NHL Insider confirms Peter Laviolette's future with the Rangers organization: Fans getting what they want
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NHL Insider Pierre LeBrun has reported some troubling news for the New York Rangers fans. The report is that the team could be looking to move on from Peter Laviolette at the end of the season, like Gerard Gallant before him.
The New York Rangers have failed to secure a playoff spot late in the regular season. This comes after GM Chris Drury has messed with the chemistry and structure of the team, beginning with moving Jacob Trouba at the beginning of the year.
Now, the team is 36-35-7, 6th in the Metropolitan Division, and looking at the playoffs from the outside.
With his recent comments about a brutal loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning, it appears his tenure with the team could be in jeopardy.
"I don't have a message right now," Laviolette told reporters after Monday's loss. "I don't go into the locker room after the game."
A lack of insight or meaningful comments from someone who is supposed to guide the team is an organizational failure by any means. Did he lose the room for good?
Also, his comments after losing 4-0 to the New Jersey Devils are just mind-boggling as he seems as perplexed as we are by the significant losses, which continue to bear rotten fruit.
"If you would've asked me this summer, I'd say 'yes,' " Laviolette told the New York Post. "If you're asking me on the daily, if you're asking me from yesterday to today, the answer is 'no. ' We need to win more hockey games. It's not something that I woke up this morning and was surprised by. We've been in this position all year. We've been outside the line, we've been just inside the line, and it doesn't surprise me at this point."
This could turn out to be another bloodbath like we saw in Boston early in the year, where Don Sweeney hurriedly fired Jim Montgomery, and then moved the core of the old roster in March.
Only now are some veterans in the lineup rebounding. Unlike in New York, where a resurgent Rangers team has once again stagnated after another false start.
GM Chris Drury could use Laviolette as a scapegoat, instead of sharing the blame himself for creating the roster that has performed poorly this year.
According to Pierre LeBrun, Peter Laviolette's time in New York may be over.
"In talking to other people around the league, the low hanging fruit, the expectation from a lot of people that I have talked to is that Peter Laviolette could get fired"
- Pierre LeBrun
- Pierre LeBrun
What dramatic irony for Laviolette, to reach the heavens in one season, and fall from grace the next.
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