Post-Game Talk: I don't have anything clever to put in the thread title

[gabevh3]

Idk man. The guys youd wanna do that to are mika and trouba. Mika is mentally weak and would have to go to therapy if he got taken off pp1 for laff, let alone scratched. For better or worse, trouba’s the captain so cant do it

Well they're coaches not psychiatrists

 

[Filip Chytil]

It doesn't impact my life in a negative way. I'm not gonna let it. As I get older, I've learned to let it go and go on. I used to be upset for at least a week but I'll probably forget about this in like a day or two. But I need to stop planning my life around the game schedule.

Oddly enough, I found myself missing a bunch of regular season games this year. Just life getting in the way. Felt less personally invested this year, but the end still hurt.

 

[Brutananadilewski]

A gentle reminder that the team had 115 points this year, 34 come from behind wins and won two rounds of the playoffs. There are 30 other teams in the league that would kill for that season.

Give it a few days, appreciate what has been a very entertaining season and then we can tear the roster apart.

I think the main problem is they looked lackadaisical again, just like they did in 2022.

The 2015 series they at least fought tooth and nail.

 

[LeetchisGod]

Or Lias over Necas/Dobson

Othmann over Wyatt Johnson is looking like another winner.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Or Lias over Necas/Dobson

I thought Dobson was in the Bouchard draft.

 

[Kupo]

I know I'm a broken record but this whole series they look overmatched and ok maybe they're not good enough. Maybe we can forgive the team (Drury not so much). But what hard working fans can't forgive is a lack of effort. When that lack of effort is against Carolina up 3-1, it sucks it really does. When it's an elimination game it's downright infuriating.

You have to give credit to FLA. That’s a very good team with no holes. They outplayed us and wanted it more.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

We’re like a slightly better version of the Maple Leafs

We won more rounds this year than the Leafs have in 20 years.

It's not even comparable.

I thought Dobson was in the Bouchard draft.

He was.

It was Kravtsov over those guys.

 

[bl02]

Maybe Mika can take a resident gig in Ibiza dj'ing and retire like Naslund did.

 

[CasusBelli]

I think I've figured out the problem with this core.

They love to win.

But they don't hate to lose.

 

[bouds]

The Gorton regime's crappy first round drafting record has probably cost this team multiple cups. Lias, Crapsoft, Chytil and Kakko nowhere to be found.

Don’t forget the Trouba trade and sign. f***ing brutal.

 

[Chytilmania]

Would love confirmation that the knee got f***ed by Jensen

That, I'm hoping we hear Trouba has something and I'm hoping we hear Zib broke his back on that cross check. Otherwise I can't explain why they were so bad.

 

[will1066]

No one is taking him.

He's signed for too long. Unfortunatley he's a guy that you need to try to make it work with.

If you're keeping Panarin, pair them together and force them to find a way to figure it out.

Is management and the coaching staff ready to do the tough thing and end the caste culture and system? It's overdue.

 

[MrAlmost]

Was still a great season. Let's get younger, faster and tougher. Try again next year.

 

[gabevh3]

Rupp said the system was changed in the playoffs which made everyone confused... makes you wonder.

 

[Brutananadilewski]

Ok no problem. Done . I like green tea. Anyways it hurts right now takes a few days . Been there lots. Look up bruins history playoffs.

You guys won a cup more recently, been to the big dance more recently, then you have an NBA team that looks like a juggernaut, then you had the Patriots dynasty.

Some people here are also Mets and Jets fans. They look 70 but are actually 20.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

You have to give credit to FLA. That’s a very good team with no holes. They outplayed us and wanted it more.

There's no reason anyone should want it more than you when you're facing elimination, especially when it's not game 7.

 

[bl02]

The good news is that Zibs and Kreider marriage officially ended today.

Next season, they better not be on the ice together for a single solitary second.

How much money you wanna bet they will be on the same line together again? Just like Trouba played every shift in the third when his ass should have been stapled to the bench.

 

[Captain Monglobster]

Was still a great season. Let's get younger, faster and tougher. Try again next year.

Its been 30 next years.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

I think the main problem is they looked lackadaisical again, just like they did in 2022.

The 2015 series they at least fought tooth and nail.

Do you remember the final game of that season?

The comments here were the same.

I don't think that this team worked any less hard than any other team in that situation. I just think some of the guys who they have here who they're relying on in key roles are either bad or just not capable of making things happen when the chips are down. It's not an effort thing.

 

[mas0764]

I'm done with Drury and that's the hill I'm drying on so buckle the f*** up.

I'm gonna make @GoAwayPanarin look like he likes Panarin in comparison.

The problem is, what do you do in the offseason prior when you have no cap space like we’ve had?

But that goes back to the issue of paying $8m for a defenseman who belongs in the AHL, $8m for a center who disappears and goes cold for half the season, 3.6m for a fourth line player who scores 12 points. Yeah, Goodrow was nice in the playoffs but he couldn’t save us.

Panarin for $11m didn’t deliver either. Can’t excuse him. But that 120 points in the regular season is hard to toss away. You might have to live with him not being the guy to deliver in the playoffs but the guy who gets you there. But you can’t have Mika and Trouba sucking all year for $16m like they did.

I don’t know what Drury can do other than stop trying to “win now” and instead start getting rid of anchors for futures. But I’m with you that I don’t think the path he’s chosen was right, because it led to this untenable situation.

 

[Paulie Walnutz]

Who else wants to fly to Sweden and egg Mika’s burger joint?

 

[Stugots]

Different coaches, different players, different systems, different front offices, and these post-lockout Rangers all have the same end result: good teams that are just never good enough to win it all.

I don’t know what the answer is and I don’t know who/what will change it or if it will ever change.

 

[Machinehead]

Florida is also going to shut down whoever they play in the west. It is what it is. They need to make changes for sure but it doesn't have to blown up.

There's a skeleton of a good team here if they fix the D corps, but I'm concerned about the philosophy from the top down.

They just don't prioritize effective 5v5 play. That's a huge deal.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

Florida will eventually hoist the cup and I hate it but they are better team won. They will pound whoever wins the west. I hate them and their coach but there is a reason they are in the finals back to back.

 

[Filip Chytil]

I have to feel like it says a lot about what Drury is thinking that (in a President Trophy type of year and desperately needing a 1RW for several years now since Buch left) he didn't get it done. Maybe reading too much into it, but makes me curious.....