Post-Game Talk: Cooled by Cats

[Rempe73]

Some of you gotta chill lol. We outplayed the best team in the league. Bob having the game of his life was the difference.

Sure the Panthers were able to suffocate us often, but we broke through a lot.

Not the worst way to get our first regulation loss of the year too

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

Mika was absolutely brutal tonight. He’s a shell of himself all season so far, going back to the ECF really. He really looks lost and this year he looks slow and weak. Loses board battles and 50/50 picks he used to win, he’s not getting to the middle of the ice, he’s not doing anything.

Nobody was particularly good tonight but Mika has been so disappointing all of this young season so far. Ever since that turnover in OT of game 3 ECF last year he’s been dog doo doo. Very disappointing and worrying for this group going forward if this is what we get from him.

Joe Micheletti was particularly insufferable tonight. Just making excuses and lauding the panthers all night like they’re unbeatable. As if there was nothing the rangers can do. Bulkshit. They didn’t even have their best player tonight. That was a bad effort from the rangers all around. Sloppy execution in all facets.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Some of you gotta chill lol. We outplayed the best team in the league. Bob having the game of his life was the difference.

Sure the Panthers were able to suffocate us often, but we broke through a lot.

Not the worst way to get our first regulation loss of the year too

1) We did not outplay them.

2) If they're the best team in the league we're wasting this season because we're not winning the cup again.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Does anyone else hate every single post game from Mika? I don't know the guy personally but I have a feeling if I did I wouldn't even try to be friends with him. He has the energy of a turtle.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

Meh, losing a game in Oct to a very good team isn't really a big deal, but it was disappointing that it basically looked exactly like the way the ECF was played.
Probably should have been about 6-3 in the end, Bob was very good.
We lack poise with the puck when they pressure us, and then we seem to panic a lot getting back in transition. Mika/Kreider really didn't work in this one

We got squeezed

 

[Leonardo87]

Sorry about the GDT still up, I’m at a gig between sets now. I see they lost .

 

[80s Kid]

Does anyone else hate every single post game from Mika? I don't know the guy personally but I have a feeling if I did I wouldn't even try to be friends with him. He has the energy of a turtle.

Yes...They need to stop interviewing him.

He's probably a good guy but he needs time to think about what he wants to say and that doesn't come off well in front of a camera.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

 

[Cmox]

@will1066 Bayside is one of the last towns in Queens. So it's not Long Island but you can ride your bike or go for a long walk to Great Neck from it.

 

[n8]

What did you all think of
Panarin-Zib-Kreider
Cuylle-Trocheck-Laf
Smith-Chytil-Kakko?
Good to see Lav is willing to try something else but I probably would have stuck with the normal lines. Maybe double shift Tro or Chytil and sit Zib. Zib stunk. Cuylle-Trochek-Laf is the toughest line on paper but they did not show the support and chemistry on the cycle you'd hope for with max-grit sandpaper.

 

[80s Kid]

@will1066 Bayside is one of the last towns in Queens. So it's not Long Island but you can ride your bike or go for a long walk to Great Neck from it.

I guess I'm in the minority in that I consider Queens and Brooklyn part of Long Island even though they're part of NYC.

It's been ~20 years since I moved away but grew up on eastern LI.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

Got behind too quick. Mika was a disaster

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

This team is very good but they are not a serious contender. Same as last season, same as all summer.

 

[Guyute]

whats the vibe at MSG with regards to Mikas play?

Nobody cares yet.

The craziest thing to me is when Lavy scrambles the lines when we are losing in the third period, and it’s guaranteed that Mika and Kreider stay together.

Why are Mika and Kreider attached at the hip? Are they the coaches of this team? It’s well known that nobody can play with those two — not even Panarin! I would bump Chytil to the first line with Kreider and Smith and slide Mika down with Cuylle and Kakko.

This team is very good but they are not a serious contender. Same as last season, same as all summer.

They are the best ditzy team in the league but when there’s no space, they refuse to adapt and play the greasy game.

 

[chosen]

I am not impressed with Reilly Smith.

Swap Cytil for Zib in the lineup and PP?

 

[mandiblesofdoom]

His name is Jones.

the NYR geniuses bench him, of course.

 

[majordomo]

Joe Micheletti was particularly insufferable tonight.

I didn't think I could hate anyone more than Mike Emerick......but Mick The Mouth is certainly getting there.

 

[Cmox]

Mika's battle is just not there. It looks like it hurts to move on the boards. Every puck "battle" is a lethargic reaching or standing still. I really don't get it.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

BTW, the Rangers looked like the hockey version of the Giants/Jets in the second and third period tonight. Us that are football/hockey fans exclusively can't catch a break. If Daniel Jones played hockey, it would look like that. Completely f***ing inept.

 

[noncents]

is that what it feels like for the canes to play us lol

 

[CasusBelli]

Didn’t watch the third, but as soon as Joe and Sam were talking about the drubbing the Panthers were getting against Minny this week, I knew this game would be a loss. No way Maurice would allow back to back Ls after contract extension day.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

is that what it feels like for the canes to play us lol

Not really, we don't shut them down like the Panthers shut us down. Well maybe outside of that 1-0 win we had last year. It's just embarrassing watching our offense look like that in a game.

 

[CasusBelli]

Remember last year when they were shut down by the Preds early on in the season and didn't show up. This game did not feel like they that. That game felt like a no show. What's bothering me about this game is it feels like we just aren't good enough.

That’s because we aren’t. In a best of seven, I don’t see us beating Florida, Edmonton or Dallas. And if not for Igor, really, you have to wonder if the Leafs game would have been a win. We’ve largely played very well offensively but have been incredibly lucky defensively and deeply reliant on our goalie.

 

[IDvsEGO]

What did you all think of
Panarin-Zib-Kreider
Cuylle-Trocheck-Laf
Smith-Chytil-Kakko?
Good to see Lav is willing to try something else but I probably would have stuck with the normal lines. Maybe double shift Tro or Chytil and sit Zib. Zib stunk. Cuylle-Trochek-Laf is the toughest line on paper but they did not show the support and chemistry on the cycle you'd hope for with max-grit sandpaper.

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