Devil Dan 56

https://www.hockeyfeed.com/nhl-news/reports-of-a-rift-between-gm-chris-drury-and-rangers-superstar-artemi-panarin I mentioned that some Ranger fans were unhappy about Panarin in the playoffs. Apparently Drury felt the same way. Lolz.

It might just be too much. The core players have to be closing in on 300 or so games over the last 3 years. That is a ton of hockey and Colorado is hungry and so close. I agree, Tampa is going to need a few guys other than Vasilevskiy to make some big plays to take game 5.

I see what you did there. I’m just thinking of attainable players assuming no big free agents are available. He’s part of a team with depth and has a short amount on his contract.

I’ve been interested in Stolarz or Dostal from Anaheim as a 3rd option. A slightly more established possibility is Raanta. He only has 2 years left and Carolina has Andersen. He isn’t gonna win us a cup but he’d be a suitable replacement for Bernier while we wait to see what Blackwood is next year. I really don’t see how Bernier is ready for October

Loving this Colorado-Denver series.

Yeah he doesnt get the notoriety of a Vasilevskiy or Shesterkin but hes played well enough to keep Colorado in most games these playoffs. I’m really hoping we get a game 7 out of this series.

Grant Marshall and Colin White are locks. They always seem to be at these things

This Tampa defense is insane. Colorado has nearly 4 minutes of time in Tampas zone and only 1 shot so far. 7 blocked shots for Tampa already.

He is. Firing a Jack Adam’s finalist is just a very gutsy move and the sign of a team that is basically refusing to accept anything but success. Florida has become a very different franchise in the last few years. It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out.

Brunette finished second in Jack Adam’s voting. What a strange move. I like Maurice a lot but that may be a bit of a knee jerk reaction

A lot of it is the MSG and NY media BS machine. They pump every player to insane levels (when the NY papers and radio aren’t ignoring hockey all together) and they act like every rookie is a Calder Cup winner in the making. I still remember hearing about future superstars like Artem Anisomov, Brandon Dubinsky and Matt Gilroy who were going to run the league with NY for years to come.

I’d be happy with that. They had the same gameplan every year of riding Lundqvist until he couldn’t carry them anymore. I’m hoping they do the same with this guy and then he takes 15 million bucks to go back to Russia.

In analytics news… The Rangers lead the NHL in total expected cringe.

I bet this will be interesting to look at in 5 years. Actually I’d be interested in looking at his previous season rankings to see how close or off they were.

I’m sure the Devils would have Amanda release a hard hitting report about Miles Woods new puppy in response.