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

[EdJovanovski]

Nobody on this team wants to put on the big boy pants and get dirty. It’s that simple. There’s too many soft perimeter players on this team. You don’t win that way in the playoffs, see Maple Leafs, Toronto.

This game could use some Lemieux & DeAngelo

 

[Fitzy]

 

[Edge]

Hajek always looks like his skates are made of lead.

 

[duhmetreE]

give up so much space. React instead of attack.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

They hit two posts this could be 5-0

 

[Blais to Win]

This game is so great that I just took a break to go wash the dishes and put on a kettle for tea.

 

[Ail]

Yeah that will show them!

 

[Fitzy]

If it’s Bitteto in next game I will break my foot off in someone’s ass Red Foreman style

 

[RangersFan1994]

Go after Lafy now good job no toughness and soft

 

[Reggiet2]

See, thats the difference, Barzal has some bite in him, the Rangers are just tooooooooooo soft!!!

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

If it’s Bitteto in next game I will break my foot off in someone’s ass Red Foreman style

Hell yea!

 

[Raspewtin]

Go after Lafy now good job no toughness and soft

did you not see the big scrum fest that just broke out?

 

[Matt Rentfree]

Decisions on those two and Buch for next year. Are any of them going to be replaced with the same production or more instantly? Could be WORSE next year to start.

If we move Zib it could be. It’s not like we’re going to get Ryan O’Reilly in return.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

Very Unlikely!!

Why exactly? This Isles team is not nearly good enough. The have maybe 1 elite player, they have a few older guys, they just gave up their last 2 1st rounders, and they are in cap hell. They won't make it out of the east and every year it's going to get tougher as other younger teams get better. I can think of 10 teams that are better right now and we will be better in 2 years.

 

[tomobson]

Decisions on those two and Buch for next year. Are any of them going to be replaced with the same production or more instantly? Could be WORSE next year to start.

Next year is the year the rebuild really starts. Might be an ugly one but this veteran core is not going to get it done.

 

[Harbour Dog]

Lafreniere jumping on Barzal was nice to see. That's our future right there. Our future isn't to be this passive ass team that gets run over by teams that care more.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Zib is a mental midget, will not be a playoff performer

 

[Shesterkybomb]

Smith must get tired of doing all the heavy lifting

 

[Off Sides]

So they trade half the good parts of their rebuild for Eichel, and then they back fill the void with more Howden and Hajek types by trading Strome and Zbad?

 

[Raspewtin]

need a goal and time to ice the worst forwards this game hahaha

 

[Edge]

Next year is the year the rebuild really starts. Might be an ugly one but this veteran core is not going to get it done.

This veteran core has to be a major topic of discussion, and I expect it will be.

 

[Tob]

We are still paying our luck debt for that Brad Richards hat trick against Buffalo in his buyout season

 

[DialUp]

Quinn's brain has a lot of surface area

 

[Harbour Dog]

I like pulling the goalie here.

 

[Reggiet2]

Why exactly? This Isles team is not nearly good enough. The have maybe 1 elite player, they have a few older guys, they just gave up their last 2 1st rounders, and they are in cap hell. They won't make it out of the east and every year it's going to get tougher as other younger teams get better. I can think of 10 teams that are better right now and we will be better in 2 years.

The Rangers draft picks besides Fox, are under whelming and bordering on bust! I don't see a Mckinnon or McDavid or Mathews among the this group just not that impressive!