Pre-Game Talk: Rangers - Caps 12/20

[yrrebbor]

This team makes me drink.

 

[OrbitalDynamics]

Don't get embarrassed at home.

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

Blowout incoming

 

[Deleted member 23124]

Don't get embarrassed at home.

Too late: been there, done that.

 

[Killem Dafoe]

Rangers turn things around. Come out flying like the team we know and love. Blow out the Caps 6-1.

lgr

 

[Mac n Gs]

Please come out like you're pissed off at yourselves and have something to prove.

 

[Mac n Gs]

Damn, Brooks calling out a lot of people in his most recent article, specifically Hayes, Nash, AV, and Kreider.

 

[Doctor King Schultz]

Caps tend to **** the bed in MSG, but in no way do I expect us to win this going in.

 

[Graves94]

If Rangers don't score first, it could get ugly...
Playing with no confidence + impatient home crowd booing them = Blowout

 

[Ail]

This is the type of team that could beat us in a playoff series.

Every team is the kind of team who could beat the Rongoes in a 7 game series right now.

 

[Ail]

Rangers turn things around. Come out flying like the team we know and love. Blow out the Caps 6-1.

lgr

Yeah and people will start declaring this team good again. "But they killed the best team in the league!"

 

[Irishguy42]

Klein in a regular practice jersey too.

 

[Ail]

Damn, Brooks calling out a lot of people in his most recent article, specifically Hayes, Nash, AV, and Kreider.

I agree with his Hayes assessment at this point. He has not had one game where he was the best player on the ice (outside of Henrik of course), and the same goes for Kreider. While Nash has had a few awful games here lately, he has at least been the best player on the ice a few times this season. Which maybe he should be more often, but I still don't see him as a bigger issue than Hayes and Kreider, specifically because there is a good chance Nash is gone this off-season because of the cap anyway. Kreider and Hayes are a part of the future, and their play is the most troubling. Kreider's play has been so bad that he might even find himself gone at the deadline or in the off-season. Hayes will get a pass chalked up to sophomore slump. Next year he better step up real huge.

With how many people are playing like dog **** right now, I can barely find myself to hold AV accountable for not scratching certain players. What I can hold him accountable for is scratching players who do not deserve it and being too stubborn to change things up. He blames execution over his system, but if the personnel is not fit to execute the system he is employing, he should probably try something at least a little different, lest he will find himself on the unemployment line. Gorton can only do so much with this roster to help AV, and if the team nosedives and becomes completely unresponsive to his methods, they will fire him. That's just how it goes in the NHL, his fault or not.

Management will give AV a pass for one bad season, but again Gorton can only do so much with this roster and if the remainder of this year continues to be this poor, and next season doesn't improve, he will be gone.

 

[Megustaelhockey]

Pride.

These players need to show us they have it.

 

[silverfish]

Have we hit rock bottom yet? The way this Rangers team is currently playing + the way the Caps offense can tee off?

I... I'm nervous.

 

[NYRFAN218]

This is 100% a win. With how great things are going for the Caps and how bad things are going for the Rangers, you just know the Rangers are going to win convincingly.

That's hockey, Suzyn. Ya just can't predict it.

 

[NYRFAN218]

 

[TheDirtyH]

Only way this isn't a loss is if Lundqvist decides he's done letting in any goals. Caps are probably the best team in the league right now, I have no idea how anyone thinks this will be a pleasant watch.

 

[Seven Years]

Not expecting a win, nor expecting anyone to show up tonight. This season has been painful so far.

 

[Atax]

Really hope Etem stays in the lineup.

 

[Mac n Gs]

100% agreed Ail, great post. I'd love for AV to scratch Hayes tonight to try to wake him up. I want to start seeing accountability.

Also, tonight is going to be Dylan's toughest challenge so far. I'm really excited to see how he'll react to a big, tough team with a high-octane offense.

 

[KingP]

Oh god

 

[Infinitum Vitae*]

100% agreed Ail, great post. I'd love for AV to scratch Hayes tonight to try to wake him up. I want to start seeing accountability.

Also, tonight is going to be Dylan's toughest challenge so far. I'm really excited to see how he'll react to a big, tough team with a high-octane offense.

I hope he goes Scott Stevens on their ass!! Especially on Ovi

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

Has all the makings of rock bottom if I'm being honest

 

[Raspewtin]

Someone other than Yandle and McIlrath needs to consistently play well mkay.