Is Chris Drury nonetheless in an axe-swingin’ temper?
The New York Rangers normal 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 droop, let’s study who Drury may transfer to attempt 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 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 chopping bait earlier than his star falls off a cliff?
NHL Commerce Speak’s Jim Parsons just lately opined on the opportunity of a K’Andre Miller trade. Even 12 months in the past, the considered New York shifting on from Miller appeared unfathomable. Big, highly effective, a swift skater and armed with a cannon, Miller and Adam Fox had been the Rangers’ defensemen of the subsequent decade.
This season, even earlier than the Rangers started to swoon, Miller has regarded fully 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 toes, but he hardly ever, if ever, lays an opponent out. He’s routinely crushed within the corners and the slot in his personal zone. His positioning is commonly woeful, and his lack of urgency is galling.
Watch as Miller mishandles an easy go and compounds his error by turning and watching, relatively than hustling again to stop the two-on-one from which Chicago scores their eventual sport winner:
