Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Bask in my genius

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Ta-daa!


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That was a brutal call on Pahlsson.


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Girardi takes a terrible angle, and completely fucks up there. Inexcusable.


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The Rangers have nothing to complain about re: the refs tonight so far.


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That is a great shot by Freddie Shoes


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Another too many men penalty


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honestly, can anyone who likes Renney justify Voros being rewarded with PP time??


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Ugly start, countless turnovers in the defensive end all period long, a terrible penalty in the offensive zone by a player who ought to be in the ECHL. That’s Renney hockey.


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cakewalk, my father (who saw his first Ranger game in 1932!) was at that game when Hadfield went over the glass, and the next morning he couldn’t stop talking about it while I was eating my cornflakes. But I didn’t know that Emile and Vic were not on speaking terms, is that really true? Very sad if so, life is too short.


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kaspar, wasn’t nick beverley the chump the NYR got for Hadfield? I remember that Sunday aft in ‘74 too well. The Rangers scored the first goal but were chasing it from that moment on. seeing Hadfield laugh in the box was killing; as I recall he was chatting up the sin bin attendant.


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jjp, you wrote “No one on the roster who is sitting or in Hartford is as good a player or a substitute for Gomez or Naslund (or even Drury, Redden, Rozsival).”

Over a full season, no doubt you are right. For a night? To send a message that lazy, unstructured, unproductive play will not be tolerated by team leaders? Dead wrong.


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Trues fans, I am mostly with you. but I agree with Ford that Renney isn’t dumb (as you say) but instead very very fearful.


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LI Joe, you are kidding yourself if you think Avery won’t get another chance in the league. Who knows where, but one of those 29 guys you cite will pull the trigger.


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McGuire praising the Rangers and Renney for going out with a whimper. Tremendous. Thank you sir, may I have another!


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Dawes and Callahan have been switched from their regular lines.


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Too much resting on the laurels from Chicago—the sign of a complacent team. Not good.


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This is a pitiful effort to put forth on national TV, even if only about 10,000 people are watching.


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Redden teeing it up for … Redden.


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Pierre Larouche in Mario’s box


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Has Prucha had any PP time in this period?


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How can the slash on Betts be missed?? It was right in front of the ref.


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Somebody needs to target Malkin and drill him.


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Horrible pass by Zherdev on the PP


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That was a great play.


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Someone let me know when Naslund STOPS putting the puck on his backhand when he doesn’t have to on a scoring chance. That is twice today.


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Come on, the game isn’t over yet.


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Not a good goal by HL—- and Dawes effed up badly by not hustling on the backcheck.


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Edzo is right—- the way you slow Pitt down is being physical.


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Wasn’t Dubi just hooked down to the ice?? Right in front of a zebra??


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That’s what happens when you get outworked so badly.


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Amazing game/win. Hank was unreal, good to see Drury live up to his role. I just hope Renny makes his point in the postgame. Refs who respect and fear coaches would never call a game like the one they just called on our coach. And he has to change that perception NOW, before the playoffs.


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Pathetic Renny, not blowing his cool until the FIFTH 5-on-3. And look what happens, Campbell gets a horrible call against him. Maybe because the ref finally got shown up by Casper Milktoast?


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Th ref says, Renny! You’re down a man again!

Renny says, Thank you sir, may I have another!


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Too much stick checking in front of Hank—- forget the puck and take the man!


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OK, now let’s see if they keep forechecking or try to run out the clock.


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Korpedo! Dubi!


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Zherdev should be double-shifted a lot this period. But the coach doesn’t believe in scary things like playing for the win, so….


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Renney’s response to this third call is so pathetic that it makes me want to puke. What a pussy milktoast


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Horrible penalty for Betts to take in that area of the ice.


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Man, Naslund has had some opportunities tonight in front of the net.


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Not a good start to the 2nd so far…


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jjp, you play hockey, don’t you? Then you should know from pee wees that you don’t play the puck carrier, you play the other guy, leaving the goalie to take one guy, the shooter. Doesn’t matter if it’s Kane or Gordie Howe, you can’t make the goalie have to sweep across the crease to deal with a pass getting rhough to the second guy. Hockey 101.


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Girardi makes plays like that every single game, and now isn’t scoring any points to offset the shitty defensive work.


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The Rangers D still doesn’t apparently know how to play a 2-on-1 against. Unreal.


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Nice set-up by Prucha for Dawes from the off wing.


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CCCP, that is a fantastic story, what a hoot. Even the man on the street, er, woman, knows what’s what.

jjp, I agree with you on the talent level. Look at MSG’s vault for Rangers games in the 70s. Half the guys can’t skate as well as Colton Orr. At least 70% of the problem with lower goal scoring is due to outsized goalie equipment.


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Beer Me, to be lectured by you about the “mature” way to deal with other posters on a day where youve told CCCP to blow you and to “F himself doosh” is great comedy, even for you. you were completely wrong in your post about Brooks, so grow up and own it.


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Beer me, as usual you’re wrong. Two examples just off the top of my head: Brooks wrote for weeks that Prucha should be in the lineup before he was put there; Brooks wrote that the power play needed to be practiced before it finally was again.


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CCCP and kaspar, i totally agree on Washington and how they play at a pace and with a hunger that the Rangers under Renny can’t even imagine. It is not just their talent but the mindset——a coach that plays to crush and not to “feel out” the opponent. What a concept.


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Ovechkin does not like Malkin. (join the club)

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news;_ylt=Ar1E5y9KPcrnpmM7v2JCDpI5nYcB?slug=ap-ovechkin-malkinfeud&prov=ap&type=lgns


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kaspar, very funny. you ought to be heading political campaigns (if you aren’t already)


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wd40sucks, here I is! Not a hater, but a definite disliker.




Tuesday, January 13, 2009

I hate Renney and his perfect Canadian hair

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Girardi & Redden = Fear & Loathing.


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Hey graves, what do you expect, Prucha hasn’t scored in the last six minutes, so what has he done to get ice time?

Renney is such a loser.


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Redden is a comedian. It’s almost like a punter whose jersey is completely clean while every other guy on the field is covered in mud.


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Yep, against a team as potent as the Isles both on the ice and in the standings, the ony way to beat em is to feel em out for the first period, weather the storm, then try to worm yourself into a nail-biter and hopefully take the shoot-out.

i love the sweater and the logo so much, but this bunch and their smarmy coach are awfully hard to like.


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that was pitiful, all in all.


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just for the record, I totally disagree with the idea that you have to play or have played organized hockey to know what you are talking about. I know plenty of people who have never been on skates but understand very well what is happening on the ice when they’re watching a hockey game.


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jjp, I was the tenth/eleventh forward on my college hockey team in the early 80s. We only played three lines regularly so I didn’t get many minutes. satisfied?


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jjp, when you write things like “from all reports [Prucha]has tons of ‘heart’ to play,” don’t you recognize you are outing yourself as a dope or a blind man??

Because if you need to refer to “reports” instead of taking in what is right before your eyes, something ain’t working right.

For the final time, the coach slashed Prucha’s playing time last season to a fraction of what he had had before Shanahan arrived …. and denied him power play time altogether. Why is it so frickin hard for you to understand that such moves will decimate production??


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jjp, what are your “facts?” On the one hand you say don’t cite the past in discussing Prucha, then you do just that in pimping for Renney. You wanna ignore 52 goals in Prucha’s first two years, but you wanna credit Renney for playoff appearances for those very same seasons.

This is why is its hard to take you seriously as an observer of this team, above and beyond the fact that your opinions are almost always weak.


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JJP, you’ve had 200+ games to see that Renney’s a second-rate coach, and you haven’t figured out that one yet. So the idea that 20 more games from Prucha is going to help you see the light there is pretty unlikely.


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Joe in DE, Amen. and beyond the nuts and bolts of his game Prucha also inspires the crowd with his guts and effort which is so important and which is a response no one else gets on this team except for Hank


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credit Renny for putting Orr out vs. Neil, the right thing to do


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“redden’s had another good game.”—- Sam Rosen, shaming himself even more than I thought possible, even from a shill like him 1/09/09


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Girardi cannot make that play. Awful


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“He sucked until a few games ago.” Right, while Drury and Gomez and Girardi and Roszi have been blazing a HOF path to glory.


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Anybody who still doesn’t recognize that Prucha is a winning hockey player is a stubborn or an ignorant human being…


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Good to see the Rangers are “feeling out” their very rough opposition tonight. Don’t want to overwhelm them or anything from the opening draw…


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new post


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Girardi and Redden have been horrible so far


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I don’t like Renny—- but the effort tonight was fine, and the play without the puck was much better. Did not like his shootout lineup (because Z hates to go first! and Naslund had a poor game! and Drury in the 3 slot is ridiculous). But you can’t lay this particular loss at Renny’s feet the way you can on so many other nights when the lack of preparation, motivation, effort and position is so clear


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Big test for Renney. If he plays for OT, we lose. If the Rangers are freed to play the same first 15 minutes of the 2nd in the first 15 minutes of the 3rd, they’ll win in reg.


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It was Dawes—- horrible braindead play


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Did Dawes make that idiotic pass, or Staal?


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Buffalo has absolutely nothing tonight—- the NYR cannot give a point away tonight, much less two.


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Teams that are serious score on this PP and begin salting this game away.


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There’s Prucha, being one-dimensional again…


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Valley, leave the frickin puck alone behind the net!


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Prucha with a nice play to cover another Valley turnover


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hockeyman, I know what you mean


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riche, LOL


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this team actually looked reasonably well-coached that period. Let this be a sign of things to come


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Good shift by Z


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kaspar, as usual with MSG-TV it’s the twilight zone.


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“Valiquette’s been sharp around the net with the puck.” Sam and Joe are a riot


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gartner was unlucky. played on a lot of good Cap teams that always found a way to gas themsevles in the p’offs, then got shipped out of ny right before the cup run. great natural goalscorer.


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i’d do staal, hank and grachev for AO … and wash still wouldn’t bite. Duguay on TV said he thinks AO’s the best player he’s ever seen, bar none.


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one could easily say that fuhr’s shutout in game 1 at the Island in ‘84 was the hump that team finally got over. he was out of his mind in that game.


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Agree. Hasek over richter, much as i love him, without blinking. And Fuhr was an incredible acrobat, who faced a huge number of odd man rushes against


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yup, when beer me makes a post like that showing he just might not understand a very simple concept—- defensemen are allowed to pinch, and are to be covered by the high forward—- it worries me.


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“Beukeboom sucked on D.” Not an excess of wisdom in that statement, to put it gently.


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Hardy Aastrom!


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UES, going back a little further, how about Baker, Gratton, Terry effing Kleisinger!


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good discussion here. and it makes me think how lucky Giacomin was to get into the HOF when he did, without so many of the credentials goalies today cannot do without


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toymaniam, you’re right about prucha of course. but you have to understand that some here, who seriously call him a ‘one-dimensional player,’ want to be taken seriously … and if they change their opinion based on something like the EVIDENCE (!) it doesn’t make em feel too good. lol


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Hasek for two years may hvae been the best player in the world, so how he’s not on that list is crazy. richter was a very fine goalie, a cut below HOF but he;ll always have those wins over Martine.


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doodie—- I agree on richter, much as I admire him. And when you think about it, Giacomin’s numbers and body of work are pretty close to not being HOF worthy. The poor guy never really had one playoff run that topped his best play during the regular season. and on that list, he is surrounded by multiple Cup winners, except for Tony O.


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parros, when a player’s ice time is slashed the way Prucha;s was the last two years because of Shanahan’s arrival, and his PP time is completely taken away, it has an impact on his confidence.

reminds me of Robitaille when he was here—- the only place where he didn’t score like a maniac before the age of 35. because Campbell never played him on the PP, where he’d made a living, and he was viewed as a disappointment. He wasn;t “set up” for success, and a lot of that blame as with Prucha goes to the man who doles out the ice time


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Brandon wrote: “That was arguably our most complete performance of the year from our offense and defense. Everyone was firing on the same cylinder except for Hank.”

Wait a second. No question Hank was bad. but Staal had maybe his worst game of the season and girardi stunk too, so not sure where this is coming from.


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got to shake this off and prepare to out-hit out-skate and out-effort Buff on Fri.


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MAKO, I agree 100%, and you’re right it was Malone.


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alex, my guess is the Kalinin/Fritsche part of your deal would have to be sweetened to get Bouw and Horton, even with the UFA and RFA upcoming. But maybe not. it’s an interesting thought. Horton can play.

I hoped for a lot more improvement from Girardi this year, but the points have stopped coming and the defensive work on a nightly basis, aside from his willingness to hit, is not good far more than it is average. Dubi I would hate to give up on…


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why would Renny work a referee now, in a relatively low-importance game, when last spring in the playoffs Drury got opened up by a Penguin’s high stick, bled all over the ice, and mild-mannered Tom didn’t even bat an eye? Let it slide, had nothing to say to either ref. not one word.


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Voros is to my eye still out of shape, or his skating has degenerated to an even lower level of capacity…

man, just imagine what the NYR record would be if the goaltending was even close to how shaky it was tonight on a regular basis


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“we got no nastiness

none at all

roll over and die”

Kaspar, did you see Renny go behind the Washington bench the night they came back from 4-0 down to shake Boudreau’s hand and congratulate him after the game was over??? THAT’S the type of attitude that forbids nastiness and grit. ugh


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Staal with not his best game, LQ definitely with not his best game, Girardi was pretty putrid, Gomez half the player he was in NJ (again). Prucha has been good. Dawes has played hard


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when did the Ranger coach last doubleshift a player?? Has it happened this year once??


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Dawes was interfered with behind the net in the 2nd, right in front of the ref. Latendresse pulled down Callahan in the Ranger zone in the 2nd right in front of the ref. Roszival was hooked in the last minute of the 2nd.


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by the way, bench Voros. can’t skate and looks winded after fifteen seconds on the ice


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ouch. now look for the make-up calls by the refs once the game is out of reach


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wd40, hey nasty, that look works for Brad pitt, he reeled in angie with that doo


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Still shaking my head that someone like beer me can think Prucha is a 1-dimensional player


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graves9, you speak the truth about Girardi. and when he ain’t scoring to offset the defensive misplays, he is a net negative, given how much ice time he gets


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li joe, you’re posts are not exactly jessica alba to the eyes either, bub. lol


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beer me, as long as i can keep you slightly uncomfortable—as you ought to be, given your limited hockey sense-to-inflatesd ego ratio—i’m doing my job.


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prucha needs serious legit power play time to maximize his chance of helping this team win. and there is no reason whatever to deny it to him, given his track record and the shittiness of the present PP


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beer me has had the resolve to stick to his (negative) guns on Prucha, even though I think he’s nuts re: the topic.

can I ask others who wrote Prucha off (and you know who you are) and who have been quiet on the subject what thier current thinking is now?


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jeever, aw shucks. I dunno, being as humble and nonconfrontational as i am its sort of hard to do what you’re asking me to do….lol


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jjp, the thought that you are giving even five seconds of your free time to re-reading (!) me is tremendous. you do me great honor


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li joe, i dunno, the idea of “hating” someone because they differ with someone else’s opinions about a hockey team—- however crudely those disagreements are said—- is the definition of sad and lonely. and when you go and create a website because you’re so frustrated? man, that is sorrowful


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li joe—don’t you think “creating” the website gives me a little too much credit though?? I mean someone took the time to actually do such a thing?? guess the frustration of not winning the discussion with words became a bit too much


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li joe, come on, you can’t “despise” me, you effing hate me! lol


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line 5 above shoulda read ” not only NOT lost ground….”


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jeever, uhh no kidding. (Though any year you’re the Devils and you sweep the Rangers ou of the playoffs is not a terrible year). But the move if nothing else showed balls and a will to win——just as it did when he canned Ftorek and won the Cup with Robinson.

so your jury’s out on sutter, who has taken the likes of clemmenson and mottau and leach and clarkson and not only lost ground but made up miles on the Rangers, who have had no injuries and on whose coach if i’m not mistaken your jury has come back and you say he’s A-OK?


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incredible, lamoriello gasses julien with three games left in the season and the team 23 games over .500. God, for a little of that conviction/will to win over here across the river, right or wrong, win or lose.


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jeever, I guess anything is possible …. as long as the head coach is snapping the reins and not pulling back on them!


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brandon, I dunno, cam ward didn’t strike fear in the hearts of anyone the year the Canes won. 9and hasn’t since.) and Thomas’s numbers are amazing. but in general i don’t disagree with you about them being anything but a slam dunk Cup finalist.


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and re: in-game adjustments, i meant renny’s inability to counter the opposition’s hot player with a match-up or a 2-man forecheck, for example, rather than simply mixing up lines, and also things like trying to run the clock out in a 4-0 game at home against an injury-riddled team that was dying to get hammered 7-1.


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jeever, i dunno. just off the top of my head, wilson in toronto has benched blake, stevens has benched hartnell, ruff in buffalo benches veterans all the time


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beer me, I don’t think he’s a good coach. Because:

1) Plays not to win but to not lose

2) Evaluates talent very questionably

3) Zero in-game adjustments

4) A self-professed defensive coach who cannot seem to implement a disciplined consistent structure that does not rely on an all-world goalie to stop 20+ scoring chances a game

5) Treats favored vets differently from younger players, leading to a lack of team unity and focus


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flynn, you missed my point in your attempt to Wizard-of-Oz yourself as a hockey genius. the technical failures of renny will always be there; no one is more aware of that than me. but when the Rangers play hard and with emotion, it tends to distract people from what is obvious to people like you (and I) who think he’s a minor leaguer.

also, as much as i disrespect this coach and management, i think ‘dismal’ is too harsh a term to describe what Renny and even Sather brought about between ‘05-’06 and the end of last season.


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so much wind would be taken out of the sails of the anti-Renney crowd if the team simply played with the emotion and purpose and urgency that was shown last night. In other words, all the breakdowns leading to odd man rushes, all the poor positional play when without possession of the puck, etc. would be so much easier to stomach if the team wore its heart on its sleeve as it did often last night


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Where are all the Renney droolers now?.....Oops, wrong outcome for my sorry old rant.

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