Post-Game Talk: SCQ #1 - 8/1/20 | RANGERS @ hurricanes

[aufheben]

Is that what you took away from watching Fox? I thought he was composed and made some really smart plays. He was far from perfect but he showed himself well in his first playoff game.
Remember, unless your last name is Orr, a successful breakout is a more about team structure than individual ability. There were many times that Fox escaped the forecheck, made the first pass, only to have the puck turned right back at him.

I think Fox is already a borderline elite player, so a “far from perfect” game by him will have a disastrous effect on the game.

 

[cwede]

No one was great.
The team work was worse, weak at both ends of the ice, unimpressive on specials.
I am not a fairweather guy,
I totally believe they can win 3 of 4.
By playing much better 1 thru 19

 

[JT Kreider]

Canes are a much more polished, better coached and well rounded team. Much deeper (and that was without Hamilton and Pesce), with the elite talent to match anyone, practically the perfect team for playoff hockey as long as their goaltending holds up.

A nightmare draw really. Those 4 wins during the regular season might as well been a decade ago.

We are a team two years into a rebuild that has nothing to show for it's most important trade and 2nd highest draft pick.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

The reason we’ve been successful against Carolina in recent years, this year included, is that we’ve gotten good goaltending - but more importantly IMO is that we are a quality over quantity team. We have/had goalies good enough to eat up the quantity being thrown at them but ultimately we would win out on quality or chances. We would have better high danger chances and we would capitalize on them. Happened with AV and it’s happened with Quinn.

Tonight we did not own the quality battle. I could count on one hand the amount of times Mrazek had to make a nice save or the amount of times it felt like we might score.

It was endless dump and chase and out for the first two periods. And normally that would suck but could be a fact of life in the playoffs but tonight it was even worse bc we were gifted so many PP chances and we did nothing with them, let alone the no goals but barely generated any momentum. Just atrocious those PPs were.

 

[Ola]

Best surprise for me were especially Smith but also Staal. Kreider by far biggest disappointment.

Hank was strong too. Really tough situation. Think he should have started over Shesty no matter what. Look at EDM. We could have had a collapse too. If Hank gets one, who cares 12 months from now? A horrible game from Shesty could have had career impact.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

No one was great.
The team work was worse, weak at both ends of the ice, unimpressive on specials.
I am not a fairweather guy,
I totally believe they can win 3 of 4.
By playing much better 1 thru 19

I think there's some weird belief amongst some fans that if you think the Rangers will lose a series you're a bad or fairweather fan. I don't get it.

 

[Ola]

Our biggest problem is that we clearly have top players who takes things into their own hands while we have a coach who just don’t get the game at an elite level.

Sure this is the POs, but compare how we looked against Carolina earlier in the season to today. What is the difference? Roughly it was that we didn’t buy our self any time on the ice anywhere. Without any single doubt. We made it super easy for Carolina.

And not only didn’t we do what needed to be done, we instead digged a deeper hole by doing the exact opposite things. “Getting on the inside”. “Putting pucks on the net”. No it was not time to throw pucks away or skate around finishing every hit. We should have been patient. Gone back to the basics — of this team’s — game.

 

[aufheben]

Pretty sweet though that Kakko got to play 6:48 with Panarin. That’s more than he played with any other player. Kakko also played more 5v5 shifts than again any other player sans Panarin with 19.

 

[Kovalev27]

He "should" do whatever the hell he feels like doing.

Remember this post next time you yourself want to say what a player should do on a hockey message board. As if you’re above it. Just remember it.

 

[NYR Viper]

Smith did his usual playoff performance. For some reason he is able to up his game for the playoffs. He’s physical and gets the job done for the most part. He also handles the puck decently well in the offensive zone.

 

[Crease]

I'm going to murder a dead horse here . . . today's game but the Rangers took Necas and the Canes Andersson.

 

[aufheben]

Stat cards up for anyone bored.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

I'm going to murder a dead horse here . . . today's game but the Rangers took Necas and the Canes Andersson.

Suzuki should have been our pick.

 

[Black Aces]

I'm going to murder a dead horse here . . . today's game but the Rangers took Necas and the Canes Andersson.

A few teams took scrubs in that draft.

 

[Black Aces]

Pretty sweet though that Kakko got to play 6:48 with Panarin. That’s more than he played with any other player. Kakko also played more 5v5 shifts than again any other player sans Panarin with 19.

He was our best forward. If he keeps it up I want him playing more.

 

[nyr2k2]

Remember this post next time you yourself want to say what a player should do on a hockey message board. As if you’re above it. Just remember it.

Will do, I'll even bookmark it.

Honestly, I don't even care when people share their opinion on what a player should do. That's fine. You're just so intensely negative with Lundqvist all the f***ing time and it's old. Like today, dude goes out there not knowing he's going to start until the previous night and plays a damn good game. And your response to that is that he should retire? Come on.

The post I quoted where you concluded he should retire was probably the most neutral thing you've said about him in years.

 

[aufheben]

Man, hockey’s been back for like 72 hours and I’m already sick of our GDTs.

 

[Crease]

Man, hockey’s been back for like 72 hours and I’m already sick of our GDTs.

I thought I performed well today.

 

[JT Kreider]

Best surprise for me were especially Smith but also Staal. Kreider by far biggest disappointment.

Hank was strong too. Really tough situation. Think he should have started over Shesty no matter what. Look at EDM. We could have had a collapse too. If Hank gets one, who cares 12 months from now? A horrible game from Shesty could have had career impact.

Lundqvist got obliterated in his first playoff start

 

[Crease]

Lundqvist got obliterated in his first playoff start

I recall him getting lit up the first couple series. Wasn't there a narrative for a while that he was big game choker?

The sooner Igor gets in his playoff reps the better. The experience helps.

 

[egelband]

At least Kakko and Gauthier looked like they took some big steps forward. That's the only nice thing I have to say about that.

Hank kept it close.

This. The Carolinas played great defense on our best players. It’s that simple. Some of the depth guys stepped up but not nearly enough. As happens in the playoffs, depth, timely scoring, goaltending...it’s a game of inches and being cool under pressure. They will take away a ton from this game. Hopefully they are quick studies.

 

[OverTheCap]

This thread brings me back to the good ole days - abysmal special teams, defense and offense not clicking, yet goaltending is the focal point of conversation despite Hank playing a solid game.

Never change, HF.

 

[JT Kreider]

I recall him getting lit up the first couple series. Wasn't there a narrative for a while that he was big game choker?

The sooner Igor gets in his playoff reps the better. The experience helps.

Just that first series against the Devils. He was really good against the Thrashers, Sabres and then the 2nd Devils series.

Then he had a bad stretch until the 2012 playoffs.

 

[nyr2k2]

Lundqvist got obliterated in his first playoff start

I recall him getting lit up the first couple series. Wasn't there a narrative for a while that he was big game choker?

The sooner Igor gets in his playoff reps the better. The experience helps.

His first playoff series he had one start the final three weeks or whatever because he had the hip injury. That coincided with the vision issues he complained about which were apparently severe migraines, which he started being treated for with medication (this was alternately reported as headaches caused by grinding his teeth at night).

 

[egelband]

We need @RangerBoy back.