Post-Game Talk: #64: Rangers 2 at FLYERS 5, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, 7:00 pm ET

[PaddyMcStackin]

They grow them angry in Philly. A bully in training.

 

[AaronTrieu]

Yeah I’m a believer. Easy to say with a win streak. But their play and line up was spotty for the first half. Is it AV magic? Players catching on to the system or buying in? The classic expressions.

one major improvement is turnovers. The support is also better. You don’t see one guy on the boards with no help and guys are making themselves available for passes.

 

[Striiker]

WE'RE JUST ON ANOTHER LEVEL. ITS TOO EASY.

For real, that was a great game.

Giroux-Couturier-Voracek is absolutely disgusting. Always.
Hayes is a beast. TK is a beast. Sanheim is a beast. Myers is a beast.

At 5v5...

61.76 CF%
66.35 xGF%
72.22 HDCF%

Even that seems to understate how bad we slapped them.

 

[BritainStix]

They should probably just give Hagg the C at this point.

 

[backburner]

I liked Hayes past few games looks great minus all those years on his contract.

 

[AdamParrot]

Just kill em on Sunday, please!!

 

[flyers0909]

Hagg looked kinda bad in the first but finished top xGF% among D, assuming he had a good 2nd/3rd?

 

[Starat327]

I might not have posted in the GDT but...

I very much like this new tradition.

 

[Jtown]

giroux with a hartnell reference

 

[Domino666]

I looked like Scott Hartnell scoring that goal
Hahahahaha the Captain is funny

 

[Young Sandwich]

WE'RE JUST ON ANOTHER LEVEL. ITS TOO EASY.

For real, that was a great game.

Giroux-Couturier-Voracek is absolutely disgusting. Always.
Hayes is a beast. TK is a beast. Sanheim is a beast. Myers is a beast.

At 5v5...

61.76 CF%
66.35 xGF%
72.22 HDCF%

Even that seems to understate how bad we slapped them.

That chart is magnificent. Truly boner inducing.

 

[Jtown]

I liked Hayes past few games looks great minus all those years on his contract.

He has played great lately. The contract still dampens my excitement.

 

[Johnk0728]

Laughton is just a better hockey player on the wing. Myers shows flashes of elite status. Hart makes huge saves .... again. Fun team to watch.....too bad the coach sucks.

 

[Amorgus]

I very much like this new tradition.

Does your dog get a cookie?

 

[Jettany]

I liked Hayes past few games looks great minus all those years on his contract.

I mean he is only 27. It takes him to 33. It’s not starting at 33. I’ll worry at 31 if he’s playing like an old man. If he puts up 5 years similar to this, deal with the last 2.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

5 straight wins boys!

 

[Starat327]

Does your dog get a cookie?

No doggie here, just a cat.

 

[Flyer lurker]

It is nice to be on the better side of scheduling. Noon game Sunday even better as it makes rangers play 4 in 5 3/4 days.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Game highlights:

 

[Person101]

Just saw the first G goal again, that was sicker than I originally thought. He's falling backwards on one foot and top shelfs it. Beautiful.

 

[GapToothedWonder]

Laughton is just a better hockey player on the wing. Myers shows flashes of elite status. Hart makes huge saves .... again. Fun team to watch.....too bad the coach sucks.

"Something, something, can't we just enjoy the wins?"

 

[Here4ThaLids]

Great job with the ice time distribution again, kept Couts down to 17:45, Hayes 16:35, and old men Giroux/Voracek/JVR all under 15! Similar D-spread as last time, Hägg down a tick (13:52) and Braun just under 16. [Edit: Again, no PK for Hägger.]

Really happy to see this becoming a trend. No more riding the first line hard regardless of score, and actually having depth to use. But mostly happy they've been able to put games away early and keep the pedal down -- neither of these things happened under Hak, and it must have felt like they were playing a 90-game regular season.

 

[Johnk0728]

Krieder with broken foot too. Tough game for Rangers.

 

[SuchySays]

Hagg was a rock back there.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Small annoyance: they played like a pack of morons on one of those last shifts in front of Hart leading to a goal.

Konecny's stick smash over the net reminded me of the conclusion of the 1988 playoffs series against Washington when one of our players demolished his stick. In a way, Konecny's smash was emblematic of something good through crisis considering the game's outcome was decided.