Comments on: Ottawa out of trouble?

By: OldNord

OldNord — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:41:37 +0000

Bure's ten last season

76-44-15-63-82-11-74-82-68-27 games

five under 65 games.

By: aaron

aaron — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:04:40 +0000

Hey, blame Florida for that. He's had that contract for years now. And he's only missed one prior season, hasn't he?

Not that I'm standing up for the Rangers here, I'm just not going to diss on every single thing they do just b/c they're the Rangers. If they do something positive (and the Bure trade was a good acquisition), then I'm going to give them their props.

By: OldNord

OldNord — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 05:23:37 +0000

But Bure’s always be an injury prone. 10 millions for a guy who playing about 60/65 games by season sounds crazy.

By: devfanman4

devfanman4 — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:54:13 +0000

I think the point of his post was money and not necessarily destroying the league based on competitive balance. Players who are renegotiating now believe they can get more money if they go to the rangers.

By: Genius

Genius — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:35:18 +0000

Not only that but tsn’s couchmaster reports that they are interested in getting Bates Battaglia of the carolina hurricanes and Brad May of the Pheonix coyotes

By: aaron

aaron — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:33:21 +0000

I have a question, if what the Rangers are doing is doing absolutely nothing to affect the competative balance of the league, how are they destroying the league? If all they have are overpaid underachievers, are the overpaid underachievers going to make some other team instantly better if they signed them for 3 million dollars, say?

Oh, and blaming the Rangers for being stupid when Bure got injured is retarded. That's like saying that if Hasek went down w/ an injury, the Wings were run by idiot management. You can't control injuries.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:52:49 +0000

Wings aint the problem…tehy don’t pay Bobby Holiks 9 million.

By: redwingsin03

redwingsin03 — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:45:38 +0000

The problem with hockey lies right in the city of New York. For years people have said that the Detroit Red Wing are the problem because they have a high payroll, talented players, and because they are always at or near the top. Why is that the problem? It isnt, the problem are the teams such as the New York Fricken Rangers…..Has there been one players in the last 5 years that the Rangers hasnt gotten or had an interst in? They have the highest payroll. and just happen to be one of the worst teams in the leauge. Instead of getting ahold of things and trying to make them better by balancing things out, what do they do, over the last few years they have gone out and got Pavel Bure, how many games had Bure played in a Rangers uniform????? Big help isnt he, They went out and got Theo Fluery…….That lasted a long time……Then they went out and got Bryan Berard, not the best of players since his unfortunate eye injury but a name nonetheless….Then recently they gave up a hell of a young player for a hell of a young player in return, (*jason york for tom poti) i give you props for that New York, that was an iffy trade, but equal if not better. But then here we go again, Dariuns Kasperitus, OVERPAID, thats the Rangers MO, get all the players you can no matter what it takes, spend all that money on Kasper eventhough the year before he had a terrible year, then here is the killer, Bobby Holik…….who the hell pays this man almost ten million dollars a year????? The Rangers do, well guess what New York, take him, cause noone else wants him at that price,oh and how many games has he played this year??? Then here is the killer…………..$4 million dollars for one of the best players in the leauge………what are you trying to do New York? are you singlehandedly trying to ruin our beloved sports by taking every players that comes available, stockpiling it over there in your already full closet of underachieving superstars? i hope that you know, althogh a great player, and personally one of my favorites, Alexei Kovalev isnt gonna do anything but score maybe one or two goals a game for you, so now you will lose 5-3 instead of 5-2…….way to go new york, keep spending…..Maybe you should take a page out of the redwings book, they dont over pay for anything, if anything players take paycuts to be here, what do we have that you dont? a crappy city scenery wise, nothing to do outside of the casinos, a football team that cant score on themselves, crappy weather and……oh, WE WIN, why dont you build something other than a chance to suck in the biggest spotlight in the world, if you win, you wont have to over pay for these guys, we have about ten guys on this team that teams would have and tried to pay almost double what they are making now, but no, they come here to win, they go to you to get paid……You suck, and you will continue to suck until you get your head out of your behind and hire someone that knows what the hell hes doing, not glenn sather……..he had turned into the ass of all asses,,,,,,,,,,Good luck ranger fans, if you want you can start rooting for the wings, we dont have all the high profile players, but we have enough of them, and we win….

GO WINGS