Comments on: GAMEDAY: Rangers at Islanders, 7:05 pmHunter in, 2 more needed; revisiting the deadline

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:28:15 +0000

Wouldn’t shock me if they made Weight captain, what the he!! they made Guerin captain without him ever playing a game for us. You could chalk that up to another thing I disagree with post 171. Right up there with having your number 1 goalie “playing” while he is injured. No matter what I still love the team. I have had quite a few friends give up and they’ve been fans as long as me (25-30 years). Just call me a whipping boy.

By: miketee

miketee — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:16:48 +0000

Yes, I know exactly how old Weight is but his experience and leadership are invaluable particularly to what will be a very young team.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:13:40 +0000

Post 174. Weight is going to be our captain? Do you have any idea how old he is? Would be nice to have a captain for longer than a year I would think.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:11:16 +0000

To post 171. I agree with some of what this club does but not much. Did not agree with trading down. Still don’t. Snow has made some decent moves and some bad ones like most GM’s do. I don’t think having little kids running around your table during the draft in Ottawa is professional, do you? The Campoli trade I thought was a good move by Snow and he deserves some credit for it. The Guerin trade I want to forget about. Last years draft I didn’t really get. Guess we will find out in a couple. Didn’t like passing on Filatov or Schenn.
As for the homer comment to me it refers to anyone who believes Wang no matter what he says and thinks every move Snow makes is brilliant and defendable instead of just saying wow that was bad. Also a homer to me is someone that would call me a Ranger fan for having an opinion.

By: drive45

drive45 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:05:00 +0000

Guerin is a nice guy, but was totally expendable. Hopefully the Pens win a round and it becomes a 3rd rounder. That would then be a good trade. Snow has been doing a respectable job so far. Give the man a chance. A rebuild will not happen in one season. We are looking for 18 yo kids to mature into NHL players. Playing in the AHL playoffs is a bigger deal then playing for last place.

By: miketee

miketee — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:59:48 +0000

I must say I’m really confused by those of you who think keeping and resigning Guerin would have been preferable to the trade for a conditional pick.

Admit it, you are the same people who ripped Snow a new one for not dealing Fedotenko, Satan, Vasicek and others at last year’s deadline — even for a bag of pucks.

The Isles paid Guerin almost $8 million for two very mediocre seasons on Long Island. Remember that he was part of “plan C” on free agency day after Smyth decided to move on and Snow was rebuffed by every other high value FA (Briere, Drury, Gomez) to whom he made some big $$$ offers.

He retained Witt (a good move) and will probably resign Weight (who can be the Captain and, with Witt, fill the role of veteran leadership). Guerin, while a good guy, has been on a downward slide and, while a 5th round pick ain’t much, I have a hard time believing that Snow could have done better given the very few teams to whom Guerin would agree to go to coupled with the minimal demand for his services.

There are some here that suggest that packaging Guerin with others would have netted us more. In a cap era, quantity is often NOT what is attractive to other teams and even those with cap space will not give up anything of value for someone else’s pile of throw aways.

Bouwmeester for Guerin, Martinek and some picks…really???? Does anyone think there is a GM dumb enough to do that? You want Bouwmeester? Be prepared to start with Okposo because Florida is not making a deal for two senior citizens and a couple of picks even if they lose J-Bo as a free agent.

Time for a reality check.

By: isles72

isles72 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:37:26 +0000

anyone else feel bad for Sim ?

I can understand if it was a numbers game and he had to sit out -but come on man .

By: DanNOLA

DanNOLA — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:33:45 +0000

There are a ton of Rags fans that think they are going to win huge tonight. I would really love to have the Isles shove it down their throats. I hope that the players and franchise realize that even when the Isles are in the doldrums it is still possible to build and gain respect, and a strong showing with a big win against at revamped team who made cup-run trades is a great way to do it.

By: MR4742

MR4742 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:29:21 +0000

#150 Matt, I’m wondering if you think people are homers because you see them agree ALL of the time or is it just that everytime something’s going on (with the Isles) you see some people agree with it. Meaning are you actually keeping track of each posters opinions or do you just always read some posts that are agreeable and assume they’re the same people who agreed with the previous Snow moves. I can speak for myself and tell you that I am objective and don’t always agree but sometimes I do. It seems anytime we do agree with anything this club does we’re called “homers”. I’m just wondering if the people using this term are objective in their own assesments of the team (do they/you ever agree with a thing the team does)? Just curious.

By: cody

cody — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:26:06 +0000

i see avery has grown alot lol.

By: BrendonNJ

BrendonNJ — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:19:25 +0000

This organization has been badly mismanaged for a very long time. Bad moves have been more the rule than exception. We just traded our captain for a conditional 5th rounder in a 4 day soap opera. How many other organizations do that? Personally, I would have preferred BG and Weight back next year to mentor. But that’s not the point. The point is this org has not EARNED our trust nor deserve the benefit of the doubt in 15+ years. There is definitely a cumulative effect frustration working here which is larger than any given trade itself. Personally, I think we are finally heading in the right direction but not so sure we have the right experienced captain and still have alot of water in the boat. Hope we get there.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:12:41 +0000

I really, really hope Joensuu plays tonight..The kid was red hot in Bridgeport(9 pts & a +9 in last 6 games)…goals in 3 out of his last 4 games(4 of 5 counting his Isles game)..His +20 was best on the team and good for 7th best overall in AHL..He has played in 3 different World Junior Championships for Finland..Scored in his first NHL game, and almost had two goals…The kid is ready! He’s Red Hot, he’s confident, don’t let this chance slip away!