Line Combos: New York Rangers All Decade Team - THE FINAL TALLY!

[ogie]

We have reached the end. Here is your 2000-2009 New York Rangers All Decade Team.


Starting Goaltender: Henrik Lundqvist
Backup Goalie: Mike Richter

First Line Center: Michael Nylander
First Line RW: Jaromir Jagr
First Line LW: Martin Straka

Second Line Center: Eric Lindros
Second Line RW: Marian Gaborik
Second Line LW: Brendan Shanahan

Third Line Center: Petr Nedved
Third Line RW: Pavel Bure
Third Line LW: Martin Rucinsky

Fourth Line Center: Mark Messier
Fourth Line RW: Theoren Fleury
Fourth Line LW: Sean Avery

13th Forward: Ryan Callahan

First Pair Defenseman: Brian Leetch
First Pair Defenseman: Marc Staal

Second Pair Defenseman: Michal Rozsival
Second Pair Defenseman: Fedor Tyutin

Third Pair Defenseman: Darius Kasparaitis
Third Pair Defenseman: Dan Girardi

7th Defenseman: Paul Mara

Head Coach: Tom Renney

[mike14]

The lack of ranger drafted players in that team is scary.......

[we want cup]

Christ that is pathetic.

[OverTheCap]

If all those players were at their prime at the time, it would be decent. Unfortunately, players like Lindros and Messier were a shell of their former selves.

That defense is just sad. Worse than the forwards, IMO.

2000-2009 was not a good decade to be a Rangers fan...

[GarretJoseph]

lol what a joke

[Radek27]

What terrible D, damn.

[Bluenote13]

So what did we learn from this?

[HockeyBasedNYC]

Sather came on board in 2000 and this is the best decade team we can come up with.

7 of the 22 were homegrown.

[Radek27]

Originally Posted by HockeyBasedNYC

Sather came on board in 2000 and this is the best decade team we can come up with.

7 of these guys were homegrown.

Whats even worse than that is Leetch and Staal are #1.

[SingnBluesOnBroadway]

Originally Posted by Bluenote13

So what did we learn from this?

Fire Renney?

[Bluenote13]

Yeah but its title is Tom Renney NYR's all decade team

[nyr2k2]

Originally Posted by SingnBluesOnBroadway

Fire Renney?

Bingo.

[Fitzy]

Id love to see this team in action for a single game.

[MrAlfie]

So wait what? I have been insulted because I picked Tortorella over Renney because "Tortorella hasn't been here long enough to be the coach of the decade" yet Marian Gaborik , who has been here less than Tortorella makes the team?

Yes logic at it's finest. Hypocrites.

[we want cup]

Originally Posted by SingnBluesOnBroadway

Fire Renney?

[Ailurophile]

I didn't want to say how geriatric that team looks, but it seems I'm not the only one to think so.

It really is very telling, haha.

[mike14]

It's funny that Gabs and Bure are on there. Both have only played just over half a season for the Rangers. God it was a dismal decade....

[nyr2k2]

Originally Posted by MrAlfie

So wait what? I have been insulted because I picked Tortorella over Renney because "Tortorella hasn't been here long enough to be the coach of the decade" yet Marian Gaborik , who has been here less than Tortorella makes the team?

Yes logic at it's finest. Hypocrites.

We had the same debate about length of service during the voting for Gaborik and Bure.

[007]

Lacks grit.

[kennglin13]

Of course it's Renney's team... this roster is built for the shootout

no Malik??

[Garfinkel1]

I love it. Everyone wants him out yet Rosival has been one of our top 4 D-man for the decade.

Understandable. I would have voted for him if I participated in this but it's funny what a contract can do to a players image.

[clmetsfan]

Originally Posted by MrAlfie

So wait what? I have been insulted because I picked Tortorella over Renney because "Tortorella hasn't been here long enough to be the coach of the decade" yet Marian Gaborik , who has been here less than Tortorella makes the team?

Yes logic at it's finest. Hypocrites.

In his brief tenure, Gaborik has scored more goals than all but two players in the league. Tortorella, on the other hand, has lost more games than he's won as a coach, and instituted an "offense first" system that has scored the 5th fewest goals in the league.

Still want to compare the two?

[ogie]

whoops messed up the title ...thats what you get when you cut and paste ..can a mod edit the title to remove "tom Renney" thanks.

[silverfish]

If they were all in their prime it'd be a decent team

[The Thomas J.*]

Oh man that's just **** of a team. No wonder we suked so badly.