The Rangers don’t have enough competitive fire in 3-0 Opening Night loss to the Penguins.
– “Play with some FU,” “No BS”… what happened to that?
– Bottom six outplays top six
– Igor Shesterkin awesome, Rangers waste it.
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39 Comments
When Matt Rempe is on your second power play unit and is 5he best player on the ice for your team you will not win any games!!
Pulling your goalie at any point does not work if you are not a puck possession team.
Starp In – it is going to be a long non-playoff season. Yeah, it is only game 1, but it is a continuation of the pre-season. They have limited offensive talent
No need to analyze the details, that was just very bad, period.
The falloff of Mika needs to be studied, it is just mind boggling how far he is fallen.
My internet went out right about the time this game started, maybe that was a blessing, but how did Laba play?
Yes I felt they pulled the goalie way too quick.
Is there anyone worth tanking for?
Kudos to Dan Muse and his Penguins coaching staff! His team was on point defensively all game and his players skated like they were shot out of a cannon all night!
Conversely, our lifeless and heartless NYR team played and showed who they are. It’s sad to say, but it’s going to be “Ground’s Hog Day” (like the movie) until we get an infusion of talent and youth into this lineup. Time to cut bait on Fox, Mika, and Lafreniere.
The older veterans don’t care. The younger players have heart
I can take a loss if we put maximum effort and just lose in a good game. The culture of this team is awful. No passion. No fire. No will to win.
Wasted my money going to this game. So disappointed in this team and dreading this season. Despite it being a 1 goal game we were dominated. Lost every board battle. Every pass across the ice was deflected. Just sloppy and hard to watch…
Rangers offensive players lack F U, Defense is good.
Digging into the corners, coming away with possession was a characteristic of the Penguins not the rangers. Especially when Igor came off the ice, you absolutely need your players controlling the puck, winning the boards. It just didn’t happen. To me that’s why the the boos came flooding out.
It really has to suck having #1 and #2 overall both be busts
Get ready for The Mike Sullivan System New York. That’s all we’ve dealt with here in Pittsburgh for the last 5 years. Blown leads, last minute of the period weak goals, not playing young players and zero physical play. You guys will turn on Sullivan before the years over. Good luck.
If Perreault, Roobroeck & Othmann play well for Hartford and we are 20 games into the Rangers season which is the quarter mark and say they have a record of 4-12-4 you think we will see these kids called up replacing guys like Raddysh Carrick Sheary??? This is the young Bottom 6 I’d like to see them have –
Othmann Laba Perreault
Edstrom Roobroeck Rempe
And I was gonna get the T-shirt.
The Rangers looked slow and measured in their play. Pitts forecheck took advantage for stretches. The top two lines???…better get it going.
The team needs an infusion of youth that Hartford can provide. It won't be long before Berard, Perleau, Morrow, Othemann are brought-up.
On paper, this team is worse than last year. Mika , Laffy and Fox are useless
This team doesnt have an ounce of the fire the Panthers have. If I learned anything it's not always the talent but the right guys with the right attitude who want to win. Rangers haven't had that in years
Soucy was the best offensive player in the final 8 minutes
Trocheck should not be the center between Panarin and Laf
Laf is a LW and bust
Trocheck was signed to be a 3c and is the reason kreider is a duck
Come December, the Sullivan hiring will not look so great. Come trade deadline, back to the rebuild :-
Which used up coach can we get next time?
Jon, the points that you brought up about goalies being pulled:
1) At the 2:30 mark or so, as opposed to 1:30 or less
And
2) Without his team having real puck possession and pressure in the offensive zone
is becoming a league-wide thing, and I don’t get it either. It feel like pure panic for the sake of pure panic.
And the other thing that I don’t get is that coaches these days will AGAIN pull the goalie down two, after having already given up one ENG. How many teams are really fighting back to force OT at that point? Why give your opponent ANOTHER freebie?
I knew when I hated the uniforms that they would come out and suck. This is a last place team, mark my words… no hustle, no chemistry against a bad team. The only FU was to the fans! I’m a Red Sox fan and I might just jump to being a Bruins fan since I’m moving to Massachusetts in six months. I’ve been a Rangers fan since 1968. I’ve never been less interested in a team as I am this year. I have no favorite player on this team.
Same shit different year
Drury should be on a short leash it's not the coach anymore sorry
I know ,it's only one game but if this keeps up…yikes ! If Drury is the problem and he stays …just saying .
Mika, Fox, Panarin and J.T. are complete jokes. Instead of doing dabs and pounding bottles of Vodka and Molson all Summer, they should have been getting in shape. Same old losers.
Doing a 37 minutes segment on this "no show" is quite an accomplishment.
It did not fell at all like a team celebrating its 100th annniversary. It looked like the Rangers players are 100 years old on average though. 🙁
No excitement whatsoever in this game. Boring, uninspired and not promising at all.
But the last time they went to the Finals in 2014 their season start under a new coach was worse. So, there's that!
Ill comment on Matt Rempe. yes this is like 30th on things to fix with the Rangers. That being said. He needs to be more like Tom Wilson. or John Scott. Im not talking about even dropping the gloves. But he doesnt have that energy like you better not hit bread or Mika cause ill get you or get your star. He doesnt stare anyone down in scrums. He just looks so soft out there. Love his big checks. dont mind him parking in front of the net o
n powerplay 2 if you want to try that. But he needs to be intimidating and he has none of that out there. Be nasty Matt. give little shoves and staredowns in scrums. be an intimidator.
Rangers suck and it’s wonderful how totally in disarray the whole franchise is. A complete mess
It's not about F U it's about 5×5 we are shit.
They played this game like it was a game in January vs. The Sharks.
The gift P.P. they got at the end of the 2nd/3rd period down by a goal was brutal. It took them 45 seconds to gain the o- zone. How is it so difficult to gain the zone if you have an extra skater?. No sense of urgency….
The Pens 1st. goal was all on Laffy. Bread was heading out to cover his man (well I hope he was) The near side D. Laffy just left his man looking to fly the zone….
Igor played well.
This is a .500 team at best..
mckenna
Fox is cooked. He looks the same as last year.
they looked lazy and really tired.
Y'all need to relax. Game one, two best forwards injured, new system etc. They looked way better than last year. The effort wasn't the problem, the execution was. It'll get better mark my words. Buncha alarmists.