I said this during my Post Game Thoughts from the game against the Penguins:
So, let us be happy they won, but hope that the Rangers don’t hit their overconfidence game so quickly after a long losing streak.
You may remember me mentioning the overconfidence games before, but if you haven’t a quick refresher. The Rangers season are pretty easy to get a handle on. They win a bunch of games, getting better and better, then they play a great great great game where they dominate a team from start to finish. After that they continue to win game, playing crappier and crappier as the games go on. They start to think they can win games with the bad habits they display, and then go on a prolonged losing streak. We are on the tail end of said losing streak (I hope), but sometimes those losing streaks have a game where the Rangers pull it all together for 1 night, and think they can go right back to their old bad habits again, and the losing streak goes on.
Now I’m not actually watching this game, though I am listening to it on the Radio, and when you give up 5 goals to 1 player with 7 minutes to go in the 3rd, you aren’t playing a great game, no matter how horrible the reffing is.
Avery can’t come back soon enough.
