Don’t be scared of other teams. You should know Lundqvist is the best goalie in the league, and once we start rolling we’ll be more than fine. You can do a lot with a goalie like Hank. The only team in the East that poses a threat, in my eyes, is New Jersey, and we all know how that story goes when Avery is in the mix. He’ll get under Shanahan’s skin too, and all those guys, you can bank on it. Despite how hot the Devils have been, we will be the team going into the playoff’s hot, and they will cool down in the last 20, or however many games they have left. It will be interesting to see these last couple weeks pan out.

I’m not worried about Pittsburgh either. It’s the teams that will make the playoffs I am concerned with.

That was hardly the fault of Bure or Fleury though. As I said with Fleury, the best offensive talent besides him on the team was Nedved. After Nedved it was Radek Dvorak or Mike York, or a washed up Graves. Name a decent defender on those teams besides Leetch. Schneider?

Also, the coaching was just awful. Muckler? Low?

Bure, as I stated earlier, played great in the 51 games he played. Fleury was also doing just fine. The problem was the guys around them, not them. Blame the GM for bringing in guys like Quintal, or MacLean, or Hatcher, or Lindros, or Maladog, or a 40 year old Messier, or Holik, etc.

At least Bure and Fleury played to the level that was expected of them.

We had recently built an identity and a team full of guys that wanted to be here. Now we are back to chasing names and throwing outlandish $$$ at has beens and, in some cases, never weres.

Like take an IQ pointed out, no chemistry!

Answer is no but it is not their fault because the chemistry was messed up before they got there thanks to Gomez and Drury.

The other missed point is how did the other teams fighting for a playoff spot do compared to the Rangers?

Answer is that they added better parts (Pens with Kuntiz mainly) and chemistry (Canes with Cole) to help their playoff hopes than the Rangers.

Kamensky was a complete disaster. I wouldn’t count him with Fleury or Bure.

Fleury had some good seasons with us. The year he went off the wagon he was an Art Ross threat (until he went into rehab). I mean, the first two years the other “great” offensive talent we had was Petr Nedved. After that it was Lindros. Fleury put up decent numbers.

Bure put up AMAZING numbers in a Rangers sweater. His problem was he retired due to injury 51 games later (12 the first year, 39 the second). Still managed to pot 41 goals in that time. If that were just one season, that would be a 66 goal pace. Even if you just take that second half season alone, it was a 40 goal pace. Injury is what ruined Bure.

Go Rangers.

Kalinen = Morris

Better today!