GDT: Game # 63 - New York Rangers @ Boston Bruins - 1pm EST - ABC, ESPN+

[Mandar]

Next goal wins

 

[Gordon Bombay]

I don't know how Igor sleeps at night.

He doesn't. He has a baby now

 

[TheGortonConspiracy]

- if people are blaming Shesterkin for being down 1-0, they shoudl just stop watching hockey now. It's not your sport, bro.

- Chytil needs to be better there. Just puck watching, not marking anything.

- Kakko had a terrible period. Tentative stuff everywhere. Against a tougher, bigger team like the Bs, he, all of players needs to play fast and hard and aggressive. We need him to use his size. His first period was deeply frustrating to watch. Laffy is the only one going full speed on that line right now.

- netfront. netfront. netfront. can't win if you can't control the inside. Or at least compete there. We contested ours well at times, but we always give up a bunch of those chances. You can have all the elite talent in the world, if you can't win the netfront, you can't win NHL games with any consistency.

- I am withholding my judgement of this team construction until everyone is back in the lineup and Kane feels more adjusted. But if we are this soft going into the playoffs... oof. I keep having Petr Nedved flashbacks.

#4 is the biggest point. Net front is even more important in the playoffs, and we didn't compete for it in their end and gave it up too easy in our end, both this game and OTT

 

[DuneGoon84]

I can't believe people are still harping on this after all these years.

what about it is harping? Dude needs to use his body. He is supposed to be a "power" forward.

 

[2014nyr]

The league pretty much neutered him after the Carey Price incident.

my god the rewriting of history on that by mtl fans and media which somehow took over as the leaguewide narrative. you have to be deranged to see that play and think its intentional....the play is obvious enough and when you consider the context its even crazier to think hed waste a chance to score to slide into price

only thing that comes close is the pitt lunatics rewriting the history on the trouba crosby play and somehow they cried so much the leaguewide narrative is now how every trouba hit is dirty no matter how blatantly clean it is

 

[Kravtsov420]

ferraro still has the boston bruins semin on his face, should get that off before everyone notices

 

[gravey9]

btw -- you know what's going to happen if we look this soft in the playoffs, right? Kakko or Laffy are going to get scratched for Anton Blidh. And it's not even a question in my mind at this point.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

I get it, but playing with 5 D doesn't help. We played an ALMOST perfect period defensively. The ONE chance they give up isn't even unstoppable (not a softy I'll agree) and our goalie gives the goal up. How about making ONE big save this season? Just one.

The defensemen have been fine today, that's a hard play to stop for any goalie, coming from behind the net to a wide open guy. Shesterkin has been average lately but that's way too high danger of a chance to be giving up and expecting and more than a 50/50 chance of saving.

 

[Machinehead]

There is no bathroom!

"What are you doing?! You said you wouldn't kill anyone!"

"You told me not to kill anyone. You did not tell me I couldn't shoot anyone."

 

[Baby Duck Homme]

everything about this game is aggravating today. Down a D. Afternoon game in Boston. Getting pushed around. Even putting people on ignore for the first time in a while.

 

[3rd Guy High]

hes been ok...been mixing it up w/ mcavoy and is not winning that battle currently. got destroyed by a reverse hit....gotta feel bad for him in d zone tho, hes on his own. also that line being matched by bergeron so going to be tough sledding all day to find chances, esp on road where they get last change. if that line produces today or at least controls play more itd be a seriously impressive. thought they were ok in the first...did get some chances, more than any other line. struggle to get puck out of zone when as expected
Honestly this - the Zibanejad line really needs to step up with this Kane line together, if they don’t, the rangers will lose. Take advantage of not drawing the toughest matchups. We know they are capable.

 

[duhmetreE]

He turned it over in the neutral zone because Spongebob skated past it on his way to the Krusty Krab

wait... you're blaming that sequence on Lafreniere? LOL

 

[2014nyr]

He blew 2 or 3 chances to clear the puck out of the zone, one directly leading to a Pasternak scoring chance. Can't hold on to his equipment to boot, dropping his glove on one shift, his stick on another.. He needs to be better coming out in the 2nd.

yea the play on the pk was a disaster. i just thought he was far from our worst player overall. couple lines have been completely invisible altogether

 

[duhmetreE]

embarrassing.

 

[RickChartraw]

lol

 

[Bob Richards]

Horrendous

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Absolutely pathetic.

 

[Deleted member 23124]

I guess that goal was Shesty's fault as well.

 

[hi]

Luh mao

 

[Leonardo87]

Wow no comment right now.

 

[DanielBrassard]

That was utterly embarassing

 

[Boris Zubov]

Good work there Kreider. Getting abused by Nosek.

 

[bl02]

I was laughed at a month ago when I said the first pp unit has been lax and disjointed and predictable.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

He doesn't. He has a baby now

I knew I'd get that here.

 

[DialUp]

So yeah, we might have Patty Kane, but have you heard of godlike superman NOSEK?