Post Game Thread: New York Rangers at Los Angeles Kings – 20 Jan 2024

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1. ONE. So glad I fell asleep and woke up for last four minutes. Can see it was a shit show from just that.
   TWO. Where’s the dickhead on here who said they were going to the cup two weeks ago? Wonder if the dickhead has seen the truth.

2. JQ in his interview was damn pissed off about the questions about the video for him.

3. Quick needs to slam his helmet and tell everyone to wake the fuck up.

4. Not like I needed another excuse to drink, thanks Rangers. Fuck you, and I’ll see you tomorrow.

5. Mika needs to figure it out. He’s certainly not the only problem but but the guy is getting paid 8 million dollars a year to trip over himself with the puck on his stick and miss the net shooting, LA was shutting down the bread line, we went 22 minutes tonight without a shot on goal, that’s unacceptable. I don’t care that he has a bunch of powerplay points he needs to produce offense at 5v5 because if he doesn’t this team is going absolutely nowhere. He had a great game vs the Kraken, but otherwise what a miserable season for him. The good news is I feel like most of our best players have so much more that they can give, it’s just a matter of them actually playing to that potential.

6. Every game that goes by my suspicion grows and grows and now it’s not suspicion anymore, it’s just fact.

   The New York Rangers will not win a Stanley Cup with this core and therefore will not win a Stanley Cup for the foreseeable future.

   It’s simply not a core that puts in enough effort to win, and we can’t easily retool because of all the NTCs. So, there you have it. A core incapable of winning a Cup, locked onto our roster for the next five years at least, and then we have to go through another whole rebuild on top of that.

   This issue came with the last core too – and the common denominator is Glen Sather. His grubby hands are ALL OVER this team’s constant dump and don’t chase, shitty effort, Goodrow’s mere membership on this team, all of it. This team will be much better off when he leaves the organization, however it may be.

   My only hope is that a mix of the current young guys and the prospects still simmering can come up and make the later half of this decade an actual contending core – and some of these players we’re waiting for are really good, so that’s cause for future optimism.

7. “What did I ever do in this world to deserve an empty-headed, fucking dumb fuck like Barclay Goodrow to go out there on the ice and fucking lazily skate around?”

8. I mean. Even an optimist had to have known our winning wasn’t sustainable. It was propped up by a Hart Level performance by Bread, Trocheck acting like Sidney Crosby for a month, Jonathan Quick being the best goalie in hockey for 6 weeks and a power play hitting in a near 40% clip.

   You can’t win long term when your 3rd and 4th line centers have 2 goals combined. Can’t succeed when 3.6 million has 4 points. Can’t win long term when you’re franchise goalie is playing average. And you sure as shit can’t win long term when your 1C and 1LW can’t produce even strength.

   It’s a weird year. The FLYERS look viable this year.

   There’s still time. But what we see now resembles reality moreso than the first 2 months

9. [Ugh](https://youtube.com/shorts/x0_A_YDYBWQ?si=raqxSzEY7bAWBqin)

   The free fall continues.

10. Missing the Vali vibes right now

11. I knew that the Rangers were going to lose this game as soon as Sam and Joe mentioned that the Kings 1 and 11 in their last 12 games.

12. This interviewer fucking blows

13. Anyone have a read on Miller’s ice time after the second LA goal? Feel like I didn’t see him at all

14. KREIDS REALLY, REALLY ANGRY, SAME AS JQ. GOOD FOR YOU KREIDS. GOOD FOR YOU

15. so they’re *really* just gonna roll with these pairs that haven’t worked all year? zero interest in switching 55 and 79 to *see* if that helps anything?

    the insistence on keeping these pairs is just ridiculous

16. This team needs to stay playing mad instead of sad

17. How many goals did Kakko score? How many points did he have? Just curious.

18. Definitely time for a players-only meeting…

19. I’m the optimistic fan of the group, but this team/core has looked awful since the new year and the past doesn’t offer comfort 

    There are issues and they’re just not being solved at the moment…maybe they will be in February 

20. 

21. Takes

    Goaltending:quick did fine. Great job by him. His 2 goals he got completely off positioned after tons of weird puck bounces and couldn’t do anything abt it. Great game

    Defense:did we have some shaky plays, yes, mainly in our zone. But overall offensive turnovers and the offense not generating killed us. I don’t know how some fans expect the defense to be perfect when the kings dominate puck possession because we can’t do anything inside their zone and immediately give them the puck back eventually even the best defenses would crumble doing that. Iam a bit worried about kandre considering g he’s with outskating and pushing guys around but they get past him somehow. His stick work keeps popping up as an issue albeit he did have some good plays defensively. Trochek had a bit of a down game defensively.

    Offense:how do we let the kings both outskate and physically bully us. One good thing was at a point kreider finally started to use his size, mainly after cuyle got reverse hit pretty bad. Zib was nonexistent, kreider was existent eventually, but overall an awful first. Our d men played a good game offensively I will say albeit miller should’ve probably trusted his shot vs the kings goalie on his breakaway. One of the worst firsts ever and the third and second weren’t exactly gems either although far better.

    Laf has the skills of a great player. But he seems to miss some gene that hughes stammer crossby ovi etc had that just let’s then put pucks in a net past a goalie. It’s pretty frightening. Aldo while Artemi did play a great game he really struggled scoring as well.
    Despite the offense being bad for a while we had a lot of plays where we just couldn’t get through the goalie even after we broke the kings defense. One upside was kakko played a lot better offensively and not just in terms of puck possession.

    Special teams: for the pp it seems like a phony unit. An aging tampa group outperformed us now and we should be out of the top 3 but injuries fucked with it and such. Our pp isn’t what it was before 2024 or even what it was before the florida game. The pk was a lot better again though and is getting back to its peak as one of the leagues elite.

22. The team might as well just show a recording of the helmet throw incident on loop in the locker room because they need a wakeup call after EVERY FUCKING GAME

23. The kings had lost 11 of 12? Wait what 

24. Don’t be upset guys it was just some bad luck =^]

25. F*ck it bring Brian Boyle down from MSG studios to bolster the bottom 6

26. doomer hours in the sub. everyone comment your saddest listen below, i’ll start:

    shame in you – alice in chains

27. No! Quit in New York

28. If they lose one of these next 2 vs tanking Anaheim and San Jose this sub is rightfully going to burn to the ground

29. Dave: “Get back on the horse tomorrow.”

    Kreids: “Exactly”

    He nailed on the head. But seriously about this game tonight into the next day )1/21/24), that first period sucked, the 2nd period looked like a different team only for YOU GUESSED IT KEY THE TURNOVER MACHINE CAN’T PLAY DEFENSE. But, Kreids said it best, Boyle said it best, when the challenging times occur which it has for the entire month, gotta play through it and not cower and wuss out. “Everyone is in this together” Kreids and Boyle said. That’s what team is going through and what we the fans are going through. When we are handed adversity, giving up is the weakest thing in anything. Seriously. Gotta be battle tested.

    As for the game, the final 20 period, liked the chances but the Kings played a good style of defense. Laf is really, really, snakebitten. But in reality, w/o saying to trade EVERYONE FOR OLD AGED VETS OF YESTERYEAR, that’s hockey for ya. the biscuit bounces in strange ways. Bad start to the game. gotta start better.

    Disappointed. As what they said in the post game interviews, “back on the horse tomorrow.” Onto the Ducks.

    Can’t get outdone in the first period like in tonight’s game.

    Onto to the Ducks

30. In essentially any playoff series we ever are in from here on out, we’re going to have the worse 1C in terms of ability to have a pulse 5v5.

    Gonna be pretty difficult to accomplish any of our goals that way.

31. I’m just sad, I dunno. This sucks so much. The past two months have sucked so bad. A dream season thats spiraled into a nightmare. It felt like they couldn’t lose and now it feels like it’s all they do.

    I get so jealous of clubs and their fans like LA, Chicago, Pitt, winning multiple Cups.

    I just want to see one. Just one fucking time. Some nights it feels like it will just never happen.

    I know this post seems so ridiculous and hyperbolic and I know sports are not that serious but some nights your heart just fucking breaks, you know?

32. understanding now that these guys are simply content to walk around manhattan in their two thousand dollar peacoats as young millionaires and nothing more.

    call me dramatic , but after several years now it’s clear that the core members of this team simply lack the fire, the obsession, that comes with winning a cup. hopefully i’m wrong, but the problems of the early 20s rangers are as apparent as ever.

33. Positives? We only had to hear that shitty fucking goal horn twice