I’ve never never never seen a team add so many wingers in my life. Well Renney likes to roll 4 lines, he can almost roll SIX! wtf is that! haha

I’m assuming that a few wingers will be on their way out of town today. You’d really have to think that just based on logic, no?

Always said toots was a very tradable dman. Sad to see mr bobblehead go, but I think we got the better of the trade and toots will do well under Hitch.

Therefore, as was noted after the Columbus trade, there must be another trade coming on the Rangers part today or this week. There has got to be a larger plan. Now I thought that the Rangers moved Tyutin because they thought they could land Orpik. He went up and resigned with the Pens so now it is time for plan B or C.

As you mentioned, the Rangers ideally would like to get Bouwmeester from the Panthers. This is going to be tough because he seems to be a building block down there. However, maybe Sather can work his magic like he did in the trade yesterday. Maybe we could trade Prucha, a first round pick next year and a lower level player (maybe Betts or Greg Moore or Dane Byers) for Bouwmeester.

Regardless a trade needs to go down for the Rangers to shore up their D. as mentioned, they only have 4 solid signed d men now, Staal-Redden and Roszival-Girardi.

Who wrote that cr8p!!! Probably the same person that talked about adding Backman’s size would help them..?

On reflection, i’m sad to see Toots go, but if they can harness Zherdev’s talent then its a worthwhile trade. Backman and Fritsche are throw-ins, which is fine because we got rid of Backman’s salary and got a young grinder.
Now we have a glut of 3rd/4th liners so the HBO line looks like it will be no more…..

Cherepanov – Anisimov – Zherdev

It looks like a sick line on paper, but we’d have to see how the jell… Just some thoughts.

Here is hoping that tomorrow the Rangers fill some of their remaining holes, either by signing free agent/s(though, not that many high quality ones remain) or engineering a trade like they did today.

What we need:

1-a physical defenseman, a player with “some sandpaper in his game,” to use a Renneyism. Scratch Orpik off the list now that he has resigned. Not many defensemen left let alone physical d-men, so look for the Rangers to go shopping this week to get a defensemen or two, one a player who knows how to throw the body around and to keep the crease cleared.

2-scoring wingers. We need at least one scoring winger to put on the opposite wing with Gomez and Zherdev presumingly as a top line. We could use a second scoring winger, perhaps a Markus Naslund or someone?

There is still some work to do for Glen, but I am cautiously optimistic with the moves, signings, trades so far. Rolston would have looked good up front on Drury or Gomer’s wing, but he and Malone have been snatched up, so we will have to get creative now.

Sather always seems to make a steal of a deal, when putting together a trade. This is the same guy who acquired Pavel Bure for Igor Ulanov and a bag of pucks. He is also the guy acquired Avery tow seasons ago to save his team and all he gave up I believe was a draft pick or two and a prospect who failed to sign with the Kings, I think, and returned to his home country. This is the GM who somehow was able to trade Anson Carter for Jaromir Jagr, the move , along with hiring Renneym that would ultimately revitalize the Rangers as a relevant franchise again in the league.

Sather pulled a rabbit out of his hat today, robbing the Blue Jackets and their GM Scott Howson, in a trade that sent Tyutin and Backman packing and brought exciting young forwards Nikolai Zherdev and Dan Fritsche back to broadway.

Zherdev is coming off his best statistical season since entering the league. He comes to a team stacked with far better players and with more skill surrounding him as teammates than he had in Columbus. I think he will love playing for Renney, who will get the best out of him. Plus he will probably be playing on the right side of Gomez which should do wonders for him and give Gomez a skilled winger to work off of. Plus he is only 23 yrs old!

Fritsche is a guy I have liked since he entered the league. He is a small skilled forward who is a real lunch pail type of player who can pop in some timely goals that supplment primary scoring on the first and second lines. At best, he will become a second line player, at worst he is a solid 3rd line player who knows how to play two way hockey ( especially the defensive side working under a Ken Hitchcock coached team). I think Fritsche will provide the scoring on a 3rd or 4th line that we have been unable to get from the likes of Hollweg and Orr.

Now we wait and see where the chips may fall over the next few days. The Rangers could use one or two front line scorers still and could still use a physical element, let alone a body or two, in order to fill the roster on defense with the departures of two d-men to Columbus today. My favorite target was Brooks Orpik but apparently he resigned with Pitt.

Are there any other rough and tumble physical d men that we can pursue in a trade or still sign???