I don't understand that, Kreider should be getting plenty of ice time. He needs to be on the ice as much as possible.
when things go bad, it is sad to watch incompetence wearing zebra stripes. bad enough Boyle had an all too frequent 'watching' lapse as Leafs were whacking away at Talbot.
Maybe cam is playing harder than henrik with his new guaranteed contract. Chris CALDER needs to be out there a lot more than he is. Made the play of the game when on a full sprint got ahead of the D on scoring chance which didn't happen cause the ballerina was doing one of his spin moves instead of getting him the damn puck and immediately after that sprints back on defense and plasters the toronto player into the boards and just takes the puck the other way. Needs to be out there in all situations including PK's. And the hobbit who is really growing on me had another feisty little game. Which you could put his heart with boyles size.
Jam, have you ever seen that before where after 2 whacks at the goalie and puck clearly secured underneath him a third guy is allowed to skate in and take another whack at the puck. And if you watch the replay ref comes from other side clearly cannot see puck has whistle in said mouth to blow play dead and just chokes on his whistle and doesn't blow it. Complete choke job by ref and can't blame cam for that one.
Cam cant secure that any more than he did, puck was frozen ref choked big time and had no idea what to do
You're right the ref screwed up, but Cam did not secure it enough. Just in that situation alone, shows you why we need some bigger, physical defensemen. Their won't be any extra whacks at the puck.
Great goal by Miller on a sweet feed from Kreider, the kid is playing great hockey last 3 games. Before the Leaf goal the ref was raising his whistle to blow the play dead on the first whack by Clarkson then for some reason stopped. Nash needs to slow down on shootouts and put a high hard accurate shot on goal, he comes in like he has two defenders tugging on his shirt and usually loses control of the puck before he can get a shot off.
I've been high on Zucc for awhile, glad things are finally coming together for him. Amazing what a player like him can do when given a chance to create on O
I understand that Mel, and I agree, the ref screwed up. However, Cam needs to make sure the puck doesn't go in, and any Ranger around the goal cannot allow anybody from Toronto to come in and take extra whacks at the puck. Anybody coming toward's Cam, should have been put on his ass.
Maloney on the radio was really questioning the lack of using Kreider late and in OT, and I agree. Doesn't make much sense. I guess AV simply doesn't trust him in big spots tied. Interesting. Nash...not really sure what to say about Nash. He is lost right now IMO. And his shootouts are poor. Enough with the fancy sh*t...just rip it. He is frustrating me right now. Great we got 2 points, but a downer we gave Toronto 1, and had to win in a SO, which hurts tiebreakers down the road. Solid 2 points though. Good ending with 4 straight points. And I think you have to start Cam Friday night...how can you not.
Zucc and Stepan come in and just shoot the puck past Bernier, which should have been a recipe for success. So what does Nash do? Tries to take the puck past him and shoots wide ... Dohhhh
It won't happen, but I'd love to here AV's reasons for keeping Kreider on the bench as often as he does. He needs to play ... period
Perhaps AV can tie Nash's skates together next shootout to convince him to try a wrist/slapshot. I'm wondering if CK sat in OT because of the delay of game penalty, AV has to accept that young players are going to make mistakes. Give the guy a chance to redeem himself, at least a pissed off Kreider is going to play physically.
A penalty like that doesn't help the case for AV to play Kreider late in close games. I agree mistakes will happen, but that is a reason why AV might not trust him late in close games. I don't agree with it, but I am sure that is stuff AV thinks about.
