4:44pm, 2nd day of free agencyNot to get DEFENSIVE or anything, but.....who is our CAPTAIN and who is taking care of our team at the moment? Disappointed Rangers fans across the globe unite!
Never to question the brilliance and arrogance of Blueshirt GM Glen Sather, we have signed Wade Redden from the Ottawa Senators and re-signed Michal Rozsival to reinforce our blue line. Despite Redden's play last season, I do believe this to be a solid addition to our lineup --- the Senators suffered in spotty goaltending and at a certain point in the season, everyone gives up -- Wade's track record is one of a solid top five defenseman to play quarterback to Staal, Girardi, Tyutin and Rozzy. Maybe Bobby Sanguinetti may be ready for the big leagues. Fine.
Where is the goal scoring?
Either we re-sign Jaromir Jagr now or we wait for Mats Sundin to decide what is happening with his career. Here is the problem in waiting for Sundin.....HE IS THE ONLY GUY LEFT. Everyone else in our''wish list' are signed with other teams at this point. Let's take a snapshot, simplified look at what's happened in the last 17 hours:
No Sean Avery (accepted the 16 million - 4yr offer from the Dallas Stars. we are idiots)
No Martin Straka (back to Czech-land)
No Brian Campbell (now a Chicago Blackhawk)
No Marian Hossa (one year in Detroit -- wants to win a Stanley Cup)
No Brian Rolston (now a NJ Devil)
No Mark Streit (now a NY Islander)
No Brooks Orpik (still a friggin Penguin)
Though, we did sign Aaron Voros (a Sean Avery wannabe) & Patrick Rissmiller. Who? This is the operative question as we are more-or-less a skeleton of the 2/3 full team we were last season. Rangers fans are screaming and we can only hope that Sather and the DOLAN Empire has made a secret deal with both Sundin and Jagr (brillliance if so) -- and are playing hard to get with the media to draw attention to it.
If all of this is an act and Sather & Co. have secret deals in place, then good press never hurt anyone. But if this is all we have.....
...does someone want 2 season tickets in the 117 section?
tdr
Things are looking up ... depending on your perspective. This just in .. In addition to trading for Zherdev and freitsche (for tyuts and backman). It looks like we may have just picked up Kalinen (terms?) and Naslund (2 years/9mil). I feel like I dont even know my own team now, though.
ReplyDelete- J (posted before as anonymous)
Thanks for the tip "J"...I saw the press release earlier unable to run to a computer and blog....
ReplyDeleteI would tend to lean the 'things are looking up' on this new design of a team. It feels like potential.
No more Mr. Perimeter!!!