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Wrong Way, Rangers
by Paul on 10/25/07 at 09:04 AM ET
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from Wayne Scanlan of the Ottawa Citizen,
It’s just like old times for Sather and the Rangers. Spend big. Lose big.
As much as I admire Drury, I hope the Rangers continue to struggle, compared to teams that build the old fashioned way.
From within. Via the draft.
By identifying YOUR guys and locking them up. And then by adding a tiny sprinkle of free agent talent as required.
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So I guess he hated Anaheim winning the Cup (besides the fact that they beat Ottawa)...Selanne, Pronger, both Niedermayers, May, Moen, Pahlsson, Parros, Marchant, Beauchemin, O’Donnell, and Giguere were all not drafted by Anaheim. And if you want to get technical about it, neither was McDonald, who was undrafted.
Building a team doesn’t happen through the draft alone. Some players (like the aforementioned McDonald) are undrafted, and sometimes you get young guys through trades. And of course there’s the big-name (or not-so-big-name) free agents. The Rangers’ roster includes:
-a home-grown all-star goalie in Lundqvist
-drafted snipers in Prucha, Callahan, Dubinsky and Dawes, plus plugger Hollweg
-3 defensemen that were drafted (Staal, Tyutin) or signed after being undrafted (Girardi)
-young guys who have played most of their NHL career in NY (Betts, Hossa)
Rebuilding doesn’t happen overnight. Wait a couple years and see what happens when Shanahan, Jagr, Straka, and Malik are gone (assuming Sather doesn’t screw it up). If 65-75% of the roster isn’t “home-grown” by then, THEN this guy can say “I told you so.” As someone who writes for an Ottawa paper, he should know how long it takes to build a team...Ottawa was dead last in the league 5 years in a row when they entered the league again.
Posted by K24 from NYC on 10/25/07 at 04:53 PM ET