fletch

Lotta game left to start playing better.

@Keirik Yup, we play for third place and have over a week to contemplate what could have been.

Nice run @Phil Up against the regular season champ @Morphinity 2.0 Congratulations to you both. Whether @Keirik or I get the dreaded fourth place from 2 straight playoff losses.

Good pressure from the Rangers, sucks to give up a goal in the last minute of a period.

I'm looking at the standings as a four team race New York Rangers 108 pts, 77 GP Boston Bruins 105 pts, 77 GP Carolina Hurricanes 103 pts, 77 GP Florida Panthers 101 pts, 77 GP The winner of the 4 team race gets WC2 and home ice for as long as they can survive in the playoffs. With the Rangers position in the standings and remaining schedule, it would be a huge disappointment to not get WC2. Schedule remaining: New York Rangers Sun, Apr 7 vs Montreal 6:00 PM Tue, Apr 9 @ Islanders 6:00 PM Thu, Apr 11 vs Philadelphia 6:00 PM Sat, Apr 13 vs Islanders 11:30 AM Mon, Apr 15 vs Ottawa 6:30 PM Boston Bruins Sat, Apr 6 vs Florida 2:30 PM Tue, Apr 9 vs Carolina 6:00 PM Sat, Apr 13 @ Pittsburgh 7:00 PM Mon, Apr 15 @ Washington 6:00 PM Tue, Apr 16 vs Ottawa 6:00 PM Carolina Hurricanes Sun, Apr 7 vs Columbus 4:00 PM Tue, Apr 9 @ Boston 6:00 PM Fri, Apr 12 @ St. Louis 7:00 PM Sun, Apr 14 @ Chicago 5:00 PM Tue, Apr 16 @Columbus 6:00 PM Florida Panthers Sat, Apr 6 @Boston 2:30 PM Tue, Apr 9 vs Ottawa 6:00 PM Thu, Apr 11 vs Columbus 6:00 PM Sat, Apr 13 vs Buffalo 4:00 PM Tue, Apr 16 vs Toronto 6:30 PM

1. Artemi Panarin 2. Adam Fox 3. Vincent Trocheck 4. Alexis Lafrenière 5. Igor Shesterkin 6. Mika Zibanejad 7. Chris Kreider 8. Jonathan Quick 9. Ryan Lindgren 10. Jacob Trouba 11. K'Andre Miller 12. Braden Schneider 13. Kaapo Kakko 14. Jimmy Vesey +1 15. Zac Jones 16. Will Cuylle 17. Matt Rempe 18. Jack Roslovic 19. Erik Gustafsson 20. Barclay Goodrow +1 21. Alexander Wennberg 22. Jonny Brodzinski 23. Chad No way to promote everyone on the bottom two forward lines from their game against the Red Wings, so I selected 2 of the most impactful forwards.

Down 4-1 after two periods, the Coyotes had the Knights exactly where they wanted them. Dropped 6 goals on them in the third to win 7-4. Yeah the Coyotes would rather be in the playoffs, but credit to them for continuing to bring it down the stretch.

Good enough for another W

Careful start to third from two teams that want at least one point. A breakdown or power play, or this is probably going to OT.

On merit zib-kreider-roslovic have earned fourth line TOI for the third period. Other lines are just much better tonight.

What is up with the start of second periods lately with us. Sloppy turnovers are just brutal

Nice to have a lead after the first compliments of scoring from your bottom two lines.

I think the next cross check by Trouba or Lindgren gets them a minor. They were laying out Wings on the kill but not enough for the refs to give them a five on three.

way to convert the turnover Cuylle

Selected quotes from Dan Rosen https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-fan-mailbag-april-3 '...If the Rangers play the Capitals, Red Wings or Flyers in the Eastern Conference First Round they'll be heavily favored. They're 2-0-0 against the Red Wings, 3-0-0 against the Flyers and 2-2-0 against the Capitals, with games left against Detroit and Philadelphia. It might be tighter if they play the Lightning because of impact star players like Andrei Vasilevskiy, Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point, Steven Stamkos and Victor Hedman, but the Rangers would be expected to win because of their depth. To that end, I'd be surprised if they didn't at least make it out of the first round and run into the Hurricanes in the second round. That's a too-soon-to-talk-about matchup.' (skipping team ranks, you can go to link if you're interested) '...When a team is top 10 in that many statistical categories it's not at all a surprise that it consistently finds ways to win games like the Rangers have this season. They're not better than their stats. They're as good as them.'

Now let’s spend the last five plus minutes on offense. Easiest way to kill a game.

Big finish from Kakko

This is the Devils playoff game with where they are in the standings. Rangers need to bring their game up for a good result

Devils still suck. But they sure have outworked us for their two goals.

Bit of a lull because the Rangers thought they won the game in the first period. Rebooting effort level.

Nice to see nastiness in this rivalry. Fuck the Devils and their fans.

epic

Young players only develop with opportunities. Dumping a young player onto a fourth line and healthy scratches kill confidence. If you continually overpay with trade deadline rentals and free agent acquisitions you lose room to maneuver under the salary cap and don’t have the roster space for young players to get TOI. Playoff hockey is different than regular season hockey. We will need the boost from other players other than Panarin-Trocheck-Laf line.

We got Roslovic and Wennberg so organization has to decide whether to scratch Cuylle, Rempe, Brodzinski, Goodrow, etc. It is what it is. I hate seeing Rempe in the lineup and getting 6 minutes TOI, if he's in the lineup get him ice time.