100% you want to win this game, "need" to win every playoff game, but if we do lose clearly, we can still win the series at 2-2 with home ice. Maybe Florida has the edge and the inside track, maybe, but if this is 2-2 we can win it still of course. Go win OT!!!
Fucking Mika screwing this team over. Can’t score a goal, can’t get an assist and causing the loss. Fuck off Mika. Seriously. Go run head first into a wall without your helmet. We should have started OT with a 5 on 3 PP but these refs don’t see anything Florida does and Lavi is a fucking pussy ass bitch for not calling this shit out.
Zman should walk back to my. What a ficking embarrassment t he was tonight. And lava starting that line in OT instead of trocheck is also a joke.
Impossible to win when top guys are continuously a no show and the refs are in the pocket of one team.
Had a feeling that was going to be a quick one. Have to stop getting outplayed so badly in the 3rd wtf
Can’t keep getting outshot this badly. The attempts let alone shots on goal are skewed beyond belief towards Florida.
It’s also tough to not get outshot when you’re on the PK for ticky tak shit and the other team runs your goalie countless times without a call and pulls down a player at center ice nullifying a 2 on 1 and then your player on the 1 on 1 gets tripped. Rangers are playing passive because the refs have made them play that way with the penalty calls. We have a puck scrum along the boards and get called for holding. They literally pull a guy down at center and trip us and nothing. Can only do so much when that shit isn’t getting called.
Unfortunately, a few of us felt this would be a quick OT tonight. The Rangers penalty kill has gone South this series. The Panthers have 5 PPG's, we have 1. Not sure if that is Vesey being out, or just a coincidence and poor PK, but it is no good. It is actually pretty amazing the series is 2-2 considering according to some we cannot play 5 on 5, and are -4 on the PP, and -3 on special teams overall. Keep playing with fire and this is what will happen. If I'm Zibanejad and Kreider you need to look in the mirror and say I need to do better, and while Panarin and Fox had a few points tonight, I would say they really haven't been impactful either. Said before the series two of the biggest keys were limiting Barkov and holding Reinhart down on the PP, and the Rangers have struggled with both. Those are all big keys, and so is the penalties for the Rangers, they have to take less penalties, the Florida PP is too good, and it kills any momentum we can get. I said it before OT, and I'll say it now, the winner of game 5 will win this series. We are home, the crowd should be buzzing, and we need to come out strong and play well at home, where I am actually less confident in this team than on the road. My fear is this is the TB series from 2 years ago all over again, are the Rangers out of gas and Florida will roll in 6, we'll find out in game 5, the game that will be the key to the whole series, I think. Teams that win game 5 in a 2-2 series win 79% of the time, and I expect that to hold true for the winner of game 5.
Mika needs to take a long walk off a short bridge if we lose this series. Panarin has been bad, several others have been bad, but Mika is making their bad look McDavid good. He is playing with his head firmly up his ass. There’s no excuses anymore. He needs to man up, come out game 5 and get at least a goal and an assist in a rangers win or he can take his happy ass on down to the next team.
Mika is definitely a massive disappointment. He has to know better than that pass to Wheeler. Not to mention it seems like he wants nothing to do with playoff hockey.
We need to win game 5, I agree. Game 2 was as close to a must win as a non-elimination game can be for us, and we won. Game 4 was as close to a must win as a non-elimination game can be for Florida, and they won. Now I think game 5 is as close to a must win as a non-elimination game can be for us again, what will happen. It would be very difficult for me to see the Rangers losing game 5 and still winning the series. This is the game, and it goes both ways. While I can see the Panthers having the clearly better shot to win down 3-2 in the series, if we win game 5, I think we will win the series, and the Panthers will be up against. We have been too good and gotten it done too many times back against the wall to think we win game 5, but lose the series, I think we'd find a way. That is why I very strongly believe the game 5 winner wins the series.
Yes, I also fear This is like two years ago when they just simply ran out of gas against Tampa Bay. I don’t think it is but They’ve been out played pretty bad in the third period in tight games
