Coverage in front of Georgiev was horrible. Thats what lost the game.
Rebounds are part of hockey. When a goalie is dealing with 3-4 players crowding his space, there is always the risk of anything happening. A shot, a pass, a deflection.
Fox left Lindgren alone to handle AO and another player. Thats blown coverage. He needed to be better
PP first to blame for sure. Especially that last one. And Georgiev did not help the matter. He got outplayed by Vanacek and he just can't string two good games together.
Rest the groin. Would rather he take the rest of the season off than develop chronic groin problems.Vince saying don’t expect Igor tonight
Rest the groin. Would rather he take the rest of the season off than develop chronic groin problems.
Hockey arrogance. Don’t mind them otherwise. Many of my coworkers are Canadian; delightful people. But the ones who talk about “our sport” and how “unfair” it is that a Canadian team hasn’t won the cup in decades are just insufferable. Otherwise I don’t really give a rats ass.
Rest of the season? Why not have everyone take the rest of the season off too?
Our 4th line was defending against Ovechkin line with less than 7 min left in the 3rd. Two goals against. What’s that about?
Might as well because we aren't making the playoffs with the way we're playing. I can't wait until we finally start playing the rest of the league.
But it "hurts so good". Just starting to read everyone's thoughts. Mine are yes, it does hurt, BUT man they played rather well and overall, pretty proud of them. Yet another "we deserved better" (pts.) Just NOT in the cards quite yet. Kakko looked great BUT, he needs to score. Period. Will come, not soon enough. He puts in just ONE we win that game even before they are trying to tie it. Btw, not picking on him by no means. Others should have scored as well, but give Vitek credit. Almost another shutout if it wasn't for the 2nd "great one"Pain.
No he probably saw we dont clear out the crease good enough and without Wilson, they put tough guy big bodied Ovie looking for garbage. He found it, found breakfast and dinner. Skipped lunch because he's getting older now, and wants to keep the weight down. Haha.What did they see? That our goalie vacates the crease by 5 feet?
Thats because your hopes increased with last game, and HOW they actually have a pretty solid squad, but just have to......drum roll please.......LEARN HOW TO WIN, WHATEVER IT TAKES.This is the first and only game of the Rangers’ 2020-21 season so far that has actually pissed me off.
And that’s a good thing.
Yup...we have no other alternatives....let them learn . We can't send Laf back as it's pointless ...not sure on KK....and we can't give them AHL time because of the CHL agreement . Damned if you do and Damned if you don't ! The AHL though is the proper spot for these two and not NYR . Sucks for the kids who have nothing left to prove in junior and can't handle NHL minutes .Leave them together. Let them learn as a group.
I strained a groin in my teens, playing soccer, and I rushed back into playing. To this day the area is sensitive. So, yeah, don’t rush it. Better lose a year (in which we’re not even competing) out of excessive caution than jeopardize a career. I think you underestimate the importance of a healthy groin.Rest of the season? Why not have everyone take the rest of the season off too?
I strained a groin in my teens, playing soccer, and I rushed back into playing. To this day the area is sensitive. So, yeah, don’t rush it. Better lose a year (in which we’re not even competing) out of excessive caution than jeopardize a career. I think you underestimate the importance of a healthy groin.
I’ll admit I might have been hyperbolizing.I can see recommendation not to rush (as I also suffered from this injury) but sitting out the rest of the season could be unnecessary overkill.
This...does not tell an accurate story of what the PP2 has been this year. Not even by a long shot.They’ve been handed everything. These kids began their NHL careers in the top-six. They’ve been permanent fixtures 5v4. No AHL. No fighting for a roster spot. No working up the lineup. Have either of them ever been a healthy scratch?
And I don’t want to hear more bats theories about how the second PP unit doesn’t count as a PP unit. Lafreniere has played almost an hour 5v4 this season, and he has ONE f***ing shot on goal during that, (3 shot attempts, while Zibanejad has like 74. )
Here, for the people in the back:
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Just 7 more minutes and he’ll have 1/4 of a theoretical goal.
Fox left to play the shooter. Why was the shooter all alone in a high danger area? Not because of Fox.
The shot that preceded the 2nd goal on was unscreened. He overplayed it and kicked it out into the slot. That should have been an easy stop and hold, but again this is why Georgiev is what he is.
I don't think criticizing this team's overall play in traffic at either end of the ice is really off though. It's an issue for most of our D and maybe the only thing Fox doesn't do well.
It's also why thinking Nils is a slam drunk add to our D is a bit of a stretch for me but thats really a different conversation.
We got beat on the same exact play. The top looked like our PP almost but they had 2 players in front. Was it something the opposing coaching staff saw or is it what they do when they need a goal? Georgiev overplayed it the same way and they had 2 Capitals in front of the net. 1 happened to be Ovechkin. Fox on the first one battled him a little before he conceded, on the 2nd one, Fox was in no mans land.
Saying the best goal scorer beat us is a VAST over simplification. Ovechkin, the greatest scorer in the universe, was left ALONE in front of the net... TWICE. Fox is usually very good at tying up sticks in front.. he is human after all. No adjustments were made after the first goal, they actually played it worse on the second one.
An amalgamation of reasons as to why we lost, while being the better team. Coaching/youth, our backup and our PP.