Post-Game Talk: NY Rangers vs Tampa Bay 3/8/18 - 7:30pm ET

[Kaapodonna]

This game was last month?!?!?!

 

[Kaapo Cabana]

I suspect we're (as in the New York Rangers not our Tampa Bay farm team) going to get killed.

Looking at the traded players so far:

Miller has 2 goals and 3 assists and 2pm in 4 games played for the Lightning so far.
McDonagh has still yet to play.
Nash had 2 goals and an assist in his first three games with Boston and nothing in the last two. I'm wondering if Bruin fans are going to find out how streaky he is.
Holden has 3 assists in 3 games played.
Grabner has given the Devils 6 straight games of pointlessness. I always liked Michael. Take that New Jersey!

Its almost like these players are good and our system is terrible.

Grabner is the only one that really thrived in this system. No team looked for stretch breakaway passes more than us. Grabner fit perfectly. When he is not doing that, he is not that great

also that fact that some geniuses on the main boards coveted Grabner more than Nash is laughable.

 

[Ori]

Nash started well @Dr Chin Richalds , but he is a streaky player. There are many who said that Grabner was good at AV current system, and most players with speed perform well with it, but outside of speed and PK - Grabner ability and skills is very limited.

 

[Richard Banger]

What is the job of a defenseman?

Depends? You still looking at positions in a vacuum

 

[Doctyl]

Depends? You still looking at positions in a vacuum

No, but unless we’re going to argue that Girardi is an offensive dynamo who more than makes up for his severe defensive shortcomings, he is bad at being a dman.

 

[Richard Banger]

No, but unless we’re going to argue that Girardi is an offensive dynamo who more than makes up for his severe defensive shortcomings, he is bad at being a dman.

Cool opinion.

 

[NYRFANMANI]

Can we stop calling JT the Bozo? Makes us look bozo-ish.

 

[Larrybiv]

Great way of evaluating defensive defensemen.

He gets the last laugh here. He leaves the team before it goes completely downhill, and signs with the best team in the league to play a similar role.

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And gets paid twice? Kind of like getting a federal check after serving 20yrs, and then getting a full time job.

 

[9darter]

Grabner has given the Devils 6 straight games of pointlessness.

Atta boy Grabs!

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Whenever someone calls someone a bozo I don't know about you guys, I think to myself "what an amazingly witty nickname."

 

[Fvital92]

Will DJ Mika play tonight?

 

[Blais to Win]

JT with 5 points for TB already.

Also hope they honor Girardi. That would be the right thing to do.

 

[Irishguy42]

1) The game is in Tampa. There will be no video for Girardi.

2) Pretty sure the Rangers already honored Girardi anyway.

Okay, let's move on.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Things I want to see:

Namestnikov hattrick
Miller game-misconduct for fighting with tape on his hands
Girardi on his knees trying to clear the zone

LOL

 

[EdJovanovski]

Can we stop calling JT the Bozo? Makes us look bozo-ish.

Never!

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

What is the job of a defenseman?

So you think the job was created after Corsi was created?

 

[Blais to Win]

The nickname is juvenile as heck.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Never!

I agree with him/her. Only you find it clever or funny. Are you a kid? Because that would explain it.

 

[PlamsUnlimited]

Never!

Can you post the image you did on the main boards

 

[Doctyl]

So you think the job was created after Corsi was created?

Don’t be intentionally dense. I really don’t understand why it’s so controversial to think a shutdown defenseman shouldn’t bleed shot attempts against.

 

[EdJovanovski]

I agree with him/her. Only you find it clever or funny. Are you a kid? Because that would explain it.

I’m a lot younger than most of the site, I don’t care if ppl find it funny, I don’t find it funny. He’s a bozo, dumbest player I’ve ever seen

 

[94Obsession]

I don't understand why certain Rangers fans are always acting like a bunch of sourpuss' especially these days whenever it comes to ex-players and when they go to other teams. Especially when they were on our team these same people probably supported these same ex-players (in this case JT Miller) more often than not. Return of the Bozo? Really??? Even if the game is in Tampa tonight, JT Miller was a damned good player for us who I at least always noticed on the ice at least and who always was on the receiving end of being jerked around from W to C back to W and line to line and also on the receiving end of being unfairly disciplined or benched by the REAL Bozo, The horrible idiot who just stands behind the bench emotionless all the time while chewing his gum. That's the real Bozo, AV. (i'm not against players being disciplined or benched and am actually a big proponent of that. But only if all the other players gets treated the same way and not singled out by the coach.) Despite getting jerked around and all that though, he still produced.

I hear he couldn't stand playing for AV and absolutely despised and detested playing for him.

Yes, I know about how Miller and his 1 goal in 40 something playoff games, but he wasn't alone in that department either. (Kevin Hayes)

I'm actually happy for JT Miller and Ryan McDonagh and all the other ex-Rangers that have left the team, or got traded over the years more recently. Good for them!!! They (Miller and McDonagh) will be just fine and probably do a lot better now that they're all on a team with much better talent surrounding them. Also, people need to realize that they don't and won't have to be relied upon as much because they won't have to be "the guy" on that team (the Lightning) because, like I said, they'll both be surrounded by better talent.

JT Miller certainly will not have to worry about being jerked around in Tampa or looking over his shoulder to be benched or in the doghouse when he makes a mistake and will not be singled out.

The whole Rangers organization needs a complete xleansing from AV and I personally, like many others, can't wait until this guy is gone after the season.

Other than that, I have personally wanted this rebuild for awhile now (since 2016), as I don't get attached to any of of these players anymore, with the exception of Lundqvist somewhat, and I couldn't care less who goes next of the fan favorites.

Also, even if some didn't like JT Miller or any other ex-Ranger that's on another team now, why is there always such nonsense spewed when it comes to these players that used to be on our team, particularly the ones in more recent years. As if or like they were bad players here or bad Rangers.

People are acting like these guys weren't good or didn't produce here.

I would've liked to see what a lot of these other Rangers fans, that always like to rip these players once they leave, were like when players that were actually worthy of being booed every time they touched the puck, and being torn apart. Players that were actually, you know, actually horrible here, and were horrible Rangers. I'm ralking about the Dark Years and teams from 1997-2004. Those are the kinds of players that deserve to be booed or ripped. Not players who left from the more recent teams after having a really good run during these years, just because it may have ended on a bad note.

 

[lilphildub]

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Don’t be intentionally dense. I really don’t understand why it’s so controversial to think a shutdown defenseman shouldn’t bleed shot attempts against.

Its not controversial to wonder that, but its also dense to ignore that this is the third coach now, third highly respected coach around the league, who has trusted G as an integral part of their D. Not just on the defense, but one of the more trusted defenseman. A different fan-base also seems to like his contribution or are they not entitled to an opinion? Players with better corsi's on that defense like Dotchin and Sustr are widely hated by their fans, so its not like they are happy with the contributions of all defensemen. They only like the play of Hedman, Stralman, Sergachyov and Girardi, a few are also okay with Coburn and Koekkoek.

Matter settled that he's an ECHL player because the shot attempts against column isn't what you'd want it to be?

 

[Doctyl]

Its not controversial to wonder that, but its also dense to ignore that this is the third coach now, third highly respected coach around the league, who has trusted G as an integral part of their D. Not just on the defense, but one of the more trusted defenseman. A different fan-base also seems to like his contribution or are they not entitled to an opinion? Players with better corsi's on that defense like Dotchin and Sustr are widely hated by their fans, so its not like they are happy with the contributions of all defensemen. They only like the play of Hedman, Stralman, Sergachyov and Girardi, a few are also okay with Coburn and Koekkoek.

Matter settled that he's an ECHL player because the shot attempts against column isn't what you'd want it to be?

Coaches can be wrong. Playing Girardi more than Sergachev is mind boggling.

He’s still the worst defensive dman on his team.