A Whimper - Canadiens@Rangers Post Game Thoughts…

Gonna have to keep this one short, it’s 3am and I am pretty tired. With such a huge game tonight, I figured the Rangers would try to pound the Habs into the ground. We can’t keep up with their speed, but we could definitely hit them and hit them hard causing turnovers. Not only did we not do that, but it looked like we really didn’t want to win this game all that desperately. The Habs wanted it more. They wanted to win the board battles more, they wanted to win the battles in front of the net more, they wanted to win the races for loose pucks more, they wanted to defend more. Just about the only place where we wanted it more was our goalie, who only gave up 2 deflection goals and other than that was stellar. But Henrik can’t score you goals. Henrik can’t motivate you to get off your ass and go win a battle or 2. That needs to be up to each and every individual player. That needs to be up to the captain, and yes, that needs to be up to the coac...