best news of tonight:

TB gained 2 pts, so we are 1 pt out of 13th in the conference (3 others w 55, 3 w 54)
Min and Dal also passed us in the standings.

This is probably the most honest post to date I’ve read on your site, Jim. Thanks for your honesty….there is nothing else to say.

The Dark Ranger

man this as bad as it gets i love my team but holy sh-t

And Sather gave the team a pep talk after the game? That’s like getting financial advice from Bernie Madoff. The only bright side is the worse they suck, maybe the more likely that real change will happen, especially if the Islanders make the playoffs.
I’ve supported Tortorella but clearly his edgy style has not worked. His post-game conference was the first time I’ve heard him sound truly blind, like he hadn’t seen the game. He liked their effort in the 2nd and 3rd period? Really?

We should be chanting “Sell the Rangers!” from outside the Garden because we stopped paying to see this shitting mess of a team.

but really – F**k Torts, sitting Christy for 1 bad D play (really, who hasn’t slacked on D), while its obvious that he contributes on the top line – AA on the third line after he’s the only one scoring in a game? WTF?? Yeah, I want Sather gone, but really, how can we be complacent when we see players contributing and not rewarded? No practice? I’m supposed to like this guy? This is a good coach – oblivious to how people play? whatever – GFY…" i’m not gonna get into that right now"…please.

Kotalik must sit as we await some sucker to take him – he’s a liability in every sense…redden goes to Wollfpack – bye bye. also – sell,sell….sorry, just at the end of my rope (again)

It was my last game at the garden this year, can’t take this anymore

i think the most surprising aspect of last night’s game… was that Sather watched the game… IN PERSON!

1. ignore Sean Avery
2. defend the Gaborik line-a variation of trap-their defensement are too slow/soft to beat
3. wait for their defensemen to make a mistake or their forwards not to defend the point (the latter happens quite regularly)
4. shoot to Lundquist’s short side, preferably glove high

They need to get out of town and go back to playing basic defensive hockey. They played the first four minutes like they were losing by two goals, and then they were.

We’re back to selling the entire team again because of a loss.

As much as I’m rooting for the tank, I want to root for a 5 game, 25 goal outburst now to see what happens.

Relax people. This team is showing it’s colors, and just because the roster as a whole sucks doesn’t mean the players suck. If they’re under 25, they’re too young to trade yet. Add Gaborik and Lundqvist….and you have a roster worth building on.

amen. well said. I hate watching them suffer like this but tomorrow is another day etc etc. They have promise. Its going to get there… eventually. But I love going to the Garden knowing that a few years from now we’ll still be able to wear our LUNDQVIST, GABORIK, STAAL, CALLAHAN, and DUBINSKY jerseys. I’m proud we have guys like that regardless of it they underperform for a week or two at a time. That’s why we love Rangers hockey. No matter how much the management screws it up…we’re not there for them, we’re there for the guys who put on the jersey. There isn’t a second I’m in the Garden that I don’t get chills just being there. It’s truly my favorite place in the world. That’s because of the team and the history. So I’ll hold on while they struggle and still be here when they’re on top.

Near the end, people were chanting ’Let’s Go Yankees’ & ’Let’s Go Mets’ that’s how you know the game is out of hand. My buddy texted me saying that MSG should give away beer for free when the Rangers are down 2+ goals…had that been the case, I would have been drinking all night sans about 4 minutes.

this season turns out what i thougt it would turn out: a rollercoster.
with this roster, that’s “normal”.
we have got a franchise goaltender and a world class sniper, who can win games on their own (sometimes). but we don’t have a team concept.
the players we let go or traded last year play quite good with their new teams, coz the fit into their system. we don’t have a system while aquiring players (usually old and overpaid ones, who nobody else wants)
so it happens that a 19 year old rookie is our best d…(staal included.. i don’t like his style: offense- no; shut down: no: pronger and phaneuf shut oppenents down, staal stays with them)

i don’t think that our foward group is to blame, why we don’t score much goals, but our “defenders”. r and r just defend their roster spot and nothing else, no intensity and spirit, no positioning, or hitting, or passing exept to the opponent. ok, sometimes they have better games, or even good games, but what counts on d is consitency.
girardi is another d who just can’t hit anybody (know the song “hit sombody”)…

we had one good tough guy in colton orr, now we have brashear, what a joke (is sather ill or does he hate his own franchise???)

ok thats enough of complainment, but after every rangers game i think of starting a career as hockey gm…

let’s go rangers, anyway.

I hate to say this but the best thing that could happen is the rangers DONT make the playoffs. Not making the playoffs means lost revenue and thats the only thing upper management cares about. This might force Dolan to look at the product Sather has put on the ice and actually get rid of him. I doubt it though. The garden has two teams that have players that are getting paid BIG contracts and are completley useless (dee Redden,Rossival and Brashear). The best we can hope for is Messier takes over (I know he doesnt have experience but could it be any worse) and get a team in here that at least has some heart and actually takes the body

Because none of the Veterans wants to listen to him either. They can’t assume Hank is going to save them night after night, because sooner than later he is going to have a bad game as well. And unfortunatly Hank had his bad game. He fought hard, but sadly it wasn’t enough.

Fire Sather, get Dolan a Brain Transplant so he can understand hockey. This team is falling apart and nothing will save them but themselves. Unfortunatly that’s not going to happen any time soon.

Shanahan fought (I believe Brashear) to defend Jagr?(and took his helmet off before hand)
Or when Jagr and Prucha combined to form a lethal duo on the powerplay? With Jagr’s ability to just create space and give Prucha the puck. Prucha had 30 goals that season I think and something like 20 of them were on the powerplay.
Or when the Rangers had Colton Orr? Someone who could actually dress every game and not be a liability every time he was on the ice.
Or when the Rangers had a blue line that could actually defend its net with some physicality?
None of that was really that long ago. Amazing how quickly things go to downhill