Post-Game Talk: Rangers @ Doges -- 12/15/21

[Machinehead]

The coach told him if he wasn’t going to pass the puck to Kakko to stay in the locker room.
So he did.

This is the explanation I'm going with.

 

[Baby Duck Homme]

Anyone going to the game Friday? got some good tickets. Taking my Dad.

 

[Leonardo87]

Hank doing the intermission for the Ducks and Seattle game on TNT, he is killing it.

 

[mas0764]

Kakko and Laffy just need better linemates and more opportunity

It will take time for confidence to get back

Panarin - Zibanejad - Kakko
Lafreniere - Strome - Kravtsov
Kreider - Chytil - Reilly Smith

 

[SnowblindNYR]

A positive is that Mika's play has been trending in the right direction, I feel like. It's great to see him score that way.

 

[tlk]

 

[TheBloodyNine]

Hank doing the intermission for the Ducks and Seattle game on TNT, he is killing it.

ESPN kicking themselves for not getting this hunk on their broadcasts

 

[bl02]

The too many men obviously was huge. We were about to give one up after the Zibby goal that tied it. We were backing up and just trying to hold on

 

[Machinehead]

The Ducks scored a goal where every player who got a point is from New York State

 

[will1066]

@duhmetreE after seeing two lefties on the PP and one of them scored

 

[PuckLuck3043]

But they started looking bad way early in that run of games.

Yeah but the schedule all month has been heavy with 9 games in 15days plus they are going through the normal regression in play and the injuries. No shesterkin for 7 games now, no Lundkvist for 4. Rough stretch.

 

[GG96]

I just went and watched Panarin’s 2nd period shift. Looked fine. Didn’t have contact with anyone except one minor run-in with Kessel. Didn’t see much there. It wasn’t a super active shift, a lot of up and back with nothing happening. Doesn’t seem like it could be that serious.

 

[Baby Punisher]

GG getting testy with the Chytil questions.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Yeah but the schedule all month has been heavy with 9 games in 15days plus they are going through the normal regression in play and the injuries. No shesterkin for 7 games now, no Lundkvist for 4. Rough stretch.

We've had very few injuries all season.

 

[tlk]

(I'll get my coat)

 

[bl02]

GG does a lot of sniffling during postgame interviews...Maybe its the mohair???

 

[bl02]

We've had very few injuries all season.

Agreed I can't use injuries as an excuse. Sucks losing Igor but other teams have lost entire top lines like Washington and Pitt.

 

[Baby Duck Homme]

I was just thinking that with our luck, Mika will get red hot 10 days before the Olympics. Then the players won’t want to go because COVID and then there will be a break and he will come back ice cold again.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

(I'll get my coat)

Doesn't feel nearly as good as when we were playing well. The team I saw today wasn't even a playoff team.

 

[tlk]

GG getting testy with the Chytil questions.

I'd have asked something like How could Philip Chytil possibly make this game any worse?

 

[tlk]

Doesn't feel nearly as good as when we were playing well. The team I saw today wasn't even a playoff team.

this performance and playoff in the same sentence is *generous*

 

[PetahFromBensonhoist]

Barron please.

I concur.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

We've had very few injuries all season.

Not really. Chytil, Strome, and Kakko missed time earlier in the season and Blais is out for the year. Missing Lundkvist and especially Shesty who is their most important player while they aren't playing well in general is a problem. Igor has missed 7 games so far. And now Panarin is out for who knows how long. We haven't had a complete roster the entire year.

 

[Boris Zubov]

I concur.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Not really. Chytil, Strome, and Kakko missed time earlier in the season and Blais is out for the year. Missing Lundkvist and especially Shesty who is their most important player while they aren't playing well in general is a problem. Igor has missed 7 games so far. And now Panarin is out for who knows how long. We haven't had a complete roster the entire year.

I'm talking relative to other teams.