What has Lisen done to get benched 2 games? He hasn’t played well… but not many have? What am I missing? I herd Torts post game comments but it still doesn’t make sense to me?

The third line tonight is interesting… But I don’t think it is in a good way.

Hopefully we can get some revenge tonight… but I’m guessing it is going to be painfull to watch.

At least I we get the rest of the week off! As a fan I need the rest.

I mean, how on earth can Brashear on the 3rd line be remotely considered a good idea? Let alone to do it for the 2nd time this year.

If Lisin needs to be benched, and for the life of me I don’t know why he needs to be benched, then go get Grachev from the doldrums and start an actual top 9 forward.

I just don’t get it. It’s dumbfounding.

Staal with Rozsival? Is he officially saying “lets take our worst defenseman and put him with our best, and see if that fixes it?”

“the lines for tonight, subject to change after everyone’s first shift:”

Firts I like the idea if this guy coming here to ny but I feel like he’s tearing this team Down to teach a lesson but doesn’t know how to motivate them back up. Benching lisin is RIDICULOUS!!!!! The kid was in his words "lost " defensivly before the season started and although he still isn’t the best in his own end he works his ass off and doesn’t look like as much of a reliability when I watch him now then before. So WTF is he doing makes no sense at all. Drives me nuts how is this gonna help lisin he needs to play to get better and find his scoring touch. If it’s a lesson he’s trying to teach him he should get fired now because he’s not the one to bench. I’m starting to hate torts if seeing brashear on the 3rd line didn’t put me over the edge already. He’s lucky he changes the lines every shift otherwise I’d be outside with a sign that says FIRE TORTS!!!’ for the next 55 games.

I’m not a huge fan of brashear myself but at least he attempts to stand up for his teammates (fact that he doesn’t do a good job of it is another story). Nothing kills me more then not seeing them stand up for each other or hank.

If we are going to make a rebuilding season out of this I would rather see rookies up here making the mistakes then vets not making the effort. I do like torts style but their is no excuse for a fiery coach to allow his team to play so relaxed.

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now then….what happened to the fiery torts we saw last season. he has been all but a good coach these last few seasons. the question is why the hell is he benching lisin? hes been one of the better rangers as of late. why is torts not calling any of his “famous” timeouts? after the few goals in the first, second, or even third period.

i dont blame vali as much, even though they were soft goals, but c’mon. torts is loosing a grip on this team, and they need to send a STRONG message tonight if they hope to even make the playoffs.

p.s. what up with dubi? any word on him?

I’ve been waiting to see him on the first line too I thought if somthing can get him going it’s prospal and gabs…. I mean the Avery dubi jagr line were good hopefully he gets a couple good open looks tonite.

Torts obviously wants to have Brashear on the ice more so he can stand up for our guys more often and Boyle and Voros can do that stuff too. Yeah all three absolutly stink at it but what are we going to do. I would like to bench Drury but with his value on faceoffs(when on his game) is much more valuable then Lisin at this point. But yeah its odd for sure why hes doing this, and just shows how he really lost the wheel. lets hope he moves Kotalik up to third and keeps the Goons on the 4th most of the game and maybe we’ll have a chance. And lets hope Lisin isnt benched for long either.

Am I the only one who thinks we need a real captain on the team? Chris Drury is not rallying anybody, he’s not leading by example, he’s not pulling a shanny, cally or gilroy and standing up for teammates. He is, for all intents and purposes, invisible. Everybody blames Torts, and he does shoulder a lot of the blame. Erratic changing of lines, hindering of chemistry and now a dumb benching of Lisin are all on his back. But Drury should be the focus of the team, someone to build around. Short of being “the face off guy,” and a solid penalty killer, Drury has been crap. We need a real captain on this team to step up and give these guys a tongue lashing and some identity.

Went to the game on Friday in Tampa what a disgrace! I still believe in Torts as a coach, but even I have my limits. This is clearly a team that is thinking Way too much. I believe the reason that Torts is not going ape doodoo on the bench is that the team psyche is extremely fragile and could implode to even worse depths. We all have to remember Torts still doesn’t know these guys very well. If we have to take a step back this year to move two forward then so be it. I’m tired of 1st or 2nd round exists. I hope somebody takes out CINDY!!

My prediction was almost right……the Rangers went 2-2….before Pittsburgh and Gabby scored 5….I said he’d score 5 and they would go 1-3….against teams they should beat….the drubbing against the Pens only make an exclamation point that the Rangers are not ready to contend for anything.

Can’t help but get pissed when watching these games, we need some help or the seasons over. wake me up next season!!!