Comments on: Blair Betts has been promoted and he doesn’t even know it

By: ranger17

ranger17 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:37:11 +0000

Flip Sjostrom and Voros . Freddie woukd do well with Korpikoski and Fritsche . Very hard line to contain with their speed . They just might be able to pot a few goals

By: Salty

Salty — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:18:30 +0000

OHHH ARTO THE BARBER….

YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE GETS OLD?

CLOSE GAMES WITH SHITHOLE TEAMS LIKE TAMPA BAY.
HAPPY THANKSGIVIN THO, FOR SER.

By: Salty

Salty — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:16:24 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving to ALL the posters here… decent showing last night in the OT… Not happy with the overall game but hey f*ck em.

Alrite I gotta go kill me some natives, later gators.

By: Arto the Barber

Arto the Barber — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:09:24 +0000

You know what gets old? Bashing Renney.

By: onecupin67years

onecupin67years — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:14:11 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving everybody , even if your from waaayy up North ,across the pond or fighting for the USA

By: UKRanger

UKRanger — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:36:05 +0000

Guys, give the coach and GM some credit – they know the goalie is great and therefore the GM signed him up long-term for big money and the coach plays him 65-70 games a year. Thats their jobs!!

Look at the recent Conn Smythe winners, there are goalies every 2-3 years and they are only 1 of a squad of 20ish skaters: Ward, Giguere, Roy.
Also (apart from game 1 in 2000) Brodeur won the Debbies the cup but Stevens got the trophy. Giguere was close to winning it again in 07. Kiprusoff got the Flames into the final, Fleury was a big part of the reason Pittsburgh got there. You’ve pretty much got to have a great goalie to get into the final.

The idea of the cap was to spread the talent around the league not allowing one team to dominate by buying up all the high-priced talent in an attempt to blow other teams away every night. Now the teams have to draft better, nurture young talent better and negotiate contracts better. OK, so we’re not great at the last one yet but the drafting is getting better and the quality of young players coming up in the last 2 years is very good, Dubi, Cally, Girardi, Staal are all studs and we’ve still got Ansimov, Del Z, Sanguinetti and a few others to come through this year and next.

By: LI Joe

LI Joe — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:21:27 +0000

s/n than not then

By: LI Joe

LI Joe — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:19:24 +0000

gresch – actually more middling re renney. don’t love him don’t hate him. do get tired of a lot of negativity so then it appears to some that i am pro renney. i expect the negativity especially when the team loses a couple. and always expect certain people to come out and play when the rangers lose. not you in this case talking about some others.

get more bothered by attacks against certain players than anything vs renney or sather.

of course Henrik is the major part in any success so far. just like Wash with AO can’t take best player away and be anytwhere near as good.

i see warts in renney and sather also see some good. i enjoyed the ot much more this game then if the players were totally reined in.

By: Gresch

Gresch — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:03:07 +0000

LI Joe

I give you credit. Because as a reliable Renney supporter, you in using the moot card are pretty much conceding the point that HL is the sole reason this team is where it is.

Honest and worthy, but a decided step down from the standard talking points (though not necessarily yours in particular) from so many status quo fans that there is some ingenious masterplan at work in the brain of the man behind the bench.

By: Akayama49

Akayama49 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:52:30 +0000

Current status of Rangers: Renny is attempting to win games with two scoring lines and one checking line. So far so good! Except for 2 games in which the Korpikoski-Dawes-Fritsche combo played well, essentially the team has gotten almost nothing from the so-called third line. Whether it’s Dawes, Prucha, korpi, Fritsche, and recently Voros, the third combo each night has contributed almost nothing to the offense needed by the Rangers. Essentially, they spell the other three lines, and, when they get out there, they are so worried about defense, they seldom generate any offense. Not to mention how short their shifts have been. If they draw a penalty on the opposition (which they frequently do), it’s right back to the bench. In conclusion, the aforementioned players have been essentially irrelevant to the Rangers success (or failures)to this point in the season. It would be nice if some combination of these guys were more offensively productive, but Renny is currently unwilling to give these players the same ice time opportunities to work out their issues (as he has other players on the roster who have struggled as badly at times as the “thirdliners.”)