New York Rangers lose 5-4 in the shootout to the Ottawa Senators After Blowing 3 Goal Lead Late

Wolski came out wide, skated in and put a weak attempt on Craig Anderson who knocked it away with ease.

He what now? He beat Anderson clean and rang it off the post.

Gabby had a goal and two assists..!! boy…Read my lips…Best player today……and get rid of Wolski and Cristiansen ,both are waste of time and money.Also start looking for a new coach,,this one is an idiot!!!!!

Nice to see Gaborik playing well. Richards did a good job carrying the puck into the zone and setting people up. Callahan looked like his old self for awhile too.

That said, even though we’re only 9 games in, this loss is troubling. Torts needs to take the blame.

Well ok then:

@AGrossRecord Andrew Gross
Tortorella said Anisimov out of rotation in 3rd because of performance, not injury reasons.

There has been quite a bit of talk about what ails the Rangers thus far…and while I agree that EC and Wolski deserve to be dumped, and Rupp and Newbury are redundant, so one should, and I’d love to see Zuk and either Borque or Hagelin brought up, personnel are not the reason this team is struggling. Watching these games, particularly 5 on 5 when the Rangers are struggling, their gap control is awful. Offensive rushes are three man rushes with no defenseman joining at all (McDonaugh has been the occasional exception, and he is the only defenseman who has produced results). In our defensive zone, forwards are too high, forcing defensemen to make long passes to break out; they don’t come back down until the other team gains possession, and by then its too late. Until this team starts fixing gap control, they will not create sustained pressure and they will continue to give up their defensive blue line and get hemmed into their own zone.

What if Rangers don,t make play-offs?..who will you blame for that ?..A team.or a coach or both???.or will this be another year of developement..? changing lines,adjustments ,possilble trades ..etc etc.. and knowing each other???..and dreaming of’ winning a cup in the far away future?…..

How come whenever this kid makes a defensive mistake, everyone is saying how bad a player he is but today he play a heck of a game, strong defensively, very good on the pp, almost 25 min of ice time, yet nobody even mentions his good performance. Give the kid some credit…

Altough he played a good game , I think in a game like today we can see how important Staal is to this team! We really need him back so we can have 3 steady defensive pairs.

Last thing, Get Christensen out of here and call up Hagelin and Zucc

For failing to address issues like poor gap control, thinking instead the issue is line combinations.

To me it looked like they were both watching the puck and collided, I did not see wolski’s elbow come up at all either it was all shoulder collision with a guy he wasnt looking at. Penalty is a penalty I dont have any complaints about that but MSG and this thread using Wolski as the scape goat is complete BS.

He did get a shitty call but we were up 2 and he had 2 assists on the night, and he just clanged one off the post instead of shooting high like richy or idk wtf EC did. It wont be good if he gets suspended say what you will Wolski is better then having Rupp or Dingleberry trying to make a difference in the game.

EC played like shit Tortollini’s power trip on the fans had to end when he realized that EC truly does suck even though he blows the coach for ice time.

We were shit again its what it comes down to. Cally and Duby looked better, or it might have just been the Ottawa defense being worst. Richards and Gabby looked good together or apart they were playing well I am glad we somewhat have 2 lines that can bring the offense (reducing our defense in the process though). We really need another player who can chip in 40 points a trade has to come to settle these lines and make 4 useful ones we really only need 1 more 40 point player to do that.

Arty has been bad to me. The effort seems to be there, and his defense hasnt been terrible but the guy just does not seem right. I feel he needs to hit more, I counted 4 opportunities for him to complete a solid legal check and he just tried stick checking and skating by the player. He is a big boy I want to see some grit out of him if his hands are not carrying him through which they are not at this point.

Big issue we are still having is our back checking is not putting pressure on the other teams offense. I count 2 periods all season where we had an effective back check that caused turnovers in the neutral zone or give aways to our defensemen. Another big issue is the lack of shots still, fuck the fancy passes get the damn puck on net.

MDZ thank you for shooting atleast someone took the we need to shoot more seriously. give aways suck but the kid has been getting better when staal gets back he will be plenty fine on that third pairing.

Ice surface looked nicer tonight no fucking idea how our brand new arena ,that hasnt had a basketball game on it yet, had terrible ice the first night. Looks terrible for our newly renovated arena to still have shitty ice.

Our PP worked fine either Torts told sully to have a seat and coached it or Sully has started taking ideas from good powerplays.

Final thoughts we still are sucking a fat one, though it is getting more consistent. Shoot more, hit more, jam more. Maybe we should give incentive bonuses for players to shoot in the next round of contracts. We need to be more physical as a whole on the defense as well, to many guys left to stand in front of the net.

@JimCerny
Jim Cerny
The #NYR have assigned D Tim Erixon and F Kris Newbury to the @CTWhale

I am sure you will all disagree, but all said and done, tonight was actually our best game of the season, so far. We played a good 40-50 minutes of the game instead of the usual 20. Of that 40-50 minutes, a good 20-25 minutes of it was actually “Rangers hockey” for the first time this season. Dubi and Cally looked like they are getting their game back. Felt like 6-7 players giving effort instead of 3.

The way I see it….
Tort’s has blackmail pictures of Sather doing it with farm animals and Sather has video’s of Dolan having sex with dead people.
Why else are these two still GM and Coach of the New York Rangers?
Anyone seen Craig Patrick?

replace them with Ken Hitchcock and Mark Messier.