GDT: Game 23 - New York Rangers vs New Jersey Devils - 7pm EST, MSG

[RickChartraw]

refs quiet on the whistles now

 

[mike14]

Slightly better goaltending from Igor and this one could have been interesting

 

[CasusBelli]

Go away Laf. Just go away.

 

[romba]

f***in stick shaft, so unlucky

 

[Crease]

Oh look, some urgency.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

I stand by my point that hiring Trotz would be a collassal overcorrection and overreaction.

"If success everywhere he goes" looks like this :
23 seasons.
1 Stanley Cup
9 missed playoffs
Only made ECF 2 other times, rest was 1st or 2nd round losses

Then success has a pretty low standard. To highlight, it took Ovechkin, Backstrom, Kusnetsov, Oshie and Carlson to win him a Stanley Cup in Washington. Hes either lost in the first 2 rounds or missed the playoffs in 20/23 seasons.

Thats a pretty low bar for success. Offense routinely suffers at the expense of defense under his system which bodes well for making playoffs but eventually runs thin when other teams start playing similar defense but find ways to score.

Our defense has now been atrocious under Quinn and Gallant and multiple different defensive assistant coaches. It may be a paying Trouba 8 million and using Hajek through multiple coaching regimes issue.

I for one and not on the Trotz train.

You make some good points but it's way more than just a player issue here. Trotz took over a very bad Nashville team and it took him a while to get them to the playoffs nearly every year. Since 09 his teams have made the playoffs 10 time in 13 years, including a Cup and those 2 ECF appearances with a slow and plodding Isles team. He also won 2 Jack Adams awards recently. The guy can coach. We need to do something.

 

[Boris Zubov]

I guess the league mandate for crosscheck penalties was forgotten this season. The Devils literally just got away with 5 of them on that last shift.

 

[kinger8998]

No boarding against Devils on Chytil hit and no trip against Devils on Kakko.

But refs could call one against Laf in final 3 against Edmonton. Go figure

 

[Taluss]

Alright come the f*** on lads lets get this

 

[RangersFan1994]

Miller is playing like a guy that desperately wants to get paid and is trying to do way too much instead of doing what made him successful in the first place.

So like a NBA player

 

[Profet]

Oy vey

The agida is going to kill me.

 

[Kords]

Better get Goodrow out there

 

[Chaels Arms]

Jacob Trouba inspirational timeout speech: ugh, rargh, nuh, burp.

 

[CasusBelli]

This team is like a 40 year old Hollywood actress that keeps getting botox and face-lift thinking everyone else will see a hot 25 year old.

That’s been the case since the season we signed Richards.

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

Kreider own goal incoming

 

[Machinehead]

Icings

 

[RangersFan]

No one moves on the PP

 

[McRanger92]

We have NMCs combined with high salaries and long terms. Trotz took mediocre teams without high paid star players and made them overperfom.

We have high paid star players that are underperforming. We just need them to perform as they should. We need a coach that is going to allow them to do that, not a coach that is going to kill the offense for expense of defense. It makes for regular season success but eventually when the other teams start playing similar styles they can stiffle Trotz teams limited offense while also scoring due to systematic tweaks that allow more offense.

Changing coaches is so you don't need to change all the players. Trotz with this roster still requires changing the makeup which A) defeats the purpose and B) we can't do because of the aforementioned NMCs

Trotz won a Cup with a team full of high paid underperforming stars

 

[CasusBelli]

Jacob Trouba inspirational timeout speech: ugh, rargh, nuh, burp.

Something something something big hit. Something something something turnover. Something something something complete.

 

[Unpredictable1]

This is the most I've seen Fox try to get pucks on net in a while...

 

[romba]

We’re throwing EVERYTHING on net from the point the whole game, I guess a good idea

 

[B17 Apricots]

It's incredible how stationary they are.. no one tries to move around and open up lanes??

 

[The New Russian Five]

Love how Fox just shoots all the time now because the rest of the team refuses to shoot.

 

[savebyrichter94]

Shoot to score Mika c’mon

 

[Machinehead]

You know what's f***ing hilarious?

Not only that Chytil/Kakko/Laf or whoever isn't on the powerplay, but that if there ever was a spot, the next guy is Goodrow.