Rangers Recap: Rangers woes continue, lose to Islanders 2-1

now we’ve only got like 3 or 4 more teams to go below in the standings to get the #1 draft pick and a very strong case for sather to be ousted from ny!

an see how he does…what the hell do we have to lose, another game? whooopeee

wasn’t he supposed to be some sort of Islanders killer? What the hell is this ad?

voros… say what you want but at least he would have fought somebody tonight and put up a fight

lisen.. don’t understand torts, not many others are playing well either. And boy did you see his speed?
Reminded me of Gomez

antro… he would have been smashing his stick tonight all over the place. Thats what we needed . BIg mistake haunting us. Mara too.

Gutless effort from the opening faceoff. This is his mess.

http://newyorksportsjerk.blogspot.com/2009/12/fire-sather-out-of-goddamn-cannon.html

Never figured why he was benched. He’s got some speed and we got plenty of problems.

This team lacks heart… You’ve got to blame everyone starting with Slather.

Avery seems to be the only one with any heart.

Rozzy back to his old ways except he didn’t stand out as much because everyone sucked.

all I know is the devils continue to win consistently making the playoffs and finishing at the top of the conference. their upper management is beyond superior to ours it makes me sick. This problem starts with them I don’t care what people say about Sather’s drafts, yes he’s drafted good players, but he has missed out on franchise players that we can really build a team around that would compliment Delzotto, Dubinsky, Callahan, Staal, Lundquist. He’s also created a mess with Drury, Rosival, Kotalik, Brashear, and Redden that is sinking this team to the cellar of the Eastern Conference for at least the next 3 years unless he buys out these contracts. We can’t trade or pick up any impact players to play with Gaborik because we are so far up against the cap. Even if we have to sign one of our own players we developed we have to get rid of a somewhat productive player just to make room for his mistakes. He got lucky Montreal took Gomez so we could get Gaborik, because he would have no support from anyone here if Gaborik wasn’t on the team.

2002 2nd round our 1st pick 33 overall Lee Falardeau. Our 1st round pick 10th overall was traded to Flordia for Pavel Bure. Alexander Semin was selected 13th that year

2003 1st round 15th overall Hugh Jessiman Best Draft year (Dustin Brown, Brent Seabrook, Zach Parise, Ryan Getzlaf ,Ryan Kesler, Mike Richards, Corey Perry, Patrice Bergeron, and Shea Weber were picked before we had our second pick which was Ivan Baranka

2004 1st round 6th overall Al Montoya and 19th Laurie Korpikoski. Travis Zajac, Wojtek Wolski, and Mike Green were selected after Korpikoski
2005 12th Marc Staal good pick. Paul Stastny was selected 44th after we selected Mike Sauer
2006 21st Bob Sanguinetti this one might be good but I get the feeling Sather is shopping him around so he must not think Sang is that great. Milan Lucic went 50th
2007 17th Alexei Cherepanov might of been the best pick Sather made but no one will ever know.
2008 20th Delzotto I think this is his best pick. This is one prospect I think is the real deal too bad no one on the team other than Gaborik can handle his passes or vision on the ice.

Even though Sather has gotten good picks I feel he missed the impact player we need to get this offense going and play with Gaborik and I think were stuck with him until Messier is ready to change the culture on this team.

I’m sick of watching this team not compete or score or fight with any heart.

signed disgruntled ranger fan

I hate losing to the Islanders

The Rangers should have come out hard to play the Icelanders. This team is done, did anyone see torts press conf. Curse all you want the team is soft and he had a hand this offseason putting it together.

can we organize a boycott of the games? i feel like if there’s a year to finally get Sather canned, this is it.

My first attended game of the year. I don’t know if it just doesn’t translate to TV and it’s always really this bad, but this was easily the worst I’ve ever seen the Rangers play this year.

They looked completely lifeless. The Islanders were not really playing well, the whole game looked like it was being played in mud. Even the Avery shenanigans didn’t seem to get either team or the crowd going much.

The dude sitting 3 seats from me came, sat down, and read the paper the entire time. I think that about summed up how interesting this game was.

And Rozsival’s is hilariously bad. I don’t think he would start in most men’s leagues right now, how his ice time has gone up in the past 2 weeks is something out of the twilight zone. I think I frightened the kid sitting in front of me when I had enough and screamed “you **** suck” at the top of my lungs on one of his epic fails at the end of the game. (The kid was wearing a Brashear shirt btw, my god)

But back to the team, they play with absolutely zero fire right now, I can’t imagine how they will do anything but fail until a move is made.

And last note, enough with the god damn line roulette.

With every teams “big contract” players, they all use the well known and ignored loop hole, bulk up most of their contract for the first few years and a couple hundred thousand – million for the final few, with knowledge of prior retirement. Ex. Marian Hossa, 7+ mil a year, with a cap hit of around 5. Sather fucked us with RDR but i feel like i don’t have to repeat what everyone has been saying for a good 2 years. Is Sather going anywhere? Probably not. Is Torts going to be made a scapegoat? Most likely. We can’t even rebuild. We’re going to draft a Taylor Hall type player, and won’t be able to resign him because we still won’t have any money. The rebuild can’t and wont start for a good 3-4 years, and we’ll have none of the prospects that we currently have on the team.

1 shot in the first 17 minutes of play? Disgraciad!!!!!!! These guys suck. They need to be injected with fire. Make avery the Capt. That will shake this team up and watch him lead. because he will. He’s a douchebag, don’t get me wrong….but have you seen how lifeless Drury is? There was an advertisement for some promo and Drury looked and sounded like he was dead. He is not a capt., this is part of the issue they have no peer leadership.

I loved to see Avery stand up for himself after Roloson whacked him.

I actually missed the game tonight and when I went to check the highlights I had this slim hope that the team came out with some spark and played a good game. Well, I should have known….Lundqvist doesn’t deserve this!! Rozsival couldn’t even survive in the AHL with his lackluster play. Redden has been a disappointment, but his play has improved over the last year. Avery, Callahan, Dubi…these are the guys that should wear the C’s and A’s (Calli does, I know). They all seem to give 100% every night. But even that 100% is other teams 60%.

The Rangers are Awful. Just about the Worst Team in the NHL. Gaborik and Lundqvist are the only stars. Two exceptional players do not make a winning team. Who assembled this mishmash of underachieving and overpaid players. Glen Doofus Sather. Who is unable to motivate or manage this sorry group of players? Torts Tootoo Tortorella. Who could give less of a s..t as long as MSG is sold out? Dollars Dolan. There is plenty of blame to go around and many who should share it. Is it not possible to shame Drury, Redden or Roszival into regotiations of their contracts? Or convince them to jump to the KHL? Or bench them or send them down to Hartford. Or buy them out? If Sather had any sense, why could he not say to Drury that you have played your last game as a Ranger. You will be stripped of the C and be a healthy scratch until your contract runs out unless you renegotiate, jump to the KHL or agree to retire? Drury is not performing and probably will never perform again. He must realize how bad he is and how much he is hurting the team. And Kotalik should be put on waivers along with Voros and Brashear. Let’s play a little hardball.