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Sweet sun tans and ****** results in Florida have become a Thanksgiving tradition
I'm not sure you know what delusions of grandeur mean, thinking that the team is better than it is (arguable but a legit opinion) is not synonymous with delusions of grandeur, you're using a term that you don't know the definition of to sound smart. They're getting far more chances but are not finishing. It's not all bad angle shots. When all they had was terrible shots against LA I called them out on it. I thought the same thing happened for the most part against Anaheim. I'm not shy about saying when the Rangers have cupcake chances. That 11-12 team wasn't that great defensively. They just had Lundqvist in his peak season. I remember when we had like 5 straight games where we gave up at least 1 breakaway. The D sucked yesterday and against Dallas, however for the most part they've been pretty damn good since the horrible start. Even including last night's debacle the team has given up 34 goals in the last 19 games. That's fewer than 2 goals per game and that includes a bunch of fluke goals and a Lundqvist that is having his worst season in years. The 11-12 team in March that year had Lundqvist play like he's playing now they gave up at least 3 goals in pretty much every game. That team was all Lundqvist and Gabby. Somehow our offensive scrubs scored timely goals.
One more thing BRB that entire March in 11-12 all they did was give up odd man rushes. Think about to a game against mediocre Buffalo. You only remember the things you want to remember that fit your script.
I know exactly what delusions of grandeur means. This post, and the other fluff you've posted throughout this thread is a perfect example of it.
This is a 12-12 team that is tied for 29th in the league in goal scoring, yet, according to you, they should be 16-8? Where do you come up with this stuff? Does it come directly out of your ass, or is it filtered elsewhere?
That is so utterly and deliciously ironic coming from you.
You know what I've learned working in the real world above all else? My senior management wants bottom line results - they don't want me to spin a tale of what might of been, they don't want to know what my personal feelings are, they want the bottom line result.
How does that apply to sports? Ill defer to Bill Parcells: "You are what your record says you are."
Is this team 16-8 with so many more precious chances?
Or are they 12-12 and tied for 29th in the league in goal scoring?
The funny thing is something tells me that BRB who all of a sudden loves to use that 11-12 team to trash this team wasn't quite as positive 2 years ago. Just a hunch. He just loves that team now so that he can trash this team. However, something tells me that a guy that posts 95% negative **** about the team wasn't saying how great they were then. All of a sudden he uses wild hyperbole "I remember when it took this team a month to allow 4 odd man rushes". That's hilarious because that entire March they allowed numerous odd man rushes PER game and at some point in the season they allowed a breakaway every game (that's not an exaggeration either, it was something I noticed in any number from 4-6 games).
I didn't say they should be 16-8. I said that if they finished like the scrubs from 11-12 finished and Lundqvist played like he did that year they would be 16-8. This team creates more and better chances than that team, but for some reason that team managed to fluke their way into being the 12th best scoring team in the NHL. A testament to what a joke this league has become.
Im starting to be unable to follow your posts because, literally, none of it is based in any sort of coherent logic.
This is hilarious. You're completely spinning what I'm saying. When did I say they were a 16-8 team? And you completely ignored the part where they were giving up odd man rushes left and right that whole March and yet you find the need to block that out and pretend like it took them a month to give up 4 odd man rushes. You just remember what you want to remember and want to remember anything that allows you to be miserable and negative. As I said, I'll be SHOCKED if you thought this highly of that 11-12 team when they were playing. No you were coming up with excuses why they suck. I'm sure in 2 year's time you'll be remembering this team fondly if that team struggles. You only say positive things about the Rangers when it was a season in the past and you could use use it to say how much worse the current team is in comparison.
There you are leaping to weird conclusions, again.
Did I complain about the '11-12 team and certain holes in the roster? Sure I did. But I lauded their ability to play tough every night and their knack for winning hockey games.
You are the one that keeps deferring to the '11-12 team to highlight how good this current team is. Which is a really, really strange argument since this team wins less games and scores less goals.
It's not difficult, but you clearly can't follow something that disagrees with your opinion. This Rangers team is creating better and more frequent chances than that team. If this team finished like that team and also had the goaltending of that team they would be 16-8, I didn't say this team is a 16-8 team. That team had 1 finisher on it. It wasn't that good, but for some reason they managed to be 12th in the league in scoring. I think this team is more talented offensively. That team just had a magical season that would likely not be duplicated.
So, if this team was capable of completing the things that are necessary to win hockey games, they would have a better record.
You've really cracked the code.
It is astounding that Tampa was stupid enough to even use a goalie instead of opting for an extra attacker.
Hyperble is fun but not giving credit when it is due is a mark of believing there is only one team on the ice.
The Rangers had just put up the best road winning streak of the year in the NHL, but because they lost a single game, they suck and Bishop could have slept through his shutout. Wonderful analysis. Sometimes the team we root for loses, no matter how much we stamp our feet and decry fate, refs, and our beloved Rangers.
I don't think this team is that good. I just think that they're more talented than they are showing. I also think that team fluked their way into a great regular season and showed their true colors offensively in the playoffs. It's not so much that this is a great team, it's just that it's better than what they've shown and that team was nowhere near as good as they've shown. Also in a sport highly susceptible to luck, "you are what your record shows" is a neanderthal way of looking at things. You can be 12-12 and get outshot every game by 20 and lose every game by 5 and you can be 12-12 and outshoot the other team every game by 20 and win by 5. We're neither extreme but to pretend that 12-12 is exactly the same is foolish and intellectually dishonest. Plus, there are almost 60 games left, looking at HOW the team is playing is important and I believe they're playing well enough to be in good position at the end of the season. Does that mean cup? Highly unlikely. However, with 60 games left it's important to see how the team got to 12-12 and ever since their disaster start outside some hiccups like last night I think the team looks promising at least to finish in playoff position, maybe even get a spot that's not a WC spot in a weaker division. Even with the hiccup last night, the score wasn't indicative of the play. A few horrible breakdowns.
TankLarkin
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Or if this team didn't underachieve they're have a better record. That team overachieved this one is underachieving. Hell "underachieving" is relative too. They're not underachieving by going through the motions, they're mostly playing hard and even doing a lot of things right. They just can't score and what they do wrong defensively ends up in their net because their goalie is not longer all that great. And doing things necessary to win hockey games, if you mean scoring yeah, I guess. But it's not as simple as you make it seem. They're shooting at a 6.25% clip that's unsustainable. There's a lot more to it than your simplistic you are what the stats say. They're doing a lot of things necessary to win hockey games but are not getting the results.
I am talking about 1 game and if you don't think Bishop played well.....
By the way, when Lundqvist tosses a shutout, everyone here says he was great. Never hear about how crappy the other team played and how Hank could have slept through the game. Why is that?
I think Stepan is a legit top liner who lacks a pure finisher so far this year.
TheTakedown
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yeah, have to agree with this... That one game where Joe made a comment about a coach that had taken over a head coaching job...
45 days with ONLY the players supposed to be on the team... 45 days after training camp is over, your players are established and comfortable, and you have a relative idea of where each players status is at...
There's too much going against this team right now, and only time is going to fix that... Lets review the last month and a half:
- We had 40 players on our 9 game road trip, for the first 3 weeks of the actual season, plus no home games and a ton of travel... just a tad more than the 23 required for a hockey team... too much going on mentally
- Nash gets hurt in game 3 of the season, then misses 15 games, can't form chemistry with anyone
- Lundqvist has a breakdown and is hurt for games 6-9 of the season (i think? too lazy to pull up the stat)
- Biron realizes he can't stop a beach ball and retires, so management takes a gamble on a backup in the farm...
- We start the first 10-12 games with half of our top 6 out with injuries
- Our "prime" offensive defensemen has to be one of the worst headcases in the league
- All of this is happening with a new coach who is still learning his players
Anyone that thought this team would start hot was out of their minds. 4-5-1 was absolutely acceptable for the road trip we took in the beginning of the season...
If by the mid way mark of the season we are still a .500 team, and still in the bottom 5 for GF, then we'll really have a problem.
EDIT: we also have taylor pyatt :p
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TheTakedown
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Thirty One
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My thoughts exactly. The Rangers gave Bryan Trottier 54 games and that was considered a short leash. Vigneault's track record is a little stronger than Trottier's.
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Not really sure what more AV can do considering that failure to execute has been one of our biggest issues (as it has been for ages). The Rangers are outplaying and outshooting opponents but still can't score.
You know what's funny, people keep claiming that the goals will come, because our shooting percentages are unsustainable. We're getting too many chances to not score more goals, right?
Well, 24 games into the season we have been shutout 5 times and are averaging 2.00G/GM which is good for 29th in the NHL. So, when is it coming? If you said that after five or six games, I'd agree. But we're 24 games in now, and we're still virtually dead last in the league in scoring.
If you look at our goal scoring, it's usually like 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 0, 1, 0, 1, 3.
It's extremely inconsistent. I'd do anything for a team at this point to score 2 or 3 goals every game.
You can only claim the chances will go in for so long when they never are. It's a talent issue, and the talent just isn't there to finish.
Who cares if Kreider, MZA and Stepan generate chances? They rarely put the puck in the net.
AND what is even funnier, is that this is the worst scoring team we've had post lock out, and we had a thread, on our own FORUM (I thought our fans would be smarter) that THIS was the deepest team we've had since the lockout. Deepest in 3rd/4th liners? Yes. Deepest in talent? No.
Well, 24 games into the season we have been shutout 5 times and are averaging 2.00G/GM which is good for 29th in the NHL. So, when is it coming? If you said that after five or six games, I'd agree. But we're 24 games in now, and we're still virtually dead last in the league in scoring.
If you look at our goal scoring, it's usually like 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 0, 1, 0, 1, 3.
It's extremely inconsistent. I'd do anything for a team at this point to score 2 or 3 goals every game.
You can only claim the chances will go in for so long when they never are. It's a talent issue, and the talent just isn't there to finish.
Who cares if Kreider, MZA and Stepan generate chances? They rarely put the puck in the net.
AND what is even funnier, is that this is the worst scoring team we've had post lock out, and we had a thread, on our own FORUM (I thought our fans would be smarter) that THIS was the deepest team we've had since the lockout. Deepest in 3rd/4th liners? Yes. Deepest in talent? No.
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