GDT: Game 64 - New York Rangers @ Montreal Canadiens - 7pm EST - MSG

[duhmetreE]

Matthews will just come here and be slow and boring and we'll all be like "why can't this guy pass?"

It's the team.

only one true way to find out

 

[will1066]

It feels like we have been slow and boring since 2006-2007

 

[DialUp]

Matthews will just come here and be slow and boring and we'll all be like "why can't this guy pass?"

It's the team.

OK, thought experiment. Take a fast team, say, any other team. Swap EVERYTHING with them: players, coaches, trainers, medical staff, interns, scouts, you name it. We still slow and boring? I say yes. And I will tell you why: scaffolding.

 

[LokiDog]

Remember after last deadline when they actually improved after the deadline? This is not like that.

I really don’t care until the playoffs. I’m not happy right now, make no mistake. I’m just not really in the knee jerk short term reaction camp anymore. We know this team is bipolar and that literally anything can be a catalyst for a 10 game unbeatable streak or a 10 game total shit streak. We could literally go like .300 from now until the end of the regular season and if we won our first 2 playoff games I wouldn’t care.

 

[Machinehead]

only one true way to find out

Kane is already the litmus test and he looks like Jed Ortmeyer.

Say what you will about Kane, he doesn't play like this.

 

[CasusBelli]

Hot take: all Allaire did was open the packaging on a Hall of Fame goaltender.

Who else have we produced? We struggled to find backups Hank's entire career.

Raanta and Talbot were pretty good for us, despite not having been anything special before, no?

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Hot take: all Allaire did was open the packaging on a Hall of Fame goaltender.

Who else have we produced? We struggled to find backups Hank's entire career.

Talbot and Raanta were legit very good for us. Even Pavelec played decent over here. Biron was good too, though he was very established.

 

[RangerLifer]

Yes. We saw it in the Pens series last year.

I remember. The team must work on that flaw or it will be exposed in the playoffs if we make it.

 

[Machinehead]

OK, thought experiment. Take a fast team, say, any other team. Swap EVERYTHING with them: players, coaches, trainers, medical staff, interns, scouts, you name it. We still slow and boring? I say yes. And I will tell you why: scaffolding.

I'm interested to hear more about scaffolding.

But I agree.

 

[Daves a mess]

Did we forget he said the hip issue has been around for years and was never, and still isn't, a big deal? It's an excuse latched on to by people who want to say "I told you so" that they shouldn't have traded for him.

Guilty

 

[rangersfansince08]

Hot take: all Allaire did was open the packaging on a Hall of Fame goaltender.

Who else have we produced? We struggled to find backups Hank's entire career.

Talbot and Raanta were good for us

 

[will1066]

Kane is already the litmus test and he looks like Jed Ortmeyer.

Say what you will about Kane, he doesn't play like this.

Gotta be malnutrition. Can they have some Chicago deep dish delivered to NY?

Wouldn't be surprised if he gets a LBI (rickets).

 

[17futurecap]

How are they supposed to play up tempo with the stiffs they ice on defense?

 

[DanielBrassard]

They're so slow and boring.

Throwing grit at it didn't work.

Throwing skill at it isn't working either.

Kane is one of the most entertaining players ever and has all-time ability to play with speed. He got sucked right into the hole.

Something internal is broken whether you think it's the coach or otherwise.

Something internal is their insistence on having a certain type of defenseman year after year not understanding how the game has evolved. Unless you are the Hurricanes you need to have a mobile defense to create offense consistently.

 

[duhmetreE]

Kane is already the litmus test and he looks like Jed Ortmeyer.

Say what you will about Kane, he doesn't play like this.

Jury is still out on Kane.

 

[Off Sides]

Did we all magically forget Kane has a bad hip and knee?

Every year most of us try to forget this team is built on marketing and ticket sales rather than winning a Cup.

 

[RangerLifer]

This board is so emo.

I'm usually positive but feeling very negative tonight. I expected the team to come out and play much better than this with the break, the practices, etc. No excuses tonight.

 

[LokiDog]

Taylor is not slow or boring. She’s also 1 year younger than my wife and 1 inch taller than me and yet I still feel like a pedo if I say I’m attracted to her.

 

[DanielBrassard]

Auston Matthews swap?

Maybe if Toronto knows he will leave they would be stupid enough to make that trade.

 

[duhmetreE]

What can Trouba throw?

 

[MysticLeviathan]

what a shot

 

[Leonardo87]

Trouba!!!!!!! Nice!!!

 

[will1066]

Taylor is not slow or boring. She’s also 1 year younger than my wife and 1 inch taller than me and yet I still feel like a pedo if I say I’m attracted to her.

We all are

 

[SnowblindNYR]

That was a top 3 Trouba goal!

 

[CasusBelli]

I'm usually positive but feeling very negative tonight. I expected the team to come out and play much better than this with the break, the practices, etc. No excuses tonight.

Against a largely AHL roster mind you.