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TheDeity said 07/27, 02:38 AM
The problem for the Rangers though is they are stuck in a division that sports both the New Jersey Devils and Pittsburgh Penguins, which both finished the season with more points, as well as the New York Iselanders who also made the playoffs. Honestly this is the year that you should expect to see Sidney Crosby take the Penguins to the next quantum level. Their young squad has a year more together and they were a mere two points away from taking over the two seed from New Jersey. New York has had a big name free agent period, Drury and Gomez are nice names, Jagr was all ready on the team. However, I question whether these players are nearly worth the cash they are paying them and I certainly think they over spent to resign Henrik Lundqvist this off season.

The bottomline is that the Rangers are not the team to beat in this division and Scott Gomez and Daniel Briere harldy pushes this team ahead of the Penguins or the Devils.

TheDeity said 07/29, 09:13 AM
So you are going to discredit an amazing pro simply because he had one lackluster playoff round against an offensive unit in the Sens that only the Ducks managed to outscore? Good call...

But seriously, I don't recall the Rangers doing any better against the team the Sens happened to knock off in the eastern conference finals. There is hardly a guarantee that these players on the Rangers are going to mesh properly. Gomez is a nice player, but they are paying him like more than that. Meanwhile Pittsburgh is a solid and cohesive unit with some under-rated signings in Sydor and Sykora, and signing Sid the Kid long term and making him the bonafied captain of this team might make them not only the team to beat in the division, but in the entire east.

TheDeity said 08/12, 02:34 PM
So what? When the Lightning won the Stanley Cup aside from Dave Anderchuk and Tim Taylor, all their players were kids. Experience is not everything in hockey. The Pens got some experience last year anyway battling against the Eastern Conference Champs in the early rounds of the playoffs. You are essentially homering this pick. Hockey picks are based upon projecting. Sidney Crosby, Stall, and Malkin are ready to take it to another level.