Friday night was to supposed be the uhm, triumphant [?], return to Madison Square Garden for Ryan Hollweg. Surprising as it may be, however, he's currently serving his second suspension of the year for, you guessed it, boarding.
Smashie, smashie!
[Via NewYorkRangers.cz]
It's obvious that everything he does--including all the braindead hitting from behind and dropping the gloves six times this preseason--are to make himself indispensable to a hockey team.
Well, that's all well and good, but not when you're constantly in the box or, worse yet, suspended twice before the season is five games old. It certainly isn't looking too rosy when your coach has ugly things like this to say about you either:
"If you've just got a guy who plays two or three minutes and can't skate or do anything, I don't know if that serves a purpose. We'll see how our team is this year and if we have to address that we will."
Well, Holly's Garden return will have to wait. We still get Dominic Moore, though, so that's pretty sweet. What a player. [I'm not even sure if I'm being sarcastic or not]
The other bit of news about former Rangers pertains to fan-favorite, Marek Malik. As earlier reported by Lightning Strikes, the lumbering Czech rearguard has signed with Tampa. Somehow I feel--hope--that Bolts fans will be a little easier on the guy than the raucous bunch in New York. With a blueline like the one they have in Tampa Bay, beggars can't be choosers. Malik should be a steady, slow, shot-blocking, pilon-like force on defense for the Lightning.
[Via Daylife.com]
Eh, I'm being a jerk. Marek made one night in November of 2005 unforgettable for all of us Rangers fans. There are few moments indelible as that one for Blueshirts followers:
Good luck, Marek.
Actual news, from Sam Weinman over at the Journal News, Petr Prucha is in tonight against Buffalo. He finally gets the shot to prove he's the solution for what ails the third line. I think you'll see a very different --read that as better--look than what you got with Fritsche and Rissmiller taking turns in that slot.
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Have to say that the HMO line with Hollweg, Moore and Ortmeyer was good fun ...they brought so much energy to our team. Alas, Hollweg has not learned from his dumb mistakes. Moore, on the other hand seems to have found his niche with the albeit lowly Leafs, but he sure is exciting to watch these days.
That line was certainly a bright part of the team coming out of the lockout.
It's so easy to get behind guys who work their asses off for the good of the team.
But that line at least had the ability to create offense--in relative terms, of course. The last few incarnations of the fourth line, not so much.
Obviously I wholeheartedly agree on Dom. He would be welcome back by me in a heartbeat. He'll be one of the brighter spots in an otherwise dark year in T.O.
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