it's two frustrating losses, let's not overreact. It doesn't erase the month and a half of great hockey they'd played.
This team swept the Western Canada trip and the California trip (!). It takes a pretty good team to do that. Hopefully we take it out on a shitty Carolina team Saturday night.
Realistically, I know they're fine and will bounce back and put together another string of really good hockey. Games like last night just drive me nuts.
Great game from a hockey perspective, maddening from a fan perspective.
I think this team is better than last years (and last I checked a couple of weeks ago, it was performing at a better pace than the team 12 months ago).
We lost a game that was essentially a coin flip to a very good team.
BTW, Nash needed to score on that short handed opportunity. Fuck. I'm encouraged that he's still getting and creating those opportunities even though the puck isn't bouncing his way. His S% was unsustainable even accounting for the quality of chances he was creating.
pj, I have TB has the favorite coming out of the East, but the Canadiens are really close (and have the superior goaltending). I think you're being too critical of your team and overestimating the competition.
Loss aside, last night was a fun game. Really intense, lots of exciting shit.
you think so? Maybe, I am.
It's shaping up to be a great 2nd half/finish and if things hold even close to right now a great playoff season.
Yeah, definitely. We (Ranger fans) do the same shit. It's a lot worse on HF, where fans act like a 3C or 6D is preventing us from making a run, ignoring that every team has salient holes.
And it's not like I think the habs are a bad team. I don't.
It's just the system, it's not obvious their approach like the Rangers or Bruins with AV or Julien who have strict systems. the Habs rely more on being opportunistic and having a great goalie.
No doubt it's worked for them so far this year, things have really clicked and maybe davisian is on to something and chemistry is more important than some other factors.
a better team this year you can also look around the division/conference and say there are teams that are also better this year and those teams are either playing better at this juncture or they're simply better squads.
This team should be measured not only by their current record and their recent streak including the impressive sweep on the west coast trip but how they stack up against those that they're looking up at in the points standings (Yinz aside).
It's long past time for him to overcome that weird fixation. The guy simply a very bad hockey player and he hurts the team. Now 17-16 with Glass and 10-3 without him.
For not having put the question to AV multiple times on this. They should be hammering him on it in pressers. The correlation is absurd, and seems to me AV had barely been put in a position to speak to it. From what I've seen it's been lightly glazed over with questions phrased as "Glass' struggles", etc,
For not having put the question to AV multiple times on this. They should be hammering him on it in pressers. The correlation is absurd, and seems to me AV had barely been put in a position to speak to it. From what I've seen it's been lightly glazed over with questions phrased as "Glass' struggles", etc,
We've been waiting on Moore's upside since we acquired him. He's not taking that next step. I thought he would thrive when AV got here but it hasn't happened.
where you guys lose and aren't bitching at the refs.
Oh well. March 15th, boys. Mark your calendars. The Panthers come to town with the final playoff spot on the line. Gonna be epic.
This is why no one likes you. You try too hard to be douchy. The douche needs to flow naturally from within.
I dont think you'll make the sweet 16 come the spring.
Anyway, why would we care about the Capitals & Panthers going down to the wire? Go Panthers.
We all complain about Glass-- he definitely sucks, but there's a lot of guys on this team not getting it done. Hagelin, Zuccs, Kreider to name a few.
And guess who has 15 goals in 65 regular season games now as a Ranger? Yup, the same guy who scored 25+ for 11 straight years in Tampa. We all knew this would happen, of course. Makes you real cautious about giving this guy an extension next year. He turns 40 in June.
if our fuckin franchise goalie makes an uncontested, unscrened 40 foot throwaway shot save with under 5 minutes to go. Fuckin' fuck we better kick Carolina's ass on Saturday.
This team swept the Western Canada trip and the California trip (!). It takes a pretty good team to do that. Hopefully we take it out on a shitty Carolina team Saturday night.
Great game from a hockey perspective, maddening from a fan perspective.
We lost a game that was essentially a coin flip to a very good team.
BTW, Nash needed to score on that short handed opportunity. Fuck. I'm encouraged that he's still getting and creating those opportunities even though the puck isn't bouncing his way. His S% was unsustainable even accounting for the quality of chances he was creating.
Loss aside, last night was a fun game. Really intense, lots of exciting shit.
you think so? Maybe, I am.
It's shaping up to be a great 2nd half/finish and if things hold even close to right now a great playoff season.
And it's not like I think the habs are a bad team. I don't.
It's just the system, it's not obvious their approach like the Rangers or Bruins with AV or Julien who have strict systems. the Habs rely more on being opportunistic and having a great goalie.
No doubt it's worked for them so far this year, things have really clicked and maybe davisian is on to something and chemistry is more important than some other factors.
This team should be measured not only by their current record and their recent streak including the impressive sweep on the west coast trip but how they stack up against those that they're looking up at in the points standings (Yinz aside).
Oh well. March 15th, boys. Mark your calendars. The Panthers come to town with the final playoff spot on the line. Gonna be epic.
It's an absurdly bad icing call, but them's the breaks.
Indeed. AV really needs to be grilled about this.
Not sure what team in their right mind is giving up anything of value (rental or not) for Moore.
I feel like the writers constantly write about Glass.
The writers have acknowledged that Glass sucks, but AV has hardly been put on the spot about it from what I've seen.
Oh well. March 15th, boys. Mark your calendars. The Panthers come to town with the final playoff spot on the line. Gonna be epic.
This is why no one likes you. You try too hard to be douchy. The douche needs to flow naturally from within.
I dont think you'll make the sweet 16 come the spring.
Anyway, why would we care about the Capitals & Panthers going down to the wire? Go Panthers.
We all complain about Glass-- he definitely sucks, but there's a lot of guys on this team not getting it done. Hagelin, Zuccs, Kreider to name a few.
And guess who has 15 goals in 65 regular season games now as a Ranger? Yup, the same guy who scored 25+ for 11 straight years in Tampa. We all knew this would happen, of course. Makes you real cautious about giving this guy an extension next year. He turns 40 in June.
Hey limp Dick, shouldn't you be fisting yourself right now?
Oh I get it, you're typing with your free hand. Good job pal.