Love this for you!

Naz Reid is my Knicks pipe dream tbh

To be fair, they were the better team for about 80% of this game, but the Blues stink too haha.

It’s dire as hell though I am not a huge believer in the Gorton pipeline considering Lias Andersson and Vitaly Kravtsov were supposed to be major part of it. Combine that with historic bad luck on Kakko and Laf, and here we are.

Doesn’t absolve drury, who is trending from average to bad GM.

But first thing’s first: call up Perreault and Berard and give them permanent spots on the team: Perreault in the top six, Berard on the third line. I’d even give Othmann one more shot for shits and giggles. You’ve gotta find out what you have.

If that continues to happen and the results follow suit, there’s only one option: tear the whole fucking thing down. I don’t think anyone is untouchable, Fox and Shesterkin included, even though they’d never do it and really can’t because of NMC’s. But this roster is going nowhere fast.

He was really good until that turnover.

I would argue that the Rangers don’t / haven’t had their Josh Allen (goalie truly can’t do it all himself in the way a QB can), but I totally get the parallels.

If the Rangers had McDavid / MacKinnon and followed the same trajectory it’s spot on. Even Panarin at his heights wasn’t quite that.

Yeah I mean Panarin’s outta here one way or another. The rest of the guys are gonna be here and the rangers need to build around them, not dissimilar to how Dallas built around Seguin and Benn; two guys they sunk a lot of money into who stopped lighting the world on fire scoring-wise years ago

You then weaponize those assets plus your cap space this off-season for a massive, franchise-altering acquisition. Don’t ask me who, I’m tired.

LGR.

Lastly, Drury needs to trade Panarin and nail that deal, and probably explore deals for Othmann and Schneider. Those transactions HAVE to net the Rangers at least one legit, NHL ready guy who can step into the top six, plus meaningful draft assets.

That said, you want to see progress. You want reasons for legit optimism.

To me, that’s in the form of development. Laba is a start, but we need to see flashes from Perreault and another prospect (hasn’t happened), and maybe a true jump from Lafreniere into bona fide top line NHL scorer (not yet!)