Where do we go from here?

After the never ending articles and blogs about what the Rangers need to do with free agents and player moves, there's one thing that needs to be considered, how bad were the rangers? If you believe that they were just awful then yes, let's overhaul everything and toss Drury and Gomez and leave just the youngsters and pray that players we bring up from Hartford are good enough. We don't have the money to make big free agent signings although Naslund's absense helps. My thought is, and maybe I just want this to be real, that the Rangers weren't all that bad, all the time. With Tort's now holding the reigns of this team and hopefully shuffling off some of the terrible players, I think the rest of the team can strive. If Tort's can put together the off season conditioning program that will make this team a 60 minute team, and change Drury and Gomez from sluggish 50-pointers to a pair of 75 pointers (which may need more than strength and conditioning), this team could take off. Dubinsky and Callahan will be good, count on it. Staal and Girardi will good, no doubt. If those guys aren't, we have a whole new problem, like, who the hell is the future of this team? But I think giving guys like Morrison and Antrapov more games and some time with the team could yield serious results. Wade Redden. What can you say? Please retire, please agree to a trade, please leave and take every goal you gave away with you. If he moves faster off the roster than he ever did on the ice, we'll be a better team. I guess the idea is this, get rid of what has to go, keep what was okay and showed sparks of quality and let Tort's get one good shot at it from the get go. Bring up some young talent so that we may be able to keep up with the Caps and Pens youth and rely on the experience that the team has already to help mold them into greats. Don't change everything. We can either be a team that makes a few changes and lets time, consistency of coach, and system take us to the next level or we can be every team that hits the panic button, throws it all out and trys to start over with little success. When we played the Tort's system and had the energy to sustain it, we won. The only problem during the season and what ultimately ended our year is that it was 20 minutes at a time, not 60.