Rangers Struggle Alters Season Outlook, Blues Excel

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00:00I can't tell you how, like, if I'm a Blue Shirt fan, how disappointed I am.

00:06Like, last year, what were they, 30 and 11 at the Garden?

00:09Something like that.

00:10And then this year, they've sucked.

00:12They're a 500 hockey team at the world's most famous.

00:15And I think eventually, at some level, it would be the reason they don't make it.

00:20Oh, for sure. I mean, they're utter junk.

00:22I think you look at that roster on paper,

00:25there's a big reason why a lot of people were pegging them

00:27to maybe go all the way to the Stanley Cup and win the Cup this year.

00:30Like, they were deemed a Stanley Cup favorite, if you will,

00:33coming into this season.

00:35But it's been negative story after negative story,

00:37dating back to Jacob Trubaugh,

00:39the names filtering in terms of the media,

00:42potentially being on the trade market.

00:43They trade Kakko, Shosterkin,

00:46and sort of the noise around him being in a contract here.

00:49He gets the big fat contract, and he's been really, really good.

00:51But they've lost their identity,

00:53and it's pretty much what's happened to this Rangers team.

00:55But it's so easy to forget.

00:56They were in the Final Four last year,

00:58right there with the Florida Panthers in the Eastern Conference Final.

01:01So they're running out of racetrack here.

01:03I mean, simply put,

01:04and I just don't like the way this team has played down the stretch,

01:07where it leads me to believe that maybe this is not the year for the Rangers,

01:10and they end up missing the playoffs, and jobs are lost here.

01:14So, how about the Blues, the way they're playing?

01:17What if they won, like, six straight games,

01:20and then I watched the Wild.

01:21I bet on the Wild last night.

01:23I went for it in Dallas, and they got shut out.

01:25Those are your top two Wild Cards,

01:27Mini and the Blues,

01:29and the Blues are just killing it right now.

01:32Well, firstly, with Minnesota,

01:35I think they've had a really good year, considering everything.

01:38Kirill Kaprizov was probably the heart favorite,

01:41midway through this season,

01:42and just hasn't been back.

01:44And I really haven't heard much on that front.

01:46I know they've fallen into a Wild Card spot.

01:48If they don't get Kaprizov off, or back, I should say, Brodine, too,

01:52I think it's going to be Curtains and Marc-Andre Fleury's final season.

01:55But I think you look specifically at St. Louis,

01:58and maybe you try to look and target some teams

02:00who could be worthy of a surprise in round one.

02:03I think it would be tough,

02:05but you never know St. Louis and Winnipeg.

02:07They're really dialed in right now,

02:09and it's ultimately so intriguing,

02:11because they were close to maybe trading their captain,

02:13Braden Shen, at the trade deadline,

02:15and they didn't.

02:16They held on to him.

02:17They put some faith in their team,

02:18and Binnington's really carried that momentum from the Four Nations.

02:21He's been excellent,

02:22and I wouldn't want to play any team that's playing playoff hockey.

02:25We just talked about Ottawa, Montreal,

02:27and I would certainly include the St. Louis Blues in that conversation,

02:30heating up at the right time of year.

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