If Alberts Smits earns a spot with the New York Rangers out of training camp, he should be given a real chance to play every day. Otherwise, it may be best to send him to the AHL or back to Europe for further development. What’s the ideal path for Smits this season?
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Rangers, don't destroy his confidence n, skill…. Please…..😮😮😮
I like & don't like the situation with our defensemen additions !!! YES we improved it …. but makes a bad Situation ESPIACLLY for MATTHEW ROBERTSON & ALBERT SMITS !!! – ( Not to mention Drew Fortescue, EJ Emery … EMERY still hasn't signed and only has 1 more year after this year in North Dakota NCAA where he can become a UFA – especially when his favroite player and player he modeled his game after K'ANDRE MILLER was Traded and had alot of fans, ect .. not happy with his play, ect … )
Drew Fortescue looked great in just the 9 games he played in the NHL but ok he can play a year in the AHL but what about next year and he's just another LHD of GAVRIKOV, PETTERSON, DURZI , ROBERTSON, SMITS aling w/ Fortescue… thats 6 LHD that should be playing Next year in the NHL !!!!
I dont like seeing ROBERTSON development screwed up when he hadca great rookie season , he has size 6"4" 215 pounds, Speed , what's known as defensive defenseman but definitely brought some offense and has some more offense to give and I know he will and he did that on the third pairing for the most part
He's got much nicer hands and speed than I ever thought.He did, and i've always been big on him.
Now I live Albert Smits , but no, making him a healthy scratch. Is the absolute worst possible thing? They could do to him. It's either the ah or the NHL and he should probably. Well, it will probably be based a lot off training camp. But mainly off preseason games, seeing how he does in preseason, and let's just say he blows, but sad of the water during preseason, and it gives the Rangers a reason not to take him out. And Force their hand to play him in the lineup. Then, what happens to Matthew Robertson? Now, Matthew Robertson becomes the seventh defenseman. Now that's screwing with his development. That's what I really don't like about how we got
One too many extra defensemen of either DURZI or PETTERSON ???
YOU'RE NOT SAYING THAT THAT WILL HAPPEN, BUT IT'S A VERY GOOD CHANCE THAT IT CAN HAPPEN.AND IF IT DOES AUTOMATICALLY, MATTHEW ROBERTSON BECOMES THAT 7TH DEFENSEMAN HIS DEVELOPMENT JUST GETS SCREWED WHEN I THINK THIS SEASON HE WILL REALLY SHOW US SOMETHING GREAT !!!
I do understand though that sure if albert smiths cant start in the NHL well then, the defenseman we got kind of worked out for this year anyway, so to speak, not saying that it's not preventing E. JM Marie from possibly not signing with the team. Because he sees an overload of defensemen and mitrosco for the extra year in North Dakota college and become AU. FAN walk where we get nothing and I really would like to have him as he has. Size grades, skinning ability.These physical mean, nasty, hard hitting a mobile shutdown, defender, coming from a great north dakota college that it's a factory for producing NHL defensemen !!!!
Let em start in Hartford