Ever since Larry Brooks' article (and subsequent firestorm) in the NY Post last weekend over the Rangers calling up Nashville to kick the wheels on a possible deal regarding acquiring the rights to Alex Radulov, I given it little thought as to whether I really want this guy on my team. First off, it's virtually impossible for the Rangers to truly replace a 40 goal scorer without selling the farm to another team and Sather has made it clear he is under no circumstances about to do that. Radulov in any potential deal to the Rangers won't require Sather to really give up anything valuable in a trade. The Predators have zero leverage in any deal because of their outright willingness to get rid of him, so in that aspect it makes some sense that the Rangers would be interested. However, what does not make sense is exactly how he would fit on this team. If you read in-between the lines of quotes from Nashville brass from this offseason so far they couldn't wait for this season to end so their organization can finally wash their hands clean of Alex Radulov. I think Radulov would be a terrible fit in Torts' system. Forget about blocking shots, if Radulov ever gave effort back-checking it would be a shock. If and a big if, Radulov take a big paycut to play here on a 1 year contract, then by all means, but ultimately unless he's absolutely ready and willing to do what it takes to win the NHL and specifically the Rangers and not KHL Russian brand of hockey...
Pass.
Disagree. This is too much talent at a lowball price. You MUST take a chance on this guy. If it fails, so what. Nothing gained nothing lost. I am realy surprised that a fan base that thought Avery was so frikin awesome would be so quick to judge Radulov.
ReplyDeletei wholly disagree... if you think he's gonna come as cheaply as he did making less than 1 mil playing for nashville, you are sorely mistaken. at the time i wrote this i thought Radulov's contract was for much more money than he made playing for Nashville.
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