This team will NOT beat Caps. It is what it is! It doesn't matter if they get out of the first round or not, they will not go past Caps this year. Hopefully starting this summer they will dismantle this team, keep only Hank, Zuc, Brass, Miller, Yandle, McD, McIlrath. That's it! Trade the rest of the team if they can. Rebuild!!!!!
I honestly cant even see them beating the isles in the first round. No confidence in this coaching staff and too many slow ass passengers like Girardi, Boyle and M. Staal.
Surprised with a playoff spot a given at this point and hank big workload with 40 saves after coming back raanta not in nets tmo. Pens lost malkin by the way for 6 to 8 weeks last night with the infamous upper body injury.
They have enough pieces on this team that are tradable now. Krieder, Hayes, Nash, Girardi, Stepan, MStall if they can trade him, Fast, Linberg. They can get good return for these players. It is possible to rebuild and win a cup within next few years. Hank is not that old!
Of course you can't Step...LOL. Malkin is out 6-8 weeks. Evgeni Malkin will be sidelined six to eight weeks with an upper-body injury, the Pittsburgh Penguins announced Saturday. So the Isles are without their # 1 goalie for the remainder of the regular season AND at least the first 3 or 4 games of round 1. AND the Pens are without Malkin for the remainder of the regular season AND I would say at least round 1. The Rangers will finish in 2nd place IMO, especially if they beat the Pens tomorrow. They'll most likely play the Isles in round 1 with Halak out for at least part of the series. I think we would beat the Isles. And then we'll be big underdogs against the Caps, but who knows what will happen once they drop the puck if we are fortunate enough to get to the 2nd round.
Even if it was close to being possible which it isn't. The fact that you think a team can trade 80% of their players and not suck at least 5-6 years is laughable.
You guys on this board are a pathetic and sad joke. Not much else to say. Post after post knocking everyone and everything. It is sad and pathetic. You so called Rangers fans should be ashamed of yourselves. All this board is now is that guy sucks, this guy sucks, the coach sucks, the team sucks, everyone sucks. Trade everyone. We will lose to everyone. ON AND ON. It is sad and pathetic. It is also why all the good posters bolted this board because of all you joke posters. Fake a** Ranger fans. Go be a fan of the Canes or Oilers or Isles...teams that would die to be the Rangers. Outside of the Hawks and Kings the Rangers have been BY FAR the best team in the NHL the past 4 or 5 seasons. Been to 3 of the last 4 ECF's. Made a SCF. Won EIGHT playoff rounds the past 4 seasons, and all you guys do is whine and cry and knock everyone. You all give up early every single season. It is so f'ing pathetic, and the reason this board has become a wasteland. Feel good about yourselves guys.
You are a delusional moron half the time with this team. You shouldn't be talking. 1 cup in 75 years. So if people want to be negative, it sure as hell has a ton more credibility than you blowing sunshine up everybody's ass 24 hours a day about the team is fine and is a contender. There are probably fans on this board that have been watching this team for 50 years with one championship. If they want to be negative, they sure as fuck have earned it without you being Mr. Positive. Hayes sucks by the way. He's a lazy dog. I will be very happy if they trade him for picks and a prospect.
Dump your years of insults have grown old and have always been uncalled for. If you acted in person the way you do behind the safety of your keyboard you wouldn't have a single tooth left in your mouth. If you want to talk about credibility then get a new act already and cut the shit.
You have to have good seasons and get to the playoffs in order to win the cup. You're so invested in them losing that you can't help but be miserable.
Because I don't give up before the playoffs have even started by claiming I know exactly what's going to happen once they do begin.
I don't give a rats ass if they have a good season. This is NY. It's a team with one of the top goalies in the game who is getting older. Anything but a cup is a complete failure at this point.
I've said it since 2 weeks into the season. This team has regressed. Trading more picks and a top prospect away most likely will be a complete failure again. Hope I'm wrong. A lot in the playoffs can depend on injuries. Our defense other than McDonagh looks slower than whale shit sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
I am just being realistic. I've watched this team all season to know how it is going to end. Take off your homer glasses, bro.
