You guys wanted to blame the Defense, or Henrik…I know, it’s what I kind of want to do as well. But I don’t think that is the problem tonight, nor for the vast majority of this season. Want to know what the problem is? The offense. If you seriously expect your goalie to make 1 or 2 goals stand up every single night, then you are out of your friggin mind. Here is a little study I did…
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Rangers Score 0 Regulation Goals
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Rangers Score 1 Regulation Goals
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Rangers Score 2 Regulation Goals
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Rangers Score 3 Regulation Goals
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Number Of Occurances:
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6
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11
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13
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10
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Required GAA To Win:
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0.00
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0.00
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1.00
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2.00 |
| Weighted GAA Needed To Win These 40 Games Based On The Rangers Offense: |
0.825
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Just chew on that a little bit fellas. In 77% of the games we have played this year, Henrik needed to average a 0.825GAA in order to win those games (and actually just pick up 1 point in 6 of them).
0.825…I mean….Patrick Roy would have a nervous breakdown if you told him he needs to basically pitch a shutout in 2 out of every 10 games, and in the other 8, he can’t give up more than 1 goal. He would retire…or possibly put his rings in his ears and ignore you…
To put it another way, if we scored just 3 goals, every single game (no more, no less), and lose every game that goes into overtime our record would be 28-12-12, good enough for 68 points and the 2nd best record in the NHL. Know what that means? Our defense and goaltending is doing its job. It means in just 12 games this year it has given up more than 3 goals, and in 28 of them has given up 2 or less, that is a fantastic job. It is our offense that needs to be taken to task, and our coaching staff who has been unable to wake up a dormant group of offensive dynamos, nor make anything really happen on our powerplays.
Put the blame where it belongs, squarely on the heads of our forwards.