I hate #68.

I’m still holding on to some hope that we can make it at least as a #8 seed. It’s still too close of a race and too far out to call anyone out or in. The A.S. game is my personal deadline to preach SELL!

I know our shots were not quality. But just think if they were, and Pitt had a Teir-1 goaltender. Gonna be REAL hard to compete with them with that offense flying around like that for the next 10 years. (assuming they can afford them for that long)

Someone mentioned the speed/creativity by the top lines on each team last night(or lack thereof). 150% agreed. Gomer plays his game, and it’s an effective one. But if the other guys can’t make it work, there’s a big problem. I think Jags ever-increasing negative demeanor is starting to creep into everyone elses psyche. I like the idea of sending him to San Jose. Or just feed him to some sharks, whatever.

I wouldn’t give too much credit to Therrien on that team playing well. It is an absolute shame that Malkin is not in the A.S. game. It kind of made me look at how dominant Jags was back in the day on that ice surface, now it’s passed along to a younger, more driven Malkin. (I don’t compare jags to cindy cause they’re completely different players).

Don’t feel like discussing anything else about the team today. Not in the mood.

Hope everything is ok at home Sam.

He looks so rehearsed.

Unless we win the Stanley Cup I don’t want Renney, Pearn or any of his other lackies around next year. Simply sneaking into the playoffs is not enough in a very mediocre eastern conference. And no matter what Jagr, Shanny(like him but just too old), Malik, etc should be gone.

good post, Chris.

If Isaiah Thomas can cost the Garden a fortune, and have the worst record in Garden history and STILL have a job (even a contract extension), I doubt we are going to see a new coach.

AND, if Renney stays, I doubt he is going to wise up to the obvious points you make. When you watch cindy breeze by malik, and even malkin (for that, malik stood and watched) and DO NOTHING but blame the snake bite, nothing is going to happen.

I agree with Hockey Rodent on this one: we did NOT force that goalie to stand on his head and be incredible. He stopped a lot of ordinary shots.

As said before, it is frustrating to see Gomez skillfully bring up the puck only to have no one to dish it to. I hate to see Jagr pass. He had an open net and was in the position for a clear and easy backhand (I know backhands are not easy, but for him…) and he, instead, turned, and sought to pass. Of course, the pass landed on the stick of a penquin….

as for hollweg,

did the league give him a memo telling him (and the rest of the Rangers) that they are not allowed to check cindy?

couple of thoughts on the above.

1. Good post by the original poster.
2. Fair question from the follow up, sans profanity (edited)

Prucha is all heart. he SHOULD have come to camp with 10lbs of muscle and chose not to. He is a concussion or two away from retirement. That is first and foremost. He plays big, but is very small.

Next, he gets thrown off the puck easily. No question.

Third, he is not being used as he was in the past. In his first season, he scored 30 goals and saw lots of PP time. Last year, it was reduced and so was his numbers. This year, he rarely plays on the PP.

Even for his size, he knows how to crash the net. someone else wrote how sad it is to see the talented Gomez go end to end only to find no one to dish it off to. This is Renney. This is Jagr’s refusal to bend. Shanny would play one way, and has his supporters, and Jagr plays his way, and has his supporters. It is a divided team.

Peter Prucha is better suited for crashing the net. He NEEDS to do some serious off-season work.

I think he has a great heart but his size is going to hurt him.

If we trade Dubinski, we are going to regret it for more than a decade. My fear is that he will crack, a la Callahan, under Renney’s leadership, and lack of skill developing young players. He is quick to pound on them, while others get a pass no matter how poorly they play. I don’t think Renney has done a good job, at all, in using Peter Prucha. Petr. sorry.

Could Sather make such a bold move?

Jagr is clearly not happy and I do not believe, for a moment, the Nylander argument. Gomez is far more talented. Jagr is frail, as is well documented, and we all know that.

But could we get a young stud d-man for him from a desperate western team?

If he needs to be ‘the man’, then my hope of a big reunion in Pittsburg in a trade for Staal is not going to happen…Cindy is the man there. My hope about Staal comes from the fact that they are going to have trouble keeping all these kids under the CAP…..

they have misused him this year and he is off his game….I would LOVE to have him, but then again, Renney is not well known for his patience with kids; only with aging, slow vets and Hossa.