Sorry about the wait, guests came over as the buzzer sounded (they are damn lucky it was right at the end, NOBODY interrupts a Rangers game in the inferno household!) so I was unable to write up my post game comments. I’ll be brief as I am a bit tired and a lot of what I saw is fading.? First line, pretty good, 2nd line, awful, 3rd line, just amazing, 4th line, putrid doesnt even describe it.
Looking at it from a realist point of view…the Bruins suck, we all know it, they are worse than their record, and we clearly saw why.? Their D is paper thin after Chara, and their O is simply nonexistent unless Savard does everything. The refs clearly helped us out in this one, but I dont think it mattered one bit.
Our 4th line had the worst game this season…actually probably the worst game ive seen from a Rangers 4th line since the lockout.? They were terrible, I would like to see some changes there.? The COP line though took care of business, owning the ice, and setting the tempo.? Prucha might have had his best game as a Ranger, and it looks like hes starting to peak at just the right time.
Marek Malik.? What can you say, the guy was something like a +4 or +5 in the game, and yet was clearly the worst person on the ice for EITHER team.? Its amazing how misleading stats can be.? Maybe we will be lucky and some moron GM will just look at his +/- and take him off our hands.
-Inferno