In 2008-9, Marian Gaborik had his second injury-ravaged season out of the last three. Therefore, take his Even Strength Total Rating with a grain of salt, given the small sample size. We do know that (given good health, of course) he will have a significantly positive ESTR (but we can expect his ESOR to be less positive and his ESDR to be less negative – see below).
What we can see by looking at some of the forwards in and forwards out of the Rangers’ roster is that there are a lot of eggs in the Gaborik basket. Lose the superstar Slovak, and there’s a whole lot of below average there:
| Even Strength Total Rating, Reg. season 2008-9 | ||||||
| New York Rangers – Outgoing | ||||||
| Name | Team | Pos | ESOR | ESDR | ESTR | ESTOI |
| Nikolai Zherdev | NYR | RW | +0.84 | -0.01 | +0.83 | 1129 |
| Scott Gomez | NYR | C | +0.17 | +0.09 | +0.27 | 1225 |
| Markus Naslund | NYR | LW | -0.05 | +0.01 | -0.04 | 1134 |
| Nik Antropov | NYR | C | +0.58 | -0.94 | -0.36 | 1065 |
| Lauri Korpikoski | NYR | LW | -0.38 | -0.31 | -0.69 | 671 |
| Blair Betts | NYR | C | -0.96 | +0.11 | -0.85 | 613 |
| Fredrik Sjostrom | NYR | RW | -0.96 | -0.29 | -1.25 | 740 |
| Colton Orr | NYR | RW | -1.49 | -0.11 | -1.60 | 527 |
| New York Rangers – Incoming | ||||||
| Name | Team | Pos | ESOR | ESDR | ESTR | ESTOI |
| Marian Gaborik | MIN | RW | +1.63 | -0.74 | +0.89 | 271 |
| Christopher Higgins | MTL | LW | -0.08 | +0.15 | +0.07 | 725 |
| Vaclav Prospal | TBL | C | -0.07 | -0.18 | -0.25 | 1156 |
| Ales Kotalik | EDM | RW | +0.02 | -0.30 | -0.28 | 944 |
| Tyler Arnason | COL | C | -0.25 | -0.36 | -0.62 | 882 |
| Donald Brashear | WSH | LW | -1.44 | +0.62 | -0.81 | 516 |
| Enver Lisin | PHX | RW | +0.13 | -1.10 | -0.97 | 579 |
| Brian Boyle | LAK | C | -1.04 | -0.83 | -1.88 | 269 |
**Check out my comprehensive preview of the 2009-10 New York Rangers at Puck Prospectus today!**
nice article on the Rangers, and that goes doubly for the one at puck prospectus, but you skipped #25 on the countdown!
who is it? please tell me it’s not Dallas haha
It’s known and it will be inserted shortly.
It isn’t Dallas…..