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Post-Game Talk: NY Rangers @ Penguins | 4/6/19 - 7PM - MSG

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ZuccsFluffierFluffer said:
Thats great.

The lottery odds don't give a **** about things like that.
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Listen---would I rather be in the 5th position? Yeah. But from the coaching staff and the players perspective---they came to win and they wanted this one obviously more than the Penguins did. You knew right off the bat that Georgiev wasn't going to be giving up any freebies. The D played hard and Zibanejad's line was attacking. And then Pittsburgh made some f***ed up plays like on the Smith goal---like later on letting in a shortie.

But in any case the cognitive dissonance of all this is what the fans see as an obvious goal isn't necessarily what the players and the coaches see.
 
What we really need is Winnipeg to not go to the third round or later, but nothing has gone right this year, so...
 
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Machinehead said:
What we really need is Winnipeg to not go to the third round or later, but nothing has gone right this year, so...
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Dallas will lose in the 2nd round, Winnipeg will beat Tampa in the final and Zuccarello will sign with a different team this summer. Costing us 3 first round picks and having the WPG pick be 31st overall
 
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Greg02 said:
Is the program that they use to pick publicly available? Because I can definitely think of ways to build it where that wouldn't be true.
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They use an actual company that does lottery drawings.

Each team is randomly assigned 'x' number of possible combinations based on their standing, and then one of the combinations is drawn (four ball combos I think)
 
Amazing Kreiderman said:
Dallas will lose in the 2nd round, Winnipeg will beat Tampa in the final and Zuccarello will sign with a different team this summer. Costing us 3 first round picks and having the WPG pick be 31st overall
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Wrong. Winnipeg loses in first round. Dallas and Tampa in finals and Tampa wins cup. Zucc resigns in Dallas and buys a ranch. Rangers have 4 first rounders this year and win lottery.
 
Before this season I would have liked:

-To finish in the standings commensurate with our actual play ❌
-Significant strides from Chytil and Andersson ❌
-Pionk to show me his awful corsi from last year was misleading and/or the team shows me they have no use for him ❌
-Zibanejad to elevate himself to a finished-product piece ✔️
-Hey, at least Kreider might score 30! ❌

1 out of 5. Welcome to being a Rangers fan.
 
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Honestly, I think a lot of this goes back to the beginning of the season, when ~80% of this board had convinced themselves that this would be a year involving:

-20 year olds (LA and Chytil) and Buch putting up huge numbers
-The team losing almost every game and drafting 1st or MAYBE 2nd.

A handful of people saw that as an unlikely outcome. This franchise KNOWS how lucky they were to claw out of that negative culture pre-2005.

I honestly think that for some of you, you're more upset that you were wrong than you are about the 2 points. You want the Rangers to be something they have never been. Don't get pissed when it doesn't happen. There are other teams who embrace your philosophy. I guarantee you--Buffalo has tickets available.

And before the inevitable citations of Pittsburgh, Washington, and Chicago, I give you the following teams who are not in the playoffs this year (and the number of recent top 5 picks they've had):

Arizona: 2 in the last 10 years
Montreal: 2 in the last 10 years
Florida: 4 in the last 10 years
Flyers: 1 in the last 10 years
Canucks: 2 in the last 10 years
Edmonton: 6 in the last 10 years
Buffalo: 3 in the last 10 years
NJ: 2 in the last 10 years
Kings: 1 in the last 10 years (3 in the last 12)
Ottawa: 1 in the last 10 years

Chicago, Anaheim, Detroit, and Minnesota haven't drafted top 5 in the last 10 years


Nearly every one of these teams has picked in the top 5 AT LEAST twice recently. Yet here they are. So keep on sputtering about Pittsburgh, Washington, and Chicago. Your three outliers are clearly just that. I'll take the team that refuses to quit every single time.
 
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bl02 said:
A Nashville win is good enough. Winnipeg losing would be nice to give the Blues home ice in the 2/3
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I want Winnipeg to face Nashville in 1st round that way I think there is a bigger chance Jets get eliminated in the 1st round.
 
smoneil said:
Honestly, I think a lot of this goes back to the beginning of the season, when ~80% of this board had convinced themselves that this would be a year involving:

-20 year olds (LA and Chytil) and Buch putting up huge numbers
-The team losing almost every game and drafting 1st or MAYBE 2nd.

A handful of people saw that as an unlikely outcome. This franchise KNOWS how lucky they were to claw out of that negative culture pre-2005.

I honestly think that for some of you, you're more upset that you were wrong than you are about the 2 points. You want the Rangers to be something they have never been. Don't get pissed when it doesn't happen. There are other teams who embrace your philosophy. I guarantee you--Buffalo has tickets available.

And before the inevitable citations of Pittsburgh, Washington, and Chicago, I give you the following teams who are not in the playoffs this year (and the number of recent top 5 picks they've had):

Arizona: 2 in the last 10 years
Montreal: 2 in the last 10 years
Florida: 4 in the last 10 years
Flyers: 1 in the last 10 years
Canucks: 2 in the last 10 years
Edmonton: 6 in the last 10 years
Buffalo: 3 in the last 10 years
NJ: 2 in the last 10 years
Kings: 1 in the last 10 years (3 in the last 12)
Ottawa: 1 in the last 10 years

Chicago, Anaheim, Detroit, and Minnesota haven't drafted top 5 in the last 10 years


Nearly every one of these teams has picked in the top 5 AT LEAST twice recently. Yet here they are. So keep on sputtering about Pittsburgh, Washington, and Chicago. Your three outliers are clearly just that. I'll take the team that refuses to quit every single time.
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How many of the cup winners in the last 10 years have had a top 2 pick? Can’t wait for the response, btw.
 
smoneil said:
Honestly, I think a lot of this goes back to the beginning of the season, when ~80% of this board had convinced themselves that this would be a year involving:

-20 year olds (LA and Chytil) and Buch putting up huge numbers
-The team losing almost every game and drafting 1st or MAYBE 2nd.

A handful of people saw that as an unlikely outcome. This franchise KNOWS how lucky they were to claw out of that negative culture pre-2005.

I honestly think that for some of you, you're more upset that you were wrong than you are about the 2 points. You want the Rangers to be something they have never been. Don't get pissed when it doesn't happen. There are other teams who embrace your philosophy. I guarantee you--Buffalo has tickets available.

And before the inevitable citations of Pittsburgh, Washington, and Chicago, I give you the following teams who are not in the playoffs this year (and the number of recent top 5 picks they've had):

Arizona: 2 in the last 10 years
Montreal: 2 in the last 10 years
Florida: 4 in the last 10 years
Flyers: 1 in the last 10 years
Canucks: 2 in the last 10 years
Edmonton: 6 in the last 10 years
Buffalo: 3 in the last 10 years
NJ: 2 in the last 10 years
Kings: 1 in the last 10 years (3 in the last 12)
Ottawa: 1 in the last 10 years

Chicago, Anaheim, Detroit, and Minnesota haven't drafted top 5 in the last 10 years


Nearly every one of these teams has picked in the top 5 AT LEAST twice recently. Yet here they are. So keep on sputtering about Pittsburgh, Washington, and Chicago. Your three outliers are clearly just that. I'll take the team that refuses to quit every single time.
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They literally were last in the league in ROW.
 
Steve Kournianos said:
Devils won so they have third.

Kinda hoping both Hughes and Kakko play out west if neither goes to the Rangers.
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Glad they're not in the Kakko spot.

Still sucks that LA probably gets him. They just won two Cups and they get a franchise forward the likes of which we've never had.

Henry VIII would look at this sport and cringe at the lack of justice.
 
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