He played hard. Yeah well playing hard has accomplished nothing for this team and either did Betts. This is the problem with this team and the Ranger fans now The Betts effect. Stop think with your heart. You know , I’ll bet on the Rangers to win the game because I love them , but I know they stink That is betting with your heart Think hockey and think of your team What is best and what will win the game for them. That is not Betts.This is why I have always said that Ranger fans settle for the crap on the bottom of the litter box We Rather have Betts then Boyle and so forth. At least Boyle will score some goals for you and he is faster then Betts and he does the same thing as Betts did. Neither one of them checks or play physical. As far as I am concerned Boyle can go to Philly too they can Keep them both.Stop settling for just hard workers. The is the dam NHL, the Pros! They make millions , We should not have to ask any player to play hard. That should all ready be given every game. Everyone says well Betts was a great penalty killer. Well shit , I guess Betts was a one man show. 
He did it all alone. He didn’t have 4 other players on the ice with him. It wasn’t the Betts show. It was the Henrik Lundqvist show last year. The Betts effect is why we have fans saying well the Rangers are playing hard, they look good , what more can we ask for. Confusing hard work with having talent. Confusing a hard working team with a very good talented team. Its an illusion that hard work means they have talent or that they are better then what they are playing as. All the Betts effect That is what he did to this Rangers team Turned them all into hard workers with no talent. The only person winning the game for the Rangers is not in the Betts effect category and he is leading the league in goals. He has talent and works hard, and Marion Gaborik will never fall into that category. STOP SETTLING FOR CRAP!In fact we need to throw that hard working theory out the window. Every time Tort says he works hard we might as well throw our hands in the air because we know he is talking about a bum. Giving us the false appearance of a player, making us believe that hard working mean talented player. Not giving us players stats to win us over, or what the player has accomplished in his time Just he’s a hard worker and should help this team.

Mean while there is 1000 other hard working players in the NHL After all, that is why they are playing in the NHL RIGHTI am sure non of this will make sense to some of you Specially the Betts effect part But it is what it is The truth hurts because we liked Betts, he was a good guy. Hard worker. I have 6 guys at the end of my block that work hard too, ripping up the road for the last past week and they do it 8 hrs a day not 60 minutes. Maybe we can throw them in they work hard. Isn’t that enoughThe Betts effect is why players like Redden and Rozsival are still on this team Again, effort equals talent. Out with the underachievers and bring in guys that can really score. Or bring in the rookies to help build up for tomorrows future. Go back to basics and go old school! That is what we need! At least if they bring up the rookies then there is an excuse on why they lose. At the same time they will lose but they will kicking the other teams butt and they will remeber playing them, do to physical play! The process of elimination ALSO begins.
All these guys we have now we should trade off for draft picks and nothing else. Either way we need to go old school on everyone!This is the Orr effect http:// old school http:// old school http:// school brawling http:// tell me who won this fight http:// . Matt Holliday and Jason Bay might be the two best players in the 2009 free agent class, but their high price tags and agents may deter their value.Both Holliday and Bay have had great careers, but with a recession upon the United States and owners shrinking budgets both may rely on their agents for higher salaries and longer contracts.Holliday is represented by super-agent Scott Boras, who squeezes every last dime out of owners. Look at Alex Rodriguez, MarkTeixeira and Carlos Beltran, all have asked for top pay checks and gotten them. Now Holliday is faced with a decision; wait for big money that might not come or return to the Cardinals for a little less money and play behind Albert Pujols.The decision may seem easy for many, but not with Boras calling the shots.