GDT: Game # 66 - New York Rangers @ Pittsburgh Penguins - 4pm EST (Game is on TNT)

[DuneGoon84]

This is the biggest thing with the Rangers. I don’t actually think they’re a “slow” team - they play slow. They are always waiting for it to come to them, never proactively going after it.

Example:

Mika gets the puck near the faceoff circle but is well covered. He has Kreider in the corner and sends him the puck. When the puck gets to Kreider, he’s going to try to walk out of the corner with it to make a cross ice pass. He stays stationary in the corner until the pass reaches him and then begins to walk out of the corner from a flat-footed standstill.

Crosby gets the puck near the faceoff circle but is well covered. He has Rakell in the corner and sends him the puck. Rakell KNOWS he’s going to try to walk the puck out of the corner to make a cross ice pass, so he activates from his spot BEFORE the puck gets to him and meets the puck on its way, already moving out of the corner and catching the puck in-stride with momentum, forcing all of the defenders on the ice to shift as well and opening new lanes.

Who's to blame for this because it appears every player on this team reacts or plays like you described. It's the biggest flaw. How can the coaching staff not see the same thing ?

 

[KOVALEV022473]

Huh?

He’s said it like three times. I have no idea what he’s talking about.

 

[Kovalev27]

Gallant is the one holding us back right now. The lines are a mess. Somehow with the pieces he has he put the worst 9 together.

The powerplay units like this is downright criminal. You don’t split these players up. Just absolutely insane decision

I honestly don’t know what they did those two days of practice but he put everything in a blender 5 mins later.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

What needs to happen for Gallant to get Lamarello'd?

 

[TheDirtyH]

he's not but the whole "their goalie gave the puck to me with an open net and i didnt even get a shot off" thing is a bit perturbing.

it got shot at his face lmaooo

 

[Machinehead]

What has Kane done since he got here? I don't see what you're seeing.

He's producing offense.

He has 3 points, is getting 3 shots on goal per game, and the Rangers are scoring at a rate of almost 3 goals every 60 minutes he's on the ice during a stretch where we're struggling to get 2.

By the end of the season, he'll have as many shots as a Ranger as useless f***ing Kakko does.

He's a black hole defensively but we knew that.

 

[will1066]

f*** it. Spend the 3rd practicing your cross checks and slashes for the playoffs.

Can you imagine?

"Ow! That hurt! Why you do that for?!" --top 6 Rangers

 

[Whoot Whoot]

Yo we suck

 

[McRanger92]

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Colby Armstrong?

 

[mike14]

Gallant is the one holding us back right now. The lines are a mess. Somehow with the pieces he has he put the worst 9 together.

The powerplay units like this is downright criminal. You don’t split these players up. Just absolutely insane decision

I honestly don’t know what they did those two days of practice but he put everything in a blender 5 mins later.

Objectively the PP worked. They opened up a lane and the goalie in the next post code. No amount of coaching can overcome Kreider f***ing that up

 

[SnowblindNYR]

He's producing offense.

He has 3 points, is getting 3 shots on goal per game, and the Rangers are scoring at a rate of almost 3 goals every 60 minutes he's on the ice during a stretch where we're struggling to get 2.

By the end of the season, he'll have as many shots as a Ranger as useless f***ing Kakko does.

He's a black hole defensively but we knew that.

3 points - one of them was a fluke goal and one was an accidental assist, the one legit point he has he basically evened out a turnover that resulted in a goal against.

 

[nevesis]

Seriously, Jeremy Roenick was canceled so we can listen to clown takes like this?

Who is that f***ing idiot anyway? Don’t even recognize him.

 

[Bob Richards]

he's not but the whole "their goalie gave the puck to me with an open net and i didnt even get a shot off" thing is a bit perturbing.

In the heat of the playoffs, with the game on the line, and the puck on Kakko's stick directly in the crease with the goalie dead in the corner and all other players at the opposite end of the ice.....

I think I'd like our chances better if Kakko passed all the way back to Fox to take a 200 foot shot at the net.

 

[will1066]

Puckluck gonna mansplain this later

 

[Jaromir Jagr]

he's not but the whole "their goalie gave the puck to me with an open net and i didnt even get a shot off" thing is a bit perturbing.

I mean Kreider's was way worse.

our two top picks sucking ass is absolutely holding us back

I disagree. Kane being utter dogshit and turning the puck over left and right hasn't been great. The D is scrambling and completely lost without Lindgren. Zibby is largely invisible. Kreider actually looks slow. The two top picks certainly aren't helping, but they're not supposed to be the top producers on this team and we can't expect them to carry the team when the top guys suck.

Laf has also been scoring quite a bit lately.

He's producing offense.

He has 3 points, is getting 3 shots on goal per game, and the Rangers are scoring at a rate of almost 3 goals every 60 minutes he's on the ice during a stretch where we're struggling to get 2.

By the end of the season, he'll have as many shots as a Ranger as useless f***ing Kakko does.

He's a black hole defensively but we knew that.

Did you see the goal he scored against Buffalo? Wasn't even a shot on net. Let's not act like he's been some offensive dynamo.

 

[TheDirtyH]

He's producing offense.

He has 3 points, is getting 3 shots on goal per game, and the Rangers are scoring at a rate of almost 3 goals every 60 minutes he's on the ice during a stretch where we're struggling to get 2.

By the end of the season, he'll have as many shots as a Ranger as useless f***ing Kakko does.

He's a black hole defensively but we knew that.

They're giving up more goals per 60 minutes when he's on the ice than they're getting lol this is huge cope

 

[The Gloaming]

The fact that we have barely any practice time left and Galaxy Brain over here wasted the 2 days we had on these idiotic powerplay units which make no sense really gives me a headache to think about.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Where’s Biz today smh

 

[Paulie Walnutz]

Who is that f***ing idiot anyway? Don’t even recognize him.

Colby Armstrong will forever be the guy who was known as a thrown in when Shitsburgh got Hossa, that’s all. Edit: f*** you autocorrect.

 

[Machinehead]

3 points - one of them was a fluke goal and one was an accidental assist, the one legit point he has he basically evened out a turnover that resulted in a goal against.

It's nice that he has actual points to conject about.

I'd love to be able to argue the validity of the points Kakko produces.

The only interesting thing about Kakko's production is that you can't divide by zero.

 

[will1066]

Who is that f***ing idiot anyway? Don’t even recognize him.

Need to sticky Colby Armstrong here

 

[DialUp]

Pittsburgh, on the road, afternoon, 2nd of a back to back. Crosby and Malkin will playing. What kind of game did anyone expect? A good one?

 

[effen]

I'd be fine losing this if they ignored the puck and straight buried the Pens with crosschecks for 20 mins. Call it an investment in the future.

 

[Jaromir Jagr]

It's nice that he has actual points to conject about.

I'd love to be able to argue the validity of the points Kakko produces.

The only interesting thing about Kakko's production is that you can't divide by zero.

Why are we comparing Kakko to Kane? We didn't rearrange the team and play shorthanded for like 2 weeks to fit Kakko. The bar should be slightly higher.

 

[will1066]

The PGT thread title should be "Colby Armstrong"