Rangers-pens tuesday

[mrmel29]

Kinkaid in the nets. Lets see what he has

 

[kreidertime]

Is Sam drinking he didn’t know what the hell happened

 

[mrmel29]

Rangers getting dominated but in the way hockey works Johnson scores from the blue line for rangers 1-0 lead. I hope Sam retires after this year as he seems to be missing players names and what’s going on more and more often.

 

[Ranger71]

Wow they actually generated some offense.

 

[kreidertime]

M I think Sam is fine he has the occasional hiccup he still better than shit out there. That’s why Kreider pisses me off. He threw a big hit caused a turn over and they score he just doesn’t do that enough

 

[mrmel29]

Wow they actually generated some offense.

I don’t know if I’d go that far! Ha ha ha

 

[Greyvtrayn]

Part of the issue with Sam is they are not in the arena for the away games.

 

[NYR Fan]

Exactly on Sam and Joe. They are watching on a big screen TV from NY just like us. This is reality in the Covid world.

I thought that was a pretty crappy period. Lucky to be tied 1-1. Hopefully they step their game up.

 

[Ranger71]

Miller is hitting the rookie wall a little.

 

[NYR Fan]

I'll say one thing Miller needs to work on, he gets beat wide a lot. Sometimes his long reach makes up for it, and sometimes not. Either way even if his reach makes up for it, that's not the fundamentally sound way to play, and he needs to improve that aspect of his game.

And before anyone jumps on it, I am not even knocking Miller or bothered by this as he's been great overall, and a godsend, and of course he has some stuff to work on at his young inexperienced age. So not even stating it as a negative, just saying he needs to work on it because it appears to be his one big struggle early in his career.

 

[kreidertime]

Yep

 

[Ranger71]

He seems to get turned around the wrong way alot.

 

[NYR Fan]

Miller is hitting the rookie wall a little.

I think he's at the point where teams have a book on him now, go wide IMO, and he needs to adjust. He needs to be more fundamentally sound and not rely just on physcial skills and reach to make up for things. All part of growing and learning for a young player. That's my take.

 

[mrmel29]

The other thing Miller needs to do more of is hitting people. He is not small at 6’5” and 200 plus lbs. needs to start using his size more and take these guys out of plays

 

[kreidertime]

He will in time he didn’t even play in the AHL he played in college with the facemask.

 

[kreidertime]

Time to shut this shit off and save myself from more pain which I don’t want

 

[Ranger71]

Very choppy team without Panarin making plays.

 

[Greyvtrayn]

Wowww...exciting last 3:00 minutes!

 

[strudwickisthebest]

Exciting? That was sad. This team sucks

 

[NYR Fan]

Very exciting finish, with many chances, but Buch has to finish that. Lift the darn puck man, come on. Great save my butt...LIFT THE PUCK.

I have not been more disappointed then I am right now in a few years. I really was hopeful they could make a statement in these two games, instead their season is now pretty much over. Finishing 6th and onto next season. What a damn shame.

5 of these 6 periods showed the Rangers are simply not ready to take the next step and win yet.

 

[theProdigy223]

This team misses Panarin, but they really miss him in situations like that third period. Lots of hard work, nobody who can be counted on to put the puck in the net or at the least open up some ice for the rest of the team.

I for one am thankful for Sam, because the way this season is going one of the highlights will end up being when he referred to Nolan Patrick on the Flyers as Nolan Ryan.

 

[NYR Fan]

Totally agree on Panarin (BTW - at this point who knows if/when he'll be back). At days end though Buch was all alone in front and shot it into Jarry's pad. Frustrating...

 

[theProdigy223]

At days end though Buch was all alone in front and shot it into Jarry's pad. Frustrating...

Twice! Two different times he needed to elevate the puck maybe 2 feet and couldnt do it. Incredibly frustrating. Two great plays by Zib to get him the puck though.

I like Buch for what he is, but on a competitive team that is at full strength a guy like him is not out there in the last minute down a goal in the first place.

 

[mrmel29]

Biggest problem is this team just can’t put the puck in the ocean. Seems like we have too many skilled players even without panarin to be this bad offensively!

 

[kreidertime]

Fire Quinn

 

[strudwickisthebest]

They should have hired Trotz

 

[kreidertime]

Don’t worry according to Chuck and Grayv this team who has one cup in 81 years knows what they’re doing.

 

[Greyvtrayn]

I thought I was on ignore.
This season is a throw away season and has been from day 1. But go ahead and keep playing your fantasy GM game dumpy. Maybe one day you will get something right so you can pretend like what you said made a difference. At least you will feel some sense of satisfaction that you seem to struggle to find.