You’re on crack. First off, he wasn’t winning that puck because he’s too soft to win a board battle, so when he felt contact he embellished it. Second, that’s super ironic you telling someone to calm down when you are literally blaming Igor for giving up goals when his defensemen have left him out to dry how many times each game? “Igor should have stopped that.” How about Fox and Schneider play defense line they are supposed to and then Igor doesn’t have to even have a shot on goal there to try and stop?
It’s the Hank years all over again. Wasting a great goalie because our players lack heart and our GM doesn’t make the right moves.
100% agree. Truthfully Igor let in maybe 3 questionable goals in this series, but without him we aren't anywhere near where we are now. And can we please stop with the coach stuff. Just like last season when God could have been our coach and we would have lost, at some gosh darn point it HAS to be about the players, enough is enough now. Too many of these guys are soft and don't get it done in big spots, Mika and Panarin right at the front of the line. That is not the coach.
But it is the coach putting Mika out there. If under a player is struggling and zapping the life out of our team, then it is my job as a coach to get that guy out of that position. Play him on the PK, give him his normal 5v5 ice time, but he doesn’t need to be on the PP unit. Lavi is the one fucking up with Mika on the PP and deserves blame 100% for that.
I said it and several others did too. The trade deadline could have solidified this team into a deep roster winning the cup. Instead we got a 3rd liner and a 4th liner…oh and an 8th dman.
Agreed, why play him if that was the plan, you might as well play Wheeler at that point. That I will get on Lav for a bit, I don't understand dressing Rempe only to not really play Rempe. You want to get one someone other than the players, which is where 98% of the focus should be IMO, get on Drury. He added sh*t at the trade DL. Wennberg scored a nice OT goal in game 3, he literally had ONE goal in the other 30+ games as a Ranger. And Roslovic didn't add a damn thing. I am laser focused on the soft "top players" on this team who don't get it done in big spots year after year, but if I were to talk about something after 98% focus is on the players, I would talk about Drury before I talk about Lav.
Exactly. If he’s only getting 4 shifts but we keep putting Mika out there on the PP then that’s a coaching mistake. Rempe does make Florida move the puck quicker. In the second period Florida has a turnover because Rempe is coming in on the sideboards and is preparing to hit a Panther who has the puck against the boards. Panthers player sees it and just throws it towards the middle of the ice and we intercept and got a break out of it. Rempe’s reward? No shifts after that. Mika kills the PP and gets rewarded for it. Just terrible coaching not holding guys accountable.
Yes, but Lav keeps putting Mika out there on the PP. Unless Mika is putting himself out there, someone on the coach g staff needs to be shitcanned for putting Mika out there over and over again. When we struggle Lav will change up lines during the game and from game to game. Yet the one CONSTANT is that Mika keeps getting PP1 time where he continues to hurt the team. At the ver least getting him off the PP1 will give his “weary” legs more rest and give him more time on the bench to change his tampon.
It’s more likely this team gets run out of the building Saturday then pulls a rabbit out of the hat and wins.
I don't disagree with maybe switching Mika off PP1, but not sure what else you do outside of that. Do you play 2 goals in 35 games Wennberg over him at # 1 C? Not sure you really have other options to move Mika down to the bottom 6 let's say. But even if I agreed and was all in on moving Mika down, I am not going to say man Lav really f'd us and is the reason the players didn't step up AGAIN in a big spot, it's Lav. Again, at some point these players that continue to show up small in big spots, especially at home, have to be the focus. And no one went off more on trade DL Day than I did, I can bump 50 posts from me that day, and we see it playing out now. The team needed to add a bigger player than Wennberg and Roslovic, lord knows we had plenty of cap space. That was a failure by Drury.
Yeah, it doesn't have the feel of that game 6-7 magic they've had in several series over the past decade.
Here’s more food for thought. Kreider scores a shorty which should be a huge momentum builder and what did this team do? Slowly went to sleep before pretty much completely dozing in the third.
I doubt they get soundly beaten. These are two very evenly matched teams but the Panthers have been remarkably better at pressuring the puck and shutting down the Rangers top players.
I'm actually with you on this one. Not saying they win Saturday night, but in no way would I be shocked if we won game 6, and then of course laid an egg in game 7 at MSG. I have always felt we do better work on the road in these big spots rather than at home. Notice how many of these big games at home we score 0 or 1 goal, and tonight we essentially score 1 goal again.
Very disappointing loss but we’re not dead yet. Still have to lose another game. I felt like this in 94 with our cup team when we lost game 5. Now we’ll see if this team has the balls like they did to win games 6 and 7. We have been one of the best road teams all season. Lavs does have to figure a way to get Laf on PP1 for zman who has been useless. As for our defense being honest they suck! Who is actually good back there who plays any kind of physical game and keeps the crease clear from our goalie like almost every team we play does. Regardless of what happens we need a lot more snarl on this team. Draft big, mobile dmen with an attitude and is see whatever it takes for try and pry Brady tkachuk from the senators. They sucked with him and the rangers have the prospects and draft picks to make that kind of deal! This core if we don’t come back needs to go and is the senators want Fox for tkachuk that wouldn’t be a roadblock for me.
