Nash -41g 37 a Callahan-24 g 27a Stepan-21g 53a Richards- 21g 36 a Kreider-20g 17a Brassard- 18g 42a Hagelin 15g 35a Pouliot 17G 20A Dorsett 8 G 14 A If he plays Zucc 14 G 30 A I believe this will be the first year that we actually see some consistent offense on this team.
I'm hoping Moore gets a lot of PP time and is the guy they try to setup for the point shot. Something Torts was entirely too stupid to do.
I'm confident we have a coach who will find a unit that works instead of sending the same failing nonsense out there.
I mean, I can't freakin take watching Girardi out there time and time again. You drafted Del Zotto, trade for McDonagh and Moore and moron Torts puts Girardi on the PP. Incredible.
when i first read this my brain initially processed "Dominic Moore? wtf?" then i realized it was the other Moore. Makes sense now, and agree.
I honestly believe Torts was more interested in the transition to defense short handed than he was in scoring on the power play.
I totally agree. He had a "let's play the PK all game even when we are on the PP mentaility". It was disgusting to watch after a while.
Del Zerro had plenty of opportunity on the pp and failed miserably. his shot was constantly missing the net, and missing to the point of the puck ending out clearing the zone. perhaps torts killed the one thing DZ had going for him the ability to bring the puck up, even that dimminished in my opinion over time.
Del Zotto is 22 and has never played for a coach with any offensive creativity. When you ask a player to do what they struggle at all the time and never to do what they are good with, that player will never look impressive.
A lot of him missing the net was there was always a guy right in front of him because the setup of the PP was retarded. There was no puck movement. No creativity. Nothing.
Yup, the PP was basically 5 players standing in the same position passing back and forth. You watch a lot of the good PP's and the players are moving, which creates passing and shooting lanes. The Rangers always seemed to just go on some sort of umbrella set up and each player just stand there and pass around the perimeter looking for a one timer, but we were very left handed so our one-timers were mostly coming from one side of the ice, making our PP even easier to defend against.
ill agree with that, but at the same time, i saw alot of standing around and not putting themselves in proper shooting positions when the puck was moved back to the point. A lot of that falls on richards imo. We will see what transpires this season with AV.
I could not freakin believe how Nash was basically never shooting the puck on the PP. You just can't make up stuff that you saw last year.
see that is where i have to go..there is no way the coaching staff would say...DONT PASS TO HIM or DONT SHOOT....too many timid players out there perhaps
Al the coaches might not be out there saying dont shoot, but when you emphasize defensive responsibilities and crucify players for mistakes, the overall result is timid offensive play. Guys more worried about making sure they dont make a mistake and aren't caught up ice than they are about scoring goals.
