just watched the Devils beat Us. I miss jaromir.

I mean, obviously its the team before any one individual, but they made a mistake letting him go…

are you implying that Fritsche does not? Korpikoski likely is best suited of the 3 as a center because he is better at carrying the pack from his zone into the offensive zone, and centergets to handle the puck more than wingers and has more space to carry the puck in.

Initially, my preference was to have Korpedo-Dubi-Zherdev, but many noted that Dawes has more experience and more of a history of goal scoring, so he should get the left wing spot on the 2nd line with Dubi and Zherdev. Dubi and Zherdev are big guys who like to carry the puck, so initially having Dawes, a smaller player on the line, seemed odd for me.

However, Dawes is essentially a goal scorere and that is what his bread and butter has been to get him to this level. As a sniper, he could use someone like Dubi who has the size to dig the puck out of the corner and then set up Dawes or Zherdev for some shots.

It would be great if Naslund, Gomer and Drury clicked and could put up some points – we really need some offense.

I haven’t seen anything from Rissmiller that justifies a $1 million contract offer by the Rangers. Essentially, Voros is filling that role for the team, so I think it was rather redundant for the Rangers to sign Voros and Rissmiller. Plus, Rissmiller is the older of the two. I have liked what I have seen from Voros so far.

As far as Betts is concerned, we all know that there was no chance that Betts wouldnt be our 4th line center oonce the season opened despite any competition in camp from Anisimov, Nedved, others. Renney, to a fault, is extremely, sometimes too much, loyal to his players. Betts is one of his faves, so Betts is assured a spot despite his deficiencies offensively. I think the Rangers knew they would keep Betts as their 4th line center even this summer and that bringing in Voros and Rissmiller was to bring up the scoring on the 4th line – surrounding Betts in the center.

I don’t want to give up on or send down Sjostrom. He hasn’t been spectacular, but he is a young player still. He has speed, can pop in a goal here or there, is pretty responsible defensively and can play the PK when needed.

I feel the Rangers will need to do something when it comes to Petr Prucha and Pat Rissmiller. Prucha, despite eveything, has not been able to put the puck in the net lately. Granted he has had less playing time than in his 1st year here, but he hasn’t scored much and the Rangers now have too many wingers on their big club who can play. Prucha is expendable and there will be a bunch of teams interested. I would trade him maybe early this season and try to get someone worthwhile back in return. Maybe they can expose Rissmiller to waivers as they try to send him down to Hartford, if he and his $1 million is picked up off the waiver wire, then that is good for us.

FInally, on defense, I can see Kalinin already being this year’s Malik. I would rather have Potter fill out the top 6 dmen as he offers a physical presence of some sort and seems to play responsible defensively.

Maybe if we find Prucha expendable, we can trade him either for some scoring help on the wings or for a physical dman (maybe Kyle McClaren? maybe another physical dman)

Thoughts??

orr – At first I thought you were just another Jagr fan. But I’m beginning to think you may have a problem. I wish I could say ‘jk’, but I don’t think I am.

Get a pretty good look at this years team today. Mostly regulars. Last preseason game vs the competition this season. The 2 games in Swiss are hard to judge vs a different style, not to mention a bigger ice surface. THIS preseason game means a little more than the rest.