Most of Nash's goals are meaningless...

[aufheben]

Rationalizations do tend to be based in fact...but sometimes not all the facts, just some of the facts spun in a way to further your argument.

Nonetheless, he/she has a point. Letting certain depth players go had nothing to do with the Nash trade. It seems like people who think the trade was a mistake are misdirecting their anger towards Nash, even though he's performed exactly as advertised.

 

[Clown Fiesta]

Rationalizations do tend to be based in fact...but sometimes not all the facts, just some of the facts spun in a way to further your argument.

I don't know how saying we lost depth players is spinning them to support anything, especially a non existent argument. Do you know what we are arguing about? Because I certainly don't other than you trying to convince me Nash is worse than he truly is because I haven't deluded myself into thinking he is the 2nd coming of Messier in any way. I've been pretty honest in my thoughts about him and it hasn't been blind praise.

Nonetheless, he/she has a point. Letting certain depth players go had nothing to do with the Nash trade. It seems like people who think the trade was a mistake are misdirecting their anger towards Nash, even though he's performed exactly as advertised.

Definitely a he.

 

[Doctyl]

without nash we dont make the playoffs. dubi and arty as good as they are could not have made up for the offense that was missing because richards and gaborik took the year off. nash and hank carried this team to the playoffs, stepan also helped by having an awesome season. in the playoffs nash and hank both underperformed. nash was bad in the playoffs and hank was average. although hank won us a series based on his later play, i think if he was on his game we couldve won it earlier. as far as nash goes, yes he needs to be better if we wan to win. however if you look at toews, ovechkin or kopitar, you can see that its not uncommon for offensive stars to be shutdown in the playoffs when you play teams that focus on you specifically. leading scorers and difference makers are usually depth players when it comes to the playoffs.

 

[Jersey Girl]

Nonetheless, he/she has a point. Letting certain depth players go had nothing to do with the Nash trade. It seems like people who think the trade was a mistake are misdirecting their anger towards Nash, even though he's performed exactly as advertised.

He (Barbara Underhill) was the one defending Nash by stating the lack of depth hurt Nash in the playoffs. Your argument is with him.

 

[Clown Fiesta]

He (Barbara Underhill) was the one defending Nash by stating the lack of depth hurt Nash in the playoffs. Your argument is with him.

Yeah, way to spin it. I never said the lack of depth hurt Nash in the playoffs. I said the team as a whole didn't play well in the playoffs therefore the blame lands on everyone outside of what 3-4 players?

I never said anything about depth in the playoffs hurting Nash individually, if you're not going to make an attempt to read and understand what people are saying then don't respond to them. You're either ignoring what I am saying, reading it and only absorbing the bits and pieces that go against your argument, or putting words in my mouth if you don't understand my point of view by now.

 

[Levitate]

Nash is who most of us thought he was when the trade rumors first popped up. A good player, not a super star player. That he came close to a point per game last year I consider a success, and at the same time find that he was disappointing in the playoffs for the most part.

That said, most players outside of Lundqvist, Brassard, and Zucarello were disappointing in the playoffs.

The lack of depth obviously hurt the Rangers despite acquiring Nash, but Gaborik playing like complete ****, Richards struggling, Staal getting injured, etc, played a huge role in the underachieving last year as well. If Gaborik has a "normal" year then things look a lot better.

 

[Jersey Girl]

Nash is who most of us thought he was when the trade rumors first popped up. A good player, not a super star player. That he came close to a point per game last year I consider a success, and at the same time find that he was disappointing in the playoffs for the most part.

That said, most players outside of Lundqvist, Brassard, and Zucarello were disappointing in the playoffs.

I still think the effort was there from most of the players...but not the execution.

 

[Oak]

without nash we dont make the playoffs. dubi and arty as good as they are could not have made up for the offense that was missing because richards and gaborik took the year off. nash and hank carried this team to the playoffs, stepan also helped by having an awesome season. in the playoffs nash and hank both underperformed. nash was bad in the playoffs and hank was average. although hank won us a series based on his later play, i think if he was on his game we couldve won it earlier. as far as nash goes, yes he needs to be better if we wan to win. however if you look at toews, ovechkin or kopitar, you can see that its not uncommon for offensive stars to be shutdown in the playoffs when you play teams that focus on you specifically. leading scorers and difference makers are usually depth players when it comes to the playoffs.

Very true. Wish more people would think like this.

 

[aufheben]

without nash we dont make the playoffs. dubi and arty as good as they are could not have made up for the offense that was missing because richards and gaborik took the year off. nash and hank carried this team to the playoffs, stepan also helped by having an awesome season. in the playoffs nash and hank both underperformed. nash was bad in the playoffs and hank was average. although hank won us a series based on his later play, i think if he was on his game we couldve won it earlier. as far as nash goes, yes he needs to be better if we wan to win. however if you look at toews, ovechkin or kopitar, you can see that its not uncommon for offensive stars to be shutdown in the playoffs when you play teams that focus on you specifically. leading scorers and difference makers are usually depth players when it comes to the playoffs.

I agree with everything about Nash, but Hank was just awesome. He can't do it all himself.

12 GP - 3 SO - 2.14 GAA - .934 SV%

 

[Doctyl]

I agree with everything about Nash, but Hank was just awesome. He can't do it all himself.

12 GP - 3 SO - 2.14 GAA - .934 SV%

oh hank was awesome but he didnt seem like himself in some of the earlier games against the caps. he let in 12 goals in the first 4 games and some of them he definitely could have had. when push comes to shove hank ultimately won us that series by being godly in the last 2 games, but i think if he was on his game we wouldve won earlier than 7 games.

 

[RangerBoy]

After watching NYR PPs, associate coach Arniel says Rick Nash may be more effective in slot than moved around in other areas

https://twitter.com/stevezipay/status/378597997430337536

On Rick Nash. Arniel said he noticed he was in a "lot of different looks" last season. Sounds like Nash will play more in slot this year.

https://twitter.com/AGrossRecord/status/378596040309760000

"Lot of different looks" is a nice way of saying the Rangers had no idea what they were doing on the PP.

 

[thebus2288*]

But Nash was the best forward so he couldn't be part of the reason why the PP was so bad?? Been there done that. Enjoy the 74pts in 77 games. They won't ALL be meaningless.

 

[Vidic15*]

But Nash was the best forward so he couldn't be part of the reason why the PP was so bad?? Been there done that. Enjoy the 74pts in 77 games. They won't ALL be meaningless.

BJ's troll is among us. Why comment when you know jack **** about the Rangers PP? Rangers' PP problems had started long before Nash came here. Enjoy soft as charmin Gaborik, Anisimov and Erixon. Oh, and third line tweener Dubinsky.

 

[aufheben]

But Nash was the best forward so he couldn't be part of the reason why the PP was so bad?? Been there done that. Enjoy the 74pts in 77 games. They won't ALL be meaningless.

Uh, ok?

Weren't like...all his goals in the 3rd period?

 

[Kel Varnsen]

BJ's troll is among us. Why comment when you know jack **** about the Rangers PP? Rangers' PP problems had started long before Nash came here. Enjoy soft as charmin Gaborik, Anisimov and Erixon. Oh, and third line tweener Dubinsky.

Just because the guy raises points you don't like it doesn't mean he's a "troll". Wasn't part of the reason Nash was brought in to provide O, including powerplay O? We traded better defensive players in Dubi and Anisimov to bring in one dimensional offensive forward Nash and our PP stayed EXACTLY the same. 15.7% good for 23rd in the league. But wait things get worse for you. If you look at the playoffs we trade for Nash and we DROP from 17.8% to 9.1%.

So at best Nash did nothing to help the PP and at worst he made it worse. Give me back Dubi and Anisimov.

 

[Doctyl]

Just because the guy raises points you don't like it doesn't mean he's a "troll". Wasn't part of the reason Nash was brought in to provide O, including powerplay O? We traded better defensive players in Dubi and Anisimov to bring in one dimensional offensive forward Nash and our PP stayed EXACTLY the same. 15.7% good for 23rd in the league. But wait things get worse for you. If you look at the playoffs we trade for Nash and we DROP from 17.8% to 9.1%.

So at best Nash did nothing to help the PP and at worst he made it worse. Give me back Dubi and Anisimov.

your precious torts didnt exactly put an emphasis on practicing offense or the PP. Girardi and Boyle on the same PP unit? seriously wtf was that man thinking?

 

[Kel Varnsen]

your precious torts didnt exactly put an emphasis on practicing offense or the PP. Girardi and Boyle on the same PP unit? seriously wtf was that man thinking?

Torts was around the year before Nash got here...

And that's not to mention that whole torts doesn't practice O was proven unequivocally to be BS. It hurts your credibility that you don't realize that yet.

 

[Hi ImHFNYR]

Most of life is meaningless.
What is the point?

In this place life is meaningless. The only thing that has meaning is being correct about unimportant things and never admitting that opinions you dislike are valid. This place sucks lol....well the place doesn't... just the people for the most part. Barb starting this thread with an insulting overgeneralization was not a good idea