Can’t win if you don’t score. Can’t win three in a row if you don’t score. Can’t make the playoffs if you don’t try. Not sure what more can be said for this disaster. The usual slow start (4 SOG in 1st period). The usual defensive breakdown (PPG to Meier at 10:56 and SHG to Bratt at 12:23 in the 2nd period). The usual lack of urgency down two goals in the third with the resulting next goal scored by the Devils at 14:59.
For a team that was two points out of a playoff spot they sure did look checked out. What is worse for fans is, the Filth have been on a roll since canning Torts so it could be you wake up tomorrow to Ground Hog day of NYR two points back of Montreal, again.
The official scoring summary is below:
The Rangers host a tilt against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday evening, 19:00 EDT. Telecast by MSG and FDSNSUN.
131 responses to “Rangers DNP, Devils 4”
Minx the game Monday is at MSG, why are you blacked out?
Beezle
Both locations are blacked out home and away, with the espn+ contract.
Only 2 players on this clown show worth keeping. Cuylle and Schneider. The jury is out on Mothman and Perreault.
Minx I guess just watch some curling re-runs. Less painful, probably more exciting
I’d keep Cuylle, Schneider, Mothman, Perreault, Berard, Carrick, Rempe, Borg and maybe Brodude (until better comes along). Borg really is a second/third pair guy. Give the kids a chance with 15+ a night. Edstrom will hopefully be back as well.
One of the few players who shoots the puck on PP is Johnny B. I think he is a keeper. Always works hard and seems to care, Agree with Cuylle and Schneider.
This is now a total tear down. If you could possibly trade the goalie, I would. He will be a waste at his salary,even if he sometimes plays lights out.
There are way too many players who have all had terrible seasons this year.
Hopefully,a new younger coaching staff. What we have now is not working.
Only game I care to watch will be against Flyers,with JD and Sam calling the game;which I am sure they will play like crap.
Beezle
Yeah I agree with, just frustrated.
“We’re looking for something offensively, maybe pressing too much. Any time you’re doing that, you’re subject to get caught the other way.” Laviolette and his excuse for short-handed goals.
Trade Sitwerkin? You must be mad. Solid 0.900 goalie right there. No way you can get that for $4-5M less without an untouchable contract.
We aren’t winning the cup
We aren’t winning the cup
We aren’t winning the cup
Captain Rempe, don’t come get the Stanley Cup
I believe our team would be better with no Drury and no Lavy/housley
Last year was vets owning the room
This year doomed from the get go with Trouba Goodrow and Kreider getting shafted by Drury with trade and early public for sale signs
Lavys system doesn’t fit this team
Housley is not a good coach. Many great players stink as coaches.
If this team had Craig Berube or even Sheldon Keefe we would be a lot better. Gotta find someone like them.
Drury has driven a “first class organization “ intro the sewer pit of despair
Vince’s article a few months ago ago outlining the toxic environment the President Drury has created for the support staff and players it is probably the worst thing this team has had happen that I can remember
Morale at an all time low
I went from being a big Drury fan to someone begging Dolan to get rid of him pronto
Rangers could have won this 0 to -2
Dreary rolled the dice picking up playoff rentals (easy) instead of making hockey trades ( harder) coupled with a Laffy/Kakko underwhelming performance relative to draft position, leaves a hollowed out team.
JT is good and he cares, Bread is talented, Cuylle is emerging role model along with Remper to wake up the fans, Schneids is solid, Sam is a lunch pail guy. The rest can all be part of deals
E3 my prints are on the way, Monday arrival.
The culture is a little messed up when Rammer and The Goalie Whisperer were pushed out with no reasons given
Gabe, “I missed smashing tail on Chestnut Hill for hanging out with these losers”
Clegg 15:58 —
I could not have said what you said any better. These are my thoughts exactly. For this team coming off the past 3 seasons to dive down to the level of the islanders below sens and Montreal sans major injuries is absolutely jaw dropping. I don’t know what to say. I can’t believe Drury is this bad.
Filth up by one half way through the game playing with higher compete level than a certain team from nyc did earlier today
2-1 MTL 15 min of 3rd. I hate that f***ing OLE song!
🌑
Filth just scored. 39 secs left.
😥
That’ll do it on the season. At this point, I’d rather just rack up L after L and PRAY that JD and the Nut Shots takes notice. No clue who could slide in as next GM. In terms of a coach…. what, retread Quennville? Certainly wouldn’t be Torts. Maybe Sullivan if he isn’t re-upped by the pens? Anyhow- Get Mika, K’Schmuck and Kreider off this team.
Canadiens compete hard for every point. Rangers hardly compete, as if there’s no point.
Tragic number dropped to 11 after the ranger game and to 9 after the Montreal game. The show is over, folks.
In other news: Let’s Go Blues! Win number 12 in a row. Tbh, their schedule has been rather weak over the 12 games. However they did beat the avalanche twice and the wild once. Next game is against Winnipeg. That’s when we’ll see what they’re made of..
Rangers are 4 points out of the playoffs and 3 points out of 14th worst. Every negative scenario seems to be converging now.
K-Y has to go.
Canadiens are still Gorton’s team? Just checking?
VP Hockey Ops, Canadiens, wwpd. Wonder if he’d relish humiliating Dreary, Dolan et al…
Drury and Dolan do a great job humiliating themselves.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIFF_Eupo-P/?igsh=MTZpeDQ4dmJia3JncA==
Will they give out the “Extra Eff-It” Award tomorrow night before the game? Lots of candidates…
This is the best result for the Rangers. Going on a mini run, and giving Drury thoughts about running it back, would set them back.
Of all the guys Drury traded this year, goodrow, Trouba, Chytil, and Kakko, the guy we are all going to look back on and wish they kept is Mancini.
Mancini for sure. Still think Kakko will develop into a top six, second liner, see a full year where he gets minutes and some trust from the coaching staff.
I agree on Mancini. I really liked his game. I could not undersatand why they kept jerking him around for playing time and than they trade him, fugging idiots.
So about all these “unwinnable” games on the schedule:
Sen>Panthers
Bruins>Carolina
Sabres>Lightning
Also, Leaves spanked the BJs. Utah beats the Peg.
I really have trouble believing in curses. I do believe there is such a thing as a dumbazz ruining an organization.
of course idiot Drury will now extend Miller, probably the rangers worse defensemen to a big extension.
The 2024/25 NYR Rangers, as a team, are the Wizard of Oz team. A combination of the cowardly lion, the tin man and the scarecrow. Drury the Wiz. That only leaves Toto or the flying monkey for Lavi 🤔
Uncle Larry sez:
“The Rangers are running out of season.
“Who said hallelujah?”
After they mercifully end their season I’ll tune out until the conference finals. I don’t have a dog in this fight.
Who DOESN’T make the Playoffs?
NY Rangers and Mt. Vernon High School.
Drury didn’t mail in the season..the core did
Larry stating the obvious.
Beezle
Dolan as the wicked witch?
Look at this dog https://x.com/nyrfanatic/status/1908579078510116963?s=61
Beezle.. “ Rangers DNP” 😂😂
https://x.com/nyrfanatic/status/1908555347586936924?s=61
Perfectly said by so many. Game was awful to watch. Not enough effort from everyone which has been an issue alot of the year.
Here is hoping they blow it up as best as possible and get several more player’s who play like they care..
Best thing that could happen is this drop in performance. Game was reminiscent of the no show vs Derbils in POs couple of seasons back.
Obv the players are first and foremost to blame but Dreary is the one who put this team together and continued to steal from the future in the hopes this squad could win the present and is now stuck in the past.
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right;
here I am stuck in the middle with youze
youze…yiz…yizzes
Olde Brooklynese
The strangest part of the season was the complete breakdown of pp which would have had them in the playoffs if they were at top 15 level.
With this much talent, it’s a conundrum. Keep rolling out DJ Meeka Mouse and putting Kam the Sham on PP2 point are the obvious one.
And Tro is brain damaged, has no ability to think out on the ice. His clean loss on PP for the Derbils PP goal was emblematic of this season. Not clutch when needed. We get to watch him run around out of position for the next 5 seasons…
Beezle,
The Kracken coaching staff is already losing patience with Kakko. His minutes have been in a steady decline. 13 minutes last night. This is on a bad team, where minutes should be there for him.
It’s good to see that people are finally including Trocheck in the blame category. He’s been awful all season, and his PK work has been flat out bad. The two best PK guys are still the same two guys who have been their best the previous 3 seasons, Kreider, and Zibanejad.
The Rangers’ season has been one long ‘Marche Funèbre’—and now they’re just down to the final, sad trombone.
The PP is now minus for the last 6 weeks. They have given up more shorties than they scored goals. That is reason enough that the entire coaching staff gets canned on 1-18.
If Lavy isn’t canned they should give the Pens their pick for this year unless they move up in the lottery. They will be worse next year.
If they can Lavy it’s a tougher choice. A competent coach could get this roster into the playoffs(barely) next year and the pick would be worse. OTOH, If Drury is going to do a full rebuild keep next years pick and let the Pens have this year’s. Next year’s pick could be in the top 5.
I think the plan is to be good again next year. The only reason, to me, to not keep this years pick, is if you plan on trading next years one at the deadline. Otherwise, you really don’t t know when you will be picking this high in the draft again.
Drury gets the blame. He put the team together. This is not a single player failure, it is the group. He picked the players, by draft/trade/signing and gave them their contracts.
Always a chuckle the fans complaining about Mika. Was Mika ever a ‘physical’ player? No. Did Mika ever get in fights? There is no record of any. And yet fans are saying “look at that p*ssy”. Wasn’t it Drury’s job to know this? And how it would or would not fit into a playoff caliber team?
How about Fox? Fights? Zilch. KAM? 1. LaCoast? 1 each in 23/22/21. Othmann has as many hits in 18 games as Fox does in 68.
There is no synergy on this team. Too many of the same type/style of player and they didn’t get that way just overnight.
Carey I more or less said the same last week. Nobody knows what this team will look like next year. It could be drafting 8th or 20th. You can have a good idea of the player you will get in this draft. If you think someone in 15-20 next season will be better, than hold on to the pick.
In my opinion, Drury deserves 99% of the blame because he put this group of complete quitters together. Keep in mind that he was the assistant GM during the “rebuild” and had a lot of input on those terrible draft picks, that essentially destroyed the “rebuild”. He also had some or all the say on the awful contracts handed out with NMC. As long as he is here, they will suck like they did under Sather. Unfortunately, my worst fear is that he is the GM for life, just like Sather and I will never see another Rangers Stanley Cup in my lifetime. At this point, I doubt my kids will ever see a Rangers Stanley Cup.
CCCP organ music for the last home game. Can’t do it for the Sam/JD game, too spooky.
This scattering of ‘star’ skaters are too stupid to have not seen the graffiti on the subway walls and to each not look after themselves and their individual stats that would keep each in demand. They went down with the leaky ship.
Sign this Chopin kid!
Carey on Kakko, he had a brief stretch of four games where he got over 20 shifts, otherwise seems pretty consistent at ~18. Of the SEA fowards, he’s third in pts/game. That said, SEA games are too late for me to watch more than highlights and look at box scores to see what they are doing or not doing with him. Think next season will be make/break on which six he ends up fitting in longer term.
Does anyone think Drury did what he did without the blessing of Dolan? I don’t. There is a plan, and Drury has explained it to Dolan, and he’s on board. Short term pain, for long term gain. Goodrow and Trouba were always going to have to be gone this summer. Drury did it early. You can very easily argue that if he’d kept them, and Kakko/Chytil, they would probably be comfortably in a playoff spot. In that same argument though, you could argue that we have already seen the peak of what this group can do. That’s what Drury’s moves tell you, he believes we had seen the best of that group, and it was time to retool/reshape the team. There is at least one more move coming. Kreider is most likely gone. I’m not convinced Zibanejad is leaving just yet. Let’s see what Drury has in mind for this summer before we right them off for next year.
The curtain falls on an extremely bad and boring play. Actors and Producers have failed a faithful audience!
Minx you’ll still be around for the encore!
Beezle
Thanks for your encouraging words. I will sleep better tonight.
So is Ovechkin super human at 39 or is juice involved? If true is the NHL overlooking it just because? How dare I suggest such a thing.
I would not be the slightest bit surprised if the Canadiens eliminate the Craps.
A couple of games ago I asked as a joke if Kreider would ever score another power play goal. Ha Ha.
The way this team is playing the whole team might not get a PP goal this year. For Kreider if he gets moved he will be tied with Camile Henry. That would really stink.
If Ovi score today then Islanders will be last team Gretz scored against and the team No. 8 breaks the record.
I guess that means the Islanders will have a sellout today. Wonder how many fans came up from Wash for todays game?
Was Drury smarter when they had one of the top powerplays in the league and a presidents trophy with most of the same core?
Islanders up 2-0 after one.
Craps hungover. Ovie will get a useless goal at the end of the game and all fans will go home happy.
The bad – Dreary had to have noticed the team was overly reliant upon PP and then watched them get smacked around n POs. So if the PO did not perform at a top 5 level, then this team was a bubble team. Guess what happened…
The good – Dreary traded for the best player available and only gave up a R1 and a player one hit away from ending his career. Dreary traded for Dmen who can play defense; almost all of whom had a positive +/- prior to this week. Will
Fuggin Coolio with a special shout out and Bread rising above the crud around him.
The ugly – Meeka Mouse, Lazy Laffy, Listless Kreider as the invisible Men, Trochet reverts to
Form, Lame Fox, and worse of all; KAM the Sham. The Igor contract is the cherry on the pile of dog doodoo.
The draft pick should be kept this season so he can’t trade it next season. Trades this summer can bring in more draft capital. The Cap space increasing but still somewhat constrained by overly generous contracts complicates issues.
The goalie contract stinks. As does Fox’s.
The worst is K-Y. That dude needs to be sent packing.
Meeka, Kreider were great Rangers, but cannot be relied upon to be who they once were.
Laughy is the biggest disappointment on this team.
Where’s Putin?
Bettman “ you are the greatest Alex….but not great enough to play in our 4 Nations tournament”
Kam the Sham luv it. The fat lady just sang yesterday afternoon. We hope Keider got what he wanted. Maybe he’ll grow up on the next team he’s on.
I see my great scum comment was removed. Moderators are flirting with that title too
Dino
You are flirting with the door outta here. You can’t communicate like a normal person?
Communicate being the optimal word there. And don’t make threats. Establish some rules and follow through. Otherwise this place starting to look like the bush league organization that we so dearly follow
Dino
Don’t tell me what to do. Got it? There are unspoken rules here, and everybody knows them — except you, clearly. You stroll in throwing insults like you own the place, but you’re just embarrassing yourself. If you don’t like it here, no one’s stopping you from leaving. Door’s wide open.
We’ve all been around this org a long time and so while this season a great embarrassment in so many ways I can’t even count we all remember it can get worse – much worse.
I don’t know how to post a screenshot here so here’s my 14:32 from the yesterday Go Time:
“At least we’ll have the knowledge that Ilya Sorokin gave up Ovechkin’s tiebreaking goal.”
The Great Ape
The Panthers just clinched a playoff spot the other day and so they rested the best three players they have that aren’t injured or suspended. They’re 2 points away from second in the division and 2 points from a wildcard spot. They iced an AHL team against Detroit today. Who TF does that?
Team that knows what it takes to win a championship, and isn’t focused on its individual or regular season stats I guess? Rhetorical question?
Rangers ice a team of AHLers, has beens, powder puffs, and a few good man.
They also had home ice advantage in every series but the one against us. If they fall to the wildcard they’ll probably have no home ice advantage all playoffs.
Half a game away from the tragic number dropping to 7
EV – if it ended now, TOR plays OTT, TBL plays FLA. FLA would only get a home game if OTT beat TOR, or failing that FLA goes all the way to conf finals and the opponent is Derbils or MTL think I got that right
I’ll watch rangers till the end. Especially with Sam in his last days and definitely when JD joins the booth
Other than that I don’t plan on watching any playoffs
Liberating in a sense.
Hope Montreal wins tonight. It’s what our boys in blue bonnets deserve. Just put this season to bed already and sh-tcan all that need to be. I have to be honest- I have zero hope for a playoffs appearance for at least the next 2-3 years.
Once eliminated they should play all the yutes as many minutes as possible
Call up Robertson
Play parsnip and jones etc
More minutes. More scouts. More seeing what we may have value wise.
Chopin much classier than The Who. Play him during warmups.
I am so excited for JD and Sam. Thats what i grew up with ,but watching them play soft against the Flyers… not as much
Fat lady warming up
Call up all the kids and new guys and all the scouts. Do the opposite of whatever the scouts recommend. Then, hire new scouts.
Canadiens finally decided that it does, in fact, want to secure its playoff spot
wwpd, that’s exactly what I just told my father. Lol
Beezle the point is that Florida was only 2 points behind Tampa before this game and 4 points up on Ottawa.
After today’s games, they’re still 2 points from Tampa, with Tampa having a game in hand (against us, so that’s a guaranteed W), and now only 2 points up on Ottawa.
If Florida loses out and Montreal wins out, they would fall to the second wildcard. Just the fact that that’s even somewhat plausible right now is ridiculous.
Florida only has one guaranteed win left this season and it’s against the same team that Tampa is going to get two wins from.
Play “Who Are You” during warm-ups.
I really wanna know…
Dolan losing playoff money, but does he really care?
Scouts?
Found this analysis on interweb
Q4 Revenue: MSGS made $175 million in revenue during the fourth quarter of 2022.
Profit: The Rangers playoff run helped MSGS turn in a $25 million profit during a fourth quarter that ended on June 30, compared to a net loss of $9.3 million during the same period last year.
Not sure what accounting tricks are/are not being used but playoffs contribute a significantt amount to the bottom line. The long game of franchise value is where the bread is buttered however.
‘net loss,’ LOL. Who’s kidding whom?
9:18 – Reggie Dunlop: “At the end of the day I think about women. You know, I think about women’s bodies. Now maybe all that’ll change, maybe I’ll end up sleeping with old goalies. I mean, things bein’ what they are, who knows?”
TRIVIA TIME!
Name the goalie who gave up the most goals against Ovechkin?
I’d guess either Hank or Fatso
Minx the appropriate song would be Ole Ole
At Shea, it was. ‘Jose, Jose.”
The flower.
EV kinda why I pointed out last week that every team the Rangers had left on schedule was beatable. TBI lost to freakin Buffalo! The Filth? NYI?
Sadly our boys are not looking so sexy anymore. More like some run down street ‘hos
Please extend Brodude … as the next coach
“When power-play two gets out there, we’re just trying to focus on just getting shots toward the net, recovering pucks and just keep on firing right back at the net,” Brodzinski said. “It’s the only way that we’re really gonna get out of this slump, is stop getting east-west with it and just start putting a lot more pucks at the net.”
Per Giggles: Looks like Berard is coming out for Matt Rempe.
Good news everyone!
Mollie: K’Andre Miller is a game-time decision and Igor Shesterkin is in goal.
Sad to say it, but imo, KAR knows he sucks and is depressed about it.
Enjoy the game boys. I guess I’ll be watching the jet blues.
If my maths works out Schneids has only been on for 7 goals against at even strength all season.
KAM has been on for 27 and as QB of PP2 has 2 assists on PP on season; that’s it…
Trivia answer: Fleury with 28 goals against.
Lundqvist is second with 24 against.
C3
I was actually thinking MAF of Hank.
Over Hank.
After tonight, we should be that much closer to putting an end to this garbage season. The problem is, JD and the Nutshots will give little league pizza champ a pass bc he was handcuffed with Trouba’s contract and Mika’s (you know, the “backup-plan contract” Drury gave him bc we missed out on securing Eichel). I would honestly try and move Trocheck as well before he loses value. This cannot be a retool- that time has passed. It needs to be a tear down.
Think the problem with Trocheck is they are using him more or less as a 1C when he was meant to be a 3C.
For the pain crowd, the go-time is set to kick off at 6:55 PM EDT
17:22. – unquestionably.
11:42. – * KAM
coos
I thought you meant K’Andre Remove?
Agree with Beezle.. just like how they messed up Bobby Holik. Forcing a round peg into a square whole. What could go wrong? Typical for the NY Rangers.
The betting app should have a new prop bet for our boys in blue. Will they get 20 shots on net?