Post-Game Talk: Hurricane V - Mod warning in OP - READ IT

[CLW]

I can kind of see KK doing well on that squad, lol.

And Laffy.

 

[Boris Zubov]

Plus he’s a 5’10 170lb ego maniac who was deluding himself to begin with. He’s a primma dona who pretends he’s some kind of crazy wild card who bathed in deer blood. He’s just an ego who thinks that shit makes him some kind of eccentric Russian folk hero. How about taking a hit to make a play, wild man? Oh, all talk?

What really pisses me off is Gallant's refusal to send his a message by splitting those two up. By far GG's biggest faux pas of the season.

 

[Brutananadilewski]

Yeah, Strome has to go. I’m not 100% sure Copp is the answer there either though. And I think Chytil is a winger.

Copp is banged up, too. But he's putting up points.

 

[Joe Ranger Fan 1960]

If you think anyone here is happy after the way we played tonight, I'd love some of what you've been drinking.

If anything half the board was over-confident after the game on Tuesday.

Could be. Not me. Win at home, steal one in Carolina. Name a Captain. Win a cup. We can make it happen.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

Panarin didn't do his leg kick Game 7 against the Pengs. I knew then he was hurt pretty bad.

He is definitely hurt. I would be shocked if we didn't get some details about an injury after the season is over.

 

[Machinehead]

By the way, where did you watch? Living room? Kitchen? Bathroom?

I had the radio on for a bit in the park and then when the sun went down I was in the kitchen.

It didn't work today.

 

[McRanger92]

My opinion remains that, until this team has a f***ing BALLS OUT leader - in the top six, not Ryan Reaves - they will continue to be mental midgets as they were all through Hank’s career. It’s why I was so against moving Dubi, even though injuries ended up ruining him shortly after. Didn’t matter… Gaborik, Nash, St. Louis, Richards, Zucc… the Shesty body language on the Svechnikov breakaway was a flashback to Hank’s entire career. Team in front of him being WEAK. Apparently the NYR are a first class organization that pampers their players TOO MUCH and until you have a psycho nazi like MacKinnon smacking food out of their hands, this is what you’re gonna get.

I dont think "mental midgets" come back from down 3-1 to win a series against Pittsburgh. Nor do they tie a series after being down 2-0. I do think someone needs the C, but to call this team mentally weak seems very reactionary after they have come back to win as many games as they have this year. And I respect you a ton as a poster.

Also not for nothing but MacKinnon's team literally just blew a 3-0 lead and lost a game where they couldve eliminated St. Louis. They've also never gotten past where the Rangers are now in his entire career.

 

[Hire Sather]

Not following you here. Did you mean to quote me? Where did I say we have no chance?

I didn't see that, but I kind of misunderstood what you were saying with the happy thing. Thought you were ripping on the guy for being positive but I see now what you meant.

 

[Boris Zubov]

Could be. Not me. Win at home, steal one in Carolina. Name a Captain. Win a cup. We can make it happen.

This we're on the same page with. It's not over by any stretch. Carolina hasn't impressed me one bit during this series. They play bullshit Devils/Trotz trap hockey. If they can't match the Staal line against our top line, they can't win.

 

[I Eat Crow]

I have my concerns, perhaps for another time.


I just feel that they've improved a lot over the course of the year and were pretty good with their fully healthy roster, which we've had for like f***ing 4/94 games.


This is like a warm up to me. I have nothing to lose. If they make run, that's fun. When it ends, it ends.

I still think we're looking at the next 2-3 years rather than this one and I've already seen a lot of what I wanted out of this one.

I do get it. When you get to a certain point, people dream, and I'm never going to tell anybody to feel good after losing. Just don't forget to give them a little credit.

This team is a year or two ahead of schedule and by and large, are not done building yet.

Yeeting Strome to Seattle and bringing Copp back is a start. If Copp is really doing what he's doing with one knee, he's part of the solution and this next wave's core.

The window starts to open once Othmann, Berard, Cuylle, and Garand replace Vatrano, Strome, Rooney, and Georgiev.

Oh, and Roberson replacing Nemeth too.

I can't help but to think one more big move is coming in a year or two as well.

 

[Wtp99]

We don't cycle well on good nights.

We don’t seem to cycle at all, that is the frustrating part

 

[DanielBrassard]

The Rangers have had a good season and series is still somewhat winnable but there's no way they beat Tampa.

I honestly feel like we'd match up better against Tampa, especially if Point is still out.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I have my concerns, perhaps for another time.


I just feel that they've improved a lot over the course of the year and were pretty good with their fully healthy roster, which we've had for like f***ing 4/94 games.


This is like a warm up to me. I have nothing to lose. If they make run, that's fun. When it ends, it ends.

I still think we're looking at the next 2-3 years rather than this one and I've already seen a lot of what I wanted out of this one.

I do get it. When you get to a certain point, people dream, and I'm never going to tell anybody to feel good after losing. Just don't forget to give them a little credit.

Well, game 2 I missed most of and what I caught was at a bar on vacation which was a different experience. But I was shocked to see a team that just accomplished something no team has EVER accomplished in the NHL (3 consecutive come from behind wins in elimination games) and people dared say that the team has no heart. I thought maybe I'd feel different if I saw the game beginning to end at home but even after today's no show I still can't believe it. This is one of the gutsiest teams I've seen and even if they lose in 6 unless they get totally blown out in game 6 it was a good season to be proud of.

I honestly feel like we'd match up better against Tampa, especially if Point is still out.

Maybe, it turned out we matchup better with Carolina than Pittsburgh, who could have seen that? And I say that knowing full well we might lose in 6. Objectively we've played better this series.

 

[GENESISPuck94]

We've been down before. Win at home Saturday.

 

[Champs 94]

If anything, this series shows why it's important to finish as high as possible in the standings during the regular season. Home ice has meant everything so far here. Win the division next season and lets go into the playoffs expecting to go far. I want to go into the post season with a team that has a real chance of winning the Cup. It's very rare to feel that way about a Rangers squad. I did in 92, 94, 12 and 14 (once we made the Final). But other than that, I never really felt we were legit threats to win it all. Lets change that.

EDIT: Felt we could win it all in 15 too.

 

[will1066]

Plus he’s a 5’10 170lb ego maniac who was deluding himself to begin with. He’s a primma dona who pretends he’s some kind of crazy wild card who bathed in deer blood. He’s just an ego who thinks that shit makes him some kind of eccentric Russian folk hero. How about taking a hit to make a play, wild man? Oh, all talk?

Blackhawks star Artemi Panarin got stronger by bathing in deer blood

Chicago Blackhawks forward Artemi Panarin, the NHL's top rookie in 2015-2016, has a training method that includes bathing in deer blood.

www.google.com

Ok, I'm glad you brought up Chicago. One thing that has always been in the back of my mind is why did Chicago give up on him so soon? Traded for Brandon Saad no less. I know they committed a ton of money to Kane and Toews. And while Columbus bid for him, did they not try to enter contract talks with him in-season? I might not have all the facts or history behind him, but him jumping teams a couple of times has always puzzled me.

 

[LokiDog]

I dont think "mental midgets" come back from down 3-1 to win a series against Pittsburgh. Nor do they tie a series after being down 2-0. I do think someone needs the C, but to call this team mentally weak seems very reactionary after they have come back to win as many games as they have this year. And I respect you a ton as a poster.

Also not for nothing but MacKinnon's team literally just blew a 3-0 lead and lost a game where they couldve eliminated St. Louis. They've also never gotten past where the Rangers are now in his entire career.

I mean the MacKinnon thing is obviously tongue in cheek since he’s known for being super crazy about nutrition and stuff. That’s not my ideal leader, that’s just adding some levity to the post.

The team is mentally weak and strong at the same time. The polarity is what’s so ducking maddening. The resiliency to come back time and time again, yet the ineptitude to not be able to bring a consistent effort for 50, let alone 60 minutes most night and certainly almost never in back to back games. Maddening.

 

[mas0764]

This team is a year or two ahead of schedule and by and large, are not done building yet.

Yeeting Strome to Seattle and bringing Copp back is a start. If Copp is really doing what he's doing with one knee, he's part of the solution and this next wave's core.

The window starts to open once Othmann, Berard, Cuylle, and Garand replace Vatrano, Strome, Rooney, and Georgiev.

Oh, and Roberson replacing Nemeth too.

I can't help but to think one more big move is coming in a year or two as well.

I will believe in Cuylle and Berard when they are here making an impact.

 

[CLW]

I still haven’t been impressed by this canes team

The rangers again shoot themselves in the foot

Kreider continues to be absolutely terrible and panarin…..what the hell has happened!?

Panarin got hurt by Wilson is my guess, but he hasn't looked his true self since covid and the weird "Putin" thing.

I called him out for his current mode perimeter play at the start of the season during that abysmal West coast trip. Yes he has an amazing points total but even ESPN McDonough basically said the same thing the other night, his office now is the top left corner by the blueline looking for the cross ice pass. It's that obvious and everybody knows it.

 

[Chaels Arms]

Didn’t watch the game as I was traveling but seen people complaining about Panarin.

Would remind everyone he (among others) are very clearly playing injured

Everyone is playing injured. It's the NHL playoffs. We just watched Crosby play game 7 with what was very likely a concussion that he shouldn't have played through.

If Panarin is injured and he can't play well than he shouldn't be playing.

And he DEFINITELY shouldn't be leading all forwards in ice time. Panarin had two more minutes of ice time than any other forward on the team today. Two more minutes. That is a giant chasm of ice time when it comes to forwards in the NHL playoffs.

Panarin played ten seconds less tonight than Nathan MacKinnon did last night in a game that went to overtime where MacKinnon had a hat trick and was galloping all over the St. Louis Blues every time he had the puck. Oh, and MacKinnon didn't even lead Avs forwards in ice time.

He played more tonight than Connor McDavid has played the past three games for the Oilers. Connor McDavid who has about ten thousand points this playoffs so far gets less ice time than Artemi Panarin who plays like he downed a bottle of whiskey in the lockerroom before every game.

He's been playing like trash pretty much the entire playoffs. This we all know. He may or may not be hurt. Let's assume he's hurt. Why is he getting so much more ice time than every other forward on the team (while playing like utter garbage)?

 

[McRanger92]

This team is a year or two ahead of schedule and by and large, are not done building yet.

Yeeting Strome to Seattle and bringing Copp back is a start. If Copp is really doing what he's doing with one knee, he's part of the solution and this next wave's core.

The window starts to open once Othmann, Berard, Cuylle, and Garand replace Vatrano, Strome, Rooney, and Georgiev.

I can't help but to think one more big move is coming in a year or two as well.

Were way ahead of schedule. We've already won a round with the youngest team in the playoffs and are right there with an objectively better and deeper team.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

We don’t need young centers. We need good two way centers with speed. We didn’t get lucky enough to draft good young centers.

Yup a good two way center who plays with pace is exactly what this team needs. Strome has been fine in the role to this point but for the team to take the next step to being a true contender is a different style of player is needed in Strome’s spot. He’d probably cost too much to acquire but a player in the mold of Yanni Gourde, style wise, would be a perfect fit. Plays a good two way game, has wheels and has skill.

 

[CLW]

This we're on the same page with. It's not over by any stretch. Carolina hasn't impressed me one bit during this series. They play bullshit Devils/Trotz trap hockey. If they can't match the Staal line against our top line, they can't win.

But they can in game 7.

 

[LokiDog]

The thing is my son is being born this weekend and I still believe we’re forcing game 7 and stealing that win on the road. It’s just infuriating that guys like Kreider can just be soooooo useless and pathetic despite every single thing that supposedly makes them good in the first place pointing to them being a good playoff guy, and yet they’re not. But venting does not mean I don’t still believe we force game 7 and make the ECF. I said we’d win tonight and make the ECF. It’s the inconsistent effort from this squad that is by far the most damning.

 

[GENESISPuck94]

Could be. Not me. Win at home, steal one in Carolina. Name a Captain. Win a cup. We can make it happen.

I wish we could see and hear what goes on in the lockerroom. If Lafreniere leads in the lockerroom at all like he does by example on the ice, I'd slap the C on him now. I don't care who's feelings get hurt in the lockerroom. Put an A on Lindgren. Put an A on Miller.

Those are the guys who have earned it IMO.

Maybe taking As away from the vets and snubbing them for the C will light a fire under their rear ends. If their feelings are hurt they can waive their NTC/NMC.