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Post-Game Talk: Game #25: New York Rangers @ Washington Capitals, 7pm ET, MSG
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PuckLuck3043
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Piles just beat Kings in OT to end their road winning streak. Damn.
LOFIN
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Quite the achievement for a guy who shouldn't have the puck all that much.
DanielBrassard
It's all so tiresome
Rangers are +12 in GD and -2 at 5v5. Kinda lines up, seems like all of their wins have been 1 goal wins and their losses have been them being blown out.
PuckLuck3043
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Honestly Vesey should be on that line right now.
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McRanger92
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Please. This team deserves the benefit of the doubt.
I’d like to see a big hit or fight by Trouba. Time for the captain to spark the team. He should’ve gone after Wilson today imo
Just incase we needed a reminder that 30 year old ahl lifer brodzinki is not an nhler. Stop trying to make it a thing
Shesterkin sucked plugs wiring winter’s glove side from the top of the circles is a joke. This guy ain’t it right now
The team pissed away glorious chance after glorious chance (laf totally snake bit right now)
Just a terrible display. This one surprised me. But you have 4 guys that aren’t really nhlers at this point in your 12 forwards you’ve got a problem. We’re asking a ton out of Bonino right now at his age. It’s all catching up to us.
Shesterkin sucked plugs wiring winter’s glove side from the top of the circles is a joke. This guy ain’t it right now
The team pissed away glorious chance after glorious chance (laf totally snake bit right now)
Just a terrible display. This one surprised me. But you have 4 guys that aren’t really nhlers at this point in your 12 forwards you’ve got a problem. We’re asking a ton out of Bonino right now at his age. It’s all catching up to us.
McRanger92
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Pissed off LA team that’s really good like us. Rangers will get smoked tomorrow if they aren’t ready to go.
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He could pick whatever line he wanted to play on on rw, we got nothing there outside of Laf
PuckLuck3043
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They better be ready to go after the last 2 shitshows.
will1066
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More British Bulldogs. Less Killer Bees.
This team has had the benefit of the doubt for three years or so....
As for the spark, Unfortunately, that's not how this team is built. It's sad when you have to depend on one person to provide it.
Oh sure....a rookie who hasn't even finished a year in the AHL will come up and choose the line he plays on.....Good luck with that one....
A loss is a loss. Some people make a loss more than it is. It’s 2 points squandered.
Over the course of the year we’re going to have
Wins we deserved
Wins that were 50/50
Wins that were ugly
Losses we deserved
Losses that were 50/50
Losses that were ugly
And a whole bunch in between that shit.
This isn’t the NFL which has 17 regular season games. We’re talking about 82 game season. There are going to be multiple highs and lows.
The only people who make a big deal out of short stretches are potatoes.
TopShelfSnipes
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Transition game has been terrible for a couple weeks now. Zone exits/breakouts, neutral zone puck support, inability to attack with speed, defensive formations through the neutral zone, having the right number of people back when in the offensive zone, (lack of) standing up at the red line or blue line to force plays.
That's been the biggest issue with their game of late, and all the injuries sure don't help. It's really caught up with them the last two games.
Relative to his actual level of talent, Mika is the worst player on the team right now by far. He'll shoot all day from 50 feet out, but not from the slot (where he'll try to pass). Doesn't use his wrister. Every time the puck makes it's way to him on PP1, it's a turnover. He needs to be told quite simply to shoot the puck or sit. We're a third of the way into the season, this isn't just a "slow start" - he is playing the game fundamentally differently and worse, and he's a 40 goal scorer walking around with an elite shot afraid to use it from in close and somehow seems to think bombing away from distance compensates for that.
The lines do need some juggling in the wake of injuries.
Leave the Panarin/Trocheck/Laf line alone.
Try Kreider with Cuylle and Brodzinski.
Try Zibanejad with Vesey and Pitlick and call that the third line for now.
Have Wheeler with Bonino and Goodrow/Nash. None of those guys can skate, and just try to keep that line off the ice against speed as much as possible until the team starts getting healthier.
Tell Miller everytime he pinches and gives up an oddman rush against, his next contract offer reduces by $10K. $50K if the puck goes in the net. I don't care how many goals he scores, his job is not to constantly leave his partner on an island because he tries to be fancy at the blueline with a bouncing puck, or he goes deep with no forwards anywhere near him and leaves his partner out to dry when the other team comes away with the puck.
That's been the biggest issue with their game of late, and all the injuries sure don't help. It's really caught up with them the last two games.
Relative to his actual level of talent, Mika is the worst player on the team right now by far. He'll shoot all day from 50 feet out, but not from the slot (where he'll try to pass). Doesn't use his wrister. Every time the puck makes it's way to him on PP1, it's a turnover. He needs to be told quite simply to shoot the puck or sit. We're a third of the way into the season, this isn't just a "slow start" - he is playing the game fundamentally differently and worse, and he's a 40 goal scorer walking around with an elite shot afraid to use it from in close and somehow seems to think bombing away from distance compensates for that.
The lines do need some juggling in the wake of injuries.
Leave the Panarin/Trocheck/Laf line alone.
Try Kreider with Cuylle and Brodzinski.
Try Zibanejad with Vesey and Pitlick and call that the third line for now.
Have Wheeler with Bonino and Goodrow/Nash. None of those guys can skate, and just try to keep that line off the ice against speed as much as possible until the team starts getting healthier.
Tell Miller everytime he pinches and gives up an oddman rush against, his next contract offer reduces by $10K. $50K if the puck goes in the net. I don't care how many goals he scores, his job is not to constantly leave his partner on an island because he tries to be fancy at the blueline with a bouncing puck, or he goes deep with no forwards anywhere near him and leaves his partner out to dry when the other team comes away with the puck.
Must have been Goodrow's fault...oh wait.
Team is soft! Maloney basically called them soft on the radio in the second period.
I don't mean tough guy soft (which they are but who cares about that) but soft on the puck. Losing puck battles. Heck not even engaging in puck battles. Did we have any second chances tonight in the areas where it matters?
Team is soft! Maloney basically called them soft on the radio in the second period.
I don't mean tough guy soft (which they are but who cares about that) but soft on the puck. Losing puck battles. Heck not even engaging in puck battles. Did we have any second chances tonight in the areas where it matters?
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They’ll get smoked, regardless.
Even Lav-O can’t make this line-up work by any stretch. Zero depth biting us in the arse.
LaffyTaffy13
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This. The team is soft in every facet. They have no fight, no tenacity at all. No one fights for pucks, no one crashes the net, theyd rather tap the opponent on the back than dare dig at a puck around a goalie, theyre afraid to even shove guys after the whistle. At this point, its a locker room culture issue.
Mika and kreider are incredibly soft. Drury desperately needs to target the biggest pricks he can find at the tdl and get them into this lineup and provide a spark. This locker room has turned cuylle from “hey maybe this guy can be like tom wilson” to simply just a bigger body who can skate.
egelband
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1st problem. Why ask a team that's not good at going to the inside to go to the inside? Honest question. This coach wants to move the puck North, but to get to the inside you need players adept at moving EW. Now the players are confused when to do what imo (hi Zib).
The 2nd problem is that the D is totally crap at getting pucks to the forwards to work with when they do get inside.
The 3rd issue is that none of the inside plays happen with tempo or are surprising to the opponents. It's standard NHL bullsh*t plays every team faces night in night out and can defend in their sleep.
The alternative of course is to start chopping and trading the forward corps and add some puckmovers to the D corps.
The root problem remains simplistic coaching (lack of imagination). Lavy is good with the defensive structure, but the ES offensive game approach in the o zone is pretty darn stale and standardized with Panarin and Laffy the only guys showing a little different on occasion. I think some people, a while ago, were pointing at this issue as a theme with coach Lavy across teams. It's something the team needs to sort out before the playoffs (not that I think they will).
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