BrooksBurner

The Rangers would be wise to come to extension terms this summer. Hopefully there’s no hard feelings by having been dragged through the proverbial mud by the fan base and quite possibly management in general.

1. Artemi Panarin 2. Adam Fox 3. Vincent Trocheck 4. Alexis Lafrenière 5. Igor Shesterkin 6. Mika Zibanejad 7. Jonathan Quick 8. Jacob Trouba 9. Chris Kreider 10. Ryan Lindgren 11. K'Andre Miller 12. Braden Schneider 13. Kaapo Kakko 14. Jimmy Vesey 15. Zac Jones l 16. Will Cuylle 17. Matt Rempe 18. Jack Roslovic 19. Erik Gustafsson 20. Alexander Wennberg 21. Barclay Goodrow 22. Jonny Brodzinski 23. Chad Re-added Trouba and Lindgren to where they were prior to injury.

That’s basically for anyone, except maybe Filip Chytil. How good was Chytil?

He's practically an untouchable piece now, because the only guys you'd even trade him for aren't getting traded. He's PPG as soon as he's PP1. He probably would be sniffing 70 points right now if he already was this year.

Goodrow in the locker room:

I agree, but that’s because there are a lot of analytically good teams with equalish odds of winning, and only one can. The Rangers are bad analytically. If I were ranking odds of winning, they are probably in the 10-12 range out of 16. They would be bottom 2-3, but I respect some of their talent + Igor to overcome some of that. Just my two cents.

I mean he’s right though

I don’t want to

Trocheck gets hit in the nuts and I coined it a Brocheck, didn’t get quoted. That’s quality cmon

Skill players in general are “soft”. He’s not a power forward. He just isn’t. He’s not a team leading +21 because he stinks in the DZ. I’m speaking in generalities, and the season/his career as a whole. He hasn’t played his best hockey in the last few games, but it’s not because he doesn’t hit that much or max out effort with speed all of the time. It’s because his decision making with the puck has been shit during this stretch. Too many bad passes and turnovers. Not worried about that whatsoever. He’ll be fine.

That’s what they’ll need to go anywhere in the playoffs. Colorado absolutely abused the Rangers with their speed last night.

The issue is people never let go of the idea that he should be a bruising power forward who hits everything that moves. He’s not that. He’s a skill player who is responsible defensively and has worked tremendously well with Zibanejad for many years. It’s been this way for a long time but folks just have trouble letting go of what their vision was for his career when he was 23.

Igor stole that game

Season over if Fox is hurt

"Bro"check

And how Dylan Strome is Ryan's kid brother

Gus has been one of their consistently good defensemen this year by any metric you want to look at. There's no reason to be taking him out anyway.

I think Gus is someone Lavi likes a lot too, so it'd be surprising to me if he wasn't in the lineup. I like Jones to step in a starting role next season, but I'm not sure I'd trust him out of the gate in the playoffs here.

Regular season matchup records are essentially meaningless. You're not gaining anything from a 3 game sample size, with the games separated by weeks or months.

This is my line of thinking, except about Shesterkin. His track record in the playoffs is excellent, minus a couple of games in that Pittsburgh series two years ago that showed to be an aberration.

Definitely want Washington. They suck Definitely don’t want Tampa

Nah Ferraro is a cunt. He actively chooses to focus on what he perceives as missed penalties against the Rangers, and sweeping shitty calls against them under the rug like they didn't happen. All of the time. Every game. You can also tell by his tone of voice. He's a hater for sure, and Keith Jones is/was the same way.

Yeah I mean we have to do due diligence and debate correlation vs causation, but since 2008 (that's as far back as we can go) only one team with analytics as bad as the Rangers has won. Only one other team with a sub-50 xGF% has won. That's two teams with bad analytics in the last 16 years. The overwhelming majority of teams with bad analytics don't even make the playoffs. But hey, you never know. Panarin wasn't supposed to be this good and have a career year at 32 years old either. I just don't blame analysts for taking a look and saying "Hey, wait a minute, the Rangers haven't checked out very well at 5v5, and they got a lot of points from gimmicky 3v3 OT wins (8) that don't come into play in the playoffs". It's probably the most objective, valid analysis that can be drawn from the data. It won't surprise me if they get bounced in the first or second round, and 90% of the fan base is left thinking they choked. I wouldn't see it that way because I don't see them as favorites at all. I hope they can buck the trend. I just think they'll just need a bunch of extra bounces go their way than a normal path to the Cup.

Biz is just a hater, but be prepared for many other analysts who value advanced stats to be picking against the Rangers. They are just going with the odds. Only one team with bad analytics like the Rangers has won the Cup in the last 10+ years, the Capitals in 2018.