Goal Line Report
The Jury is Still Out
by Patrick Hoffman on 01/26/10 at 02:03 PM ET
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There are many New York Ranger fans out there who believe that Chris Drury should not be the captain of the team. They claim that he has not gotten the job done and on most nights, cannot be found on the score sheet.
If the captaincy was based solely on those factors, I would certainly agree that he should not be the captain. However, the jury is still out for me.
At the awesome New York Rangers blog Blueshirt Banter, however, Joe Fortunato believes that the Drury captaincy should be maintained by Dru himself and that auctioning it off to simply send a message would not be a good idea:
I really wanted to hold off on this but as the season continues I realize that I can’t, and no this has nothing to do with the fanpost on it, this has been coming for a long time. Many people here have been auctioning off the idea of removing the “C” from Chris Drury to send a message. This is not a good idea, even though it might seem like one on paper.
For starters the Rangers are already a team with a serious identity crisis. One game they stick up for themselves, for each other, they crash the net, they score big goals, they play solid defense, they defend Henrik Lundqvist and most importantly they win. Players such as Christopher Higns, Enver Lisin, Artem Anisimov and Sean Avery find ways to hit the back of the net while filing their respective roles for a full 60 minutes.
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