Around the NHL - Part XLV (Playoffs edition)

[Cmox]

I despise Aho. dirty

 

[Paulie Walnutz]

I love the way these guys play man

I would kill to have the Rangers play like this. I have no idea why people here were rooting for Toronto. I wish the Rangers were a nasty team like Florida. Too many soft players on this team.

 

[bleedblue94]

He’s on a better team now but he could skate and defend well as a Ranger. Drury should be fired for letting him walk when he was exactly what the team needed more of

If people on this board went back and read their own comments about him when he was a ranger there would be a lot of crow.

Most people here said he was good his first 7 ish games and then was a 3rd pair guy. Now people (not just you) act like it was a career mistake he wasn't resigned when there were literally 30 other teams that also did not sign him to a contract. Guy has blossomed in Florida.

People have no clue the differences of a team that has players that build culture vs players that have no culture. Nate Schmidt told a story that in preseason he tried to make a play during a game and the Panthers player leadership took him aside and said we don't do that stuff here, this is how we play. The players did that. The players control their group and demand consistency in the game that they all play. Consistency like that allows players to find comfort and grow as players. Mikkola for sure has benefitted from being in that culture opposed to the circus here.

And if you watch mikkola now people can rewind and probably see a lot of Miller in a younger mikkola. Again, it would be silly to piss Miller away with his raw talents and gifts to watch him take steps like mikkola somewhere else

 

[Boris Zubov]

Where was this Mikkola when he wore a Rangers jersey?

He was around. He got lost in the chaos. A bunch of us could see he was worth holding on to over Lindgren.

 

[Boris Zubov]

Aho dirty knee hunting? Say it aint so?

I missed it...who did he clip?

 

[Boris Zubov]

 

[Paulie Walnutz]

I missed it...who did he clip?

Aho is such a bitch. I don’t blame Florida they need to respond to that.

 

[Boris Zubov]

Aho is such a bitch. I don’t blame Florida they need to respond to that.

Him & Svech are two POS

 

[Paulie Walnutz]

Him & Svech are two POS

I’d keep an eye out for the final few mins because Florida won’t let that shit slide.

 

[Paulie Walnutz]

@EdJovanovski wait what’s this? It’s Matt Rempe! And he’s beating the hell out of Sebastian Aho!

 

[Boris Zubov]

Aho is such a prick, he's too much of a p***y to drop em when challenged.

 

[bleedblue94]

I would kill to have the Rangers play like this. I have no idea why people here were rooting for Toronto. I wish the Rangers were a nasty team like Florida. Too many soft players on this team.

I'm going to float something here that a lot of people are going to push against. When Blake Wheeler was signed here I was super against it for a lot of reasons. I thought he would get a bigger role than he should and that it would get in the way of some of the younger players and that did happen until he got hurt, but the other issue I had was he is a locker room cancer.

Wheeler is one of the biggest reasons Paul Maurice resigned in Winnipeg. Maurice was done coaching, completely burned out and made peace with the fact he would retire without winning a cup, and then the cats job opened and he was courted and was completely reinvigorated. Maurice didn't just suddenly figure out how to coach, he hit a wall with locker room in Winnipeg and Wheeler was the leader of that room. Wheeler also had numerous conflicts with other players over the years that left the jets and went on to contribute to other good teams. The next jets coach calls the players out in the media after a playoff implosion and Wheeler fights back in the media on this even on his way out of the organization. Wheeler leaves and the players in winnepeg start to figure things out as a group over the next couple of years (ignore playoff helly issues). Wheeler comes here and the locker room cancer stuff takes a bigger step in nyr.

I'm not putting the nyr room issues all on Wheeler, not by a long shot, but there is a lesson to be learned again that putting a team together is not just about analytics, stats, cap hits, ect. The players are people and there are good hockey players that are cancers to a room and a team. Tht doesn't show up on sheets. Equally there are high character players that sometimes teams keep around or pay extra to bc they help make a better room/culture that brings out the best in the others on the team.

People can call this BS or whatever but it's true with teams like these. These players spend more time together than they do with their families during the season, the character of individuals rubs off on the group. You need to be super cognizant of who you put in your room and be aware of your room is capable of managing certain people/personalities before they rub off on other players in a bad way.

 

[mrmovies779]

Florida has been going after Aho every shift since his dirty hit

 

[Guyute]

Aho is elite at going for the knees and making it look like a nothing play

 

[Boris Zubov]

Lots of fans dressed as empty seats.

 

[bleedblue94]

Florida has been going after Aho every shift since his dirty hit

As they should.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

lol

 

[Boris Zubov]

One more to rub it in.

 

[bleedblue94]

And people here want to sign orlov?

He had a great one handed wave at that puck in the air. Yikes

 

[ArPanet]

Maurice said the players run the bench, call out the changes. I wonder how that works.

 

[Row I Goon]

 

[Machinehead]

He was accepted into the Hall of Fame

 

[duhmetreE]

Sam Bennnet sucks and is a bottom6 player btw

 

[will1066]

Maurice said the players run the bench, call out the changes. I wonder how that works.

Hive yet singular mindset in the most positive way, and that mindset is called winning the game. They are just relentless, and every player becomes the perfect role player there.

 

[Machinehead]

Well that was thrilling