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Post-Game Talk: Rangers @ Bruins | 1/19/13

I actually think the Pens are a worse matchup for the Rangers than the Bruins were. Rangers, in past years, have really struggled against fast/quick teams.

Boston wasn't that fast or quick, just more structured/physical. Don't fool yourselves into thinking Pens are a better matchup. They aren't.

Rangers are going to have to improve, significantly, tomorrow night if they want a chance to win. Personally, I think there is a good chance they lose tomorrow as well.

The team probably won't start to settle down until they get a couple solid practices in. I expect we will look better this coming wednesday.
 
As I have said prior I could care less where we finish this season so long as we make the playoffs with everyone healthy. In a season like this that is the imperative factor.
 
Having home ice advantage feels a lot different than not having it... anyway. Not impressed, actually rudely appalled. Get it together, open the game up offensively. You have the tools, Rangers.
 
MPF24 said:
Really? That sounds like every bad game we played last year. That sounds like the hallmark of this Rangers team, to be honest. Not necessarily even criticizing, because I still think this roster is going to get it done and go deep in the playoffs, but sloppy play in our own end and an inability to breakout/clear were CALLING CARDS last year.
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Not sure why you said asked Really? as we pretty much just agreed with each other lol. It was a bad game and it mirrored the bad games from last season, so we were off the mark in terms of team D and our break outs blew.

Antithesis said:
None of the hype and talk said "The Rangers are among the favorites to win their first game of the season."
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Or all of them for that matter.
 
Just finished catching up on the DVR, wish I hadn't. That save by Lundqvist was the only bright spot in a VERY lethargic game. Thought Nash looked good at times but other times not so much.

Constantly losing 1 on 1 battles and faceoffs was the reason the Rangers lost this game. They got schooled in their own system by the Bruins.

That 5 on 3 was atrocious.

All that said, just one game. I'm sure they know they sucked, hope for better things tomorrow night and just thoroughly ecstatic that hockey is back.
 
ColonialsHockey10 said:
Typical Rangers game.

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Miss an empty net
Terrible PP
Lucky goal against

Stepan needs some serious work. The guy is just a flat out disgrace out there sometimes.

It's only Game 1 but that was dreadful. I watched nearly every game today. Nobody looked as bad as we did.
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The Flyers in the first period did. And the Red Wings were worse. I haven't watched the Canucks game, but I bet you their fans are saying they are awful as well.
 
silverfish said:
Just finished catching up on the DVR, wish I hadn't. That save by Lundqvist was the only bright spot in a VERY lethargic game. Thought Nash looked good at times but other times not so much.

Constantly losing 1 on 1 battles and faceoffs was the reason the Rangers lost this game. They got schooled in their own system by the Bruins.

That 5 on 3 was atrocious.

All that said, just one game. I'm sure they know they sucked, hope for better things tomorrow night and just thoroughly ecstatic that hockey is back.
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Couldn't agree with you more. Seemed like they were playing the game in slow motion tonight...absolutely no forecheck.

Reminded me a lot of the first couple games in Europe last year. They'll figure it out.

The power play I do worry about though...that was awful and unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if this is an issue throughout the year.
 
Inferno said:
you literally could not pick a worse matchup for the rangers in the first game than Bawstun.
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Or the Pens. Did you see them handle the Flyers today? Malkin is in midseason form.

I think the Rangers will lose tomorrow, too. I'm not all doom-and-gloom just yet, but the Pens and Bruins look like they've been playing since October and the Rangers and Flyers look like someone woke them up this morning and made them play hungover.
 
PromNite said:
the Pens and Bruins look like they've been playing since October and the Rangers and Flyers look like someone woke them up this morning and made them play hungover.
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Nice way of describing it. :biglaugh:

Hope the Rangers come out swinging tomorrow. But I'm not putting money on it.
 
PromNite said:
Or the Pens. Did you see them handle the Flyers today? Malkin is in midseason form.

I think the Rangers will lose tomorrow, too. I'm not all doom-and-gloom just yet, but the Pens and Bruins look like they've been playing since October and the Rangers and Flyers look like someone woke them up this morning and made them play hungover.
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The Flyers looked decent after the first. Their loss looked like a lot of losses the Rangers had last year. Terrible first, fall down 2-0. Then fight and scrap to make it 2-1 and look like you're trying, but send a bunch of weak shots on net and flub a bunch of other opportunities. Like the Rangers of last year they only had a bad first period. They just couldn't come back from 2-0 down. The Rangers last year were RARELY ever outclassed for an entire game (much like the Flyers today weren't), like they were today. I can honestly think of a handful of regular season games I can think of. Montreal 4-0, (probably second one too in Montreal but I missed that game), St. Louis 4-1. A select few games. Anyway, my point is the Flyers, while they were bad compared to last year on offense, didn't embarrass themselves all game like we did.
 
Inferno said:
different lines have different roles. If our bottom 6 not scoring is what causes us to fail, then we've got a lot more things to discuss than that.

Our bottom 6 needs to bring energy, hitting, and wear the other team down for our top 6 to score on.
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We lost last year because the Devils got scoring from everywhere in their lineup. Right now, Kreider is the only guy playing in the bottom six who has a prayer to put the puck in the net. The third and fourth lines don't have to carry the offense, but they do need to score every so often.
 
PromNite said:
Or the Pens. Did you see them handle the Flyers today? Malkin is in midseason form.

I think the Rangers will lose tomorrow, too. I'm not all doom-and-gloom just yet, but the Pens and Bruins look like they've been playing since October and the Rangers and Flyers look like someone woke them up this morning and made them play hungover.
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honestly i didnt really notice him except for that face off when neal scored
 
So, did Hank make the save, or was the puck in?

I know what the ruling was, but what do you guys think?
 
Zil said:
We lost last year because the Devils got scoring from everywhere in their lineup. Right now, Kreider is the only guy playing in the bottom six who has a prayer to put the puck in the net. The third and fourth lines don't have to carry the offense, but they do need to score every so often.
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I think we lost last year because the Devils controlled the puck so damn much they wore us out. every line was out there constantly with the puck.

It was their puck possession game that beat us, not their bottom lines. its not about who scores the goals, its about how the game was played. they dominated us for huge portions of that series.
 
Jabroni1994 said:
So, did Hank make the save, or was the puck in?

I know what the ruling was, but what do you guys think?
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Puck was over the line, but since the ref had ruled no goal and you couldn't see it cross the line, it was correctly ruled no goal. Over the line or not, Lundqvist looked terrific all game, could have been a lot worse. Rangers looked slow, like they didn't want to play a physical game like the Bruins, and I don't like the way the lines are structured.
 
Baby Punisher said:
Hagelin was bad tonight. Like healthly scratch next game bad. We looked bad overall, slow no legs bad.
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Staalsy too. Really standout bad games from both of them. But, collectively, the team played like ****.

The bright spot was Lundqvist, as it usually is, and I personally believe Nash had a solid game as well. That was about it though.
 
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