Post-Game Talk: Game 5

[effen]

Straight outworked. Lot of gliding. Turnovers for no reason. Totally swallowed up by any kind of pressure.

See ya G6.

 

[Filip Chytil]

Rangers were meh in period 1. Thought they were better in period 2 but still not as sharp as we've seen them before. And they utterly stunk in period 3 with a terrible performance. Not how you close out a series.

You had a lead tonight in the 3rd period with the chance to close this out. And you had a tied game in the 3rd in Game 4. Now you've given CAR life. Who knows what will happen now.

 

[Machinehead]

This was as shit an effort as you can muster up.

The 2 days off actually probably helps us.

It's gonna help the board too.

We're up 3-2 in a series still with home ice.

 

[Megustaelhockey]

The Canes are talented, dirty, well-coached, and extremely desperate. We knew what it takes to beat them and did not do it.

Two out of four chances to close out now gone. Enough already.

 

[mandiblesofdoom]

man that was a rough watch. They got the lead and just could not do anything right. No completed passes, no breakouts, always a half second late for everything, etc.

 

[Jayan]

Vally is my spirit animal. I hope they force the team to watch this postgame segment.

The performance today would get people fired at a real job.

Im ashamed of the team.

Goodnight guys.

 

[Leonardo87]

I really have nothing to say, onto Game 6. This game never happened.

 

[bouds]

Played fine in the first, but there was a drop off in play as the game went on, and the third was bad. There was not a lot of space out there. The two guys that created some space are the two guys that never do much with it, Roz/Wennberg. Credit to their D.

 

[Megustaelhockey]

It's gonna help the board too.

We're up 3-2 in a series still with home ice.

Are you sure? People stewing for an extra day?

 

[bl02]

Vally is right. Did they test Andersen?
They were ass before the Trouba goal as well.

 

[Atax]

Top guys have disappeared. Got to print out some missing photos for the neighborhood.

 

[Maliks PlusMinus]

That was very concerning.

Lindgren was quite good.

 

[CasusBelli]

Unfortunately I think this series is done. Carolina is the far superior team. Reverse sweep incoming

On paper and on the ice. 13 is the only untouchable at this point for me. Even 31, by the time a rebuild would be over, would be in his early to mid 30s. Might as well max return right now. Don't drag it out longer than necessary.

 

[Machinehead]

Are you sure? People stewing for an extra day?

They'll get over it.

 

[Gordon Bombay]

The turtle with half the game left and a one goal lead is not the approach I would've went with

 

[Jayan]

Have fun explaining that effort to the media, Rangers.

What is this effort thing you’re talking about?

 

[Black Aces]

This looked like the end of the devils series.

Nobody skating.

Handling the puck like a grenade.

Barely getting offensive zone time.

Blindly centering it to nobody.

Nobody going the middle of the ice.

PP going cold after opposing PK makes an adjustment.

Not even trying to transition from defense to offense. Content as hell to chip the puck to center.

They didnt do much even before the trouba goal. After that goal, this game was a disgrace.

They are too happy to do nothing and sit on a lead.

I really hate this team right now.

 

[mas0764]

Pathetic.

Messier ripping them a bit. Saying they played to win on the 1-0 lead. No effort after that goal.

Same shit that almost cost them in Game 1. They never learn. Always try to take the easy way out. And then they just give up.

Exactly.

They got a lead and then figured they'd stop skating, stop working hard to generate offense, and sit back and chip pucks out of the zone and let Igor save them.

Can't keep doing that.

When you take a 1-0 lead into the third period that just means you probably only need ONE MORE goal to win, so you're halfway there.

Frankly, it looks like a microcosm of the series a little.

They thought that Carolina would roll over after going down 3-0. Nope.

Now all Carolina has to do is win at home, and it's a literal tossup.

 

[DoTheBlue]

I kinda figured with trouba scoring and rempe being penalty free that that it was opposite day and that it was going to end the opposite of how i imagined.

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

They can’t sit back, stop attacking just defend and expect Igor to do everything.

This isn’t good because now the Canes have life and it’s for real.

Now the Rangers are gonna try to play a different game in game 6 to overcompensate and it could backfire taking it to 7.

It also doesn’t help that the pp is off and the canes pk is now on.

Worried? Um, yeah - we saw what happened last year.

I also don’t like that there is two days off other than giving guys like Fox some rest. But it also gives them rest too, maybe it will help stop the momentum? Hope so

Need 1 win out of 2. Just get it done

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Most limp dicked performance sure game 7 against NJ.

The ending will be the sane, we’re losing in 7.

I’d bet my life on it.

 

[Machinehead]

Be mad that they lost game 5 but we're not talking about rebuilding.

This is not a democracy and I'm just not reading it tonight or tomorrow.

 

[AirGut]

f***ing ridiculous

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

Trouba scored and they decided Igor got it from here

Just ass all around

 

[Jack Hanson]

What can you do? Its all in the hands of the hockey gods. They need to do some soul searching after this loss.