From the NYR:
NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES
March 14, 2013 (Game 26, Away Game 11)
MTS Centre – Winnipeg, MB
Jets 3, Rangers 1
Team Notes:
- The Rangers were defeated by the Winnipeg Jets, 3-1, tonight at MTS Centre, and are now 5-3-0 in the last eight games.
- The Blueshirts have posted a record of 13-11-2 (28 pts) overall, including a 4-6-1 mark on the road this season.
- The Rangers won 33-56 faceoffs (59%) in the contest, led by Brad Richards’ game-high, 12 faceoff wins (12-18, 67%).
Player Notes:
- Ryan Callahan notched the Rangers’ lone goal at 1:11 of the second period, and registered three shots on goal, two hits, and tied for the game-high with three blocked shots in 18:50 of ice time. He has tallied a point in three straight games (two goals, one assist during the streak), and has recorded six points (four goals, two assists) in the last six contests. Callahan is now tied for the team lead with nine goals on the season.
- Henrik Lundqvist stopped 30 of 32 shots faced and is now 11-10-1 overall, including a 2-5-1 mark on the road this season. It is the sixth time Lundqvist has posted 30 or more saves in a game this season (1-4-1, 2.47 GAA, .930 Sv% in those contests).
- Ryan McDonagh tallied an assist, tied for the team-high with four hits, and was credited with two blocked shots in 23:54 of ice time. He has now registered 11 points (two goals, nine assists) in his last 16 games, including six assists in the last eight contests.
- Derek Stepan recorded the primary assist on Callahan’s goal and logged 20:05 of ice time in the contest. He has now tallied points in seven of the last eight games (four goals, five assists over the span), including a point in each of the last three games (two goals, one assists during the streak).
- Brian Boyle was credited with four hits and won 7-10 faceoffs (70%) in 13:44 of ice time.
- Rick Nash registered a game-high, six shots, and led all forwards with 22:57 of ice time.
- Anton Stralman was credited with four hits and two blocked shots in 21:02 of ice time.
- Michael Del Zotto was credited with two hits and two blocked shots, registered three shots on goal, and logged a game-high, 27:41 of ice time.
Team Schedule:
- The Blueshirts’ practice schedule for tomorrow, Mar. 15, is 3:00 p.m. at CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
- The Rangers will return to action when they face-off against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday, Mar. 16, at CONSOL Energy Center (1:00 p.m. – TV: MSG Network; Radio: ESPN 98.7), to conclude their four-game road trip.
209 Comments
Damn
nnsnse must be watching Fishsticks in 60.
I really don’t want to make this abt. Nash because he IS NOT (for those who like to twist words) a problem but can everyone calm down over his play. For the 6th highest cap hit in the League, he’s not even in the 40 in goals scoring nor the top 30 in points. Yes, he’s been THEIR best player but he’s not exactly lighting up the League either.
I’ve been out here on Broadway and Rector since September waiting for the stupid parade to start…anyone have that app that shows me where all the public bathrooms are down here?
lies, damn lies and statistics…
No matter how bad we have it, we are not Islander fans. How is anyone an Islander fan? Or a Devils fan for that matter? Ugh. Gouge my eyes with a fork.
garlic
Carped!
Repost
eddie:
I didn’t count that because he took over for Renney very late in the season.
As Carp said, they’ve improved the top six at the expense of the bottom 6, but shouldn’t that also improve the power play? It’s been atrocious since Jagr left, and even then, the system was “get it to Jagr and let him shoot”.
I’m not in the locker room (obviously) but I have to think some of the players are just not hearing him anymore. And you can’t fire all the players…
I said this a few weeks ago, but man this team really reminds me of the 92-93 Rangers, who had a bunch of talent, finished first overall the year before, but just blew chunks that year (and Messier was a coach killer – didn’t think they could win playing defense first)
Fat Guy – do you have a view there from the ledge? From way up there, the whole world is a bathroom.
yes, but for those 7-8 years, the Coliseum was rocking…like a nightly Packers home game. We have never had a run like that
E3 – Isles? I get. Ownerships disasters since he mid 90’s but the Devils? All they do is WIN! I’ll take their resume any day of the Week.
good point Olga!
LOOK OUT BELOOOOOOOWWW
HW – I diasgree. Nash is the most valuable player in the league. Subtract him and this teams has 2 wins on the year. He is not only the rangers’ best player, but the MVP in the NHL.
Haley deserves to be here. Too bad, like most of team, he can’t light the lamp.
When Nash ain’t dynamic, he fits in well with the rest of team.
I don’t care if the Devils had 8 fans. Those 8 fans saw 3 Cups and 2 more Final appearances since our 1 cup in 54 years.
E3 is right…MVP may mean MVP, but it doesn’t mean best player…and you doesn’t have to call me Mr. Johnson
Hw, it’s actually 1 Cup in 73 years
So E3 what you are saying is he is right back where he was in Columbus. A one man team. Glad we paid 7.8mil for that.
“He made the night a little brighter
Wherever he would go,
The old lamplighter
Of long, long ago.”
NYR – True. I meant as of 94 at the time. But yes it’s now 1 in 73.
This is a serious situation and you guys are joking around.
At least we’ll have a chance at the 1st overall pick in the draft if we miss the playoffs. Oh wait, we traded that away. Nevermind
What’s the joke?
Carp, you mentioned Anisimov as being the guy people forget. Very true, but I think Sauer has really been the difference both this year and last. Would have solidified the defense greatly in the playoffs, and on this year’s team, would be a holdout, along with maybe only Callahan, of the gritty style that was last season’s hallmark. Might inspire others to play a better game knowing he can drop the gloves if necessary.
This really blows
Truth be told, since the original 67 expansion, the isles won 4 cups, the devils 3, the pens 3, the flyers 2, and our boys just 1.
I don’t see that changing in our favor as long as Sather runs things…
SAUER POWER!!!!
What do you care? You have a Huge Johnson…
Valdespin could take us to the cup.
Coos,,, Talking about a ledge and pooping on people below and stuff like that. Grow up and be miserable like the rest of us. You can’t just poop in public cause its funny.
Olga we know how you feel about the GM, but what about Slatsko?
Olga, it Hugh- not Huge.
Oh, I like Slatsko…
I still bend in the wind like every one else
Spoken like the coach of the Charlestown Chiefs. Let’s stop with the humor, boys, we lost 12-1 out there tonight.
Hugo, Hugh , Huge ….this is getting confusing. I don’t know who’s talking anymore.
Yugo?
“I like those two Hammerheads. I got ‘em cheap and I hear they might have an upside.”
You guys may be laughing, but I think this really sucks.
I hate people who post under pseudonyms.
signed, cooscoos. e. cooscoos
Gallows humor, Hugh. If we didn’t laugh, we’d cry.
Horrible line combinations . Just not working.
I know Olga, I get weepy sometimes.
And sometimes, I just let it all pour out. Feels better that way.
Triangulate.
Let’s all suggest lines again.
What’s a pseudonym? Is that like an umbrella or an awning?
We would be singing a different tune if Babcock or Hitchcock were coaching this team.
Babcock as head coach. Johnson as assistant. Pecker Rimmer in goal…. And we’d laugh forever.
have to say this team is starting to run short of time. as it stands now they’re looking at having to win 13-14 of their remaining games and while that’s certainly possible, I think there are a lot of deficiencies that may not be corrected in time.
The only lines I’m gonna suggest you won’t find on ice, my little friend.
I’m out on a promontory. At least those with no sense of humor about ledges will have to look that up before offering vitriolic response.
I’ll go with a secant line, cooscoos. At least there’d be an average rate of change instead of the inconsistency we’re currently seeing.
I’m your little friend? What happened to your doinkie?
Randy Johnson is the greatest name in sports.
Carp
Bringing in a new coach does not indicate starting over. Think Dan Bylsma with Pittsburgh – brought in mid-season and wins Stanley Cup.
The Unit
I kill a communist for fun, but for a green card, I gonna carve him up real nice.
crypto clearance.
Triangulate. Evade.
Trade Gaborik. Brandon Prust available?
Latona – prefer a seriously positive tangent line measuring progress as a function of time.
Every day above ground is a good day.
Trade overbite for underbite.
This coffee tastes like it was ground yesterday.
I see losses
Spraying spectators below the ledge with your in is really disturbing. That’s not funny.
also noticed that MSG decided to cut out the question about the “Tortorella” chant on the version of the press conference they posted, the one where Tortorella printed he didn’t understand before being whisked away by the p.r. guy.
I’ll go along with that, if I could figure it out.
“I think it started to rain”
Dan Bylsma’s inherited team was a little different.
MSG needs Jay Carney to do their press conferences. He can say nothing twelve different ways.
Trade Torts for Blysma – DONE!!
Houston, We have a problem here in Ranger land.
Miserable, Depends on how far up you are. :)
“Raindrops Keep Fallin on my Head”
darrel powe has o points in 15 games. jeff halpern has 1 point in 25 games…
and they need to suit these guys up game in and game out???kreider, thomas, mashinter, ferrerio, my sister are not better options then these guys…..
“Shower the People”
It’ll be 74 years on April 13, NYR.
Oh, wait, will it?
“Splish Splash”
Must win on Saturday. I really thought the Islander win was a turning point.
In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.
“Looks like Rain”
going to go out on a limb and say there’s no way they win that Saturday game
as far as those lower line guys, yeah, there’s no production coming from anyone that doesn’t play on the top two lines and the production there is spotty as well.
don’ t think it’s a coincidence, however, that this team played its best hockey with Richards out of the lineup and Staal looking as good as he’s looked since before the concussion.
“Rhapsody in the Rain”
I’m pooped.
“Red Rain”. ewww
Whenever fans of another team dot in front of us at Panthers games I tell them that it must be such an embarrassment to lose to them. I have a bad feeling about the game the Rangers play here next month.
Lloyd, I don’t think your going too far out on the limb there.
I think Saturday is a tough game but I’m not mailing the points in yet.
“Blame it on the Rain”
I’m feeling a little flush
the Michael Haley project needs to be over, at least as far as him playing anywhere but the 4th line. can’t win when you put two guys who aren’t going to score on the same line with a guy who’ll score once every eight games.
“In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You can quote me.” – Ellwood P. Dowd
the rangers really play with 9 forwards and that includes pyatt and boyle and you wonder why they cannot score!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
boyle a 6 ft 7 waste of a body. the guy is nothing, he is slow, slow with the release, not smart on the ice.. he is a big glob of nothing…
gabby, goals in 5 games on the season. I know he is on the wrogn side of the ice… I know his shoulder is not 100%. I know he has no 1 to set him up. I know he goes against the other teams best d man. I know he is misunderstood and it is the style of play that is hurting him. BTW they played that style last year also.
Smoke on the water
My brown eyed girl
aahh ooooo
Werewolves of London
“Here come those tears again”
96 Teardrops.
Byfuglein must read the nog, he played like a man possessed out there tonight.
Baby you can wipe my mash
Hawk roosting.
Carp
The point being, a change of coach does not indicate the start of a rebuild.
blog not nog
The Party’s Over
stranger, you were right the first time. He read the egg nog.
RADAR LOVE
Our boys were in fear of the mighty Byfugilin. The gave him much room to move about tonight in an unobstructed manner.
“Fool to Cry”
The Party’s Over – Lech Walesa
Papa – I wish the big crease clearing defenseman we dont have would have stood him up.
And the Rangers win!
oh, wait…
Stats don’t lie….anyone have the TOI break down?
We could debate whether this team is different from that Penguins team. However, the talent and pieces are in place for the Rangers. Perhaps Tortorella is the right man for the job, perhaps not. Time will tell.
We were outhit, outmuscled, outwitted.
If Siegfried Sassoon were around today, he would be NYR’s poet laureate.
rangers 2nd fewest goals scored in the east. 1 more goal scored then the bottom team in goals scored Ottawa…
sherlock you think we have a problem?????????????????
i love when moron announcers say on the Ranger PP, so much talent; gaborik, nash, richards, etc. these losers cannot score…...unless results mean crap…
honestly, I see no evidence “the talent and pieces are in place for the Rangers.” I see a few good young players, a couple of really good young players, and several massive holes.
Ask not for whom the time tells, it tells for we.
and us.
Papa heres the breakdown: Jets scored more goals in the game
Strange right on. Somebody should have stood him up in the crease.
And his brother would do Duguay’s hair.
“Will the Wolf Survive?”
Martin St. Louis would look good on Broadway…
If I were playing, I would of stood him up in the crease
Nash, Gaborik, Richards.
Stepan, Callahan, Miller.
Del Zotto, Staal, McDonagh, Girardi
Lundqvist.
No evidence?
This Schlitz has got to stop!
That Luongo video is pretty funny.
Watching this team not score is not.
Hugh Johnson
You would have been hard on him in the crease?
Coos, did Trips E take a trip to the lake ?
Lloydo – correctomundo on the ‘talent’ up front. We have Nash, Cally and Step to generate offense and Hags as well.
I guess my point is Richards and Gabby are not all that
Luongo & Schneider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEmfQh2Q6MY
If Downtown Julie Brown married Martin St.Louis, she’d be Downtown St. Louis.
I would have split him in half in the crease
Cause baby its you sha la la la la la la la la
Like the time I laid out Carcillo all over the crease.
Rangers looked a little better at times tonight, but they still can’t score – what a shocker.
Did they already use one of their amnesty buyouts, and if so, who was it, and what did they save on the cap? I thought they did on Redden, but of course Redden has become somewhat useful on the Blues.
I wish I had answer to solve their scoring woes. I was never I’m favor of them signing Richards, and I was hesitant about trading for Nash too. Nash has looked good, but he still has to score more, even though he can’t do it on his own every night.
Richards, not Gaborik, as bad as he’s looked has to be amnestied. I can’t watch another 7 years of this for a guy whose about past his prime in my opinion. Gaborik only has one more year, so let him play it out. How he’s not scoring more, I don’t know, because he is very talented, but he never seems to be in good to great goal scoring positions. Maybe others should be blamed as well for not being able to set him up enough.
I don’t expect them to beat the red-hot Pens even without Malkin, but I wouldn’t mind them seeing them open it up, and play a 5-4 game – maybe some of their top guys will get some confidence back.
Gaborik won’t be here much longer. Richards is rocketing toward a buy out. How can you list either of those two when discussing the future?
That video made me smile.
The whole night watching multi-millionaires “play” hockey aggravated me. Time to reassess my selection of leisure activities?
e3 castle-lng his (white? black?) queen?
Buff is too fat to play for the Rangers. The blog father told me so.
Lloyd said massive holes.
kooz – If johnny oduya’s sister juanna married randy johnson…she’d be Juanna Oduya Johnson
Too much traffic in the late night zone.
I like my back queen
kooz said lloyd said massive holes
That Fat man can play.
and for what it’s worth I’m back to think Hagelin is a third-liner who had a flukey 5-game stretch
_ How can you list either of those two when discussing the future?_
Rangers’ future spelled backwards is lottery pick…weird
I like the Black Bush, makes me tipsy
i am doing work…i wish i could fully participate..
ba back later…
Lloyd – As far as I’m concerned, I’m not looking to Richards as part of the future. He won a Con Smythe in 2004, I get it already. How long ago now? He looks slow and old, and I don’t want to hear that he wasn’t in shape to start the season anymore.
Gaborik has to stay because no one is going to want him unless he starts scoring in bunches, so not much you can do with him – just hope he breaks out of it really soon.
After two consecutive, similar losses, Torts gives two very different assessments. I think that, at this point, you have to wonder if he’s lost the team. I still think he’s the guy for the job, but it would certainly appear that many if not most of the guys on the team have tuned him out.
I Gaborik starts scoring in bunches then why trade him?
Torts needs to stop trying to fit the players into his “system” and start tailoring his system to fit the players. This team is head and shoulders below b year’s team worth respect to their defensive responsibility.
Btw, didn’t we get Nash to improve the offense? I think we have something like 14 goals less than we had after 26 games last year. Yeah, lockout, blah blah blah. Chicago doesn’t seem to need that excuse.
gaborik has 1 year on his deal he is not being amnestied..DUH…
Byfuglien is not that good, rangers make everyone look good…
GMen. There mightbvbe a GM or two or three, whom believe that acquiring Gaborik at the deadline might put them over the top. You never know.
Gmen11 – I am still hoping Richards finds a way to turn it around but I have to admit the guy does not look good at all. I have a hard time believing he could fall off this much after having one of the best years of his career but he’s a liability right now and has been for most of the season. The team played better without him and the power play is certainly better without him there to have the puck hop over his stick at the blue line. Maybe he really is finished and is just plummeting down the drain. I dunno. Right now his contract looks as terrible as some folks here said it was a year ago. Was a lot easier to fight that kind of talk because the guy played well. Now he’s looking like an albatross.
as for Gaborik, to me apart from the shoulder, that’s 100% on Tortorella. the guy looks like he’s on egg shells and that’s not purely because he’s nervous about his shoulder. he’s got zero confidence and has his cajones cut out whenever he makes a mistake. can he be lazy and undisciplined? sure. but he’s a scoring forward, not a third-line grinder. I think if he’s able to get on a little bit of a streak the almighty coach might get off his back a bit and some of that pressure will go away. sure seems to me like he’ll be out of here before long, though, and certainly before Tortorella.
Well, if Gaborik starts scoring in bunches, then other teams will want him. Sell high. Since everyone seems tired of him, then we might be able to get something decent in return, like some younger players. But I can live with one more year left. He’s not going to be this awful going forward.
Gaborik is one of the best goal scorers in the NHL.
Richards is here now and for the foreseeable future, and he has a history of success.
i love the lost the team crowd. yep players are going to lose on purpose because they do not like the coach.
total bull.
they have limited scoring talent on this team bottom line….again stepan is playing better then could be expected, callahan about as expected. hagelin about expected. nash, gabby, and richards are all underachieving, boyle is a totla disaster, kreider is in the ahl, and the rest are dreck and junk…
is it shocking this team cannot score? they cannot score becuase they have no offensive talent…
gaborik is not 1 of the best goal scorers in the nhl, he was. he is no longer. his shoulder is fin. he floats, doea not take hits to make plays, and he is a mental case…
Correction C3, Rangers’ future spelled backwards is Columbus Blue Jacket lottery pick.
Who says Gaby isn’t tough? See him destroy that stick?
Stuart A – I only mentioned Gaborik being amnestied because I saw others mention it over the last week, which I agree with with you, makes no sense, with 1.5 yrs left on his contract.
Rangers are 3-9-1 against playoff teams this season
start getting nervous
I’ve gotta stop reading this blog on my phone. It takes 3 hours to scroll down every time I refresh. lol
I always figured Richards’ contract would look awful at some point. I just didn’t figure that some point would be his second friggin’ year.
Good points Lloyd.
What sums up Richard’s season thus far is the odd-man 3 on 2 they had in the 2nd I think. Richards was set up for a one timer or quick wrister and he couldn’t even get the shot off. It’s chances like that you have to capitalize on, because they need goals, and rarely score unless it’s a hard work or grind em’ out goal.
At this point. I think the Rangers sacrificed talent for depth in the off season. I don’t intend to blame Nash one bit. He is an amazing talent (better than Gabby imo), and the Rangers are a better team with him, But to lose Dubinsky and Anisimov is hurting. Two good centers missing on the team this year. Stepan is young and good but not a number one center yet, and Richards is snakebitten.
actually, 3-10-1 if you count tonight’s loss
by my calculation, to make the playoffs they’ll need something like 26 points from the next 22 games. impossible? definitely not. but looking like a steeper climb than it did a week or so ago.
There all holding their sticks too tight. Too much pressure. The big three have to start scoring or we’re in trouble. They’ve had far too many great opportunities. Really miss Stall a lot. Might be time to bring Kreider back up. Need big fresh players that could skate fast. The Jets played the 3rd period pretty much the way we won most of our games last year. Almsot cost them near the end.
and where’s that pressure coming from?
Carp – How many are going to jump off the ledge by morning?
Watching that 3rd period, it looked like we got beat by the Ranger team from last year. Jets took every inch of the ice away. Rangers never had the momentum.
Not sure what the fix is here, but this game we needed more Cally-Step-Hags out there!!! God forbid the $20Million dollar line of Nash-Richards-Gaborik could show up for a game on the Road.
I guess we win 5 out of 6 and then lose 2.
The sun will come up tomorrow. . . Or will it…..
Richards will get bought. It’s just a question of when. That alone, could be tormenting with Brad Richards’ head and causing him to suck even more…
Gaby? I understand he is not producing or moving his feet enough. After the season he had last year, it’s hard to say that he sucks or that he doesn’t try or can’t grind…
He is in a slump. His career isn’t over. What a bunch of crap that is… He is still creating better chances for himself than anyone except Nasher…
Hagelin and Gaborik had a nice shift together; their speed complements each other well and I think they had a goal if the d-man didn’t get a piece of that drop pass.
lone ranger said holding their sticks too tight
Pressure of realization, that this team has no hockey imagination, just impetus to work hard (at times)!!
bought out*
gaborik needs to be a dominating force ala jagr after the lockout. he is not close to performing like that.
the guy just turned 31, maybe he jsut stinks…
richards had a few good games tonight he was horrible. eatch how many times he turns it over or does not get a pass deep or a shot on net. the guy needs to lift weights, get in better shape or soemthing like that. i swear he never wins a battle on the boards….
about a 1/3 of the teams salary is on the underachiever line.. about $20 mill for maryane, bucktooth, and nash…scary poor ROI…..........
Gaborik is never going to be that kind of player, though. People forget that Jagr was a monster and other guys were scared of him. Nobody’s ever been scared of Marian Gaborik that way.
Lloyd, that type of thing has to take place more than once in any given game, they did have a few odd man rushes 3-2 and look what happened, I just screamed..
Gabby can shoot from the slot and score on a PS, but no… he goes for a deke.
Hank called it in the post game interview in the lockerroom “we have to be tougher in front of our net”
These people wanting to add Dan Boyle have no idea what they are talking about!!
Funny how Hags speed make make any line look better. He will be one hell of a hockey player when he starts burying the puck!!!
Torts should put them back together. With Miller.
Let that line create on its own.
Haley should get one of the thee stars. He is looking good on the ice. He handled himself with and without the gloves. He adds just the right amount of energy, and he bangs the body harded than any Ranger on the ice tonight.
Gaborik needs to stop with his 5-hole shot that never works on breakaways btw.
look at the stats from some of these guys
Gaborik: 3 goals, 6 assists in the last 19 games
Richards: 2 goals, 7 assists in the last 17 games. 2 multipoint games this season (both 2-point efforts) and the last was January 26.
Hagelin: 1 goals, 5 assists in the last 12 games
J.T. Miller: 0 goals, 2 assists in the last 16 games
Pyatt: 1 goal, 2 assists in the last 22 games
Boyle: 1 goal, 1 assist in 22 games
this team is Stepan, Nash and Callahan right now
not even going to mention the nominal 4th liners who don’t really see enough ice time to warrant inclusion in the discussion but it’s worth noting that Powe, Halpern, Bickel and Asham have 2 combined points this season
Gaby? I understand he is not producing or moving his feet enough. After the season he had last year, it’s hard to say that he sucks or that he doesn’t try or can’t grind…
He is in a slump. His career isn’t over. What a bunch of crap that is… He is still creating better chances for himself than anyone except Nasher…
Yes.
Hank called it in the post game interview in the lockerroom “we have to be tougher in front of our net”
Lundqvist needs to be tougher in front of his own net. He has not been the same goaltender thus far this season as years past. However, LW3H said tonight that Lundqvist should have stopped the second goal. While there are some deflections and redirections that Lundqvist is more than capable of stopping, there was nothing he could do about either goal tonight – particularly the second goal, in which the puck bounced off the chest of a player directly in front of him and in the net.
Pretty safe to say that an overwhelming majority of why the Rangers were as good as they were a year ago was Henrik Lundqvist and the team was able to ride that to game 6 of the conference final. Lundqvist has not been as good this year and that has hurt the team.
But the fact is that they’re getting nothing offensively out of 3/4 of the forwards. Add in the goalie being slightly above-average rather than elite and you’re not going to win.
They scored one stinking goal tonight. Even with virtually 3 breakaways. Gabby has a break and then gets a break on the penalty shot call. I’m not convinced the offence was worthy of a ps. He stinks up the joint on both. First a limp backhand into the chest and then a deke which he had proven time and time again that he can’t finish that way instead of where he’s been successful: a quick wrister from the slot.
Then Nash does the same thing. He’s successful on the deke and decides to shoot. I kind of expected it from Gabby at this point, but Nash? He’s gotta bury that puck.
Listen people, not scoring more than one does not get you anywhere, they have find the way to score. Most likely, by changing the style of play, a different “right way”, since the current one obviously doesn’t work.
Something needs to change…that is for sure
look, that Tampa game at the end of February is the one most of us could point to as being the turning point of the season, right? including that game, the Rangers are 5-3 since. in that time they’ve got 5 total goals from forwards not named Nash, Callahan or Stepan. that’s 5 goals from 9 forwards in 8 games.
Lyod – not terribly impressive when you get right down to it…..
Lloyd, when you put in like this, in numbers, in black and white, it is much more frightening then if it is just loosely in my mind. I only hope the rangers’ leadership has the same numbers in front of them, not just the “tape” to teach them.
We are talking real money…
and look, I get your best players have to be your best players, but how many of you would have included Stepan among the top 3 forwards on the team four weeks ago? the supposed top forwards on this team other than the names mentioned have been virtually invisible…Rangers have exactly 1 forward (other than the 3 mentioned above) with more than 1 goal in like the last 12 or 13 games and it’s Brad Richards. god help us.
Then there is the question of the scouts. Lou overe there in Jersey has, over the years, somehow found undersize Rafalski, Gionta Brothers, etc. All scouting to be credited.
Who do we rely on? Who do we have with any proven reputation to roam and find potential gems without relying on the stupid NHL draft rounds?
Maybe we have some experts on the art of scouting, no?
The rangers have never scouted well. The few draft choices that turned out were more due to blind luck…And on the rare chance they draft a stud (Rick Middleton) they get rid of him…
Don’t want to sound mystical, but re: tonight’s game : Jokonen was not good enough for the Rangers, nor was Antropov. On the other hand, we take good players and destroy them, the spit them out, the one that got away was Jagr.
I nominate Luc Robitaille for head coach!
Uh Lindy Ruff anyone. I would totally go for that change.
Good morning, Sally!
Wow, is there some dumb stuff being said here today.
and by dumb, I mean A) comparing anybody to Hitler (jackass prize of the day); and B) thinking that the way the coach acts in front of the press is the way he acts in the lockerroom or on the ice, or that his players think if him in the same way that angry fans do.
Carp Calling someone dumb and doing it on a previous Blog page is even dumber.
A Seinfeldisk attempt at WWII Luftwaffe humor is that in itself. Soup Nazi, Coach Nazi ect.
Might be time for another one of those Gannett Furloughs.
Careful I may have to hold your medical coverage back to you show an ability to be more cogent