GDT [RS #27] Rangers vs St. Louis Blues — Fat Lady, on Deck!

[Phil]

 

REGULAR SEASON GAME #27 — 12/5/22

vs.

Location: Madison Square Garden — New York, NY
Time: 7:00 PM
TV: NHLN, MSG, BSMW
Radio: 98.7 FM, 107.1 FM, 710 AM, Sirius XM

USEFUL LINKS:

Coverage: @NYP_Brooksie • MollieeWalkerr • @ColinSNewsday • @vzmercogliano • @StapeAthletic

Team Official: @NYRangers • NYR on Instagram

Official Team Websites: rangers.nhl.com • blues.nhl.com

GameCenter - here
 

 

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Standings:

RECORD:

POSITION:

ROW:

P%:

HOME:

AWAY:

S/O:

LAST 10:

STREAK:

11-10-5 (27 Points)

5th — Metropolitan

11

.519

4-6-4

7-4-1

0-1

4-4-2

L1

Team Statistics:

DIFF:

GF/GP:

GA/GP:

PP%:

PK%:

Corsi For (CF)%:

0 (14th)

2.92 (21st)

2.88 (10th)

20.5% (23rd)

80.0% (10th)

53.2% (5th)

Team Leaders:

Goals:

Assists:

Points:

+/-:

PIM:

TOI/G (D):

TOI/G (F):

Mika Zibanejad (13)

Artemi Panarin (22)

Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad (28)

Adam Fox, Chris Kreider, Ryan Lindgren (+8)

Jacob Trouba (31)

Adam Fox (25:17)

Mika Zibanejad (21:06)

Starting Lineup:^

Chris Kreider A / Mika Zibanejad A / Jimmy Vesey
Artemi Panarin A  / Vincent Trocheck / Vitali Kravtsov
Alexis Lafrenière / Barclay Goodrow A / Kaapo Kakko
Sammy Blais / Jonny Brozinski / Julien Gauthier

 

Ryan Lindgren / Adam Fox
K'Andre Miller / Braden Schneider
Libor Hajek / Jacob Trouba C

^Subject to change

Starting Goaltender:

Igor Shesterkin

 

GS:

REC:

SV%:

GAA:

SO:

18

10-4-4

.913

2.59

1

Healthy Scratches:

Ryan Carpenter

Injuries, Suspensions, Misc:

Filip Chytil [DTD] — Lower-body injury; Out since 12/3/22

 

 

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Standings:

RECORD:

POSITION:

ROW:

P%:

HOME:

AWAY:

S/O:

LAST 10:

STREAK:

11-13-0 (22 Points)

6th — Central

10

.458

5-6-0

6-7-0

1-0

5-5-0

L3

Team Statistics:

DIFF:

GF/GP:

GA/GP:

PP%:

PK%:

Corsi For (CF)%:

-21 (T-23rd)

2.83 (25th)

3.75 (29th)

23.4% (14th)

66.7% (31st)

45.2% (28th)

Team Leaders:

Goals:

Assists:

Points:

+/-:

PIM:

TOI/G (D):

TOI/G (F):

Jordan Kyrou (9)

Robert Thomas (17)

Robert Thomas (21)

Calle Rosen (+9)

Brayden Schenn (19)

Justin Faulk (23:21)

Robert Thomas (19:21)

Starting Lineup:^

Pavel Buchnevich / Robert Thomas / Vladimir Tarasenko A
Brayden Schenn A / Ryan O'Reilly C / Jordan Kyrou
Brandon Saad / Ivan Barbashev / Josh Leivo
Nathan Walker / Noel Acciari / Tyler Pitlick

 

Nick Leddy / Colton Parayko A
Torey Krug / Justin Faulk
Niko Mikkola / Robert Bortuzzo

^Subject to change

Starting Goaltender:

Jordan Binnington
 

GS:

REC:

SV%:

GAA:

SO:

19

9-10-0

.895

3.27

1

Healthy Scratches:

Will Bitten, Alexey Torpochenko, Calle Rosen

Injuries, Suspensions, Misc:

Jordan Kyrou [DTD] — Illness; Out since 12/4/22

Marco Scandella [LT-IR] — Hip surgery; Out since 11/7/22

Scott Perunovich [LT-IR] — Shoulder injury; Out since 11/7/22
 

 

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QUOTE(S) TO NOTE:

“It’s hard to lose a game like that and say that we’re doing some things well, but we’re certainly doing things better than we have been. You go through tough stretches over the course of a season. Obviously, we’re going through a very tough stretch right now. So, it’s up to us to flip the narrative and look back on this in a month or two and say that this was a good thing for us and that we started stringing together wins. Now, it’s the next game.”

— Chris "Da Real Cap" Kreider

The Fat Lady, tho:

[siddious]

quite honestly there just hasnt been enough weird in the GDT's this season.

 

 

 

[jsm7302]

6 points out of 2nd place in the division. We need a heater. C'mon boys!!! Day one starts today. Let's start fresh. 

[LindG1000]

Buchnevich with a deuce today. 

 

Trouba's going to fight Binnington

[Blue Heaven]

Just now, jsm7302 said:

6 points out of 2nd place in the division. We need a heater. C'mon boys!!! Day one starts today. Let's start fresh. 

[Cash or Czech]

Just now, LindG1000 said:

Buchnevich with a deuce today. 

 

Trouba's going to fight Binnington

 

Someone needs to. Binnington is a little bitch.

[Ozzy]

 

Going down!

[BrooksBurner]

I don't know what to root for anymore.

[Phil]

Blues are on a three-game skid and are shit this season. We all know what's happening here. Root for a brighter future.

[Phil]

25 minutes ago, siddious said:

quite honestly there just hasnt been enough weird in the GDT's this season.

 

 

 

 

Is this gonna fire GG faster? If so, weird it up.

[Sharpshooter]

Imagine they lose this one and then have to play Vegas and Colorado next. Oof.

Edited December 5, 2022 by Sharpshooter

[BrooksBurner]

Starting Head Coach:^

Gerard Gallant

[Phil]

Just now, rmc51 said:

Starting Head Coach:^

Gerard Gallant

 

Head Coach:

 

Gerard Gallant^

^Subject to change

[Ozzy]

Thank goodness we still have Wordle!  LOL

[siddious]

3 minutes ago, Phil said:

 

Is this gonna fire GG faster? If so, weird it up.

 

Its going to set off a chain of events that leads to GG winning us a cup this year

[BrooksBurner]

4 minutes ago, Phil said:

 

Head Coach:

 

Gerard Gallant^

^Subject to change

 

Exactly

[Keirik]

 

[jsm7302]

Looks like a guy who is out of ideas. The thing is, Laf doesn't have to blocked like he says. He can easily flip him and Kreider and let him learn. Even out the TOI.

[mbob]

Why doesn't Kreider give a go at RW and see how Laf does on the top at LW?

[Keirik]

9 minutes ago, jsm7302 said:

Looks like a guy who is out of ideas. The thing is, Laf doesn't have to blocked like he says. He can easily flip him and Kreider and let him learn. Even out the TOI.

The problem Gallant runs into if he does this is that technically Kreider isn’t having a bad year. He has 12 goals in 26. That puts him just a tad under a 40 goal pace. On a team struggling right now, how do you screw too much with that? 

[Karan]

1 hour ago, Phil said:

Blues are on a three-game skid and are shit this season. We all know what's happening here. Root for a brighter future.

 

Yup, Rangers up next on the calendar? Easy opportunity for a struggling team to turn around their fortunes (at least temporarily). We're going to get lit up by Buchy and Tarasenko and Binnington is going to put in a Vezina-caliber performance.

[jsm7302]

55 minutes ago, Keirik said:

The problem Gallant runs into if he does this is that technically Kreider isn’t having a bad year. He has 12 goals in 26. That puts him just a tad under a 40 goal pace. On a team struggling right now, how do you screw too much with that? 

Playing the long game; gotta hope Kreider's production can continue playing with Trochek on line 3 (Not like he is a scrub). We want to develop Laf. Playing with Zib will do that. 

Laf-Zib

Panarin-Chytil

Kreider -Trochek

 

Put Kakko, Krav and Blais/Goodrow/Vesey wherever.

 

[Keirik]

38 minutes ago, jsm7302 said:

Playing the long game; gotta hope Kreider's production can continue playing with Trochek on line 3 (Not like he is a scrub). We want to develop Laf. Playing with Zib will do that. 

Laf-Zib

Panarin-Chytil

Kreider -Trochek

 

Put Kakko, Krav and Blais/Goodrow/Vesey wherever.

 

Yeah, but Gallant isn’t going to coach that way if he knows his job is hanging in the balance. I agree with you but for as bad as we are, we are 2 points out of a wildcard spot right now. The only way he will coach for the long game is if Drury publicly comes out and says Gallant is going nowhere or a trade. He may shake things up temporarily, but it won’t stick unless it literally catches lightning in a bottle right away. 

[Phil]

52 minutes ago, Karan said:

Yup, Rangers up next on the calendar? Easy opportunity for a struggling team to turn around their fortunes (at least temporarily). We're going to get lit up by Buchy and Tarasenko and Binnington is going to put in a Vezina-caliber performance.

 

And it's likely to only get worse from there. Up next? Vegas, Colorado, New Jersey, and Toronto. That's four straight Ls in my mind.

[jsm7302]

Maybe Messier can take Trouba out to dinner and furnish him with the information for him to join the next group in the Messier Leadership Class.