Post-Game Talk: Game 5

[Machinehead]

He’s a huge screen in front and takes 1 player away on the ice. The pp becomes a 4 on 3. Not sure why they haven’t tried this.

They would completely leave him alone and it becomes a 4 on 4. He has 2 NHL goals.

 

[Machinehead]

Is putting Vesey on the 1st line, and Roslovic on the 4th, a bad idea?

At this point, yes, because Roslovic has been pretty creative against this team.

We're not gonna out-Carolina Carolina. We need to beat them with speed and transition play.

 

[Jack Hanson]

Is putting Vesey on the 1st line, and Roslovic on the 4th, a bad idea?

I think Vesey and Goodrow have good chemistry but agree Roslovic has been somewhat of a dud. Could be he gets better, not sure who could replace him.

 

[Machinehead]

"I want to see more of the 4th line and the guys on it" is absolutely not a thought that has crossed my mind in this series.

Goodrow has been marvelous on the PK. Beyond that, I never want to see any of them again. We're hemmed in every time they're on the ice.

 

[Procrastinator]

They would completely leave him alone and it becomes a 4 on 4. He has 2 NHL goals.

Even better. Leave a 6’8 forward in front of the net while he’s jamming the puck down the goalies throat. Mismanaged asset just like with kakko. For 3 years no one is teaching him how to play a power forwards game.

 

[GlasgowNewYorkRanger]

I don't know how anyone in their right mind (okay, maybe not the majority of us) thought that we would sweep this series. Not that we quite probably weren't capable of doing it, but more because we all have spent years following the New York Rangers

To say this is not how we do things, well, I am sure I don't need to remind people that I think Lincoln was in power the last time we actually managed that sort of run through.

Absolutely massive game tomorrow night!

 

[mrmovies779]

who had "Rempe in front on pp2" on their bingo card??

 

[Procrastinator]

who had "Rempe in front on pp2" on their bingo card??

Bingo

 

[Kovalev27]

We need this in the room right now. And here quite frankly. We got more somebodies than they got somebodies.
https://x.com/nyrfanatic/status/1790727830495457673?s=46&t=QUcCtS0WrUbUSXL4U-JD-A

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

We’ve reached the “put Rempe on the PP” levels of insanity, this place never fails to disappoint

 

[Fitzy]

They would completely leave him alone and it becomes a 4 on 4. He has 2 NHL goals.

Leave him alone or not having him in front of the net makes it not a 4 on 4, but that’s the kind of move only NCAA teams with no talent resort to on the man advantage.

 

[Machinehead]

Even better. Leave a 6’8 forward in front of the net while he’s jamming the puck down the goalies throat. Mismanaged asset just like with kakko. For 3 years no one is teaching him how to play a power forwards game.

You're hugely overrating his ability at this time.

He's an intriguing prospect but right now, he doesn't have the aptitude to play the game you're describing. He's a 4th liner.

 

[will1066]

Trouba is like my manager at work. Gets leadership awards for no apparent reason.

 

[Machinehead]

I don't know how anyone in their right mind (okay, maybe not the majority of us) thought that we would sweep this series. Not that we quite probably weren't capable of doing it, but more because we all have spent years following the New York Rangers

To say this is not how we do things, well, I am sure I don't need to remind people that I think Lincoln was in power the last time we actually managed that sort of run through.

Absolutely massive game tomorrow night!

Although, in a vacuum, we probably should have.

We had the 3-0 lead and outplayed them in game 4.

Just goes to show you how razor-thin the margins are. This could have been over in 4 and I could easily see it going 7.

 

[will1066]

We need this in the room right now. And here quite frankly. We got more somebodies than they got somebodies.
https://x.com/nyrfanatic/status/1790727830495457673?s=46&t=QUcCtS0WrUbUSXL4U-JD-A

Great line.

I just never subscribe to the "this team is going to wipe the floor with that team." The Bruins have pushed the Panthers to six games. The high-flying Avalanche have fallen 3-1 to Dallas, but never count anyone out. Games aren't played on paper, and the funny thing about humans is that we're unpredictable. Doing things on paper gets you most of the way. The rest depends on desire, will, and execution.

 

[yrrebbor]

Forechecking hasn't really been a focus of our offense, nor should it be.

Getting into an in-zone battle with Carolina is stepping in an alligator's mouth.

We've prioritized the rush, as we should, right up until midway through game 5 when we started dumping the puck in. We saw how that went.

They started dumping in game 4. They NEVER retrieve it, yet keep trying.

 

[Machinehead]

They started dumping in game 4. They NEVER retrieve it, yet keep trying.

Our rush offense was awesome in game 4.

 

[CLW]

Our rush offense was awesome in game 4.

Not at the start of the first when the team was sitting in Igor's lap for no good reason or after Laffy tied it when they went limp again.

 

[Shesterkybomb]

The biggest mistake this team made this year was not giving Othmann enough games to get comfortable at this level. Nobody can tell me with a straight face we are better with Brodzinski than Othmann.

 

[Machinehead]

Not at the start of the first when the team was sitting in Igor's lap for no good reason or after Laffy tied it when they went limp again.

Yeah, I mean, we didn't have sustained chances the entire 60 minutes. Nobody does.

 

[Kravtsov420]

In my mind it comes down to skating, rangers are the slowest remaining team in the playoffs by far, and obviously that is our kryptonite

 

[Bob Richards]

We’ve reached the “put Rempe on the PP” levels of insanity, this place never fails to disappoint

Imagining the 1994 HFNYR posts in the middle of the Devils series where people are mad that we aren’t playing Nick Kypreos enough.

 

[IDvsEGO]

The biggest mistake this team made this year was not giving Othmann enough games to get comfortable at this level. Nobody can tell me with a straight face we are better with Brodzinski than Othmann.

Defensively brodz is a lot more solid than Othmann.
Brodz plays more positions as well which is flexibility.

Othmann didn’t look great after his first game up. He got a cup of coffee, got instructions on what to improve on. We didn’t ruin his development by forcing him to play 4th line minutes…

And now people are calling that a mistake.

 

[yrrebbor]

I’m having trouble taking anything that Laviolette says seriously after seeing him in that suit he wore in game 5.
The only thing missing was an oversized yellow flower in his lapel that squirts water.

Messier's pink jacket and shirt combo from the other day was WAY worse!

 

[The Crypto Guy]

The biggest mistake this team made this year was not giving Othmann enough games to get comfortable at this level. Nobody can tell me with a straight face we are better with Brodzinski than Othmann.

Othmann was not ready.