Blown assignments are just killing the Rangers tonight. Marcel Hossa with the epic brain fart that cost the Rangers a goal within seconds of the period starting. If you watched the game, then Joe and Sam did a great job of pointing it out. Basically Marcel was paying attention to the faceoff rather than paying attention to his man. Because of this his man blew right by him on a set play, and came in on Henrik more or less uncontested with the first goal.
Speaking of faceoffs, have the Rangers won any in this game?! I swear it seems like every time there is a draw, the Isles are the ones winning it. With Gomez, Drury, Betts, and Dubinsky, one would think faceoffs would be a team strength, but they just seem to be getting railroaded.
Also, I have been relatively quiet about the reffing these past few games, because for the bulk of the season the reffing has been really solid, but the Rangers couldn’t buy a call in the second. I would be irate if I were Tom Renney. Islanders got away with a ton of crap in that period, and the Rangers got some fairly soft calls against them.
Finally, someone needs to explain this to me, because I could be 100% wrong, but when Sean Avery gets called for the double minor, and (Sutton?) the Islanders player gets called for the 2 minute penalty, shouldnt the first 2 minutes of each cancel each other out, then the final 2 minutes be a powerplay for the Isles? Instead, it appeared to me the Rangers were told to put 2 men in the box for 2 minutes, instead of 1 man in the box for 4.
I need explaining on that one.
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