Comments on: Agent: Rangers have offered Sundin “a framework”

By: elen

elen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:55:29 +0000

By: Jeever

Jeever — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:55:41 +0000

new post!

By: Phalanx

Phalanx — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:53:34 +0000

I think Z will give up his #13 voluntarily… Mats will only be around for 1-2 seasons anyways. If Z is still a Rangers at that point he can take #13 back.

As for him coming… no doubt I think it will be a positive offensively. But Im skeptical to see who/what we have to give up in order to get him here.

As for him getting a letter… I’d rather see him with a letter than either Gomez or Drury. I feel Drury is one of those guys who does better when he can ‘fly under the radar’... and being the ‘C’ in NY is not exactly making that easy. I just dont think Gomez has the right attitude… you can tell he is a prick to the referees (and sometimes rightfully so)... but I just dont think he protrays captaincy of NY. Nazzy, on the other hand, is always the one to go and talk to the refs and get an explaination, etc etc. Hes the only one you see actually doing the do-diligence of a captain. What goes on IN the locker room from Dru,Gomer,Nazzy… I dont know. But of the three… I’ll take Nazzy.

I should also note that I think Betts and Mara deserve to be considered for letters… Dubi and Girardi are possibilities. But they both need to grow some more.

By: UKRanger

UKRanger — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:46:26 +0000

I quite like the idea of blooding Potter the rest of this year – he can play 15 mins a night until he’s ready to take on more minutes. Lets not forget that Staal was nicely eased into it with 16ish minutes a night at first before he took the step into the top 4 and playing 20 consistently. Can we realistically shift one of our D-men though? Kalinin is not too expensive but at -17 and a free agent in the summer he’s not going to get much in return (a 4/5th rounder maybe?)

Who’s after Potter in the current pecking order? Sauer? Fahey? Denisov? Sanguinetti?

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:36:08 +0000

stevethebear,

thanks. i think i won in fantasy this week because of my trip, i won by .68 pts.

By: Kaspar

Kaspar — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:24:22 +0000

Funny
Every other team in the league throws rookies into the mix every year..the Rangers, in spite of Renny, did it as well until this year ( Korpi is not in the mix)

Now? all of a sudden people like the rodaent cant bare an emergency call up of Sangy, Sauer, Moore, Ansimov??? c’mon..the dee cant be any worse anyway

By: UKRanger

UKRanger — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:19:02 +0000

Good article by the rodent…if slightly obvious in that we will have more center’s than lines and presumably its Dru or Dubi moving to wing.

The most interesting part of this to me is how we create the space, and what figure he will settle on. Any sign of roster subtractions this week is a sure sign that he’s coming. Who will get demoted/traded Fritshe, Dawes, Korepdo, Prucha? Will we trim a defenseman – Kalinin? trade Roszi maybe?

As for numbers – i reckon he’ll take 31.

By: JJP

JJP — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:15:08 +0000

Good read Nasty – very similar to what I said about the defense last night.

By: Pavel

Pavel — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:14:10 +0000

Can’t Dolan just give him a $10m Swiss account?

By: Kaspar

Kaspar — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:09:13 +0000

Nasty was right

Sundin did come…for dinner and drinks

Cant possibly fathom how Sather manipulates things to sign this guy…I mean except for throwing money at people he’s not exactly a “capologist”....Who helps the Rangers land Sundin? I can see it now “OH Hi Glen..Sure I’ll take Prucha or Rozival and their contracts off your hands to help you win a Stanley Cup…don’t mention it?”

Unless Mats is giving this year away ….how could it work out?