NFT: Game 1: Rangers at Sens gamethread

4 minutes, let's get it back.

Unreal. Hank deserved way better tonight. I knew this series was going to be a pain in the fucking ass.

We better win game 2.

yet

Knowing this team, yeah.. this game is done.

Really fucking frustrating.

Buck the fuck up.

deserved batter than this

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Really sucks to lose on that

with the empty net. Will be 6 on 4 for the rest of regulation

time to up the lumber tax

wins it 2-1. After all the chances they got that Lundqvist stoned, they win on a flukey bounce

fuck fuck fuck

Just fumbling around out there.

Gonna have to do way better than that in this series. Sloppy, undisciplined.. Hank deserved better. A lot of our forwards were really fucking bad.

Garbage game. Better win on Saturday.

Hank deserves better. Too bad.

Hopefully they play with a lot more urgency in Game 2.

Figured a goal like that wins after Henrik stands on his fucking head all night

But lundqvist was the only reason this wasn't a blow out. The better team deservedly got a break at the end - that's what happens when you keep pressuring the net and putting it on goal.


I still don't know which team this is - the team that's gets its shit pushed in out there every couple of games, or the team that rolled Montreal three games in a row.

Just a fucking pathetic disgraceful effort tonight. Pathetic. Maybe (I hope) they just came in tonight under rating Ottawa. We'll lose in 4 or 5 if whatever the fuck that was tonight is our series compete level. Burn the fucking tape that was awful.

Figured a goal like that wins after Henrik stands on his fucking head all night

Ludicrous goal.

In comment 13446425 arcarsenal said:

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Gonna have to do way better than that in this series. Sloppy, undisciplined.. Hank deserved better. A lot of our forwards were really fucking bad. Garbage game. Better win on Saturday.

agree with this. things just seemed a tad off the entire game other than Hank, who deserved much better. would be wonderful if Kreider or Miller can show up at some point this postseason...

horse shit

In comment 13446458 Greg from LI said:

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Ludicrous goal.

just insane that Hank makes a highlight reel worth of saves and we lose on that bullshit. fucking brutal.

In close to 23 periods now.

Once again they are making Hank do it all and its pissing me off. I accept poor defense with this group, the talent level is what it is. But these forward better start stepping it the fuck up.

In comment 13446459 TexasGmenFan said:

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agree with this. things just seemed a tad off the entire game other than Hank, who deserved much better. would be wonderful if Kreider or Miller can show up at some point this postseason...

At least Kreider was somewhat involved tonight. At one point in the game, I wondered what happened to Nash and Stepan? While everyone is focusing on the end result, Step had a dreadful shift on the GW goal. Even Zucc can't lift the nothingness of Hayes and Miller. Too many of the forwards are MIA.

Andy

I was just listening to one of the talking heads talk about how players are now taking bad angle shots more often. It's something I've noticed too.

and goalies have said most players don't realize how hard the bad angle shots are to save (and they showed the Crosby goal off Hank's head).

I think Hank would like to have that back obviously and no doubt it's what you'd call a soft goal, but that angle and the tip off Stepan makes it harder than some people think.

Just have to hope Hank has a short memory.

But NYR didn't deserve that one.

Flat.

weren't great, but Lundqvist was and if not for some puck luck and a few bone head plays they could be up 1-0.

I hate to point at 1 play in a hockey game. but when they were up 1-0 with about 7 minutes left in the 2nd, Kreider made that horrible, lazy clearing attempt up the middle that was kept in, and from then on it seemed like the ice was tilted towards the Rangers net.

What the heck is with Ottawa's poor crowds?
They didn't sell out a single first round game, and now they had 16K last night.

The Worst Forward..Reg. season & Playoffs..by far is #21. Except for winning his share of FO's..He's horrible! Was on the ice for the goal #2. Brings nothing to the table.

In comment 13448287 mvftw said:

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The Worst Forward..Reg. season & Playoffs..by far is #21. Except for winning his share of FO's..He's horrible! Was on the ice for the goal #2. Brings nothing to the table.

This is so not true. Step is playing pretty huge minutes and generally drawing the toughest assignments. He always does. It isn't sexy, but he's very very solid.

In comment 13448287 mvftw said:

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The Worst Forward..Reg. season & Playoffs..by far is #21. Except for winning his share of FO's..He's horrible! Was on the ice for the goal #2. Brings nothing to the table.

Nobody has brought it up because it isn't true.

It's hard to envision that a team would ever take a playoff opponent lightly or underestimate them - especially once you're past the 1st round because it means the team you're playing has already won a series - but, the Rangers certainly played last night's game as if they had that mindset. (Sans Hank, of course)

That's not to say they necessarily did.. I don't know what the collective mindset of the team was. But that was the type of game they played.

I expect a much more focused effort tomorrow and a win.

Game 1 is where you size up your opponent and see how they're going to play you and from there, you've got to make adjustments and start formulating a plan of attack. These series' are a chess match. We just need to counter and I believe we will.

As I said from the jump, though.. this was never going to be a short series.

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more focused and with a better gameplan than they did last night.

Because if last night is an indication of what we can expect to see this series, its going to be a short series going the other way. I'm surprised by how poorly we played. Maybe worse than the Montreal game 3.

deny Buffalo request to interview Drury for their GM role.

Wonder why. Usually it seems like teams are good about letting personnel interview for positions that are a step up.

In comment 13449101 pjcas18 said:

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deny Buffalo request to interview Drury for their GM role. Wonder why. Usually it seems like teams are good about letting personnel interview for positions that are a step up.

I read they asked Drury and he said he wasn't ready, so the Rangers said no.

In comment 13449131 shockeyisthebest8056 said:

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In comment 13449101 pjcas18 said: Quote: deny Buffalo request to interview Drury for their GM role. Wonder why. Usually it seems like teams are good about letting personnel interview for positions that are a step up. I read they asked Drury and he said he wasn't ready, so the Rangers said no.

That would make sense, if he's not ready, but if that were the case I think it would be worded differently, more like Drury declines to meet with Sabres.

When the Rangers do it, then it means the Sabres are likely to do the same when and if the request is made the other way. They would have been better off having Drury reject them IMO.

and FWIW I read given his rapid rise in the organization, the Rangers just want to keep Drury.

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Stepan: ‘I’ve stunk since the playoffs started’ - ( New Window )

had to say this afternoon - only caught a bit of it. But he said the reason why guys like Stepan, Miller, Kreider and Hayes are struggling is because they skate around in circles too much. Every team that has been successful in the playoffs skates stop and go in straight lines, not in circles, aimlessly skating around the ice causing matchup problems.

Any validity to that statement?

In comment 13449759 B in ALB said:

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had to say this afternoon - only caught a bit of it. But he said the reason why guys like Stepan, Miller, Kreider and Hayes are struggling is because they skate around in circles too much. Every team that has been successful in the playoffs skates stop and go in straight lines, not in circles, aimlessly skating around the ice causing matchup problems. Any validity to that statement?

Whats your opinion on "humpty" on the air? Is it blasphemous (for numerous reasons) to say I kinda like him?

My only beef is that RDP interrupts Hahn and Canty way too much. Otherwise it's solid and devoid of the provocative Bullshit you hear on many shows.

And is definitely entertaining. But as to the fact you don't want to like him because of his Isles lineage, my take is most of you seem to like Valiquette, and he was an Islander also (in the Isles org 98-03). Big Valley was always a likeable guy.

I enjoy the show. The former islander bit doesn't bother me at all.

Talbot gets run over - no call. A few minutes later with under 10 to go Edmonton gets flagged for nothing. Have to wonder if someone wants this series 1-1

Anaheim with double edmontons shots for/against but still losing.

In comment 13449759 B in ALB said:

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had to say this afternoon - only caught a bit of it. But he said the reason why guys like Stepan, Miller, Kreider and Hayes are struggling is because they skate around in circles too much. Every team that has been successful in the playoffs skates stop and go in straight lines, not in circles, aimlessly skating around the ice causing matchup problems. Any validity to that statement?

I will take any advice even if by brodeur we can get at this point. 13 non empty net goals in 23 periods - I think half of those goals are by defense or 4th line - it's a miracle our season isn't already over. Beyond pitiful

Road teams 4-2 in this round. 4-1 excluding Rangers games!

In comment 13448303 arcarsenal said:

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In comment 13448287 mvftw said: Quote: The Worst Forward..Reg. season & Playoffs..by far is #21. Except for winning his share of FO's..He's horrible! Was on the ice for the goal #2. Brings nothing to the table. Nobody has brought it up because it isn't true.

Vindicated!!!
At least 2 people know what there are looking at..me & the coach...nice article in the Daily News today...

...and we'll win this series.