Sather is not as dumb as you all think…

Do I think Shanny should be on the Rangers, yes but unless they move Rissmiller and Prucha it cannot be done

Veteran players respond in a more linear way to game situations. Shanahan himself put it very succinctly in an interview he gave last year, when he said that a younger player will follow a play from A to B to C to D. The veteran, however, will skip straight from A to D. It’s a matter of experience. I think it would be hugely beneficial for players like Dubinsky, Callahan, Fritsche, Prucha and Dawes to have some more exposure to this kind of play. Also, I can imagine Shanahan having a similar effect on Zherdev, a player noted for his overhandling of the puck. All of these guys could benefit from watching one more season of Shanny’s consistent, even play. That being said, he would have to agree to play only 8 or 9 minutes a night, which I doubt he would. I really don’t think we’ll see Shanahan in a Blueshirts jersey again, which too bad.

Plus we are an extemely young team. Shanny would be almost 7 years older than our oldest player. Plus he kinda “stole” 2.8 mil extra from us last year, so how much more to we really owe him. I don’t mean that to sound negative against him but for what he did, he wasn’t worth 5.1 million. Also no way he’s going to the wings. Even if they had room, they have too many young guys like kopecky and helm so shanny would have to play no better than 4th line.

All I know is that the goals will come. When you play as determined and upbeat as the rangers did in prague, you can’t go through a scoring drought for that long. They just got some bad breaks and both goalies played well. As long as they keep forechecking hard, crashing the net, and screening the goalie like they have been, they’ll get goals, especially garbage ones in front.

Like I said before this season even started, we have a lot to look forward to for this year and probably many more to come.

Thanks for 2 good years Mr Shanahan.

We’ve been through this a number of times. Some think Shanny just couldn’t make it through 82 games cause of his age, i stil believe that knee injury fugged him up, and caused it. Playing on that bruised knee caused his hip problems. He made the choice to play, which was wrong on his part, and he knows. Renney shouldn’t have played him. Renney now knows that, cause that’s how he is, just like with the Orr situation, not playing him against Philly when we needed him there. Limit Shanny’s playing time, don’t put him on the PK, and if he has some sort of minor injury, you sit him to be on the safe side. If he doesn’t show up for the playoffs, then to be honest, if you can go back, who would you have played, Shanny, Rismiller, or Fritsche ? Some might say Fristche but he hasn’t played in the playoffs. Pruchs hasn’t even scored a playoff goal in 3 years. A healthy Shanny, and a cheap Shanny, is always worth having.

BTW – It was mentioned here, that NYI lost 6-0 in there pre season game. DiPietro gave up all 6, in his first game back from hip surgery. OUCH !! Hopefully he gets it together so they don’t have a shot at Tavares.

On Rozsival’s #3, maybe he is gradfathered in, like Rivera still wearing #42 on the Yankees. But since he told Sam he would change, I’m surprised that he did not.

I love how when I asked on the Puck Daddy live blog for opening day why Girardi wasn’t still paired with Redden like in preseason, people responded in such ways like why would Redden be paired with an undrafted scrub. I guess people still undervalue Girardi; meanwhile, he is usually great defensively and is now playing on the power play.

I guess Renney’s (or Pearn’s) theory on the power play is to put both “scoring” defensemen together to increase the chance that we score on the power play overall, so the most likely score will come from the first unit. They were looking good towards the end of the first game and on the goal in the second game. I don’t even know what to do with Prucha anymore, but let’s try him on the power play in place of Dawes for a little bit.