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Post-Game Talk: #24 - 11/29/19 | RANGERS @ bruins | 1:00 - NBC

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RGY said:
Hank was the reason we didnt get the doors blown off in the 3rd. Stop it.
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Yeah what the hell is going on @Ola ? Hank was not bad today at all. Very strong the last 5 of the second and the third.

And on that goal in particular Krejci is only wide open bc Strome is coasting back and not covering him when Krejci is his man. Krejci shouldn’t be wide open bc Strome should be covering. Go watch the replay of the play instead of posting screenshots. Strome releases Krejci in the NZ and coasts back puck watching Pastrnak leaving Krejci wide open. Strome either needs to be on top of Krejci or covering that passing lane. But instead he’s just coasting back and doing nothing.
 
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I rarely complain on coaches for in game decisions. I never did it with Renney, rarely with Torts and very rarely with AV — but DQ is making bad mistakes.

Ziba had 24 minutes tonight, that is way to much. These guys are tired, of course they will make mistakes.

There are many many top guys in this league who don’t play much more than 18 minutes on many nights. There is a reason for that, it’s not like their coach wouldn’t like to use them more.

Fox was tired, it got to him. He was fantastic to start the game. Fantastic, then he was overused on that PP stretch in the second and never got his crispness back and lost some confidence.

DQs need to get better at managing the bench. Or to be honest, I wonder how much longer he will be here. Maybe it’s just this year.
 
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Powerplay mix is just wrong right now. And Zib was missing a ton of passes there which didn't help. It's still going to be several games until he's at his best.

Third line is still a huge issue. Kakko has to play with some urgency, because right now there's not enough of it. Just too passive. It will come, but that's where things stand right now. Chytil, Strome, and Zib have to be playing center for this team to have the depth it needs.
 
I don't think we played well for 30 minutes. I think the Bruins played poorly for 30 minutes.
 
DanielBrassard said:
First 35 minutes of the game were outstanding for the most part. They were not giving Boston much time and space, were causing turnovers in the neutral zone and just inside the blueline before the Bruins could setup their attack. Then they started backing off and giving them tons of room to skate pucks in and it fell apart from there. Wasn't a bad performance overall but the first 35 minutres is how they have to play.
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It was going too well, Ruff had to make some adjustments.
 
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Filthy Dangles said:
How can you fault the goalie but not mention the defense, namely the 2 backcheckers for allowing that pass to make it through? Not to mention Pasternak deserves some credit for making the play happen too.

It was basically 1v4, Pastrnak vs 3 Rangers and 1 goalie. I'm not even sure Krejci was in the zone when he drove wide on Fox. Lundqvist read he had no help and really cut down the angle. I call that playing the %'s as much as an 'overcommit' in that situation.
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100% Accurate.
 
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Glen Sathers Cigar said:
Yeah what the hell is going on @Ola ? Hank was not bad today at all. Very strong the last 5 of the second and the third.

And on that goal in particular Krejci is only wide open bc Strome is coasting back and not covering him when Krejci is his man. Krejci shouldn’t be wide open bc Strome should be covering. Go watch the replay of the play instead of posting screenshots. Strome releases Krejci in the NZ and coasts back puck watching Pastrnak leaving Krejci wide open. Strome either needs to be on top of Krejci or covering that passing lane. But instead he’s just coasting back and doing nothing.
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No you misunderstand me, Hank was great up until OT.

But that goal is a big mistake. We are a young rebuilding team. To succeed as such in a really tough conference you need great, not good, goaltending.

And I think we are a little blinded by Hank, which in its turn also give us rose colored glasses on Geo who also hasn’t been great.

Hank gives a goal away in OT. A player stick handles down below the goal line and he leaves the entire net wide open. Sure it can happen to everyone, but THIS TEAM won’t make the POs unless the guy between the pipes carry us to pts and is spotless more often than not.
 
Tob said:
I don't think we played well for 30 minutes. I think the Bruins played poorly for 30 minutes.
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If that were the case then we were never a chance in this game; which means there's a lot of people who are really overreacting.....
 
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Boston did a great job of making us stretch out our lateral passes another 5-10 feet, especially on the PP. The game turned after that.
 
eco's bones said:
Our power play was atrocious. Too much farting around. The two man advantage we didn't get a shot---the 4 minute penalty towards the end of the 3rd we lost just about every puck battle. Boston are an excellent team so getting a point out of them isn't a horrible result but IMO we let them take the game away from us.
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and again, right on the money.

exactly.

good teams, even rebuilding ones, needs to slam the door shut when they have the chance.

5 on 3 and a 4 min and we get zilch. cant happen.

we needed to make it 3-0. we didn't. we lost.

too many here too willing to take a point.

we lost a point imo.
 
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mike14 said:
Which is kind of weird as it seems like something Panarin, Mika, ADA and probably even Fox could exploit
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They're looking for the slam dunk plays. Shoot it on goal for rebounds and break down the box, then you can try those plays.
 
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Teams like the Bruins are where I'd really like to see Kreider and Lemiuex step up as the players that play 'big', throw the body around and make life tough for the opposition. Neither were really noticable in this game
 
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offdacrossbar said:
and again, right on the money.

exactly.

good teams, even rebuilding ones, needs to slam the door shut when they have the chance.

5 on 3 and a 4 min and we get zilch. cant happen.

we needed to make it 3-0. we didn't. we lost.

too many here too willing to take a point.

we lost a point imo.
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Absolutely valid. The PP was atrocious.
 
Filthy Dangles said:
How can you fault the goalie but not mention the defense, namely the 2 backcheckers for allowing that pass to make it through? Not to mention Pasternak deserves some credit for making the play happen too.

It was basically 1v4, Pastrnak vs 3 Rangers and 1 goalie. I'm not even sure Krejci was in the zone when he drove wide on Fox. Lundqvist read he had no help and really cut down the angle. I call that playing the %'s as much as an 'overcommit' in that situation.
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At the same time, what the D give up is a soft shot bouncing towards an open net. John Davidson saves that shot if he doesn’t over commits as much as Hank did.

Let’s call a spade a spade, that is as major break down as you will see from a goalie in this league. A bouncing crap puck can sometimes be harder to stop then a normal shot, and sometimes those trickles in. But a goalie can’t take himself out of the equation totally when a skate just bears down on you. That is what you can get from a U20 goalie, not a top guy in the NHL.

Which Hank isn’t anymore.
 
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