NFT - ** 2024/25 New York Rangers Season Thread **

[EDjohnst1981]

Zero grit.

Carrying passengers.

Not a good recipe.

[DaveBrown74]

It sounds like they have officially hit empty and it is time to start afresh with bringing the kids up and get them blooded for valuable experience and find out who the players are for the future.

As for the overpaid pros who aren't delivering, maybe it's best they either sit or get demoted to the farm team for a long while until they make up their minds to either play or retire.

Maybe I'll find something else to do tomorrow night when they get shuffled, along with the snow, out of Buffalo and made to ride the NY Thruway back to NYC and let them think about why they have their heads up their collective back-ends.

They have the matinee on Saturday against LA and I might record and watch it later in the day to assess the funk myself. But thanks for the Executive Summary. It doesn't sound good at all.

Peace!

It gives me no pleasure.

The Rangers are a team that I count on to be at least, if nothing else, watchable every winter. And they virtually always are. They are seldom a genuinely bad team. They're usually competitive, if not one of the better or best teams. This isn't the Giants or the pre Leon-Rose Knicks. The Rangers are a pretty well-run organization, even if Cups are a rarity.

This team is pushing the bounds of what I would consider even "watchable."

Do I think they're capable of being a lot better than what they're giving us? Yes. Do I think this core veteran group is stale and past its prime? Yes. Do I think we have a timid and sycophantic, uncreative GM? Yes. Do I think a number of young players that we were counting on to blossom into very good players (Miller, Kakko) have been completely disappointing? Yes. Do I see a lot of hope for greatness for this current group? No. Is that a concern given the contracts and the no-trades etc? Yes, big time.

[Messiah717]

It's too bad Sam Rosen's last season is this disaster so far. 

[kartanoman]

It's too bad Sam Rosen's last season is this disaster so far. 

I was thinking the same thing.

Peace!

[coggs]

Crazy that a challenge that didnt go their way against Calgary started this.  But, it is simple.  Panarin has gone cold, so that line has gone cold.  Mika can't get the puck to the net, so Kreider can get deflections and rebounds.  Miller and Mika turn the puck over like it is their job. 

[Gmo11]

It's baffling that this team, which won the president's trophy last year and was basically wire to wire the top team in the NHL.   At least until the trade deadline anyway.  Could fall this far this fast.  It defies logic!

[kartanoman]

I'll watch them tomorrow and give you my thoughts. It's crazy!

[EDjohnst1981]

Wow.

5 down with 7 to play in the second.

Might be the end of Lav.

[DaveBrown74]

Incredible how bad this team is right now.

[kartanoman]

OK, I've seen enough. I don't know who those guys are wearing blue but they have no business being on the ice in an NHL hockey game.

I'm stunned by how much they have fallen in a short period of time.

If this is what they are going to put out the rest of the season, they may as well start dismantling it now and rebuild because this is simply embarrassing along the lines of the Giants.

Peace.

[Messiah717]

Yup, this team is toast.  Have to sell two or three of these veterans off.  This is looking worse than Gallant's second season.

[DaveBrown74]

Yup, this team is toast.  Have to sell two or three of these veterans off.  This is looking worse than Gallant's second season.

Gallant?

This is Dave Quinn level bad. Maybe worse. I can't remember when the Rangers were this bad.

[Messiah717]

Gallant?

This is Dave Quinn level bad. Maybe worse. I can't remember when the Rangers were this bad.

Like Gmo11 said above it truly is amazing how badly this has fallen off.  Everyone looks to be going through the motions.

[files58]

As I mentioned earlier in this thread it's time to retool, reconstitute. They have an anchor in Shesterkin. The goal should be not to rely on him, but to craft a buzzsaw checking team backstopped by a top 3 goaltender. I would really like to see no matter what team is fielded an infusion of a f/u "New York Street" attitude.

[Messiah717]

Now sitting at .500 which will definitely become under .500 shortly.  They are completely broken.