BrooksBurner

On 4/20/2024 at 11:08 AM, BrooksBurner said:

This team has a much larger concern about their top players disappearing. I don’t trust Panarin at all, and he’ll be gripping his stick tighter more than ever.
 

I don’t think it’ll be a big issue against the Capitals, but for any team they would face after this round, I would expect Panarin to be on a milk carton again.

Zib - present

Kreider - present

Igor - present

Fox - present (could still do more tbh)

Trocheck - present (and then some)

We just need Panarin now…to keep on doing what he’s been doing all year. I’m somewhat surprised more people aren’t talking about his game last night. Maybe just a bit overshadowed by Igor Laffy and Trocheck being ridiculously spectacular. He’s driving to the middle of the ice, taking shots when he has a good look instead of forcing extra passes that aren’t there. That play prior to his OT penalty (not his fault) was a thing of beauty. He’s chipping in on the forechecking. He’s laser focused on maintaining the aggression and it needs to stay that way. The production is following.

6 hours ago, Sharpshooter said:

I thought he was definitely fighting it a bit at times, but still a top tier performance by him. I also noticed how well the Rangers were at clearing rebounds or just protecting the front in general after saves.

He definitely was fighting it. There were a lot of unclean stops, dropping or fumbling catchable shots, somewhat shaky rebound control, but this is what elite goalies do. They fight through and persevere, when they aren’t exactly playing up to their A+ level and still get the job done. By the time it hit OT he seemed to be gobbling almost everything up clean by then - like he had finally hit a groove.

Guys, they can still show Rempe smiling at a scrum happening, just from the press box instead of the bench or penalty box

At the time, Trocheck probably had the 2nd best year of his career last year. He was a monster at faceoffs. Played all situations. Gets chippy and in your face. Forechecks well. The production was roughly the same as what they were getting out of Strome, but had all that extra stuff thrown on top. There were projections for the first year production to look more like what he did this year, based on the fact he was already a really good player without Panarin, unlike Strome. He fell short of those projections last year, but he was still a better overall player than Strome. The fact the gap between the two widened so significantly this year doesn’t mean it didn’t exist to begin with.

35 minutes ago, Phil said:

 

News flash: all teams shorten their bench in OT. Almost no one uses fourth liners, including good teams, like the Canes.

 

Rempe keeps playing until they lose.

Yeah, right, that’s why I was saying him not playing much from the 3rd period on doesn’t exactly kill you if the Canes are shortening their bench significantly more.

1 minute ago, Long live the King said:

Put Chytil between Cuylle and Kakkp and move Wennberg to the 4th line.  Don't need Rempe trying to make an impact and getting some stupid suspension in this series.  He's a non-factor against the Canes.  Save him for the ECF.

I think this is still the right move. If something isn’t right with Chytil in-game, you move Wennberg back up and Chytil gets nailed to the bench like Rempe does anyway for the rest of the game. Then you go back to Rempe the next game.

If Chytil’s head and mentality is right, the impact he could have is getting significantly underrated here.

This series isn’t over and the Rangers have gotten little offense from their bottom 6.

I’m more 50/50 on this after seeing OT deployment last night. The Rangers were rotating 11 forwards, so Rempe was benched yeah, but the Canes were rotating 9. The Rangers are not likely going to suffer from one guy benched in OT if the Canes are benching 3.

Bullshit penalties called against him at any time during the normal course of the game when he’s out there is still a potential problem though.

Tough call, but I’m less concerned about losing depth from his benchings late in a close game than I was. At least against the Canes here.

35 minutes ago, Keirik said:

This is why he was always a huge upgrade at 2c. Fantastic signing by Drury and worth every penny. 

Yup. Even last year he was head and shoulders above what Strome ever did, because he plays a complete game and Strome never did. 

1 hour ago, torontonyr said:

The canes reddit thread on him is free entertainment. Basically saying he's adopted our culture and become a different person.

 

My dears, he was a rat before you and he'll be a rat after us. But for now, he's our rat.

I don’t know what their point is even if it were true. So what? He’s a stud in NYC. Deal with it

They should be more concerned with the fact they gave a 1st and 3rd to offersheet Kotkaniemi, gave him 5 mill per, and that decision made them cheap about re-signing Trocheck a year later. Kotkaniemi is on the 4th line and played less than 10 min in a 2OT game last night.

Wish I had this feed tonight

2 minutes ago, Albatrosss said:

These two teams are pretty even. I expect all other games to be as close as these two games were. 

5v5 has been razor close. Special teams has not. A best case scenario for the Rangers has unfolded through first two games and it’s been magnificent to watch

Hopefully the Rangers keep perspective going into game 3. Two years ago the Hurricanes went up 2-0…and we all know what happened

Im starting a petition to rename eggplant emoji from Jimmy to BigDickVince

Unbelievable win. Talk about an absolute master class in penalty killing in OT by this team

Big fucking bump on this one

2 minutes ago, Zuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc said:

Oh yeah more overtime

What time you got over there? You gotta be running on fumes

Ugly attempt by Zib. Put it right in his stomach

Why are they blowing the whistle when the puck is going the other way? Give me a break refs

Trouba tried to decapitate Necas with that elbow. Lucky for both it missed.

For an OT game winning hatty from Lafreniere, I'd give my left one...the big boy

Seriously ESPN is absolute trash. How many channels do you have and you have to show me the start of the Stars/Avs instead of an OT intermission report for a big game?

Clown shoes

Carolina has tried to gift wrap this game for the Rangers and they won't just take it....FUCK

CTESPN

Brady Skjei playing the long game for his old Rangers buddies?