Comments on: Valiquette gets nod against Ottawa (Updated)

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:18:39 +0000

Do you have an RSS feed?

By: theflynn

theflynn — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:50:13 +0000

The reason why this team doesn’t score goals is that there are very few natural goal scorers on the team. Most of these guys are never in proper position to score. They do an awful lot of mucking round with the puck in the attacking zone, but many goals scored are flukey. But you have to have something behind them to get that fluke to work for you.

I can’t believe how badly this team is over rated, just because of that very deceiving start. Today is an excellent example. They were outskated, out defended, out passed, and out hit, all over the ice.

I’m gonna tell you soemthing else you probably won’t like to hear but that’s the way these things go….
The Islanders have two defensemen that are better than any pair of D’s on Rangers save Staal and Mara. I mean Campoli and Streit. Neither one is a big guy – but they both play real big – both ways.
and Witt is as good as Girardi. The rest of them should be out of here.

By: Gresch

Gresch — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:11:37 +0000

JJP: It was Mike Robitaille, the Sabres’ regular studio host—- he’s 60ish, a former NHLer, in fact was a Ranger when I was a kid for a season or so before being traded to/or drafted by Buff.

Don’t know why I wrote the other guys first names and left his out, but at least now there is no confusion.

By: noonan

noonan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:39:26 +0000

hello

By: 22figure8

22figure8 — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:56:48 +0000

- We don’t score goals, that is the problem. Through all of this — we have opportunities, but we do not score. We score one or two. But this is not enough to win games. Everyone understands, that to win it’s necessary to score at least four or five goals. But with one or two, it’s hard to win. But we can’t score more than one or two. That’s the problem, you know?… (pauses). I have to go now.

Sounds like JJ is still a Ranger. Thanks LI Joe.
13 injuries? Wow!

By: JJP

JJP — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:53:43 +0000

Gresch – interesting points from the commentators. However, Robitaille might have the most realistic view (assume its Luc?). He had a high salary and probably rarely, if ever got benched. Ray probably got benched all the time but he wasn’t anywhere close to the caliber of an elite player. Harry Neale hasn’t coached in over 20 years, so I think his thoughts come from a different era that might not be relevant anymore.

By: ford

ford — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:27:11 +0000

LI Joe

Thanks for the link. Jeez, with all the descriptions of Jagr’s expressions and movements, it sorta read like a play by Eugene O’Neill I studied in a college English class.

By: Gresch

Gresch — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:22:12 +0000

Anyone by chance see the roundtable between Robitaille, Rob Ray and Harry Neale before the third period in Buff tonite?

Ray and Neale demanded that Lindy Ruff—- by the way he’s the COACH of the team in question, Renney lovers, the COACH whose job description in precincts other than this one includes getting a minimum level of hard work, hunger and commitment from his players—- impose his will on the players who were not performing. Robitaille tried to say that salaries prevented such an approach but was shouted down and even mocked by the other two.

It was the kind of honest and refreshing talk that you would never see on the flagship MSG station in a million years!

By: topcorner

topcorner — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:22:05 +0000

I have not read the link you supplied LI Joe, but I did read a part of an interview with Jagr (hopefully it was legit) and it sounded like Avangard was totally gutted by injuries. I know squat about the Russian hockey system, how callups work etc.

By: ford

ford — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:13:41 +0000

Bobby Baun scored the winning goal in Game 6 (OT) with a broken leg vs. Detroit in ‘64 to send the series back to Toronto where the Leafs won the Cup in the seventh game.