On a new episode of the “Up In The Blue Seats” podcast, Jake Brown, Mollie Walker and Andrew Harts, they open the show talking about the Rangers losing Game 7 to the Devils to end their season. They discuss why the Rangers season was a colossal failure, how the series turned around, what changes may need to be made in the offseason and debate whether Gerard Gallant should be fired as head coach.
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37 Comments
Not sure leaving the playoffs in first round is due to a gap in RW.
Lafreniere should go he's been a bust !
Panarin makes too much to trade !
They had four straight top ten picks and whiffed on all of them… it's extraordinary if you think about it
Everyone but Fox & Shesterkin can go 🚶♂️
First Overall pick NEEDS to be better than this ! Montreal is a possible destination …
Looks like younggravyfuturewife
More grinders to go into the corner and get the puck to Panarin.
I feel that Chris Drury tried to do too fast, i always said salary cap is a problem the way they manage it and the Rangers do have players in their farm that can play in the upper level, Lets look at how the Devils management know how to do and not to do. Lets get Kane back healthy , lets get Tarasenko molded with his shift, lets get the kid line to know each other on their shift and where to be. We have the goaltending there's no reason the lines can't be permanently fixed, and most of all stop inter changing the lines.
Trade Panarin.
Lafreniere is the oldest 21 year old NHL player I've ever seen. Maybe he should try cutting that goatee because I think it's weighing him down and making him play like a 45 year old player lmaoo
Would be nice to move Trouba and Panarin (since Panarin clearly has no heart). NMC’s are annoying.
Trouba, especially, is overpaid.
Laf and Kakko should be signed long term for cheap contracts, considering their very mediocre play thus far.
Wish Panarin could go for a Chandler Stephenson or Brock Nelson type player.
Drury let a guy who wasn't even on his roster hold him hostage and the team hostage and drury let Kane use the rangers as a platform for a free agent contract.. Kane bet the rangers would go deep and he would get paid.. his agenda.. drury let this guy turn their roster from a team to a group of Individuals.. they are both getting what they deserve
Players that are either RFA or UFA
Tarasenko
Kane
Lafreniere
Miller
Mikkola
Halak
Motte
You either have to re-sign or replace.
Cap space is limited.
Drury has his work cut out for him.
Why, oh why, did they sign the Panarin and Trouba MEGA deals? 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Loosers mentality
went soft 9 top6 ff no grit
Rangers should practice and operate at higher pace/speed next season so we can cope with quick pressure/diereah teams like Canes and Joysey with better results …
Please get Reaves back. I don’t care that he’s a 4th liner lol
He sucks like all of them
Right wingers is not the problem .It's crap draft picks ,GM issue ,not picking up the right guys . Weak 4th line . No sandpaper grit here . Too weak and slow
Listening to mollie Walker Talk about hockey is like listening to nails on a chalkboard.
I was fine with getting tarasenko and mikkola……but we could have used same picks to go get a Tyler bertuzzi instead of Kane. Kane was hurt even before we got him. No idea why people thought he would have helped us.
1:50 mark. Your comment how a team is dependent on individual talent. OOF that right there screams losing team. I don't think you realized that. You do not embrace that to make a winning team. So therefore you don't make the move to pick up an aging, injured player just because of his play in the past. Getting Kane on the cheap wasn't a no brainer. It was a bad move more propaganda then anything. Especially the propaganda then portrayed having every mouthpiece claim that Panarin and Kane will reunite some old gelling fireworks from the past. Totally ignoring that they only played about 2 seasons together when Kane was still at the top of his game and Panarin was starting to peak. And they haven't played together for 5 YEARS. More then twice the amount of time they actually played on the same team. When it comes down to it who in their right mind would actually buy into that. Just more BS to push a bad deal. I like Kane but I follow realistic expectations, not hype.
Kane didn't work, just move on.
Need a shut down line, PERIOD!
Chris Drury is the problem. fixed it for you.
sure could use a RW like Buchnevich…they bet on Kakko and lost
RANGERS SUCK!
This kind of shit is why the Rags have one Cup since a certain Austrian painter. Do a rebuild properly for once, stop signing aging stars to bloated contracts, and actually develop your prospects.
Ill take 4 lines of grinders
Maybe Drury is the problem!
Mollie definitely hit it on the head. She is very smart, and I Can't disagree with anything she said.
Kid line need to be broken up just to get the other 2 away from Lafrienwhoever who looks like he doesn't even wanna be there.
People keep bashing Drury for Kane. James Dolan absolutely had something to do with this move. He cant help himself when a star wants to come.
Id prefer Kane over burnt toast aka Panarin. 12M needs to come with more playoff presence. Two yrs in a row.
“A Patrick Kane operating at 50% is probably better than half the NHL” We literally just witnessed that is not the case. Whatever percentage he was operating at clearly made him ineffective. It would seem Drury got caught up in the “Star” acquisition without addressing the team needs for a playoff run. More grit in my opinion.
It might be an unpopular opinion but lafreniere was the wrong pick for this team. I’m not saying we shouldn’t have selected him, it’s just the fact we drafted a top line LW for a team that was already married to kreider and panarin. Literally any other position would’ve been more beneficial. I understand we can play him on the right side, his number 1 overall status was for the left. Saying to just play him out of position is getting into territory of saying we should’ve drafted someone else that could’ve been utilized better. To make it even worse the next year drury drafts othmann who i really like as player, has a lot of promise. LW. These guys have no where to go folks. On other teams that have availability is a completely different story for these guys, it’s just the truth.
Im sorry who is this lady because everything she said was either incorrect, dellusional or both… Kane is not better than half the NHL at 50% that was kinda show during this series… no one is saying the Rangers should apologize for having a good goalie… the Rangers cant outscore anyone 9 times out of 10 because they would have been 1 overall in the regular season AND DEFINITELY not a first round bounce…