Thats a joke right? Nothing against him as he is one of my favorite guys on the team, but he really doesn’t make any difference at all, as proved by today’s game and the rest of this season.

Pretty simple, if the Rangers skate for 60 minutes, they’ll win. If not they’ll end up in the box and not earn PPs. Complain about the refs, complain about Crosby, those things don’t effect how hard the players skate or play so they have nothing to do with us losing.

We need to shoot and rush the net to get rebounds.Fleury leaves rebounds. Pretty much the Rangers need to take control of the play like they did against the Devils and they can do it!

We came up short on effort/energy today, which is not acceptable for the playoffs… being that said Pitt did NOT dominate us at all 5 on 5. I will be surprised if we don’t “show up” for game 3. And by the way we are down 2-0 going home… its not like we are headed on the road. You can fill up a thousand igloos with white t-shirt wearing fairies and its nothing compared to a raucous crowd at MSG.

Things we need to improve:

1. Getting quality shots to the net instead of having our shots blocked or forcing passes or cross-ice BS.

2. Come with energy and physical play and get in their face. Did we use it all on the Devils?

3. Most importantly – TAKE RISKS. we looked to afraid to make mistakes that we did not create significant scoring chances. We made Fleury look good and he didn’t have to make one tough save.

4. How bout a bounce? Everyone scores on us off of absurd deflections and off our own guys. How bout a break instead of a suspect late whistle on what should have been the game tying goal.

Just think how good its going to feel when we take game 3 and 4. LGR

Come out strong on Tuesday! 18000+ are gonna be cheering for you!

Forget about Crosby and the refs those are just distractions. This is a veteran team they can move past this and focus! Good leadership and a coach who has a calming presence.

LGR!

I had hoped I’d see a different team today.

We did… we saw the October Rangers… losing games 1-0.

Forget all the BS and play the way you did against the Devils.

Where the hell is the net crashing? Where’s Avery? Where’s the mentality to just put it on net and go hard after it. Teams that do that may not win every game but they don’t get shutout very often.

Time to make some luck for themselves. Get a rebound or a seeing-eye goal, or a deflection or some garbage.