pretty much spot on. Except you missed Girardi, Staal, McDonagh and Del Zotto as far as players worth something
so much you wouldn't believe it. i live in the greatest place on earth. no rain, no snow, no humidity, no fuckin' bugs or mosquitos of any sort, no need for screen doors or windows, nor for or an air conditioner. you need a blanket at night even in the summer, and the girls and the weed out here are stellar at worst. :up:
last night's shortcoming has forced me to crazy glue a bong to my chest. i'm going out shopping now to find an intreveinous Mr. Coffee with a thorazine drip if they are available out here. fuckin' rangers are deplorable. what a dropoff from last year. i guess they will play just good enough to hang around for the last spot or two and then promptly get jackrolled in the first round. it's a stupid year anyway so i guess i can deal.
I guess you have to follow the Jets and the Rangers to ensure that you have a constant reminder of what misery is.
The Rangers' problem isn't a lack of talent (in some corners it might be, but not overall as a roster), but rather in the apparent complete lack of cohesion and application of that talent. That has to come down to the coach. If our two teams swapped coaches, I suspect that the Rangers would blow the current Sens team away nine times out of ten.
not to mention if i ever dropped the rangers, jets, yanks or knicks, my friends that i grew up with would have my head on a pike. i'll never bail on my teams. had season tix for the yanks from '75 (in shea) through '88, then i moved out here.
It comes back to identity. What is this team trying to be? Last year you have a young, gritty core of players that lived off of opportunistic play and a true "team" game. It was a constant barrage of blocked shots and hits and puck possession to generate chances. It's clear that with the current group, they can't be that team anymore. But here they are still trying to fake it. That's what's driving me crazy about Torts. And it's not as if he's incapable of winning in another system. His Tampa teams were about as run 'n gun as it got. I just don't know what they're going for now. I still agree that you make the Nash deal 10/10 times. You just don't pass up that talent for what you gave up. That said, you have to adjust.
This one hurts. We outplayed the Habs in almost all facets in the first period but a flukey goal and Price standing on his head just demoralized us.
