Bret Botfeld breaks down another frustrating loss for the New York Rangers on home ice versus the Minnesota Wild. Along with why the top-six is struggling so bad, and what the team can do to fix it.
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Yes! ENOUGH with Sheary. Him & Laffy have stunk
The top 6 has holes, they don't even have a 3rd line, the bottom 6 is just 2 fourth lines.
1 goal and zero points in 4 home games!! DEAD TEAM WALKING!! Top 6 are all minus! Bottom 6 are all plus or even!
lol. It’s not Perrault or Berard. Let’s be serious. Been saying it:
Laffy
Zibby
Panarin
Leftovers from the Butt-Hurt BBQ.
Drury is dirt.
Bbs, Otter, Jobro, for depth, then adding Perreault in the top 6 could easily tighten up the synergy this team needs. Laff could be a great trade chip for later and leverage the fact that NY doesn’t do well on the development side. Look at how great kakko, chytil, and even k miller are doing in their new teams. Alexis deserves a chance to reveal his potential and it certainly does not show with his current linemates.
drurys team doesn’t look good period, Sullivan can’t win with a bunch of misfits. I missed Kreider, Kakko, Buchnevich,,Zucarrelo, Trouba, Lindgren,Andrew Copp, n yes Gustafson, Sullivan made a mistake sending Bret Berard down. P.S. 2 bad goals by shesterkin drurys misfits ain’t fitting. Again our true captain is out , Trocheck
Thar assholes from that infamous meeting/bbq, are still here. No one should be surprised. This team needs to be nuked.
They are a .500 team or less. They don’t have the horses and they are going to burn out the top players. Shesty won’t last.
Laf is a joke and it's more of a joke that GM of the Century Drury decided to lock him up for years to come. He should have seen the writing on the wall after 23 and gotten him out of here at the top of his market value.
Laf is slow, has an average shot and is an invisible player almost every single game. Worst part of it is he seems totally ok with being far below NHL top 6 caliber. Collecting a pay check!
Laf 13 is a bust n they gave him 7 million they hand him a top 6 spot he had worked for nothing back checking is a four letter word to him.
They have two 4th lines with no 3rd line
Hard to win when your 4 th line is our best line . Lafreniere s face bothers me at this this point
Lafreniere making 7.5 million a year is an insult to every American like me out here literally building America for ass holes like him to drive their luxury SUV’s through.
Simply will not win with posting final scores of 0 or 1 goal per game.
I don't agree with the notion that "It's really everybody". No – some guys are playing very well. 4th line is excelling. Schneider making plays, dealing out hits. Goalies are superb.
Question now is whether Coach Sullivan will do what Coach Lav would not – and make changes before the season slips away. Call ups? A new kids line? Sit a couple of nonperformers?
Get Gabe and barard in the lineup raydish got to go parssinin got to go sherry does nothing besides miss chances
As a NJD fan, this pleases me BUT I get the frustration. Seems NYR need to embrace a full rebuild. They have some nice pieces but each one seems it goes to a different puzzle. NJ had that issue and to some degree is still dealing with it.
Laff was slow on the coverage on the lost faceoff that led to the first goal. The second goal, he did not give enough effort to get the puck in deep, it instead came back our way and ended up in the net. Get him out of here , here is a bust. I don't care if we get anything back, he is a waste of cap space.
I mean you’re distain for Laf is actually ridiculous. Incredibly unlucky on that deflection. Yes he hasn’t put the points up but he has NOT been invisible. The pucks WILL start going in and we will stop getting goalie’d.
this team is simply not serious with a roster constructed cluttered with so many bottom 6 fwds.
Bring up Perrault, Othman, get rid of Sheary and Rddish and well be alright
This team is made up of 2nd, 3rd and 4th liners on any other team.
Top 6 gets chances and can’t score I would stick with it for only one more game. The game vs San Jose at home same
Line up if it doesn’t work than their is no shot it’s gonna happen for the rest of thr season. Hopefully a huge blow out win is what they need and the top 6 putting up a lot of points
Laf is a total bust. 3rd liner at best.
Can we just admit French Canadians are soft.
Laffy is an embarrassment.
agreed, this team is a mess. Team Defense has been better quieting down other teams scorers but the lack of offense is alarming.
Lets be honest, Laffy is bust. Only the rangers get the #2 overall and the #1 over the following year and get 2 BUSTS. Frustrating. Time for another letter from Dolan
Sloppy Sully! Dumbest move, hiring him! No salary cap on coaches, outbid Philly for Rick Tocchet! No softies like Lafreniere on his team! I used to like Chris Drury… his clock is tikkin! If Tocchet were the coach, no weakies on the team! No more Boston cronies, please! Like Sully!
Al "cement skates" Lafreniere is a below average nhl player who plays with zero intensity. He had one brief playoff run and got his contract and now skates around like its a beer league.
Buffalo's management is incompetent maybe they can send him there for Thompson
What the Rangers need to do is bench Laffy for a few games. Make him think things out.
Cant believe i am saying this but Carrick, Edstrom and Rempe deserve first line minutes!!
i usually defend Laf but it's time to part ways.
We need some guys who specialize in scoring. or at least try. berard, perrault, othmann
Laf sucks and has always been a lousy NHL’er. I don’t care what the advance analytics say: he’s a 1/2 to full second behind the play all the time. Had high hopes for him and really wanted him to be a point per game kinda guy. He’s underwhelming and underperforming relative to his pedigree. Also he’s lazy and has brutal skating skills.