeder systems in the league. Knock last night’s victory all you want, but what I saw was a confident Callahan opening up good opportunites on net, Dubinsky plastering the opposition with hits, Dawes pulling a puck out of mid-air, Girardi blocking shots with impunity…and the list goes on…these are all guys that came up through the system and look to be making a VERY good case for staying on the team.

There are good things ahead for this squad. I can’t ever remember a Ranger team with this kind of depth just a 100 miles away from the Garden in Hartford AND even more(Cherepanov, Sanguinetti et all) in juniors. So knock Renney for this and that, bitch about the journeymen playing, but at least acknowledge what they’re doing is ACTUALLY WORKING.

Last of all, I haven’t seen too many names of prospects jetisoned by Sather and crew who have gone on to sucessful careers in the NHL. In fact, the list seems pretty damn stark. Lampman and Kondratiev may have NHL spots. Wiseman and Giroux still haven’t gone anywhere. Lundmark is on his fourth team.Immonen and Helminen are in Europe. These are guys that didn’t cut it.

As for the guys they have now, Girardi and Callahan will defintily play prominent roles. There’s a good chance Staal will start with the team and either Dubinsky or Dawes will be in the lineup opening day. There’s also a good deal of talk about Montoya being on the club. So I’m failing to see the gripe here. I mean, it’s not like Jason F’in Strudwick is single-handedly stifling the NHL aspirations of the entire draft crop. And besides, the best team is the one that produces on the ice, not the youngest one in age.

Kings are up 1 – 0 after the first, on a PP goal by Mike Cammalleri.

No J.S. Giggy in the game, he’s out with some injury.

Come on Renny… Give us Dubinsky-Callahan-Prucha!

NO SOUP FOR YOU!

Trust me…If i was moronic enough to use your name….the last thing in the world i would say is “Pukie”.

Why dont you cry about Buttman and Vegas and go bang Yenner. God knows he can use the attention.

As regards H-O-C-K-E-Y, I do not have an “anti-vet” mentality, what I have is an anti-journeyman, old, over-priced, washed-up players mentality. You know how I take the Krog’s and the Ozo’s and the Strudwick’s and the Kaspairitis’ and the Isbister’s of the world to task, and I will never get over the senseless, absolutely STUPID acquisition of that cue ball Dupuis.

A vet who can PLAY, is ok by me, but to hold on to, and acually acquire the dregs of the NHL to add to the Rangers active roster, is not something I can sit back and take without voicing my opinion / objection to the short-sighted, self-defeating lunacy of it all.