Comments on: Investigators say Cherepanov was blood doping

By: Lobster

Lobster — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:21:31 +0000

Put Valley in net tonight. You can see Lund. biting his tongue lately on the support he’s getting. I think Lundquist is gonna’ take out one of his own players if they keep leaving him out to dry the way they have been lately.

On second thought, that might be a good idea. You could pick’em on who he should bring to the firing line.

By: bull dog line

bull dog line — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:13:09 +0000

as far as turcotte is concerned, couldn’t make a pass, couldn’t recieve a pass, he could skate and shoot. played with checking wingers, because he held back the good wingers when he played with them. i hated turcotte.

By: bull dog line

bull dog line — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:10:16 +0000

pavelich stopped playing because he no longer enjoyed it, he just walked away in the middle of a season. not because of beatings. sandstrom was a solid player, and i know we are talking about forwards, but james patrick had a heck of a career as a ranger.

By: bull dog line

bull dog line — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:59:51 +0000

i believe it was cakewalk who had some harsh things to say about john ferguson. in fairness, he was the one who built that 79 rangers team. he drafted many of those players who went to the finals with the rangers. he built that team.

By: MikeA

MikeA — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:57:26 +0000

69th post!! Awww yeah!

They gotta go to the net tonight and play Finnish style hockey (diagonal dumping) so DiPietro can’t play the puck.

As for the earlier post; Herb Brooks/Craig Patrick did a pretty good job building the Rangers in the early 80s and drafting, it’s just that most of those players were B+ players at best (Sandstrom, Dahlen, Pavelich), a lot of them were smaller and had short careers like Pavelich due to the beatings, no one could beat the Islanders or Oilers in those days, and Esposito undid anything those guys did.

The Rangers brought it a lot of good younger players in the late 80s/early 90s too; Granato, Weight, Amonte, Turcotte, Brotten, King, Nemchinov, Zamaneur, Marchant, Kovalev, and that’s not including the D.

By: Tom Foolery

Tom Foolery — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:37:56 +0000

So does Renney get fired after the DP shutout tonight?

By: noonan

noonan — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:31:10 +0000

Vally is good bro. He could start on some teams.

By: Puck

Puck — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:25:29 +0000

graves9 – So apparently that “sample” size is large enough for you to tell me how good Valiquette is but too small for anyone to believe he’s better than his playing time? How does that make sense man?

By: mike in IA

mike in IA — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:19:41 +0000

graves, the way valley steps in after not playin for 15-20 game stretches, he does a damn good job. no hes not lundqvist, but obviously hank is struggling and vally could help alot. throw his big ass in net for 2-3 games. see what happens.

By: mike in IA

mike in IA — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:12:28 +0000

at the same time u want your d to play the same way no matter who is in net and i feel sometimes they think oh well, hank will bail us out and after the last few games the message should be clear but id like to see a game where hank doesnt have 20 odd prime scoring chances against him. the d needs to get the puck out of the zone much quicker. those one on one battles in our end need to be won and when we do get the puck, get it out fast. i cant think of a better way the d played all year than the game against the ducks. if they could play like that and they can, we would be in great shape. i think potter needs to be up here and get some time in for reeden n kalinin. redden showed no desire to win against the devils. no passion at all