tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102291454818563145.post2028656845569085067..comments2023-10-30T10:04:33.980-04:00Comments on Natural Hat Trick Productions: Five Things on the Rangers/Thrashers Game. . .kelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10263870665506009146noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102291454818563145.post-16154332995315922892009-12-16T00:35:15.062-05:002009-12-16T00:35:15.062-05:00No problem Luke.
This team? What to do with this ...No problem Luke.<br /><br />This team? What to do with this team?<br /><br />It wasn't a bad game. Not at all. Again just way more frustrating when coupled with the last handful of defeats, I'm sure.<br /><br />It's so true. No one, not even the Maple Leafs for their horrible start is eliminated numerically, but what teams do at this juncture surely affects how far they'll go or how much they may have to push to get, try to get, keep, secure a playoff spot. The reason the Rangers were able to the last few years (last Olympic year for sure) was because of big starts and saving points.<br /><br />I am going to be honest with you. Admit it or not, you're probably not the only one that had that thought. The more low scoring, if they win they must win by scoring no more than 2 goals and letting in no more than one, games the Rangers have, the more I can't help but think of Renney. <br /><br />Remember, Renney did work when he had a Jagr type talent, a powerplay that worked, and players willing to buy into it. <br /><br />It stopped working when the Rangers had no major scoring talent, and more impoantly, when the Rangers stopped buying into it. And when Hank stopped being tolerant of being the guy taking all the heat.<br /><br />Yes, in some way, Luke. Very eeirily similar there.<br /><br />As for better? I think it's impossible to say. They were done listening last year. Could this group of "more Renney types" have been good under his reign. Perhaps they may have. <br /><br />It's painful to remember, but subtract Gaborik and some offensive defensemen and this is very much a Renney type roster, no? Most players, at least at present capacity, have been almost interchangable. On lines. On the PP.<br /><br />Jeeze, I've sufficiently scared myself with this line of thinking.<br /><br />We wouldn't have to think that way if Tortorella was go-go-going as advertised. Sigh.kelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10263870665506009146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102291454818563145.post-57097318852205927222009-12-15T05:09:46.199-05:002009-12-15T05:09:46.199-05:00Thanks for the summary Kels. I’m not able to watch...Thanks for the summary Kels. I’m not able to watch this one, although it sounds like it was worth watching. Even if we lost, again. There is a saying (not really a saying, more a train of thought) here in England about the soccer “The premiership isn’t won before Christmas, but you can loose it”. As strange as it feels to say, I agree the next two really are must win games. Not to ensure a playoff position, but to ensure we’re in with a chance. <br /><br />Another random thought I had on the way to work this morning. <br /><br />Does anyone else have that embarrassing and unspoken little thought in the back of their minds..... Would things have been better this season if we’d stuck with Renney? <br /><br />LukeLukehttp://www.thebearessentials.netnoreply@blogger.com