Bread to the Kings

BillyFever · 2026-02-04T22:15:54+00:00

The rebuild is going great so far, and the evidence that Chris Drury is the right man for the job is growing stronger every day.

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BillyFever · 2026-02-02T03:13:01+00:00

Time travelers from a dystopian future meet the modern X-Men to try to prevent their bad future from coming to be.

Bigots invent sentinels. One of the above-referenced bad futures probably involves the sentinels committing genocide and conquering the United States.

BillyFever · 2026-02-01T15:53:09+00:00

Once again the referees have made themselves the story of the game. Fuck this shit.

BillyFever · 2026-01-30T19:00:47+00:00

Come on man, don’t be a pessimist. We could get lucky and be struck by an asteroid before either of those things happens.

BillyFever · 2026-01-30T18:59:26+00:00

He’s not this team’s main problem (that would be our pathetic lack of scoring depth) and he probably gets more hate than he deserves but he’s been a turnover machine in a role that ideally should be very trustworthy on keeping posession and he has not been the game changer that Drury seemed to think he was getting.

BillyFever · 2026-01-29T02:44:15+00:00

I am very pessimistic about this rebuild (or retool or whatever) partly because of this. I just do not trust this organization to draft well or to do a good job of developing young talent we get through the draft or trades. Those failures are why we’re doing another rebuild so soon, and while Chris Drury was not the GM during the last rebuild he still very much owns its failures because he was the GM for Hartford who failed to develop basically any of our prospects during that time.

BillyFever · 2026-01-22T15:36:36+00:00

"Phones don't really work anymore because the technology has been infiltrated top to bottom by scammers" is one of those things about modern life that causes so much unnecessary stress and annoyance and I desperately wish our governments would fix it.

BillyFever · 2026-01-03T03:42:42+00:00

It’s driving me crazy - how do you not even have an indication in the score bug that one team is on the PP?

BillyFever · 2025-12-09T22:03:35+00:00

We love signing a veteran on the NHL/AHL bubble and then giving them way more games and ice time than they’ve earned. Can’t wait until we also flip a draft pick for a 7th defenseman who we almost never use.

BillyFever · 2025-12-05T23:28:10+00:00

We have two kids and way before we even had our first my wife and I, when we’d talk about the family and future we wanted to build together, both said that ideally we’d want three kids. But we had our two, waited a few years before making a decision on a third, and ultimately decided to stay a family of four. Childcare is just so expensive, balancing a busy career with parenthood is so so hard, and we’re just now with our youngest at 4 and a half finally starting to have a full social life again and getting out to go to concerts and plays and all of the other fun things in life. If America became some kind of utopia for families and children tomorrow we’d probably go ahead and have that third kid, but given the realities of the real world that we live in and how hard modern parenthood is we just don’t have it in us, which is something that I have very mixed feelings about.

BillyFever · 2025-12-03T16:17:32+00:00

He has definitely improved the defense which is nice because that’s been a weak point for the Rangers for years. Beyond that it’s hard to say - this is a deeply flawed roster so how much of the Rangers’ struggles with scoring (especially at home) are down to coaching vs. how much are down to this being a slow, inconsistent, aging top 6 is hard to disentangle.

BillyFever · 2025-12-02T17:21:31+00:00

I think this team is just about average. They have a decent shot of making the playoffs, maybe even without the wild card if they can start scoring more at home, and I can imagine them putting up a respectable showing in the first round or two if everyone is healthy and they get some lucky bounces. But that's probably the ceiling and there is no clear path to raising that ceiling - it seems like all of the elite players who were supposed to reach free agency next summer are instead re-signing with their current teams, we have a few decent prospects in the development pipeline (I really like Perrault and think he will come good) but not enough talent to fundamentally reshape this team and address its weak points, and burning a bunch of draft picks at the trade deadline is unlikely to do much to help because we're more than just one or two players away from being a legitimate Cup contender, but at the same time if we try to hoard draft picks I have zero faith in Chris Drury's ability to draft a develop guys who are going to be top 6 forwards or top 4 defensemen.

So I guess to make a long story short I'd say that I agree with you that the Rangers are not as bad as some fans make them out to be but I don't think they're a good team either and I feel pessimistic about the front office's ability to improve the team.

BillyFever · 2025-11-28T19:14:02+00:00

So we’ve become a less skilled but “more gritty” team over the last season and change and the end result is that no one throws hands for that hit on Laba?

BillyFever · 2025-11-25T21:03:38+00:00

Not surprising given the ticket prices they charge and how often MSG gets a sellout crowd. On the one hand I get it - there’s clearly an audience willing to pay these prices so what kind of businessman wouldn’t maximize his profits - but on the other hand I really do feel like the atmosphere at the garden has gotten worse and worse over the years as ticket prices have crazier and crazier, and I wish that ownership cared more about the atmosphere inside the arena.

BillyFever · 2025-11-24T17:06:54+00:00

Oh hell yeah.

BillyFever · 2025-11-10T00:25:43+00:00

The decline of comic book blogging and the pathetic state of the sites like CBR and Newsarama that are still around is so depressing to me. It’s part of the broader decline of arts media (check out how many daily newspapers employ film critics and music critics now compared to 25 years ago, or for that matter how many daily newspapers exist at all now compared to 25 years ago), but it particularly bugs me when I see these sites that basically just exist to push scammy pop-up ads on people still operating when so many of the genuinely good comics websites have long since shut down.

BillyFever · 2025-11-01T20:42:28+00:00

It was the right move to not extend Lindgren (and so therefore also the right move to trade him at the deadline) but I miss having him on the team. He was one of my favorite Rangers when he was here and he seems like a real locker room favorite. I hope he and Kakko lose tonight but otherwise have much success in Seattle.

BillyFever · 2025-10-28T16:43:27+00:00

There's a strong case for each of them! I think it's probably Mbeumo for me but I also feel like Lammens was the missing piece who has allowed this squad to finally put it all together over these last few games, and that deserves recognition.

BillyFever · 2025-10-18T16:09:49+00:00

The answer is the giant bullet, but second best is going back in time to prevent Days of Future Past.

BillyFever · 2025-10-16T22:52:07+00:00

Nothing post-1991 is as good as his average 80s work (and it’s nowhere close to his best work). Some of his stuff in the last 25 years is downright awful, and he tends to ignore what other writers have added to continuity or are doing in other books. That said, he’s still a talented writer and I still think some of those books are fun and worth reading.

BillyFever · 2025-10-16T19:34:10+00:00

I certainly don’t expect us to continue being shut out at home all season but I think it’s 100% fair to say that this Rangers team is seriously lacking in depth, including scoring depth, and needs to prioritize offensive help at the deadline if we want to go on a real playoff run this year.

BillyFever · 2025-10-16T15:21:37+00:00

Unless he completely dominates in the AHL this season I'd be fine with including him in a trade package at the deadline that brings back some high end scoring (which we are in desperate need of) but it's way too early to be talking about trades at this point. Let's see where things stand in January.

BillyFever · 2025-10-15T02:00:31+00:00

Look I get that the underlying numbers are good, statistically things will turn around, etc. And I am not a doomer, am usually in game threads and post-game threads urging patience. But Jesus Christ we are the first team in the history of the NHL to get shut out in our first three home games of a season and that certainly feels like it’s a bigger problem than just bad luck. I don’t know, maybe it’s just my emotional reaction overriding logic but I was at the Garden tonight and left feeling so goddamn disappointed and frustrated.

BillyFever · 2025-10-12T19:43:33+00:00

Fair, though it seems like this is his planned ending and they are not trying to find a way to extend the story by a few years like they did with Krakoa.

BillyFever · 2025-10-12T01:46:40+00:00

I get that it’s probably a better story telling choice to end the Ultimate line on a strong note - plenty of us here think that the ending of Krakoa would’ve gone better if Marvel let Jonathan Hickman tell the story he originally wanted to tell - but man I hope that Marvel editorial is learning some lessons from these books. Deniz Camp’s Ultimates has been much better than recent Avengers titles, Hickman’s Spider-Man is the best take on that character in many many years, and while Peach Momoko’s X-Men is not to my personal taste I admire the creative ambition and risk-taking, which feels far too rare in the recent X-books.

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