I completely agree with you leetch, but do you think we can sign him before the draft then trade him for a higher pick? that might make a trade worth while if its possible.

You know, I thought about that, and it is a possibility, but Vin came here to prove he can play, and he has done that. He doesn’t really have anything more to prove, to Torts anyway.

as much as I like EC, we are very heavy at the center ice position, unless Sather can dump one of the R & R sister, there just isn’t enough cap space for all these centers, however if he can dump Boyle EC would be a good 3rd or 4th line center that can be interchangeable on the top lines as needed

I agree, I was thinking a 2 year 4 mil deal is not exorbitant and would be a nice increase for a deserving player, plus that won’t hurt us against the cap, I think that would be a nice value for the team. If he got a better offer and went, I would harbor no ill will to him, the salary cap is the sole cause of this even being an issue. I hate Gary Bettman and what he’s done to ruin the league in every possible way.

the proper names for “…all 3 are gone!” would be Rozsival, Redden, and Drury. Sather would be a big plus, I kinda like Tort, but if the players have tuned him out already, he needs to go. Dolan won’t give up something giving him 20+ million in profit a year, so unless someone offers him a shitload of money for the team, he won’t be parting ways with it anytime soon.

I love Drury on the team, I do, but his salary is downright killing us. If he were making 4 mil a year instead of 7 against the cap, I’d be praising this guy nonstop, but he’s not, and that has some weight on our sentiment for him even if it shouldn’t. We can’t help it.

Rozsival is probably in the same boat as Drury. If he were making 2.5-3M a year against the cap instead of 5(?), I don’t think we’d be so hypercritical of his mistakes, but again, we can’t help it. As hockey fans, as Ranger fans, we commensurate salary with performance. At times he plays solid hockey. He can have good defensive positioning, and a scoring touch. The rest of the time he’s a sliding pylon wasting cap space on a cap-crippled team. There’s only one thing worse on the roster (see Redden, Wade).

Redden is someone who needs to hang up his skates. He’s too pricey to buy out, too much of a failure to net any kind of trade value, and too pricey to demote without getting a shitstorm from the NHLPA (though, I don’t see how they would if they didn’t mind Nylander being demoted and shipped to Grand Rapids). Again, we can’t blame him for accepting the contract Sather gave him. If you were some lackey working for whatever company you work for, and your contract was expiring. You look excellent to any employer, and a competitor offers you a GUARANTEED salary of 3-5x what you’re making now to do exactly what you’re doing right now, you still get paid if your work declines, I don’t see any way in hell how you turn that job down. We can blame him for his performance though. There’s a reason we want him demoted, and a rookie to take his place. A rookie could do the job as well as he does, and that’s the worst-case scenario. If a rookie makes mistakes, it’s not the worst thing, as they’re more likely to improve in a shorter time, things can only get better in the future. With a 34 year old Redden, things can only go downhill (unless of course you think he’s a Lidstrom or Brodeur, or will live forever, which surely isn’t the case). He’s worse than a pylon. He’s a mobile screen for Lundqvist, and that’s the best case. Still not as bad as Staal’s skate, but that’s another story in itself.

All in all, we need a lot of change, and with the current roster and management, there’s a lot that needs to be done. Undesirable contracts need to expire or be erased from the books. Shitty managements needs to be given the boot, and new management needs to be willing to win as much as they care about their profit margin. Certain players need to be given more ice time, and some less. Players need to be equally accountable for grievous errors, though the rookies can be given a little slack, but still be made aware for their errors, and what they need to do to fix it.