1) Un grand bravo à Vince pour avoir publié cet article. Dolan et l’organisation ont récemment subi de nombreuses critiques entre cet article de Wired et le suivi de celui de Pablo Torre sur sa chaîne YouTube.
J’espère que Vince ne finira pas par perdre l’accès à l’équipe, mais je lui dois d’avoir exprimé son opinion alors qu’aucun autre écrivain des Rangers n’oserait.
2) Oubliez Drury pendant une minute et ses capacités en tant que directeur général. Je ne pense pas que ce soit la bonne façon de procéder pour quiconque. Cela vaut même pour Leon Rose qui a été mentionné dans l’article comme n’ayant pas de presse ouverte depuis 2021. Je ne vois tout simplement pas comment les Knicks et les Rangers peuvent finalement réussir s’ils opèrent comme la Corée du Nord. Il s’agit simplement d’un environnement de travail toxique pour tous les membres de l’équipe et du personnel qui travaillent pour MSG.
Est-ce que je pense que quelque chose va changer ? Absolument pas. C’est juste dommage qu’il en soit ainsi, car MSG devrait nous considérer comme des fans et des supporters et pas seulement comme des clients. Au moins d’autres organisations font un demi-effort pour que les fans se sentent appréciés
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AARP_Rocky
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Lost. Not losing.
I keep getting emails from MSG about season tickets and partial season packages, for the first time in my 30 years following the team. To me that says they’re struggling (for them) to sell. Sadly, it’s the ONLY thing Dolan understands.
If we want to see change, we need to hit them in the bottom line. It’s the only way out of this cy le of mediocrity we’ve been in.
Transparency doesn’t even make the top 10 reasons why he’s already lost it
Just read this article like 😳 and came to see if anyone had made a post haha GOOD FOR YOU VINCE YOU’RE THE MAN.
As horrible as Drury is, this is a Dolan thing. Leon Rose never meets with the media, as Vince pointed out, and it’s been the same thing for the last several GMs that each team has had. When you combine this with the story that came out on Wired last week about all the shady shit going on with MSG security and scanning people’s faces without their knowledge, it’s easy to tell that this comes from Dolan.
This statement is wrong. You can’t be losing something that has already been completely lost.
It’s not the lack of transparency that’s losing the fans faith. It’s the losing and the roster decisions.
The lack of transparency just confirms how shitty this administration is.
It’s funny that Drury is so guarded with the media but has no problem announcing to the rest of the league that players he doesn’t want are available. Guy lucked or backstabbed his way into two jobs and is in way over his head.
This has been going on for years. Dolan rarely lets his employees speak to the press.
Guy is the sports management definition of digging yourself into a hole, and then digging another to get yourself out. Doesn’t care about the room, which was the most important piece of 2024, 2022, and all the runs of 2012-2015, and always is.
It’s no secret Anaheim and San Jose have some of the best energy rooms in the league, I wonder why that is.
Great article. It’s hard to do your job well when your whole beat is almost entirely gatekept by an extremely controlling owner. Reading between the lines a little it would not surprise me if he’s running out of patience with his current role.
I wish Bettman would start throwing his weight around. He has no love lost for the org.
lol. The lack of press conferences isn’t why we lost faith. Being a shit GM who destroyed the franchise is
I miss JD and Gorton. JD being a media guy for so long understood how much easier it made things to be genuinely transparent with fans. You don’t need to give away state secrets but you do need accountability and to show people there’s actually a plan.
I have zero confidence in Chris Drury because the moves he’s made have objectively made the team worse at winning games, every single time. Repeatedly trading for players who have negative on-ice impacts. I don’t care about « changing the culture » if the culture is one where people are afraid to do their jobs. They’re changing the culture to one like the Soviet Union where everyone was constantly under a state of surveillance and that surveillance was used to punish people they didn’t like.
« I know what my contract says » Mika is my hero. He’s not taking any crap from his incompetent bosses, he’s doing his job, and he’s not going to bend an inch for their nonsense.
I saw the NY Post article last week talking about how Drury only gave a 10 minute camera’s off zoom presser to end the season. I forget the exact Q&A but he was asked about Trocheck’s future on the team, and was non-committal on what the future held for him. And while I understand that from a business move perspective, how about just a « Yeah Vincent has been great for us in the faceoff circle, moves the puck well on offense, is a great special teams guy, and is a good guy to have in the locker room. We’d like to bring him back if the numbers work. »
That’s all it would have taken and I would have been cool with whatever happens with Trocheck, because at least it looks like he has a plan for the guy and the team. Hell I’d even say it would go a long way to helping improve the trade market for Trocheck. Instead we get some b.s about waiting to see how the market for him develops this summer.
Not exactly a hot take here but I’d be ok with the shroud of mystery if he didn’t take a great young core, do nothing, and turn it into 33 year old JT Miller and his band of merry men
After two shit seasons Vince is quite late to the party
If you’re going to be shitty to people then your record better be impeccable. It is not.
Yeah it happened years ago at this point lol
This lack of transparency and not talking has to be a Dolan mandate since the Knicks FO doesn’t talk either
Winning solves everything. The Devils in their championship era weren’t particularly open, but their PR with Brooks was good. MSG is just arrogant and paranoid. I am not going to stop rooting for the Rangers. Since Francis to Drury, across several states and regions, they [win or lose] are my team. Don’t like them or fans like me… sorry. Jump ship. Stop bitching and crying. Save your money and your tears. There are winners like the Sabres to root for.
Brooksie would be proud of Vince here, and probably say he still talks too much. Less is more Vince but good on ya for having some balls
It may be an unpopular opinion but leadership owes us nothing other than putting a competitive team on the ice.
People buy tickets to see the team win, not for sound bites on how it feels to be in last place (it sucks), what the teams needs to do better (score more, let in less), or anything similar. The answers are always the same diplomatic drivel anyway.
They’re not going to give up detailed strategy on free agency, the draft process, or the deadline. Speculation is the best there can be.
Things can be a lot better within the organization but transparency isn’t going to make a difference.
Vince is a hero!