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A Better Description of Last Night’s Loss to the Sens’
by Patrick Hoffman on 01/15/10 at 12:15 PM ET
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From Andrew Gross of The Record and Ranger Rants:
As was to be expected, descriptions such as “awful” and “horrible” floated around the Rangers room to describe this lame loss. Lame because they should have been on edge not to take the slumping Senators lightly. Lame because the Rangers are again having trouble generating offense just two games after a 3-1 win at Boston that was the third time in four games they had scored three or more goals.
Asked why it happened, John Tortorella, who broached the subject of not falling into this trap at least twice with his team before the game, said, “I can’t answer that, I’m not in their heads. I don’t understand it. It’s a team we’re fighting against for a playoff spot. We know they were embarrassed the night before (a 6-1 loss at Atlanta on Tuesday). We tried to guard against it. But I guess they weren’t listening.
Vinny Prospal said it couldn’t only be the coaches screaming, the players needed to take some ownership in motivating and correcting themselves.
Henrik Lundqvist looked like he wouldn’t have minded doing some yelling, saying four goals in the last four games “is obviously not enough.”
Click here for more. Hopefully, the team will be able to put the puck in the net this weekend. If not, who knows what the consequences will be.
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