Pete

Players are saying the team feels more organized this year. But yeah, GG was fine. Not a problem at all.

https://theathletic.com/5442825/2024/04/25/rangers-alexis-lafreniere-nyr-vs-wsh?source=user-shared-article ## Gallant, the fucking mastermind at it again!

Mika is one of the most well-rounded and top centers in the league. Only here is he referred to as "a third liner".

The first game the Rangers still had Bonino, Wheeler, and Pitlick in the lineup. Brodzinski, too. The second game was the first home game after the west coast trip. I'm not saying Vegas isn't concerning, I'm saying it's not apples to apples.

This team didn't play Vegas this season.

It's crazy that they let him play and gave me 82, and that's probably why he looked like scattered ass.

Hopefully. I get the frustration, especially that it happens every year, but it's done and over with at this point. People also seem to forget that Vegas was a bubble team and they traded for a player who was hurt. There was no guarantee they would even make the playoffs when they made those moves. It's not like this was the first place team loading up.

Dallas needs to win this series just for the fact that I don't want to hear circumvention complaining for the next month and a half.

He's been pretty average most of the year.

Across the entire NHL I've never seen a group of 30-year-olds so triggered by a 22-year-old.

Remains to be seen, he didn't have an NHL roster.

And this is how he exits it.

I hear you. And I'll probably miss him when he's gone too. Put it this way, as far as the art of the tip in, it's Kreider and Pavelski and then a big gap between whoever is next, and while there's no surprise those two teams were the best in the NHL, there's a slew of other teams who don't have guys like that and still managed to win a ton of hockey games. I think the game has evolved to a point where you just have to do more than stand there when you don't have the puck.

I felt like you were one of the folks who would defend GG. My bad if I got that wrong.

It's mind-boggling to me how you can say he's one of the worst coaches you've ever seen and yet somehow try to absolve Gallant, who not only didn't change hardly anything from Quinn's lineup, and actually coached less.