holy smokes, what a jackrolling. i did not see the rangers win one battle in the corners or get to a loose puck all night. the bruins are clearly the better team, and by a large margin. the great thing about hockey though, imagine if the rangers powerplay was still a dismal 4 or 5 for 36, or 38, whatever it is as opposed to 2 for 38, and they could be up 2 games to 1. what a shame that's not the case. what can we do though? nothing, but take it.
We probably are done...No way this team can win 4 games in a row. We are shit. Leads me to root for the Sharks, Hawks, Red Wings, Kings. Cannot root for Boston or the Crosby team
If the Flyers can do it, so can we...right? http://espn.go.com/nhl/playoffs/2010/matchup/_/teams/bruins-flyers
I don't have near the contempt for the Bruins that I do for the Pens (sorry JE I don't see the Sens pulling the upset), so I'll certainly pull for them assuming they advance here which is obviously no stretch. but yeah I will jump on a Western team's bandwagon eventually
If we lose to Shittsburgh then I'm pulling for the Boston Senators - Chara, Kelly, Redden and Daugavins.
it was quite enlightening/entertaining/sad last night watching the game in a bar where some fans were melting down much worse than i ever did. I was actually consoling fellow fans saying, you can't be upset when our team pretty much got their asses kicked for 60 minutes, the fact it was only 2-1 was amazing and a testament to Hank. Even up 1-0 I thought they were going to lose. When I can handle a loss better than others that's saying something....the eyes don't lie.
I had the feeling they were going to steal the win. Wrong. Hank was so on his game that I thought he'd pitch a shutout. Of course the Rangers couldn't muster any decent offense to steal one for themselves. Kind of still bummed about the game, but what are ya gonna do. They're clearly not a team that's capable of a run in the playoffs like the top teams.
i did not feel good about the game for one minute and for good reason, the rangers are outmatched, and it showed awfully last night. i agree though crock, when you get jackrolled like that last night, it is in a way easier to take, even when your goalie does everything possible to keep you in the game and almost pulls it off himself but falls short.
not sure about that MR. maybe not as one sided, but the results probably the same. Again feel like the Bruins are playing at a high level right now.
Your probably right tcrock, Staal is arguably our best dman, could have given the 1st pair a breather, but bruins are better no doubt, maybe we could have won a couple of games
im just asking for one victory to extend the series for one more game and delay the friggin summer of no hope (Mets and Jets preseason)...... Let's go Red bulls!
I just saw an article about how Brad Richards' post-season woes are hurting the Rangers. Please. He's been hurting us since Game 1 of the regular season.
Breakouts, breakouts, breakouts. Doesn't matter what the "system" is, doesn't matter if the Bruins play a "similar" system, doesn't even really matter that they have a better roster (they're fairly close.) It all boils down to Tortorella's philosophy on breaking out of the defensive zone, and it's the biggest issue in the entire organization. There isn't a head coach in the NHL that coaches it the way he does, because it's so ridiculous to instruct your players NOT to use the open ice or find the open man and also to willingly forfeit possession before you've exited your zone. It's why they're pinned in their own zone for long stretches, and even if you do retrieve the puck in the neutral zone the opponent has enough time to re-establish themselves and either stand you up at the blue line or negate the forecheck on the dump-in. It's also an exhausting style to play (seriously, how many coaches need to run an all out boot camp to get their team in decent enough shape to play a certain way?) None of this means that the Rangers are a juggernaut waiting to burst out under a better coach, hell maybe they'd have been worse these last two years, but they can't move forward as an organization and develop each young talent individually until they move on from the current philosophy.
I thought you were trying to get away from struggling in the playoffs with a squad that should be capable of doing better? Vigneault has been let down by some appalling work by Gillis, but he's far from blameless.
I understand his secondary scoring has struggled but their GM stinks like you said and that goaltending has got to be one of the biggest fiasco's in the game
