Post-Game Talk: Pittsburgh Penguins at New York Rangers - October 17, 2017

[Machinehead]

As one of the most consistently negative posters on this forum, you saying McDonagh is "fine" is particularly head scratching.

Then you need to watch more closely.

People notice turnovers. Here's what goes unnoticed - the next time the Rangers are completely controlling the game (which happened quite a few times tonight) look for 27. He'll be out there.

 

[MysticLeviathan]

So many mental mistakes.

 

[Alluckks]

Tell me you wouldn't watch that movie though!

Everyone wants the lockerroom like the freakin' 1980 Olympics

 

[darko]

McDonagh is fine. Holy ****.

Half you people criticizing AV are just as reactionary as he is.

Who are you and wtf have you done with Machinehead?

 

[I Eat Crow]

McDonagh is fine. Holy ****.

Half you people criticizing AV are just as reactionary as he is.

I'm not ok with our captain having lapses in a game that's as close to a must win as can be this early in the season. He can score 2 goals and assist on another two, but if he makes that error that loses his team the game, then he's a goat, and deservedly so.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

AV won't be fired after this game, but for real they should just rip the bandaid off and get it done

Then we are the Champions!

 

[Machinehead]

Who are you and wtf have you done with Machinehead?

Angry Machinehead went to Tampa Bay to be with Bad McDonagh.

 

[Alluckks]

To be fair to him, I was advocating for a between-periods jersey change.

Yours in an obvious joke, half these guys have no clue how a lockerrom, a team, or any of that stuff actually works.

 

[Machinehead]

I'm not ok with our captain having lapses in a game that's as close to a must win as can be this early in the season. He can score 2 goals and assist on another two, but if he makes that error that loses his team the game, then he's a goat, and deservedly so.

He's made one bad mistake all year and it came at a bad time.

 

[will1066]

McDonagh is fine. Holy ****.

Half you people criticizing AV are just as reactionary as he is.

How do you defend that, though? It's blatantly not fine. You have TWO Pens on the forecheck and you go up the middle?! 3-on-3 situation and you don't hold the puck on a line change instead of trying to force the issue with a stretch pass, which results in an icing?!

 

[Crease]

Yours in an obvious joke, half these guys have no clue how a lockerrom, a team, or any of that stuff actually works.

It's like EHM is it not?

 

[RiceCooker]

JT has been excellent of late ... He needs to be put in the top 6 and stay there .

 

[eco's bones]

That tying goal in the last minute reminded me so much of the Erik Karlsson goal in the playoffs. Your goalie can't let that happen.

We found a way to lose in this one and the team is still making a load of brain dead plays--whether it's early or late goals, bad penalties, players getting caught out of position, giveaways and turnovers in their own end and in the neutral zone.

Maybe they build off the comeback in this one---maybe they don't.

....and yeah McDonagh's not looking very good either.

 

[Alluckks]

If you want the team to be better, it does not start with McDonagh...

 

[Siddi]

Oh boy, that is a man who knows he is 1 stupid play away from being out of a job.

 

[will1066]

He's made one bad mistake all year and it came at a bad time.

He's made a lot of mistakes in these seven games. Just the Devils game he made two at the beginning of the 3rd.

 

[darko]

Great players make mistakes too. How was Letang on Grabner (i think) goal.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

Yours in an obvious joke, half these guys have no clue how a lockerrom, a team, or any of that stuff actually works.

The internet would have never taken off without being a vessel for bullshit.

 

[Machinehead]

How do you defend that, though? It's blatantly not fine. You have TWO Pens on the forecheck and you go up the middle?! 3-on-3 situation and you don't hold the puck on a line change instead of trying to force the issue with a stretch pass, which results in an icing?!

He had the highest on-ice expected goals out of any player tonight, on either team.

And then you boil his night down to one play.

It's not fair.

 

[Alluckks]

It's like EHM is it not?

Every lockerrom is ran like the Miracle on Ice team, of course. Ya know, accountability! Like inspiring your Division III JV football team to win the next game!

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

Oh boy, that is a man who knows he is 1 stupid play away from being out of a job.

Well, it just happened

I hope he's fired by Thursday's game

 

[Irishguy42]

Great players make mistakes too. How was Letang on Grabner (i think) goal.

No. False.

Only the good NYR players make mistakes. No one else does.

Nope.

 

[JT Kreider]

Great players make mistakes too. How was Letang on Grabner (i think) goal.

If McDonagh was a consistent 50-60 point defensemen you can live with those mistakes.

 

[NikC]

Take the C off McDonagh. He doesn't deserve it. This team needs some accountability

Absolutely! He's been a shell of a player since the C.... awful captain

 

[will1066]

He was hammered! But our good luck charm - he got up and we yelled at him to sit back down.

Also met Fotiu in the box between periods.

Is he not working the broadcasts anymore? I just realized I haven't seen him in a while. It's all Vally now, it seems.