The Rangers came into yesterday’s game having lost their previous two games by a combined score of 13-3 to the Penguins (7-2) and Avalanche (6-1). The Yotes were just dominant across the board, and it takes an exceptionally bad team to make the Yotes look dominant. The Blueshirts did just that. There is no redeeming quality about this game. Let’s just get to the goals and move on.
Yotes 1, Rangers 0
Kicking things off this afternoon with a gOEL. pic.twitter.com/L3D10kdZSr
— Arizona Coyotes (@ArizonaCoyotes) January 6, 2019
Nothing like leaving the man in front alone for the screen and the deflection. Conor Garland’s first of two here.
Yotes 2, Rangers 0
Lots of Swede on Swede crime happening today. 🙈 pic.twitter.com/E7LeXRa3eA
— Arizona Coyotes (@ArizonaCoyotes) January 6, 2019
Turnovers, bad puck pressure, no puck support, lazy sticks. All leads to a puck behind Henrik Lundqvist.
Yotes 3, Rangers 0
Let's keep this good thing going. pic.twitter.com/QF6smZihA5
— Arizona Coyotes (@ArizonaCoyotes) January 6, 2019
Blue line turn over by Filip Chytil, followed by an easy zone entry with no contest, then no contest for the shot. The icing on the cake is the guy who somehow gets behind both Brendan Smith and Kevin Shattenkirk. Yea, the goal is a bit flukey, but that’s bad defense.
Yotes 4, Rangers 0
Our #NHLAllStar doing All-Star things. pic.twitter.com/Gkyf96erQ8
— Arizona Coyotes (@ArizonaCoyotes) January 6, 2019
What this highlight doesn’t show is the turnover at the Yotes blue line that started this whole thing. Then we have a snow angel by Neal Pionk and Cody McLeod falling down. Clayton Keller is good and buries that nine times our of ten.
Yotes 5, Rangers 0
Gally wanted one, too. pic.twitter.com/7U5yqig9Xj
— Arizona Coyotes (@ArizonaCoyotes) January 6, 2019
This one chased Hank from the game. He really should have had the shot from the point, but he muffed it, and Alex Galchenyuk buried the rebound.
Shot Heatmap
Did you expect anything else here?
That’s now three games and a combined score against of 18-3. Doesn’t get much worse than this for the tanking season. What’s alarming is how quickly the Rangers went from respectably losing to just downright awful. There’s more of this to come, folks.
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