Kane's a bitch. With his attitude he wouldn't last one week in the Rangers locker room. He could quite possibly go to Pittsburgh and become a scoring machine... but that locker room is so damn fragile he might be the piece that finally tears that organization apart. Rangers should focus on Hanzal/Vermette. Yotes are a team that is desperately looking for a physical stay at home presence on the blue line and McIlrath has been better in Hartford recently. Maybe Sather can rob his old pal Maloney over a nice dinner. Most importantly they should be monitoring the price for Sekera in Carolina, who would dramatically improve the breakout on defense.
Kane is a bigger Zucc, stats are similar...the only thing I really like about him is he's 6'2" and strong and abrasive, oh yeah he's still only 23
Kane's also a giant underachiever with major attitude problems. Zucc's a giant overachiever who is beloved by his players and coaches. That means a lot to the players in the room, and they're not going to react well to that trade-off. The Callahan trade worked because MSL is a HOFer that everyone respects, but that could have been a big issue if handled poorly.
from the interwebs: A source on twitter claims his friends Dad is the limo driver for Dolan and overheard him saying the issue with Lundqvist has to do with an injury to his carotid artery. The reason I find this interesting is that, the puck hit him directly on the left carotid artery. When I did some further research on blunt force trauma to the carotid artery, I found that: Thrombosis for those who don't know is a blood clot. These can develop after a few days of the original injury, and can be very dangerous. It has been officially reported that Hank was having headaches right after the injury, and had some more during the Steiner event which was the night before the Boston game he was scheduled to play. This could be related to the delayed neurologic deficits mentioned above. This photo below (posted on Instagram was from earlier yesterday (before the Boston game) the caption reads as follows: If this injury was related to just being sore, or something benign I doubt he would be visiting the Dr's outside of the ones that are with the team during the day. The day after the Steiner event. I could be completely wrong, and I know we have to tread lightly here when discussing injuries. However, I believe this could be a fair assessment of the real underlying injury here. For him not to even DRESS for the Boston game suggested something far more serious than a regular bumps and bruises type of thing. You might say, what about the day-to-day diagnosis by the organization? Well, its most likely something that needs a few days of testing, and other things to determine what exactly the issue is and or how they are going to approach the treatment. Maybe after a few days, everything is ok, and he can come back, or maybe it's something worse. I think they said that to keep people calm and to make sure they know what is going on before they make an announcement of a possible long term injury. If the source of the info about his carotid artery (Dolan's limo driver) is correct, it's not entirely far-fetched being that the puck did hit him in that specific area, and all confirmed info (headaches, trouble breathing after the injury) are specifically related to that important part of the body. Bottom line, whatever it is, I hope, (as I know all of you here do as well) for Hank to be back and playing as soon as possible. His health always comes first before hockey. Let's hope we get some good news in the coming days,
February schedule is pretty soft. Lots of bottom feeders. And the skaters always seems to play better without Hank in net. If he's ready to go in a month, I'm not going to panic. Maybe this keeps him rested for the playoffs and ready to go on a '93 Roy/'11 Thomas type of run.
Why is Larry Brooks allowed to have such crap published? he names NO sources, has no medial experts' opinion. It complete speculation. Lundqvist will be in goal before March 1. Mark my words.
NY Rangers Zone@NYRangersZone ยท 17s 17 seconds ago Assuming Henrik is out for 4 weeks, Talbot will face several playoff teams: - Predators - Canucks - NYI - Red Wings - Blackhawks - Flames
OFFICIAL NY RANGERS STATEMENT...... http://www.blueshirtsunited.com/art...ampaign=posts&utm_content=facebook_1423252021 "Henrik Lundqvist suffered a vascular injury on Saturday. We have been conferring with leading medical experts to ensure the best possible care. Henrik will remain sidelined at least three weeks, until he is revaluated and we have completed the process of conferring with the medical experts." Remeber... Hack said... "Lundqvist will be in goal before March 1. Mark my words."
Salvaged a point they should never have been fighting for in the first place. Sluggish start, stupid penalties for the 5 on 3 PP, etc. OT: Ranger (who shall not be named--lol) forcing it by trying to squeeze his way along the right sideboards with the puck a la Billy Fairburn (of 'Bulldog Line' fame) instead of dumping it in.....loses possession of the puck that the Stars never relinquished - game, set, match, Dallas.
You guys see the AMAZING "Of Miracles and Men" 30 for 30 ESPN documentary on the Russian players from the 1980 Miracle on Ice team.
Joe, you can't sleepwalk thru the 1st two periods and OT, it's not a formula for winning...this team would be lucky to have a Thzacuk-Fairburn-Vickers line...
Amen, they put themselves behind the 8-ball to start. Both teams looked stale in the 1st period. Saturday night: nice warm reception for Klein by the Music City locals. Whew, those Predator unis are old LA King-like gross.
Your right Joe that 5-3 dumb penalty by Boyle gave them a 1:30 two man adv. we played catchup all night
