GDT: Game # 51 Rangers vs Islanders - 7pm EST - MSG

[Machinehead]

I’ll take Zbad over Malkin, Backstrom, Bergeron, Couts, Tavares and Point now and In the future.

Point is probably the best 5v5 player in the league sans McDavid. He has 201 points in his last 192 games.

You guys seriously need to be aware of teams that aren't the Rangers. The takes in here make it obvious.

 

[Rangerboy030]

Abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, disgusting, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, lousy, nasty, shameful, terrible.

 

[Tob]

9-1 last 5 periods vs them, they should be embarrassed

The coaching staff has been helpless against the Islanders. This is literally a carbon copy of what? 4 games we've played against them this season?

 

[RGY]

So many pathetic things about this team that revolve around David Quinn playing.

Blackwell still on Panarin’s line
Gauthier still not playing
Howden still f***ing playing
Howden getting more minutes when the team is down in basically an elimination game - probably the most infuriating of things
DiGi playing over Gauthier tonight
This team doesnt ever drive the net. Ever. Guess who plays that way? Julien Gauthier.

This team is sad and pathetic under Quinn. Its a talented group and they look like they are skating in mud.

f*** David Quinn.
Season over.
f*** David Quinn with this effort. Embarrassing

 

[Edge]

I hope so because this obviously isn’t working.

We’re better than the lower half of the league, not as good as good as the upper half. So we find ourselves roughly in the middle.

Which is, for better or wise, more or less where I expected us to be.

 

[SRHRangers]

I’ll take Zbad over Malkin, Backstrom, Bergeron, Couts, Tavares and Point now and In the future.

I would drive Zibs to the airport if it meant getting Point lol.

 

[RGY]

The coaching staff has been helpless against the Islanders. This is literally a carbon copy of what? 4 games we've played against them this season?

Coaching staff couldnt make an adjustment and/or couldnt get their whole group to adjust. The coaching staff is a big problem

 

[Matt Rentfree]

Abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, disgusting, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, lousy, nasty, shameful, terrible.

Someone got a new thesaurus

 

[DialUp]

I’m not Nostradamus

I am, here is one for you: no playoffs next year, but Quinn STILL survives.

 

[FIRE DRURY]

OK but that list is a list of centers who are presently better than Zibanejad so the future thing is just superfluous.

Some of them are not better, in my opinion. And given the fact that some are over 30, some will likely start trending down while Mika should maintain his production over the next few seasons.

 

[KevinFinnerty]

What pisses me off is their plugs look more skilled than our top 6 players.

 

[Edge]

Hopefully we start behind the bench.. A coach that the team respects

Guys I gotta tell you the players don’t have a problem with the coach. I’m pretty good at finding out when there’s a problem. That’s just not the narrative out there.

 

[Machinehead]

I'm not taking Eichel, Backstrom, Kopitar, Tavares, and Courtier (ungodly overrated).

And I would question Petterson, but if you want to take the younger player, I wouldn't make a big argument about it.

Kopitar has 46 points in 47 games and he has two Selke trophies. Like, you guys seriously think the Rangers are the only team.

 

[Off Sides]

Playoff hockey and Strome is not going to work. He is not good defensively and flaky offensively.

Zbad at the very least I could see him being somewhat good, yet he at age 32-33 is going to fall off and they already have Kreider who is going to do the same if he has not already.

Use them in some way to add some freaking centers to this team who are multi dimensional.

 

[Rangerboy030]

Why do you read the main boards? It’s the Internet forum equivalent of drinking a gallon of battery acid.

And I'm putting it to good use!

 

[Matt Rentfree]

What pisses me off is their plugs look more skilled than our top 6 players.

They play within a system that makes them look that way.

 

[Harbour Dog]

Vally spittin' truths!

 

[Tob]

Steve looks as irritable as he sounds irritated.

 

[mrmovies779]

We just arent built for grinding,heavy,forechecking games.If its not an open ice run and gun game, these guys wilt away like a flower.

 

[KevinFinnerty]

Dime a dozen players like Leddy, Mayfield, Beavuillier, Nelson look like the Harlem Globetrotters with a system conducive to winning implemented for them from their coach.

 

[Machinehead]

And look, it's not just Zibanejad. All four of our centers suck at entries, blow nuclear chunks at faceoffs, and are suspect defensively. We have 12 wingers.

Somebody has to be a center.

 

[LOFIN]

Guys I gotta tell you the players don’t have a problem with the coach. I’m pretty good at finding out when there’s a problem. That’s just not the narrative out there.

I've got the same impression from some of the interviews Kakko has given.

 

[JHS]

Remember when management said after the bubble disaster they wanted a tougher team to play against... hmmmm looks like they failed at that too. Hard to be a tough team when big name guys go invisible in the most important games of the season and a lot of the other guys can’t even legally buy beer...

 

[duhmetreE]

Guys I gotta tell you the players don’t have a problem with the coach. I’m pretty good at finding out when there’s a problem. That’s just not the narrative out there.

narrative and saying something is different then what is happening on the ice.

Either the entire team is a problem or the coaching staff is having problems coaching.

How many games/period have we had, like this one? SOMETHING IS ROTTEN.

 

[The New Russian Five]

I’ve already addressed this in the past so I’m not gonna re-hash again.

But I will say that that this team is going to look progressively look different over the next 18 months.

Any idea what type of moves they will probably be looking to make?