Team was satisfied laying back and chipping pucks up the ice. Complete inability to possess the puck or make a clean pass.
It doesn't really matter what happens in this series. The Rangers are a terrible puck management team. Its been a problem all season and is not going to change.
Its also the same stuff in the Washington series. Tortorella allows his players to defer the puck too much.
Give credit to Ottawa. They played dirty and gooned it up from the start, and continued it through the game. If that's the way they need to play to stick with us, then we better start scoring some ******* goals. We had plenty of chances to extend the lead.
You can't have the ice tilted like that for so long and expect to hold a one-goal lead. Pittsburgh couldn't do it with a 3-goal lead.
Yep, you would think that after years and years of sports, teams would figure out that sitting on a lead is almost suicide. Yet they try to do it anyway.
Not only is playing defense more tiring than playing offense, but you're always in a danger zone. One small mistake or bad bounce and you're cooked.
Ridiculous choke job - offense, defense, goaltending, coaching down the line.
No sense of urgency. Pointless icings. No puck possession. Disgusting, deserved to lose. So sloppy.
That may have pissed me off most of all. To come out in OT with no sense of urgency or motivation after they blew the lead by sitting back in the 3rd is just unacceptable.
Anyone know which ref was standing there watching Carkner attack Boyle on the ice? Curious if it was Ian Walsh, I think it would seriously raise some questions if he just sits there watching a ranger get pounded, especially after the winter classic fiasco.
The SJ-STL game was getting ugly and the officials broke up a ton of fights, I still don't understand why he just sat there and watched. If he breaks it up Dubi may not get tossed.
They deserved to lose with how they played at the end. They let Ottawa take control of the game.
No forecheck, no pressure, no offense... Just sat back and got beat.
Didn't think they would sweep this series, but the way they've played so far is not impressive. Not against the 8th seed.
I don't have a lot of faith in this team at the moment beyond round one. They just forget how to play for too long of stretches be it periods, or games.
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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
People blaming Torts are silly. The reason we lost is because our guys panicked and forgot how to play.
I still don't know what the heck happened on that goal. A shot from the point, Lundqvist loses sight of it, ends up flopping on the ice somehow and gets his stick caught under Girardi's body, loses his stick, and gets beat by an enforcer... All on an pointless icing.
Not happy with the way that game ended. Always tough to lose when you have a 2-1 lead with less than half the third period left. We let Karlsson have far too much space skating through the neutral zone. We went long periods of time without establishing a quality fore check. Del Zotto kicks a puck in our net and Lundqvist is all over the place on a wonky play for the last goal.
Everything that could go wrong did go wrong in that game.
Anyone know which ref was standing there watching Carkner attack Boyle on the ice? Curious if it was Ian Walsh, I think it would seriously raise some questions if he just sits there watching a ranger get pounded, especially after the winter classic fiasco.
The SJ-STL game was getting ugly and the officials broke up a ton of fights, I still don't understand why he just sat there and watched. If he breaks it up Dubi may not get tossed.
Yeah, it was Walsh.
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"Trust me I'm an expert, I watched 13 rangers games on NHL center Ice this year through streaming." -Starburst
"I don't even understand what the point of all this arguing is. Are you guys hoping that the other side is going to have an epiphany and go 'Oh, OH! You're right, we ARE going to lose this series!'" -Crease
Losing Dubinsky for Carkner was big. Carkner was put into the line-up to do just that. He took a guy that had his game coming around off for the game for a goon that was barely going to play. Didn't wear down their 5 remaining defense and it hurt us in the end. A couple bad bounces off our players and they scored 3 garbage goals. Rangers have to get some more garbage goals as there is less room in the playoffs.
