Craps vs Rangers

[BigDaddyAl1973]

Winning is great but you have to develop the young players on the roster....the older the Zibs, Kreiders, and Panarins get the less they will produce...to maintain success you need the younger guys to improve and take their place. Kreider is never going to have the season he is currently having again...he just isnt. And his reduced production needs to be made up for from other players. The guys you have to lean on are the Lafreniere's and Kakko's...to make up the difference if the Rangers are going to maintain their level of success.

I get that, however, they are learning a lot to be able to play two way hockey, their skills don't diminish just because they aren't playing 5 on 4. The rangers have a nice luxury that they don't have to force feed kakko and laf.

 

[NYR31]

I get that, however, they are learning a lot to be able to play two way hockey, their skills don't diminish just because they aren't playing 5 on 4. The rangers have a nice luxury that they don't have to force feed kakko and laf.

But when you have the #1 and #2 picks, you need to focus on helping them reach their potential as much and fast as possible, and you do that by giving them 18+ minutes a game and ton of PP time, even if it means other veteran players' ice time goes down because of it.

Beyond the limited ice time LaF and Kakko have been getting, we are also asking LaF right now to adapt his game to play RW. IMO, it should be the other way around and have Kreider move to the right. To me, Lafreniere and Kakko should have been our priority and instead we chose to focus on getting as much as we can out of our vets and those 2 were just along for the ride, and IMO it is to the team's detriment. Next year when Kreider comes back to his career averages, LaF or Kakko may not be far enough along in their development to make up the difference in production, and that will be the team's own fault.

 

[kreidertime]

God forbid 31 you actually talk with common sense. You will be lectured for it. The Rangers have been a moronic, incompetent organization developing Kakko and Lafreniere. That one timer Lafreniere had vs. the Canucks. There might be two forwards on our team who would have any prayer of ever scoring on a shot like that. Yet, Gallant keeps putting retards like Hunt on the first line and Strome on the PP. There is a reason this organization has one cup in over 80 years. They are fucking stupid. You are never winning the cup with the Kreider's and Strome's of the NHL. It's that simple.

 

[Messiah717]

On a side note, Hasek is either a booze hound or is on drugs. I agree Ovie is a Putin loving pussy. However, wanting all Russian players to be suspended. Find your brain Hasek you fucking whacko. You don't deprive somebody of their livelyhood because the country they were born in is run by a maniac. What a nutcase.

His comments made no sense. These aren't Russian sponsored players or a Russian run league.

 

[Messiah717]

The Rangers need another scorer or need to improve their even strength scoring. Otherwise, come the playoffs they're in the sakme spot they were when Hank always had to stand on his head. It's not fair to expect Igor to win every 2-1 game.