Daves a mess
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GDT: Game # 64 - Rangers @ Devils - 7pm EST - MSG (Star Fox edition)
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We all know we are much better than what we saw tonight. We had some really bad goaltending and stsrted playing pond hockey.
They deserve this and sometimes it’s good for the team to be humbled every once in a while.
They’re going to play a big time game against Pitt I’m sure
They deserve this and sometimes it’s good for the team to be humbled every once in a while.
They’re going to play a big time game against Pitt I’m sure
KevinFinnerty
I bomb atomically...
TominNC
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Yeah. But I'll wake up tomorrow (I hope) and think, "well that sucked" and go on with my life knowing there will be more games. No sense getting sick over it. It was an embarrassing performance and a complete let down. Shit happens.
I had two days of great feelings about this deadline, then it's like a fairy tale they start the game and look amazing and then they have the worst half a game I've seen in a really long time.
TominNC
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Positives? Hmm. There will be another game. This is simply an L in the standings. No more, no less. A bad loss to a bad team. The flipside to a good win against a good team. They all happen every season. But f*** it you can all jump off a ledge for all I care.
TominNC
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Oh no doubt. All those good feelings went to hell pretty quickly.
EdJovanovski
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What??? I’d say the opposite lol, most boring and slow Ranger team since I’ve been a fan!
HonestGabe
Formerly MacTruck
Yeah that game was f***ing terrible but burn the tape and move on.
Some of the responses in here are comical as if we aren’t a team on pace for over 50 wins this season. Stinkers happen. They have 4 new players pigeon holed into a lineup and will figure it out.
Some of the responses in here are comical as if we aren’t a team on pace for over 50 wins this season. Stinkers happen. They have 4 new players pigeon holed into a lineup and will figure it out.
DanielBrassard
It's all so tiresome
I think 19-20 was more fun. It's not the highest bar in the world to reach either, most of the past 7 seasons have been boring as shit. Most of this season hasn't been all that entertaining outside of Igor playing out of his mind.
JHS
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I get that people will panic in this case because of the melt down that occurred and look to blame the coach but it’s just 100% not supported by fact. This coach has been exemplary throughout the entire season and has this team far out performing most people’s predictions. He’s also the same guy who promoted Laf up to the the top 6 and gave him steady top 6 minutes for several months now. Clearly Gallant likes the kid and wants him to do well otherwise he would not have given him a shot!
This is not a “develop the kids” team anymore. The team is a “win games and play who gives them the best chance to do so.” Gallant has been incredibly transparent that he rides the guys playing well. Just because the vast majority of posters here believe Laf should just get thrown on the ice each time his line does, does not make that actually the best idea.
My point is, take a bigger view of this team this season and you’ll see just how well Gallant and his staff have done.
Larrybiv
We're CLEAN, we PROMISE!
Yes. I don't enjoy using that gamblers term of "trap game", but if there ever were one......that was it. Coming off 2 HUGE road victories, playing Jersey had to be a letdown, while looking forward to Pittsburgh and finally being home. Just shows to go you, that if a team doesnt match opponents intensity, pay attention to detail and play like they can, this will happen.
Shesterkybomb
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How you win games is important, not now but when you get to playoffs, getting routinely hemmed in your own end, excessive odd man rushes not to mention breakaways is a sure recipe for disaster come playoff time because teams scout your team for that series and every weakness is multiplied, the team needs to stop with the 50/50 plays. A prime example of that is the pass Fox made across the blueline instead of getting it deep, those plays happen way too often. If you look at our games vs Carolina, thats pretty much how playoffs are gonna look if they dont fix what they are doing, this will not work. The team is constructed well enough that this should not be happening with regularity. Kreider and Zib are examples of guys who are buying in, Strome, Panarin and Fox are playing pond hockey.
Shesterkybomb
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I think the frustration comes from him getting singled out when he wasn't the reason things spiraled. My only reasoning for it is maybe Gallant feels the guys really like Laf and when he gets benched the guys wear that more than if someone else was, maybe it's to point out the differences in how 1st overall picks are playing, i dont know but he was a long way down the list of players who were bad.
Rangers in 7
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The problem is that it was a carbon copy of what happened two nights earlier in Carolina. Except the goaltender performance.
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Yeah I actually think this season has been terribly UN-fun.
The games are atrocious to watch. They get outplayed in nearly every single game except goaltending and about 4 minutes of PP time in which they score 2 goals.
PlamsUnlimited
Big Church Bells
I wish that more casual fans would see this. I know all of us on boards and such are pretty dedicated- but everything I see, everyone I talk to who is a casual fan thinks that everything is peachy. When I try to explain that this isn't a good way to win games and it will be very disappointing, they don't want to hear it. It is very concerning to me seeing them get their faces smashed in every game only being able to really do anything consistently on the special teams units. We need to see the team generate sustained pressure and chances at even strength if we want even a small chance of going far.... and that is a very tall task seeing Carolina took everyone but Gorgeous George to the cleaners
NYRFAN218
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Don't know what prompted that implosion but the first 25 mins of the game for the Rangers were excellent and if that's a sign of things to come, then I feel really good about this team. That being said, I'm starting to become concerned about Panarin. Hit at the end of the game aside as well as overall point totals, he hasn't looked right in a while. Passes that he'd somehow zip through aren't getting through as often, he seems to be shying away to the perimeter even more, and he's overall just being neutralized much easier at 5 v. 5 than he ever has in a Rangers jersey. He's still lethal on the PP but at even strength, he hasn't looked very good.
People are shocked and angry that the Rangers aren't ready to win the Cup, yet before the season they all knew that was the case. This was the season to become a playoff team. Next season, becoming a true Cup contender becomes a reasonable possibility.
Some fans are capable of believing the coaching staff sucks and the players suck and then are dumbfounded how they can lose any games.
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