Drury absent from power play
Posted by TheHockeyGuy on October 5th, 2009
The time has passed in New York where players are assigned roles on credit or because of their names or payroll stubs. And that’s how it must be if the Rangers are going to evolve into a team that’s taken seriously.
Still, as the Blueshirts cross the Hudson for tonight’s match in Newark against the Devils, it’s impossible to understand why Chris Drury has been dismissed from the club’s power play unit without so much as a sniff . . . and at the particular moment his skill at sniffing for loose change around the net would be most welcome.
John Tortorella tried to explain his reasoning yesterday while a handful of Rangers participated in an optional skate, but the coach’s account clarified little following a pair of games in which both power play units moved the puck well and got shots through to the net but could not cash in on any of the club’s nine manpower advantages.
“The team has changed a bit as far as personnel, and I think the six forwards who are playing now deserve time on [the power play],” Tortorella said. “Chris has been bumped from that spot, but forever? I doubt that.”
Click here to read the full article – By Larry Brooks of New York Post
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