BrooksBurner

Should be a 4 min PP but whatever. Home cooking even at 3-0

Injuries and Tampa showed up.

Save the belief for Game 5 my dude. Time to bench the guys who are really hurting.

He got traded

Goes to show it is absolutely imperative to score first against a team like Tampa. They know how to clog shit up and prevent any real scoring chances. We are currently forced to chuck shitty low percentage shots towards the net in hopes of a pinball. Then rinse repeat again to tie. This is reminiscent of G2 in Carolina. Ain’t nothing impressive going on offensively.

Lol no. We’ve seen a different Rangers team in NY all psotseason.

Puck always slides off his stick at the end of whatever he’s trying to do.

That’s game folks. Have to get em back home.

Getting pucks towards the net but nothing threatening. Vasi stops all of these in his sleep. Need more bodies in front

They might want to stop blocking shots with their feet then lol

Yup. Then we lost Strome.

Hard to see the Rangers scoring at even strength tonight if this they play the rest of game like the 1st.

Tampa’s going to do what they can to clog the neutral zone. Champ style. This one’s going to be a grind.

I mean Tampa pushed Shesterkin into the net so it doesn’t even matter where the puck is.

Gallant fucked with 2 lines moving Goodrow up to take Strome’s spot. Needed to leave every line alone and just do Hunt/Gauthier on line 2.

Penalty on the 4th line.

4th line with Rooney there already terrible.

Take longer to shoot Trouba

Calgary was 3rd in goals against all year, then they gave up 25 goals in 5 games. I didn’t watch enough of the series, but it would lead me to believe that it was a combination of Markstrom choking and team defense falling apart. Don’t know how else a team with strong GA numbers gets blasted so heavily

I feel bad for Mike Smith. The guy shouldn't be anywhere near a starting goalie for any team. Not his fault that's what is being asked of him in Edmonton...and against the Avs.

I guess he has to hope for it no?

I don’t follow. I moved Trouba down 2. I didn’t move Strome that low.

Hot Take in Rangersland: Strome playing is more important than Goodrow. Keeps top 9 intact. Rangers looked like absolute shit at 5v5 after he left, and if you didn’t think the 2nd line could look a lot worse - it did. And that was with Goodrow slotted up. Listen, I love Goodrow. He’s a massive big balls gamer, but he’s not a perfect player. He makes plenty of mistakes that don’t get talked about. He generally provides next to zero offense. They can and have won plenty of playoff games without him if he can’t go.

Goodrow not ruled out. That’s good. Probably means the foot is not re-broken. Going to come down to pain tolerance and if they can get the swelling down.