GDT: ECSF: Game 6 - New York Rangers @ Carolina Hurricanes, 7pm ET, TNT

[Jaromir Jagr]

Not even mad. Carolina is better coached and the better team.

Just annoyed that management thinks we can continue to compete with this core. Every year I go in with low expectations (they're too slow / too old / not sufficiently conditioned). Then they give me hope with an incredible regular season. Then they disappoint. Rinse and repeat.

Enough is enough.

I don't think they're too old or not sufficiently conditioned.

They are too slow. But the real issue is they are not that good. Lindgren shouldn't be sniffing the first pair. Trouba possibly should not be sniffing the NHL anymore and certainly not top minutes and Gus was good for about 2 months to start the season.

You need a really solid 6 D to compete for championships. The move the Rangers needed to make at the deadline was Chychrun, but there was ZERO discussion about that even being a remote possibiliyt.

The offense is there. The defense is not. And the saddest thing to me is they don't seem to realize it.

 

[DuneGoon84]

There is no excuse for the lack of physicality. You wanna slow the Canes down? Finish your goddamn checks. Make them rush their decisions, turn it over, hit them in the transition game.

They can't catch them to finish their checks. Rofl

 

[Boris Zubov]

I hope we win on home ice. Potatoe potatoe

Dan Quayle has entered the chat....

 

[qwertyaas]

I do think it's a little interesting, if off topic, that Tom Poti and Michal Rozsival were booed mercilessly at MSG and yet Trouba has gotten zero derision.

Because one was a scapegoat and the other was a f***ing nerd.

 

[CasusBelli]

This, I feel the same exact way. They duped us.

Yep. There's a difference between playing with poise and playing without urgency.

We look lifeless.

 

[mike14]

The shit ice is a distinct advantage for them.

We should be used it after playing 41 games at MSG

 

[Shesterkybomb]

I'll say it: we f***ed up with not letting Othmann play.

Better for him to have gotten the experience over a Brodzinski, or having to trade for a Wennberg.

Been saying this since January

 

[Brutananadilewski]

I just realized something, where's Snowblind?

 

[WojtekWolski86]

Not even mad. Carolina is better coached and the better team.

Just annoyed that management thinks we can continue to compete with this core. Every year I go in with low expectations (they're too slow / too old / not sufficiently conditioned). Then they give me hope with an incredible regular season. Then they disappoint. Rinse and repeat.

Enough is enough.

Hold on. Better coached or do the players listen and have bought in? There's a difference. Canes grabbed their lunch pale and went to work. Rangers booking their off season plans gazing out the window.

 

[Machinehead]

Same thing happens every year.

They get out to a lead with cute tricks and then they score 0 or 1 goals the rest of the way when the other team starts to plan for it.

They can't produce NHL offense without gimmick set plays that are easy to prepare for after a couple of games.

I talked about how much better their forward corps is and people on here tried to assassinate me. Same thing in the Devils series.

Kuznetsov is monkey ass and he's better at scoring than seven of our forwards.

 

[Graves97]

Honestly done with this core. Last year the excuse was the caveman, what’s the excuse now? Wish torts was available, would hire him in a second next season and give him free reign on these pansies. Oh you don’t like it, then waive your NMCs.

 

[BleedBlueNYR]

I’ve seen enough of everyone associated with this era of Rangers hockey. Tear it all down and start over with stars who will show up in the playoffs.

 

[will1066]

Nah - we finished top of the league so there's a good team in there, somewhere. But right now they are losing the mind game. They THINK Canes are the better team so are playing like they've already lost.

Regular season means little. It was nice when it happened, president's trophy and all. This team is once again showing that it doesn't have a next level when the opposition decides it's going to elevate its game, speed and intensity.

 

[Captain Lindy]

"If you told me in September we'd be forcing a game 7 against the second best team in the league, I'd be pretty happy!" - Chris Kreider in an hour

That quote pissed me off. What a loser mentality.

 

[MysticLeviathan]

I’d take Trouba’s mom over him at this point

I’d take the trouba drama girl person over trouba

 

[Breaded Fox]

The shit ice is a distinct advantage for them.

Rod likely had them turn the temp up to muck it up

 

[hardnosed]

I do think it's a little interesting, if off topic, that Tom Poti and Michal Rozsival were booed mercilessly at MSG and yet Trouba has gotten zero derision.

Trouba gets to slide because Garden of Dreams and other off ice accomplishments

 

[BlueShirtGal]

With the way they've been playing 5 on 5 I don't see them coming back to win this. Maybe a miracle will happen.

 

[Boris Zubov]

Lavi lost this team somewhere in this series.

I’m seeing a total lack of confidence and puck support in the offensive zone.

They face adversity and crumble. It’s the devils series all over again.

Game 5 gameplan was horrendous. He doubled down on it when they got the lead.

 

[DuneGoon84]

That quote pissed me off. What a loser mentality.

Wait , that can't be real

 

[jerseyjinx94]

I don’t know if I can do this anymore. Every single year

 

[irishlaxburger2]

At some point, we need to be willing to admit we’re simply not good enough.

The D core is pourous.

The 1C is not a Cup winning 1C.

And the captain is not a Cup winning captain.

Until those are fixed, we’re an average playoff team. Not a Cup contender.

 

[bouds]

If it was just Trouba tonight making bad plays we might weather it, but we’ve had some ass plays on d all around. It really looks like Trouba is toast, he moves like Redden.

 

[Siddi]

actually been worse than a no show. Out positioned for the 2nd goal and bad turnovers as well.

Absolute dogshit, just like the rest of them.

 

[Bring Back Avery]

Should've never f***ed with the winning streak.