Why did the Rangers and Red Wings brawl after their intense matchup?

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00:00A 40-save outing from Jonathan Quick wasn't enough to hold off the Red Wings,

00:04but who cares about the hockey?

00:06Everybody's talking about the post-game brawl between the two sides.

00:09So let's break it all down.

00:11Jim Cierney, editor for Forever Blue Shirts.

00:14Jim, thank you for hopping on with this, man.

00:17Let's go straight into it.

00:18Let's talk about the brawl.

00:20What did you do?

00:20Break down this brawl to me, please.

00:24There's not much to break down, right?

00:26So listen, Jonathan Quick, he's upset.

00:30There's no doubt about it.

00:31He's frustrated.

00:31He makes a 40-save night.

00:33His best game probably is a Ranger in three years with the Rangers.

00:37And he's the reason why they were even in this game, right?

00:40And he'd been fired up by some questionable, you know,

00:44refereeing earlier in the game anyway.

00:47So he's on the bench.

00:48Rangers, you know, have going for the extra attacker goal,

00:50trying to tie the game.

00:51Boom, buzzer sounds.

00:53Rangers lose 2-1.

00:54And as the buzzer's sounding, maybe a little bit afterwards,

00:57Mason Appleton sends the puck towards the empty net and into the empty net.

01:01And I know it.

01:02It's an unwritten rule.

01:03You shouldn't be doing that.

01:05But it was really close to the buzzer.

01:07I don't know.

01:08I didn't think it was a big deal, but I get it.

01:09Jonathan Quick's an old school guy.

01:11He comes firing off the bench and he was hot.

01:15And yeah, he was looking for a piece of Appleton.

01:17So Dylan Larkin stepped in his way instead.

01:20So he took a piece of Dylan Larkin and, you know, all the team,

01:23all the players from the teams converged on the ice.

01:26And, you know, I know the headline says brawl, but, you know,

01:28really not much ado about nothing.

01:31Nothing really took, you know, took place.

01:33Nothing got out of hand.

01:34But yeah, little, little fun sidebar to the story of another Ranger loss

01:40on home ice last night.

01:41So you think because of that, and again, like you said,

01:45another Rangers loss on home ice,

01:48do you think that's kind of Jonathan Quick's way of trying to fire up his

01:52squad?

01:54So I don't know if he did it to try and fire up the squad.

01:56I think he was really angry.

01:58Like he wasn't faking it.

02:00That wasn't an act, right?

02:01You know, Academy Award for him.

02:02He was hot, but, you know, he was asked specifically after the game,

02:08was this just about the incident Appleton, you know,

02:12unwritten rules, send it towards the empty net a little bit after the buzzer.

02:16Again, this wasn't like five, 10 seconds after the buzzer is a tick or two

02:19after the buzzer.

02:21And, or is it, you were so frustrated, you stood on your head,

02:25you gave your team every chance to win this game and they didn't take

02:29advantage of it.

02:30And you lost another heartbreaker at the garden.

02:32And he said, Nope, there are two separate issues at play here.

02:36I think human emotion, right?

02:37Again, I think part of it is, yeah, he's angry at Appleton,

02:42but I think there was a lot of frustration and maybe even a, you know,

02:45touch of disappointment and anger, you know,

02:48at his own team for not playing better last night.

02:51All right.

02:51So let's break down the actual game.

02:53We saw three game winning streak snapped.

02:56A lot of people on X are saying that that was the worst game.

02:58The Rangers have played all year.

03:00They did have the home game or the away game in Columbus the night before.

03:06So, I mean, kind of break the game down for us.

03:09Do you agree or disagree that that was the worst game they've played all year?

03:13Yeah, it wasn't great.

03:14Obviously, you know, you allow 42 shots on net and you're almost run out of your building,

03:20especially the second and third periods.

03:22I mean, Detroit owned the puck in the final two periods.

03:26Rangers just couldn't keep up with them skating wise.

03:30Their coaches after the game and the players as well spoke about puck mismanagement.

03:35You know, Rangers were turning the puck over a lot,

03:37especially trying to get through the neutral zone.

03:39And you caught the puck up in the neutral zone to a good skating team like Detroit,

03:44and they're going to come back at you in waves.

03:46But Detroit was winning puck battles as well in the Ranger end of the ice.

03:50And JT Miller, I thought, said it best.

03:52You know what?

03:53This game could have really gotten away from us if not for Jonathan Quick.

03:57And he was, make no mistake, he was that good last night.

04:01That is the best I've seen him in a Ranger uniform.

04:04And he's about to turn 40 years old soon, right?

04:07But he was terrific.

04:09As for your question, was it their worst loss of the season?

04:13It's up there for sure.

04:15I think it goes side by side with, ironically, a road loss in Calgary,

04:20the start of their road trip.

04:21Their only road loss of the season a couple weeks ago,

04:24that 5-1 loss to the Flames, who were just not a very good team.

04:28At least Detroit is a real playoff contender.

04:31So they're away for the next couple of games,

04:34but 1-7-1 at home this season.

04:36This team plays better on the road, as you just kind of alluded to.

04:40Do you think this team actually has what it takes to go on some sort of run

04:44and make the playoffs?

04:47Well, listen, you know, they just won, you know,

04:49what, seven out of their last nine games overall.

04:51And that's with only one of those wins coming at Madison Square Garden, right?

04:56It's going to be hard to keep up this 9-1-1 pace on the road.

05:01And they've got a difficult road trip coming up here.

05:04You know, it starts in Vegas, one of the best teams in the league.

05:06Then you actually play the best team in the league.

05:09You're in Denver to play the Colorado Avalanche,

05:11who've lost only one game in regulation this year.

05:14And then it closes out against the Utah Mammoth,

05:17who are seen out of the three as maybe the weak sister of the three.

05:20But yet, you know, they have a better points percentage

05:22than the Rangers this season.

05:24And they're contending for a playoff spot, too.

05:26So it's not going to be easy.

05:28Rangers really need to come out of this with, I think,

05:32at least winning two out of three.

05:35December is going to be the big, big challenge for the Rangers.

05:39Six of their first eight games in that month are at Madison Square Garden.

05:42So they've got to get healthy at home.

05:44I spoke with Neil Smith, the former Stanley Cup winning GM of the Rangers,

05:48and he said when things go bad at the Garden,

05:51it's a tough, terrible place to play

05:53because it becomes a snake pit.

05:55And he's concerned that that has really built a negative momentum

05:59for the team on home ice this year.

06:02All right, Jim, we appreciate that, man.

06:04Appreciate you coming on with us.

06:05We'll be talking to you soon.

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