Killem Dafoe
Hold my baby, man.
Every fan base does. It's actually a banned slang around certain parts of HF if memory serves me correctly.
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Every fan base does. It's actually a banned slang around certain parts of HF if memory serves me correctly.
Emptyvoid
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I'll begin by saying that I agree with your overall sentiment about New Jersey. It's time for that team to suck for a number of years.
What I don't agree with is your assessment of Schneider. He is the one bright spot on that team looking to the future. But I sure as hell won't blame him if he bolts as soon as possible. His numbers are almost all better than Brodeur's:
Brodeur: GP: 35 W: 17 GAA: 2.51 SV%: 902 Shootout Record: 0-3 4ga, 7 saves
Schneider: GP: 38 W: 14 GAA: 2.14 SV% 914 Shootout record: 0-5, 7ga, 7 saves
On the whole Schneider has been a bright spot on a terrible team. That gaa is impressive, and the sv%, while not incredible, is pretty solid given how weak the NJ defence is. He's played more games than Brodeur so he clearly isn't getting sheltered minutes. It's odd that he has less wins than Brodeur, but when you look at the numbers you can't blame that on Cory. Granted his SO numbers aren't great, but 5 games isn't a huge sample size.
On his career Schneids has a .924 sv% and a 2.18 GAA. He's one of the brightest young goaltenders
in the league.
Killem Dafoe
Hold my baby, man.
It's not an official rule I believe, but is right on the cusp and will most likely get deleted if reported.
I don't call Devils "Debbies" or Islanders "Piles" but that has to do less with respect and more with me just thinking it sounds dumb. "Rags", IMO is offensive, since to me it has to do with...well use your imagination.
What really boggles my mind is how some Ranger fans say Rags.
Which goal was Smith stopping? MAYBE the 2nd goal, but McDonagh was alone in front of the net and at that point it was in OT. Greise (sp?) is the only reason this game wasn't lost in regulation. After the tying goal he stopped Nash on a great save and Dorsett twice point blank. He was actually great, this loss for them had nothing to do with the Smith injury unless they hung their heads after losing Smith, but then they're mentally weak to begin with.
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It's not an official rule I believe, but is right on the cusp and will most likely get deleted if reported.
I don't call Devils "Debbies" or Islanders "Piles" but that has to do less with respect and more with me just thinking it sounds dumb. "Rags", IMO is offensive, since to me it has to do with...well use your imagination.
What really boggles my mind is how some Ranger fans say Rags.
Just your typical people not thinking about what they're saying.
Killem Dafoe
Hold my baby, man.
One of the funniest places to read comments about hockey in general is Facebook. There was actually a guy who said, "I love McDonagh! Let's go Rags!!"
I was like, "Please, murder yourself immediately."
Emptyvoid
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The two goals we scored after Smith got hurt, we would've scored on any goaltender.
One is simply a perfect deflection, can't do anything about it.
The second, McD is alone on top of the goal tender. What would Smith have done differently? What would any goaltender have done differently? It was a bang bang play, no time to react and move.
One is simply a perfect deflection, can't do anything about it.
The second, McD is alone on top of the goal tender. What would Smith have done differently? What would any goaltender have done differently? It was a bang bang play, no time to react and move.
Killem Dafoe
Hold my baby, man.
We won this game because of our play, not because of Smith leaving the game. This wasn't the Coyotes pressuring us and us getting a dirty, chippy, goal. We owned the pace after that. Maybe the Coyotes players gave up after Smith left but that's their problem. We were bringing the pressure from there on out.
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That's the nice thing with ******, you control the content you want to see. With facebook it's just blah and bunch of idiots.
The ignore feature is very useful around these parts as well lol.
Edit: ******* a swear word? Interesting.
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He might have stumbled for a sec but I think he gave OEL a lot of room before that, Joe mentioned everyone going to the center, I think it was just a misread, oh well, it'll happen.
Regarding his offense that's exactly what I see. He is so good getting great chances in front but his accuracy can improve, he misses the net a lot. However, just shooting lanes he creates are amazing. It reminds of great scorers in the NBA. You won't score every time by taking it to the basket, you need to be able to create your own shot. There's a reason some guys are spot up shooters and some guys are scorers. A guy like McCabe when he got here was like Steve Novak, a spot up shooter, McDonagh is Melo. If the guy ever improve his accuracy he'll be a perennial 50 point scorer, he's got an outside shot of that now.
Emptyvoid
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The coyotes only have themselves to blame for going into a shell and trying to eek out a 1 goal win. We took the game to them and eventually they cracked.
They did what we would very often do under Torts. Start throwing the puck away and making 'safe' plays.... the safest play is controlling the damn puck.
They did what we would very often do under Torts. Start throwing the puck away and making 'safe' plays.... the safest play is controlling the damn puck.
Killem Dafoe
Hold my baby, man.
It's a no-no word, yeah. But I saw what you meant, and yeah I don't ever go on that site, but i know what you mean.
I read 2 ****ing posts about how we only won this game because Smith got injured. Seriously, 1 person I understand, but was I watching a different game. Stop the ****ing hating. The tying goal was a perfect deflection over the pad, Jesus ****ing Christ isn't stopping that. Then Griese made at least 3 FANTASTIC saves in regulation. It's not out of the question that Griese got them a point Smith wouldn't have (maybe Smith doesn't make those saves). Then McDonagh is all alone in front of the net off a one timed slap shot, I suppose Griese could have been better with the rebound there, but that wasn't his fault. If Smith were there and stopped that we could have won either way because we were in OT and at that point all bets are off. But Griese gave up a goal he had no chance on in the 3rd and made 3 fantastic saves at least to get his team a point. Stop the hate. Are you guys Rangers fans or what? You can't even credit the team?
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Thanks for pulling that stat up... I only checked his stats for the Devils this year... I guess he's better than I thought. When you consider what they paid for him (what was it a 5th round pick?)
I had based that on his play from my viewpoint, however it could be because Marty knows this team better, hence why he looks better when he's trying to bail them out. I don't often see Schneider keeping the devils in games, but that may just be me because I don't think the stats lie. I DO however know that Schneider is easily sniped on... he does let goals in that he should be stopping... but he's no Steve mason or Ray Emery, that's for sure.
Yeah, Yotes tried to win on a goal they didn't even score. That's torts hockey, and my god. If I was a yotes fan, holy hell...
on another note, their last 4-on-3 power play.... was the Rangers PK really that good in blocking the passing and shooting lanes, or is the Yotes PP that bad? I want to say the former over the latter, but I don't think I saw them even attempt one decent shot on it
Emptyvoid
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That was our PK imo, we played them really well after the first PPG we gave up. Hank came up big when he should have.
Phoenix is no joke on the PP, top 5 in the league. Credit to the guys to shutting them down after the first goal on the PP.
We definitely earned the victory, but it's impossible to say what would have happened with another goaltender in net. Different body size, different positioning, different angling, different directioning of the rebound, are all things that could have been different with another goaltender, not just Mike Smith, in net.
Not trying to argue with you, but it's always bugged me when announcers say the goaltender had no chance. There's always a chance. However slim, there's always a chance. The goaltender isn't always to blame, but there's always an opportunity to be setup differently, or react differently, and make a huge save. I assume it's just the announcers way of saying it's not the goalie's fault.
For all we know smith swallows up Girardi's shot and doesn't allow a rebound at all...
We definitely earned the victory with the way we responded after that brutal first period.
Edit: and I totally agree with Snowblind's comment a few posts later. For all we know Yotes lose in regulation if Smith is still in net.
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Emptyvoid
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I mean, of course, technically you're right. There's no way of knowing, anything could've happened.
I guess what would be more correct to say is that the goals we scored on Greiss were of high caliber/quality, ones that weren't due to poor play of a back up.
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Phoenix has the best PP in the western conference. Their PP is very good, run by Yandle and also Ribiero is a good set up man, Vrbata has a good shot. The Rangers' PK is just very strong, very active sticks good positioning to get in lanes and willingness to block shots.
As far as the Devils fans go. It's really sad and pathetic. It's kinda cute to me how they hate us and how little we care about them. They're like little kids throwing tantrums over there.
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It completely blows my mind how the PK got a lot better after we traded Callahan but MSL isn't doing that well. It's like bizzaro world. The one thing I was worried about (PK) got better and the one thing that I wasn't worried about (MSL scoring) went to ****.
Totally agree.
I don't have the stats to back it up, but from my experiences watching hockey, rarely does the backup come in mid game due to an injury and cost his team the game. It happens when the starter gets yanked becAuse he's sucking, but often he's yanked for a reason (the game is out of reach so the rest of the team stops competing, or the other team is that much better that they're going to keep on scoring regardless).
I know the mindset as a fan is always, 'oh the starter is injured the backup is coming in, we're going to take advantage here.' But rarely do I see it work out that way. Tonight was similar. After a few minutes of play I thought for sure Greiss was going to shut the door on us.
But when we finally solved him it wasn't because he was a crappy backup (which he may very well be) but because we worked hard and created quality chances.
