Drury Out, Christensen In

Comical.

Sore knee. I think Torts was on the phone with Tanya Harding hoping to get some advice how he could turn Drury into the next Nancy Kerrigan. Yeah, went there.

This only matters if he plays with prospal and gaborik and gets it going; lines should be 1) Gabby/Christensen/Propsal 2) Dubinksy/Anisimov/Callahan 3) Zuc/Stepan/Wolski 4) Prust/Boyle/Avery. Roll four lines, if its a physical game give 4th line more minutes and move stepan in for Christensen on first line. Spot Zuc and Wolski on PP and after penalty kills to get there ice up.

I’m just laughing trying to picture Torts using twitter

haha cmon on, I’m sure Stepan or Zuc could handle his tweeting, they’re rookies

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Facial-fractures-knee-swelling-put-Isles-DiPie?urn=nhl-317017

Nice job DiPietro.

They paid him for his success and leadership he gave to other teams. He’s been an unmitigated disaster here in terms of production. You can argue whether its his fault or whether the team should have forecast this and not overpaid, but he has done nothing for the organization to make it better over the past two years. But you don’t throw gasoline on a fire, no new captain until next season. Great point thayt if he had any self awareness to how fans view him, he’d take a buyout or take a page out of Naslunds book. Go spread your pizza empire over the north east. He’s the last legacy of a failed past for this organization and has no place in its future.

If Drury is on the IR, does that open up cap space?

Maybe this is the compassionate way to set up his retirement after the season.

Maybe its why they feel they can afford to look at souray.

One can hope, although those hopes usually end in disaster, aka the current pres.

Maybe you’re right, but I think people are reading into it too much and giving the Rangers too much credit for being respectful or compassionate. Drury is not a franchise player that has been with the Rangers for 10+ years and is over the hill now but reluctant to retire. He has actually played 3 years, if you don’t include this one and you shouldn’t. He has been captain but certainly has never been the face of the franchise. The argument has been made this past week that Drury “can’t be scratched” because of the damage to team morale. If that is true, a bogus excuse would do the same damage because his teammates certainly know the real story. I don’t think Torts would hold back from a “Drury hasn’t been 100% and we are going to give the younger guys a chance” comment if that was actually the case.

But maybe you guys are right, we’ll see.

I think if the banter had some address to mass spam a plea for the lines that the fans want to see it might be possible to get someone to pass a suggestion on to torts.