Comments on: Strudwick in, Mara out

By: LI Joe

LI Joe — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:01:18 +0000

cwgatti – Shanny gets most of his bonus for playing 10 games. I think he’ll meet that.

what’s with the Nylander talk – he’s on Wash.

By: imagination

imagination — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:04:41 +0000

I agree , this is now preseason season, thanks to the kid parade. Renney tried in camp but was too slow in preseason. Now he needs to figure it out on their NO DAYS OFF.

By: cwgatti

cwgatti — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:41:07 +0000

And Stall is not ready for the NHL. He is OVERMATCHED. Girardi looked like Larry Robinson compared to Stall 2 games into their careers. Betts is BETTER than Dubinsky. Callahan is the real deal. Prucha too. Dawes is not the answer. Shanny will be getting no bonuses this year. Gomez is too fast for his teammates. But he will get it together. If he gains the zone, and looks for open ice like Gretz, or dare I say NYLANDER, he will find Jagr.

The Rangers are not in shape.

Send Stall down, let Gomez skate with Nylander, do something with Mara (trade him or play him), get Hossa back in the lineup and start playing some hockey.

By: cwgatti

cwgatti — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:36:18 +0000

There was no preseason. Every game became a goonfest. The lines had no chance to get any flow or cohesiveness. A bunch of young career AHL players go into those games headhunting to make a name for themselves. There should be no NHL preseason.

By: Chris F.

Chris F. — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:09:29 +0000

pghas, you’re dead on about the lack of cohesion and the unfortunate hangover from the preaseason youth looks. But, I’d still like them to be a bit more energetic across the board. They say a lot of the right thing—“we need to stop watching each other” and “we need to know we won’t win without working,” etc.—and now they need to live it, with or without familiarity. But, you’re right, that does explain a lot of the messiness…

By: Robby Bonfire

Robby Bonfire — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:29:58 +0000

TWO GAMES IN:

Gomez is 1-1 in the Takeaway-Giveaway dept., while Drury is 1-6.

Tyutin and Girardi lead the D’s in Hits with 7 and 6 respectively, while Malik and Staal have none.

Best Faceoff man, so far, is Dubinsky who is 6 of 9 = 67%. Drury, Gomez and Betts are hovering around 50%.

AVERY, who played all of 1:58 vs. Ottawa, leads all Ranger forwards with 11 hits. Gomez has none, Drury has one.

Girardi leads the club with four blocked shots.

By: Salty

Salty — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:07:24 +0000

“the Rangers are suffering from having spent way too much time during the preseason getting looks at guys like Korpikoski, Sauer, Jessiman, Byers, etc, and not nearly enough time trying to get Jagr, Drury, Gomez, Shanny and Straka all properly assimilated and used to playing with each other.”

Nail. Meets. Head.

By: pghas

pghas — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:04:48 +0000

They weren’t as bad as many of you are saying. Other than the complete collapses on the 2 goals, the Rangers are suffering from having spent way too much time during the preseason getting looks at guys like Korpikoski, Sauer, Jessiman, Byers, etc, and not nearly enough time trying to get Jagr, Drury, Gomez, Shanny and Straka all properly assimilated and used to playing with each other. Hell, this is really only the fourth game these guys have had together as a team (the last 2 preseason ones as well), and I understand that Gomez and drury are the only real new additions here, but they’re hugeky important players.

I think Staal has looked extremely solid, Girardi and Tyutin have actually looked very solid in both games, and other than a few breakdowns Malik and Rozival have even been solid. I’ll start worrying if they continue to look this discombobulated for 2 or 3 weeks.

And another thing – it might make sense to give Gomez at least one linemate who can fly with him.

By: rangersinchicago

rangersinchicago — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:00:57 +0000

Ok…so my concern here is the first line. It just looks kind of lost without Nylander. I still think it was a mistake to break up the integrity what was one of the top point producing lines in the league. It must be frustrating for Jagr, and I think it is going to take a lot of time to get the coherence/chemistry/effective (sometimes dazzling)puck movement back that the first line used to have. It looks pretty ragged out there now.

Also, if avery is as badly injured as he looks, are they going to call up Dawes, or insert Hossa?

By: ORR..Talented Mr. Douglas Orr

ORR..Talented Mr. Douglas Orr — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:47:23 +0000

Im telling you, Danny Girardi looks so damn great…Everyone was nervous about him, saying he might not be as good as last year….But seriously, he is doing great in my opinion. He is the most physical d man on our team.

Did you guys see him flatten that Sens player before, among a few other hits that he thrrew.