Gabe Perrault

And even when they get good looks, nothing's giving right now.

Last night, the new look third line of Cooley, Labra, and Perrault.

I mean, Perrault had three really good looks himself and nothing is going in right now.

And when a team can't score, you can't give anything away for free.

And the Rangers, they have been giving away a lot recently.

Sean Dursey wasn't on the ice again, and the defense pairing started out the same as last night.

You had Gavrikov with Fox, Pedersen with Schneider, and Schmitz with Morrow.

up front there is a couple big changes the big one will Cooley is moving to Center a position he's never played before between tolvanen and bjorkstrand on the third line and according to Molly Walker the 24 year old again has never ever played Center Mike Sullivan spoke out as to why he made this change and he said I just feel like where we're at we need to affect a little bit of change he can skate he has good size he can lean on people down low he's good in the face off circle So that has Gabe Perrault now moving up to the second line with Cartier and Miller.

And so that was something they hoped could turn fortunes in a hurry.

When you're waiting for young guys like Gabe Perrault to establish themselves, there's going to be great times, and then there's going to be times where he looks like he's 21 years old.

And there's really very few players that don't go through that.

I do get amused when people pick out the very best players and then compare them to someone else and you're like, well, so-and-so didn't go into a slump.

Yeah, and obviously they ended up switching kind of the lines back around, but dropping Perrault out of the top line and putting Dorothea there, I get it.

You've got to get Dorothea going.

But when you start to do things, kind of cannibalizing some of the other things that have been going right, and Gabe Perrault I think is on one point in the last eight games, so it's certainly not like he's been humming along either.

But it just feels like when they start to sort of tinker a little bit to get – someone like Dorofeev going, you know, you sort of lessen the impact of some of the other lines.

So you've got that stuff, which is the overarching thing.

The other thing, quite frankly, is, and I think this is more... defendable and and and i think is a real reason to to continue to compete you know what is the message you're sending not just to your veteran guys right fox zabana jad who who by the way those guys could have pulled the dylan larkin and whined until they were sent out of town right they didn't do that they've been professionals and they've been awesome this year both of them in their own way um What message does it send to Alexi Lafreniere and Gabe Perrault? If you just basically say, well, we're punting this season, you know, the next 80 games do not matter.

You guys trained all summer and came into camp and had that great start.

And it's all for naught because of one injury.

They traded everybody else.

But he found something playing with Mika Zibanejad and Gabe Perrault.

They're switching that up a little bit because that line went a little bit stale.

But Alexi Lafreniere has played much better hockey.

At practice today, head coach Mike Sullivan moved Pavel Dorofeev, the $11 million man, onto the top line with Mika Zabanijad and Alexei Lafreniere.

And Gabe Perrault, where does that leave him? The man with four goals so far this season has been demoted.

Now, I don't love this move, but there is a part of it that does actually make some sense heading into a big game on Sunday.

And part of that is because Dorofeev's current numbers are hiding something that nobody is really talking about.

So fans are a little shaken by some of the moves that have been made today.

And I kind of agree here with Johnny Lazarus and what he said.

Shouldn't have to demote Gabe Perrault and what he's been able to do so far this year to get an $11 million player going.

Now, I can see both sides here, that is for sure.

yeah no i agree that's a good call and before we go into the first time scores i just think Another thing that's hurting the offense, because we mostly talk defense, which is a big part of it, is if you had told me 14 games into the season that Oliver Bjorkstan, I just had a stroke saying his name, would have more goals than Will Cooley, Dorfiev, JT Miller, Mika Zibanejad, Hold on, I'm still making my point.

Gabe Perrault.

Ty Cartier is on there.

Ty Cartier as well.