On today’s episode of Up in the Blue Seats Mollie, Larry & Brian discuss all of the Rangers trade deadline moves and if this roster can make the playoffs. Plus a discussion on what is going on with Chris Kreider?
Timecodes**
00:00 Intro
00:20 Lindgren & Vesey Trade
6:30 Reilly Smith Trade
10:00 Carson Soucy Trade
14:15 Urho Vaakanainen Extension
16:45 Rangers retool for the Playoffs
27:03 Chris Kreider’s future
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38 Comments
PP has been better with Key. Jones is bad.
The moves are in the right direction but Florida, Carolina got better. Tampa Bay looks dangerous. The Ryan Mcdonagh trade hasn’t aged well. I think, Drury better get Brady Tkachuk or might as well blow up the roster.
Adam Fox is NOT some generational talent that mountains should be moved for. He's a power play specialist. He's too small, lazy, and skates like he's wearing a diaper full of cement. He gets shrugged off plays easier than a kid sister. Stop glorifying that hump
Drury Did The Right Thing By Moving Out The UFAs, Getting Draft Picks, and Shoring Up The Back End 😎
Miller Has Been Exactly As Advertised 💯 He and Trocheck Will Hold The Team Accountable 😉
I Think Kreids, 🍞, and Mika, Have To Be Moved At The Draft or By The Summer 💯 This Core Has Run It's Course 🙊
Are Lavy and Drury Safe At Seasons End 🤔 We'll See 👀
moves were fine. but they're not a championship team.
Larry repping the Ridgefield Lions….Yes!!!
Shesterkin needs to be better. Why is Kreider so often invisible? Is Lafreniere still on the team?
Brian looked utterly annoyed for most of this episode. Hope everything is going well with him…
I'd like to say we got better, but we won't know that for a few weeks 🤞🏻🤞🏻
Relatively quiet deadline. Time for th players and Lavy to show out. Maybe it will all turn out for the best? Hate the drama, but that seems to be the Rangers Way. No one ever gets a graceful exit [Giacomin, Ratelle, Park, Mess, Leetch] from the Garden. Time for put up or shut up.
The NYR’s playoff hopes are all but over. Even if they squeeze in, deeper, stronger teams will likely take them out quickly. The trade deadline moves were intentionally minimal, aimed at stockpiling picks for the offseason and preparing for next season. Now, the focus shifts to continuing the rebuild and hitting the reset button for 2025. I'm good with the players they've moved on from and they ones that they picked up in trades. Low impact. Enjoy the rest of the season as it should be fun to watch.
It was a seller's market and we couldn't dump our dead weight- kreider, k.miller and zbad. I hate this woman, shes terrible.
The issue here is to dissect what happened in November/December…who quit on this team and then launch them in the summer. A hockey club controlled by players instead of a coach is a cancer waiting to kill its host.
I hope the Rangers have better chemistry than this podcast. No energy at all.
If the Rangers choose Miller over Jones, it's an epic fail to me. Miller should be gone. Don't you DARE give that traffic cone a raise!
Win these next 2 games and I’m in. If not just make sure we lose this years 1st round pick.
Love the pod, listening from Vancouver!
How can they be better with the same lifeless bodies that have been playing all season. They still have a bunch of players who would be better suited for the ice capades-Mika, Laf, Panarin, K’andre, Kreider. Thats a loser bunch who play uninspired hockey
Love you 3! Thank you!
Im stll crushed from last season. I watched every play. Mika plays like a euro techno party dj. They quit and in sam rosens final season. I love will cuylle and will be back for next season. Turned in once this season and saw scumbag tom wilson beat us in OT. Just a terrible season. Extremely hard to watch. Norhing close to last year. Apologies to JQuick who is the man.
When do we start scrutinizing Drury’s overall work? He did very little to address the weaknesses we all saw from the playoffs last year. Took way too long to dismantle the team as they played their worst hockey. He is always bringing in fringe depth players and none that have stuck around. Still looking for the RW he gave up in Buchnevich. He has done a marginal job with a lot of resources. The team is a shell of itself and the only positive has been JT.
When do we start scrutinizing Drury’s overall work? He did very little to address the weaknesses we all saw from the playoffs last year. Took way too long to dismantle the team as they played their worst hockey. He is always bringing in fringe depth players and none that have stuck around. Still looking for the RW he gave up in Buchnevich. He has done a marginal job with a lot of resources. The team is a shell of itself and the only positive has been JT.
The Rangers made trade deadline moves? 🤔
I don't understand the hate and vitrial this organization has for young players.
I just want to know why Zac Jones is treated worse by the coaching staff than Alex Lafteniere.
Larry…Are any of your columns on the NY Post available to read without subscribing anymore?
From President's trophy winners to complete no show chumps! What a transition! Team is a complete joke. Drury should be fired. It could be 5-10 years before we are competitive again.
He did nothing same faces wil be the same result… NO CUP🥵
As a Ranger fan thank you for the insight Boyler (anybody knows about a team and team play its definitely him) I am not a fan of the old man (annoyed about him having Patrick Kane come to NY among other things) and having too much of a ear of my team as a writer
10,13 and 16 have been brutally bad. And Igor needs to be Igor more often!
They switched the posistion of the 3 visual boxes. I glanced & thought wow, Boyle really aged . How come NYR didn't get Brad Marchand for nothing?
“I’m like buddy”😂
Is the parade back on Larry?
Good Golly Miss Molly the fireworks are a good omen!!
The rangers are a more physical team than they were at the start of the season.And they look much better defensively.They might have gotten their mojo back at the perfect time
Question really is how do you get Kreider and Mika to commit/care for the rest of this season? Kreider's time as a Ranger is done. We all know it and he does also. 14 million in Cap space for next season with 9 spots that need new contracts. Cuylle and Miller will eat the majority of it. And Drury needs to add a top pair defender as Soucy isn't it. Too many 3rd pair defenders on this team as of now. I wouldn't let Kreider back on the roster till the team secures a playoff spot. People thought he dogged it before….lol wait for what is to come now. He is a very smart guy.
Him and Lafreniere should both get moved this summer. Regardless of the return just simply for cap reasons. Ekblad and Chychrun are available this summer and the Rangers should make a move for 1 of them. But they are going to cost upward of 10 million per season. And there just isn't any cap space with that lump sum going to an overrated goaltender.
I think if Kreider stays out and Igor can somewhat find his game the team should make the playoffs. There is a lot of youthful energy on this team now. And a commitment to making an impression from the hordes of bottom 6 guys Drury picked up or brought up. These guys are all fighting for contracts next season and need to make a good show.
Regardless Drury should still be fired. He has destroyed this team and has yet to find a player in the draft that looks capable of playing in the NHL. This season and their epic collapse are all on him. Because he lacked the foresight to see that guaranteed players don't care. And he still keeps handing out NMC contracts like they are 25 cent bubble gum.
3 yrs after the TB series Drury realized this D Corp was too small, should have listened to Gallant in yr 2 instead of agreeing to mutually part ways after the Kane fiasco………
Drurys been running a team he didnt put together, outside of bringing Trochek in, screwed with every Prospect, and traded away every first round pik he had ….
NO CONFIDENCE!!!
SORRY FOLKS
Let’s play Zac Jones…..like your commentary – especially Brian’s