Post-Game Talk: Game 5

[Captain Lindy]

If it goes 7 games and we win, I won't care.

Vegas won the first two games on the road and lost the series. This stuff happens.

Ranger fans know this well. We remember last year and the year before.

 

[Reijo29]

I really doubt at this point that I will ever see the Rangers win a stanley cup in my lifetime. If they dont do it this year I am not gonna care anymore. Seriously. What a waste of f***ing time every year. These millionaires boys club have it better than any players in the entire league and they do not hustle or work the way a team from NY should. Get buy on skill and the PP. They are essentially the Maple Leafs with a good goalie. I am so disgusted right now. And win or lose I do not want to see Mika Zibanejad on this team again after this year.

This is the problem. Why? Why are they preordained to win it all this season? Carolina had the same record as us. Florida is probably better then us. Colorado and Dallas are tremendous. Why are we supposed to win?

 

[Megustaelhockey]

That's also bullshit.

We lost to the Pens 7-2 and then won the series.

Some of the losses in that series were among the worst I've ever seen the team play in the playoffs in 35 years of watching them.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Disjointed and disinterested yes. Well the first was decent.

No the first honestly kind of sucked too it was just less sucky than the last 2.

 

[Filip Chytil]

 

[Black Aces]

Sure looked like it, Vinny

it did but what does that say about all of you in that room.

 

[Megustaelhockey]

Ranger fans know this well. We remember last year and the year before.

Knowing it well is a huge reason why this place is insufferable right now. PTSD.

 

[ColonialsHockey10]

“Oh my god it’s like 1994!”

Pathetic. We deserve so much better as fans.

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

Bread was pathetic on the Kuz goal, but he absolutely draws a penalty here for like 5 seconds straight in front of the ref.

I’m not gonna get into the refs, but they f***ing sucked tonight

 

[TriFF51]

If these guys don't come out next game playing like their lives depend on it, then the series is done. A chance to move on to the ECF with a win at home and it looked like they didn't even care. They should be embarrassed. I hope Laviolette is the type that will let them know how shit they looked.

 

[Megustaelhockey]

“Oh my god it’s like 1994!”

Pathetic. We deserve so much better as fans.

Better franchise, better leaders, better officiating, better coaching... the problem is with the word "deserve."

 

[Gardner McKay]

I love Panarin. I really do. I'll even say that after this game.

But I am very tired of him dropping a tier or two or three as a player in the postseason.

I need less Walmart Panarin and more Target Panarin.

 

[Boris Zubov]

The one game I go to and this is what I see. What an implosion.

This was Gerard Gallant’s rangers. Not Lavi’s

Lavi didn't have his best night. Having them sitting back after the Tuba goal & then to start the 3rd after a huge kill is terrible coaching. We played scared from the opening puck drop. Need a killer instinct to win 4 against a good team, can't be passive for 60 minutes & expect to walk away with a W.

 

[CLW]

Stop sitting on leads. That's the f***ing adjustment they need to make. I hate the psychology of this sport.

This 100%.

 

[bl02]

They didn't show up all night not just in the third. When Roslovic is your "best" player you are in trouble.

 

[Filip Chytil]

 

[Mike in Houston]

Fire Gallant!

 

[Kakko]

Not that I expect many opportunities in game 6, but the PP needs to figure something out. Carolina does, in fact, have an outstanding PK. But, their aggression leaves them open on faceoff plays like game 1. Get the puck on net, make Andersen freeze it, make your cutsey little set play off the faceoff.

 

[Brutananadilewski]

Fire Gallant!

Fire Drury...and that may indeed happen if we get reverse swept.

 

[LeetchisGod]

We've already seen what you're made of the past two years and it isn't good.

 

[ColonialsHockey10]

Better franchise, better leaders, better officiating, better coaching... the problem is with the word "deserve."

Better pizza, better ingredients too.

 

[Machinehead]

Last year, Vegas had a 3-0 lead in the WCF.

They lost a heartbreaker in game 4 and then lost a pretty listless game 5 at home.

They won game 6 6-0.

 

[Gospel of Prospal]

Bench Trouba. Play Ruhwedal. Send a f***ing message.


Some captain...

 

[LionsHeart]

I think one thing you see when teams decide they’re content with just holding onto the lead is that when it inevitably fails they can’t get back into a groove offensively.

1 goal isn’t enough. They needed to keep moving the puck up the ice and generating offense. After Staal scored they just had no mojo.

 

[Brutananadilewski]

I need less Walmart Panarin and more Target Panarin.

We don't even have that: we have Temu Panarin!