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Nash describes his playoff performance as "Good"

Rick Nash grew up on a losing expansion team, so you're probably not going to see a guy who knows what winning is all about.
 
Maybe he just uses a different scale of measuring of how well he played. For all we know, there could be like five different levels above "good." Like good, very good, extremely good, pretty great, great, then Tony the Tiger level of great.

Using this scale, he would be saying he's not fond of his playoffs.

Or I hope.
 
Another media generated controversy.

I don't need Rick Nash's opinion on his no-show in the playoffs for me to be upset with him. Let's see what he does next year.
 
I have the same problem with him i did all season, his shooting percentage is TERRIBLE. What was it in the playoffs? 2%. He did everything else reasonably well. He got his shots (42! first on the team, 7th overall of all playoff players), he played well defensively.

But you cant be a superstar player shooting 2%.

The regular season he made up for his terrible shooting with those power move goals, which are nice highlight reel stuff, but you cant rely on that for production, especially in the playoffs against guys like Chara
 
IMO nash has always been inconsistent and streaky. overrated in my view. the way he floats around out there, if he were russian, he would be crucified.

that said, maybe a new coach will spark these guys. i can't imagine it would be easy playing for tortorella and listening to that guy every freaking day. i think we will all see a renewed ny ranger team next season. nash included.
 
beastly115 said:
This is the guy were building our team around. The guy who thinks he played good and only scored 1 goal in 12 games. I have lost all confidence in him.

We won't be going anywhere with him as our go to guy. He has no idea how to accurately self assess himself.
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I think the bold is a major overreaction. Players say stupid stuff to the media all the time. The media of course eats it up and blows it out of proportion.

 
He seriously said that?


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A first season of not enough of everything.
After the personnel assessment of his season. Pathetic. I want to puke.
We traded people who would bleed for this franchise for this.
 
beastly115 said:
This is the guy were building our team around. The guy who thinks he played good and only scored 1 goal in 12 games. I have lost all confidence in him.

We won't be going anywhere with him as our go to guy. He has no idea how to accurately self assess himself.
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The fans and the organization hope you are wrong--Nash is here for the long haul and he's going to have to get better and definitely play with more snarl in the playoffs. However, I'm not going to give up on him for a one word answer on breakup day. He's never played for a team that considers itself a contender and this season was his chance to learn. As long as he takes what's he's learned to heart and comes back next season leaner and meaner throughout he'll be fine.

But, we won't know how it plays out until October and beyond.
 
Cake or Death said:
To anyone who watched the interview, it was a pretty snap answer. He was asked to rate his performance and said, "Good," then was immediately asked if he was playing hurt and said, "No." I wouldn't read a lot into it, if almost anything. For anyone interested, here are all of Nash's responses during the interview:
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Please provide a link for the interview.
 
Nevermind what he tells the media. We'll see what's really on his mind the next time he's in the playoffs.
 
Machinehead said:
Nevermind what he tells the media. We'll see what's really on his mind the next time he's in the playoffs.
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If he's in the playoffs. And we saw what was on his mind this year in the playoffs. It sure as hell wasn't scoring goals. Good thing we're paying him out the ass.
 
That is kinda sad, if that is his definition of "good". Gaborik out produced him despite playing injured. So much for a "greater impact player". Biggest PO choker I've seen on the Rangers. Won't deny that he was great during regular season though, and that I love to watch him! But if this is what he's gonna look like come PO; we're in trouble.

But maybe things will change with a new coach and a new system, a less defence oriented strategy will probably favour Nash kind of style.
 
RangerBlues said:
A first season of not enough of everything.
After the personnel assessment of his season. Pathetic. I want to puke.
We traded people who would bleed for this franchise for this.
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Any of those people score 20+ goals in their career Once,much less eight straight years?

Let's not kid ourselves, if Dubi was still here there would be people decrying his cap hit. And didn't Dubi hold out until he got his money? Sounds more like a mercenary as opposed to someone who would "bleed for this franchise".

At the end of the day, Nash didn't score and basically no one else did either.
 
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OrbitalDynamics said:
Any of those people score 20+ goals in their career Once,much less eight straight years?

Let's not kid ourselves, if Dubi was still here there would be people decrying his cap hit.

At the end of the day, Nash didn't score and basically no one else did either.
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I'm definately not advocating keeping Dubi&co around.

I'm questioning a $7.8/year player disappearing more or less through the whole playoff and considering it "good". Especially since so many around here told me how much more of an impact player/game changer he was compared to Gaborik. Gaborik might never have been an impact player per definition, but he is/was a goal scorer how ever. Nash was nothing in the PO. That is what is worrying me.
 
Nash's play on the GWG in game 6 vs the Caps was all him, but go ahead and forget that he was one of the reasons we were even in round 2.

Again, he said 'good', I guess not as obvious as I thought, but obvious he was trying to be positive. There's nothing wrong with that.
 
Bluenote13 said:
Nash's play on the GWG in game 6 vs the Caps was all him, but go ahead and forget that he was one of the reasons we were even in round 2.

Again, he said 'good', I guess not as obvious as I thought, but obvious he was trying to be positive. There's nothing wrong with that.
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Come on, Bluenote, positivity is in fact negative. I mean, don't you want Nash sulking and feeling sorry for himself like the great Brad Richards was? That's the sign of a true leader.
 
Nash had exactly four playoff games under his belt prior to this year, where exactly did anyone get the idea the Rangers were acquiring the second coming of Glenn Anderson with this trade?
 
Bluenote13 said:
Nash's play on the GWG in game 6 vs the Caps was all him, but go ahead and forget that he was one of the reasons we were even in round 2.

Again, he said 'good', I guess not as obvious as I thought, but obvious he was trying to be positive. There's nothing wrong with that.
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I took more out of him saying that he enjoyed his playoff experience, and that he couldn't wait for next year's playoffs. But, as usual, people take what they want from what he said.
 
jas said:
I took more out of him saying that he enjoyed his playoff experience, and that he couldn't wait for next year's playoffs. But, as usual, people take what they want from what he said.
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OrbitalDynamics said:
That was my take on it as well.
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Thanks you both for restoring my faith in the fans again ;)

It's good to be on a playoff team, it's good for him to get experience, its good that he's a Ranger.
 
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