Quote: Derek Boogaard Wants To Show That He Can Play
….Boogaard is the punchline of every joke about the Rangers now and his word against others is that he can play while others say he can’t. Truthfully, I haven’t seen enough of him to really know what he can do other than MASH people but he will be certainly a player everyone has their eye on. Can he play well enough to warrant the fourth line getting regular minutes which the end of the season showed that helped the team the most? Hopefully? His salary is really too much to make him situational for when they play the Flyers, Isles and others, but they may need to suck it up and do that if he can’t play.
You would hope, you really would, that after the Donald Brashear fiasco last year, they would do their homework on a guy like this and know that he is more than just a fighter. The way that they talked about him after he was signed made it seem like they had him in their sights ahead of Jody Shelley to a degree. So you would hope that it works out in the best interest of the team
