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LOL Kessel is standing in the middle of the friggin crease.
Game 1 - Rangers at Pens MAF OUT
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Dont worry, we've got Rick nash. He will lead us to the cup one of these days.
Y'all can keep defending AV all you want, but this team will continue to regress under him. It's what happened in Vancouver when teams figured out his system, and it's what's happening right in front of our eyes here in New York. You guys can keep defending him, but I've watched ALL hockey for my whole life, not just this team. I've seen what AV did in Vancouver when they were great, and then what they became when teams figured him out and he got chased out of Vancouver. It's what we are seeing. Poor defensive zone coverage leaving goalies out on an island and getting burned out. Forwards not committing to defense and not back checking and flying the zone as soon as a dman touched the puck and resulting in a turnover. Ask Vancouver fans if they were happy to see him go at the end and you'll get a resounding yes.
Is what it is because he's not going anywhere unless we miss the playoffs.
Is what it is because he's not going anywhere unless we miss the playoffs.
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The pens have bought into sullivan's system perfectly. Even fat ass Kessel back checks...LOL
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Well, if they can chip another one in in the next few minutes this will get interesting but 4-2 is still a big hill to climb
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Zatkoff is terrible, lifetime minor leaguer. How they have managed not to win this game is beyond me.
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It still doesn't account for Girardi and Staal playing like they are. It's killing this team. If they were on their game nobody would be complaining about any systems.
AV isn't adapting his game plan to their declining skills. Focus more on defense. Sadly, play a more Torts style game where you focus 100% on defense and try to win 1-0, which you should be able to do with Hank especially if you focus on defense instead of trying to FLY out of the zone immediately and not give your dmen someone to pass to in the zone and force the dmen to pass down the ice, which is NOT Girardi or Staal's strength and not having Boyle out there who simply cannot keep up with the speed nor the physical aspect. AV has made his bed with Boyle, so he is the only one to blame for that crap. AV just needs to bite the bullet and stop forcing this team into something they're not, which is an offensive force. They're a defensive team that needs to focus on being solid in the defensive zone and letting the offense come from that.
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Fuck u AV, no reason to pull Raanta with 3 minutes
Regardless of anything, the Rangers didn't deserve this game. They were outplayed by a third string goalie and out coached by an ex assistant coach whom they could have hired when they got rid of Torts. Kind of ironic, no?
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They aren't winning this series . Too many players just sucking
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Anyone still wanna say they wanted Pittsburgh instead of Florida now?
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AV is a fucking joke of a coach. Too early to pull the goalie.
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Down two goals does it really matter?
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Time to goon it up next game. It is their only chance.
Like I said to my buddies last offseason, Nash NEEDS to go. Eat his whole fucking contract, who cares. Just get him off of this fucking team. He's teaching these young power forwards Hayes and Kreider and even Miller to coast and not go to the center of the ice.
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Two things....Rangers NEED McDonagh to come back and they better hope Lundqvist isn't injured to the point he misses any games.
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It took two former rangers for shitsburg to figure out how to beat this sorry ass team.
I'd rather they rested them and gave them an extended summer. Even with both of them, they're not winning this series if they're going to play with this type of effort and game plan.
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Extended summer my ass. With the chunk of cap Hank takes put a damn patch on your eye if you have to .
He's not winning this series by himself. He's not stealing a series this year. This is where AV's system is awful. His system isn't built to let a goalie steal a series. His system is built to out score his opponents and hope your goalie makes just enough plays to win 5-4. Problem is this team cannot score goals.
Its not the goalies. Its the terrible threesome of girardi, boyle and staal that will be hard to overcome. Get dylan in there
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"Defensively Nash was strong tonight" r u fucking kidding me...
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In a game like this one you have to score early. That said there's too many deficiencies and even without Malkin Pitt is the better team right now.
