GDT: RAGNARÖKR CLAN SKOGVAKTARE @ CLAN STORMNING AKA GAME 7 NEW YORK RANGERS @ CAROLINA HURRICANES

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Plus, now we really really hate the losing.

Wait until next offseason when we hate it so much we can stand it.

 

[MinJaBen]

Wait until next offseason when we hate it so much we can stand it.

Then it will be really really REALLY hate it.


Until the year after that.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Rangers fan here, and forgive me for intruding. I always lurk in the post-mortem threads after teams lose to the Rangers because I'm genuinely curious to see what the fans of those teams say about the series and what happened. Rangers fans are obviously going to be biased in one direction and opponents fans in the other. I'm responding here because I want to mention something that rarely seemed to come up on the national broadcasts, and might provide some perspective that dovetails with your post here.

The Rangers were really a different team after the trade deadline. Before the trade acquisitions, and also due partially to a long-term injury to Kakko, we were playing Dryden Hunt as 2RW and your old friend Julien Gauthier as 3RW. Those guys were staples in our lineup pretty much all season long, and neither is much better than a 13F. Neither saw the ice against your team. I'm not saying that they didn't mention the fact of Copp, Vatrano, and Motte being deadline additions, but they never really discussed the degree to which it transformed the team. A large, large part of that transformation is how much more responsible the forward group became in the defensive zone. (Don't ask me what happened to our defensive structure in the Pittsburgh series. Most of us are still mystified by it.) Those guys came in and fit seamlessly, which is something I've rarely seen with deadline guys, and they improved the team markedly.

The series was more even than most expected, even by me, but a lot of that expectation was built on what was fundamentally a different Rangers team for 3/4 of the season.

Good analysis here. Rangers are a lot like Edmonton in this way. We got so used to thinking of them as a dumpster fire that people just collectively ignored the 31-11-4 finish after they signed Evander Kane. They are not the same team that stumbled out of the gate.

 

[Lempo]

Yes but with this and that, "we signed E. Kane" could justifiably be expected to only become a "hilarity ensues" move.

mantalksontoamoneyphone.jpg

 

[The Faulker 27]

The crossing guard for my kids school is about 70 years old and also a Canes fan... today I asked her what went wrong and she said "That rod brindamour ain't gettin' it done in the playoffs. That's what!"

 

[Negan4Coach]

Rangers fan here, and forgive me for intruding. I always lurk in the post-mortem threads after teams lose to the Rangers because I'm genuinely curious to see what the fans of those teams say about the series and what happened. Rangers fans are obviously going to be biased in one direction and opponents fans in the other. I'm responding here because I want to mention something that rarely seemed to come up on the national broadcasts, and might provide some perspective that dovetails with your post here.

The Rangers were really a different team after the trade deadline. Before the trade acquisitions, and also due partially to a long-term injury to Kakko, we were playing Dryden Hunt as 2RW and your old friend Julien Gauthier as 3RW. Those guys were staples in our lineup pretty much all season long, and neither is much better than a 13F. Neither saw the ice against your team. I'm not saying that they didn't mention the fact of Copp, Vatrano, and Motte being deadline additions, but they never really discussed the degree to which it transformed the team. A large, large part of that transformation is how much more responsible the forward group became in the defensive zone. (Don't ask me what happened to our defensive structure in the Pittsburgh series. Most of us are still mystified by it.) Those guys came in and fit seamlessly, which is something I've rarely seen with deadline guys, and they improved the team markedly.

The series was more even than most expected, even by me, but a lot of that expectation was built on what was fundamentally a different Rangers team for 3/4 of the season.

Well, you’re far from the first to show up here after a playoff defeat to mansplain to us why we lost.

 

[Lempo]

mansplain

Tell us now you pinko libby what have you done to N4C and where are you keeping him.

 

[ONO94]

Yes but with this and that, "we signed E. Kane" could justifiably be expected to only become a "hilarity ensues" move.

mantalksontoamoneyphone.jpg

Don't know why....but my mind likes to think they signed E. Coli....

 

[Negan4Coach]

Tell us now you pinko libby what have you done to N4C and where are you keeping him.

I’ve decided to re-purpose the term for my own reactionary agenda