Rangers Vs. Panthers: Florida Panthers Down Rangers For Second Straight Loss

Dubinsky, EC and Boyle are playing horrible. Dubinsky’s hands are made of stone. They all need to sit.

Hmmm, MTL and FL, 2 very quick teams make the Rangers look like they skating in shit. They are bad match-ups for the Rangers. So it’s time to bring up Hagelin and MZA and infuse some speed and skill into the line-up and get rid of EC. Deveaux ended his own Ranger career with that idiotic penalty so there are 2 spots to fill. Here’s my line-up:
MZA-BR-Gaby
Pack Line
Avery-Stepan-Hagelin
Feds-Boyle-Prust
The PP is not a pro PP. It is beyond laughable. How an NHL coaching staff can sit and watch game after game after game after game and see their team standing still passing around the puck and KILLING THEIR OWN POWER PLAY is really inexcusable. Time to make line-up changes as this team needs to start skating. And let’s face it, other than the SJ game, what game did they REALLY dominate during the streak? They have really sucked the last 2 games and worse, seemed disinterested as evidenced by the fact that they never had the puck. They had 43 hits to 15 last night, or something like that. Sure, because they never had the puck and were chasing it all night.

BTW, Happy Thanksgiving to all and to our men and women around the world that help keep us safe. God Bless.

Just a quick question,
 How the hell can a team on a power play consistantly wind up with TWO, and sometimes THREE players BEHIND the net???? AND lose the puck even though they outnumber the other team?
The PP is a joke, and if not changed will reap the same results as the last cou,ple of years, scrambling to make the playoffs and then exiting them quickly!!!

First problem we are not moving our feet or protecting the puck. Florida won every battle because they got there first or because our players didn’t skate and try to protect the puck. That is not our style of hockey it has to be fixed.

Secondly passing needs to be simplified we are trying to cross the neutral zone with passes when it is crowded so we try and lift passes that either get blocked down or are bouncing to much for the receiver to handle. That is another issue why the fuck is the puck always rolling when we are handling it and the other team can keep it flat? The ice sucked at Florida and they played team defense we had to chip it down the boards to get it in.

Our forwards are to deep in both zones. Offensively one Guy should be in the circles we have three by the net/behind the net. Not working fix it. Also defensively our forwards are drifting in to low again. This leads to our Shorty unsupported breakouts and let’s the other teams point guys take liberties.

We are not hitting correctly everytime one of them are in front of our net they should be on the ground if the puck comes near them. Hard clean hitting is What we need not accumulating hits on players that have already moved the puck cough cough Callahan cough cough. Physical presence has to be shown we are not fast so we have to show teams we will make them pay for taking liberties like dancing around our players in the defensive zone like the bruins do.

Deveaux- I liked you but good bye that hit was completely inexcusable and looks like half of Matt cookes highlight reel. Enjoy the bus we can’t accept that on this club.

Dubinsky- had the flu should not have been on the second line he was sick and lifeless. Might have been better to let him rest tonight.

McDonagh- use your body fleishmann made you look like a chump on a few occasions when he danced around your stick check, lay him down stops that stupid shit. Put your stick into the passing lanes and lay into him. Also shoot the puck out of your own zone on a pk how many times did your poor clearing attempts fail?

Boyle- wtf buddy start hitting people you look like the gentle giant when playing. If you are slumping up your physical play and go to the front of the net. Make people know they are getting crunched when they see you coming and they will give the puck away instead of trying to make plays through your half assed checks.

Callahan- way to take some stupid fucking penalties. Atleast you were hitting hard even though it was dmen on the forecheck after they passed the puck.

Gabby- worst game of yours though you still did well but you didn’t look dangerous everytime you had it tonight. And versteeg made you look slow that should not happen. Great hit in the defensive zone though I wish the rest of the team through good timely hits like that.

Stepan- best forward keep it up you skated and looked like you cared. Brads A should be on your chest. It also should be so the captain and assistant are not playing together every shift.

Richards- paging Brad Richards , what did you do besides make some unreceivable passes and shoot into Theodore’s pads?

There were more botched plays but I am most pissed at the leaders for playing poorly not setting high expectations for your team with solid energetic play.

Also when wolski is healthy its time for change. Deveaux, Avery, EC, Ripped should all be riding the bus they are all unnecessary players that can not be depended on to get the job done in either zone.

Lines
aa-step-gabby
Duby-rich-cally
Wolski-callup-mza
Feds-boyle-prust.

Enough of the useless goon squad featuring EC as our fourth line. I don’t care if people think that Avery plays hard he doesn’t finish well is inconsistent at best and those two goals in two games were a flash in the pan like rupps important goal was earlier this season. We have better players then Avery, I agree, but we don’t use them.