Post-Game Talk: Bruins @ Rangers

[Infinitum Vitae*]

I hope AV goes all torts on them behind closed doors

 

[SnowblindNYR]

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

Except the Bruins didn't play any better and Rask saved them. Yet because you want to prove your point about Boston's superiority, you don't mention that part. The team I saw today wasn't all that special. Except their goalie was amazing and ours was a big fat turd.

 

[nexusrage21]

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.

For the majority of his career with the Rangers he has done nothing but bail out this team. There was a stretch around the Malik-Roszival days where I think the Rangers defensemen put more goals behind him than the other teams forwards.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

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?

That's 2 out of 3 olympics that he has turned into a turd after.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

For the majority of his career with the Rangers he has done nothing but bail out this team. There was a stretch around the Malik-Roszival days where I think the Rangers defensemen put more goals behind him than the other teams forwards.

So we're paying him for what he did in the past? That's brilliant.

Edit: Also, he's been anti-clutch in the playoffs until now. I'm not holding my breath.

 

[member 116805]

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?

Got to make the POs first....

 

[thewaitingisover]

The Rangers played tonight?

 

[I Eat Crow]

Said it in the post game yesterday and I'll say it again now. AV bungled the goalie rotation for this thre game in four day stretch. I would have gone Lundqvist against Chicago, and Talbot against Philly or Boston. I wouldn't have played Hank back to back.

 

[aufheben]

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?

At least we dominated the 1st, so, there's that.

Snowblind, I don't have to prove anything man, we just lost 6-3. You have blamed Lundqvist for every. single. *******. loss. since I've joined this board, and that's your right. I'm not gonna give this team credit for losing 6-3.

Yeah, I spend significant portions of my day editing nonsense posts on a Rangers forum because I'm a BRUINS fan. Everything is lollipops and pretty wittle daffodils, we're a great team, it's just Hanks fault we couldn't score; it's Hank's fault our players get tossed around like newborn puppies against physical teams; it's Hank's fault we don't have finishers; it's Hank's fault we don't have a top center; EVERYTHING IS HANK'S FAULT.

w/e.

 

[Esa 10]

People need to start learning that Lundqvist isn't the highest paid goaltender in the NHL until next year. Complain about his cap hit next year. Not this year. This year he has a cap hit of $6.875M. While he still isn't meeting expectations in this arena, don't use his contract for NEXT year, to brutally rip him apart for THIS year. Right now, there are goaltenders making more money than Lundqvist.

Now you're being defensive and splitting hairs about Hank. Saying he hasn't outplayed opposing goaltenders enough for his cap hit this year is brutally ripping him apart? Really?

And while not the absolutely highest this year, he's a grand total of $125 K cheaper than only 2 other goalies in the NHL, Rinne and Rask. These 3 guys cost their teams essentially the same amount of cap space. Rinne's been injured, but Rask has handily outplayed Hank this year. And he outlplayed Hank, although to a lesser extent, in the play-offs last year. Back when he was making half the cap hit.

 

[nexusrage21]

So we're paying him for what he did in the past? That's brilliant.

That wasn't what I was trying to say but yes. In fact, if you look at pretty much every contract in every sport, the player is getting paid for what they did in the past.

And yes, I am saying this just to be a jerk.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Snowblind, I don't have to prove anything man, we just lost 6-3. You have blamed Lundqvist for every. single. *******. loss. since I've joined this board, and that's your right. I'm not gonna give this team credit for losing 6-3.

Yeah, I spend significant portions of my day editing nonsense posts on a Rangers forum because I'm a BRUINS fan. Everything is lollipops and pretty wittle daffodils, we're a great team, it's just Hanks fault we couldn't score; it's Hank's fault our players get tossed around like newborn puppies against physical teams; it's Hank's fault we don't have finishers; it's Hank's fault we don't have a top center; EVERYTHING IS HANK'S FAULT.

w/e.

W/e is right. The way you write is one-sided towards the Bruins. Bottom line if we switched goalies the score would have been switched. This was the case in 2 of our 3 losses to them. You pretending that it was the team when the Rangers were playing about on par with the Bruins all night, except they don't have a scrub in net, is ridiculous. No not every loss is on Lundqvist, and the team played poorly. But Lundqvist has been a giant turd most of the season. He stole 1 game for us all season, against Dallas. Everything else, he needs near perfect defense to win. Rask showed him how it's done TWICE this season. 3 games all season the Bruins allowed 40+ shots, 2 of them against the Rangers, 5 goals against for Rask, 2 wins for Rask. But yeah it's the Rangers that suck and goaltending is not a major factor here.

 

[aufheben]

W/e is right. The way you write is one-sided towards the Bruins. Bottom line if we switched goalies the score would have been switched. This was the case in 2 of our 3 losses to them. You pretending that it was the team when the Rangers were playing about on par with the Bruins all night, except they don't have a scrub in net, is ridiculous. No not every loss is on Lundqvist, and the team played poorly. But Lundqvist has been a giant turd most of the season. He stole 1 game for us all season, against Dallas. Everything else, he needs near perfect defense to win. Rask showed him how it's done TWICE this season. 3 games all season the Bruins allowed 40+ shots, 2 of them against the Rangers, 5 goals against for Rask, 2 wins for Rask. But yeah it's the Rangers that suck and goaltending is not a major factor here.

That's funny, because the score was also one-sided towards the Bruins. What a coincidence.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

That wasn't what I was trying to say but yes. In fact, if you look at pretty much every contract in every sport, the player is getting paid for what they did in the past.

And yes, I am saying this just to be a jerk.

Well, he's not earning half his contract this year.

 

[Infinitum Vitae*]

Thank you New York rangers for giving it everything you got and playing for the name on the front and not the name on the back

 

[SnowblindNYR]

That's funny, because the score was also one-sided towards the Bruins. What a coincidence.

Because Rask is infinitely better than Lundqvist, switch the goalies and it's 6-3 the other way. The Bruins' defense didn't look so hot, yet all I read how the Rangers got dominated.

 

[AHB*]

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.

They still suck gobs of money from me. And re-sale this season isn't what it once was. I asked to be moved to the upper deck next year and for the playoffs this year to cut my prices in half.

It's insane.

 

[AHB*]

So we're paying him for what he did in the past? That's brilliant.

Edit: Also, he's been anti-clutch in the playoffs until now. I'm not holding my breath.

What, he's been great in the playoffs...What are you talking about?

I would expect this kind of non-sense from Islanders fans, not from a Rangers fan.

He's had a down year, no one should argue that, but to act like he's a sieve is laughable.

Why are you even a fan of this team if you can't appreciate the greatest goalie this team has ever had and one of the greatest home grown talents this organization has ever seen?

 

[*Bob Richards*]

Because Rask is infinitely better than Lundqvist, switch the goalies and it's 6-3 the other way. The Bruins' defense didn't look so hot, yet all I read how the Rangers got dominated.

Almost forgot about Rask's goal scoring prowess.

 

[aufheben]

I've never even seen the phrase "anti-clutch" before. lol.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Almost forgot about Rask's goal scoring prowess.

Yep, the reason the Bruins had their goal scoring prowess was the sieve in net.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

What, he's been great in the playoffs...What are you talking about?

I would expect this kind of non-sense from Islanders fans, not from a Rangers fan.

He's had a down year, no one should argue that, but to act like he's a sieve is laughable.

Why are you even a fan of this team if you can't appreciate the greatest goalie this team has ever had and one of the greatest home grown talents this organization has ever seen?

Great regular season goalie most of his career, inconsistent, either God-like or sieve in the playoffs no in between. The guy last season barely gave up any bad goals, gets into the playoffs and gives up bad goals galore. Even in his best playoff year in 11-12, he was embarrassed against the Devils. He's either amazing or bad in the playoffs. He's played some of the best games of his career in the playoffs and some terrible ones.

 

[AKrangerfan]

Because Rask is infinitely better than Lundqvist, switch the goalies and it's 6-3 the other way. The Bruins' defense didn't look so hot, yet all I read how the Rangers got dominated.

I agree 100%. Switch goalies and its a different game.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I agree 100%. Switch goalies and its a different game.

Blasphemy. The Rangers suck, Slats sucks, rebuild. Only Lundqvist is good. Everyone else sucks. And the only reason Lundqvist is good is because it's easier that way to justify my position that everyone sucks and if I were to pick the entire team to blame or Lundqvist, I'd blame the team since there are more people to blame and I want to blame as many people as possible.

-Most Rangers fans

 

[ArPanet]

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.

This.

3 games 4 nights is tough.