Friday, October 17, 2008

Back away from the ledge....

I apologize for being away for nearly 3 weeks again. The Rangers fantastic start just had me so enamored I completely lost touch with everything around me! If after reading that you'd like to stone me publicly, good, it was meant to be dripped with sarcasm. Some quick hits:

- Please let's not trash the Rangers and start pounding the panic button like a piece of chicken you're about to cook. Renney will not be fired. Gomez won't be traded. Malik is the answer! They're allowed to lose and, frankly, it's a good thing they did. It exposed what they were doing wrong during their hot start. Now, they can re-evaluate what to do to move forward and play better. Having said that, you'd rather them lose to a team that thoroughly beat them not the Rangers beating themselves. Plenty of hockey left...

- Drury-Gomez-Naslund need more time to gel. It's to early on to start line swapping. If after the next week or 2 of games they're still under performing together THEN make the switch. Continuity and chemistry are the keys.

- Speed kills. This team has plenty of it. Once they utilize it to max potential, teams better WATCH OUT!

- Is Jagr secretly coaching this PP?? I kid, of course, but if you look at past games and see how the 1st unit isn't getting shots to the net and would rather play an expensive game of patty-cake then you understand my comment. The only way this PP will be a force this year is if they aren't predictable. Player and puck movement, shots to the nets, and crashing rebounds is the way to go.

- In continuing with my last comment, give Wade Redden some time. For years, he quaterbacked a sometimes lethal PP up in Ottowa. He will find his game and will hopefully show us why he was given $39 mil. Please....show us?

Until next time...

JW

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