I got this feeling...
 

That just like at the begining of the season we are going to be waiting and waiting and nothing is going to happen no trades nothing big, nothing to help us. Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. On one hand it says hey we have faith in our young guys and are really going to grow them up. On the other its like they are blind and don't see that this current team can not take us into the playoffs.

good thing. rebuilding is better than tearing down

Is it tearing down or is it really tearing up? :cry:

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It is DEFINITELY a good thing

I don't know if you heard the saying: "sometimes the best move is to make no moves at all"?

That saying is often true when you are a team that is rebuilding with youth. The Rangers are not going to with the Cup this year, I strongly doubt it. So if you trade the youth now for some 36 year old...it will hurt you next season.

The Rangers need to stick with the youth, as so far it is paying off. We made the playoffs last season, we will make the playoffs again this season and go further in the playoffs. Next season, we can consider actually going for the Cup!

That goes hand in hand with "if it aint broke dont fix it" - but this team is broken man.

Get Boyes. IM all for that and that alone.

Who are you prepared to give up? Make a proposal.

Montoya and Immonen For Boyes and Rask.

Slats will probably deal Montoya anyway for some garbage. A least get some youth back with it.

Is Boyes any good in the center spot? Im not all to big on trading Montoya just yet. I think we could get alot more from him alone if we are patient enough. I would not mind seeing Dawes Immo

Guys, there's already several proposal threads going, including one dedicated to Boyes. I'm going to close this it becomes a duplicate of something else here.

Hey... he asked... he could have went and looked through the Boyes thread, its there. But your probably right.

Yes, check out the Boyes thread, we go into pretty good detail about him.

There is a big distance between trading the youth for over-the-hill vets and not making any trades. The medium is what makes a good GM. Sater is obviously is not the one. Most of his trades in the past were bad. Thus, it is better not to make any and stick to signing people in off season in which he was sorta ok in 2005 summer. In 2006 summer he did poorly even in that area. So here we are where we are... Sather has to hire a good GM to relieve himself from the job he is no longer able to do well and keep being only a NYR President if Dolan apparently values him so much.

Standing pat and not making a move is probably the worst thing they could do. It's not as if they are playing in rebuiling in rebuilding mode by giving a lot of kids experience. Either go for it or trade for prospects. Right now they are in some kind of no mans land.

If they make a move toward Boyes or Horton, if he's really out there to be traded for. Then I say yes to that. If they're going to trade our youth, and picks for veteren players, then no way. If you can get younger, do it. If not, don't. Theres no way that some vets are going to steer this team to the cup, we're not even playoff bound right now.

My sentiments exactly.

The only deal i would be happy with involving Forsberg or another vet center would be a mid-level prospect or two that we arent impressed with. But thats not happening!

Got the opposite feeling....I think the Rangers will make a move for a "decent" 2nd C and it will come way before the deadline becasue points are becoming precious..And I don't see them making any deals for kids, although I wouldn't mind them

It will most likely be a decent guy because there arent too many exceptional ones out there and the cost will be too steep.


But youre right, the sooner the better for this team. Now that theyve "found" a 3rd line, you would think they need to fix that 2nd line as quickly as possible.

Yep, we can't wait until the deadline and I'm thinking along the lines of Smolisnki, Stumpel (don't know what to think about Armstong)...

And any possible success of this team is being held hostage by the horrific 2nd line and BOTH Betts and Hossa playing there..

Aqiuire a 2nd C, call up Callahan and move down BOTH Betts and Hossa and you got a chance---up front..

Yeah, I saw this in the other thread. Not gonna happen. Why should it, looks like both teams are trading similar parts.

So say we lose 3 out of the 4 games coming up and nothing has been done. Is it worth getting anything at that point kinda like to little to late?

Same here...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ade/index.html


Basically what he is saying is that a lot of 'top' prospects don't even make it to the NHL. Is Brandon Dubinsky guaranteed to be a 2nd line NHL center. No way. Does he have the potential? Yes he does.

I know this question has been asked before but here it is again: How much longer are you going to have two of the best goal scorers/players of all time on this team. You have this year and maybe next year with Jagr and Shanny. When you have a chance to add another player to that mix that is considered one of the best players in the world right now, I think you take that chance.

Prospects are assets, not every player that is drafted will don the red white and blue that is the Rangers sweater. Right now the brass is saying they have 6-8 players in Hartford that they beleive are NHL players. There is not that kind of room on our NHL roster, so some of these assets are going to have to be moved anyway. Why not make a push for Forsberg now?

I really hope thats the case, because like I said in another thread, it's probably going to be too late by the trade deadline.

i agree

I'm not necessarily against making a move of some kind, but not for Forsberg. No way. Whether we give up something of value or not, the man is a season-ending injury waiting to happen.

If he was healthy the Flyers would be signing him to an extension. The fact that they're willing to trade him tells you all you need to know about his foot.

It's OK to trade for a veteran for the right price. But a healthy veteran please.