Rangers Analysis: The Curious Case of Michal Rozsival

Priorities:
1. Lock Down Staal
1a. Take Redden out to the woodshed(or wolfpack) so you have enough $$$ to handle priority #1.

2. Obtain someone capable of clearing the crease. Minimum credentials, 6’3" 235lbs, 100+PIM. Other teams have no fear of the Rangers D, and thats a MAJOR problem for Hank.

We might have more luck trying to find a Good Will Hunting type janitor than we do on the Free Agent market. Maybe the kid who played Fulton Reed in the Mighty Ducks is still around…

3. Trade Rosival for someone with some speed and half the cap hit.

To summarize:
Pair 1. Staal/Big Scary Defenseman
Pair 2. MDZ/Girardi? (or comparable replacement)
Pair 3. Gilroy/Rosival or whoever we can get to replace him

I think he needs to be like Silvio and take Adriana Redden on his last car rid

heres an other ranger killer take away redd and hes your worst player hes soft gets bumped off the puck and cant get the puck out of his zone and yea he is a pussy.if we can trade him with someoneelse in a package lets do it . i wouldent even mine eating some of the contract in a trade. for this team to move foward with our kids we need to rid of all the past dead wood we been carrying. and for those who say he wasok last few months think how many games he cost us how many short handed goal he gave the other teams he has sucked for two years yert people say hes ok cause of last few months he played good which i did not see

He was awesome in the World Championships, winning the Gold Medal and being announced one of the Top 3 players on the Czech Republic team. If he plays like he is capable, I think he is a very solid D-man to have.

The problem with Roszival is when he tries to force the action and not let the game come to him. When he just reacts and doesn’t think, he is a substantially better player. This was quite obvious later in the season after the Olympic Break.

I think he would make a good pairing with Girardi. I’m not sure how much they played ES last season, but I think they would be a good tandem. RangerSmurf, the numbers please…..

If we can get rid of Redden in Hartford I would like to hang on to Rozi and then sign another Top Notch D-man. Then we would have 2 real vets 2 semi-vet/young and then 2 real young guys. Thats a pretty good balance of experience I would say.

6 yrs 24 million. It would’ve been easier to swallow than the crap hes getting now.
I agree with Joe, he has trade value but not for Souray like Joe states, I think he has to be packaged with the likes of Sangunetti, Grachev and a second rounder for Alfredson and a third rounder or St. Louis and a fourth rounder. Or packaged with only Sangs for a slightly overpaid powerfoward like Malone. IMO those types of trades would benefit each team. Before judging those moves look at the contracts first and you will see how it would work.

Well written Joe. Someone needs to ‘mount’ Rozy the hell out of here.

See, I think there is a huge underlying issue at play with these Rangers, and that is the direction this organization is taking. Are these Rangers one or two players away from being a contender, or do they need to rebuild? In my opinion, these Rangers are in the middle, noman’s land, at the crossroads if you will. Do they keep veterans, do they go young. It’s almost like their record this past season, they are in the middle. It is unlikely that this team will be real contenders next season no matter what they do short of landing a huge unexpected player/players and giving up nothing of value from a deal after July 1. If anyone could pull something like that off it’s Sather, but the odds are very much stacked against it happening. So for me, this organization first needs to determine their course of action. Adding a few veterans like they did last year, while landing Gaborik and Prospal which was fabulous, ultimately this team took a step backwards since they didn’t even make the playoffs, because the type of players they could add didn’t work out. Kotalik, Higgins, retreads/enigmas are the only types available to this team since their cap issues are drastic, and in my view that is not what this team should re-attempt to do. I for one am sick and tired of this organization thinking they are better than their results say they are. But either way, this organization needs to decide what they are and where they want to be before they try to alter the roster, and that decision/evaluation would determine which course of action they should take. I feel that that evaluation is vitally important in order for this team to improve in the ways we’d like to see.

Having said that …. I like Rosy, I think he can be an effective player on both sides of the ice, he just needs to focus on his game and what he needs to do to be successful. Can he? And should we wait around to see if he can or cannot? Me personally i’d keep him, as long as Redden’s contract can be eliminated from the payroll. That would obviously open up options, and release money needed to keep the few players we have that we think are worth keeping (Staal and possibly Girardi) and or possibly signing some FA. See, all these decisions have scenarios that are intertwined, and must be sorted out, kind of like a huge ball of thread that is all tangled up. You can’t use the thread until you untangle the entire length and see what you have. To me, that is the biggest issue this organization has, and every other decision they make has to start with untangling this mess.

i would trade rosi for a bag of pucks and harold snepts . bring in souray and bring up sangunetti see what he can do. plus jay mckee is also out there .

for Komisarek and Finger. I know you’re eating cap space; but, the willingness to use the $2 million proposed cap increase is worth spending on Komisarek, if at the cost of a $3.5 million dollar problem for two years. Who knows, by next season Finger will join Redden with the Wolfpack.