The New York Rangers According to wd40

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2009-01-20T18:21:00.000-08:00

wd40January 20th, 2009 at 9:18 pm

Ta-daa!

wd40January 20th, 2009 at 9:16 pm

That was a brutal call on Pahlsson.

wd40January 20th, 2009 at 9:11 pm

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

wd40January 20th, 2009 at 9:02 pm

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

wd40January 20th, 2009 at 8:05 pm

That is a great shot by Freddie Shoes

wd40January 20th, 2009 at 8:02 pm

Another too many men penalty

wd40January 20th, 2009 at 7:42 pm

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

wd40January 20th, 2009 at 7:41 pm

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.

wd40January 20th, 2009 at 5:25 pm

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.

wd40January 20th, 2009 at 3:35 pm

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.

wd40January 20th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

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.

wd40January 20th, 2009 at 1:31 pm

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.

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 3:25 pm

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.

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 2:52 pm

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

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 2:47 pm

Dawes and Callahan have been switched from their regular lines.

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 2:42 pm

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

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 2:37 pm

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

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 2:33 pm

Redden teeing it up for … Redden.

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 2:21 pm

Pierre Larouche in Mario’s box

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

Has Prucha had any PP time in this period?

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 1:51 pm

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

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

Somebody needs to target Malkin and drill him.

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

Horrible pass by Zherdev on the PP

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 1:39 pm

That was a great play.

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

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.

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

Come on, the game isn’t over yet.

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 1:01 pm

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

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 12:57 pm

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

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 12:51 pm

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

wd40January 18th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

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

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 11:17 pm

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.

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 10:59 pm

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?

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 10:54 pm

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

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

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 10:52 pm

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

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 10:45 pm

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

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 10:42 pm

Korpedo! Dubi!

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 10:37 pm

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

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 9:58 pm

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

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 9:54 pm

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

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 9:49 pm

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

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 9:36 pm

Not a good start to the 2nd so far…

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 9:27 pm

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.

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

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

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 9:03 pm

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

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 8:50 pm

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

wd40January 16th, 2009 at 3:36 pm

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.

wd40January 15th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

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.

wd40January 15th, 2009 at 1:31 pm

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.

wd40January 15th, 2009 at 10:54 am

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.

wd40January 14th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

Ovechkin does not like Malkin. (join the club)

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

wd40January 14th, 2009 at 12:51 pm

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

wd40January 13th, 2009 at 10:14 pm

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

I hate Renney and his perfect Canadian hair

2009-01-13T18:21:00.000-08:00

wd40January 13th, 2009 at 8:58 pm

Girardi & Redden = Fear & Loathing.

wd40January 13th, 2009 at 8:42 pm

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.

wd40January 13th, 2009 at 8:31 pm

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.

wd40January 13th, 2009 at 7:52 pm

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.

wd40January 13th, 2009 at 7:44 pm

that was pitiful, all in all.

wd40January 12th, 2009 at 11:26 pm

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.

wd40January 12th, 2009 at 10:44 pm

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?

wd40January 12th, 2009 at 10:22 pm

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??

wd40January 12th, 2009 at 9:03 pm

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.

wd40January 12th, 2009 at 8:00 pm

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.

wd40January 12th, 2009 at 7:23 pm

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

wd40January 10th, 2009 at 8:34 pm

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

wd40January 10th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

“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

wd40January 10th, 2009 at 8:06 pm

Girardi cannot make that play. Awful

wd40January 10th, 2009 at 7:58 pm

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

wd40January 10th, 2009 at 7:41 pm

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

wd40January 10th, 2009 at 7:31 pm

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…

wd40January 10th, 2009 at 7:42 pm

new post

wd40January 10th, 2009 at 7:27 pm

Girardi and Redden have been horrible so far

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 10:51 pm

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

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

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.

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 8:58 pm

It was Dawes—- horrible braindead play

d40January 9th, 2009 at 8:56 pm

Did Dawes make that idiotic pass, or Staal?

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

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

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 8:50 pm

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

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

There’s Prucha, being one-dimensional again…

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 8:32 pm

Valley, leave the frickin puck alone behind the net!

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 8:31 pm

Prucha with a nice play to cover another Valley turnover

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 8:30 pm

hockeyman, I know what you mean

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 8:18 pm

riche, LOL

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 8:14 pm

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

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 8:08 pm

Good shift by Z

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

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

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 7:56 pm

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

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 5:47 pm

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.

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 3:45 pm

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.

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 3:42 pm

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.

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 3:39 pm

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

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 2:04 pm

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.

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 1:39 pm

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

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 12:14 pm

Hardy Aastrom!

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

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

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 12:04 pm

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

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 10:52 am

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

wd40January 9th, 2009 at 12:07 am

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.

wd40January 8th, 2009 at 5:54 pm

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.

wd40January 8th, 2009 at 10:38 am

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

wd40January 8th, 2009 at 10:33 am

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.

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 11:27 pm

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

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 11:01 pm

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

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 10:59 pm

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…

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 10:48 pm

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.

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 10:05 pm

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

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 9:56 pm

“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

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 9:54 pm

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

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 9:37 pm

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

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

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.

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 9:30 pm

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

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

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

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

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

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 8:23 pm

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

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 8:12 pm

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

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

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

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 4:32 pm

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.

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 3:50 pm

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

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 3:00 pm

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?

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 10:44 am

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

wd40January 7th, 2009 at 10:29 am

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

wd40January 6th, 2009 at 8:57 pm

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

wd40January 6th, 2009 at 8:37 pm

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

wd40January 6th, 2009 at 8:13 pm

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

wd40January 6th, 2009 at 5:29 pm

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

wd40January 6th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

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?

wd40January 6th, 2009 at 4:58 pm

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.

wd40January 6th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

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

wd40January 6th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

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.

wd40January 6th, 2009 at 4:08 pm

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.

wd40January 6th, 2009 at 4:05 pm

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

wd40January 6th, 2009 at 3:54 pm

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

wd40January 6th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

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.

wd40January 6th, 2009 at 1:53 pm

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

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 10:05 pm

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

I’m so cool I put together this awesome collection of my quotes athttp://wd40sucks.blogspot.com

I would give Prucha a fist rocket

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wd40January 5th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

i am flattered by the attention…and very happy at the win, and even happier for Prucha and Hank

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 9:03 pm

excellent prucha hit on orpik

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 9:00 pm

keep attacking. Play to win. No running out the clock. i wanna see some killer instinct!

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

mike, you obviously don’t believe in jinxes

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 8:37 pm

yes

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

Naslund lucks out, badly beaten by his check Dupuis

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 8:23 pm

prucha’s play without the puck is as good as eddie o says it is—- just a winning hockey player

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 8:20 pm

more great bench work——a change leads to a 2-on-0. unreal

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 7:50 pm

That period was slop. All Hank all the time. Three goal posts hit by Pitt. if the NYR don’t get MUCH better they will lose this game by a wide margin

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 7:47 pm

another brain dead pinch by Girardi leads to a 2-on-1

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 7:38 pm

they are going to give up a number of goals tonight if they don’t start hitting in their own end. pitt has wayyy too much space and time and freedom

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 7:13 pm

Prucha on the PP, whaddya know. Good for TR.

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 5:04 pm

Broken Record

Powerless, of course. But maybe only to a point. Because when even a sweetheart like Sam Weinman begins to question Renney in a way that was unthinkable even three months ago, I think it is because he is hearing from many diehard fans who are appalled by the effort, lack of accountability, etc.

I’m simply saying that the question of Renney’s incompetence is now in the air, it is discussed around the league, it is not bottled up in some forbidden hidden spot.
And I think a small reason for that is due to forums like this where the man on the street can be heard. And that man over all is not happy about the way this team is managed or coached. And I think that filters upward. A little, anyhow.

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 4:37 pm

kaspar, i think beer me might be taking an eight count after that one ….. by the way, Julien’s replacement swept the Rangers in the first round that year.

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 4:26 pm

beer me, intent? the intent of the original post was to point out that Renney thought this year’s roster would be better than last year’s! which of course undermines your brown-nose drooling that he has had nothing to work with.

you’re a wriggler and a weasel-worder, but to each his own.

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 4:13 pm

typical beer me: “Find a coach that’s ever said otherwise.”

followed by the scramble back:

“Anyone from a team that isn’t on record as being in a rebuild process?”

classic!

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 3:52 pm

brandon, a “system” absolutely can “regress” a player. Look at Kovalev. Campbell thought tim sweeney was twice the player, so he goes to pitt where they played him 25 minutes a game and he finally “developed.” talent is squandered all the time by rotten coaching. See prucha, petr.

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 3:43 pm

22figure8, at this rate there’s a really live shot they don’t make the playoffs. of course all the droolers already have their built-in excuses should that happen.

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 3:13 pm

duh, Tortorella did not replace Neilson, geniuses.

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 2:51 pm

bingo, that’s the ticket, trade the only guy who plays his heart out every shift he gets to EDM! the only guy who ignites the crowd at MSG! who actually gets some emotion flowing, enough that his name is chanted! whose production, pro-rated, puts him in the top three goals scorers on the team!

this is why beer me is such an unintentional comedian.

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

jeever, all the people who were saying “prucha’s done” are the same bunch who think renny is doing a bang-up job. can you not make out the distinction?? if the “Decider” has been proved consistently bad, why should anyone trust the changes he makes, esp. when they come with his nonsensical explanation??

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 2:26 pm

check that, i’d have $0.05. because i agree with beer me that hank is a significant player

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

graves9, if i had a nickel for every opinion beer me has gotten right about this team, i’d have nothing.

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 1:53 pm

“voros can get a hat trick”

hey 22 figure, shoot for some hypothetical that’s more likely. such as Renny running his bench so that there isn’t a shortie against, or a too many men penalty, or a shot on goal during a power play.

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

beer me, yeah, everyone was “bitching and moaning that prucha couldn’t get in the lineup” and they were right that he belongs there. and you (along with the other renny droolers who were killing anyone who defended prucha) were wrong. as usual.

wd40January 5th, 2009 at 12:31 pm

so riddle me this, voros is benched because he got out of shape and will be given power play time instead of prucha who remained in shape even while benched for eternity and has scored 16 pp goals in an nhl season. “quite honestly, at the end of the day does that identify with what we’re trying to establish here”???

wd40January 4th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

pretty simple. as the rodent wrote last night, renny’s not coaching to win the hockey game, he’s coaching not to lose. and as long as that’s the case, this team is not only doomed but boring and emotionless and afraid.

wd40January 4th, 2009 at 12:58 pm

Brooks got pretty sarcastic/mocking on renny in his article today:

“The shame of it is that the Rangers and the coaching staff seem unable to reverse the season-long follies on the PP. PP? Hey, maybe that’s a signal head coach Tom Renney should recognize – PP, as in Petr Prucha, who scored for the second straight game and is the team’s most potent, if unused and thus dormant, weapon with the man advantage.

“Of course, it only took half a season for Renney to recognize what Prucha has to offer at even-strength, so it’s probably unwise to expect too much.”

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 9:32 pm

lobstah, i agree with you that drury and gomez are horrible. your six-month old child can see it. then why oh why does you boy Renny keep throwing them out there when the game is on the line??

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 9:28 pm

No you can’t play prucha in the last two minutes of the game, nahhh, way too risky.

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 pm

anybody have anything on what Brooks said to Maloney on the radio?

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 9:02 pm

girardi just got very lucky that wasn’t a breakaway

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 8:58 pm

Prucha has been tremendous tonite, great burst through the neutral zone

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Valiquette was pretty deep in the crease, and then the puck was deflected off Redden’s stick. but not a good goal.

drury has been awful, terrible, invisible.

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 8:32 pm

unbelievable. on a pace to give up 25 shorties against.

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 8:25 pm

they are not nearly physical enough!!

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 8:15 pm

that’s the way a PP is supposed to look

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 8:13 pm

Maybe offsides, but prucha is the man.

Still cannot believe I saw Redden just drop that guy.

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 7:58 pm

is there a player with less urgency than Redden in the world?

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 7:58 pm

that’s 2 penalties Prucha has drawn … bench him!

li joe—- good post

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 7:32 pm

dawes had position on that guy … and then didn’t, just that fast.

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 7:28 pm

lobstah, kumbaiya lord kumbaiya

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 7:21 pm

i mean so far not a disaster but joe m just said they look really sharp! to me they have been hanging on

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 7:19 pm

micheletti thinks it’s a good start. can I vote no?

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 6:58 pm

lobstah, what did you call me?? I resemble that remark!lol

jjp, what really summed it up for me was renny the other night on VS. telling the guy with the mic that you had to be “patient” against the islanders. I mean come on, if you can;t attack the worst team in the league, if you’re laying back feeling out the 30th place team in the league, you have the wrong guy coaching.

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 5:44 pm

man when your cyberfoes take the time to create a website in you’re honor, you know you’re doing something right! and I thought i needed to get a life. lol

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 4:59 pm

Hi fellow posters. I’m really smart when it comes to hockey and the Rangers in general, in case you didn’t already notice.

I like to curse at people who don’t agree with me but my favorite thing is to ask “where all the Renney lovers are now?” after any loss. Pretty cool right?

I’ve put together a website full of my wit and wisdom at http://wd40sucks.blogspot.com/. Or you can click on the link in my name.

There is very little in the way of astute insights or comments. But who cares? Its fun to just constantly talk about that hyena Renney.

Toodles, wd40

wd40January 3rd, 2009 at 2:51 pm

lobstah! my only man-crush is on you! and if you can tell me how I took “there’s no amount of coaching that can compensate for stupid plays on the ice or lack of effort” out of context, that man crush will grow even greater!