Is Chris Drury nonetheless in an axe-swingin’ temper?
The New York Rangers common supervisor has already moved Jacob Trouba and reportedly mentioned stalwart winger Chris Kreider as available for the proper provide. With the Rangers nonetheless mired in a horrid stoop, let’s study who Drury would possibly 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 objectives, Kreider’s solitary help (He’s by no means been an enormous helper man, however sheesh!) via 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 side of his recreation has fallen away this marketing campaign. Aged 33, is Drury reducing bait earlier than his star falls off a cliff?
NHL Commerce Speak’s Jim Parsons lately opined on the potential of a K’Andre Miller trade. Even 12 months in the past, the considered New York transferring 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 regarded fully disengaged. He’s on observe to file the bottom level and hit totals of his five-year profession, although the attention take a look at is even worse. He’s a large unit with wings for toes, 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 an easy move and compounds his error by turning and watching, quite than hustling again to stop the two-on-one from which Chicago scores their eventual recreation winner:
