GDT: #49 - 01/23/18 | rangers @ ducks | 10:00 - MSG PLUS

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Callahan and Girardi are UNBELIEVABLE Rangers. To say otherwise is blasphemy. Their careers may have been shortened because of their reckless style of play but that is what endeared them to me and countless other Rangers fans. Ext time you go to a game or actually watch one take a look at whose jersey you see the most of. Guys like Graves, Messier, Callahan, Dubinsky. Not the guys whose fancy stats look the best on a video game.

The Rangers gave up more goals when Callahan and Girardi were on the ice than when they weren't on the ice. How are those fancy video game numbers?

All you old school guys love +/- until it doesn't agree with you, and then you pretend it's made up.
I'm honestly not sure. Doesn't GF look at goals for productivity for a player? Look, I'm not sure on the stats and this might be rubbish, but wouldn't you expect primarily defense first players to be bad at GF%?

Guys who specialise in things like that are often defensive players. They have a combined +50 in their career, which I know is a hated stat, but does have some value over 2000 games.

Yeah, stop the puck going to the net as best you can and the quicker the better. A poke check, an interception, some pressure are all preferable, but sometimes a block is all you have left.

I'll give you that with Betts because his offensive numbers are unbelievably putrid but his goals against is in the black.

Girardi and Callahan could never keep pucks out of their own net.

It's discouraging that the same people who fall over themselves to bring up +/- with Yandle and Shattenkirk still consider Girardi and Callahan great defensive players.
 
This is an ugly start.
You can say that about every game we’ve played this year and it’d be accurate

You can also change the word “start” to “finish” and it’d also be accurate
 
Kinda sad when are biggest offensive threat will probably be the one traded in 4 weeks.
 
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