It will be this tight till the end. Ottawa was the only team that was able to pull away and seemed to claim 1WC spot.
What do you think he’s going to get? Replace Lafreniere, Cuylle, Panarin or Zibanejad in top-6?
It’s nice to want a younger roster via replacing Panarin and Kreider with x and y. But these x and y better be able to bring 70 regular season goals between them to start.
PP2 can’t even get the puck into the Ozone, never mind shoot. Of course they only get 30 seconds most of the time. You are right about the players ignoring him on the PP, but I don’t blame them. If a rebound or pass comes his way, there is a delayed reaction, and he misses it or flubs it. He acts like he is on some sort of pain killers and he’s in a fog, or somehow in a year he’s totally washed up. He’s continuously taking short shifts, won’t take face offs, and rarely goes into the corners. Something is definitely wrong. Since there really is no one to take his place, I would make one last ditch effort and put him with Mika and Rempe. Rempe can do the dirty work and go to the net, and Mika and Kreider have enough familiarity with each other where they may at least get a goal every couple of games. Put J.T, Bread and Cuylle together, and Tro, Laf and Berard or Broz. What have we got to lose?
Yeah with four healthy scratches, you’d think they would put some fresh bodies in for a back to back or play the bottom six more than 7 minutes. It’s partially on the coaching that they’re so gassed.
Why 70 goals? Looks like maybe 55 this year… maybe.
They suck this year. We would need a goal total similar to what they had when the team won some games.
Me and @EdJovanovski think he should be playing 20 minutes with Rempe's line.
Rempe has been making some things happen. I'd be happy to play with him.
Are Rempe & Brod dragging him down lol Othmann is by far the worst player on that line
It's not ideal, but it at least indicates a team who gets into the fight. This team has shown the complete opposite & that's the biggest issue. They've looked way more disinterested the majority of the season.
I'd much rather give up our first this year instead of going all next year knowing the Penguins are getting our pick.
I believe I read that we were a leading team with goals after pulling the goalie last year and that this year we have none. I do think you are right about the fight or lack of fight. To me they look like a aging injured fighter that punched himself out in the first round and has little left. The 2024 NYR team was Tommy Hearns in round 1 vs Hagler. The 2025 Rangers are Tommy Hearns in round 2/3 vs Hagler.
You're seriously asking why? - cause we want the team to be better than this year maybe and in case of Kreider it's probably fair that his "normal" production is not what's been this year.
but they are getting old, we shouldn't expect their prime production going forward. Bringing in younger guys, they wont replace prime Panarin/Kreider production right away, but thats where development comes in
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