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Originally Posted by Itse
I just talked about this with a Rangers fan, and apparently kind of everything.
What they said was that the team and the organization/GM have basically been at war for a couple of years now, and it's at the point where the players are either tuned out or wanting out. That's seen as the main reason why the team has gone from a conference finalist that was supposed to be on the upswing to bottom of the league.
No one wants to be there, but also no one wants to be traded there because these issues are supposedly well known all around the league, while the Rangers are primarily focused on trying to keep a lid on the story instead of fixing thing.
From that I assume banning Greentree from talking to media about the trade happened because the management was worried Greentree would say something bad about being traded there.
Which does sound like an incredibly dysfunctional situation, and I'm sure makes Greentree feel welcomed in "North Korea Rangers", as I recently heard it described.
Rebuilding through draft is the only option Rangers currently have, because most UFA's want to keep their distance, and top players with NTC:s won't waive for them.
...of course the sane move would have been to clean house at the management side, but I guess that's not an option.
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I don’t question that NYR isn’t run well. But I doubt Greentree has any real insight into any of that. He is a junior player. Outside of Kings rookie camps, what NHLers has he even met and why would they be talking about NYR.
It is a “control the message” move for sure, but I still don’t think telling a junior player not to comment on a trade means much as far as why the NYR are a bad team this year.