Post-Game Talk: Islanders @ Rangers

[McRanger]

Unforced turnovers and slow skating are what killed us. Not the Isles' system.

Isles devour teams that can't beat them to loose pucks and can't relieve forecheck pressure.

It doesn't matter how hard you are skating if you can't make a tape-to-tape pass to break out of the zone or transition down the ice. And in both zones the Rangers got squeezed. They blocked passing lanes and the Rangers did nothing but fumble the puck around trying to make something out of nothing.

The Rangers looked a bit winded as the game went on, but their lack of execution was the problem.

 

[aufheben]

Do the Isles even have a system? Just seems like they bust their assess and launch pucks on net.

 

[Chimpradamus]

So frustrating when people don't realize how small of a sample size 1/82 is...

Even the top teams in the NHL only win like 60-65% of their games. We got outworked last night, it happens to every team; It's not some structural flaw, or impending doom FFS

Grit, face-offs, effort, yada yada...heard all this same **** last season.

"Win 13/15 games? Who cares, we got outworked against the frigging Isles in their first brag season since forever!"

Got to love rivalries.

 

[True Blue]

don't disagree, but you know as well as I do the game looks alot different being up or down 2-0

Yes, we still could have lost that game after being up 2-0, but the Islanders in an effort to get back in the game would most likely abandoned the 1-3-1 format to a more offensive oriented 2-1-2 in the hopes of creating turnovers in the Rangers defensive zone as opposed to the neutral zone.

At that point, the Rangers would be better able to use their speed game if not their compete level to keep the Islanders on their heels.

Game is different at with a two goal differential. however, the way that the Rangers were playing last night, even a 2 goal lead could have evaporated in 5 minutes. The ceded every square inch of the ice all night long.

 

[True Blue]

Do you have a keyboard shortcut with this phrase? You blame every loss on a lack of grit.

Lack of effort = lack of grit? No, lack of effort is lack of effort.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

Isn't the record of Eastern teams playing their first home game back from west coast trips pretty bad?

It seems that way. We just got unlucky to come home to a rival who played like it was a playoff game. If this game was against Buffalo or Ottawa or something perhaps they would've been able to get an early goal and that would energize them, but the Islanders are a good team and the Rangers were very lethargic.

I thought the Isles played very well, but also thought the Rangers played very poorly independent of the Islanders. Tons of unforced turnovers and they were skating noticeably slower than usual.

 

[McRanger]

Lack of effort = lack of grit? No, lack of effort is lack of effort.

When effort is considered "running around as fast as possible crashing into people" then it is indistinguishable from grit. That's the "effort" that people miss from some magical time during the Torts era that only exists in some peoples minds.

Personally I think that ignores a lot of what actually goes into playing a smart and effective game. But that's just me.

 

[ltrangerfan]

Maybe too big an adjustment coming back from the coast? The team didn't have it. The schedule remains tough over the next few games so hopefully the team can bounce back and play the next three games tough.

Playing a Boston team that has lost 2 regulation games in the last 15 (giving up more than 2 reg goals once.)

Columbus who went 12-3 until cooling off their last 2 games. However, for the Rangers it's back to back nights on the road.

Pitts- On the road. The good news is that the Rangers have had some success recently against the pens.

Need at least 2 points in the next three to keep the momentum rolling.

 

[stranger34]

Do the Isles even have a system? Just seems like they bust their assess and launch pucks on net.

no lol that's about it... Capuano says "work hahd and put pucks on net!"

 

[Brooklyn Ranger]

Of course on the medical attention, that goes without saying. But an instant X-Ray service can get the opposing player back on the ice or court as opposed to going to the hospital and the game being over by the time they get the results.

Sure that's possible in theory, but this is a league that used to allow the opposing team to use the home team's practice goalie in a game back when teams only carried one goalie. Players and coaches know each other--they grew up together, played against each other, go to international tournaments...I just can't see that happening.

 

[Machinehead]

The Islanders do play a straightforward game and it can really work for a team. They can be overwhelming at times with their forecheck.

That being said, they can be figured out. Having seen them a couple of times, I expect AV to come up with something to give us the edge.

 

[GordonGecko]

Isn't the record of Eastern teams playing their first home game back from west coast trips pretty bad?

Sounds like an excellent homework assignment, who's volunteering??

 

[Megustaelhockey]

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