Comments on: Early Halloween?

By: RickD

RickD — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:02:38 +0000

1) Drury looked like he was skating backwards the entire game, he had trouble keeping up with his linemates.
2) Minn. d-men were the rangers faces after each shot

By: Rick Carpiniello

Rick Carpiniello — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:14:45 +0000

And This One, yeah, HS football is always fun … except when it’s pouring rain or freezing cold. But this one was just fine.

New post.

By: tomg

tomg — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:08:22 +0000

I’m sure tort’s system is a good system, unfortunately you need the talent to be successful. The rangers aren’t very fast, big or gritty, not a good combination.

By: And This One Will Last A Lifetime

And This One Will Last A Lifetime — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:26:34 +0000

Carp:
1) Prospal is the Captain of this team. We absolutely must trade Drury if we cannot a) Scratch him, b)bench him, c)take the letter off his sweater without causing a commotion
2) The team needed a spark these last two games becuase we were playing lower half teams in KC and Minny, and had no Gabby. (by the way, every time he scores we yell Gabba Gabba Dooo like Fred Flinstone…its pretty cool). Instead we got bupkus.
3)Are Avery and Higgins truly hurt or are they healthy scratches being masked as injuries? Especially Higgins, who I still think will be good later this year, but is struggling so bad. Maybe he just can’t play in his home town. It happens.
4) Was the Hig School Football game fun?

By: 4Generations and only 4Cups

4Generations and only 4Cups — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:18:06 +0000

I just want to say that Drury sucks. Ive given the guy 2 years to come around, bringing different players in and around him, Kotalik for him and the guy is blowing past him in the point margain. I dont care how much the guy prepares for the game, its obviously the wrong way. He sucks. There isn’t a thing he’s good for but the 5 on 3 penalty kill. Like someone said, an overpaid Blair Betts.

Bench Drury and make a statement to the team, or take the C off his jersey and give it to a guy like Prospal who obviously looks like he gives a sh** every game.

Drury was pissing me off even during the 7 game streak.

I have no defense for such a poor player.

By: MikeA

MikeA — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:01:06 +0000

Injuries are a big thing this year in the NHLwith the condensed schedule. Every team is going through it. Filppula just got hurt for Detroit. Rangers might get lucky and miss Luongo because he’s hurt, Malkin just got hurt, etc.

Gaborik and Avery are not going to give you a full season if you look at their track records, and Higgins was banged up last year so it’s not that shocking.

I wanna see Byers get another shot tomorrow against his uncle’s old team (Lydon Byers Bruins goon in the mid 80s-early 90s who does their radio nowadays) and make it real tough for Torts to send him back.

By: Hockeymon

Hockeymon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:55:24 +0000

Good morning all.. I hope everyone is over the dull aching pain that is Ranger hockey. I know this is early and there are injuries. I also have to give credit to the Wild for playing a very disciplined game. This Ranger team has to be better, they were beaten badly in the corners and along the boards. Turnovers constant turnovers, bad passing, bad decisions because of pressure. these guys are playing like there are lost, they came out of their own end looking like they had an inkling of what they were doing maybe ten times all night. The Wild keeper played well but he stopped mostly bad angle shots from the outside, not much from the middle. This team was tested last night and they failed miserably. Put a little pressure on them and they break down, They are easy to beat. They unable to play the system the coaches want they to play. I wonder if these guys really have a system or maybe they can’t get it across, but I see few signs of any kind of organized or set plays when there is a little pressure applied. Like anything under pressure there has to be an escape route, and I guess Torts hasn’t gotten that far down his lesson list yet. Hopefully todays the day he shares this secret, it will come in handy in Boston Sunday.

By: Jags

Jags — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:46:43 +0000

The sh*tiest teams in the East and the West notch their first win in regulation at the expense of the Rangers. Downright embarrassing to say the least. Put the C on Prospal. My kid’s pee wee leaguers have play with more heart than these past two performances.

By: dore33

dore33 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:02:46 +0000

and one more thing what the heck is Voros doing on this team??? this guy cant stand on his skates and has stone hands…what a waste and we get absolutely zero production from him, he doesn’t kill penalties, he cant score, cant fight that well, so what’s his purpose???

By: dore33

dore33 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:00:40 +0000

as usual like every other year except a couple here and there, this team doesn’t get it. Who’s accountable? Nobody, we get all the lip service from different coaches and I don’t get why guys like drury, rosival, redden and I could go on, continue to receive major minutes…its time to bite the bullet and dump these guys and their salaries and bring up the ALL the kids, see for once in this organization who is worthy and who is not. I am consistently seeing glaring mistakes by these “veterans” and honestly I don’t understand. How many times can you NOT dump the puck into the other team’s zone when going for a change, how many times can they give the puck away in the defensive zone, how many times does their attempted shots get blocked???

I could go on for hours about this!!

and what the heck is with dubinsky? The kid comes out a house on fire for 2 weeks and thats it????

and the sad part is Sather will be here FOREVER!!

we should be plucking scouts from teams like the wings and devils…notice they do something that most others dont? THEY WIN consistently year in and year out!!! Lou has that team in Jersey playing sound hockey all around, do you see that team make the mistakes we do? NO and they lose players left and right and someone is there to step in and do the job. The man is a hockey Genius!! The Rangers make the same mistakes year in and year out…blows my mind