Post-Game Talk: Lightning VI + Rangers Appreciation Thread

[LiveLongandProspal]

he’s still way better than what was put out on the ice. you’re gonna tell me strome with half a leg is better than kakko?

Or Hunt with two good legs

 

[Brutananadilewski]

If KK will no longer be a Ranger next season...shit, then I want this franchise to package him along with other players for a bonafide center.

What do you think Kaapo, Kreider, and a 3rd could fetch us?

Shit, now I'm eyeing Seguin.

 

[djzbad]

Yes Georgiev, Gauthier and Kakko.

Before the season it was hinted to me by someone that none of the vets liked playing on a line with him.

Thanks, I could’ve sworn I read that

 

[machphantom]

I

I was 19. I still remember!!

I was 4… just barely remember footage of them showing the bar across the street (maybe the flying puck?) a couple of minutes before they won the cup

 

[JRinNYC]

Did Kakko pull a Patrick Roy and ask to be traded?

 

[GlasgowNewYorkRanger]

Do we have to listen to Marty Biron? they have no one better? I would rather just hear Vally.

It is like nails down a blackboard.

 

[JoeyP]

Not having Crappo didn't cost us the series lol what are you talking about?

Sorry I meant Gallants decision playing an( i cant put the puck in an empty net) injured strome .I dont love Crappo either But would have rather had him in

 

[Tob]

Vince and Mollie combined might be enough to recreate a Torts and Brooksie bus stop exchange.

 

[CLW]

Great Season with an unfortunate end.

We ran out of gas. After Game 2 Tampa trapped. The coaches/team did nothing to adjust.

We were soft and easy to play against. You can argue we were tired but it's been the same thing all season.

It's a great building block. It's year 1 of our window. I'm hopeful Drury makes the right moves....

The focus should be promoting Laffy to the top lines and top PP unit. I have no clue what will happen with Kakko.

Playing Rooney.... and Playing Strome over Kakko is about as bad as it gets. If this was year 2 or 3, Gallant is likely fired.

Coaching needs to be better next season. 5v5 was atrocious. Puck support was atrocious. Puck movement was poor. Getting to the middle of the ice was never a thought... as well as shooting. There needs to be a DYNAMIC CHANGE in philosophy. There needs to be more structure.

Good luck with that. I've seen nothing to indicate there is a whiff of creativity or any interest in dynamic hockey. It will be more old school, more busy looking vets to play with Panarin, no real fit for Laffy etc. More of what we've seen so far in other words.

I had hope the Rangers would create something interesting with the youth and opportunity they have, but that's gone now with the dinosaurs in charge.

 

[Filip Chytil]

The whole team needs to apologize to us.

The amount of money I have spent on this team... pathetic.

Spending money on this team to me feels like blowing $$$ at a strip club. Learned my lesson one too many times to not do that or I'll get myself in trouble! Lol.

 

[MysticLeviathan]

If KK will no longer be a Ranger next season...shit, then I want this franchise to package him along with other players for a bonafide center.

What do you think Kaapo, Kreider, and a 3rd could fetch us?

Shit, now I'm eyeing Seguin.

too many NMCs on our roster

 

[LokiDog]

He's the best ranger forward at everything but scoring points. If you don't think that's worthy of a top Six spot I encourage you to look at our current roster, what they're good at, bad at, and it's results.

Do you guys hear yourselves.

We just fell 2 games short of going to the Stanley cup and Kakko is our best forward at everything… except scoring points. So therefore also not shooting, passing, certainly not skating, not penalty killing (since he never does that), etc. what’s he best at… giving you a few hopeful stick handles and twirls in the corner before doing nothing?

God. The kid is promising. He’s also NOT special. That much is clear. Nothing can ever be level headed around here. He is a solid but unspectacular young player who people have attached extraordinary hopes to, rightfully due to his draft position, but which has fallen short of for three straight years.

Meanwhile people are genuinely acting as if his being scratched in one elimination game is the same offense that leaving Roy in for all 9 goals was and this kid could virtually sue us for defamation at this point if some of you were concerned.

Kakko isn’t family. He isn’t your best friend. He’s a kid who has shown some promise and, it stands to reason, has more potential than what he’s given us so far but is, genuinely, extraordinary only in how how average he is. The visceral reaction here is not rational.

 

[ajdj10]

What do you think Kaapo, Kreider, and a 3rd could fetch us?

A 3rd.

 

[Chaels Arms]

Turk is visibly pissed about the lineup and I think Kakko might be in some hot water

What did he say?

 

[Tob]

If KK will no longer be a Ranger next season...shit, then I want this franchise to package him along with other players for a bonafide center.

What do you think Kaapo, Kreider, and a 3rd could fetch us?

Shit, now I'm eyeing Seguin.

Seguin is a ghost of himself. Bruv

 

[NJRangers35]

I feel weird saying this since it’s year 1 and they got to the ECF, which no one expected, but good god gallant is an absolutely awful coach. What a complete dunce.

 

[Alluckks]

At the end of the day Strome is one who goes to the coach after his warmup and says whether or not he can play hard and play a full game. Not only did he play soft as shit and coast, but he couldn't even make it a full game. Give him a greyhound bus back to new york

 

[mas0764]

If KK will no longer be a Ranger next season...shit, then I want this franchise to package him along with other players for a bonafide center.

What do you think Kaapo, Kreider, and a 3rd could fetch us?

Shit, now I'm eyeing Seguin.

Seguin? He’s 30, hard pass.

 

[Vito Andolini]

Once again, we're somehow back in this situation where our best player, without a shadow of a doubt, is our goalie. It's comforting and scary at the same time.

 

[Chaels Arms]

Turk is visibly pissed about the lineup and I think Kakko might be in some hot water

What did he say?

 

[Filip Chytil]

If KK will no longer be a Ranger next season...shit, then I want this franchise to package him along with other players for a bonafide center.

What do you think Kaapo, Kreider, and a 3rd could fetch us?

Shit, now I'm eyeing Seguin.

Couple boxes of Ellio's pizza

 

[Tob]

Vitali and Kaapo face timed while watching The Notebook together during the game

 

[Brutananadilewski]

Seguin is a ghost of himself. Bruv

Wasn't it because he came back from surgery? And he was playing with Radulov, who really played like shit this season.

 

[Brief Candle]

Sunnnnnshineeeeee on my shoulderssssss makes meeeee hope I never see Ryan Strome in a Rangers sweater ever again.

Positives:
Shesty
Miika
Them kids. Miller especially. This kid is a f***ing stud.
Trouba

Eh:
Kreider
Frankie Meatballs
Copp (No way was he healthy this whole times)
Motte - I like him.

Bad:
Everyone else.
f*** Strome.

We're on the right track, but there's a lot to do still. We need big game players, not regular season players. Still, I think losing itself is a learning tool. Maybe they needed to loose a heartbreaker.

Alternate universe: Kakko had a hattrick.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

Best takeaway from the playoffs for me is Lafreniere. If he plays 82 next season the way he played in the playoffs he'll be a 60 point guy next year.

I don't want to trade Kakko because I don't think he has much value vs what he could be. I'd bridge him cheap and hope he can out perform his deal and take it from there. However, if he is a piece in a deal for a star, it would not shock me if he were the headline piece in a deal for Patrick Kane if he becomes available.