Post-Game Talk: Big League Chewed

[SnowblindNYR]

Rangers should have a different looking team Sunday. If not they will after they lose to Nashville Sunday

Let's put Shesterkin in for that game and make sure they lose.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

Mika was good tonight. He’s much better suited on the wing long term and he’s playing with a newfound energy on a line with guys who care.

I think it's more about being with decent players, Kreider has been holding him back for a while now.

 

[LokiDog]

Contract over merit

How is Cuylle not out there

 

[LeetchisGod]

I think it's more about being with decent players, Kreider has been holding him back for a while now.

Zibby was trash on his own accord. Many nights where he was our worst forward.

 

[bleedblue94]

It's not baffling. Laviolette has consistently made poor decisions this season. This is the guy that the Caps sent packing.

And again, bobby Clarke said he ran the worst training camp he had ever seen (part of that was the conditioning demands of his players, go figure)

 

[LokiDog]

Can we not just once take a kid who is supposed to have top six upside and staple him to - if not having a good year, at least a veteran with good character - Trochek with Laf on the other wing (they could end up being linemates for years) and just let him play 15 minutes and get his legs moving and be involved in an NHL game and not on the bench for 53 minutes of it? Maybe he provides some spark. Instead he’ll play 7-11 minutes of mostly nothing minutes, unless he gets lucky. Just because Brodz and Rempe had a good game does not mean they’re likely to repeat it.

Damn. Weird.

 

[Boris Zubov]

Passenger princess

We have a bevvy of new nicknames for Laf.

Big League Chew
Princess Cruise Liner

 

[ReddestRum]

We're back to goalie blaming and not holding the defense accountable for letting a player walk right down the middle untouched, shoot, score, still untouched.

 

[Machinehead]

The degree to which @SnowblindNYR was almost always wrong about Lundqvist is directly proportional to the degree to which he’s almost always right about Igor.

I still have reservations about the value of goaltending even at Hank's level, but at least he somewhat justified it by being head and shoulders above other goalies. Igor isn't.

 

[ReleasO The KakkO]

Win-o-meter tonite is kinda funny

 

[mike14]

We're back to goalie blaming and not holding the defense accountable for letting a player walk right down the middle untouched, shoot, score, still untouched.

the 3rd goal? Yeah, mainly he was untouched because Igor playing the puck (terribly) put everyone out of position

EDIt - and this loss is not 'on' Igor. We had our chances, we didn't take them.
But once again he certainly didn't really put us in a position to win it either

 

[McRanger92]

Damn Gorton gave Panarin the poison pill final year buyout where we only get .667m in cap space. We’re really stuck with this loser.

 

[markymarc1215]

Satisfied with the result. One loss closer to selling and getting the kids more ice time

 

[effen]

How cuylle continues to not be elevated in bigger roles and situations is baffling. The kid does everything and works hard all the time. Why would you reward him and use him for a positive example?

This was Laviolette with Connor McMichael in Washington. He is incapable of changing opinions on guys midseason.

It's really really weird because he's too dumb to give Cullye more ice but is smart enough to get to work in the morning and not put shoes on his hands.

 

[LokiDog]

 

[Machinehead]

Mika was good tonight. He’s much better suited on the wing long term and he’s playing with a newfound energy on a line with guys who care.

Stamkos had an entire second career on a move to wing.

 

[RangersFan1994]

How cuylle continues to not be elevated in bigger roles and situations is baffling. The kid does everything and works hard all the time. Why would you reward him and use him for a positive example?

He would make the vets pout and cry. They get first dibs on everything Including ice time. Lmfao

 

[LokiDog]

 

[LokiDog]

Why font so smol?

 

[80s Kid]

Team played well enough to win. Lost because their goalie was really good and ours was really bad.

Yeah because scoring 2 goals against the Leafs is a winning formula.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

I still have reservations about the value of goaltending even at Hank's level, but at least he somewhat justified it by being head and shoulders above other goalies. Igor isn't.

Lundqvist justified it with his consistency. You knew that almost every single night your goalie was going to be the best goalie on the ice. That over a season, you'd get a goalie who would literally always be a top 5 performer. You could set your watch to him.

Igor is capable of elite runs. He's extremely talented and he is an elite goalie when he's locked in. The issue is he's too erratic, his performance night in and night out is so unpredictable. You could get the elite guy, you could get an AHL level guy. Very prone to soft goals even when he's on. Very prone to goals early and late in periods. There's just so much inconsistency that it's really hard to justify paying so much more for him than other goalies in this league because you're paying these guys for their regular season numbers, you need to get to the playoffs in the first place.

 

[DelZottoHitTheNetJK]

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The good news is this hasn't been tried in the past and proven to be a failing strategy, so hopefully this time, since it's obviously the first time anyone has done this, it will work.

 

[RangersFan1994]

2 pts in his last 10 for Laf. Goalless in 7 straight (after going goalless in 13 earlier in the season).
It's time to watch on from the press box for a game or 2

He got paid. He doesn't give a shit. Takes after the vets and leadership here. Get rid of the soft core mentally weak players on this team. They won't have enough to fill a roster unless they call up the Wolfpack

 

[DelZottoHitTheNetJK]

I can live with losses like tonight. That was an 100% effort. The team is simply not good.

Reilly Smith needs to be fired into the f***ing sun. My eyes bleed every time I watch this guy play hockey. It's over bro, hang em up. Forgettable game from Othmann, not a single player in our top 6 is an elite skater.

 

[RangersFan1994]

This team needs to stop complaining to the refs. That usually backfires the rest of the game.