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Post-Game Talk: Capitals at Rangers 1/19/2014

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Glen Sathers Cigar said:
Yes, when they showed the replay it looked like Hags barely got him on his glove. I'm sorry, but a tough guy like Ovi is not hurt by a half assed, one handed slash to his glove. He shook his hand as if it hit his bare wrist.
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I noticed the last couple of years, he's becoming more and more like Cindy. What i hate the most is his late hits after the play.
 
I have to say I remember the terrible feeling I had the last 2 games. The 4-1 loss, I was in DC with a friend of mine that doesn't really give a **** about hockey but kept trash talking and I had to listen to the Joe B who is awful, drool over the team. I was thinking at the time, I wish the Rangers were half as good. I really thought that the Caps were a much better team as they made us look silly. Then the next game, we completely outplayed them (I'd say we were better than we were today even), Girardi hits the post and Talbot gives up a softy the other way. It's nice to have this game to make me forget that feeling.
 
KasparsHipCheck said:
Things are starting to shake out more accurately in the Metro. The Flyers and Caps aren't playoff teams, so its time for them to sink. Columbus and Isles are alive. Luke-warm feelings about Devils (but mostly feeling they get fatigued due to age).
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Basically swap the flyers and the leafs out for the red wings and the jackets and you have the playoff standings pretty accurately for the entire eastern conference.
 
haveandare said:
Team continues looking good. Many players who were having awful starts are continuing to play the way that they should be.

I can't even guess who the daily whining thread will be about after this one.
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Disappointing to see no goals from our Ds again.

How many goals has our Ds scored the last 10/20 games?

Staal, Stralman, Moore and Girardi have combined 7 goals and over half the season has been played.
 
Ola said:
Disappointing to see no goals from our Ds again.

How many goals has our Ds scored the last 10/20 games?

Staal, Stralman, Moore and Girardi have combined 7 goals and over half the season has been played.
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Baby steps.

I'm just happy they're not still leaking goals doing their best sieve impersonation. Staal has looked great these last couple of weeks, so many broken up plays as a result of that long reach.

The D goals will come as the players continue to adapt to AV's system.
 
Ola said:
Disappointing to see no goals from our Ds again.

How many goals has our Ds scored the last 10/20 games?

Staal, Stralman, Moore and Girardi have combined 7 goals and over half the season has been played.
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It's definitely becoming a problem. The entire D - McGod is totally offensively inept. Very sad.
 
The PP gives the Rangers momentum. These teams take penalties. The Rangers feed off of it.

AV talked about this on Friday

On whether the Rangers have proven they DO have the personnel to play Vigneault’s preferred attacking, offensive style, which in November even Vigneault said himself didn’t appear to be the case: “I think the way we’re playing at this point is a smart game at both ends of the rink. We’re not giving up a stupid number of chances against. I think we’re playing sound defensively, and offensively, two things in my estimation are happening: Our power play – it hasn’t scored the last couple, we haven’t had a lot of power plays – but it’s given us momentum; it’s given us good opportunities. And five-on-five, we’re playing a little bit faster. We’re playing a little bit quicker with the puck, and I think that’s enabled us to generate a fair amount of shots and a fair amount of shots that, for the most part, have been good scoring opportunities. So like any team – I think (I said this) one of the first times we met – some teams during the season get better, some teams fade away. If you want to be part of the big picture, you’ve got to get better. And I believe our group is getting better.”
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http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/ra...l-henrik-lundqvist-on-saturday-notes-on-brass

The Rangers didn't score on the PP against Tampa and Detroit. The Rangers scored 2 goals in both games. 1-1 record.

These next 2 weeks will be tougher playing the Islanders 3 times,Blues and Jersey. Then its Colorado and Edmonton as home. Last game is in Pittsburgh. 20 day Olympic break.
 
The lack of travel is helping them. Only 9 games between December and mid-March that required air travel.

Three months and only 9 plane trips. I don't who's happier; the beat writers or the players.

This run is driving up everybody's worth. Everybody's. Remember when Del Zotto had no worth? AV was forced to play him and now he's a mainstay again.

We've seen this team do this before. They go on a run and problems go away. Then they hang on for dear life and no problems get fixed.

Everyone thought Carolina had their problems fixed a few weeks ago, and people were naming Muller the Adams winner. They're back to sucking.

Philly, Isles, Devils, Leafs and now Montreal. All these teams have issues.
 
Does anyone know what was up with Pouliot seeing so little ice the first 2 period compared to Zucc ? Was he benched or just the victim of PK's and linechanges
 
We actually play really well when we manage to make those decisions with the puck and get up ice. Few teams seem to be able to handle us when we do that. In between those stints, we are quite mediocre.

The big diffrence between us and a team like Anaheim, is that Anaheim is finding ways to make those plays happen way more frequently than we are. A player like Hampus Lindholm's impact on Anaheim shouldn't be underrated. He isn't that solid defensviely. He isn't that elite offensively. But every time he gets the puck he makes that opening first pass happen. We aren't super sharp when we make it, and we are a bit cautious on when we to make it.

If we are to take another step, its here we need to upgrade. Some will come with time, you can't practise it enough and like I've said time and time again, our D's aren't used to making it.

But if we just got one D that stepped in and was really poised with the puck on a shift by shift basis, I think many would be suprised just how much result we would get out of it. Looking at Anaheim's result, with a roster that has it spots, its telling.
 
Happy with the win but I don't like the way we played on our heels in the third period. A better team will punish us if we continue to play that way.

MDZ still not great. He's the only one who I noticed making a dumb play this game, and you can say he single handily cost us the Tampa game as well. At this point he is the only one I would like to see gone from the team.

Can't wait to see how we match up against the Blues.
 
Beardacus said:
Happy with the win but I don't like the way we played on our heels in the third period. A better team will punish us if we continue to play that way.

MDZ still not great. He's the only one who I noticed making a dumb play this game, and you can say he single handily cost us the Tampa game as well. At this point he is the only one I would like to see gone from the team.

Can't wait to see how we match up against the Blues.
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Given the circumstances (back-to-back game, 3 goal lead) this could as well have been a plan.
 
Besides a 3-0 first period lead, what I liked best about this game was this: 0 odd-man rushes against. Well there may have a 3 on 2 in there somewhere but I think Hank had maybe 2 tough saves at 5v5.
 
SoftEuro4thLiner said:
Given the circumstances (back-to-back game, 3 goal lead) this could as well have been a plan.
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I've thought about that. I've read that AV likes to hold on to leads and play defensive, but I still don't like it. Swings momentum to other team and tires our guys out for nothing.

Bad memories of being trapped in our zone for endless minutes and playing 5 goalie comes to mind...
 
It seems what this system does really well, when working, is keep the opposition's best chances to the outside, then transitioning quickly back up the ice.

For some reason we had a bit more trouble getting our breakout in order yesterday. Seemed like the players were not moving as much as they had in previous games. I think the caps got more chances from quality areas of the ice because of it.

Perhaps due to fatigue. Perhaps it was intentional to avoid fatigue.
 
Machinehead said:
Thanks Raspers! Way to pick me up on the PGT! :yo:

Wish we had Doc instead of the bozos who called the game tonight. Nash and McDonagh were stupendous. Richards is Richardsing. Hank is Hanking. All is well.
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Watch your back, there might be a new sheriff in town ;).

I swear, you and me are the only ones. I like Doc, and even Pierre.

Brian Engblom makes me want to turn the game off.
 
Machinehead said:
Thanks Raspers! Way to pick me up on the PGT! :yo:

Wish we had Doc instead of the bozos who called the game tonight. Nash and McDonagh were stupendous. Richards is Richardsing. Hank is Hanking. All is well.
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Yup, it's not an NBC game until Callahan TWISTED one along for a DRIIIIIIIIIIIVE by Girardi that WOULDN'T GO!!!
 
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