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  1. "Win what with speed and skill? I seem to remember the blackhawks won it last year. Detroit won it. Pittsburg won it. All with speed and skill. So did Boston and LA. Everyone wins with speed and skill. And no will ever win it without." Maybe you want to list small, fairly speedy, fairly skilled, players in these teams and I will show you they were hard as nails. Schroeder is not a flyer and is not as far as I've seen some great stick handling dangler. You are giving the impression we are talking about Bure here. Seriously, we are not. The guy has no presence on the ice. He may acquire some but he doesn't look like he will, unless as I've said, Utica give him something extra. To compare him to MSL who was undrafted and had to graft his way to the NHL via the school of hard knocks, is pushing it a bit.
  2. Not only getting to the final but the way we played. I often think our fans have let their disappointment wipe from their memories just how good the Canucks were. We played a far better style of hockey than the Bruins and yet Gillis ignored the injuries list and decided to emulate the Bruins. Does anyone seriously think that if that Canucks team had stayed fit we would have lost a best of 7 like that. Gillis forgot that Boston got away with stuff we would never have been allowed to get away with. We know that because we tried it in the following two years and were swamped with penalties. I'm sorry, I don't like to play scapegoats but I will never forgive Gillis for throwing away 3 golden years this team should have had. 3 years where the Sedins, if they had been given some reinforcements, would have taken us to the Finals again. He disrespected that team with the players he added and how he upset the chemistry imo
  3. Mud. McConaughey at his best and some top quality performances by the two young boys and supporting cast. It's a film that looks to have been made on a really small budget but it's got a bit of everything, atmosphere, coming of age, romance, friendship (stand by me) betrayal and what really was the icing on the cake for me, a brilliant music score. There is always a bit of deja vu about movies like this but despite that, it still managed a few surprises and like any successful small budget film it was the performances that really pulled you in and made you feel entertained. Not an average performance from any of the cast. Well worth a watch.
  4. Ironically, the first game that LA deserved to win imo but at last Rangers got some puck luck. Give LA their due, when they sniff blood they are relentless but all through these finals I have been impressed by how the Rangers have stood up, to a man, in terms of physicality. I hope AV and the team have enough in the tank to take it back to NY and then who knows. One thing strikes me about all the LA games is their fantastic fitness. The longer their games go on the more dominant they become and they never seem to pick up injuries. Maybe we should take Stevens, just to find out the secrets of the training and fitness programs. Just joking, I want Desjardins.
  5. Yeh life's a bitch when your coach doesn't tell you how to avoid a puck deflecting into the net or when you come up against a goalie who is every bit as good as the best in the league or you get a call so bad it is almost actionable. Go count the shots on goal. We are such moaners on here. Ranger's coach is no more responsible for them being 3-0 down than he was responsible for the 2011 defeat. It's so childish to keep making up irrational reasons to fit your agenda. Of course yet again he is in the final but he gets no credit it seems for getting to the playoffs OR getting to that final. No that is the players or the goalie or just luck. Rangers should be winning this and we should have beaten Boston. That is the plain truth but it's sport. You improve you add the experience and you come back stronger next year. That is what the Canucks should have done in 2012 if we had had a GM who wasn't a dithering -----
  6. I don't believe "coaches have shelf lives" A good coach should get better with age, providing he is properly supplied with reinforcements. That was MG's end and imo he let AV down massively. It will be interesting to see how Benning / Linden do and then it would be interesting to imagine how well AV might have done with some actual joined up thinking above him instead of a guy who chased a different style every morning he woke up. In fact he was so busy imo chasing styles he forgot what a fine team (short of 2 or 3 players) he had in front of him. A man who really did sweat the little things.
  7. Correct and he is a buzz bomb compared to Schroeder.
  8. "You can also win with speed and skill." Win what? Certainly not the Stanley Cup, or have I been watching a different tournament from you. Raymond took plenty of stick on here and he had sh-t loads of speed and skill. The fact is Schroeder has all the hallmarks of a player who would get stomped into the ice in the playoffs. It would be like playing a man short. Hell, he wouldn't even give us what Raymond gave us when he was fit.
  9. The fact that we probably couldn't actually speaks volumes for our predicament not for Schroeder's suitability. I would chew through rivets to get Schroeder's chance but he just appears to expect it all to fall into place. He had better give himself a shake or he will be in Europe with Billy Sweatt, who I always thought was more suited to the NHL anyway.
  10. I think Schroeder has missed his opportunity. He far too passive imo. The difference between the "gleam in the eye" Shinkaruk with his "let me at 'em" attitude and Schroeder's quiet "I hope nobody notices me" says it all for me. The guy is small but he should be feisty, ballsy and in yer face. He's none of these things and so he doesn't give the impression he appreciates his opportunities. Bundle him in a trade or make him win a place in Utica. Maybe TG can work some magic with him like he seemed to do with Jensen. If not, cut him loose, there are too many guys who want to grab their chance to pander to him now at his age (24 in Sept)
  11. You see crap coach. I see hellish bad luck. You see out coached and I see deflections and bad calls. What is a series sitting at 3-0 could quite easily have been 3-0 or 2-1 for Rangers. The only place I would question AV's tactics/coaching is Rangers inability to move quick (a Quick who cheats like TT in 2011) laterally.
  12. Except they are showing up. Like we showed up in 2011 but sometimes inability to solve a goalie like Quick/Thomas, does for you in the end. Rangers deserve far more than they have got out of this series so far imo. I would not on any basis say they haven't shown up.
  13. I am experiencing some of the 2011 pain with NYR after the first 3 games. They are playing so well, a lot more able to to stand up to LA's physicality than I thought. I have to say though I feel AV is being out coached. I am really disappointed that Rangers haven't solved Quick. Shots on net just doesn't work with Quick and the LA D. They are a mirror image of the Tim Thomas and the Boston D of 2011 imo. The Canucks struggled with Thomas advancing out of his goal and it was only when they added the extra pass across him they had any success. I am really down at how much work the Rangers have put into this series so far and haven't got their just reward. I fear until their coaches realise that dragging Quick laterally across his crease is the only way to beat him they will continue to hit their head against a brick wall and continue to be caught on the counter attack. Looking back to 2011 I watched every night thinking that Thomas wasn't invincible but by game 7 I realised if you only shoot down the slot, he was. It's the same with Quick.
  14. Agree with this. Also it wasn't just the loss of these three players it was what came back. You could also factor in the poor form of Raymond recovering from injury, dropped to the 3rd to make way for the "chemistry" between Kes and Booth. Edler had also started his descent probably due to recurring back problems.
  15. You might have something there. Trade Schroeder and Hansen for --------- from the leafs. Ah there's the problem, they don't have anyone we want other than JVR and PK and we would have to offer a hell of a lot more than JS AND JH.
  16. We saw glimpses of what Jensen may become in this team, he is also a skilful ,big body. Are you sure that giving him AND 36 up for what is still an unknown quantity is wise?
  17. Garrison, Hansen Higgins and 6th for 1st AND Lu
  18. Well I hear what you are saying but he just doesn't look like any of these things on the ice. Put him on the 2nd line and he would be mangled by the Western teams. He has never looked like a centre to me, he seems to lack grit, stamina and any real edge to his game. I will agree on one thing he CAN pass but that is not nearly enough for me.
  19. So, are you saying both have to go Elder and Edler? Maybe we can exchange Elder's back with Edler and just trade Elder. Win Win!
  20. I can't understand why people think the Rangers are diving now (if people were honest most of them would say they hardly watched Rangers under Tortorella and I wouldn't blame them, they were awful) and to say that Kreider intentionally set out to injure Price is just sour grapes imo. I have watched every game in the SC this season (one of the best I've seen recently) and every team has players that simulate/embelish. Rangers are no worse or better than anyone else, neither were the Canucks. I think there is some envy and ill feeling towards AV on here and it seems to manifest itself in comments meant to detract from Rangers fine performances to date. As for managing games well some myths never die it seems, while we have the conspiracy theorists on CDC
  21. Well I have never seen a coach, leastwise that I can recall hitting a player like that in front of the whole Arena. It was crass, it was classless and it was frankly typical of the man. Edler (nor Hansen) are young rookies. If they make a mistake they know it. I saw a good few mistakes recently in the SC, one in particular from Subban and the coach didn't even go near him because the guy was well aware it was his fault. As I say, if you are determined to rip into an experienced player, do it at the break, in the dressing room. Tortorella is a coward, if he had hit Edler at the break Edler would have flattened him and he knew that.
  22. I don't accept that excuse. I watched every NYR v Flyers and if you are saying that PF were not allowed to be dirty then I don't see why they should. Rangers beat them fair and square. I also think Schroeder's mental approach would have been obvious before the draft. It's not so much your size but how you play mentally. The only way you would draft a player like that is if he was "obviously" aggressive. I don't buy that Gillis type of excuse making. "Yeah hopefully a Santo vs Schroeder battle.." Never going to happen. If Santo comes back fit, Scroeder won't get a look in. The guy just plays too small and he can't hide it imo.
  23. I agree. If I was Benning I would let it be known that I was interested and wait and see what the teams were looking for, I would not go chasing and volunteering to offer half the roster for what would be a risk no matter how well the player is thought of. I see far to many ridiculous offers on here, even the reported offers from other teams seem ridiculous to me. We have a 6th and 2 years ago we would have thought we had come into a fortune with a 6th. In fact if we got Nylander, I would prefer to move our 2nd up for Larkin or Tuch, two evil looking power forwards.
  24. So we are saying keep the twins resign Santo, bring in Shink and find a place for Schroeder (who just happens to make the twins look like lumberjacks) and yet we are trying to get bigger more physical and faster. How does that work? Schroeder for me is part of a trade package. He hasn't the fire of MSL or Marchand or Kane. He shouts out AHL to me, where skill can survive without the physical aggression. Frankly, he was an awful pick and a stark warning to our GM this year.
  25. Well speaking personally, I'm glad he seems to think we can get him back to his best. For me he never recovered his relationship with Tortorella after he humiliated him on the bench. His form plummeted from there, as did the team's.
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