Post-Game Talk: Rangers vs. Ex-Rangers — 03/30/18

[Levitate]

He just turned 24!!!!!

Sweet Jesus are we here complaining about Mika and Skjei?!

Mika produces and is good.

Skjei has struggled this season. I just want him to get past it and improve, not continue struggling.

 

[Rongomania]

It’s really f***ing unreal. Every team under us is somehow losing harder.

We have to hope we get that philly luck.

What were they last season? 13 or some s****??

I just hope uncle Gary just accepts Dolan’s bribe and gives us Dahlin.

Come onnnnnnn

 

[TheDirtyH]

Makes me feel a bit better

And I still think ADA is going to be a quality NHL player.

I see him as hopefully a Justin Schultz down the line. Schultz never put the offense together the way people expected but he ended up being a fine two-way top 4 D on a couple of Cup teams.

I've been thinking of Daley actually. If the points never come and he can figure his shit out in the d-zone.

 

[trilobyte]

That's not even the issue here. The issue is stupid things like eye contact and ... I don't know .... his hair color ... I don't even get these arguments in here.

I say that it should be acceptable to recognize Zibanejad's skills, want him to be a core part of the team going forward (i.e. don't trade him) while at the same time remarking on his fashionable freshly frosted hilites

 

[Thirty One]

Watching Mika speak in the lockeroom after the game makes me hate him even more. He stares st the floor and mumbles like a mental midget child. Watch kreider speak right after. Looking up. Eye contact.

You must’ve really liked Nash. Stared right into the camera like it owed him something.

 

[Ori]

A good summary from Chris Kreider.

 

[Thirty One]

A good summary from Chris Kreider.

Look at that eye contact!

 

[Machinehead]

A good summary from Chris Kreider.

The Franchise

 

[egelband]

When they start Pavs, Georgiev should be the backup.

 

[egelband]

I’ve come to really enjoy and appreciate Kreider this season. I wasn’t such a fan before. Now he’s my favorite. Hope he’s the next Captain. With Zucc and Zibs as the As.

 

[Herbert Lewis]

Lightning fan here. What an incredible tribute to McDonagh, Girarli, Miller . What a very classy organization you have. It was GREAT!!!!!!!!! See you all in the playoffs next year.

 

[Levitate]

eh

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

...

Great post! Summed it all up well, especially the weird emotions in tonight's game that spanned a lot of topics.

On Mats - the last minutes of the broadcast where he is one of the last ones out there throwing his stick to a kid show yet again that his passion is sincere. The MSG broadcast lingering on him hit me as fitting. I do think he is likely (not definitely) moved, may have been his last game at MSG. If so his tribute is going to drown out the rest.

 

[E-Train]

If so his tribute is going to drown out the rest.

Except when Messier came back with Vancouver. Giacomin too.

 

[Phoicon]

Anyway, congrats to Chytil. I am just as happy as the older guy in the corner who banged on the glass behind Chytil after when he scored.

 

[E-Train]

Chytil is going to be a lot to handle. You see the obvious talent. He has gained some good weight over the course of the season. If you look at the goal celebration, he's not far off in height from 6-5 Hayes. Not hard to imagine him being a force in the league by 21 or 22.

 

[Per Sjoblom]

"I told you guys I was tired like 2 months ago" - Vasilevsky during an interview after Round 1 Game 7 loss

Wonder if Yzerman had a word with him?

 

[darko]

Watching Mika speak in the lockeroom after the game makes me hate him even more. He stares st the floor and mumbles like a mental midget child. Watch kreider speak right after. Looking up. Eye contact.

Some people can speak in public and some can't. Get over it.

 

[aufheben]

Some people can speak in public and some can't. Get over it.

That’s not even trouble speaking in public, it’s trouble not being a talk show host.

 

[Hi ImHFNYR]

Watching Mika speak in the lockeroom after the game makes me hate him even more.

"Watching him post makes me hate him even more. " -Most of this place when you post garbage like this. Garbage that MAYBE a 12 year old edgelord would say.

 

[Loff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrlpKVs8ip0

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

Watching Mika speak in the lockeroom after the game makes me hate him even more. He stares st the floor and mumbles like a mental midget child. Watch kreider speak right after. Looking up. Eye contact.

Your takes are bad and you should feel bad

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

I actually make that comparison a few days ago. I think his ceiling is a light version of Malkin.

How light?

Like Diet Coke light?

 

[Machinehead]

*Mika acts like a captain*

People, literally: "yeah but he didn't captain good enough!"

 

[Ola]

Mika produces and is good.

Skjei has struggled this season. I just want him to get past it and improve, not continue struggling.

I think it’s essential that we get a steady defensive partner for Skjei next season. The kid is a 23 y/o PMD/2-way D who has been rushed into a No 1 spot in the NHL. OK, I think he can survive it. But not if he have to babysit a drunk bum like Smith/a vet PPQB like Shatty/a kid like Pionk/Sproul.

McD got a lot of support from Girardi, remember that G hadn’t regressed as much when they were first paired. Imagine if we like threw a Dan Boyle type on his side from day 1 — would be have developed as well? Or if McD played his first three years as a top D with Matt Gilroy or Thomas Pock?

Get a stay at home RD that can play with him at least next year when we will be a mess. I don’t care if this get isn’t a good NHLer, as long as Skjei always know that someone is taking a back seat to him, can help him out clearing the crease and at least win physical battles defensively and so forth. We will be a mess, Skjei need a steady partner.