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 correct supply. With the Rangers nonetheless mired in a horrid stoop, let’s look at 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 monitor 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 finest 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 transferring 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 seemed totally disengaged. He’s on monitor 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 an enormous unit with wings for toes, but he not often, if ever, lays an opponent out. He’s routinely overwhelmed 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 cross and compounds his error by turning and watching, somewhat than hustling again to forestall the two-on-one from which Chicago scores their eventual sport winner:
