Atrocious game. Dubinsky better keep building off this game.
Get well soon Cally and MDZ. Yikes.
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"I used to pray for good things . I used to ask the Hockey Gods for puck luck for the NYR .
Now all I want is Torts the smug stupid goatee clown to be fired , . I hate Torts . Please hockey gods make him get fired. Please Sean punch him in face" -- Dorado
We're first in the East, so anyone who has the GAUL to get mad that we blew a 2-0 lead is not a real fan!!11111
Seriously. I'm a Mets fan. I remember 2007. I'm not saying thats even close to happening, but until we clinch divison/conference, every game is just as important as its been all year.
We were up 2-0, and needed a late goal just to get a point.
But Lundqvist needs to stop it. 3 goals on the last 7 shots he faced. Not what you want your goaltender to do in the final period / OT.
That said, he was the reason it wasn't a blow out early on. Overall, decent game by Henrik.
The Boyle line looked terrible. Again, I don't understand why we match that line against the other teams upper echelon talent. It was clear they were out matched.
You can't win them all, and we didn't deserve the win. Need to come out better for the next one.
Malone was below the hash marks and sniped it. Have you ever played the position? Do you realize how hard that is to stop?
No idea how Gaborik ends up with less than 15 minutes TOI that game. Less than Fedotenko, Boyle, and Prust, who were each -3
Not enough intangibles, no jam or grit obviously.
Idiotic. Torts makes some questionable decisions for as well as this team is coached. Hope he learns before the playoffs sometimes playing favorites or going with grit over skill isn't going to win games.
It's time to reunite Staal and Girardi. Nothing against McDonagh, but those two were the best tandem in the NHL last year until Staal got injured by his brother.
Tortorella's coaching earned us that point. His adjustments directly resulted in two goals: Gaborik's power play goal and Dubinsky's tying goal. Very disappointing that we couldn't come away with the win against an unbalanced team with no-names on defense, but I will take 3 out of 4 points on back to back road games any day.
I don't think this was Torts' best game in terms of coaching. It was apparent from the 1st period that Boyle's line was struggling to keep up with the Stamkos line, yet they kept on getting ice time against that line. The Boyle line was on for all 3 Tampa goals during regulation. Fedotenko isn't the same player he was last year and he looks a step behind.
McDonagh had a bad game defensively, lots of mistakes and miscommunications. I thought Sully should have stuck with the Staal-Girardi pairing like he was doing in the 2nd period, but he put McDonagh back with Girardi for the 3rd.
On the bright side, Dubinsky looked great and may have been our best forward tonight, hopefully he keeps it up. I thought he could have been promoted earlier in the game but luckily it ended up not being too late and he helped steal us a point.
