OT: NY Rangers 2024-2025 Thread
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Mika strong on the puck behind his own net, good job.
Brind’Amour would sit him for the period if he was coach
Brind’Amour would sit him for the period if he was coach
It's partially exaggerated because I'm a Rangers fan, but you can't tell me the Rangers dont have multiple cups if Brindy was behind the bench the past 10-12 years.
HockeyStatCards puts out a report for each game and last night the top 12 players were Blackhawks, followed by Cuylle and then soon after Shesterkin, Jones, and Mancini.
You won’t be surprised that the bottom of the list is basically the Rangers top 2 lines and top 2 defensive pairs.
Ugly.
K’Andre has Victor Hedmen ability with mental issues.
He’s fragile, he thinks critical evaluation and questioning of his decision making is abusive… he requires a safe space.
His decision making has been horrible all along. The first time I watched him play was in the WJC the winter after he was drafted. His talent was obvious, but I remember the US giving up a goal totally because he made a horrendous decision to pinch when he had virtually no chance of gaining the puck. He still makes the exact same mistake.
Another thing I have noticed is that as much as his reach is an advantage, and he over relies on it, he has trouble when the puck gets around his feet like on the second goal last night.
His reach is the attribute that's preventing him from being in street clothes. It bails him out of countless positional / decision errors.
There's been two positives of the season and it's been Cuylle and Jones. The former is going to be a very good player for NYR, and the latter will be a good player but (sadly) probably not in NY.
I don't know what Drury is waiting for. The core has been collectively and individually terrible. Lavs has no answer. I get that it's early-ish but they're barely holding on. How much different is this from the letter?
The difference is that last time the only player who was not only guaranteed not to be traded but also guaranteed not to have their job status (as in deployment) threatened was Lundqvist.
This time they act like there are 6-8 guys who are untouchable for some reason. For example, why are we acting like those 5 players on the first power play unit can’t be messed with? Their performance doesn’t justify that. In addition, are we just going to ignore that Fox has been a shell of his former self since he took that knee on knee hit in the Washington series last spring?
I think Laviolette has to go. The team is soft and the stars aren't playing well. The right coach will hold players like Mika accountable for their mistakes. Play your best-performing players more and limit ice time for those who aren't doing their job. If Drury doesn't make a change soon the season will get away quickly.
It’s a logical thought process, but I think you could just as easily make the argument that Drury is the one that needs to go. If his handling of Trouba & Goodrow over the offseason is at the root of the issues we’re seeing now, then I’m not sure what firing Lav accomplishes.
Problem is — we don’t even know if firing Drury does anything. As @krup mentioned earlier, who’s the one really pulling the strings and who’s the root cause of the current problems. Is it the players? Is it Lav? Is it Drury? Is it Sather? Is it Dolan? Gotta answer that question first.
Laviolette watched that performance on Monday and decided that 6 other forwards needed more even strength ice time than Cuylle.
How can a coach not see that opportunity to send a message about effort?
