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

[PuckLuck3043]

Miller was stinky all playoffs. I really do not know if he’s the guy

This is fair. I would give him another shot though.

 

[DanielBrassard]

I also really liked the Gustafsson idea. Drury sort of identified that we need more puck-moving.

Turns out is was less so with the more puck moving and more so that we need less ass on the D corps.

I wonder how much of that was Drury and how much was Laviolette knowing him and feeling comfortable with him.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I also really liked the Gustafsson idea. Drury sort of identified that we need more puck-moving.

Turns out is was less so with the more puck moving and more so that we need less ass on the D corps.

Jones will have to be that guy next year, right?

 

[Machinehead]

What stings is that the Rangers would have likely won the cup if they could have gotten by this series. Hurts.

I think you guys are sleeping on the West.

Edmonton's a truck.

They're really f***ing good defensively now and they have two guys that are an automatic 1.5-2 PPG in a series.

 

[Machinehead]

Jones will have to be that guy next year, right?

He'll get a long look.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

He'll get a long look.

 

[DanielBrassard]

I think you guys are sleeping on the West.

Edmonton's a truck.

They're really f***ing good defensively now and they have two guys that are an automatic 1.5-2 PPG in a series.

Absolutely, but it feels like there might have been a little more open ice, although who knows. They have shut down Dallas pretty good.

 

[Rangerfan4life90]

I think you guys are sleeping on the West.

Edmonton's a truck.

They're really f***ing good defensively now and they have two guys that are an automatic 1.5-2 PPG in a series.

My thinking is moreso that Edmonton doesn’t play anywhere near the heavy style forecheck game that Florida does and facing a below average goalie in Skinner. Igor vs Skinner would have been a huge mismatch in our favor.

 

[Paulie Walnutz]

I always figured the plan was to look to move him about now. He's 'helped' everyone else get playoff experience so you look to move him out to a team who wants something similar but struggles to attract good vets

You know what’s gonna happen right? The script has already been written. They’re gonna trade Goodrow and he’s gonna score a heartbreaking goal in the playoffs against us because that’s how shit always works out just like Tarasenko tonight.

 

[mxyxptlk]

Jones will have to be that guy next year, right?

The thought has been in the back of my mind all season that the Rangers will probably trade him.

 

[Machinehead]

Absolutely, but it feels like there might have been a little more open ice, although who knows. They have shut down Dallas pretty good.

There would have been at first, but they can turn it off. That's the problem with the Rangers. They exploit one thing extraordinarily well and good teams can just turn that off like a switch.

Against more versatile competition, that would present holes, but we can't do anything else.

 

[Rangerfan4life90]

Absolutely, but it feels like there might have been a little more open ice, although who knows. They have shut down Dallas pretty good.

Dallas looks worn out and I think their lack of depth on the bottom lines and especially on defense has shown.

 

[Machinehead]

Like I said, the team does have some pieces I like, but the way we play really sucks in the playoffs.

To be quite honest, if Kreider didn't put us in his backpack, it looked like we ran out of wins against Carolina.

After game 1 against Carolina, we didn't win another game that wasn't a fever dream.

I enjoyed a lot of it. We're human and it's ok to have fun.

That said, it was an ugly run.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

There would have been at first, but they can turn it off. That's the problem with the Rangers. They exploit one thing extraordinarily well and good teams can just turn that off like a switch.

Against more versatile competition, that would present holes, but we can't do anything else.

Skinner goes from Truck to WTF too often.

OTOH, if there is a team that can expose Bobrovsky it's Edmonton. I could see Draisaitl having a 7-9 goal series. If theres one thing that guy can do its pick corners and Bobrovsky gives up corners.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Dallas looks worn out and I think their lack of depth on the bottom lines and especially on defense has shown.

I thought depth was all they had.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

What stings is that the Rangers would have likely won the cup if they could have gotten by this series. Hurts.

Agree with this. They would have beat every other team IMO. I remember quite a few years of watching this team when the only team they couldn't beat won the cup. In 72 it was the Bruins, 74 the Flyers, 79 the Canadians, 92 Pittsburgh, 2014 LA, and now likely Florida. Sucks.

 

[Brutananadilewski]

If we're doing a trade with Ottawa, I'm inquiring about Chychrun, not Brady.

 

[Filip Chytil]

I think you guys are sleeping on the West.

Edmonton's a truck.

They're really f***ing good defensively now and they have two guys that are an automatic 1.5-2 PPG in a series.

McDavid and Draisaitl against our defense would leave me needing intense psychoanalysis for the next four decades of my life.

 

[Machinehead]

If we're doing a trade with Ottawa, I'm inquiring about Chychrun, not Brady.

I like the idea but the guy got hurt again as I was typing this reply.

 

[Brutananadilewski]

I like the idea but the guy got hurt again as I was typing this reply.

He played a full season this season. And I think a team with real defensive structure would do him good.

 

[17futurecap]

People aren’t giving Edmonton enough credit, they have the best player in hockey along with a great shot suppression game.

A Florida Edmonton final are the two best teams in the NHL.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

I think you guys are sleeping on the West.

Edmonton's a truck.

They're really f***ing good defensively now and they have two guys that are an automatic 1.5-2 PPG in a series.

A truck that is going to need to be towed on the side of the road midway through the series. They are not beating Florida.

 

[Rangerfan4life90]

Like I said, the team does have some pieces I like, but the way we play really sucks in the playoffs.

To be quite honest, if Kreider didn't put us in his backpack, it looked like we ran out of wins against Carolina.

After game 1 against Carolina, we didn't win another game that wasn't a fever dream.

I enjoyed a lot of it. We're human and it's ok to have fun.

That said, it was an ugly run.

It really did seem like the Rangers would have blown a 3-0 series lead to Carolina if not for Kreider doing what he did in game 6. The last few years, it just seems like the Rangers have their number despite the stats.

People aren’t giving Edmonton enough credit, they have the best player in hockey along with a great shot suppression game.

A Florida Edmonton final are the two best teams in the NHL.

Putting my Rangers fandom aside, that should be an amazing final series

 

[RangersFan1994]

The thought has been in the back of my mind all season that the Rangers will probably trade him.

Watch him get 10 goals and 40+ points with his new team.

 

[80shockeywasbuns]

at the end of the day Laviolette is just another old, clueless, dinosaur coach from the past era. No meaningful difference between him and Gallant once you get to this stage of the playoffs. Too easy for teams figure out how to bottle up NYR in the NZ. Part of that is poor personnel on defense but just as much of it is zero creativity whatsoever from the coaches when it comes to how they transition once the other team makes their initial adjustments. 3 years in a row where the other team tweaks their schemes and NYR just slowly die for several games while Igor keeps it close