Post-Game Talk: New York Rangers at Nashville Predators - February 3

[haohmaru]

Maloney needs to be on the TV side of things. I'm sick of Sam and Joe's vanilla broadcasts.

 

[romba]

Keep AV for the year. Embrace the tank. Almost everyone is available for the right price.

 

[Inferno]

Av is only good for one thing...and that's losing us games...so for a tanking team..keep him.

 

[ponytrekker]

Keep AV for the year. Embrace the tank. Almost everyone is available for the right price.

He’s such a p***y I’m worried about everyone getting hurt. Like last two games.

Put in Ruff. Team will embrace the tank but players will protect each other.

 

[ponytrekker]

Av is only good for one thing...and that's losing us games...so for a tanking team..keep him.

And players getting hurt cause team is soft. 3 concussion in 2 games. Has to be a record.

 

[Inferno]

Look on the bright side...the more guys are out the better our chances are for dahlin.

 

[Graves94]

With all the crap that was pulled by Nasheville, why didn’t McLeod do the one thing he was brought up to do?

If you’re going to play a plug who is supposed to protect his teammates, then he better damn well answer the Bell when its time.

Bring up the AHL kids and let them get experience if McLeod refuses to do the one thing he was signed to do. I’d rather see youth and skill struggle on the ice than a bunch of plugs that decide not to bring the one thing they excel at.

Good point about McLeod!
When he was dealt from Colorado to the Preds, he fought Iginla the first game!!!
Unless AV specifically told him not to fight, he wouldn't play any games going forward. We didn't get him to skate and score! f***ing losers!

 

[aufheben]

Days not over yet.

Chicken-shit DOPS will probably give him a $50.00 fine.

 

[Captain Lindy]

If the league does nothing about those hits, then they are total hypocrites when they say they want to take those hits out of the game. That they say that is then laughable. They only want it stopped against certain "special" teams. Not the Rangers.

 

[aufheben]

If the league does nothing about those hits, then they are total hypocrites when they say they want to take those hits out of the game. That they say that is then laughable. They only want it stopped against certain "special" teams. Not the Rangers.

The absolute worst Forsberg will get is 2 games. Marchand has a more extensive history than the Roman Empire and he only got 5 games for a blatant predatory headshot.

 

[Captain Lindy]

I am frustrated and fed up with AV. But I wonder who out there would be better. I guess the organization feels this way too.

Who would be better? It's not up to US to hire a new coach but you'd think the team would know this guy sucks at his job. ???

 

[Captain Lindy]

Look on the bright side...the more guys are out the better our chances are for dahlin.

What makes you so certain this stupid team would pick him even if they get the first overall???? This team is run by idiots!

 

[Captain Lindy]

The absolute worst Forsberg will get is 2 games. Marchand has a more extensive history than the Roman Empire and he only got 5 games for a blatant predatory headshot.

This league really IS a joke.

 

[Captain Lindy]

Maybe I"m just extreme because I thought [going back to 2014 playoffs] that Prust should have gotten booted from the league with that hit that broke Stepan's jaw [premeditated] after Prust publicly threatened the team after Price got hurt. But that's just me.

 

[ponytrekker]

How can no one retaliate? If that’s my kid’s midget team he’s walking home.

 

[ponytrekker]

Maybe I"m just extreme because I thought [going back to 2014 playoffs] that Prust should have gotten booted from the league with that hit that broke Stepan's jaw [premeditated] after Prust publicly threatened the team after Price got hurt. But that's just me.

Back before AV neutered Ck.

 

[Captain Lindy]

How can no one retaliate? If that’s my kid’s midget team he’s walking home.

Yes, they really have nothing to lose at this point. I wish they'd do a dirty hit back at one of their top guys just for laughs. Who cares if there is a suspension. It would illustrate the bias, though, for sure. We'd get suspensions and nothing would happen to them. I'm also remembering in Hags' first year when he hit Alfredsson into the boards in the playoffs that year and HE -- who had NO HISTORY OF ANYTHING LIKE THAT -- got suspended for three games, if I remember correctly. I can't find the words to express my total disgust. You should have heard Maloney last night. I heard he went off the wall.

 

[Nopuckluck]

I repeat what I said last night. I’ve never been so embarrassed to be a rangers fan in mu life. Bunch of pansys. After the second cheap shot AV should have called time out and directed his players to dedicate the rest of the game to ending zEmelin and Fordbergs careers. He also should have advised some slap shot dump ins aimed right at the referees heads. No one with any guts or pride.

 

[Nopuckluck]

Yes, they really have nothing to lose at this point. I wish they'd do a dirty hit back at one of their top guys just for laughs. Who cares if there is a suspension. It would illustrate the bias, though, for sure. We'd get suspensions and nothing would happen to them. I'm also remembering in Hags' first year when he hit Alfredsson into the boards in the playoffs that year and HE -- who had NO HISTORY OF ANYTHING LIKE THAT -- got suspended for three games, if I remember correctly. I can't find the words to express my total disgust. You should have heard Maloney last night. I heard he went off the wall.

absolutely agree. How can I find the Maloney comments

 

[eco's bones]

Not arguing that AV shouldn't get the axe but some of the shit I have to read here about him is just mind numbingly paranoiac nonsense or just plain stupid. That he doesn't know how to coach, or he has sinister designs against certain players, he's arrogant etc. blah, blah, blah.

The truth I think is a lot simpler--he's really lost the pulse of the team and is at a loss at figuring out how to rectify it. He's tried a lot of different shit--that's for sure but the overall talent level of the team was not that great to begin with so....cut the coach but IMO there's blame to go around--to Gorton, to Vigneault and his staff and to the players. It's a combination that simply ain't working anymore and IMO that's pretty much all it is.

Buchnevich was getting his 15 minutes of ice time--all 5v5, 5v4 the major part of it with top 6 forwards. DeAngelo's play away from the puck early in the year was pretty bad--in Hartford he struggled for a while too. He's playing a lot better now--a lot better than a lot of the other D. I've never seen or heard AV cutting his players up. I've never really seen him blowing up and ranting and raving to the press. What I've always seen is composure even when everything's going to shit and that started his first season when we got off to a horrible start. He's always kept his cool.

Again this is not to say we shouldn't fire him and get another coach. It very much appears to me that he's lost a team--that's on a decline anyway. All this demonization and scapegoating though to me is what the f***? We can be better than that.

 

[PlamsUnlimited]

Pretty bad game

 

[Nopuckluck]

I remember a game several years ago where the Islanders were playing the Penguins. The Islanders were horrendous and had been bullied by the penguins the previous meeting. They played the next time and the Islanders team ALL OF THEM went out of their way to extract revenge. It was a scene out of slapshot. The entire game was brawls cheap shots injuries. And you know what. They won9-2 and played their best hockey of that season the twenty games after. They earned respect.

Next time the Rangers play this team they should start a brawl at the opening puck drop ala Rangers Devils underbTortorella. Then the rest of the contest should be a race to see who knocks out Emelin and Forsberg. Their should be a team wide pool or bounty

 

[Cheapshot]

I remember a game several years ago where the Islanders were playing the Penguins. The Islanders were horrendous and had been bullied by the penguins the previous meeting. They played the next time and the Islanders team ALL OF THEM went out of their way to extract revenge. It was a scene out of slapshot. The entire game was brawls cheap shots injuries. And you know what. They won9-2 and played their best hockey of that season the twenty games after. They earned respect.

Gillies look still giving the penguins nightmares ha

 

[Ail]

Chicken-**** DOPS will probably give him a $50.00 fine.

They just said on Twitter the DOPS is fining Staal the maximum allowed for putting himself in a vulnerable position and Vesey is getting 5 games for bleeding on television.

 

[Nopuckluck]

Gillies look still giving the penguins nightmares ha

I’m being serious when I ask this question. If Tortorella or Keenan or even Lindy Ruff or Laviolette was our coach do you think what happened as far as our lack of response would have stood? How did AV not talk to the guys and turn the game into a hit mission. 4 targets. Emelin, Forsberg, 2 referees. Simple