Czech is right.

You are only partly right.

Coaching IS the problem. True, Sather has latched on to a bunch of 2nd raters in his “player assessment” mode, but it’s the tactical movements behind the bench that occur which decide how the team will fare.
There’s enough true talent on this team, that if used properly and in the appropriate instances that can decide the fate of a team. Renney is consistently inadequate in this regard ( and I have no idea what the other two assistants are doing to help out.) There is no reason ( as Brooks has FINALLY pointed out) for players like Roszival and Kallinen who continue to falter when subject to pressure and continually get flustered in their own zone. There are different spot combinations that he could use ( for instance as he did the other night with Betts on the PP.) Good teams make this type of move all the time. Poorly coached teams remain chained to a rigid format and stagnate as a result.

He’s strictly a prep school coach – nothing better.

I need to add to your rant at Brandon.

“Scorers score goals. I repeat, scorers score goals. When you’re in the game, you’re in the game. Lines don’t score goals, players do.”

Well then if goal scores only score goals then there will be 9-10 unassisted goals every game? Lines absolutely score goals – they are called plays.

“There have been plenty of player who’ve scored with regularity in more defensive minded systems… gomez being one of them.”

Gomez has only scored 33 goals once in his career. Other than that season. He has scored no more than 19 in every season of his career. He is a play maker, NOT a scorer.

I also have played organized hockey when I was a kid, played college and in DIV 2&3 in adult leagues. So my playing experience is about 20+ years.

I need a shot of something after reading that!

Tyutin was a source of hope right before the lockout, and he played great his first season with the Rangers, but last year he clearly regressed. Now Columbus can’t get enough of him.

Maybe he just needed a change of scenery…

Or maybe there’s another key here.

Maybe the Rangers SHOULD have waived Prucha. If Petr gets waived, and succeeds… all of us in the “fire Renney” crowd has additional proof, beyond the regression of Tyutin, Prucha, and, this season, the disappearance of Dubinsky.

It makes no sense to let Prucha rot here. But if the organization worried about what might happen if they let him go? I find it just silly to think that 60 NHL goals is a fluke. Have stranger things happened? Sure. But you gotta give the kid a chance to get that back, otherwise you’re wasting a potentially great asset.

Is Dubinsky down the same path? Zherdev? I really, really hope not.

What makes Dubinsky better than Prucha? His fourteen goals last season… how many came from Jagr? How many of his assists were off Jagr’s goals? Isn’t that what we say about Prucha? Except for Prucha never, ever played with Jagr even strength, like Dubinsky.

I see Dubi’s strength on the puck, his willingness to battle, his size are all great assets. But will we be talking about Dubinsky this way next year? I really hope not.

Quite honestly Brandon,no matter what I or any other Renney detractor says,you’ll still defend Renney wheather we make sense or not.You see,you are like an abused wife.No matter what you’re told about how bad the person is who is abusing you is,you still live in a state of denial and defend him.In fact there will come a day sooner rather than later that the “coach” and the Renneyaide that he spews,wiich, you and some of the other posters here have bought,hook,line and sinker will be gone,but you will continue to insist that it is the players fault and not his.It never is his fault you see,even he never takes responsability for anything that goes wrong.It’s always blame the players,the media for the shitty powerplay,but never “coach” Renney.

And for your information,I played orginized hockey for 9 years.

Trade to Atl: Gomez, Prucha, Fritsche, Kalinin & Redden to Atlanta

NYR get: Kovalchuk, Williams, Reasoner and Havelid

lines:

Naslund, Drury, Callahan
Kovalchuk, Dubinsky, Zherdev
Sjostrom, Reasoner/Williams, Dawes/Korpedo
Orr, Betts, Voros/Korpedo

Staal/Rozsival (these 2 together seem to be doing well)
Havelid/Girardi
Mara/Potter or Fahey

Redden to Ottawa for Neil??

Orr you are onto something.

Kaspars Girl friend is a big Ottawa fan,,,picture how everyone feels here about Ranger offense THEN MULTIPLY BY TEN how Sens fans feel for anyone other than the big three

Includes Vermette, Fisher, Kelly, Neil and the rest..makes Betts line look like the GAG line