Post-Game Talk: Rangers @ Sabres -- 4/3/21

[RickChartraw]

I need a strong powerful man in my life.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Yeah fair enough, just like very jarring for me to be fuming that they lost to the worst team in years and have to listen to Joe talk about the playoffs which 95% isn’t going to happen.

I don’t know what the actual odds are, but I’d put this teams chances at 1%

 

[mrmovies779]

With Smith on the ice without Hajek, the Rangers have 56% of the goals and 47% of the chances.

Together, 45% and 39% respectively.

It's Hajek.

Yeah,i disagree and we can leave it at that

 

[Tob]

Kakko shot 3rd in the shootout.....so theres that.

I've watched enough the Real Housewives of Beverley Hills to know this is just to throw people off the scent.

 

[DanielBrassard]

Like I've said before, Hajek passes the eye test because you can't make mistakes when the other team has the puck the entire time you're on the ice.

He doesn't even pass the eye test IMO. Terrible with the puck on his stick, consistently loses puck battles and doesn't seem to know how to use his leverage and body position to box out or tie up forwards. A total zero in transition up the ice and as far as defending the neutral zone it seems like he cedes the blue line with consistency. I really don't get what some of you guys (not directed at you) see in him.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Kravtsov was good.

Fox and Lindgren, the usual.

Hajek, the usual.

Smith and Hajek were running around in their zone like chickens with their heads cut off and Smith couldn't clear the puck if his life depended on it. There was one shift he must have turned it over three times in his own zone. He's terrible.

 

[aufheben]

Sorry I know a lot of you love Vally and he knows his stuff but how could you not be super critical of this game? Ullmark did not save this game for Buffalo. We got dominated come on.

Mostly even game and both goalies were great.

 

[WojtekWolski86]

Hajek and Smith are the anchors around the neck of any line they are on the ice with. Useless in all 3 zones. At least next year we will have Nils and anyone not named Hajek on the left side.

 

[bl02]

We got rid of Staal and you would think this team would be better than last years but we probably will have a worse record than last season. You are what your record says you are...-Bill Parcells.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

I've watched enough the Real Housewives of Beverley Hills to know this is just to throw people off the scent.

He's also playing on the 2nd line with our best player.....so there's that.

 

[Tob]

He's also playing on the 2nd line with our best player.....so there's that.

It's been tougher than it needed to be to get to this point and Kaapo not getting OT time is bizarre. I know it's not all doom but there's some gloom.

 

[bl02]

Mostly even game and both goalies were great.

I must have watched a different game. Shesty was very good.
We did nothing to sustain pressure on a team that will finish last in the league. They sustained plenty of pressure.

 

[Machinehead]

He doesn't even pass the eye test IMO. Terrible with the puck on his stick, consistently loses puck battles and doesn't seem to know how to use his leverage and body position to box out or tie up forwards. A total zero in transition up the ice and as far as defending the neutral zone it seems like he cedes the blue line with consistency. I really don't get what some of you guys (not directed at you) see in him.

He does the Marc Staal trick to passing the eye test. He makes random pinches that lead to absolutely nothing and everyone sees the pinch. They don't see the nothing.

 

[NYR]

Sorry but you aren't going to survive in this league having to depend on your goalie to bail you out every night.

It didn't work with Hank and it certainly won't with anyone else.

You need to play "team" defense and until that happens no team is going to win anything, let alone a playoff series.

This team is exactly how it's being coached, a college level team.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Question, if a player tries to clear and it gets intercepted at the point is that considered a giveaway? If not what criteria does it need to be considered a giveaway?

 

[Machinehead]

At least Hajek plays 14 minutes a game and him being fried butt is funny to me, as opposed to being one of the linchpins of the team.

 

[Tob]

Mika Sullivan picking out which baseball bat he wants to use to batter our flamingoes next week rn.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

Smith needs to sit or learn how to make a quick pass. He's the latest version of Marc Staal right now where the play continues in our own end when he has chances to make a play with it or at the least get it out.

 

[will1066]

I was thinking more of a greeting card knock off company of Hallmark, lol.

I was subconsciously thinking of Primark.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I must have watched a different game. Shesty was very good.
We did nothing to sustain pressure on a team that will finish last in the league. They sustained plenty of pressure.

Shesty played well overall and the team was complete ass all game after like the first 5 minutes.

 

[will1066]

At least Hajek plays 14 minutes a game and him being fried butt is funny to me, as opposed to being one of the linchpins of the team.

I think some of his problems are the result of Smith's incompetence

 

[DanielBrassard]

He does the Marc Staal trick to passing the eye test. He makes random pinches that lead to absolutely nothing and everyone sees the pinch. They don't see the nothing.

A Hajek shift is like dropping down a sac bunt with no one on. Totally useless at best, a disaster at worst.

Not even sure that makes sense but whatever.

 

[Leonardo87]

I was subconsciously thinking of Primark.

It’s like, “Oh honey you love me you remembered our anniversary, um does that say “Ullmark”? You cheap bastard, I’m going to my mother’s”

Primark works also, lol.

 

[Siddi]

I really can't deal with all the negative comments and whining that is going to go on so I'll just say Igor played great, that 2nd goal was not his fault he didn't see it, and our guys didn't score a single goal in the shootout. Panarin tried to be way too fancy, idk wtf that was, just shoot your amazing lazer wrist shot. Nobody goes 5 hole anymore? And Yeah Kakko should have played in OT, it was dumb to not play him in OT and then put him out their as the 3rd shooter in the shootout.

Hey losing 18 games in a row will motivate a team, the Sabres are motivated, they're sick of losing and they won't be easy to beat from here on out. We still have plenty against the Devils and Flyers that we will get points, and we'll beat the Isles too.

Unscreened from above the circles. That 2nd goal is weak as f***.

 

[will1066]

A Hajek shift is like dropping down a sac bunt with no one on. Totally useless at best, a disaster at worst.

Not even sure that makes sense but whatever.

It doesn't lol