Florida is built for the playoffs. They’re annoying to play against. The rangers have too many soft players in their top six. They will have to work their ass off to win this series. PP has dried up as well.
Don't forget the Panthers are one of the bet defensive teams in the league and have been so all year. All year. Not many players are going to produce when they are playing opposite Barkov, Bennett, Verheaghe, Ekblad, Ekman-Larson....those guys are great at shutting down the best players in the league.
Fox can’t even make the simple passes on line. He’s KILLING the PP, but is immune to being removed from it.
Literally after I posted that Fox fucks up at the blue line. He just simply CANNOT be on the PP anymore
Florida doesn’t give Some here expect the Rangers to win every game 7-0 where no player ever makes a mistake. Anything outside of that is a disaster and everybody sucks.
I don’t think ANYONE expects that. However, what we do expect is that when we can clearly see guys are hurting the team based upon the situations they are put in, they should be removed from those situations.
Rempe has outplayed many of our forwards tonight. He’s being physical, smart, forecheck and back checking well. I’d trust him out there more than Wennberg and Roslovic that’s for sure.
Next goal will go A LONG way to deciding what type of series this will be. I am admittedly nervous; after winning the OT games against the Canes you almost feel like law of averages is against us here. I am not sure I can express how huge this next goal is. If we get it, I know I'll feel really confident tonight, and think we are in a solid spot as we go to Florida, where I am confident, we'll play well on the road. Florida gets it, and while not over, it is very much on life support at best, and it will be a bad night and next few days. So huge!!!
Most of top 6 guys aren’t willing to go to dirty areas to score goals. That’s a big problem in the playoffs.
