Post-Game Talk: Bruins @ Rangers

[Fataldogg]

why do people post stuff like this?

What does this have to do with Lundqvist playing like crap tonight? Why does, every time he plays bad, someone feel the need to be like, "BUT HE'Z DUN ALL DIS STUFF BE4?"

Who cares? He sucked tonight.

He did suck tonight. People write that stuff because there are genuinely people who think he sucks as a goaltender, he has no business in the NHL, and that Talbot should be this teams starter and the starter for team Canada.

Because when Lundqvist has one bad night, his entire ability as a goaltender is in question. Lundqvist having a statistically average year? TRASH. His first year out of eight? Let's crucify him for being average one year.

****. How many players deserve to be crucified on this team than for every average / below average year they've had?

You want to say he had a bad night. Fine. Don't say the guy is washed up and shouldn't be this teams starter after he just played at a level Talbot never will see.

 

[silverfish]

Hank had a ****** game. The defensive coverage had a worse one (and that includes the forwards backchecking).

That said, the Hank hate is silly. He had a bad start to the year, then regained his form for two months up to the break, had a great Olympics and now has had two bad games upon his return. He needs a game off and the team needs to get past the deadline.

Of course, prior to the deadline Cally, Stralman and one of the fourth liners all need to be traded.

Preach! Great post

 

[*Bob Richards*]

Thank goodness baseball season is right around the corner...oh wait I'm a Mets fan

Ugh. Don't remind me.

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

I thought the Rangers had more than enough chances to win, even in the last 40.

Rask made some great saves, the Rangers had some terrible breakdowns, and most of those breakdowns wound up in their net.

It's not like the Bruins pinned them in their own zone for 40 min.

 

[aufheben]

The difference was the Bruins are a better, more experienced, tougher, more physical, and mentally tougher team. And no Hank wasn't great, but how can anyone act like that was the only reason.

When a team that just went to the Finals comes out like dog ****, you have to put the nail in the coffin during the 1st period, or it's over.

 

[AlternateSideParking]

why do people post stuff like this?

What does this have to do with Lundqvist playing like crap tonight? Why does, every time he plays bad, someone feel the need to be like, "BUT HE'Z DUN ALL DIS STUFF BE4?"

Who cares? He sucked tonight.

Bringing up Lundqvist's glorified past after a horror show like tonight is like a 45-year-old guy in a jail cell bragging about a girl he hooked up with 30 years ago.

 

[Samuel Culper III]

I understand that. But it's a highly competitive form of hockey where he PROVED he is elite. Prior to that, he was absolutely a rock for the Rangers.

Two games later? Talbot > Lundqvist.

That's what I have a problem with. Two so-so games (and he wasn't that bad in his first game back, quite frankly, he could have let up more) doesn't make him a trash goaltender when he was a rock for his team all of January/February and was a rock for his nation at the highest level of international play.

Put things in perspective.

Well said and obviously 100% spot on. I'm with you all the way here. It gets very tiring.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I knew it. Short of winning a Gold, Lundqvist was going to be trashed by the fans. Two games later, he is back to being trash.

Nobody gives a **** about his gold. We're Rangers fans not Sweden fans.

The guy should be trashed he is the reason we lost. We switch goalies and the score switches.

 

[Fataldogg]

19/46 Games this season with a SVPCT under .900

11/45 allowing 4 goals or more -- 25 pct

22/45 allowing 3 goals or more -- almost 50 pct of his games.

What team are you watching this season?

Sports is a performance based business. As said by everyone on here. And it's all "what have you done for me lately." What did Lundqvist do in January/February again?

You thought it would be better to go back even further to make him look worse. Which you succeeded at.

And secondly, no one will deny that Lundqvist is having an average year as a starter. He certainly isn't have a bad year as one. People think he is having a bad year because they're spoiled by him.

 

[Nosferatos]

Well this game comfirms that Girardi is garbage and we made a mistake re-signing him.

 

[Parker]

Ugh, I loathe the Bruins.

This year's NYR team is going nowhere assuming they even make the playoffs. Time to move Callahan and hopefully others to teams that are actual contenders. I'm fine with making the team worse for the rest of this season in the hopes that they are improved 2-3 years down the line when we might actually be able to go deep in the playoffs again.

 

[tmesis]

This team simply isn't a Cup team. That's fine. Keep building. I'm much more concerned about doing something stupid at the deadline, some kind of idiotic win now move, or handing out a horrible contract to Cally than I am about dropping these past two games.

Shhh, you're getting in the way of the pointless worrying and unrealistic hopes. Fire the entire staff! Trade everyone! Sign Callahan's family for 5 generations!

 

[BlueLooksGood]

Thank goodness. Maybe, this squashes any thought of being contender and buying during the deadline. Hopefully this is also the tipping point in the whole Callahan saga.

 

[AlternateSideParking]

The difference was the Bruins are a better, more experience, tougher, more physical, and mentally tougher team. And no Hank wasn't great, but how can anyone act like that was the only reason.

He wasnt. They played timid after the 1st period.

I think people are just frustrated that he hasnt been stealing games like he used too.

Boston always outplays them. Yet he's always been there to keep them behind.

I think this team is just flat out scared of Boston. Reminds me of the Rangers when they played the Isles in the 1980s

 

[SKjEi o2]

My wife likes Hank . There , I said it .

That makes one.

 

[Blueshirt Special]

I'm not saying we suck...

But we really need to limit our expectations for this team as constructed at the present time.

What can we really do in the playoffs? Anyhting can happen? I'm not buying it.

There is no way we could beat the broons or the pens in a 7 game series and we will struggle mightily with philly and/or the craps.

Very likely we do NOT get past the first round, assuming we make the playoffs.

Size and physical play lacking and those 2 attributes become all the more important in playoff hockey.

I know Clowe didn't work out becaus eof the concussion issues and the contract he wanted, but a healthy Clowe is exactly the type of players we need.

Carcillo helps a little, but he's not BIG enough.

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

And secondly, no one will deny that Lundqvist is having an average year as a starter. He certainly isn't have a bad year as one. People think he is having a bad year because they're spoiled by him.

I agree it has been an average, not bad year. But when you are paid to be the best goalie in the world, expectations are far above average.

I know he is capable of picking it up and I hope he does.

 

[Fataldogg]

Nobody gives a **** about his gold. We're Rangers fans not Sweden fans.

The guy should be trashed he is the reason we lost. We switch goalies and the score switches.

Read every other post I've done in this thread. As well as the one directed to you.

Dude is not a trash goaltender. He is still an elite goaltender. He proved it in the NHL when the Rangers had their best run of the season and had someone like you questioning just how good this team is, and he proved it in the Olympics. One so-so game and one BAD game doesn't negate how he has arguably been the best Rangers played in the 2014 calendar year (January 1st forward).

 

[Callagraves]

Bringing up Lundqvist's glorified past after a horror show like tonight is like a 45-year-old guy in a jail cell bragging about a girl he hooked up with 30 years ago.

More like the 45 year old man in the jail cell bragging about the slew of supermodels he hooked up with for the past 30 years.

Don't undersell those achievements.

 

[irishlaxburger2]

Let me tell you exactly what would fix this NY Rangers team

Signing Ryan Callahan to a 7 year, $48M deal

 

[NCRanger]

Ranger fans in hell see a line of Jason Chimera, John Druce, and Gregory Campbell in Islander jerseys.

 

[Thunderhead]

That makes one.

..even after tonight .

 

[AlternateSideParking]

Sports is a performance based business. As said by everyone on here. And it's all "what have you done for me lately." What did Lundqvist do in January/February again?

You thought it would be better to go back even further to make him look worse. Which you succeeded at.

And secondly, no one will deny that Lundqvist is having an average year as a starter. He certainly isn't have a bad year as one. People think he is having a bad year because they're spoiled by him.

I make him look worse???????????? Yes. It's my fault he's been average/inconsistent this season.

Henrik has never been criticized like he has this season. Never. Maybe one or two games a season. Maybe some playoff games.

You cant fault people for being pissed that hes not playing as well as he should.

He's not a little kid who accidentally dropped an ice cream cone on the sidewalk. This season, he's the drunk ice cream truck driver. Nobody knows what the hell to expect.

 

[Infinitum Vitae*]

Ranger fans in hell see a line of Jason Chimera, John Druce, and Gregory Campbell in Islander jerseys.

More like devils jersey

 

[Fataldogg]

Bringing up Lundqvist's glorified past after a horror show like tonight is like a 45-year-old guy in a jail cell bragging about a girl he hooked up with 30 years ago.

You mean the past two months? That's his glorified past? People aren't even using his "past" achievements, they're talking about how he has literally played the past couple of months. Hell, the past couple of weeks. He's been great. You're using the two most recent games to trash the man.

People on here have no conception of time.