GDT: #11 - 02/08/21 | islanders @ RANGERS | 7:00 - MSG, NBCSN

[will1066]

I like this game. Feels real.

This is a playoff type game in terms of structure, discipline, and bend but don't break D

 

[SnowblindNYR]

buch has been pretty crap

He's the king of the pass to no one.

 

[JRinNYC]

Can someone tell the main camera person to clean the lens. There is a speck on the middle lower half. Thought I had something on my TV.

Yay!! Looks like they cleaned it during the TV time out.

 

[ElLeetch]

Trotz hockey is bad for the game.

 

[will1066]

Defensively, yes.

Passing?? Dumb as a box of rocks

Top six. Bottom six has been fine.

 

[DialUp]

Poor Roonz, dude balls out there and gets the business.

 

[BKGooner]

Pierre McGuire: "you don't usually see Jacob Trouba lose a footrace"

Pierre must not have seen Trouba skate the last 2 years

It’s cute how Trouba wears the skates with the double blades to give the other guys a chance.

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

Haha, Gaut and Laf were such prolific scorers in the Q. Gorton and Clark will be like, "we're never drafting/trading for French Canadians ever again"

 

[Black Aces]

the interference is ridiculous

 

[Casper The Soy Ghost]

Bitetto & Hajek has been 10 times better than ADA & Johnson.

As soon as they got out of the lineup, we started to let in way less goals and as a result we started to win games.

Just goes to show that a d-man gotta be good at D first and foremost.

 

[LokiDog]

We look so impotent offensively. It’s such a departure from last year. I know we’re thin on center depth and the Islanders play crappy safe hockey, but it’s not much fun to watch.

 

[will1066]

Unfortunately NBC broadcast is blacked out. Wish we could have the option here in the Metro area

For the record, Pierre has been gushing about the third line of PDG, Laf, and Howden/Gauthier.

 

[ElLeetch]

the interference is ridiculous

Trotz hockey in a nutshell.

 

[effen]

Panarin with an elite backcheck

When he's 45 he'll be as good as Jesper Fast is now.

 

[BroadwayStorm]

I'm pretty certain well be lifting the cup by 2025

 

[Cmox]

Why is everyone falling so much?

 

[DialUp]

Haha, Gaut and Laf were such prolific scorers in the Q. Gorton and Clark will be like, "we're never drafting/trading for French Canadians ever again"

lol yeah instead they will draft grinders 2 rounds higher than they should! I do think Laf has the goods to be a bit of a menace, but he's not there yet.

 

[Black Aces]

Games like this are why you cannot have a putrid PP

 

[Tob]

save us Marian Gaborik

 

[bobbop]

The improvement in the Rangers defensive structure is breathtaking.

Jacques Martin deserves a TON of credit.

 

[ColonialsHockey10]

That period was boring as shit.

Islanders are gonna get a power play in the 3rd, it’s inevitable. Rangers need to pot one.

 

[RGY]

Strome is such a nothing player.

 

[Daves a mess]

Trotz hockey is bad for the game.

Jacques Lemaire disagrees.

 

[aufheben]

We look so impotent offensively. It’s such a departure from last year. I know we’re thin on center depth and the Islanders play crappy safe hockey, but it’s not much fun to watch.

I was saying during the off-season that playing defense isn’t necessarily the hard part, it’s playing defense without sacrificing offense.

Although some of the veteran forwards have been doing diddle which might make it worse.

 

[DanielBrassard]

That was terrible.