Quote from: ViewFromSection129 on May 23, 2024, 11:59:18 AMI'm surprised with some of the takes on here. I thought the Rangers last night were atrocious. No pressure, no physicality. Florida hit every Ranger, every time they could. Other than Cuylle a few times, I remember very few Ranger hits. You can't dump it in the offensive zone and expect to retrieve the puck without playing the body hard. And their passing to get out of the defensive zone was poor.
This team has been league average at 5v5, and unless they get a decent amount of PPs or Igor steals a game, they look very pedestrian against top teams. They have now been outshot in 8 straight games.
I said all along I wanted Boston instead of Florida. And unless the Rangers change and up their game quickly, this one is going six at best.
It was an ugly, kind of boring game. The Rangers are not going to keep up with Florida at 5v5, but the goal should be to limit their high danger chances as much as possible. The Rangers pretty much did that, but the Rangers couldn't convert on their chances and the power play couldn't score. The raw number of shots on goal is hardly meaningful here.