Don't Mess With The Metro

When you're chasing the New Jersey Devils, your season can’t have started all that well. I’ll be straight up here, watching my Florida Panthers and the Pittsburgh Penguins was a weird experience, knowing exactly what players are doing what well, what poorly, and what had to be improved with. It good game, back and forth both ways, both goalies making great saves and ultimately a Pens 4-3 win at home thanks to a dominant performance by Sidney Crosby. If somebody told me before the ...

What in the wide world of sports is Doug Weight doing...we have TALENT and we are sitting it for Jason Chimera. This is not a knock on Jason Chimera he just isn't as good as Josh Ho-Sang. This better not be a reoccurring thing like it was with Capuano and Strome. There's no reason to play Chimera over Ho-Sang for what? An extra PK guy okay like Cizikas, Clutterbuck, Tavares and Kulemin isn't enough...? Th...

Hello hockey fans, hot take specialist Andy here. While readers are familiar with the rest of this site dedicated to discussing the various strengths of each Metropolitan division team, it’s time to knock them all down a peg. This is all for jokes, so put the pitchforks away as I present to you: The Mess that is the Metro

New York Rangers

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Hello hockey fans, hot take specialist Andy here. While readers are familiar with the rest of this site dedicated to discussing the various strengths of each Metropolitan division team, it’s time to knock them all down a peg. This is all for jokes, so put the pitchforks away as I present to you: The Mess that is the Metro

New York Islanders

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Hello hockey fans, hot take specialist Andy here. While readers are familiar with the rest of this site dedicated to discussing the various strengths of each Metropolitan division team, it’s time to knock them all down a peg. This is all for jokes, so put the pitchforks away as I present to you: The Mess that is the Metro

Philadelphia Flyers

With so much talent, expectations build. Interestingly enough, there doesn’t seem to be much consensus on a preseason favorite for the Stanley Cup but rather the general belief is that a Stanley Cup Favorite will emerge from the Metro. A Penguin 3peat, a King’s first crown, or the breaking of the Capital Curse seem most likely; however, I wouldn’t...

Hello hockey fans, hot take specialist Andy here. While readers are familiar with the rest of this site dedicated to discussing the various strengths of each Metropolitan division team, it’s time to knock them all down a peg. This is all for jokes, so put the pitchforks away as I present to you: The Mess that is the Metro

Carolina Hurr...

Hello hockey fans, hot take specialist Andy here. While readers are familiar with the rest of this site dedicated to discussing the various strengths of each Metropolitan division team, it’s time to knock them all down a peg. This is all for jokes, so put the pitchforks away as I present to you: The Mess that is the ...

Love him or hate him, Chris Kreider has quietly become the most important player on the Rangers roster, and yes that is a scorching hot take. Here we go again, yes I do think the Rangers 26 year old Power Forward is more important than Ryan Mcdonagh, Kevin Shattenkirk or dare I say it Henrik Lundqvist. Kreider’s natural ability paired...

After a disappointing season, which can be attributed to the stars underperforming, whether that be to injury or to decline, the Flyers struck gold. Preparing to pick at pick number 13, the definition of mediocrity in a weak draft, the outlook still looked bright for the Flyers, with their farm system that general manager Ron Hextall transformed from a laughing stock, to a force that he env...

Last summer, the former Hobey Baker winner from Harvard, Jimmy Vesey, opted to not sign with the team that drafted him, the Nashville Predators. The talk of the entire 2016 offseason was, “Where will Jimmy Vesey Land?” On August 15, a month and a half after his rights were traded to the Buffalo Sabres for a 3rd Round Pick just before the NHL Draft, Vesey stuck to his word and ...

The characteristics of a good defenseman in the modern-day NHL; physical, nimble, good with the puck, and a hell of a slapshot. Yes, today’s top defensemen are more valued on their ability to score, like other Metro division players Kevin Shattenkirk of the New York Rangers or Nick Leddy of the New York Islanders, and outside of the Metro, Brent Burns, Victor Hedman, Erik Karl...

I’m here for two things: drop hot takes and chew bubble gum.

And I am all out of bubble gum.

You see, trying to argue a point is no fun without an “outrageous” statement sometimes, and that’s why I am here to state and defend why the Carolina Hurricanes make a legitimate case for having a better top 4 than the New York Rangers.

I know ...

When writing about the Penguins it’s hard to forget about Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, the two superstar centers of the Pittsburgh Penguins, but after those two, their depth at center drops harder than the Detroit Red Wings in the past three seasons. You can break it down 30 different ways, but Carter Rowney and Greg McKegg, who had a combined fourteen points in seventy-three games isn’t Cup Champion calibe...

Let me spoil 2 things for you right off the bat. Mika Zibanejad will resign with the New York Rangers this summer and Mika Zibanejad will play 1C minutes for the Rangers this season. After being acquired from Ottawa in a swap for Derick Brassard with picks going both ways, Zibanejad had gotten off to a great start scoring 15 points in the first 19 games. However unfortunately on November 20th in overtime vs Florida, Mika broke his fibula a...

We’ve seen the interviews, we’ve read the articles, we are watching it unfold. The New York Rangers are “Rebuilding on the Fly”. In the past 10 days the Rangers have bought out Dan Girardi, Traded Derek Stepan and Antti Raanta for Anthony Deangelo-a 21 year old RHD with Offensive upside- and the 7th Pick-Which the Rangers drafted center Lias Andersson-, Re-signed Defenseman Brendan Smith a...

It is obvious that the New York Rangers currently have holes in their lineup and it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the trade with Arizona helped attribute to that. But, the trade sending center Derek Stepan and backup goaltender Antti Raanta to the desert helped to clear up just about $20 million in total for the blueshirts, but what could the now-free cap space entail?

Well first, let&...