Rangers vs Kraken game 9

[kreidertime]

Don’t see me staying up to watch too much of this. Record button

 

[mrmel29]

And Kreids makes it 1-0

 

[Stepupstepan]

CK is earning his paycheck. Hopefully, he can keep it up. Why are they still carrying 8 d-men? Tinordi is complete garbage.

 

[Stepupstepan]

This team is so slow in their own zone.

 

[Ranger71]

Fox out. Ugh.

 

[Ranger71]

Fox back. Yaay!

 

[Stepupstepan]

As soon as Fox was back, the d got so much better. lol, It's day and night when he is out there.

 

[Greyvtrayn]

Fox is a lot of fun to watch. he is such a smooth skater. The difference in speed between him and Lindgren vs Tinordi and Nemeth is stark. It is painful watching the latter two chasing down pucks shot into their own end.

 

[Greyvtrayn]

Igor....wow.

 

[Ranger71]

Dipshit Trouba doesn't get Shesterkin his stick.

 

[kreidertime]

Looks like a bunch of hung over assholes from Panerin’s birthday party

 

[Ranger71]

Uses Trouba as a screen.

 

[mrmel29]

That 2nd period as bad as we can play. 2 shots on goal. Skating like we’re in cement. Tinordi is totally useless!

 

[Ranger71]

Miller continues his lackluster play.

 

[mrmel29]

And the best d man in hockey makes it 2-1

 

[mrmel29]

Rangers prevail 3-1 but IGOR stole another one. Panarin and zman need to get going already.

 

[Stepupstepan]

Basically, it looks like Igor will be dragging their asses into the playoffs for years to come as that other guy who used to wear number 30

 

[Ranger71]

Shesterkin is definately a top 3 goalie in the league now.

 

[Greyvtrayn]

Most definitely. He is keeping the Rangers in a lot of games and gives them a chance to win. What a great start to the season he is having!

 

[mrmel29]

It’s early yet but I hope gallant moves KAKKO onto PP1 for strome and as blasphemous as it sounds move Laf onto PP1 for Panarin. It’s time for those 2 moves to be made

 

[NYR Fan]

Play Kakko on PP1 over Panarin, that is awesome. You guys are hot stuff.

 

[Greyvtrayn]

The idea was Kakko in place of Strome on PP1 I thought.

 

[kreidertime]

He’s retarded. Apparently he’s happy with having a power-play that is never elite. Strome and Kreider are not first power-play players

 

[Greyvtrayn]

It's definitely a mistake having Strome on the first PP unit. Maybe Gallant wants a secondary C out there for draws? I don't know. He is out of place on that unit though and putting Kakko in his spot is the move. As for Kreider...he's the only guy scoring on PP at the moment. PP2 should be Strome, LaF and uhhh....shit...I guess that's another glaring hole....no scoring depth.

 

[Ranger71]

Plus other than Fox they don't have anybody who can hit the net consistently from the blue line. Trouba shoots like he's aiming for Randalls Island.

 

[NYR Fan]

It’s early yet but I hope gallant moves KAKKO onto PP1 for strome and as blasphemous as it sounds move Laf onto PP1 for Panarin. It’s time for those 2 moves to be made

We are all smarter than our coaches every year. Dolan should hire this message board to coach the team...LOL.

 

[mrmel29]

And the controversial I’m not chuck at it again.

 

[kreidertime]

Every year Chuck sucks off the coach who ends up not making the playoffs. Great philosophy. If you look at every other team in the league who drafts a forward very high, when they are on the NHL roster they feature them prominantly an totally commit to developing them. The Rangers are the only team in hockey that refuses to do this. The number 1 way you develop a young scorer is by putting him on the first PP unit.

 

[NYR Fan]

If you are talking about me, no I don't suck off any coach. I just don't knock every coach and call for them to be fired shortly after they take the job, I don't question just about every move they make, and I certainly don't pretend to know more than every coach as you pretend to.

So far this coach is not elevating Kakko and Lafreniere, same as the last coach. This coach is playing guys like McKegg and Hunt, same as the last coach. And is not playing guys like Gauthier, same as the last coach. But ah yes we know better than the coaches do because we do research. That might be your best line ever, and that's a big statement with some of your winners.

You have to laugh. Come on it is funny stuff, it really is.

 

[Greyvtrayn]

Not as funny as pretending to not be the same person who used to go by a different user name.
What is frustrating is this coach doesn't seem to be taking that much different of an approach as the last coach and we all know how that worked out for the Rangers with him. Yes, the Rangers are 5-3-1 but it's indisputable that is solely because of Igor's incredible performance so far. This team can't score on the PP outside of Kreider deflecting pucks into the net. They continue to be a below average face-off team, they continue to struggle with puck possession, they continue to pass up scoring chances. When they start playing the more talented teams in the league a lot of their shortcomings are going to be exposed.