Post-Game Talk: Cane

[Machinehead]

I was hoping we'd split the games in Carolina and we have. I can't be too mad.

Still, that's a frustrating way to end it. The Refs actually held their whistles the entire game until Lindgren gave them no choice lol.

That's my problem with the whole "let them play" approach.

Why is that a penalty but everything they let go isn't?

Because it "looked" like a penalty? There's a rulebook. It's not an aesthetic.

The Hurricanes were literally crosschecking on every play by the third period. If you let that team play, it gets worse and worse.

 

[mike14]

This isbwhat happens when I can't watch the game.

I can only assume Dolan wants that sweet playoff revenue and Bettman needs more HRR so this losebwas basically preordained

Good to see Laf score again, and Cuylle was due.
On to the next one!

 

[JRinNYC]

Clean up play. Come out hard and play a strong 60 minutes and we got this! LFGR!!

 

[Atax]

They gave it their all and we still almost swept them. I'm proud of this team. They arent the type of team to let losses snowball. Have some faith in this team. They have something special going on. As long as we ignore Trouba and Lingren, anyways.

 

[gump116]

Thought we played well overall. Laf and Kakko were both great, which was awesome to see. Trouba was awful, on the ice for all 4 goals against and partially responsible for first 3. We still could’ve won. Difference was Igor was mortal in this game, unlike the first 7 games of the playoffs. Bound to happen at some point.

 

[RempireStateBuilding]

Another gutsy game, you can never count this team out. This is the "safest" scenario for them to go through some playoff adversity. I'll worry a little bit if they lose the next one.

 

[will1066]

Not saying he was a problem per se. Just saying that there were better options. For me, invisible bread, dumb Tuba and lost Lindgren were our Achilles heels.

All of which have nothing to do with Brodz. Without him getting to the puck first and centering it to Vesey, the Schneider shot and Goodrow deflection do not happen.

 

[MrAlmost]

Not good.

 

[Ail]

f*** Trouba and Lindgren, idiots. Just win at home.

 

[Jack Hanson]

This game could have gone either way. The hockey gods smiled on the Canes tonight. We're by far the better team. We'll win this series. 7 and 1 in the post season aint bad.

 

[SML2]

Can someone tell me how Paul Bisonette, a player who barely broke 200 NHL games, and was the worst player on the worst team for almost all of them, gets to have a national platform as a f***ing hockey analyst? Get Nostradumbass out of here because he's a f***ing moron.

 

[turcotte8]

Any rational person would be thrilled to be 7-1, in 8 games played in the postseason... see ya next game. LGR

"Rational"? Have you spent much time here?

 

[CLW]

That was a good loss. After an awful start they really picked it up. Could have had a few more too - bad puck luck.

They got this.

Yeah we lost the mental game in this one. Way too passive in the first period, too many mistakes from the usual suspects at the back, and some of our big guns never really showed up like they need to (looking at you crumbs).

 

[duhmetreE]

f*** Trouba and Lindgren, idiots. Just win at home.

Lindgren makes me nervous everytime he has the puck in the D-Zone.

 

[Hire Sather]

A problem with a 3-0 lead is you really only have to lose one to get the scenarios to roll.

I think I prefer the seven-game marathons to be honest

 

[LeetchisGod]

One positive from this game is that Fox looked noticeably better. Finish this Monday and get him some more rest.

 

[Sayba]

This is the "safest" scenario for the team to go through some playoff adversity. I'll worry a little bit if they lose the next one.

I hope that is true, this is just a team I didn’t want to let off the mat.

 

[KennyWu]

Is it too late to tank?


Some of these takes..

 

[Machinehead]

No he was beat clean twice (I won’t count the aho bang bang goal) but the game winner especially is terrible. I mean really terrible.

he needs to reset and be at his best Monday.

All series long, the difference is that the Canes haven't been scoring on anything that's not a can't-miss chance, and they're bad at creating those.

Tonight they scored the 1st goal on a good chance and the 4th goal and medium-danger chance at best.

 

[Brutananadilewski]

That's my problem with the whole "let them play" approach.

Why is that a penalty but everything they let go isn't?

Because it "looked" like a penalty? There's a rulebook. It's not an aesthetic.

The Hurricanes were literally crosschecking on every play by the third period. If you let that team play, it gets worse and worse.

I think because there were only 4 players in the Rangers' defensive zone, and it was "obvious."

Not disagreeing with you about the whistles being put away.

 

[hardnosed]

That loss hurts because not only coming back but after we tied it Carolina looked dead in the water and scared. They were doing NOTHING.

Then Lindgren decides to swat a puck down for some reason, poorly, and then takes a penalty that loses the game for us. Carolina was dead on the mat, there to lose the game and we let them off the hook.

Batting the puck was the right play. Flubbing the bat was the issue.

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

Lindgren can kiss my ass. Get ready to be a Mormon buddy cause that’s where you’re gonna be traded this summer

 

[NYR Viper]

They had about 3-4 opportunities where they should have buried another goal. The team wasn’t tight defensively at all. Lesson learned. Mentally they need to be ready at the start of the next one

 

[3rd Guy High]

All season was saying Lindgren was going to cost them a game/series. Tonight was that night. Defense was really bad as a whole, but that penalty at the end was egregious

Somehow you watched Trouba be directly responsible for 2 goals, on ice for all 4, and your take away is that Lindgren’s one penalty was the problem?

 

[Savant]

Rangers win that game if Lindgren doesn’t go full….moron…..Trouba was terrible too. Fox does not look right either.

We knew 8 and 55 would cost them in the postseason. Here we are.

Who is going to game 6