Bethany's Hockey Rants
Zherdev the Ranger
by Bethany on 09/18/08 at 03:03 PM ET
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Zherdev is becoming quite popular in the world of the Rangers. As Paul pointed to early, there was an article written about Zherdev and his potential. There were some interesting statements made in the article, as Light the Lamp pointed out.
LTL does a great job of assessing the quotes, but there is one that I want to talk about.
After that remarkable first season, Zherdev clashed enough with then-new Columbus head coach Ken Hitchcock that he was held out of the lineup for a spell as a healthy scratch.
Zherdev missed nine games after Hitchcock came on board. I don’t know that there was any clashing between Hitchcock and Zherdev, there very well could have been. However, anyone who watched Zherdev play that season knew he wasn’t trying. What was Hitch supposed to do? Keep a guy who wasn’t trying to do anything in the game? No, if you don’t try, you don’t play. That has always been the way Hitch has been.That’s why Blue Jackets fans have such a hard time with Z, he has the talent to be an amazing player, a dominate player in the game so why doesn’t he put that out there all the time? Last season was great, I think we got to see the Zherdev he was supposed to become and hopefully still will become.
It will be interesting to watch him this season to see how he does with the Rangers. If you didn’t read the full article, make sure you do, they take some jabs at the Jackets, but it’s nice to see that they are excited to have Zherdev.
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