Post-Game Talk: Sabres @ Rangers -- 4/27/21

[Machinehead]

Anyone left who still thinks Hajek is better than him?

Smith has more goals in the NHL this year than Hajek did in Czech u18 hockey.

 

[Synergy27]

Howdie Doodie strikes back.

 

[RGY]

@Kovalev27 I’d prefer Chytil to be at .5-.55 PPG pace. But am I upset with a .4-.45 PPG pace? No. Problem is, his efforts, very much like the rest of this team are inconsistent. He again in the 3rd couldnt finish a high danger opportunity. Most of his production has come against crap teams. So should we just plainly accept his production as a positive because the PPG looks sexy enough? Like I said, it’s disingenuous

 

[Machinehead]

That was a 5 hair band performance by Shesty

I give it 5/5 Georgies

 

[ViD]

Has a team ever not made the post season with close to .600 winning record ?

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I've thought all along that the Islanders are the team we should be chasing for the last playoff spot and more likely to slip than Boston.

Thursday and Saturday's games are massive.

Unfortunately Trotz vs. Quinn is as big of a mismatch as Einstein Forest Gump.

 

[tomobson]

Anyone left who still thinks Hajek is better than him?

At the end of the day I wouldn't want Lundkvist to play with either of them.

 

[Leonardo87]

Now we need Buffalo to win some of the next several games lol.

 

[will1066]

Real talk, I'd call Jaromir Jagr and send the kid to the Czech Republic to just be around him for a summer.

But you risk doing this by dropping Kakko in the Czech Republic

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Vally schooling Joe about how shooting every play is neanderthal hockey. I guess that's one of the few positives from Quinn is he's not on their asses to shoot everything.

 

[Unpredictable1]

Real talk, I'd call Jaromir Jagr and send the kid to the Czech Republic to just be around him for a summer.

Absolutely agree. Chytil at times reminds me so much of a young Jagr with the way he defends the puck down low with his huge butt, and how he can cut wide on defenders with power, while further extending his range of separating puck away from defenders.

I really want this kid to stay here.

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

Proposal:

You know the Senators fans would always chant "Alfie! Alfie! Alfie!" when it hit the 11 minute mark?

What about if we did "Laffy! Laffy! Laffy!" at the 13 minute mark?

 

[Off Sides]

Lafreniere's post game interview.

 

[SRHRangers]

Rangers only team with 3 20 goal scorers?

 

[Shesterkybomb]

We needed a boston loss tonight, its gonna be hard to catch them.

 

[Sayba]

Real talk, I'd call Jaromir Jagr and send the kid to the Czech Republic to just be around him for a summer.

They would probably be dating girls in the same age range also. But yeah his game has a lot of Jagr in it, he could certainly learn from him.

 

[MaximusT]

These next 2 games against the Islanders are going to be MASSIVE. Now if we manage to take those - I’ll finally have some hope again. 1 pt back, with 4 left.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

They've been feeding us Laffy interviews lately. Gonna be the face of this team in short order.

As creepy as this sounds there's something cute about Laf. His face says 14 but his beard says 50. And he's so pumped up for everything.

 

[Fugazy]

These next 2 games against the Islanders are going to be MASSIVE. Now if we manage to take those - I’ll finally have some hope again. 1 pt back, with 4 left.

Rangers need to operate under the assumption that they need to win out to close the season. Even doing that isn’t a full guarantee they make it in the top 4.

 

[SRHRangers]

The good news is that the schedule let's us control our own destiny with the games against Boston and the Isles.

Take care of business.

 

[Richard Banger]

If we look like we did in the canes series last year in these next two games than it’s definitely a Quinn problem.

 

[Cmox]

Quinn has to shake up the Panarin line. They’ve been pretty bad for a number of games now. With the Mika and Chytil lines both humming, the obvious move is to swap Kravtsov into Blackwell’s place. I’m really not sure how much more Quinn has to see to make a move.

Blackwell has been a good story and earned his time but he’s cooled off. I know Quinn wants him as the “Fast” on that line but Blackwell isn’t really that kind of player. He has a good touch offensively and decent speed but he’s just too weak on the boards and on the cycle, let alone defensively where he’s not good either. Time to swap Kravtsov into that line.

Makes no sense as to why he went back. When Krav was on that line it was good, they complimented each other nicely. Blackwell has started to kill shifts hugely.

 

[Kovalev27]

@Kovalev27 I’d prefer Chytil to be at .5-.55 PPG pace. But am I upset with a .4-.45 PPG pace? No. Problem is, his efforts, very much like the rest of this team are inconsistent. He again in the 3rd couldnt finish a high danger opportunity. Most of his production has come against crap teams. So should we just plainly accept his production as a positive because the PPG looks sexy enough? Like I said, it’s disingenuous

So you want him on a 50 to 55 pt pace with third line mins and zero pp time but you also don’t like his inconsistency which you know very well is literally what we should expect from almost every 21 year old?

there’s nothing disingenuous about a 21 year kid putting up those points and generating the amount of chances he does. Cheap points even out when you don’t finish great chances that goes for every player.

just a weird hill to die on. Kid shows a ton of skill puts up points and we’d all love him to continue to improve and finish more which I’d be shocked if he doesn’t with his upside and age.

 

[Machinehead]

 

[MysticLeviathan]

I can’t wait to see this team with a full training camp and preseason. You can see their potential and the growth from their young players.

 

[Calad]

If we can run the table we would finish with 70 points

Islanders have 7 games left, @NYR NYR @BUF @BUF NJ NJ BOS they can only win 3 of 5 against the other teams.
boston has 8 games, BUF BUF @NJ @NJ NYR NYR NYI @Was, so they can only win 4 of 6 against other teams
idk who has the tiebreaker