Post-Game Talk: Olli Reacts Only
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Jack Hanson
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He doesn't stink at fighting so much as Olivier is the 1 guy that really decisively kicked his butt. Besides, Rempe has been playing great, really making a difference. Best to stick to the shit stirrer role combined with good basic hockey offense. The fighting should only be in response to threats to Igor or as an enforcer paying back dirty hits on our guys. No gratuitous fighting if only because we cant afford the penalty minutes.
Lavi is going to Lavi.
The optics are horrible but anyone questioning if he was actually hurt is an idiot. Today's game was a massive swing game, but it's not like the games over the last 2 weeks haven't been important.
will1066
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There's no margin for error to be playing the "reserved roster spot" caste system favoritism. Today should be proof that Kreider should be a spare emergency forward.
Mr Mxyzptlk
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Not in Rangerland -- he'll be back on the top line before you know it.
He wasn’t exactly put in a spot to succeed but yeah, I agree.
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He is a Little League WS Champ after all
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Good point. The amount of “poor Igor the team let him down” I saw after the loss made my head hurt. Did these people stop watching the game after the second period? Igor’s team gave him a 2 goal lead in the third period and he gave up a shit tying goal and a worse OT losing goal. Are we not allowed to expect this guy close out a game? Not give up a goal right after we score one? Not leak out multiple shit rebounds to gift the Sens the tying goal? Stop a clear sight shot from the top of the circle in OT? No, poor Igor it’s definitely never his fault!
The "poor Igor" takes are the new "if only David Jones had an O-line" takes. At some point if it's everyone else's fault. It's your f***ing fault.
will1066
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Penalties were 5-2 in favor of Ottawa. Ottawa got away with murder the entire 3rd period. Ref was Ottawa native, at home.
Game winning goal. Why was Tkachuk wide open trailing into the play? Watch the start of that video near the bench. Crosschecks Panarin up in the face twice in front of the ref. No call. Drew blood. Fun stuff
Game winning goal. Why was Tkachuk wide open trailing into the play? Watch the start of that video near the bench. Crosschecks Panarin up in the face twice in front of the ref. No call. Drew blood. Fun stuff
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For 11.5 next season I don’t see a need to sign a backup.
Have Igor play in all 82 games…and why stop there. On days off when the Hartford Wolf Pack are playing or the Bloomington Bisons let Shesterkin play there as well.
I don’t see a need to worry about him clearing waivers with the constant up-and-down. All teams rosters will be set by them and Igor’s salary would put them over the top.
But seriously, trade Shesterkin while there’s still a chance.
Have Igor play in all 82 games…and why stop there. On days off when the Hartford Wolf Pack are playing or the Bloomington Bisons let Shesterkin play there as well.
I don’t see a need to worry about him clearing waivers with the constant up-and-down. All teams rosters will be set by them and Igor’s salary would put them over the top.
But seriously, trade Shesterkin while there’s still a chance.
ReddestRum
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I will only fault the goalie if the team is playing WELL in front of him and he's letting the team down with legit soft goals. The problem is you think 11.5 should mean automatic wins no matter how bad the team plays in front of him. Every, single, goal is going to be cried about by you no matter how shitty the defense is, how much the offensive can't score, how horrid the PP is, and how well the opposing team is. I'm NOT going to blame the goalie for being paid what he wanted. Truthfully, the team could've walked away from him and Igor would've made that money anywhere else in the league. A goalie having to steal games should be the exception for this team.
You also keep mentioning an average goalie would've did this and that. We did have an average goalie in Geo. So did the f***ing Avs and they were scoring out of their minds last season, but an average goalie was doing what average goalies do.
So what? You wanted him to take like 8.5 or something?? Because that 3 mil left over would've gotten us someone to push us right to the cup, right?
The data and facts are right there and fans still ignore them so they can just bitch, bitch, bitch. The lack of defense and the shots against is unsustainable to win games long term. Igor got us the wins we got in the playoffs even with us being the 3rd worst team in shots against. No one within the top five, six, seven, or eight in that stat was even close to wins.
I'm hoping one day we do land an average goalie so I can hear the same people bitch about the same goalie shit for another goalie generation. As if he didn't hear it enough with Hank.
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TheGortonConspiracy
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Please trade kandre miller instead of re signing him he had a really good start to his career but has completely lost the ability to play defense he just panics when the puck is on his stick half the time. Coach shouldn't have had him out there that early in the OT to begin with.
No idea why guys are blaming Igor he played fine and had a really good first period
No idea why guys are blaming Igor he played fine and had a really good first period
First of all before I get into Shesterkin I have to address a Pet Peeve of mine. Why do Americans (maybe not just Americans?) say that someone is average when they're bad? Georgiev is one of the worst goalies in the league (yes worse than Shesterkin) in what world is he average?
As far as the rest of the stuff. You literally scoffed at the idea that Shesterkin losing to the Leafs a week ago when his team outshot the Leafs 34-16 and he turned the puck over just minutes after we tied it in the 3rd period was Igor losing the game. If 34-16 in shots is the team not playing well I don't know what to tell you. You defend the indefensible.
And finally if I shouldn't expect the goalie to steal games then we should get a 6 million dollar goalie who is as good as the team in front of him and spend the remaining 5.5M on a top 4 D-man.
We have an average goalie right now. Problem is that we are paying said goalie 11.5 mil.
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There's no plan here. They only got Miller because he wanted to come here and Vancouver needed him gone. Don't buy the BS about changing the culture. How are they changing the culture when all the super comfortable loser veterans are still there?
The S5
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I'm not here to defend Lavi, but this is on the players. Good teams execute. Execution is more important than any system, which, by and large, are all very similar. Is it Lavi's fault that we don't have guys who are willing to go hard to the net? Forecheck? Execute a basic pass?
Also, I really hope the Igor contract doesn't sink the teams future. Is he a good player? Yes. Is he the best in the NHL, not a chance. In fact, statistically, he is somewhere in the top 10. Goalies are tough to gauge. What is most important is that they get hot when they need to. They needed Igor last night and he didn't deliver.
The S5
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I think Drury's plan is to get bigger and harder to play against. It was no secret that we were the easiest team in the league to play against, which is why it was mind boggling that Rempe wasn't kept in the line up. Instead, we inserted a bunch of AHL'ers with zero impact on the game.
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