BrooksBurner Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 Drury went from having a quiet but logically sound day, to a bad day. The offseasons are just not his jam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerDanger Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 I feel so......underwhelmed. It's like Christmas 1987 all over again. I mean sure, I finally got parachute pants, but they went out of style like 3 years before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 They don't have a ton to spend. Other players are choosing to go elsewhere, and the Rangers are forward thinking to next season when they have their own guys they need to re-sign. Most notably Igor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br4d Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 2 hours ago, Blue Heaven said: Home Opener Oct 12 vs. Utah, which is Yom Kippur. Soon as I saw that tweet right after noon I knew the Rangers weren't doing much today. That was cannon fodder so the Rangers didn't just disappear for the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br4d Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 2 hours ago, siddious said: Its gonna be trades coming.... right.... RIGHT?! Othmann. That's going to be our big add this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Br4d said: Soon as I saw that tweet right after noon I knew the Rangers weren't doing much today. That was cannon fodder so the Rangers didn't just disappear for the day. Literally every team tweeted about their season/home opener. Edited July 1 by Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br4d Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 2 hours ago, RichieNextel305 said: Yeah, that’s why I was pretty adamant on Kane. I really don’t know what the pivot is here. Drury had a deadline that left a lot to be desired and this isn’t looking like free agency is going to be a help. You can’t go back to the well and try and fix this from within. It wasn’t the answer last summer. It wasn’t the answer at the deadline. It won’t be the answer now. He needs to make something happen here. This isn’t good enough right now for a win-now team that clearly needs some help. The Rangers are not one player away from a Cup. Yeah they won the President's Trophy last season but it was a ceiling season based on tremendous luck for most of the season. Drury is unlikely to see next season as better unless he can make some fundamental changes to the structure of the core. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlairBettsBlocksEverything Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 Did the recent troubles with Goodrow and Trouba make us a less desirable place for bigger name FAs? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br4d Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 1 hour ago, RichieNextel305 said: I’m just concerned that we have a hole in the Top-6 and potentially on the blue line if/when Trouba goes. And there is almost nothing desirable left to fill either void. I’m not advocating going punch drunk like some of these GM’s. But he can’t just sit idly and do absolutely nothing while name after name is off the board and we have work to do. Sometimes the best move is to do nothing. This team already has the horses on paper but they turn into ponies in the playoffs and nobody wins a horse race with ponies. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 4 minutes ago, Br4d said: The Rangers are not one player away from a Cup. Yeah they won the President's Trophy last season but it was a ceiling season based on tremendous luck for most of the season. Drury is unlikely to see next season as better unless he can make some fundamental changes to the structure of the core. The Rangers were 1 goal away in every single game of the conf finals, so this doesn't track whatsoever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br4d Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 Just now, Pete said: The Rangers were 1 goal away in every single game of the conf finals, so this doesn't track whatsoever. The best team in the NHL and a middling team are 1 goal separated in terms of their ability to win a Cup. I think the Rangers got worse in the playoffs once Lavi felt he had to shake up the lineup because something was missing. The team never found that thing and only Igor made them look respectable in the ECF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br4d Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 1 hour ago, BrooksBurner said: This is correct. I think it’s already at zero. That would mean good utilization from freeing up Trouba’s cap would have to be acquired by trade. If they have an opportunity to dump the contract, it still matters for next summer though. The Rangers will have some cap space at TDL without stretching out like crazy to get there. Maybe Drury and Lavi both want to see what the season brings before they spend right up against the cap and make weird rentals again as a result of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 6 minutes ago, Br4d said: The best team in the NHL and a middling team are 1 goal separated in terms of their ability to win a Cup. I think the Rangers got worse in the playoffs once Lavi felt he had to shake up the lineup because something was missing. The team never found that thing and only Igor made them look respectable in the ECF. Shakup the lineup? They were looking for a RW for the top line. By definition, one player away. 2 if we agree Wennberg could have and will be upgraded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br4d Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 Just now, Pete said: Shakup the lineup? They were looking for a RW for the top line. By definition, one player away. 2 if we agree Wennberg could have and will be upgraded. Chytil, Wheeler, probably others I do not recall at the moment. These are not moves you make in the middle of the playoffs unless you're really worried about who is already playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 Wheeler and Roslovic coming back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 1 minute ago, Br4d said: Chytil, Wheeler, probably others I do not recall at the moment. These are not moves you make in the middle of the playoffs unless you're really worried about who is already playing. You're proving my point. The revolving door at right wing is the one player who could have gotten them over the hump. Or anyone on the third line who can score. The margins are razor thin. If the Rangers had Kane, things might have been different. Even more so with a fully healthy and on track Chytil on L3. Or 22-23 version of Kakko. Any one of those things gets you an extra goal here or there and who knows what happens then. Even if I agreed they weren't one player away, they're closer than what's being presented here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichieNextel305 Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 (edited) All quiet in NYR land for now. I really think their expectation was that they would be able to sign Kane and once that was off the table, there weren’t many options (realistic options) left to pivot to. Edited July 1 by RichieNextel305 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 3 minutes ago, RichieNextel305 said: All quiet in NYR land for now. I really think their expectation was that they would be able to sign Kane and once that was off the table, there weren’t many options (realistic options) left to pivot to. I think signing Kane was more in the media than in real life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHS Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 This off season is a catastrophe for the Rangers. Leak a story that makes it seem like you want to trade your captain= check Don’t trade your captain and clog up cap space for the next two seasons= check Sign your underwhelming second overall pick= check Do basically nothing on free agent day= check Essentially send a message to the players that the country club atmosphere has never been healthier= check I mean the Rangers are a great team and they really are close to making the leap to cup winners but how on earth do you make no progress at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br4d Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 (edited) Why do we all assume the Rangers leaked the story? Seems much more likely to have come from Trouba's people. Edit: A Trouba trade is always going to be difficult because he does not want to leave the area and the Rangers do not want him on the Devils or Isles. The only way to make it go smoothly is to get a deal with one of the teams not on his list and then have 6 guys wrap him up in a carpet and carry him there personally, struggling the whole way. Edited July 1 by Br4d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichieNextel305 Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 Listen, we needed some changes. Some help. Are we better today than we were in Game 6 in Florida? Goodrow, Gustafsson out. Smith, Carrick, Jones in. I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cash or Czech Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 (edited) Just now, RichieNextel305 said: Listen, we needed some changes. Some help. Are we better today than we were in Game 6 in Florida? Goodrow, Gustafsson out. Smith, Carrick, Jones in. I mean. It's also day one of free agency and I'm not jealous of many of the contracts that were given out and wish they'd been on my team. Edited July 1 by Cash or Czech 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 (edited) Even if they had Trouba's salary of the books, the contracts that went down today are insane. The Rangers have their own housekeeping to do to prepare for next offseason. They're trying to dump an absurd contract, adding another one in its place won't help. With the exception of Kane, I wouldn't be giving most of these guys what they were asking. Edited July 1 by Sharpshooter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 2 hours ago, Br4d said: The Rangers are not one player away from a Cup. Yeah they won the President's Trophy last season but it was a ceiling season based on tremendous luck for most of the season. Drury is unlikely to see next season as better unless he can make some fundamental changes to the structure of the core. Disagree . Not saying they're favorites by any means. But saying on July 1st they're gonna suck off objectively a good season, don't see that. Tremendous luck goes in all kinds of directions, missed open nets, puck luck, missed breakaways, brain farts, other team having a shit night. Saying they're in the mix. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br4d Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 Just now, Bugg said: Disagree . Not saying they're favorites by any means. But saying on July 1st they're gonna suck off objectively a good season, don't see that. Tremendous luck goes in all kinds of directions, missed open nets, puck luck, missed breakaways, brain farts, other team having a shit night. Saying they're in the mix. I didn't say suck anywhere. I said Cup. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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