What is Wrong with Artem Anisimov?

I loled

So I started to wonder when did Arty lose his confidence, when did our puppy lose his way?

Billy Madison: Uh… Okay. The Industrial Revolution to me is just like a story I know called “The Puppy Who Lost His Way.” The world was changing, and the puppy was getting… bigger.
So, you see, the puppy was like industry. In that, they were both lost in the woods. And nobody, especially the little boy – “society” – knew where to find ’em. Except that the puppy was a dog. But the industry, my friends, that was a revolution.

This is my first story in a long time. Hope you guys like it.

And if you don’t like it send all of your complaints to Brandon. He is my self-appointed secretary.

Great article Dig, it’s a serious issue right now with Arty, but it’s good to engage things with a sense of humor…otherwise we’d all just shoot ourselves. Or be boring like Brandon.

I think, first and foremost, Arty needs to be back at center. That’s where he seemed to thrive for most of his career. I know his face-offs aren’t that great, but he’s not terrible at it. Maybe give the Pack line another go-around (not like anything ELSE is working).

It’s obvious the offense needs to be shaken up. There’s 0 chemistry right now between anybody, well, except for anybody playing with Carel Hagelin because his speed hides offensive deficiencies. I think it’s time to put Richards back with Gaborik. It was the whole point of getting Richards, so they might as well try it. It’s just a matter of who gets shifted down, which should be Dubi at this point.

Hagelin-Richards-Gaborik
Stepan-AA-Cally
Dubi-rest of the forwards etc.

It’s not like it could be any worse that what’s already been tried.

Arty may lack confidence, but i don’t think a garbage goal is going to wake this guy up…I think it’s deeper than that. He lacks the killer instinct/appropriate level of testosterone/dominant aspect to his game. He has never had it…it just isn’t part of him. That isn’t to say it could never be. However, for it to happen (quickly rather than several years from now) i think he would need a few things: a) more patient coach, b) a more offensive minded team system (dump and grind isn’t friendly to finesse players like arty IMO), and c) several months (here’s where the coach’s patience is important) top line minutes with at least one potent playmaker (eg stepan or richards) . As much as we all would like to see this guy blossom as the offensive dynamo he is capable of being, i don’t think he can do it in the rangers system.

Maybe he’d be happier and looser if he were on the reunited Pack Line. At least he’d know that Cally and Duby would stand up for him if some buttwipe like Lecavelier tried to deck him.

Don’t know whether this is the problem or not but he seems to get leveled at least once a game, if not every other game. Don’t know who it was but some drilled him near the blue line last night. He skates so up and down and he repeatedly tries to go through checks along the boards as he gets to the offensive zone and it usually doesn’t work out so well.

I think he needs to learn to avoid some of these heats or at least put himself in a better position to absorb them.

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Poo jokes, puppies, dark chocolate, and rain. What do these four things have in common? Yeah I don’t know either. But put them all together, and I smell a Wurlitzer! Or is it a Weinerschnitzel? The award they give great writers, that one.

but this article cracked me up.

I think the problem with arti is torts reduces his ice time puts him on a line with no scorers.I stead of putting bolye and dubi with all that ice time and dubi on the top line put arti instead cuse dubi sucks cant score bolye is just as bad .And stop telling me oh the do the other things so well .WE dont need players doing other things well we have enough of them give artie a chance hes better the those two.torts just dosent like him he has a bad game cuts back his ice time puts him on 4th line if thats the case then dubi and blye should get the same treatment cuse they havent and will continue to do shit for this team. have you noticed the passes dubi has made cant hit a players stick if he tried .blye keep cycling the net every shift i see how well hes scoring.i think arti deserves betterthen the way torts uses hime and leave the fucking lins alone stop changing themevery shift the have a bad game and he breaks up the line no woder the cant play together the don get a chace too

Traid Him

If your dog is lost you don’t just look for an hour and give up… you get your ass out there and find that fuckin’ dog

Billy Madison

A year ago I was all for cutting MDZ loose, and look how wrong I was. Just a mental thing.

So, newly chastened, I say give the guy some time.

He was our first line center for a long stretch this season when we were winning a fuckload of games.

Good stuff.

I’d like to see him placed back on the top two lines. Dubinsky too.

Hagelin has been great, and I’d like to see what he continues to do with Mitchell and Boyle. Could be a good grinding, possession based 3rd line.

As I see it, you have Step-Gabby and BR-Cally. Through AA and Dubi on those two lines at LW, give them time to click, and see how it goes.

Here’s what the problem is….

1. Too many of the same parts.

AA is a playmaker, who has skills on both the offensive and defensive side of the puck. Sound familiar? Oh, yeah, I think this is called a two-way forward…of which this team has several. He has skills to be a number 2 center [and a good one] in this league. On a team with more firepower (snipers, with less defensive skills), he’d be a dynamic forward. But, he’s reduced to being a pedestrian by surrounding him with others who play similarly. When players of like skills are put together, they so often defer to the player who has been around longer (like he did to Captain Cally and Dubi last season). He shot more out of necessity, but not as a confident shooter or offensive player.

With Richards here and Gaborik resurging, he’s not relied on to shoot. And has defered shots to Gaborik and Stepan. An opportunity to grow has actually made AA shrink as an offensive player.

And speaking of that “shooting the goalie” incident…remember how quickly and viemently John Tortorella was to defend his team against the comments of one Joe Thornton, when Thornton called the Rangers soft? This same coach had a golden opportunity to use that to light an even greater fire under AA, and instead stated “he made a mistake”.

Why is this significant? Case in point:

Claude Julien (who I’m no fan of) defended the actions of Milan Lucic and Brad Marchand in separate incidents in the Bruins-Canucks matchup in Boston in early January. Albeit that Julien was dead-wrong in doing so, his progress stance kept the Bruins going strong.

I’m not justifying concussion-causing blatant cheap shots; as much as I’m pointing out that Julien, as much as I can’t stand him (and I can’t), I realize that as a coach you’ve gotta give your team the benefit of the doubt more often than not and stand behind your players.

This is an incident that Torts dropped the ball entirely on, with AA’s shotgun gesture. Ilya Kovalchuk pulled the same thing on back in his earlier years as I recalled, as did Marian Hossa and a number of others before him. So because Tampa Bay is mad at it (poor babies), you should renounce your player? No. You stand behind him and say “he was having a little fun, and got a little carried away. No big whoop.”

A lack of faith shown can go a long, long way to failure.