Is Chris Drury nonetheless in an axe-swingin’ temper?
The New York Rangers normal supervisor has already moved Jacob Trouba and reportedly talked about stalwart winger Chris Kreider as out there for the suitable supply. With the Rangers nonetheless mired in a horrid hunch, let’s look at who Drury may transfer to try to shake up his chargers.
The longest serving Ranger, Kreider, has three years left on a really tradable $6.5M deal. While he’s on observe to attain round 30-35 targets, Kreider’s solitary help (He’s by no means been an enormous helper man, however sheesh!) by means of 25 video games is embarrassing.
Kreider’s nonetheless a handful within the crease and arguably the NHL’s greatest at redirections, however virtually each different aspect of his sport has fallen away this marketing campaign. Aged 33, is Drury slicing bait earlier than his star falls off a cliff?
NHL Commerce Speak’s Jim Parsons not too long ago opined on the opportunity of a Ok’Andre Miller commerce. Even 12 months in the past, the considered New York shifting on from Miller appeared unfathomable. Enormous, highly effective, a swift skater and armed with a cannon, Miller and Adam Fox had been the Rangers’ defensemen of the following decade.
This season, even earlier than the Rangers started to swoon, Miller has appeared completely disengaged. He’s on observe to document the bottom level and hit totals of his five-year profession, although the attention check is even worse. He’s an enormous unit with wings for ft, but he not often, if ever, lays an opponent out. He’s routinely crushed within the corners and the slot in his personal zone. His positioning is usually woeful, and his lack of urgency is galling.
Watch as Miller mishandles a simple cross and compounds his error by turning and watching, quite than hustling again to forestall the two-on-one from which Chicago scores their eventual sport winner:
