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00:00you know what the thing that bugs me really is they give up the goal late okay and it's one
00:05nothing i just wanted to see the response i don't even care what the score ends up being
00:09the response it's bang another goal and it's kind of just chasing your tail i didn't love that it
00:17was i want a different response where you can get something out of that game not just like oh good
00:2250 minutes not the best first period we kind of built our game and then you know they scored and
00:27it was over i can't hear that again all year welcome back to up in the blue seats your favorite
00:35rangers podcast from the new york post it's molly walker your rangers beat writer and former ranger
00:41brian boyle as always happy first week of the nhl season to all who are celebrating and the rangers
00:48certainly are with four games in six nights first time we're getting together since since they lost
00:56their season opener in boston three nothing uh after the bruins scored three goals one of which
01:02was an empty netter in the span of 75 seconds at the end of the third period it's the first
01:08time in
01:09rangers history they've been shut out in the season opener in back-to-back seasons they lost three
01:15nothing to the penguins last year brian how did the team look out there in their first game to you
01:20what
01:20were your highs and your lows oh uh sloppy both teams are a bit sloppy it was uh you know
01:28certainly
01:29it was chaotic a little bit right and to be expected i guess i i liked how their game built
01:34i liked how the third period sort of was looking and you know you pay attention to certain guys i
01:42thought
01:42it was boston was pretty stingy and let's take uh the shiny new toy pavel dorf fam i thought he
01:49was
01:50trying to find different ways to create uh impressed me at that one wraparound like sort of a second
01:55effort type it's all boston really gave them yeah i didn't think they got inside enough there was a lot
02:02of perimeter thought they defended fine that igor was great in the beginning uh you know throughout i guess
02:08really nothing yeah i was gonna say whole thing yeah um you know i thought some of their big guys
02:15that i thought would have a chip on their shoulder it was not their best to start adam fox i'm
02:20kind of
02:20looking at him didn't play a lot either yeah um so maybe there's something there who knows hopefully
02:26you know it's it's just game one sort of stuff and he's such a cerebral feel-it-out guy he
02:32could make
02:33plays but you know you need some sort of you need some sort of structure and and yeah the neutral
02:40zone structure and some transition things really beat them up yeah neutral zone was terrible yeah but
02:46which is a thing for them like that's not yeah that's not that's not new but but but that's you
02:51know probably the most discouraging part of it is that yes it was a scoreless game for over 56 minutes
02:58but the plays that they you know fell apart on and not only that but multiple instances throughout
03:06the games the odd man rushes against um it wasn't even only odd man russians there were a couple of
03:13just point-blank breakaways as well yeah um that just felt very familiar that i think is obviously the
03:20most discouraging part of the first game of the season when everything was supposed to be so different
03:26but seven new guys in the lineup first game of the season short and preseason we could probably get
03:33into you know how we're actually weighing that as an excuse to start the season a little bit later but
03:39um i am in full agreement with you i think the bjork strand miller dorfev line was was my high
03:45i mean
03:46their numbers looked really good um dorfev game high five shots on goal they had encouraging moments
03:53together i mean i've been saying it all preseason that i like dorfev dexter miller um would like to
03:59see a little bit more out of miller and bjork strand um but djork strand could have finished he had
04:04some
04:04great days yeah yeah swim is good goalie but he looked in control too like he looked like some of
04:11the chances that were great days he just he's such a good goalie when he's on his game it looks
04:15easy for
04:16him those are good chances you know what the thing that bugs me really is they give up the goal
04:22late
04:22okay and it's one nothing i just wanted to see the response i don't even care what the score ends
04:28up
04:28being the response it's bang another goal and it's kind of just chasing your tail yeah i didn't love
04:36that it was no i want a different response where you can get something out of that game not just
04:42like
04:42oh good 50 minutes not the best first period we kind of built our game and then you know they
04:46score
04:46and it was over but i can't hear that again all year like i can't you gotta you gotta have
04:53some
04:53sort of internal like some fortitude like let's stop the bleeding now we're not doing this again
04:59this year and hopefully like they can address that in their home opener score a goal yeah i mean
05:06couldn't have been a worse way to end the first game of the season for for brayton schneider it's just
05:13getting absolutely walked in that moment and he i wasn't uh at practice i was traveling back from
05:18boston but i saw that uh andrew crane our our post writer he um he asked him about the play
05:26and he
05:26fully obviously acknowledged that it was a bad read on his part but um just a just a tough way
05:32for for
05:32him to start the season especially after i had sat down with him earlier in the day and you know
05:38it's
05:39an interesting dynamic for him because i feel like you know he's on this one-year deal it's
05:43obviously a movable deal it's obviously very dependent on where they're at you know at this
05:48time you know closer to the trade deadline um because one way or the other i expect them to be
05:55very aggressive and you know active just in making a move one way or the other and you know in
06:02talking
06:02to him you can kind of sense that he understands that but at the same time he really doesn't want
06:10to be remembered the way that it's kind of gotten for him here in new york so that's like a
06:16big
06:17motivating factor for him is he doesn't want to be thought of especially the way the last season went
06:22so the fact that that was his first highlight so to say of the season highlight reel of the season
06:29to be on the other end of that is is a really tough start for him but and he he
06:36made the last
06:37mistake of that whole sequence but there were a number of yes mistakes in that sequence like
06:43there's flame to go around there's full control to exit your zone i think well cool he has the puck
06:47he puts one hand on his stick like he has room and got surprised like you need two hands and
06:53you need
06:53to you need to move the puck zone to zone he needs to just get rid of it and i
06:58know he wants to be
06:59north south is probably has his sights set on 30 goals if you know if i'm trying to not speak
07:05for
07:05him but that's what my mindset would be if i have a couple 20 goal seasons under my belt as
07:11a younger
07:11player but in that role which i think he's perfectly suited for especially early in the year you got to
07:18be trusted you got to make the right play you're on the ice at that stage of the game in
07:21your own end
07:22and then it just turned into a tire fire and and and yeah guys are running around and then they're
07:28changing thinking they have possession it doesn't you know it's it got ugly and then obviously schneider
07:33reads that peterka is going to take him wide and you know his toes are pointing towards section six
07:41instead of you know right at the opposing player and he just got totally undressed which is yeah awful
07:48but for him he needs to forget about it not worry about how he's going to be remembered worry about
07:53like all right what's my assignment on the next game simplify play mean and go from there you really
07:59need to he needs to start from scratch if i'm braden schneider yeah 100 i mean yeah like you mentioned
08:05plenty of blames go go around gabrikov had that flip pass through the neutral zone that led to the
08:10first goal um so there were you know it's the turnovers the turnovers and the lack of offense
08:17um so not exactly yeah he getting all thrown into a blender you don't see that yeah yeah that was
08:23also
08:23yeah that was also a definite low point um in my book i i think the patterson jersey pair had
08:29a pretty
08:30mixed bag i thought patterson looked a little bit better than jersey but yeah i don't know i don't i
08:36don't know it wasn't it wasn't it's game one game one but yeah and i don't know i don't care
08:42about
08:42what the analytics like those are i thought smiths was great all things considered i thought like that
08:50kid is ready it's hard to it's hard to judge in a game like that i i thought but yeah
08:56i you know
08:56there wasn't anything egregious he was poised that i didn't look like he was underwater he was poised
09:02that's like as an 18 year old i'm looking at that that's a plus that's a plus so i i
09:08i take yeah
09:08i take smiths just jerk in and the dorothy of light line as the biggest positives to take away from
09:15game
09:15one um if you're all willing to to see the positives um a couple good shifts from the fourth line
09:22a couple
09:23shifts they were breathing through a straw but like there was it wasn't all negative there was some
09:29no it wasn't all negative it wasn't all negative yeah some news just broke right before we sat down
09:35to record this episode junis corpus allo is going on injured reserve with a lower body injury he's
09:43considered week to week and dylan garand has been recalled so all that hand wringing
09:52for for the two weeks of training camp over the whole back of goalie situation an injury right out of
09:59the gate
10:00and garand is the first recall as it should be and so you know it's kind of the point is
10:06moot you know
10:07at this point it doesn't matter anymore he's he's with the team now but um he was he was among
10:14the final cuts
10:15with taylor radish uh and vincent iorio who was hurt put on ir to be cap compliant and then they
10:22waived
10:22him uh once he was cleared but yeah i guess uh what were your thoughts on on the way that
10:28the whole
10:29dylan garand corpus allo so-called competition for the backup role yeah i think it panned out how
10:36probably management and coaching staff thought it was gonna i mean that's really you go out and get
10:42the backup uh that played some good games had some good minutes a season ago for the reasons that you
10:50have he was gonna be the guy corpus allo was gonna be the guy uh it would take you know
10:54especially in a
10:55camp like this which is short it would have taken a heroic effort or just corpus allo falling off a
11:01cliff or anything to be different um so they take on that cap it they take on that player but
11:07then
11:08maybe just more seasoning for garand who wants to like just be the be the guy in the american league
11:14he's seen these i've seen a lot of goalies play more than one year in the american league and have
11:21dominant years and we saw it actually with boston the reason boston traded corpus allo is because
11:26di pietro had done so well in the minors for so many years and that's also a reason they didn't
11:32re-sign bussy and live ladar went out the door to calgary and then now in philly and bussy's
11:37obviously you know shining up his stanley cup ring in carolina but boston's obviously done really
11:43well at drafting goalies to the point where they had to move on this time they just weren't they
11:46weren't going to with michael di pietro they just looked at it like he's ready this is his this is
11:52his
11:52net this is he is the backup um obviously it's it's garand hasn't had that sort of track record
12:02yet in the american league and he has looked good in the national league but he hasn't i think a
12:07lot
12:07of people believe that you have to have that number one for like months and do well with it and
12:13that's
12:14probably and i'm speaking again for them i don't know exactly how these conversations go but that's
12:18just sort of how it seems to have shaken out might be yeah no in the sense that i get
12:24from the
12:25rangers organization people that i've spoke to is that they simply feel like he needs to be playing
12:31a lot 100 percent um and obviously the way that he's going to do that is in hartford because he
12:37would obviously be getting significantly fewer games than igor's just jerkin if he was the backup
12:42for the rangers um the one counter that i have to the whole track record in hartford is it's so
12:51hard
12:51to judge that because of how bad hartford has been in recent years like you it's it's borderline a
12:57disservice not to take that into consideration because it was it's not hasn't just been bad it's
13:02been really bad so you kind of have to take that kind of evaluation i think um but hey it
13:11all worked
13:11out the way it was supposed to work out um he's already back with the rangers and could get some
13:18opportunities here with rossalo out week to week which yeah don't know when that injury happened
13:25might have been in a practice or i don't i can't imagine it happened on the bench but i mean
13:30who knows i certainly know it did not happen on the bench that would just be a bad omen yeah
13:37no
13:38how about the lights going out at practice the other day talking about a bad omen did you see
13:43that we're gonna get no i did not let's get rid of these vibes i don't like these vibes right
13:47now
13:48it was actually really scary i was sitting next to michelle uh jingras and she it it was the darkest
13:56room i'd ever been in in my entire life like the way that all the lights just went off it
14:00was just
14:01like being in a warehouse with not a single light on and everybody's reaction was just
14:07obviously all the guys on that it's like oh um but yeah we were saying with sullivan he was like
14:14thank god it was while you know pucks were down and right dude it's dangerous yeah it was really
14:20yeah for a hot second there it was kind of like everybody hit the deck a little bit but
14:23yeah not not the vibes that we want to be taking into the season but anyway rangers decided to
14:30carry 23 into the season 13 forwards eight defensemen and two goalies the last time the
14:36rangers carried eight defensemen out of training camp was the 2021-22 season when they didn't want
14:42to waive nils lundquist or libor hayak out of fear of being claimed to give you an idea of just
14:49how long
14:49ago that was um but among the final cuts like i mentioned were grand radish iorio um rempey and
14:58himelash both made the team scott morrow matthew robertson the seventh and eighth defenseman and
15:04smitz makes the team as we've talked about he became the first rangers defenseman in franchise
15:08history to make his debut at 18 on opening night very exciting that's crazy yeah that's crazy
15:16uh and good for him and listen when you have an 18 year old defenseman and then you have a
15:21kid
15:21like morrow who comes into camp and i don't know if he was expected to make the team i mean
15:30i don't
15:31know if i'm sure his expectations were there but he did uh sorry uh morrow morrow yeah yeah smitz is
15:40yeah i think that's great but because you have the 18 year old defenseman and then what morrow didn't camp
15:45in the short time that they had was impressive he came in he's moving better and different things
15:51that i think maybe weren't as expected he really impressed so he earned his right and that's it's
15:57like okay yeah you have eight but you have an 18 year old who knows where and you don't want
16:03to do
16:03wrong by him so if he earns the spot yes but obviously we've had that conversation already so we don't
16:10need
16:10to go there again and give you know it's a meritocracy and if you earn it good job he earned
16:16it himalash i think there's a high ceiling there i like i think offensively certainly a higher ceiling
16:23than what you have with rempe and poor rempe like i don't know how many puck touches he's had in
16:30the
16:30last 18 months because of what he's had to go through with his thumb so right he obviously came in
16:34skating well still adds an element and is working on his game i think that's a it's reasonable to
16:42carry 13 and 8 like that for those reasons yeah and morrow also would have had to have gone on
16:48waivers
16:49to pass through so there was a risk with that too that i think they wanted to avoid um yeah
16:55i talked to
16:56i talked to scott too about you know the way that last season went and he's he's very he's a
17:02highly
17:02motivated guy um he worked a lot on his skating this offseason that was he worked with skating
17:08he stayed in i mean he's from stanford i think um but he worked out at the rangers facility that
17:17was
17:17his choice he worked with skating coaches that he had never worked with before and gave him a whole
17:22new perspective on his on his skating and his strides and things like that so he really put in the
17:27work to show them that he made uh the necessary adjustments so could see him at some point soon
17:33as well um but yeah seven seven different skaters and the rangers lineup to start making the rangers
17:42debut what does toronto have 10 like you have to make some changes and even like so what did glenn
17:48say
17:49they used to say it's like 15 of the team this was back when he was coaching edmonton to stanley
17:53cups
17:54yeah they were winning stanley cups and he was changing the team so after last year
17:58you're gonna make some changes that's that didn't work let's try something different and
18:05you know what sometimes one guy can change a franchise uh and we saw that i think in florida
18:12because some of the pieces were there and then one guy comes in and it's like that's that's the
18:16active ingredient that matthew kachuk comes down there there's a vibe change yeah you get a few
18:21different guys coming in you know it's just it just feels fresh it feels like a new start
18:27and you know i same coach same management but these guys have something to prove as well
18:32and it's just a different look that the offense when it's when it clicks it'll look different than
18:37when it was clicking in the years past because there's no panarin he's just was such a unique
18:41player but now you have like adding shooters which will complement a north south game that we hear
18:47mike sullivan say all the time his favorite um my question for you is how much grace are you giving
18:57this lineup out of the gate when you consider not only the new faces but shortened preseason
19:05less time to prepare how much grace are you realistically giving this team out of the gate
19:11i think it again it depends on if it fails sort of how it fails so again that much of
19:23the game
19:23against boston was black thursday night football nobody's really ready to play and then it looked
19:30like they were finding their game and then as soon as they got scored on and lost momentum in game
19:34one
19:34of 84 instead of somebody being like all right not not this year not tonight it was like boom boom
19:41three nothing yeah so that was disappointing right that's not i don't have any time or patience for
19:49that because that it doesn't matter that's that's in in your own between your own ears as individual
19:54players and as a team uh when if there's miscommunications on a transition player that hits a ref
20:01skate or something weird happens like i can see why that might not be recoverable at times so you got
20:08to give them some time for that but again they need to also create those things against the other
20:12teams because it's not like everybody started camp and then the rangers only had 10 days it was it was
20:18across the board right and some teams that are veteran like the carolinas and the floridas now that
20:22they're healthy and the core have been together maybe they can get to their game a little quicker
20:27but still there's no excuse it's it's the same for everybody yeah and i mean i just
20:35i think my biggest concern was just going without a goal again just starting the season yeah starting
20:41the season off getting shut out again i mean i i'm naturally going into tonight's home opener no
20:50matter what the story is about how bad they were at home last season and how they are starting
20:55their first game at home yeah and the numbers are scary brian they were they i i i need to
21:06go over
21:06it like double check my math because not my strong suit um but i counted 135 periods of hockey
21:14including overtime right throughout an entire season they didn't score in over 50 percent of the
21:23periods that they had yeah it felt like that uh working games for msg right like can confirm
21:32that's what it felt like you know producer here so what do you what what kind of clips do you
21:37want
21:37i'm like yeah yeah no it's yeah you want to even if you're not scoring you want to try to
21:48tip the ice in your favor and create you know zone time or whatever it may be make the other
21:55team
21:56defend yeah not a lot of great a's from them in boston at all yeah at all some stats i
22:03saw was like
22:04seven to seven and chances 22 22 it was a pretty even game it was um but quality wise
22:12yeah i just well they got peterka for two first and he put one in and you know the rangers
22:18got
22:18dorfea for two first and he didn't he had a couple nice looks yeah i wasn't able to put one
22:24in and
22:24yeah it's just it's just i also think back to how it obviously snowballed last year
22:31yeah they can't let it playing at home when you think about it like if you get shut out again
22:40or just start the season at home with another shutout loss it's just so hard for the guys in
22:49that room i imagine who were here last year to not thank you well here we go again was it
22:5410
22:5510 total shutouts last year i honestly like 14 home wins yeah yeah 14 they were 14 i have it
23:04right
23:04here hang on please hold so i mean that's just not that's just not in luck they were 14 27
23:12at home
23:15um like i said 135 periods of hockey 69 without a goal 51.11 percent
23:23they did not score a goal in periods that they played at home that is good that is good math
23:29you did it thanks thanks of course the 180 plus minutes through the first three games without a goal
23:38blowing past the 2001 02 florida panthers team for the longest season opening home goalless drought
23:46just a wild yeah it's not we don't why are we back there they gotta go they gotta score before
23:53the
23:53first time out that's what i'm saying so okay so my question to you a guy in that room and
24:00you come
24:00off of that last season how much are you using that uh are you acknowledging it you know using it
24:08as
24:09much nothing at all you're not saying like we have to be animals out there i don't i don't know
24:14that
24:14you can do that i just can't let's not get all i know all over the place but last year
24:20when we
24:20went 900 minutes without scoring in front of our fans you pay a lot of money i don't know i
24:27just
24:27score goals it's got it i feel like something like that what happened and it was so dramatized
24:35because it was as bad as it was i just feel like something like that could and maybe should
24:42be used as just like a lingering reminder every time you go out on the madison square garden night
24:48is that what happened last season can't happen it cannot be a cakewalk every time a team comes to
24:54new york well listen and the other thing is like it's fun to go to the garden and play especially
25:00even as a visitor it's fun i know so that's a challenge but you get especially last year especially
25:06last year i'm sure that people it felt like teams were fiending to come in there and just take a
25:12bite of the rangers that's just what it felt like and i just feel like when it happens that blatantly
25:22you almost have to take a stand you almost have to send a message this season at home
25:28at madison square garden in some regard maybe that's just me being a little dramatic but that's
25:34just how i see it and i if anything less than just a total effort tonight is going to be
25:43so disappointing
25:45in my book as the person writing the column tonight so you can read that i will have the exact
25:51way that
25:52i'm thinking about it i'll be able to say total unfiltered thoughts so um but yeah it's it it
25:59really yeah it's madison square garden it's your home you know but it's play like it man play it's
26:05msg for the for the visitors and it is well take that back i know look here's my point like
26:12i'm from
26:13boston i grew up going to bruins games i hated going to the td garden because i didn't like
26:21playing against the bruins at home they were they were animals to your point molly what you're
26:26saying they were now char i'm a quay thornton yeah you can't compare you can't yeah yeah don't hit
26:36anyone too hard otherwise you got five guys you got to fight but whatever you had to rise to that
26:40yeah all right i'm at home in front of my family and everybody was like this this place is just
26:45a
26:45hard place to play yeah there's no reason it can't be that way i know that the personnel is a
26:52little different but they the league's different they can play a gritty style we had that when we
26:58were coming up we weren't easy to play at home you get excited to play against the rangers at msg
27:04but you're gonna walk out of there you're gonna feel it a little bit so regardless of what happens
27:10that that can always be in their minds attitude and effort were the two words the two buzzwords
27:17from mike sullivan it's the only thing you can control and we've been telling our kids that since
27:22they were mice two things like i still deliver that message every sunday no matter what yes i mean
27:31that's that's what i'm looking to see uh from the rangers their attitude and effort it has to be
27:37unshakable it has to be an iron fist tonight to just get the good vibes going at madison square
27:46garden from day one anything other than that is just going to be such a disappointment and if
27:52it's a face plant i truly i mean i i don't know i i maybe i think i'm being dramatic
28:00but like i just
28:01think it could set them off into such a bad start to the season yeah it's just that they get
28:08to play
28:09and play and play and play to start is good regardless but look hey even if it doesn't
28:15start perfect let's see the response that's what i'm looking forward to and i guess we'll meet back
28:22here next week to discuss what we saw so we'll stop there and wrap it up leave us a comment
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