Post-Game Talk: Bruins @ Rangers

[Machinehead]

Does anyone hate the Rangers more than Ranger fans?

Does any team repeatedly smack their own fans upside the head more than the Rangers?

 

[Thunderhead]

Jesus , the Oscars show is so boring .

 

[Kane One]

Lundqvist sucked, tonight.

Lundqvist has sucked over stretches this season.

Lundqvist has played excellent hockey over the last two months.

I'm being honest and objective. He's had plenty of bad games. I do place the blame on him for this loss. But I also still think he has what's in him to be the best in the world. For the last two months he has been one of the best in the world.

Tonight, he wasn't his best. And I'm sure this isn't how he wanted his birthday to go. He's probably beating himself up more than the people on here.

Say he had a bad game. Say he had a bad two games. Say he's had an off year. Don't say the guy sucks.

I don't remember saying he sucks. I said he has sucked this season, which he has for the most part.

There is a big difference between saying Lundqvist is having an off year, Lundqvist was bad tonight, and people saying Talbot could have been the starter for Canada, and should be starting for this team (I thought I saw it all until someone genuinely said Talbot should be on Canada).

I'm not sure what that has to do with me since I never said that.

People are looking at these last two games, one game of which he had a tremendous period, and Stralman scored on him, and using it to validate that he again sucks, after regaining his form for the 14-15 NHL games leading into the Olympics and kept that elite level up throughout the tournament.

I tend to believe the level he has played at leading into the break, is more indicative of things moving forward than these two games.

I'd rather see the rest of this season with consistent play from him. This one and last one had way too many up and downs. He started the year terribly. Fine, that happens. Then we went with Biron who was terrible and Talbot who has been lights out. Then Lundqvist plays more and continues to be terrible. Then Talbot has been good again. Then Lundqvist plays amazingly, then the Olympic break, and another bad two games. What a surprise.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

My main issue with this team is even when they play great it's often wasted because they can't finish.



Would also be miraculous.

I just find it amazing that when the Rangers allow great chances it's their defense. When the Rangers get great chances, they can't finish. Seems like it's all Rangers sucking and Bruins being great for you, no matter what vantage point.

 

[Thunderhead]

Agree, except Hank isn't "garbage".

Unlike the majority on here, I am far from impressed with the Bruins giving the puck away and needing Rask to come up huge. Even if Rask played well, it should have been 3-0 Rangers at the end of the first.

Lundqvist isn't to blame for the first Bruin goal. Bang-bang play which was as much luck as it was skill.

The Rangers played them evenly. A couple bad breaks, bad goaltending, and a great performance by the guy wearing #40 in white.

Played them evenly ? We lost 6-3 to a Boston team that did not even push too hard .

 

[Beer League Sniper]

Does anyone hate the Rangers more than Ranger fans?

Lundqvist had us over a barrel and didn't even bother to use any lube with his $8.5M payday, and Callahan wants us grabbing our ankles for the next 7 years, so excuse me for raging when 2 of our leaders rake us over the coals in contract negotiations, then throw up stinkers all season. I'm tired of it.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

It's really sad that when Lundqvist was elite we gave him ****** teams. Now we have what I feel is actually a good team and we get ****** Lundqvist.

 

[clmetsfan]

Does anyone hate the Rangers more than Ranger fans?

It really is maddening sometimes, same as the people who just always want to have a team whipping boy that they can boo. We seem to have an abnormally high percentage of people who just can't seem to avoid taking things to such a great extreme. Like when the consistently best goalie in the world over the past decade has 2/3 of the season in which he's only above average rather than elite.

 

[nexusrage21]

We hate our team as much as devils and isles fans do. 2 of the 3 fan bases care more about the rangers sucking than anything else and the other fan base is just angry at the world and wants half of the NYR franchise dead.

Yeah. When games like this happen, I'm like a parent who just found out their kid lied to them, I'm disappointed. But it seems like some people on this bored wait around anticipating the moment they can jump on the player they don't like.

Yeah Lundqvist was bad tonight, but so was the rest of the team. In the past few seasons whenever the Rangers went on the powerplay my brother and I would joke that we have to kill it off. Tonight was one of those nights again.

 

[aufheben]

I just find it amazing that when the Rangers allow great chances it's their defense. When the Rangers get great chances, they can't finish. Seems like it's all Rangers sucking and Bruins being great for you, no matter what vantage point.

Is that not exactly what just happened?

Boston was totally flat in the 1st, but they still came out of it tied. Then they came out like a freight train to start the 2nd, and the Rangers couldn't respond.

It's not all Lundqvist. Our guys were getting thrown around into the boards like ****ing wet socks.

 

[AHB*]

Does any team repeatedly smack their own fans upside the head more than the Rangers?

I want you to know, I love this team, but boy do they make it hard.

1) They never seem to succeed

2) They constantly raise prices on season ticket holders and screw us in regards to playoffs.

3) As a season ticket holder, I take photos of the guys before the games and they stopped letting me go down behind the nets this year. My seats are in 101, ten rows up, but since I don't have 2nd row seats, I'm not allowed.

I'll always be a fan, but I'm sure as hell not a fan of their **** management.

 

[Fataldogg]

Kane One, I'm not saying you say that, I'm just saying that's what people were saying.

You're absolutely right. His season this year has been the definition of erratic. It's been as up and down as it gets. Great one month. So-so another month. Elite one month. Below average again, etc.

I'd like to see consistent play from him too. And I think we will see that. I think he just needs to shake off the emotional turbulence from Sochi, and he will be right back to where he was. These past couple of months has been the Lundqvist of old, and I think we will see more of that moving forward.

We need to see more of that moving forward, or we will have a hard time making the playoffs.

 

[fredrikstad]

They should have killed that game in the first. I hate Rask.

You know in Norwegian, rask is translated "fast"

 

[jgrangers2]

I just find it amazing that when the Rangers allow great chances it's their defense. When the Rangers get great chances, they can't finish. Seems like it's all Rangers sucking and Bruins being great for you, no matter what vantage point.

Again, care to show me where the Rangers had opportunities on par with Gregory Campbell's breakaway? With Dougie Hamilton's wide open shot from the slot? With Carl Soderberg's 1-on-1 with Hank right in front of the net? Again, tell me all about these fantastic opportunities the Rangers' had. They dominated the first period where most of the play was in the Bruins' zone but I don't recall a whole lot of tremendous opportunities that forced Rask to make spectacular saves. It's not all about how many shots you face, it's the quality of them.

 

[pld459666]

This game was over after the Bruins FIRST goal.

Physical in the corner, man open in front missed coverage everywhere.

Bruins were quicker to the puck and harder on the puck all game.

They finish checks in the offensive zone, we peel off and avoid contact.

That's the difference between being physical and and the Rangers.

A DESIRE to initiate contact every shift

 

[Thunderhead]

Is that not exactly what just happened?

Boston was totally flat in the 1st, but they still came out of it tied. They came out like a freight train to start the 2nd, and the Rangers couldn't respond.

It's not all Lundqvist.

The Q is why we didn't come out like a freight train to start the 2nd ?

 

[Infinitum Vitae*]

Difference in this game and last year's playoffs..we had to watch them lose 4 times in about two weeks to the same team

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

Richards was the best Ranger on the ice tonight. Good game from him.

 

[nexusrage21]

I want you to know, I love this team, but boy do they make it hard.

1) They never seem to succeed

2) They constantly raise prices on season ticket holders and screw us in regards to playoffs.

3) As a season ticket holder, I take photos of the guys before the games and they stopped letting me go down behind the nets this year. My seats are in 101, ten rows up, but since I don't have 2nd row seats, I'm not allowed.

I'll always be a fan, but I'm sure as hell not a fan of their **** management.

Yeah, I got priced out of a my ticket package a few seasons ago. Actually, my family got priced out of their tickets they had for 20 plus years then I got priced out of the "cheap" package I picked up to make up for it.

 

[Beer League Sniper]

Is that not exactly what just happened?

Boston was totally flat in the 1st, but they still came out of it tied. They came out like a freight train to start the 2nd, and the Rangers couldn't respond.

It's not all Lundqvist.

Lundqvist didn't make one difficult save tonight, not one. You can say he was hung out to dry a few times, and that's true, but if I wanted that kind of performance out of a goalie, I pay Bryz $2.26M and live with the warts. Lundqvist makes $6.875M this year, and $8.5M for the next 7 years after that. This isn't good enough.

 

[aufheben]

Lundqvist didn't make one difficult save tonight, not one. You can say he was hung out to dry a few times, and that's true, but if I wanted that kind of performance out of a goalie, I pay Bryz $2.26M and live with the warts. Lundqvist makes $6.875M this year, and $8.5M for the next 7 years after that. This isn't good enough.

He played like crap. So did all the other guys. It's not mutually exclusive.

 

[Rangerfan4life90]

Lundqvist has had two stinkers coming off the Olympics. Before that he was doing great for a particular stretch.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Is that not exactly what just happened?

Boston was totally flat in the 1st, but they still came out of it tied. Then they came out like a freight train to start the 2nd, and the Rangers couldn't respond.

It's not all Lundqvist. Our guys were getting thrown around into the boards like ****ing wet socks.

See, it was Boston being flat for you when the Rangers played well, and Boston playing well when we played poorly. You don't give the Rangers any credit for ANYTHING. The way someone that doesn't hate the team and make excuses for the goaltender so that he can trash the team would say is, the Rangers came out on fire in the first and yes Boston was flat, but their goalie came up big because he's elite. Then Boston responded and the Rangers were playing poorly (like Boston in the first) and our goalie couldn't bail us out because he's not elite. See that's a fair assessment where I do you use words like "flat" and "freight train" for Boston exclusively in order to make them appear worlds superior to the Rangers because you have an agenda. It was a game where both teams had their highs and lows, but one team's goalie bailed them out and the other didn't. All of your posts make you sound like a homer Bruins fans only posting from their perspective. What's your agenda? Why are you trying to hard to prove that this game was an example of one team's superiority of the other, while it was pretty even, except the obvious goaltending? Is it because you love to be miserable about the Rangers or just really want to make excuses for Hank? Either way, considering the imbalance of how you described this game, shows me that you are not trying to be unbiased at all. All of the Rangers' positives were Bruins' fault and all of the Bruins' positives, were Bruins' positives. You don't see anything wrong with that?

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Lundqvist has had two stinkers coming off the Olympics. Before that he was doing great for a particular stretch.

Except his team for the most part dominant before. He faces a little adversity and folds like a cheap suit.

 

[fredrikstad]

Anyone that says that this game is proof that the whole Bruins team is better than the whole Rangers team needs to take a walk. This game is proof that Rask is an elite goalie and Lundqvist can only make saves when his defense allows cupcakes. The Rangers outplayed the Bruins, both teams' D sucked, but Rask made amazing saves, I'm still waiting for the first good save by Lundqvist. The guy fell apart. I wish Sochi were still playing and he stayed there. Clearly he cares more about team Sweden than the Rangers.

You know wery well that this isn't true. He feels pride at wearing the "Tre Kronor" jersey, but at the end of the day, his a New York er now,and take even more pride playing for them.
He having a difficult year, but who knows, maybe he is the clutch we need come play off?