Around the NHL: 2024-2025 Season

[Crusader1969]

Not sure if there is news out there but just seeing on X that Rob Ray has just disappeared.    

strange that it's not being mentioned on the broadcast if this is true.   I respect that maybe he has asked for privacy 

Hopefully everything is ok with him

 

[bob_sauve28]

The situation with the Rangers is just ugly!

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6016529/2024/12/23/rangers-devils-trocheck-kreider/

“We gotta show more heart,” Vincent Trocheck said after Monday’s shutout, a 5-0 shelling from the Devils in which the Rangers mustered 12 shots on goal, gave up three power-play goals and scratched Chris Kreider, the closest thing this organization has to a Mr. Ranger.

It’s a shocking thing to hear a player say about his team at any point in the season. It somehow feels more shocking given how the past month has gone. The Rangers hit the three-day holiday break losers of 14 of their past 18, and they’ve been uncompetitive in about six of them.

“I think of the times we’ve lost by multiple goals, left our goalies out to dry,” Trocheck said.

So does everyone else. Even the flawed 12-4-1 team played with some fire in the belly, hungry for goals on a talented team even if many of the players weren’t quite so committed to defending.

Now the goals have dried up and the commitment to, well, anything, is just gone. The Rangers came into this one still leading the league on the penalty kill, so they went out and gave up three PPGs on four opportunities, two of them off too-many-men penalties in the second period. The Rangers’ once-vaunted power play went 0-for-4 to drop to 6-for-49 since early November.

It’s all gone. Every last bit of it. Good play, fire, heart, dignity, togetherness — poof. In just over a month, the Rangers have become a team that’s easy to play against, even after a feisty first period in which Trocheck and Sam Carrick fought. They’re pushovers.

[Archie Lee]

26 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:

The situation with the Rangers is just ugly!

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6016529/2024/12/23/rangers-devils-trocheck-kreider/

“We gotta show more heart,” Vincent Trocheck said after Monday’s shutout, a 5-0 shelling from the Devils in which the Rangers mustered 12 shots on goal, gave up three power-play goals and scratched Chris Kreider, the closest thing this organization has to a Mr. Ranger.

It’s a shocking thing to hear a player say about his team at any point in the season. It somehow feels more shocking given how the past month has gone. The Rangers hit the three-day holiday break losers of 14 of their past 18, and they’ve been uncompetitive in about six of them.

“I think of the times we’ve lost by multiple goals, left our goalies out to dry,” Trocheck said.

So does everyone else. Even the flawed 12-4-1 team played with some fire in the belly, hungry for goals on a talented team even if many of the players weren’t quite so committed to defending.

Now the goals have dried up and the commitment to, well, anything, is just gone. The Rangers came into this one still leading the league on the penalty kill, so they went out and gave up three PPGs on four opportunities, two of them off too-many-men penalties in the second period. The Rangers’ once-vaunted power play went 0-for-4 to drop to 6-for-49 since early November.

It’s all gone. Every last bit of it. Good play, fire, heart, dignity, togetherness — poof. In just over a month, the Rangers have become a team that’s easy to play against, even after a feisty first period in which Trocheck and Sam Carrick fought. They’re pushovers.

By the off-season, Peca will either be the Rangers head coach or very available. 

[PerreaultForever]

9 hours ago, Archie Lee said:

By the off-season, Peca will either be the Rangers head coach or very available. 

You really think they will go with a zero head coach experience guy? I doubt that, that's Sabres style, not Rags. 

[freester]

I think Drury could get fired. He has alienated many of the veterans. 

[Archie Lee]

5 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

You really think they will go with a zero head coach experience guy? I doubt that, that's Sabres style, not Rags. 

No, I was thinking he might be an interim candidate and if not then likely he gets let go at the end of the year with everyone.