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The original goal of this series was to finish prior to the Olympics’ being over, but who are we kidding? Olympic hockey ruled the news and the day and with such classic commentary by Mike Milbury and the US’s Cinderella run to the medal round was too riveting to make these stories even relevant. So now as we resume back to NHL action, we continue our series where we left off with the 4th place team in the Atlantic Conference, the New York Rangers. Please note this is the pre-deadline NY Rangers before Management decides to see what they can do in the market tomorrow. Hockeyoutsiders lead editor asked; “What was that HBO show with all the freaks in it?”…”Carnivale?”, yeah, that’s your 2009-10 NY Rangers. If you missed the rest of the series, you can find it under the NHL teams, Atlantic division tabs...
Ryan Callahan, who is the Rangers most talented up and coming player, is Ben Hawkins. Both guys have loads of talent, they just haven’t fully utilized it yet.
Marian Gaborik is Brother Justin Crowe. Gaborik just has that creepy, I’m wicked good type of attitude, especially when he’s healthy.
King Henrik is the ringleader no matter how you spin it. If he was also a midget, these guys would be twins.
Back in the day both of these guys were clutch. Now, not so much. Unless they are put in certain situations, see, Hockey, Olympics.
You never know what you’re going to get with Michal Rozsival, the same could be said of Professor Lodz. Plus they both have that “z” thing going on in their names or as our brethren in Canada would say "zed".
It’s just too easy sometimes to make fun of big Olli Jokinen. Comparing him to a guy with the nickname of “Stumpy” is just about right. Olli “Stumpy” Jokinen, yup, that has a subtle ring to it. I think Olli should be referred to as Stumpy from here on out. Stumpy was amazing in that bronze medal game.
Dolan was a bit of a maverick wild card in the show. Prospal has bounced around to his fair share of teams. Always just enough talent to be dangerous, not enough consistency to remain employeed by one team too long.
Fans of the show and the NY Rangers will know EXACTLY what I’m talking about by comparing Wade Redden to Apollonia who is the invalid confined to her bed for the entire series. Both were pretty good once upon a time.
The bearded lady only has one equal. {insert sloppy seconds joke here}
Now this one we probably have to explain a little. The whole series had a mysterious figure behind the curtain pulling the strings. That figure would make decisions that ranged from downright brilliant to amazingly stupid depending of course on the situation. Sather definitely fits the bill of the puppet master. Only one more team to go, the NY Islanders. Will we finish anytime before the end of the year? There is a distinct possiblity that we will or we may just get bored and leave the poor Islanders to your collective imaginations.
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