2011-2012 Season

[Lucy Brown]

Thanks Hank. Way to step up in OT

[PotvinSucks]

Time to face reality. Henrik just isnt a good playoff goalie. I hope I end up eating those words, but I doubt I will.

Oh and Sather shouldve pulled the trigger on the Nash deal. The only thing Dubinky is good for is giving the puck away.

When Brian Boyle is the only player who is scoring on your team when you have names like Marian Gaborik and Brad Richards...youve got problems.

End rant.

[nyr2]

Originally Posted by PotvinSucks

Time to face reality. Henrik just isnt a good playoff goalie. I hope I end up eating those words, but I doubt I will.

Oh and Sather shouldve pulled the trigger on the Nash deal. The only thing Dubinky is good for is giving the puck away.

When Brian Boyle is the only player who is scoring on your team when you have names like Marian Gaborik and Brad Richards...youve got problems.

End rant.

Well, he has ALWAYS faded down the stretch, but there were also excuses...Olympics, too many games, the team sucks, etc. I don't know. He definitely didn't play well the last few games of the season, but it's tough to say that he's been terrible...hes less than 2 gaa and hes at .940 save percentage with a shutout. If the team doesn't go on a steady decline after scoring the second PP goal, we aren't having this discussion.

And the Nash deal can be argued forever, but you are forgetting that Dubinsky wasn't the only piece...more importantly Del Zotto or McDonagh would have been gone as well. They are our top 2 d-men, so the addition by subtraction wouldn't have worked. The PP is terrible and there is no guarantee that Nash would have improved it.

The fact is that they can beat any team out there, the problem is when they play sloppy and don't play "their" game they can be beaten by anyone...and will be. As Lucy said, they can't clear the puck 2 games in a row, there is no excuse for that. Ice the damn thing if you have to, anything is better than just setting up the defense for a point shot.

[nyrgoal]

The biggest problem here is they played too soft. They are being out muscled by the Sens on almost every play. I hope and pray that Rupp is gone next year and we sign Boll. The kid isnt the best fighter but he plays 150% every shift, he bangs bodies, stands up for teammates, drops the mits, and his balls are the size of faceoff dots, hes not scared of anything.

Rupp has been a worthless pile of POO. Hes not physical, he cant skate, he cant check, he cant do anything. Stephan and alrady mentioned is useless along with Mitchell and Arty.

This is the playoffs its time to ELEVATE your game and step it up not just 1 notch but 10!!! Hank played great the other night and played well last night but as Ive always said with Hank, he makes the hardest saves in the world but cant make the easiest saves.

AND WILL SOMEONE SHOW MIKE DZ HOW TO HIT THE MOTHER FRIG*ING NET. The kid takes 10 shots a game and never once does he ever hit the dam net. That drives me absolutely crazy.

[bigjack]

Lundqvist isn't the problem at all. If DelZotto doesn't score on Lundqvist and Staal blocked the pass in game 2 that went through him right to Foligno, they win that game, he stole game 3 with 39 saves and last night they stopped shooting on the PP and aren't getting enough traffic in front and are allowing all kinds of traffic in front of him. How about putting some of the blame on the defenseman who I think have been fair at best and when Boyle is your best forward that isn't good for the team!
How many right in front great scoring chances has Callahan missed an an example? In 1994 as an example, the Rangers best players in Leetch and Messier stepped up and were dominate and we need our best players to be dominate!
DelZotto is handling the puck on the blueline on the PP like it's a hand grenade for chrissakes. Stralman looks calm and DelZotto looks jumpy as a cat and all nervous!
It's a 3 game series with 2 on home ice! We'll see what they are made of!

[Lucy Brown]

I thought the the 4 line didnt do to bad the few times they were out there. Towards the end of the third period they actually were pretty effictive in the Ottowa zone. In fact Rupp had a good shift towards the end there and I was telling my Dad "watch Rupp come up big here and get a goal". I dont understand how you get through the playoffs with 3 lines. Thats ridiculous. The only reason Torts put the 4th line out there was because the other guys were beat tired. The only guys that I saw out there moving and hitting were Boyle and Dubi. Everybody else sucked last night. Even Cally didnt have a good game. I got a feeling this is going to go 7 games. This team loves to give me ageda. I swear this team will be the death of me.

[bigjack]

Originally Posted by Lucy Brown

I thought the the 4 line didnt do to bad the few times they were out there. Towards the end of the third period they actually were pretty effictive in the Ottowa zone. In fact Rupp had a good shift towards the end there and I was telling my Dad "watch Rupp come up big here and get a goal". I dont understand how you get through the playoffs with 3 lines. Thats ridiculous. The only reason Torts put the 4th line out there was because the other guys were beat tired. The only guys that I saw out there moving and hitting were Boyle and Dubi. Everybody else sucked last night. Even Cally didnt have a good game. I got a feeling this is going to go 7 games. This team loves to give me ageda. I swear this team will be the death of me.

I agree with you about the 4th line and Bickel. I thought that Rupp did some good forechecking in games 3 and 4 and was hardly used and Bickel barely plays. DelZotto has looked nervous this series and McDonagh has taken some big hits and needs to hit back and knock a Neil on his ass or some of the skilled Senators!
I love Cally but he's had at least 4-5 wideopen shots or even partial breakaways this series and hasn't buried any of them. Those shots need to buried and I remember Staal, as an example, last night coming in around the faceoff circle with a great scoring chance and he blasted the damn puck around 4 feet wide.
Whenever Neil is out there the Rangers should have a physical player against him! I'm not talking playing stupid but do what he is doing. Play physical and at the edge and bang some Senators and keep an eye on him!

[pesadillamal]

The constant rotating of three tired lines is driving me crazy. We played a whole season to get ready for this and we did it with four lines playing and we did it by meeting challenges head on. Now Torts wants to preach "Ignore the extra stuff"? We didn't get first seed by ignoring anything so that is just complete BS.

I still think they will win the series but I am disappointed with some players so far. Strahlman could take his goal and shove it with that "defense" he displayed in OT. Maybe next time you could just turn and skate right into Henry you fXck.

[bigjack]

Originally Posted by pesadillamal

The constant rotating of three tired lines is driving me crazy. We played a whole season to get ready for this and we did it with four lines playing and we did it by meeting challenges head on. Now Torts wants to preach "Ignore the extra stuff"? We didn't get first seed by ignoring anything so that is just complete BS.

I still think they will win the series but I am disappointed with some players so far. Strahlman could take his goal and shove it with that "defense" he displayed in OT. Maybe next time you could just turn and skate right into Henry you fXck.

I won't make any excuses but I do hear ya about playing his top players forever. The thing that really pis*es me off is that the Rangers have led for every second of the series and yet it is tied 2 to 2. The only time these rat bastard Senators have led is when they scored the OT goals!
Pric*s!

[nyr2]

Originally Posted by nyrgoal

The biggest problem here is they played too soft. They are being out muscled by the Sens on almost every play. I hope and pray that Rupp is gone next year and we sign Boll. The kid isnt the best fighter but he plays 150% every shift, he bangs bodies, stands up for teammates, drops the mits, and his balls are the size of faceoff dots, hes not scared of anything.

Rupp has been a worthless pile of POO. Hes not physical, he cant skate, he cant check, he cant do anything. Stephan and alrady mentioned is useless along with Mitchell and Arty.

This is the playoffs its time to ELEVATE your game and step it up not just 1 notch but 10!!! Hank played great the other night and played well last night but as Ive always said with Hank, he makes the hardest saves in the world but cant make the easiest saves.

AND WILL SOMEONE SHOW MIKE DZ HOW TO HIT THE MOTHER FRIG*ING NET. The kid takes 10 shots a game and never once does he ever hit the dam net. That drives me absolutely crazy.

Early in the season Rupp was hurt so it was hard to tell what would happen, then he had his shining moment in the Winter Classic...since then he has been useless. I say worse than Mitchell because Mitchell is doing really what he is expected to do, Rupp is not. Think Sandy McCarthys final season with the team.

And as far as last night goes, I would love to know what was said in the locker room...they score on their first 2 PP's doing all the right things and shooting the puck...then that stopped and they reverted to what they did all season that didn't work. How does that happen? You do it right 2 times in a row and then you stop shooting...not saying that they would have gone 7 for 7, but if they were shooting they may have grabbed one more goal which very well could have put the nail in the coffin. This team has perplexed me my whole life.

Let's just all hope they get the fire back for Saturday, because if not this will be over in 6.

[bigjack]

Originally Posted by nyr2

Early in the season Rupp was hurt so it was hard to tell what would happen, then he had his shining moment in the Winter Classic...since then he has been useless. I say worse than Mitchell because Mitchell is doing really what he is expected to do, Rupp is not. Think Sandy McCarthys final season with the team.

And as far as last night goes, I would love to know what was said in the locker room...they score on their first 2 PP's doing all the right things and shooting the puck...then that stopped and they reverted to what they did all season that didn't work. How does that happen? You do it right 2 times in a row and then you stop shooting...not saying that they would have gone 7 for 7, but if they were shooting they may have grabbed one more goal which very well could have put the nail in the coffin. This team has perplexed me my whole life.

Let's just all hope they get the fire back for Saturday, because if not this will be over in 6.

I just find it so frustrating because they have led all 4 games and let games 2 and 4 get away!
The other thing is can Stepan score a point in the playoffs. I might be wrong but I don't think that he has a point yet in his Rangers playoff career!
Well we are with Boston, the Devils, the Caps, and the Panthers all 2 and 2. They have to stop allowing Ottawa to dictate the tempo after they take a lead and go for the damn kill!
Even in game 1 they are up 4-0 and then allow Ottawa two late goals!
Go for the goddamn kill!
Remember the 1979 playoffs against the Islanders? The Rangers won game 1, lost game 2 on a Potvin wrist shot in OT, won game 3, lost game 4 on a Nystrom OT goal when Davidson fuc*ed up coming out of his net for the puck and missed it and Nystrom had an open net, and won games 5 and 6!
Lets hope that this series ends like that one did!

[nyrgoal]

Ya know what kills me is that Neil and Konopka are crushing us. Konopka is absolutely crushing us on every faceoff, I cant count how many times the Sens put him out he wins the draw on the PK or wins an offensive zone draw that leads to a few shots on goal. The guy is dominating every Rangers on draws. Then Neil is out there for what seems like the whole darn game. Hes even on the number 1 PP unit and he scored the GW goal in there first win. Hes averaging around 13-14 min a game, which isnt crazy high but thats more than Bickel and Rupp who should be out there banging with him.

Every shift Konokpa and Neil are out there, they are throwing hits, banging in the corners, throwing in little cheap shots after the whislte to knock guys off there game. They are doing everything right and the Rangers have not answered back physically to them hardly at all.

I would like to see Rupp grab Neil and Bickel grab Konopka and just shut them up and shut them down tomorrow.

Torts needs to face it, the Sens arent winning because they are a better team, they are winning because they are winning all the physical battles when need be.

[bigjack]

Originally Posted by nyrgoal

Ya know what kills me is that Neil and Konopka are crushing us. Konopka is absolutely crushing us on every faceoff, I cant count how many times the Sens put him out he wins the draw on the PK or wins an offensive zone draw that leads to a few shots on goal. The guy is dominating every Rangers on draws. Then Neil is out there for what seems like the whole darn game. Hes even on the number 1 PP unit and he scored the GW goal in there first win. Hes averaging around 13-14 min a game, which isnt crazy high but thats more than Bickel and Rupp who should be out there banging with him.

Every shift Konokpa and Neil are out there, they are throwing hits, banging in the corners, throwing in little cheap shots after the whislte to knock guys off there game. They are doing everything right and the Rangers have not answered back physically to them hardly at all.

I would like to see Rupp grab Neil and Bickel grab Konopka and just shut them up and shut them down tomorrow.

Torts needs to face it, the Sens arent winning because they are a better team, they are winning because they are winning all the physical battles when need be.

That is where Torts is doing a poor job, I agree! When those guys are on the ice, a physical Ranger must be also! Prust showed a little more spunk the last game but you are right. Ottawa is winning the physical battles!
I would say play physical but smart because it's the playoffs.

[nyrgoal]

Originally Posted by bigjack

That is where Torts is doing a poor job, I agree! When those guys are on the ice, a physical Ranger must be also! Prust showed a little more spunk the last game but you are right. Ottawa is winning the physical battles!
I would say play physical but smart because it's the playoffs.

Exactly.

Its not rocket science here. To be physical doesnt mean whacking guys with your stick, or punching guys in the face.

To be effective all the Rangers have to do is play like Boyle and Cally (when cally is on his game). Skate hard, back check, go hard into the corners, throw a hit everytime you can, crash the net in the O zone and clear the net in front of Hank.

After almost every whislte FAGlino or Neil or Konopka are just crashing the net hard and causing a ruckus. We need to do that in front of Anderson.

[bigjack]

Originally Posted by nyrgoal

Exactly.

Its not rocket science here. To be physical doesnt mean whacking guys with your stick, or punching guys in the face.

To be effective all the Rangers have to do is play like Boyle and Cally (when cally is on his game). Skate hard, back check, go hard into the corners, throw a hit everytime you can, crash the net in the O zone and clear the net in front of Hank.

After almost every whislte FAGlino or Neil or Konopka are just crashing the net hard and causing a ruckus. We need to do that in front of Anderson.

100% true and it's why the idiots who think the Carkner play was a smart play are nuts or full of sh*t!
We need some dirty goals and some grit and gotta give Hank a chance!