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NY Rangers Fan Confidence Poll: February 22, 2021
Last Week’s Results: L 5-2 (vs NJD), W 3-2 (@ PHI), W 4-1 (@ WSH)
Season Record: 6-7-3 (6th in East Division)
Schedule This Week: 2/24 @ PHI, 2/26 vs BOS, 2/28 (vs BOS)
Last Poll’s Results: 6.5 (257 votes)
Top stories from last week:
- After a terrible game against the Devils, the Rangers finally won a pair against the Flyers and the Caps. The Saturday win against the Caps may have been their most complete win of the season.
- Despite the negativity surrounding this team lately, a bright spot has been Adam Fox, who’s been a workhorse for the Rangers.
- MSG will allow fans in the stands starting with the Friday game against the Flyers under strict guidelines.
- There were many calls to fire David Quinn after the Devils game, but they’ve stopped now that the Rangers have won two in a row. Imagine that.
- Mika Zibanejad is having a rough start to the season. His impact has been felt up and down the lineup. Until he gets going, the Rangers will be inconsistent.
- The Rangers lost Jacob Trouba for 4-6 weeks with a broken thumb. This is a big loss.
- ESPN is rumored to be a part of the next NHL TV deal. It won’t be exclusive either, which means the NHL will be on multiple national channels.
- Tarmo Reunanen continued his hot start in Hartford, but the Pack did drop their first game of the season.
- Injury Update: Artemi Panarin, K’Andre Miller, Jack Johnson, and Brendan Smith all returned. There are no updates on Filip Chytil or Jacob Trouba.
Please take a second to answer the poll below and give us an idea of how confident you are in the Rangers, their direction, coaching, management, prospects, and overall quality on the ice. You can click the tag “Fan Confidence Poll” to view historical polls.
Given the current roster construction, farm system, management, coaching, etc., how confident are you in the Rangers' overall future?
How can you have confidence in a team that has Bitetto, Hajek, Smith and Johnson as 2 out of 3 lines on defense. How can you have confidence when your 1C has 2 goals and a few points. This team is close to being blown up again.
Can you say Jack Eichel?
Were you dropped on your head as a child or just trolling?
Dave asks for an opinion based on — their direction, coaching, management, prospects, and overall quality on the ice.
You state: “How can you have confidence in a team that has Bitetto, Hajek, Smith and Johnson as 2 out of 3 lines on defense.” The answer is, they don’t … they have Trouba, Fox, Lindgren and Miller … Trouba may be injured at the moment, every team has injuries … but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s one of their Top 4 d’men. Smith, contrary to your opinion is a serviceable 3rd pairing guy … as is Bitetto, even Hajek has played “ok” — we did just win 2 games with those guys in the lineup and our defensive game this year has been relatively strong. Prospect-wise they have Lundkvist and Schneider coming on the right side, both high quality prospects. On LD they have Jones and Robertson … I mean what more could you ask?
You state: “How can you have confidence when your 1C has 2 goals and a few points”? 4 points to be exact … He missed most of camp, he’s coming off a bout with Covid, he’s running into a streak of bad luck — it can happen. What about his past performance makes you think this is the NORM and not a short term aberration?
I have full confidence in the team and the COACH.
I don’t want Joe S to be mad at me. 🙂