Posts tagged ‘Shane Doan’

So Jaromir Jagr isn’t having the greatest season of his career. Okay, okay, I know! I should really say, Jaromir Jagr is having the worst season of his career and is on pace to score only 18 goals, which is a little more than half the total he scored in 1994-95. For those of you that don’t recall, the ‘94-’95 season was only 48 games long!

So, the question now is what to do? It looks like the Rangers solution may be to trade the captain.

In the past couple of days, rumors have started swirling about the Blueshirts looking to move Jagr. Yesterday, the Ottawa Sun pointed to Detroit as a possible destination and today a rumor on bleacherreport.com has #68 going to Phoenix in a blockbuster of Jagr, Rozsival, and Prucha for Shane Doan and Ed Jovanovski.

Now, I’m not one who buys into rumors all that much, but I’m also a big believer in the theory of “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” and there are at least some definite fumes here.

I, for one, am not in favor of trading the big guy and am certainly against the supposed deal with the Coyotes. Jags went through a similar stretch last year (although not this bad) and eventually pulled out of it, becoming lethal during the stretch run.
Should he be the captain of this team? Well that’s a different story. Should he be back next year? Maybe not. But the fact remains that this team will only go as far as Jagr takes them.