Joe DeLessio at New York Magazine takes a look at the ten things (there where only 10?) that went wrong with the Rangers this season...
Here's one...
2. "Safe is Death" never really happened. In theory, John Tortorella should have been in a better position to run his system this year than when he took over as coach last year, but it never really happened. Not a lot of guys on this team can forecheck like, say, Ryan Callahan, and none of the defensemen carried the puck themselves with any consistency.
The other reasons include no secondary scoring, young players not improving, Chris Drury underachieving, Avery not being Avery, bad off-season, young defense not ready, couldn't win at home, couldn't win in OT or shootout and couldn't win the big game.
...can't disagree with any of this. Who knew New York Magazine had such an informed Rangers beat writer?
...h/t to reader Nick for the link.
2 comments:
I'm a big fan of N.Y. Mag, occasionally they'll have some hockey content...I remember a few years back they gave a nod to Jagr's gambling issues...
benching of players (gaborik) towards the end..constant line changes,torts great pr work.what else?
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