Despite currently being in the playoff picture for now this has been a very, very frustrating season (for me at least)
You're not alone. The problem with this team is that they had potential to be pretty decent, but EVRYTHING had to break right for them. Everything = staying healthy. This was a huge red flag going into the season and sure enough, one major injury (Zubrus) and they couldn't find a way to win games again.
The most frustrating thing, however, is how many ill advised and dumb mistakes this team makes during games. When you're hurting for scoring and forward depth, you can absolutely not shoot yourself in the foot and have one defensive breakdown after another. I mean they were horribly bad tonight in that regard and it cost them two points. I don't think people realize how piss poor of a game the Rangers actually played tonight, yet they still won cleanly.
I can't question their effort. This team works and tries hard. That much is obvious. But they are CONSTANTLY finding ways to lose games. Bad teams do that.
Stephen Gionta took regular shifts on our top line tonight. Imho that perfectly sums up this season up until this point. I like Gio's game and appreciate his play as much as the next guy, but he should not be anywhere near the top line.
You just look at the remainder of the schedule and it's really difficult to see how this they do anything better than .500 I mean they just find ways to lose to some pretty mediocre teams lately. The demoralizing part is that the effort has truly been there but they can't get the job done.