He didn’t say the retool would last until the trade deadline this is going to be continuous into next year
the-gonk2
I don’t where the opinion that « the trade deadline marks the end of a re-tool » is coming from… and I want like 10 guys from the FO and Coaching staff gone
NYCSportsFan
What would be your complaint if he traded Trocheck?
faded-_
I’m far from a Drury defender but it’s not like he can’t make trades in the summer. If he doesn’t trade or make significant moves after that, then it would be insane.
Alitaki
No maybe, you’re too impatient.
SmokyMetal060
Me when the retool isn’t done in 3 months: 😡😡😡
SEND_ME_SPIDERMAN
You’re gonna have to be a little more patient. Trading for the sake of trading is bad business.
denver_and_life
OP is the clown
UdderlyDemented
Look I’m on board with firing Drury, but the Panarin trade was the best return we could have gotten for Panarin.
JJTheRetro
There was no way Panarin was coming back next season. The writing was on the wall from the second Kaprizov signed the huge extension for next season. The Rangers didn’t have the money or the time for it, so the only logical step was to deal him if/when they were out of a position to compete. We can argue all we want about the return, but if anyone thinks trading him at all was a mistake, go ask the Islanders how they felt once Tavares ran off to Toronto in free agency
Ralph_Squid
At some point, you as a fan do actually have to take responsibility. This is a lukewarm take from a weak fan. Grab your nuts bud.
DerekTheComedian
Complains about the letter, Complains about moving players, Complains about not moving players.
JFC we just blew Philly out of the water last night and 4 of our 6 goals came from players under 25. Can we take one goddamned day off from the shitposting?
Marty-Party1297
This isn’t NHL 26 retools can’t be done in a year. Troch has 3 years left on his deal, we still have 2 more trade deadlines to listen to deals on him
McGrathLegend
I’m convinced that Drury himself is making all of these over-saturated Drury posts to get people to stick up for him
RhynoSorceress
Stick to being a GM on video games kid
-RomeoZulu-
League leading Impatience per 60 stat right here
rissellc
Retooling can take more than a season fellas…. Buckle up.
Cdog536
Look I get it, but Othmann actually fell and Panarin was going to walk unless we dropped top dollar for a re-signing with whatever term he was looking for. I wanted a big return too, but with his FA in the summer, he had leverage to dictate his trade and teams had their reasons to not deliver hard returns for a pending FA. Panarin was amazing throughout and definitely the best signing for the Rangers in the last decade, but you’re cherry picking those things right here.
HereticsSpork
Found the guy who has no fucking clue how anything works.
A retool takes longer than 2-3 months dingus.
geographyofnowhere
Yeah man wish we had an old kreider on this team and his big salary cap hit.
> It’s not a rebuild because drury’s not going to trade trocheck or Schneider or laf. Trocheck and Schneider are his boys. Trading Laf would mean he has to admit to a big signing mistake that tanked what little value Laf had. Every other major player has NMCs. He’s done with the big moves, unless another JT-like trade falls into his lap.
>It’s a “retool” in name only because it’s just business-as-usual, but he needs to give season ticket holders a reason to keep re-upping after giving away the team’s best skater, and having already traded away most of the youth and prospects already the past few seasons, the well’s gone dry. He’ll just be making moves with the non-impact, low value players like he’s been doing this whole time.
Azazel_665
He should have traded Lafrenière.
nyr00nyg
Bottom 5 gm in major sports
Rell_Lauren
Should have got Zegras out of those trades.
Spidey5292
I think some fans also have to accept that we don’t have a ton of talent to turn into high end picks and prospects as well.
Drury sucks and should be fired but we aren’t really dealing from a position of strength.
PapaQuebec23
Drury is deserving of the clown makeup and shoes, but:
1) Kreider was traded to free up money to buy a defenseman. We got a steal in Gavrikov
Kreider scored 30 P (22 G, 8 A) Gavs has 27 (12, 15) filling in at a position desperately needed
Also, I wear a Kreider sweater to the Garden, so I was not happy seeing him leave.
2) Artemi Panarin wanted to go to LA. With his NMC, Drury had no leverage. If Drury waited until after the Olympics, maybe there’s a higher price paid. So Panarin bringing back anything was better than nothing. He was leaving at the end of the year one way or the other
3) Othmann wasn’t producing. I hope that the change-of-scenery trade is just what he needs. Bad draft picks happen (too often to this front office) because there’s no crystal balls.
4) The AHL trade was an AHL trade. You’re worried about losing a 32 year old D-man for a 24 year old forward?
There’s a lot to bag on Drury for and nothing in your photo montage is relevant to that.
Plenty-Being1996
It’s cute that you guys think that letter was talking about a retool and not a full blown rebuild lol. This team is a sorry sack of shit right now. It’s not even a team. We talk about everyone like they’re an expendable piece, who can we move for what. Like it’s fucking sad man.
erniecyou
probably the same guy who was throwing Kreider under the bus
_redacted_001
There’s plenty of logical reasons why you could critique drury, you don’t need to invent things or pretend to be too dense to understand why you’d trade a pending UFA or why a rebuild might take more than one half of one season
JDogg46
Oh an original thread I see, how exciting!
Impressive-Wait-9420
Rebuilds take 5-10 years when done right in order to end up with a consistent contender for years to come. It starts with moves like these
It takes a significant amount of patience to see these through, which New York sports woefully lacks. That’s why we rushed our last one in 2019 with the Trouba trade and Panarin signing before we really had a complete team of youngsters to build around
I anticipate this one prematurely ending somewhere within the next three years with a confusing trade/signing of 2-3 players that don’t fit our rebuild contention window, just to rinse and repeat 5 years later when the whole thing inevitably flames out
I don’t foresee this changing until Dolan is gone
Fresh_Geologist_3929
This is a fucking beautiful post. Really.
jamdivi
I’m torn. I really want to hate Drury but we just absolutely deconstructed Philly last night. What if that’s a sign of things to come?
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He didn’t say the retool would last until the trade deadline this is going to be continuous into next year
I don’t where the opinion that « the trade deadline marks the end of a re-tool » is coming from… and I want like 10 guys from the FO and Coaching staff gone
What would be your complaint if he traded Trocheck?
I’m far from a Drury defender but it’s not like he can’t make trades in the summer. If he doesn’t trade or make significant moves after that, then it would be insane.
No maybe, you’re too impatient.
Me when the retool isn’t done in 3 months: 😡😡😡
You’re gonna have to be a little more patient. Trading for the sake of trading is bad business.
OP is the clown
Look I’m on board with firing Drury, but the Panarin trade was the best return we could have gotten for Panarin.
There was no way Panarin was coming back next season. The writing was on the wall from the second Kaprizov signed the huge extension for next season. The Rangers didn’t have the money or the time for it, so the only logical step was to deal him if/when they were out of a position to compete. We can argue all we want about the return, but if anyone thinks trading him at all was a mistake, go ask the Islanders how they felt once Tavares ran off to Toronto in free agency
At some point, you as a fan do actually have to take responsibility. This is a lukewarm take from a weak fan. Grab your nuts bud.
Complains about the letter, Complains about moving players, Complains about not moving players.
JFC we just blew Philly out of the water last night and 4 of our 6 goals came from players under 25. Can we take one goddamned day off from the shitposting?
This isn’t NHL 26 retools can’t be done in a year. Troch has 3 years left on his deal, we still have 2 more trade deadlines to listen to deals on him
I’m convinced that Drury himself is making all of these over-saturated Drury posts to get people to stick up for him
Stick to being a GM on video games kid
League leading Impatience per 60 stat right here
Retooling can take more than a season fellas…. Buckle up.
Look I get it, but Othmann actually fell and Panarin was going to walk unless we dropped top dollar for a re-signing with whatever term he was looking for. I wanted a big return too, but with his FA in the summer, he had leverage to dictate his trade and teams had their reasons to not deliver hard returns for a pending FA. Panarin was amazing throughout and definitely the best signing for the Rangers in the last decade, but you’re cherry picking those things right here.
Found the guy who has no fucking clue how anything works.
A retool takes longer than 2-3 months dingus.
Yeah man wish we had an old kreider on this team and his big salary cap hit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rangers/s/Z6V4n3V7vZ
I said this a month ago
> It’s not a rebuild because drury’s not going to trade trocheck or Schneider or laf. Trocheck and Schneider are his boys. Trading Laf would mean he has to admit to a big signing mistake that tanked what little value Laf had. Every other major player has NMCs. He’s done with the big moves, unless another JT-like trade falls into his lap.
>It’s a “retool” in name only because it’s just business-as-usual, but he needs to give season ticket holders a reason to keep re-upping after giving away the team’s best skater, and having already traded away most of the youth and prospects already the past few seasons, the well’s gone dry. He’ll just be making moves with the non-impact, low value players like he’s been doing this whole time.
He should have traded Lafrenière.
Bottom 5 gm in major sports
Should have got Zegras out of those trades.
I think some fans also have to accept that we don’t have a ton of talent to turn into high end picks and prospects as well.
Drury sucks and should be fired but we aren’t really dealing from a position of strength.
Drury is deserving of the clown makeup and shoes, but:
1) Kreider was traded to free up money to buy a defenseman. We got a steal in Gavrikov
Kreider scored 30 P (22 G, 8 A) Gavs has 27 (12, 15) filling in at a position desperately needed
Also, I wear a Kreider sweater to the Garden, so I was not happy seeing him leave.
2) Artemi Panarin wanted to go to LA. With his NMC, Drury had no leverage. If Drury waited until after the Olympics, maybe there’s a higher price paid. So Panarin bringing back anything was better than nothing. He was leaving at the end of the year one way or the other
3) Othmann wasn’t producing. I hope that the change-of-scenery trade is just what he needs. Bad draft picks happen (too often to this front office) because there’s no crystal balls.
4) The AHL trade was an AHL trade. You’re worried about losing a 32 year old D-man for a 24 year old forward?
There’s a lot to bag on Drury for and nothing in your photo montage is relevant to that.
It’s cute that you guys think that letter was talking about a retool and not a full blown rebuild lol. This team is a sorry sack of shit right now. It’s not even a team. We talk about everyone like they’re an expendable piece, who can we move for what. Like it’s fucking sad man.
probably the same guy who was throwing Kreider under the bus
There’s plenty of logical reasons why you could critique drury, you don’t need to invent things or pretend to be too dense to understand why you’d trade a pending UFA or why a rebuild might take more than one half of one season
Oh an original thread I see, how exciting!
Rebuilds take 5-10 years when done right in order to end up with a consistent contender for years to come. It starts with moves like these
It takes a significant amount of patience to see these through, which New York sports woefully lacks. That’s why we rushed our last one in 2019 with the Trouba trade and Panarin signing before we really had a complete team of youngsters to build around
I anticipate this one prematurely ending somewhere within the next three years with a confusing trade/signing of 2-3 players that don’t fit our rebuild contention window, just to rinse and repeat 5 years later when the whole thing inevitably flames out
I don’t foresee this changing until Dolan is gone
This is a fucking beautiful post. Really.
I’m torn. I really want to hate Drury but we just absolutely deconstructed Philly last night. What if that’s a sign of things to come?