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  1. I never post, just come here to read posts and commiserate. But I need to vent. this team is going NO WHERE. You don't let the worst team in hockey, led by your old coach, whose 1-infinity when losing after 2 periods come back and win a game and THINK this team is going anywhere. And especially after 2 months of playing crappy. Maybe if they came in in a win streak you'd think they'd accidently let off the gas, but not like this. This is a very bad sign
  2. I have a superstitious ritual that i've been following since game 5 of pitts series. I purposely didn't do it on games 1,2 of Carolina. I didn't want to waste good mojo on games I don't think are essential But I did do it games 3,4,5,6,7. So the "ritual" is 7-1. I also have not done it yet for the ECF. I was going to wait for game 5 and on which I think is the critical turning point game. But does everyone think I should try for game 4 as well? My wife usually thinks i'm crazy for doing stuff like this and makes fun of me, but game 3 ECF she noticed i wasn't wearing my stuff and was like "aren't you going to get ready?" and i explained my position on waiting for the right time (which is usually when they are down in the series). I think she reversed her opinion on my craziness, which I think is hilarious. She thinks i should for game 4, but i'm not sure.
  3. Dolan is going to want Babcock, that Mike Keenan type coach. God help us we'll go from the youngest team to the oldest team in 1 season
  4. Boogard died, but i guess he's still tougher then anyone the Rangers have in the line up right now. Even Kurtenbach is alive and probably still tougher than any of them
  5. I still don't get it. I'm upset over JD firing. He turned around the Blues. He made Columbus competitive Overall everyone thinks this team is heading in the right direction, ahead of schedule. Yes this team needs grit. But is loaded on talent. I'd say it's easier to add grit then talent anyway. And you have an underachieving finish to the year, but the rest of the year was an improvement from last. But why fire from top down and destroy everything. 1-2 bad seasons, fire the coach. 2-3 bad season fire the GM, 3-5 bad years fire the president and start over. Maybe JD/Gordon wanted Quinn gone, and Drury/Dolan wanted him onboard, and that conflict caused the firing. I think if Quinn doesn't get fired, we'll have our answer. I've been mad at Dolan for the Knicks for a while. And in dealing with Oakley. But he never messed with the Rangers, other than keeping Sather on too long. But this is nuts. He jumps and make a mess of everything. I feel so bad for JD, he's going to get picked up by another team, and watch that team win the cup in 2-3 years.
  6. It still doesnt feel like real hockey, and its going to end in less than a week? I can only think of a few positive points 1. If you were like me, you had this nostalgic feeling for Lundqvist, and him getting pushed out of his number 1 spot left a bad feeling in my gut. Maybe you thought he wasn't playing well because the games didn't matter as much since it was a rebuild. Or maybe because he plays better when he plays alot. Just if he got 1 more chance, hed win a series for us to keep us going. Well, he got it. He got his chance for his farewell, and its gone. So at least now i'm comfortable with the idea of him retiring, or being a back up, or even getting traded. This sad series helped say goodbye to an amazing career. I'm sure some of you will say he lost it a while ago. And there were times I felt the same way. But I always had this hope he'd turn it around for 1 more playoff push. oh well. At least it wasn't during REAL playoff hockey. Imagine they clawed and fought to get that last playoff spot. Shesterkin gets hurt then? and Lundqvist lets in a few bad goals in the start of that series? Way worse. He must see it by now. Thats he's just not at that level anymore. Most of the great players I can think of retire when they notice that they can't play at that level anymore. Actually thats the only good thing I can think of. I don't really count this as true playoff experience. But maybe the younger guys will get something out of it.
  7. Feels like this was the last game of the season... I wouldn't mind. They played well down the stretch. If it ended today, i'd say the team made a lot of progress. Felt better about them defensively at the end. And the goal tending situation seems sets. Watching them get real close and then miss the playoffs would be worse then just ending it right now.
  8. And Z tried to do it, but hed skate out to the slot after a few seconds. Anyway, i'm not a fan of having him sitting in front of the net
  9. We also lost this game on the PP. Our pp turned around when Krieder was screening in front of the net. Then it developed from there. We've lost that dimension of our PP. Look how Namestnikov scored his goal on colorado. Someone needs to park in front of the net on the PP.
  10. I know that was a loss...but the look on Buchnevich's face in the middle of the huddle when he scored the goal was a win enough... it was like 3 years of smiling all pent up came out at the same time
  11. Can't blame Hank on those goals. Maybe the rebound on the second goal...but then again, no one took the man in fron of the net. But I have noticed his reactions are a little slower, but more is how far he gets out of position sometimes after a save, like he cant stop his momentum anymore. He's not as tight on his skates as he was last year, so when he reaches, he's out of position. On the SHG, he totally missed it and made that Flyer player look like an all star. But the team has played like crap since San Jose. We have good goal tending with Lundqvist, really good with Georgie, and FANTASTIC with Shesterkin. This team needs fantastic goaltending to win games. 2-3 unbelievable saves per game. Regular good goal tending is not going to cut it.
  12. I agree with this. Had a good first and parts of the second. But it caught up with them. By the end of the second, maybe in combination with Krieder getting hurt, they lost their steam. Whoever makes the schedule should be fired. I bet they'd say the Rangers had a few days rest and played another team who had back to back too...yeah, but it was probably the first month of the season. Still can't believe the Krieder injury. Guy signs a huge 7 year deal. Then IMMEDIATELY gets sick, doesn't play well against the Islanders, Doesn't really play well against Montreal, then gets hurt and is done for 2 months. In the same week of the car accident where Shesterkin is out? I mean really? Sometimes i feel being a hockey fan is watching your team lose, but then start winning, only to get SO CLOSE, and then just really lose. It happens during games, in playoff series, and in seasons.
  13. How ironic Kreider dissappears 1 day after signing is contract in the Islanders game no less. OK, I know they said he's not feeling well. But still its just funny that it happened right after his contract signing.
  14. Couldn't stand listening to that game. Can we please not have Milbury on boston/Rangers games. That was a 3:30 pm game after a hard road trip. The Rangers passes were all over the place and didn't look sharp at all. The first 2 periods were ugly...yet, how many chances did the Rangers give up? Sure they didn't get many chances and the PP looked like the worse it's been in a month, but that was all on the Rangers. Their passes were not crisp and they were a step slow... Yet they were in that game with the best team in hockey. It was a tight game, and i think boston's best chance was the break away that was the game winning goal. The goal from McAvoy's off Trouba was a flook. But you listen to those crappy announcers (other than Mike Tirico) and the score was 8-0 after 2 periods. Mike Milbury and his great comments make me taste puke in my mouth every time. The B's made almost no mistakes. They played well. But "keeping everything to the outside"? Yeah, great observation. Both teams did that for 2 periods. A bruins defensmen will spin and avoid a forechecker and they make it sound like they invented hockey right on the spot. And the Rangers were the better team in the third. Can't stand that crap. That game was not the Rangers best effort, but the chances were even in my opinion.
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