Post-Game Talk: An absolute sham! We tied the game! Love you Hank

[mrmel29]

I think it was the correct call, don’t play like shit for 40 minutes, and you walk away with a win.

Ryan Lindgren is only a first pair dman because he gets to play with Fox.

Way too many AHL players in the lineup tonight.

Great point about lindgren. Vastly overrated.

 

[TheBloodyNine]

Sure could be the case. I would hope not since he's here for 4 more years but it would be so typical.

I mean, that's what happens when you sign UFAs. Eventually they get old and less effective. He's not having a bad season, but he certainly not having the game to game impact he had the first two seasons here. I'd be willing to bet that part of that is coaching. But logically it follows that this is just part of the way UFA signings go. Most sign these guys when they are ready to compete so they get their best years up front and then win.

 

[Wtp99]

Quinn wasn't behind the bench. But this guy ain't much better.

I know but this game harkened back to the last couple of seasons. I think the team has bought into to the system that Gallant has brought in.
But was not played the last couple of games.
That definitely was a goal at the end, one point would have been nice tonight

 

[Kocur26]

Evander Kane would have grabbed Greenway …
Just Sayin

he tore us apart tonite and Reaves went lady byng

 

[Clark Kellogg]

I honestly think there's something wrong with Panarin physically. His first year with the team he was still excellent at 5v5. Then last season there was some leakage and now he's a negative more often than he's not.

Agree. I think he’s playing hurt. Maybe when he left the team last year some group did a Pope of Greenwich Village on him.
Hard to play with 8 when your supposed to have 10.

 

[TheBloodyNine]

Agree with the bold, though I would say they are about average at 5v5, not necessarily "bad". Far from upper echelon in that regar They need a few roster changes to see 5v5 improvement, and I don't even want or like Miller much so he wouldn't be my pick. They need to adjust the top 6. Kreider, Zibanejad, Panarin are locked in. Every other spot in the top 6 should be looked at with a microscope to find a way to change the makeup of it.

But this is not a coaching problem. It's still a bit of a roster problem, mixed with underperforming young players.

They need to adjust the top six - but the coach either wont or doesn't see it. He can't properly deploy his units. Coaching issue. Again, they have played this way all season. They played like this last night and they weren't missing any true difference makers on this team (shoutout to Gallant for picking up where Quinn left off in developing our young guys) until the third period.

Do they need additional players? Absolutely. But that's not going to stop Gallant from continuously making bad coaching choices, it's not going to stop him from his team being unprepared to play.

 

[Machinehead]

It's fitting that AV coached this team at their height, because AV and this organization have the same mentality.

It seems to me that they won't adjust because they think their style facilities spectacular goaltending.

In reality, they just lucked into talent, like AV did.

Once AV got a serviceable but unspectacular goalie in Carter Hart (at least to this point in his young career), oopsie f***ing doopsie.

 

[DanielBrassard]

Agree. I think he’s playing hurt. Maybe when he left the team last year some group did a Pope of Greenwich Village on him.
Hard to play with 8 when your supposed to have 10.

Lol yeah exactly. But I think it has more to do with his conditioning and stamina than anything.

 

[bl02]

GG excuse city or sticking up for his team/players? You make the call

 

[Kocur26]

The Rangers quit @ 2-2

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Skill players looking for quality isn't the problem.

The problem is that Zibanejad and Panarin are anchors even strength and literally don't play unless they have a fantastic scoring chance.

They both picked that up after playing for the Rangers, particularly Panarin who used to be a demon off the puck.

I don't think 34-27 shot advantage is enough for an epic outshooting post. We looked horrendous in the last two periods but the shot disadvantage wasn't the problem today, except for the 2nd.

 

[TheBloodyNine]

I know but this game harkened back to the last couple of seasons. I think the team has bought into to the system that Gallant has brought in.
But was not played the last couple of games.
That definitely was a goal at the end, one point would have been nice tonight

If the team has bought into this system then that is not good, because whatever system they are running needs to change ASAP. This is not anything new - they have played this way all season.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

Agree with this, Brodinski should not have been playing. Give Barron a chance here. Hunt should be on the taxi squad, do we have no one better
I do think that Laf looks pretty good with Kreider and Zibanajad

If you’re going to play Brodzinski then you should play his whole Hartford line and sit McKegg and Hunt.

 

[Kocur26]

GG excuse city or sticking up for his team/players? You make the call

Excuse city

 

[Kocur26]

Gallant speaks like a 70’s cartoon character…
He’d make a great Frog or rabbit

 

[DialUp]

I don't know Turk, look around the league and the division and I am not seeing too much losing from top teams. Playoff position teams have 8-10 loses left EACH, what's his plan to keep pace?

 

[Machinehead]

I don't think 34-27 shot advantage is enough for an epic outshooting post. We looked horrendous in the last two periods but the shot disadvantage wasn't the problem today, except for the 2nd.

Look at the attempts.

And despite what the Rangers would tell you, you can't really make the other team miss.

 

[Rangers in 7]

I watched the goal again, it should have counted

 

[Kovalev27]

I like Laf on that line. I’ll live with the growing pains. Leave him there. As I’ve said from day one. It doesn’t matter what wing kreider is on he’s going to end up in front of the net 99 percent of the time.

Lineup was too green tonight. No idea why brodzinski is in over barron though. Gallant doesn’t like Lundkvist and I don’t blame him

 

[Clark Kellogg]

Lol yeah exactly. But I think it has more to do with his conditioning and stamina than anything.

Could be. Someone here mentioned that he brought over his family this summer to live here permanently.
Maybe the distraction is throwing him of his training and that in turn is throwing him off his game.

 

[DanielBrassard]

It's fitting that AV coached this team at their height, because AV and this organization have the same mentality.

It seems to me that they won't adjust because they think their style facilities spectacular goaltending.

In reality, they just lucked into talent, like AV did.

Once AV got a serviceable but unspectacular goalie in Carter Hart (at least to this point in his young career), oopsie f***ing doopsie.

They clearly believe in the "quality over quantity" idea, but the problem is that when you generate so little and give up so much the quantity becomes so overwhelming that it doesn't make up for it. It's not working but the FO doesn't seem to understand it.

 

[DialUp]

I like Laf on that line. I’ll live with the growing pains. Leave him there. As I’ve said from day one. It doesn’t matter what wing kreider is on he’s going to end up in front of the net 99 percent of the time.

Lineup was too green tonight. No idea why brodzinski is in over barron though. Gallant doesn’t like Lundkvist and I don’t blame him

Laf sure wasn't the problem

 

[CLW]

It's hard to judge their play too much when they're missing Fox, let alone the forwards that are out forcing multiple AHL guys in the lineup.

Without Fox we're completely dead in the water. He's so important in every aspect of the team that without him we're unable to anything really effectively. The PP is worse, the PK is worse, we can't breakout of our zone, we get hemmed in where he would've made an easy breakout 30 seconds ago, we have no transition game, we don't push the pace through the NZ bc all the other D just either dump it or hesitate too long on their passes, we don't have the creativity in the offensive zone to slide into open seams and stuff. Really when he's out it leaves a gigantic gaping Grand Canyon sized hole in the team.

That just highlights what we've been saying - one player cannot be the system. Gallant & company have to figure out the transition team game this sh*t has been going on for too long now.

 

[bbny]

They need to adjust the top six - but the coach either wont or doesn't see it. He can't properly deploy his units. Coaching issue. Again, they have played this way all season. They played like this last night and they weren't missing any true difference makers on this team (shoutout to Gallant for picking up where Quinn left off in developing our young guys) until the third period.

Do they need additional players? Absolutely. But that's not going to stop Gallant from continuously making bad coaching choices, it's not going to stop him from his team being unprepared to play.

He has tried every which way to fill the holes at RW in the top 6. Everyone he puts there is horrendous. That's about it.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

I honestly thought they made the right call on the goal, Strome pushes the goalies pad before Zib shoots it in, its goalie interference.

As for the game, the effort isn't there, it hasn't been there for a while.