Rangers Vs. Devils: Ridiculous Bounce Costs Rangers Two Points In Jersey

Currently taking donations for the New Jersey Devils Point Foundation lol

anybody else starting to get really annoyed with richards?

That bounce was absolutely brutal. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it. Then Devils fans on other boards come out and comment about a great win that their team earned like it wasn’t a deus ex machina.

Well, at least they should come out with a vengeance against Buffalo tomorrow…and Hank will be in.

Although, here’s one of those scenarios where PP inefficiency probably cost us as well seeing as we had opportunities to go up by more than one and failed. Also, NJD can only win in OT and SO and we perform so poorly in those scenarios.

If this was a buffalo loss it wouldn’t of been so bad but torts should of known Devils only play good against us and I knew if this was going to a shootout we would lose. Devils numbers for shootout r awesome.
If it was just birons night to lose well I would of prefered him to lose to the sabres then Devils.

Ps torts stop trying Rich on the shootouts. He just not good at it on the Rangers. Try Del Zotto try hagelin ….0 for 6 should of been a flag to not choose him lol

Ugh tough loss to swallow especially against fat ass and a depleted devils team and when we were ahead for a min to go ….

Cally cost the Rangers the game really with that turnover on the PK. Prime directive is ALWAYS get the puck deep so the 2 chasers can get back. Very bad turnover. The bounce was what it was, nothing could be done, but the turnover cost them.

Crap I hate losing to them and their fat goalie.

This was fucking heartbreaking.

Rangers didn’t ply their best but they certainly played good enough. I mean how does a puck go off the boards like that?

Also, our Marty was not good tonight. Made some good saves but overall was shaky. The first goal he gave up was bad, and the way he played Kovalchuk in the shootout was atrocious.

At least we have the buffalo game tomorrow to help ease our sorrows.

didn’t we only lose one point?

Anyone find it strange that the Rangers lose due to a flukey bounce and the Bruins win because of one?

Anisimov’s holding call was a penalty, but Parise also held his stick. Should have been penalties for both of them.

TRA1D EVERYONEZ.

Didn’t we complain enough about Jagr not taking the shot, and Gabby not taking the shat in previous seasons??? We can’t do a 180 and now complain that BR and Gabby ARE taking the shots. Do we want our superstars on the SO or not?

This was just a game that made you drop your jaw to the floor. A lucky bounce gives the devils two points. Although we can’t say much because the Rangers did not play to their best in the second and third. 1 point is better than no points as I always say. Besides it was the first game back from all star break. The only way to bounce back from this is get a win in buffalo tonight.

Even moreso in a manner like that.

Re: the Anisimov penalty, looked pretty much like the holding call that Dubi drew earlier in the game, free hand wrapped around the player. My main gripe with that shift in general was why the hell was Rupp out trying to protect a 1 goal lead late?

But I guess this makes up for maybe some last second wins like Phoenix and Calagary that were pulled out of thin air.

How the guys at ILWT insist how the Rangers record is entirely based on luck. Yeah and they say nothing of their 9 wins in the coin toss/shoot out. Would love to see them lose out on the playoffs because they lose the ROW tiebreaker against all the other teams scrapping for the bottom seeds.

And was watching it from a pretty close distance.
The penalty call on AA was made by an outside ref and the play was behind rangers net.
Dubinsky and Richards were the worst players on the ice. Callahan’s turnover was brutal and unnecessary. Devils had only one line and that line won the game. Fatso made a couple of good saves though.

The Devils turned the puck over numerous times right in front of Brodeur- yet the Rangers got bupkus. They have to hammer home turnovers. and just to pick on one player in particular- when did Anisimov turn into the “Hands of Stone” man. While he plays defense relatively well he cannot score- no touch whatsoever. For a guy his size he gets knocked on his ass constantly. The boy needs to man up.

Dubinsky, Callahan, Anisimov, and Stepan are combined a career 4-for-33 in the shootouts with each scoring only 1 goal apiece. Callahan’s 1-for-10, Anisimov 1-for-9, and Stepan and Dubinsky a career 1-for-7. John Mitchell has as many goals as those four combined in just 8 attempts. For all of Gaborik’s shootout foibles, they’re worse.

For what it’s worth the two Rangers with best career SO percentage (minimum 20 attempts) were in the press box last night in Wojtek Wolski and Erik Christensen. It’s easy for the Devils to pick three shooters because their most talented forwards (Kovy, Elias, and Parise and Sykora isn’t a bad option in his own right) all have pretty good numbers in it and aren’t 4th liners whose sole skill is scoring in a shootout.

I have always thought Marian Gaborik’s game simply isn’t conducive to the shootout and that’s fine. Where he excels is 5-on-5 play because he’s so damn quick with the puck (especially along the boards) and has a crazy quick release that wreaks havoc in the traffic areas. Much of his game is speed and elusiveness/deception and I’d rather have someone who can back defensemen off than a shootout specialist any day of the week. His shootout attempts are always very deliberate, like he’s trying to add some deception into a shootout they really doesn’t reward deception but creativity.

Would I like a team that can win shootouts? Sure, but I’ll take guys who excel in even strength over the shootout specialist, who is essentially rendered worthless come playoff time unless they can contribute otherwise (ie MZA last year).