GDT: Game 14 - New York Rangers vs New York Islanders - 7pm, MSG

[Leonardo87]

New York Rangers vs New York Islanders
7pm EST - MSG

Islanders Projected line up

Josh Bailey -- Mathew Barzal -- Oliver Wahlstrom
Anders Lee -- Brock Nelson -- Anthony Beauvillier
Zach Parise -- Jean-Gabriel Pageau -- Kyle Palmieri
Matt Martin -- Casey Cizikas -- Ross Johnston

Alexander Romanov -- Noah Dobson
Adam Pelech -- Ryan Pulock
Sebastian Aho -- Scott Mayfield

Varlamov
Sorokin

Scratched: Nikita Soshnikov, Robin Salo
Injured: Cal Clutterbuck (undisclosed)


Rangers Projected line up

Artemi Panarin -- Mika Zibanejad -- Kaapo Kakko
Alexis Lafreniere -- Vincent Trocheck -- Jimmy Vesey
Chris Kreider -- Filip Chytil -- Vitali Kravtsov
Sammy Blais -- Ryan Carpenter -- Barclay Goodrow

K'Andre Miller -- Adam Fox
Zac Jones -- Jacob Trouba
Libor Hajek -- Braden Schneider

Igor Shesterkin
Jaroslav Halak

Scratched: Ryan Reaves
Injured: Ryan Lindgren (upper body), Julien Gauthier (upper body)



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[turcotte8]

Anyone know where I can get a shot of adrenaline so I can stay awake for this upcoming snooze fest ?

 

[chosen]

Anyone know where I can get a shot of adrenaline so I can stay awake for this upcoming snooze fest ?

Score first and the snoozefest disappears.

 

[turcotte8]

Score first and the snoozefest disappears.

You think we're scoring? That's optimistic

 

[will1066]

Expect big time games from Travis Green, Richard Park and Pat Flatley. And a special appearance by Jack Capuano.

Also expect @SnowblindNYR to be livid by 9:40 pm (Eastern Standard Time).

 

[mrmovies779]

Expect big time games from Travis Green, Richard Park and Pat Flatley. And a special appearance by Jack Capuano.

Also expect @SnowblindNYR to be livid by 9:40 pm (Eastern Standard Time).

9:40? I think you meant 7:40

 

[Circus86]

Wishlist:

- Good game from CK and Trouba
- Points for Laf
- 2 point night for the team

 

[will1066]

9:40? I think you meant 7:40

This is when Halak goes to handle the puck, it skips over his stick, gets out in front and Wahlstrom puts it into an open net, at 8:36 into the period?

 

[FultonReed]

This is when Halak goes to handle the puck, it skips over his stick, gets out in front and Wahlstrom puts it into an open net, at 8:36 into the period?

so hyper specific

 

[mrmovies779]

This is when Halak goes to handle the puck, it skips over his stick, gets out in front and Wahlstrom puts it into an open net, at 8:36 into the period?

More like he notices a lineup move he doesn't like and goes ballistic before the puck is even dropped

 

[TheBloodyNine]

After getting teams far along and almost always after multiple playoff runs. Let’s tell the full story and not leave out the part that is not supportive of your false narrative.

@JHS

Nothing I have said is a "false narrative." He has never been with a team and not been fired in his third season. That is an actual fact. Also, no team he has left has ever gone on to win anything, so let's not make it seem like he started a team down a path that in anyway had success afterwards as a result of his coaching - because again, these are facts, that never happened.

"Far along" and "multiple playoff runs" is completely meaningless. He's been passed the first round only twice in his coaching career and this past year was the second time. The only team he had multiple playoff runs with was Vegas, and they lost in the first round in his second year. Then he was fired - right on brand.

Now the team, instead of riding the momentum from their long run last year is sputtering.

Gee, wonder why that is? Couldn't be that Igor isn't having a historical season which was the exact reason why they had any modicum of success last year.
OH WAIT, THAT'S EXACTLY IT.

 

[Kovalev27]

The Rangers have to win this game really do for multiple reasons.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Obvious loss inc. I just hope we don’t get shut out again.

 

[LORDE]

Will we embarrass ourselves again?

Will we "get up" for THE rivalry game?

Or will we just mail it in... again? How many stamps did Kreider buy for this one?

 

[Leonardo87]

Wishlist:

- Good game from CK and Trouba
- Points for Laf
- 2 point night for the team

 

[TriFF51]

Wishlist:

- Good game from CK and Trouba
- Points for Laf
- 2 point night for the team

I'll take the 3 most unlikely things to happen tonight for 500 Alex.

 

[LORDE]

Over under on Bread & Zbad being split up?

I'm gonna say halfway through the 1st period

 

[EdJovanovski]

Just saw this at the mall, it’s a sign

 

[duhmetreE]

I’m not watching

 

[Unpredictable1]

I'm just used to pain and frustration now. It's part of me.

 

[Leonardo87]

I updated the lines. Vince has Trocheck as the 3rd line, NHL has Trocheck as the 2nd line . At this point don’t think it matters they are like two 3rd lines at this point that need to produce.

Guess you can call those line the ones that need to perform lines. I dunno.

Top line is stacked with players who I think have had a good season so far with little to no struggles.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

It's embarrassing that the Islanders score so much more than the Rangers with a fraction of the talent.

 

[TheGortonConspiracy]

It’s going to be a long season for folks here who want to talk about firing Gallant every other post. There’s no way that happens mid-season after seeing last years playoffs. Wake up

 

[SnowblindNYR]

This game is an automatic 3-0 loss.

 

[JHS]

@JHS

Nothing I have said is a "false narrative." He has never been with a team and not been fired in his third season. That is an actual fact. Also, no team he has left has ever gone on to win anything, so let's not make it seem like he started a team down a path that in anyway had success afterwards as a result of his coaching - because again, these are facts, that never happened.

"Far along" and "multiple playoff runs" is completely meaningless. He's been passed the first round only twice in his coaching career and this past year was the second time. The only team he had multiple playoff runs with was Vegas, and they lost in the first round in his second year. Then he was fired - right on brand.

Now the team, instead of riding the momentum from their long run last year is sputtering.

Gee, wonder why that is? Couldn't be that Igor isn't having a historical season which was the exact reason why they had any modicum of success last year.
OH WAIT, THAT'S EXACTLY IT.

The " false narrative" is Gallant deserves to be fired because the team is sputtering. It's simply absurd. 7 months ago this team was in serious contention for a cup. You want to only give the goalie credit- ok maybe that's true. But how then does Gallant ever get any credit for anything? If the players are mediocre than he'd get blamed for not getting the best out of them. If the players are overachieving it seems like in this narrative, " The players are covering up for the poor coaching." All I'm pointing out is we at least owe it to be fair to the coach and evaluate what he's contributed and accomplished. He gotten multiple teams to extended playoff runs, one in its first year in existence and repeated a similar run with a group of players last year that most experts had finishing in the bottom half of the league.

We are not even at the Thanksgiving break yet and all's I'm saying is Gallant has earned a much longer leash than some calling for him to be ousted are giving him. Failing to realize that and allowing your emotions to carry your thoughts is an emotional overreaction that I'm calling people out for.

On to tonight's game. I'm hopeful to see a spark and contributions from Kreider.