Usually when you call a player the anchor of a team, it is taken to be a good thing, as if, he is the steadying player on the ice, the one who holds the team together, then one you can always depend on.
Right now, when I call Jaromir Jagr the anchor of this team, I mean it in a more literal sense. Right now Jaromir Jagrs lackadaisical effort level and inability to do ANYTHING with, or without the puck, is literally stagnating the entire offensive attack. Everytime his line is on the ice, he either is turning the puck over, or their line is trapped deep for their entire shift, leading the other players on the ice to have to dig them out.
At this moment I think the 5 best players on the ice are:
The king is showing why he should be the runaway choice for Vezina and Hart trophy winners, at least for any voter with common sense. He’s standing on his head out there, and his D and Offense is giving him just about nothing to work with.
The Rangers are looking very much like a team playing without their opening night top defensive pair, without their top line left winger, and without their sparkplug 3rd line winger. I praised the Rangers for their depth, but the injuries that they have sustained have been tough to combat, especially when the players you want to be your anchors, are actually playing like literal anchors instead of figurative anchors.
