Post-Game Talk: Nashville Predators at New York Rangers 10/21/17
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haohmaru
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I'd add that it's pretty remarkable that the NHL's most valuable team has absolutely the worst beat writer coverage of any NHL team. I follow a few other teams (Jackets, TB, etc...) and the info there and here are considerably different.
NYRFAN218
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At least they didn’t pretend it was a sellout today unlike games earlier in the year that they called sellouts when there were entire rows left on Ticketmaster.
Miamipuck
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I think the Florida Panthers with a part timer get better overage than the schmucks that cover the Rangers. I can't believe how little we find out from them and how arrogant and obnoxious they are for basically doing jack shit.
They are the most arrogant douchebags I have ever seen on twitter.
Mac n Gs
Drury plz
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Gross was the best until he switched jobs. Zip is a worldclass dipshit
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will1066
If you score four, you better f'n win the game
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15 shots on goal
Breaking news. The other team tries too.
Tob
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Ironing out nervousness and relieving some of that pressure is important.
The team so far has not been good enough. The coaching has been reactive and nonsensically irrational and fearful. The players are tense.
This wasn't a great game from the team but the win might help everyone relax a little and bring out a totally different feeling team.
The team so far has not been good enough. The coaching has been reactive and nonsensically irrational and fearful. The players are tense.
This wasn't a great game from the team but the win might help everyone relax a little and bring out a totally different feeling team.
Agreed.
Justin Tasch from NYDN is probably the most level headed of the bunch right now. https://twitter.com/J_Tasch
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Or you could say "everyone covering this team cares more about maintaining access than talking sense."
Mac n Gs
Drury plz
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Yeah, he's the one I like the most right now (besides Hartnett). Calamia is ok too, but doesn't write that often
Worst defensive play since the days of Purinton chasing everyone around. Easiest path to the slot in the entire NHL. No commitment effort from forwards to backcheck. The defensive play has gotten worse and worse each year since AV took over for Trots. There is simply no way to be a competitive team and play this way.
A Saturday afternoon game in mid-October has to be one of the stupidest scheduling decisions in the history of the team.
So worried about not competing against the NFL, but they end up competing against 5 million other things.
PlamsUnlimited
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Knicks I guess opened last night. I think that's why it was a day game. I hate sharing a surface with an NBA team.
PlamsUnlimited
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Sunday is football, and I doubt tv ratings would be good on the night of the Patriots and Falcons facing off again
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If Hayes line is to be our checking line then I'd rather see Grabner there instead of Vesey. Grabs showed a good chemistry with both Hayes and Fast and is probably a better player for this role while showing zero chemistry with Buch. The team is short a center but in meantime I'd be fine with rotating centers taking shifts between Vesey and Buchnevich.
P.S. genuinely surprised how well Staal played recently but I expect him to get back to him "norm" around Christmas.
P.S. genuinely surprised how well Staal played recently but I expect him to get back to him "norm" around Christmas.
will1066
If you score four, you better f'n win the game
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Did you watch the game? Hayes-Vesey-Fast was the most productive line. Vesey has upped the ante the last two games. So has Hayes. It is not a checking line.
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Did you see their defensive assignments? Do you expect this offensive surge to continue? Do you want at least some resemblance of a chemistry between Buch and whoever he plays with?
Holocene
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Buch has pretty great chemistry with Kreider and Zibs. Still have no idea why this line was broken up.
McD has looked terrible the last few games, chasing the play and making poor puck decisions. Coupled with a weak C group, we end up with very poor 5on5 play.
I have been all over Hayes, and he started the game in the same way, but he got much more aggressive and even drove the net (leading to his goal). If he can break through and stop being Staypuff Jr (Nash being Staypuff Sr), it would make a huge difference.
will1066
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The forwards' backchecking is still a work in progress. The lines for the last two games have primarily worked, so stay with them. Either AV hates Buch or doesn't trust him for whatever reason or is weaning him in with sheltered minutes, so he's pinned to the fourth line for the time being. At least he gets time on PP1.
Bob Richards
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Carpiniello is actually like 5 years old.
Carp: Whiny complaint
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Carp: lmao r u dum. try again loser
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