Thursday, July 15, 2010

Demitra Going to KHL

Pierre LeBrun at ESPN.com tweets...

Pavol Demitra has signed a one-year contract with Yaroslavl of the KHL, agent Matt Keator confirms to ESPN.comless than a minute ago via web

...the best moves are sometimes the ones you don't make. Great job by Sather not going after an aging, injured player. Bring on the kids!!!!!

...wonder if Gaborik gave him a bad recommendation?

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14 comments:

Unknown said...

Again, we need a setup man and/or goal scorer. The kids can only do so much — IF they even get ice time.

I'll cut and paste this comment from another blog...

"Honestly, they’ve been talking about the future down the LIE since the mid 80’s with no results. You have to try to win. That doesn’t mean throw the future away, but take some chances, and make the best effort to start the season competitivly [sic]."

I'm not saying Demitra was the answer — but unless the Rangers prospects are Calder candidates or Stamkos or Tavares this team needs another proven goal scorer.

Can we get an idea of who the Rangers should get to pick up the slack so this isn't Team Gaborik redux?

ivaNYRicov said...

Im hopeful for improved years from both Callihan and Duby. 25-30goals for each. Anisimov will improve a bit, If we are lucky he could reach 20. Would be nice to have another 30 goal guy dont get me wrong. Maybe Frolov is still in play.

John said...

Nice of the KHL to help take the temptation away from Sather! Pavol Demitra was not the secondary scoring the Rangers need!

LI Joe said...

ican't see either cally or dubinsky anywhere close to 30 goals. its one thing to be hopeful its another to be realistic

Unknown said...

It seems pretty clear to me that the Rangers are not in the Kovy stakes so either go out and sign Ponikerovsky or go after Svatos (my choice) and get some goals on the board!! Johnny Madden could be a great UFA at a fair price too!
If we are lucky to dump Redden's contract, Grebeshkov could fill in nicely as a puck moving DMan ...

Anonymous said...

Why would you say great job by Sather?

I understand being happy they didnt bother with Demitra, but why are you giving Sather credit?

Christopher Decker said...

thank. God. we want to move forward, not backward.

Unknown said...

Wiki: "On December 16, 2006, Ponikarovsky notched a career high five points in Toronto's 9-2 victory of the New York Rangers, scoring two goals and assisting on three others. He is commonly referred to by his teammates as "The Poni Express", "The Ukraine Train" or simply "Poni"."

ivaNYRicov said...

I think Duby and Callahan are capable of giving us CLOSE to 30... I really think that is realistic... 26-29 goals... I think they both have the ability to do so...30 on a really good year.

Unknown said...

...and we can all exhale

LI Joe said...

ivanyr - i don't see even 25 goals for either except maybe once in the career maybe if fortune smiles bright. a good yr for either is 18-22 and we should be happy with that.

ivaNYRicov said...

Maybe I am too optimistic. We will see at the end of this season I guess. Hope you are wrong... will probably be right...

Unknown said...

FWIW Chicago had five players who scored twenty goals or more last year.

Rick said...

My comment on Demitra is that he played for his country well but he didn't play for his paycheck to the same degree. I believe it was quite obvious to those who would sign his paycheck.