Alas, another summer and another opportunity to look back on what was and what could have been… if only!

So the Rangers choked at the finish line.

Losing in overtime, games when they were ahead with comfortable leads into 3rd.
Congrats to the Kings, they were very, very good.

My previous complaint that the Rangers were lacking a true no 1 stud center were sadly prophetic.
Richards ending the final on 4th line (2nd year in a row) and Nash really being unlucky.
Gabby was a stud and it is just typical that he would come to kill us off.
GM Sather has really no one else to blame but himself.

So I reckon we would have been 1 – 2 weeks away from competing, like the last time Jags almost won the scoring title.
But no – you would be wrong.
We completely retool. Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is true insanity.

Remember – we dumped Nylander and got Gomez and Drury. Rangers went from contenders to pretenders.

Yeah we also signed Redden (34 years for what 7 meg a year for 5 years)!

You would think we would learn the lesson BUT you would be wrong! Sather couldn’t sign a 24 year Stralman, the young swedish stud  D for 5 years  for 4.5 with Lidstromian potential… so we spent 4.5  signing dinosaurian Dan Boyle who is 38.

Have we learned nothing????

Taking about Boyle, Brian Boyle also signed with Tampa for 1.5?

You are kidding me.

We couldn’t find  1.5 bucks to sign this guy, a heart and soul gritty player. Really disappointing but it wouldn’t be so disappointing if we pick up some good guys.

Lee Stempniak, Tanner Glass, Matthew Lombardi are here to replace Pouliot, Boyle, Dorsett and Fast/JT Miller to replace Richards.

I am blue!

Look for another 20 year Ranger drought.

Lets’ go Rangers.

Yes 20 years since my Rangers won the cup getting the 54 year monkey off the back.
Could it be possible that the 20 year anniversary bring a repeat. Let me tell you we were hopeful.
After the Pens I was confident we could go all the way. Montreal and even the Kings had nothing we couldn’t

Deal with. It was our destiny.

Secrectly I was pining for a Hawks/Rangers final. Somebody tell me when was the last original 6 final? Quick – Anyone?

1979  Rangers vs Montreal. I was there at Game 1 at the Forum. No doubt this would be our year.
Well we know how it ended. But I cannot be disappointed when you get this far, all small things make the difference.
I can tell you that the reasons we lost was because Dan Girardi made a howler in Game 1 OT!

That was the difference. All would have followed. We were the better team, despite many saying otherwise.
Rangers led most of the time against the Kings. They lost in 3 OTs.
I am not blaming Dan Girardi who was an absolute stud on D. but in 2nd OT he was pooped and I just observed that phenomen and no sooner the puck was in the back of Lundquists net.
We can talk about Nash not scoring and and lack of physical toughness. Rangers win game 1 in LA and there would have been a different outcome.
I give Rangers a ton of credit for this playoff run. We did not expect it. Next year will be harder, expectations will be up there with the impossible to please NY crowd.

We need to fix one or two things:

1)      Rangers need a  true no 1 center.  They were without one since Michael Nylander and even he looked good

Because The Jaromir was such a stud, then.  So going back even further  1994 Messier?  Can’t win without

A stud center. Could we get Thornton, Getzlaf, Kopitar, Toews?  Probably not. So draft only….but we have no ace up the sleeve

2)         Keep the D together!    Stralman was a stud as were McDonagh, Staal and Girardi. Klein is solid but we need more

Goals from the blue line!!!!!!!  Gonchar, Zidlicky or similar would do us a world of good on PP.

3)        Keep Boyle, Zucc, Dom Moore, Haglin, Dorsett but I would shop Stepan, and possibly resign Callahan.

Lets go Rangers Looking forward to 2015