Comments on: Avery and Rangers breaks off talks

By: Jay in Toronto

Jay in Toronto — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:24:18 +0000

He’s pulling kind of a cross between Tiki Barber and Michael Strahan.

By: Staal Wart

Staal Wart — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:57:19 +0000

Wait Wait,
and crown zg King

By: zg

zg — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:55:09 +0000

You have a good point about the Ranger’s record when Avery is in the lineup. I wanted to do some more digging, and I found some interesting statistics.

The Ranger’s, this season, have a winning percentage of 100% when outscoring their opponents!

What do you make of that!

By: Staal Wart

Staal Wart — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:52:39 +0000

CROWN AVERY THE KING!!!

and Dave, stop fawning man!

By: dave

dave — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:50:15 +0000

the record says otherwise, warts and all.

UNDER .500 with jagr

42-17-11 with Avery

By: zg

zg — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:50:03 +0000

You guys and your “this guy makes the team win” and “the team can only lose with this guy” and “trade him!” and “trade for him”...They are all hockey players, and aside from a very very few in the world, there are dozens who would produce the same results in the same positions.

For example:

Jagr, Dubinsky, Avery are producing at a strong clip, and have been for, like, seven games. This is true, but the fact that other teams have other lines that also produce at strong clips means it can be done with people who’s names are not Avery and not Jagr and not Dubinsky.

Stop fetishizing the players!

By: dave

dave — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:46:52 +0000

this coming from the dope who said Parise was no good. you know squat about hockey, as your judgment about Parise was so outlandishly stupid.

the only C+ on that line is poutass. Dubi and avery are the guys who make it go.

guess what? over the last 2 seasons, with jagr in the lineup, and before they got Avery and with him out, they are under .500

so jagr, over a long sample, has done squat to win games here in the last 2 seasons.

By: Staal Wart

Staal Wart — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:42:28 +0000

Dave,
Not trying to stick up for Sam here, he’s a man and could do that himself, however, I don’t see in any of his posts “fawning” as you say, over Jagr.
You sound a little bitter man.
I do believe that you are fawning over Avery.
Sure he’s not a bad player in fact he has been quite good since join Jags and Dubi.
It is Averys absolutely retarded comments to the press that make him an idiot, and the distraction that this team does not need.
I’m not a huge JJ fan and I never have been…
I could understand people fawning over Jagr though. He is one of the greatest players of all time. He like Gretzky, Lemieux, etc are players that would classify as “fawners”
Avery…nah nothing to fawn about.

By: doodie m

doodie m — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:35:50 +0000

Dude, no one will ever guard Avery over Jagr. That’s why Avery ends up with as many breakaways as he does. Other teams don’t respect him enough to cover him. They double team Jagr and cover Dubinsky.

Avery is a C+ offensive talent. There, I said it. Let me turn your argument on you. Where was Avery’s point production BEFORE he was with Jagr and Dubinsky? Nowhere. At least Jags and Dubinsky were still getting points, even if it wasn’t as much. Avery is NOTHING offensively to this team if he wasn’t playing with Dubinsky and Jagr.

The guy that deserves the most credit is Dubinsky. End of story.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:33:25 +0000

bs. the great skating by Avery and dubi on the left side of the ice and down the middle, opens up space for poutass to get a much easier path to the net with the opp team worrying about the other 2 guys.