RGY
Kreid or Die
I feel a lot more confident about this game than the first time around. Might be the fact that we have our #1 center in the lineup, Boyle in for Mike fricken Kostka, and both Glass AND Malone aren't destroying our bottom 6.
Even so, the Rangers outplayed the Isles for the most part last game with the difference being 2 gifted goals from Kostka and Klein putting one in our own net.
Isles are a good team. All you can ask is that the Rangers continue the top to bottom solid play that they have had over the past month.
We heavily outplayed them last time until Kostka handed them the game. Not even mad about the Klein moment. But above that is most telling. No Stepan or Boyle. No Fast. No Miller. Hayes was still coming into his own, and though all season will be a learning process, he is a far more comfortable and POISED player now than compared to the beginning of the season. I would even say Klein wasn't yet the player his is now. Kreider and Zucc have improved their games significantly. The depth on forward is unreal. It is going to be a nightmare tonight for that weak Islanders defense. And as I have pointed out in the last week, John Moore is playing his best hockey of the year.
I've said it the last few days....the Islanders and their fans are in for a rude awakening.