Alain Vigneault will be the first coach fired this season

[FoxyClean]

Rangers starting 1-5 on the year, terrible lines and D-pairings, players look utterly lost and unmotivated, lack of mid-game adjustments, a tired system that is easily countered by opponents and doesn't work anymore.

AV is a goner by the end of the week.

And Rangers fans can only pray the replacement isn't Lindy Ruff.

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[britdevil]

Rangers look really bad. Zero creativity.

Devils have been playing with only 9 forwards for most of the game, totally worn out. Yet the Rangers haven't done anything to capitalise.

 

[Kane One]

We hope

 

[JuniorNelson]

I'd love that. I'd want him in Vancouver for GM.

 

[Machinehead]

I expected it when the Rangers roster was populated by garbage possession players and they couldn't leave their own zone.

Now Gorton is specifically targeting high-end possession players and it's exactly the same. Time to look at the coach.

 

[Machinehead]

The issues always reflected in the defensive zone and now they're creeping into the offensive zone, which is what everyone sees, but the issue is really the neutral zone.

AV thinks it doesn't exist. He doesn't coach it, and there's no system for it whatsoever. No zone entries allowed, no zone denials allowed, no disrupting allowed, no passing allowed. On offense, you skate to the line and dump it in (and our chase is often dead before it starts because teams are expecting this now). On defense, you do nothing and just back up until the other team has already gained the zone.

The neutral zone is not a thing. Don't coach it, don't play it, don't bother with it. AV hockey.

 

[IamNotADancer]

He should be fired just for the way he chews gum.

 

[NewtJorden]

Rangers starting 1-5 on the year, terrible lines and D-pairings, players look utterly lost and unmotivated, lack of mid-game adjustments, a tired system that is easily countered by opponents and doesn't work anymore.

AV is a goner by the end of the week.

And Rangers fans can only pray the replacement isn't Lindy Ruff.

Ruff is clearly there to replace Vigneault at some point.

 

[Machinehead]

Ruff is clearly there to replace Vigneault at some point.

I would take it.

Ruff isn't a great coach but AV has lost it. He's really not all there. The dude is fried and needs to take some time off from the game.

There's plenty of coaches that have a philosophy that I don't agree with, but they stick to it and enact it. The thing with AV is that he constantly contradicts himself and his supposed philosophy. AV himself doesn't even know what he's going for anymore.

 

[Master P]

Maybe Dan Girardi was the key all along.

 

[LeafFever]

Not his fault. The team got worse.

 

[Jonas1235]

missing someone to score 40 goals. Lots of 20 goal guys.

 

[Tasteless Beaver]

Has the Rangers' goaltending been bad this year? I know Pavelec is the smelliest dumpster fire in the league, but Lundqvist can't get it done?

 

[Machinehead]

missing someone to score 40 goals. Lots of 20 goal guys.

Our defense sucks.

Our defense sucks.

Our defense sucks.

Our defense sucks.

I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.

 

[hockeygoon15]

Has the Rangers' goaltending been bad this year? I know Pavelec is the smelliest dumpster fire in the league, but Lundqvist can't get it done?

He's usually a slow starter. I wouldn't put too much weight on his early season performance.

 

[Machinehead]

He's usually a slow starter. I wouldn't put too much weight on his early season performance.

And besides, our defense sucks.

 

[Emperoreddy]

And besides, our defense sucks.

Would you take Giradi back?

 

[Brownbeard]

Maybe Todd McLellan will soon find himself on a similar hotseat.

 

[Evocable Manager]

And besides, our defense sucks.

You must be speaking systematically, because personnel wise it's unquestionably better. Right?

It would probably help if Marc Staal and Nick Holden weren't playing and instead Tony Deangelo and Bereglazov were regulars. Upfront, Deharnais and Carey are regulars. Cracknell was a decent pickup and Fast is still on IR. I'd recommend looking at adding some better players for that line.

I don't watch them enough to really know though. But with a bad start and considering the competition in that division, it's critical they don't sit and wait and figure it all out.

 

[Machinehead]

Would you take Giradi back?

Don't be ridiculous.

You must be speaking systematically, because personnel wise it's unquestionably better. Right?

It would probably help if Marc Staal and Nick Holden weren't playing and instead Tony Deangelo and Bereglazov were regulars. Upfront, Deharnais and Carey are regulars. Cracknell was a decent pickup and Fast is still on IR. I'd recommend looking at adding some better players for that line.

I don't watch them enough to really know though. But with a bad start and considering the competition in that division, it's critical they don't sit and wait and figure it all out.

Unquestionably, the personnel is vastly improved. That's why we're mad at AV.

Yes, we have a few holes here and there but nothing that every team doesn't put up with and nothing compared to the black holes we had last year.

 

[Irishguy42]

Lundqvist has been good so far, aside from the Leafs game. Pavelec has been serviceable.

It hasn't been a goaltending problem.

 

[Irishguy42]

Maybe if AV stopped changing the D pairs for more than a single game, we'd get somewhere.

McDonagh has had 4 different partners. It has been 6 games.

 

[Machinehead]

Maybe if AV stopped changing the D pairs for more than a single game, we'd get somewhere.

McDonagh has had 4 different partners. It has been 6 games.

And McDonagh has still be good, because none of those partners have been Girardi.

 

[Mikeshane]

I hope so, I'd like to see him get a chance with a better team. AV to the Oilers.

 

[PlamsUnlimited]

I said this in the other thread.

He is not adapting or trying. I mean outside of mashing lines. We have observed a failing system with no will to change.