Post-Game Talk: #10 - 10/29/19 | lightning @ RANGERS

[FIRE DRURY]

This was likely Kreider’s best game of the season, heck this was a lot of players best game of the season so far. Lol.

Definitely Staals best game of the season.

I don’t recall him making a single mistake all game.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

Who said anything about "fired up"?

They were better because Staal is awful.

This is a weak take

 

[Cag29]

We finally have our 1C. What do you guys think we can get for a solid 2C like Zibanejad?

Newhook ,Bowen Bryan and 2020 1st for Mika.

 

[The S5]

Georgiev was great tonight but Hank has been good this season too. The boxcar stats look pedestrian but there's some charts floating around showing how great he's been doing considering his workload and the quality of chances he's been facing. I believe he's 3rd in the league in GSAA.

Goaltending hasn't been an issue at all. Hank isn't 2012 Hank anymore but he's still good. They can for sure be a good tandem this year. The team played better tonight than they have all season. If they play close to this level every game, they're going to win a lot or at least get much more favorable results because their goalies are both good enough to put them over the top when the team plays structured and sound defensively.

Tonight actually looked like defensive zone structure has been practiced, nowhere near the amount of unchecked players, open passing lanes or lost battles in front or down low. Lots of good positioning, smart sticks and most importantly to me: smart pressure in the D zone. No standing around and watching. Players applied pressure at the perfect times as opposed to most of this season when they'd be standing and watching in the D zone and the other team could just do what they want and we were always a step behind.

Very impressed with the effort all around. Now I'd like to see them carry this effort forward and play with this kind of structure going forward. Losing is one thing but if they lose while looking how they did tonight then it is more palatable. Losing while getting outshot 45-20 and looking like pee wees out there is so disheartening.

Tampa still had a ton of chances.

 

[Inferno]

I'm absolutely shocked Quinn had the balls to bench staal...

I'm less shocked that he's getting like no credit for doing so.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

Definitely Staals best game of the season.

I don’t recall him making a single mistake all game.

Na we probably won because Z-bad was out

if we want to be silly

 

[Machinehead]

This is a weak take

It's the correct take.

 

[aufheben]

That was hockey.

 

[FIRE DRURY]

I explained my opinion on a follow up post

Team took a step in the right direction.

Offensively and Defensively. Nobody is saying we have turned our season around.

Time to build off it.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Tampa still had a ton of chances.

5 High danger chances all night.

I'll take that for the rest of the season thank you very much.

 

[Kakko]

Staal being out probably helped on defense. Big ups to Lindgren for making everything of the opportunity.
But maybe just as importantly, Skjei didn't suck tonight.

 

[BKGooner]

Young teams can be schizo. Your going to have games like tonight and Sunday over the course of the season. Just enjoy watching the kids grow into their roles. Real happy for Chytil tonight. I hope he keeps it going.

 

[Raspewtin]

I'm absolutely shocked Quinn had the balls to bench staal...

I'm less shocked that he's getting like no credit for doing so.

i’m happy he did it and it was a good move but making good personnel decisions should come with the territory of being a coach lol

i will give him credit for doing it rather quickly. i feel like you don’t resort to this until game 30 or something

 

[Leonardo87]

Definitely Staals best game of the season.

I don’t recall him making a single mistake all game.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

Team took a step in the right direction.

Offensively and Defensively. Nobody is saying we have turned our season around.

Time to build off it.

Yes which is a good thing.

 

[TheDirtyH]

Somehow losing Zibanejad mattered less than losing Staal.

 

[LeetchisGod]

Thought Lemieux was crazy noticeable

He just needs some consistency. The tools are there to be an effective player in the league.

 

[fiedy88]

Called it!!

 

[Machinehead]

Yes, Quinn benched the worst player in the NHL over the last five years.

Good going, coach!

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

Remember when getting rid of Girardi was going to fix everything, but it didn’t

 

[Irishguy42]

I'm absolutely shocked Quinn had the balls to bench staal...

I'm less shocked that he's getting like no credit for doing so.

I think it's okay to hold back credit for it if only to see what he does for Saturday. If he goes right back to Staal after a dominating win like this without him in the lineup, then there's not point in giving Quinn credit because it's just negated by putting him back in.

If he scratches Staal for even just one more game, then yeah it's good. Ideally, Staal gets scratched a lot more, but I'll take two consecutive games at a time. Baby steps.

 

[TheDirtyH]

Skjei has had a handful of nice game in a row here as well. He and Deangelo seem to bring out the best in one another.

 

[Machinehead]

Remember when getting rid of Girardi was going to fix everything, but it didn’t

Because we still had Staal and terrible coaching?

 

[Irishguy42]

Skjei has had a handful of nice game in a row here as well. He and Deangelo seem to bring out the best in one another.

As opposed to last year where the two of them together was absolute trash.

 

[bl02]

No Staaling tonight. Rangers kept the pedal to the metal.