GDT: #9 - 02/01/21 | penguins @ RANGERS | 7:00 - MSG PLUS, NBCSN

[RGY]

Laf with a strong 9:00 minutes of development

Only Brodzinski had less ice time than him for the forward group. Just absurd. I didnt see him do anything significantly wrong to not be out on the ice.

Also Bitetto only got 14+ minutes and that was with us being down to 5 defenseman. If you cant trust him then play someone else. Find someone else.

 

[Kovalev27]

9 mins for Laf and that’s after playing IMO his best period of the year.

Quinn did the exact same thing to kakko a few nights ago so shouldn’t be surprised

great third period

again you win Cups with guys like Miller and Fox on your blue line.

huge for shesterkin. That’s him at his best shutting it down. Quinn cannot be dumb enough to go back to Georgie here can he?

not for nothing this has been a nightmare start. Not sure what else could go wrong but a win on Thursday and this team is thru 10 games a 500 hockey team. Plenty of time to build off of that if that’s the case.

 

[duhmetreE]

Gorton needs to go get some depth.

 

[Black Aces]

God, they needed this win.

it would be nice to see them play some solid 60 mins from now on. It would be demoralizing to see them crap the bed

 

[Machinehead]

The lines they said they would have:

Lafreniere-Zibanejad-Kreider
Panarin-Strome-Buchnevich
PDG-Howden-Gauthier
Lemieux-Rooney-Brodzinski

The lines we had:

Kreider-Zibanejad-Buchnevich
Panarin-Rooney-Buchnevich
Rooney-Howden-Rooney
Rooney-Rooney-Rooney

 

[Osminator]

Bitetto may just be the no. 5/6 guy that the Rangers were looking for. Kinda doubt Hajek comes in at this stage...

 

[Siddi]

1-0 post douche bag era.

LGR!

 

[Machinehead]

1-0 post douche bag era.

LGR!

Don't talk about Kakko like that!

 

[17futurecap]

Gorton needs to go get some depth.

whats Grabner up to, we could use some short handed goals since we are always in the box.

 

[duhmetreE]

2 games over the next 7 days.

might be a nice time to get another center or defenseman

 

[Vitto79]

Bitetto may just be the no. 5/6 guy that the Rangers were looking for. Kinda doubt Hajek comes in at this stage...

well Smith looks out and JJ is too so it is Hajek by default

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

clearly tony was the bulk of this teams issues

gone and we win

coincidence?

 

[Kovalev27]

Hajek is gonna have to play smith is in the dark room at this point for a while.

 

[Siddi]

Don't talk about Kakko like that!

I would never talk down to Kakko like that, bless his heart.

 

[Algernop Kreider]

I know the stats say that face-offs don't have a huge impact on possession or expected goals, but f***ing hell, they really do kill us.

I don't know much about the numbers, but I would intuitively believe that while 5v5 faceoffs don't mean much, high leverage face-offs (particularly on special teams) have a statistically significant impact on expected goals. Someone else would have to run the numbers on that though.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Really hope Shayna writes an article soon reassuring me he’s gonna be ok.

and by "article" you mean an assortment of graphs and charts, right?

 

[duhmetreE]

Hajek is gonna have to play smith is in the dark room at this point for a while.

lets be serious...

JJ's groin is magically healed

 

[Filthy Dangles]

i have ocd and am really annoyed that Rooney's bucket has a CCM decal from like 2009 on it instead of the current one everyone else has.

 

[RGY]

Hajek is gonna have to play smith is in the dark room at this point for a while.

Would rather Hajek than Johnson.

 

[Machinehead]

Should I do the post game? I'm just gonna go ahead and do the post game.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Gorton needs to go get some depth.

Kakko and Blackwell will be back in short order.

I'd rather see Tarmo than Hajek.

 

[Tob]

NY Brass sneaky as f*** putting Artemi out there for the post game interviews with the old "no no hablo ingles" tactic to avoid tough questions about Tony D

 

[LOFIN]

Laf with a strong 9:00 minutes of development

Unacceptable. Flatout shocking.

 

[Kovalev27]

lets be serious...

JJ's groin is magically healed

he hasn’t even been skating yet so we’ll see

 

[Rempe73]

clearly tony was the bulk of this teams issues

gone and we win

coincidence?

Rent free

We also lost without him earlier in the season