Pre-Game Talk: Devils game 5 (Game is Thursday 4/27)

[EdJovanovski]

I wish I was around for this era

 

[Mandar]

I track this, our record when I've eaten the Hut this season + playoffs is 26-3-2

and whats on the menu tomorrow night?

 

[mandiblesofdoom]

I had the runs. I'm feeling better now, but I blame my runs on lack of effort and killer instinct.

you didn't want it bad enough

 

[Pawnee Rangers]

"They gave their best but their best wasn't good enough" has never happened. Every loss is because of effort. I've been reading it since 2011.

It's a cult.

Questioning the complete level in a singular game doesn't lump one in with that but there's a very large group of posters for whom it's an agenda that they revel in complaining about every chance they get, just like the posters who do that with the coach, the posters who do that with whoever the best player is, the posters who used to do that with fighting before they lost that battle, and the poster who does it with Kravtsov.

Except all of those are less annoying.

The Devils were terrible in their own end in game 4, awful. Blowing coverages and turning the puck over left and right. But instead of getting pucks deep and forechecking, they f***ed around in the neutral zone trying to be all fancy. Maybe it's not compete level and they were just being obstinate but whatever you want to call it, it wasn't good enough. People have a right to be pissed or disappointed when the team blows a golden opportunity to lock the series up. It's frustrating because they're the better team. Maybe that changes next year or the year after but right now the Rangers are better. And instead of looking to close the series out tomorrow night, you're one or two flukey plays away from the season coming dangerously close to ending horrifically.

 

[Leonardo87]

I had the runs. I'm feeling better now, but I blame my runs on lack of effort and killer instinct.

Sure it wasn’t the Pizza Hut?

 

[will1066]

Sure it wasn’t the Pizza Hut?

No. Logically it makes sense. This time, the runs happened after I cut a slice of hubris and ate it.

The lesson? Don't make hubris. And if you see hubris, avoid it. Hubris is bad for you.

 

[Machinehead]

O-1-1

I read this is Sam's voice.

 

[NYRFANMANI]

Game might be Friday technically for @NYRFANMANI

It technically is Friday. It's fine though. I'll get some nice stuff to eat and enjoy the ride.

 

[bhamill]

I also feel that if it is a single game, those things happen. The series ebbs and flows and some nights you don't have it. If they no compete level, they wouldn't be in the series.

Yeah. That’s fair. And if the compete level doesn’t come up they’ll likely be out of this series in two games. Which doesn’t mean it’s the ONLY way they can lose of course. Puck luck, calls going NJs way, or NJ just plain beating them.

 

[Synergy27]

Again. Effort does not equal willingness to do what’s needed to win. We most certainly have several players who refuse, or are simply unable, to adapt their play style when things aren’t working.

 

[Machinehead]

Again. Effort does not equal willingness to du what’s needed to win. We most certainly have several players who refuse, or are simply unable, to adapt their play style when things aren’t working.

This I'd be more willing to buy.

If the first thing Panarin wants to do doesn't work, he does it 15 more times.

I think he's actually a very high-rate player in terms of effort, especially for a scoring winger, but he does not deal with frustration well.

 

[Megustaelhockey]

I had the runs. I'm feeling better now, but I blame my runs on lack of effort and killer instinct.

The Barry Trotz we now call them in my home.

 

[bhamill]

Yeah. There probably few players, and fewer teams, that you could say “don’t want it” or don’t make an “effort”. But there are levels. Like with any other attribute. Even guys we say can’t skate are pretty damn f***ing good compare to most everyone outside the NHL. Same thing with effort and doggedness. Players in this league mostly ALL have it… but who has it most? That means a lot. I wouldn’t say the NYR didnt care in Game 4, didn’t make ANY effort, but they didn’t put in the superior effort that was needed. They didn’t do the things they needed to do and no one stopped them from doing those things but themselves.

 

[Crease]

O-1-1

Ah yes, the third column, for especially painful losses.

I had the runs. I'm feeling better now, but I blame my runs on lack of effort and killer instinct.

Your intestines simply didn't want it enough.

 

[duhmetreE]

Sam needs to use his power and tell us how our stars are struggling to score.

How our PP is 0-for

 

[NYRFANMANI]

It's tough for me to say what's up with the effort, I didn't see games 1 and 2.

Game 3, we looked good overall, great even. Hard fought game. The curse of new opponent goalie, making him bigger than he is. We just didn't score on our chances and it bit us in the ass eventually. Almost did everything right. A stinger.

Game 4 was really a bad effort. Many disappearing acts. Even Igor, from the start looked shaky on his feet in net. We couldn't make anything happen, even if we had tried.
A stinker.

We've seen these kind of games (game 4) many times. Maybe this group can break that eventually.

 

[rangersfansince08]

the devils aren't going to win 4 straight and the cup are they?

 

[Gordon Bombay]

"In a seven-game series, win the first two games but allow the opponent to win the next two games to instill overconfidence. Then attack the opponent when they perceive themselves as being at their strongest. Encourage your fans to criticize your perceived lack of killer instinct, for when you defeat your opponent, they will realize their error of ways and shower glory upon you twice as adamant." --Sun Tzu, Art of Hockey

Worded almost as well as a sir avgard prophecy

 

[Machinehead]

the devils aren't going to win 4 straight and the cup are they?

Edmonton's gonna win the Cup imo

 

[Filip Chytil]

I track this, our record when I've eaten the Hut this season + playoffs is 26-3-2

Should be eating Pizza Hut every night there's a Rangers game, Ed. Come on!!

 

[Chytilmania]

On NJD side:

Lindy ain’t seeing shit with those transition lenses.

 

[Filip Chytil]

Amidst the heat of the playoff fight,
The Rangers and the Devils under the lights,
George Patton stood, with steely gaze,
Commanding his team in fierce displays.

But as he looked upon the bench,
He saw a sight that made him clench,
For there sat Zibanejad, with plate in hand,
Eating tofu, a food that he couldn't stand.

He marched towards the unsuspecting player,
A stern look on his face, like a warrior slayer,
And with a voice that boomed across the ice,
He said, "What are you doing, eating that twice?"

"Tofu is for the weak, for those who can't fight,
For soldiers, we eat meat, that's our right.
So put that plate down, and listen to me,
Or else you'll be benched for eternity."

Zibanejad trembled, as Patton's wrath,
Fell upon him like an icy bath,
And with a swift and angry motion,
Patton grabbed the plate, with total devotion.

He tossed it out onto the ice,
With a look that was not at all nice,
And as it shattered into pieces,
Zibanejad's tofu love, truly ceases.

For in the battle of the playoff race,
Only the strongest and bravest embrace,
The food of warriors, meat and bread,
And with Patton as coach, they'll always be led.

 

[rkhum]

What was the split of Rangers fans at games 1 and 2? Do you expect similar this game?
I heard anywhere from 15% to 35%.

 

[Machinehead]

What was the split of Rangers fans at games 1 and 2? Do you expect similar this game?
I heard anywhere from 15% to 35%.

To me it looked like 35% was about the number of Devils fans

 

[duhmetreE]

we're on ESPN the next 2 game.... WHY!!?!

I can't stand ESPN and Ferraro.