GDT: #66 - 3/3/20 | Rangers vs. Blues | 7:00 PM ET - MSG

[Kords]

Isles are getting stomped.

Got boo'd off the ice after the 1st

 

[Cmox]

balancing the game

So far the refs are :

• Not calling clear penalties
• Missed a offsides
• Taking out players
• Not clearing sticks

Seems like exactly that.

 

[effen]

Fun, very different style of game, bitching about various things to bitch about aside. I'll sign up for finishing out the season doing this and finishing 12th as opposed to nose diving and finishing like 8th.

 

[nyrage]

Good effort so far, especially defensively.

 

[BleedBlueNYR]

Isles get rekt.

That’s always fun but it’s not over till it’s over against MTL.

 

[Mandar]

That’s like me blaming my mom asking me to go to the store to get milk for some drunk driver crashing into me when I was on my way there

its actually not like that at all.

Its more like going out to drive on an icy road....then blaming the road when you didn't need to go out in the first place.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

I got ripped apart in preseason suggesting that, lol.

Ya cus he was gonna score 60 points I guess. I wish they would have a policy that all prospects start their career in Hartford.

 

[effen]

So far the refs are :

• Not calling clear penalties
• Missed a offsides
• Taking out players
• Not clearing sticks

Seems like exactly that.

They do this sometimes, just nearly as much as when Kerry Fraser and Mick MaGoo were running wild not calling shit because GRIT

 

[PuckLuck3043]

Isles get rekt.

We know Montreal can't hold onto 2 goal leads so lets see if they can hold onto a 4 goal lead.

 

[will1066]

This is why you keep one of those big gulp cups in the booth.

He needs a Papa Johns reserve too

 

[eco's bones]

I thought the slash on Strome was pretty weak. Then Howden gets dragged down by somebody--the most obvious call to be made all night and no call.

The Rangers playing pretty well though. Hopefully we can win this one.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Got boo'd off the ice after the 1st

How can you blame the Isles fans, they’re used to a certain standard of quality and this performance just isn’t up to those standards.

 

[Mandar]

Broken stick, shock

sticks being made in China.....sticks have that virus.....

 

[BleedBlueNYR]

We know Montreal can't hold onto 2 goal leads so lets see if they can hold onto a 4 goal lead.

They can’t, we proved it a few months ago haha.

 

[effen]

Ya cus he was gonna score 60 points I guess. I wish they would have a policy that all prospects start their career in Hartford.

iirc Detroit did this for a while and it worked well... until it didn't.

That said, ALL the youngun forwards the past 2 years except I think Chytil in year 1 shoulda started the year in HFD and visibly so. Maybe Andersson this past year shoulda made it if we were being charitable.

 

[Kovalev27]

The amount of clear penalties STL has gotten away with is an embarrassment

our boys are playing their asses off

 

[BleedBlueNYR]

How can you blame the Isles fans, they’re used to a certain standard of quality and this performance just isn’t up to those standards.

You’re right they’re used to losing by 3 not 4.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

How can you blame the Isles fans, they’re used to a certain standard of quality and this performance just isn’t up to those standards.

What standard of quality is that? This is a franchise that has won 2 playoff series in 26 years.

 

[n8]

He just turned 19.

Did he age backwards since the summer or is Scandella just a fitness freak? I just rewatched some of the WC footage. His motor looks like it is running at 2x like those old Shaw Brothers movies that play overcranked. His confidence is sky high. I think the more plausible explanation is that he hasn't fully adjusted to NA ice. He wasn't as dominant as I recall but he was able to use the space to create separation between the defenders and the puck. That + the confidence thing, I think we are seeing a different player. That is where the whole 19 y.o. statement is valid. Just a blanket declaration of his age is not a rebuttal though.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

The Isles must be really bad tonight because Homer Butch isn't even blaming the refs for it.

 

[Whoot Whoot]

No call:

 

[n8]

So far the refs are :

• Not calling clear penalties
• Missed a offsides
• Taking out players
• Not clearing sticks

Seems like exactly that.

I've noticed that this season, the refs/linesmen don't ever clear sticks or helmets while the play in action. What is up with that? I always thought they would do that as a safety issue.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

No call:

On what planet do you not call that? I don't care what the penalty score is. This is why NHL officiating is pure shit.

 

[NYR94]

Chris Ruhwedel?

It's Chad.

 

[Mandar]

No call:

put that on the main board and see the reaction....

 

[Harbour Dog]

No call:

That is a penalty at every level.

If the game of hockey was brought to some part of the world that had never seen it, and they weren't given a list of infractions that their referee should be calling during the game, this would still of been a penalty there.