RiceCooker
"We Got Some Looks"
It bugs me that Boyle and Yandle were so good on the Sharks and Coyotes power plays respectively but can't do a thing to help the anemic Rangers PP...maybe our core group just sucks at it.
Post-Game Talk: Capitals at Rangers - March 29 (Moderator advice in OP)
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DanielBrassard
It's all so tiresome
Its been 2 ****ing games
This place overreacted after back to back weekend losses against Boston and Philly last year. I expect more of the same now.
Its been more than 2 games.
Thank you well said. Our cap and all the trades have handcuffed us. This is the d we will have for a while. If we can't win with this defense this team will not come close to winning a cup because the d has to be our strength
RempireStateBuilding
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Don't they do that every season and bring in a "PP specialist and quarterback" to "finally solidify the powerplay"?
Machinehead
GoAwayTrouba
I don't think Staal is an issue. He's a great suppressor and if paired with a mover, he's still effective. Boyle gives him that. Boyle is at 54.1% CF. Every other D-man on the team except Hunwick is below 50. So that pair has succeeded.
Yandle is the last thing we need. Sather tried to get a PMD and I commend him for recognizing the issue, but let's call a spade a spade, Yandle is afraid to get hit. As soon as he gets the puck he wants to toss it away. That also seems to be the issue with McDonagh ever since he got hurt. Neither one of them ever try to skate it out.
Moreover, every single regular forward on this team except Glass and Stepan are above 50% in CF. Every regular D-man but Boyle is below 50. That is the most damning condemnation of a defense I've ever seen.
And also lets be frank we lost against 3 teams we despise and beat a team that we probably want to make playoffs and knock out either bruins or caps. Ironically we did the opposite lol
ReggieDunlop68
hey hanrahan!
The PP has been whack for a decade. The fans are the ones with the long term memory of Goldfish.
Captain Lindy
Formerly known as Kreider Beast
We were in first most of that season that year and lost it the last week of that same season. They nosedived at the worst time. That was Jags' MVP worthy season and Lundqvist's rookie year.
Boruto
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This is the price we pay to the hockey gods in exchange for a Tanner Glass goal.
Moses warned us about this.
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.'" So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
Moses warned us about this.
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.'" So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
Miller Time NYR
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This, by the way some people are overreacting around here you would think people expected us to win every game down the stretch. A couple of slaps in the face by teams that are desperate is not at all a bad thing at all, come back down to earth and build it back up before the PO's.
Fuzzy math again. Forwards are above 50%, so what? They can't sustain a forecheck, you know real hockey ...
Captain Lindy
Formerly known as Kreider Beast
Nobody should be worried. The team will bring it full force once the playoffs begin. It's only natural to let up a bit once you've clinched the playoffs. Guys don't want to get hurt, and don't go hard.
Its human nature. Once the playoffs start, all of that goes out of the window and it becomes a war.
Have faith, they will turn it on when it counts.
Its human nature. Once the playoffs start, all of that goes out of the window and it becomes a war.
Have faith, they will turn it on when it counts.
Megustaelhockey
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Shouldn't have been in the playoffs? We were first in the division for a large portion of the season and lost it in the last game of the season IIRC. If not, it was very close to the end of the season. How would that be apples to oranges?
Also we had a deadly first line. I don't see how that's lacking talent.
HatTrick Swayze
Just Be Nice
Honestly...how does this even make sense? Are you talking 5v5? What shifts are Boyle and a Forward playing D to offset all the forwards other time spent playing with 2 dmen below 50%...?
Not even trying to be a smartass, I have no idea how this is possible unless it doesn't account for special teams.
HatTrick Swayze
Just Be Nice
Fuzzy math again. Forwards are above 50%, so what? They can't sustain a forecheck, you know real hockey ...
The fact that every single forward but two can be +50% while every dmen but one is sub 50% isn't fuzzy math? That makes no sense.
Miller Time NYR
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Every player on this team should be forced to walk around NYC with that blazer on as a punishment for this last two efforts
Vinny DeAngelo
Jimmy Easy to defend
The forwards vacant the zone to quickly looking for the stretch pass and when that doesn't work and the d men get forechecked hard it becomes a turn over fest
ReggieDunlop68
hey hanrahan!
That was a team that was riding a hot Jagr in the anti-obstruction crusade era. We were in our first year after the purge before the lockout, and we witnessed the arrival of Lundqvist.
We also finished 6th in the conference after hobbling in, and we were beat by Jersey in the playoffs for the first team.
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