Torts: We Didn't React Very Well

Andrew Gross at Ranger Rants has this quote from John Tortorella on his main concern with the loss Monday night...

“I thought we were playing very well,” Tortorella said. “Their first goal, I thought it was a bad goal. I think Valley knows that too. But I don’t think we reacted very well as a team. We haven’t had too many bad goals go in on us this year. There has to be a better reaction than we had. We lost our momentum there and we took some penalties and they end up scoring on a power play to make it 2-2. We lost ourselves when something happened that hadn’t happened to us this year. That’s an area we have to correct. You have to handle those momentum swings and a little bit of adversity in the game. Little by little we’re finding out about our team and hopefully we’ll get better at that.”

...mental toughness, as Tortorella has alluded to numerous times, has been a problem with this team for the last few years. It seems that once things start going downhill for the Rangers it becomes impossible for them to right the ship.