Blueshirt Banter Radio: IMPORTANT! TIME CHANGE FOR TONIGHT!

…that this was posted after BSB Radio ended tonight.

Jim – here’s some “Drury enlightenment” for you.

Quoting Steve Zipay (since many of you can’t read him any more)

“It’s not just my decision, it was a group of us,” said John Tortorella a few minutes ago here at GM Place. The coach said that the coaching and management group were gathered yesterday and captain Chris Drury came into the meeting and made the suggestion that veteran Vinny Prospal be named an alternate.

As fans, we have a tendency to gravitate towards vocal, outgoing leaders.
If that’s what you want – then Drury certainly isn’t your guy – and never will be.
And he’s not the most engaging personality from an interview perspective – far from it.

I would submit that the kind of “captain” you’re looking for would be exactly WRONG for this Rangers team – not because of the team – but because of the Coach. There’s only room for one outspoken personality – and Tortorella has that locked up by default. When the crap hits the fan and players get PO’d at the Coach, you need a rational quiet type like Drury to convey the same message as the Coach – but in a different manner. That’s why Drury is the “C” and he’ll remain so for the remainder of this year at the very least.

His lack of scoring is a separate issue – and we’re all concerned with that – he certainly isn’t putting up numbers worthy of his fat contract (but neither was Gomez….) – hopefully things will shake out and he, Higgins, Cally, Dubi and Avery will start putting the biscuit in the basket.