Ted Nolan must be secretly on the Rangers payroll. Either that or he just made one of the bonehead moves of the decade. You have a winded Jaromir Jagr, drawing a penalty late in OT. The Rangers dont have a timeout left so Jagr heads to the bench. Then, Nolan, for some ungodly reason calls a time out. Why exactly? I have no idea. His PK guys shouldnt have been winded, and even if they were, you always have 2 sets of PK guys. Its NEVER worth getting back your PK guy if youre going to rest 2 of the Rangers best players.

Funnily enough, the Rangers didnt earn the first point, but most definitely earned the second. I guess thats a push, or karma or whatever you want to call it. Although I can point to a losing streak earlier this year that followed a game like this, it wasnt exactly the same. Although the Isles did dominate us for many stretches, for the most part though it was played in the neutral zone, in the islanders zone on the perimeter, or in the Rangers zone on the perimeter.

I just wish that NBC had a post game show, interviews, analysis, anything, because I wanna hear Nolans explanation for that brainfart.

Oh, yeah, We’re in 6th place.

Doing projections as of right now, you most likely wont get an update tonight, doing a BBQ with the fam:

How this works:

Basically what I do, is to take the points a team has managed till now, divide it by the games played, then multiply it by 82. That should accurately project what the team should finish like, unless there is an extreme streak one way or the other. I will no longer be including the points per game column because lets face it, you don’t care how many points per game!

As you can see, according to tonights calculations, I project the Rangers as MAKING the playoffs. Therefore using these numbers we can project what the Rangers would have to go over the remaining 6 games in order to secure the projected 93 points needed to secure the final playoff spot:

-Inferno

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Rangers play against a team, get pretty much owned the whole game, and pick up 2 points, then actually play worse in the next game, but get bailed out by their goaltending.
No, im not talking about yesterday and today, im talking about games against the Senators and the Stars that preceded the 7 game losing streak…

In both situations the Rangers were riding long winning streaks, and in both Henrik was bailing them out time and time again. Rangers need to get their head in this game. They may be leading 1-0 but we all know how quickly leads can evaporate.

-Inferno

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One entire team came out very hungry for a win. Only 2 guys came out hungry for a win on the other team. Now, using a number 2 pencil, correctly describe each of the following as described before:

Sean Avery-
The Islanders-
The Rangers-
Henrik Lundqvist-

Well, that was very depressing to watch. The Rangers, once again, come out flat on a day game. Not sure why, but they just dont play well during the day. Actually generally speaking the overall level of play in a hockey game is considerably lower on day games versus night games (en masse).

Henrik Lundqvist, and Sean Avery, those are the only 2 players on the Rangers who brought their A game, the rest of these guys are sleepwalking. Any more of that and were in for a long, and painful remaining 40 minutes.

-Inferno

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