Aucune idée de ce qu’est Deadspin et d’où il vient, mais j’ai trouvé cet article assez comique à lire. TLDR, rien de ce que nous faisons n’est durable et nous sommes sûrs de nous écraser mdr
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If you don’t want to click the article and give them views, here ya go.
Ah, the New York Rangers. A favorite punching bag. A team that always generates so much noise and then their lack of royal clothing always gets exposed in the spring. Not after a bunch of articles claiming they’ve saved hockey or that they’ve brought New York together and simultaneously sacked Eric Adams as mayor (though if they want to do that that’s cool). And those of us who look under the hood always end up screaming in Robert De Niro from The Untouchables voice, “They’re nothin’ but a goalie and a badge!”
But here they are, three weeks into the nascent NHL season atop the Metropolitan Division again. They’re scoring goals, they’re piling up wins, and they’ve got the blue-seat faithful once again puffing out their chests and swinging their Adam Graves jerseys over their heads (does the new MSG still have a blue-seat section? Who cares?). So is this any more real than previous seasons? Or is this the same faulty model under Peter Laviolette that it was under Gerrard Gallant that merely relied on Vezina-level performance from Igor Shesterkin and Chris Kreider to never miss on the power play? Let’s do the dirty work.
Is Kreider again scoring an abnormal amount of power-play goals?
You betcha! Krieder has six goals in nine games, four of them on the power play, and has scored on literally half the shots he’s taken with the man advantage. That won’t last.
To be fair to him, he’s taking slightly more shots on the power play than in previous years, though they aren’t necessarily better (xG is down), and none of that indicates that he’s going to continue to, y’know, bury half his power play shots. Even Alex Ovechkin thinks that’s laughable.
Overall, the Rangers have benefited a touch from scoring more 5-on-3 goals than anyone in the league (3, though only in two wins) and the second-most power-play goals in the league behind the Devils (who only score so many power-play goals because they’re utterly brilliant and not a flawed team that can’t score any other way, obviously).
Overall, the Rangers are scoring on nearly a quarter of their power play shots as a team, which will come down. It doesn’t have to come down that much — the Oilers scored on nearly 20 percent of their power play shots last season. But the Oilers have Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, not Mika Zibanejad, and his wonderful hair.
So that must mean the Rangers are a piss-poor even-strength team again?
Not necessarily! I know, I don’t like it either but that’s the deal. Laviolette teams are known for being up-tempo and better at even-strength than Gallant’s charges were, waiting around until it was time for Jacob Trouba to try, and maim someone when it wasn’t working.
The Rangers are middle of the pack when it comes to Corsi- and expected goals-share, both above 50 percent. That’s actually due to being one of the league’s better defensive teams and not being a dynamic offensive team, but hey, however you get there. The Rags rank 7th in attempts against at evens and 6th in expected goals against per 60. These are both improvements on last season.
Which is generally not what fans think of when it comes to a Laviolette team. He’s known for cayenne-pepper-on-the-balls pace from his D-men especially, and loves to get aggressive in the offensive zone. But he’s clearly settled on K’Andre Miller and Trouba being a shutdown pairing, with Adam Fox, and Ryan Lindgren the get-up-and-go one. It’s working so far, as Miller has the lowest xGA of his career so far.
OK, but surely Shesterkin is still the reason this all works…
Actually, no. Shesterkin has been pretty mediocre to start the season, with just a .902 save percentage so far and just 1.7 goals saved above expected.
Somehow, Jonathan Quick — whom you’d be forgiven for thinking had retired or just walked off into the sea— has been marvelous in two starts, letting in one goal in two starts, and turning away the other 47 shots. You want things that are unsustainable, here you go.
So what’s really going on?
The schedule has certainly helped. The Rangers had a western swing that got them looks at Seattle, Calgary, and Edmonton, who are all very wayward at the moment. Throw in a home date with the Coyotes, and a couple OT wins over the Jets, and Canucks, who are playing better than they will eventually be, and you get what we’ve got here.
So no, the Rangers aren’t going anywhere if Shesterkin doesn’t become SHESTERKIN again sometime soon. Their power play numbers will deflate. There’s more of a base with their even-strength play than there’s been, but not enough to declare them three-dimensional.
But, we’ve seen them Shesterkin-and-power-play their way pretty far before.
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Doesn’t explain why anything. just says it’s unsustainable lol
This reads as one of the most low IQ salty takes in years. Amazing that someone got paid for this apparently?
The bloated, rotting carcass of Deadspin is still shitting out trash articles? Thought they died years ago when Hulk Hogan killed Gawker media.
God, this is fucking drivel.
Jim Spanfeller is a herb.
this is a satire site. don’t take it seriously.
and it’s pretty funny.
« you’re nothing but a goalie and a badge! » c’mon, guys, that’s been at least a little true for a couple decades now.
This take sucks. When the Rangers are hyped it’s usually because the fans are desperate to see them win, not because they’re some kind of overwhelming favorite. Any reasonable Ranger fan knows that every playoff run is probably going to end in miserable heartbreak, but we ride the ride anyway
And this is what an attempted positive outlook from a Devils fan looks like.
Jesus, I regret clicking into that garbage. The salt is insane. Couldn’t even pretend to be objective.
I think it’s a pretty funny article tbh and mostly satire, but it’s like yeah, clog up play at 5v5, let the powerplay score and let Igor be Igor lol. Also looking at his stats thru what 6 starts is hilarious. He’s been rock solid since Nashville.
Also I love how the rangers will come back to earth but the devils won’t somehow hahaha, cmon.
Is this satire or does this dude suck ass
He seems to have a distaste for the rangers
https://deadspin.com/nhl-playoffs-new-york-rangers-new-jersey-devils-dolan-1850394483
Edit:
I’ve searched his Twitter and he only tweets shitting on the rangers while some takes I guess could be kinda true he hasn’t tweeted about any of the positives they’ve had.
I know the salt is absurd, but some of the points are still valid. As an example, yet again, the team is relying on PP scoring to win instead of scoring 5v5. That isn’t sustainable over the season, let alone during the playoffs when less penalties are called.
We can’t depend on Chris Kreider to sustain a pace of 36 PP goals. The only time he’s come even close was the first “no crosschecking” year when he scored 26 PP goals.
>Chris Kreider is doing better than normal, that’ll change
>Igor is doing worse than normal, that won’t change
Okay, which one of us Rangers fans banged this guy’s girlfriend
Written by AI no doubt. Fuck the VC corpse of Deadspin!
Somebody’s been triggered
What a dork.
What a toolbox.
Although I agree that how we’re playing is not sustainable.
But I think our play will improve in the winter like every year.
The attempts to be snarky and ironic in imitation of the old Gawker style at the rotting corpses of these websites is so pathetic. This reads like a precocious teenager trying to imitate Drew Magary for his personal blog.
New Deadspin can suck my fat hog
I can’t take Deadspin seriously anymore after the original staffers left and replaced by writers trying to emulate the old vibe (and falling short)
Deadspin, even before it became a shell of itself, seems like it’s a great place to work if you want to write about sports but hate everything about sports
I see deadspin, I scroll past whatever they are talking about.
This sounds like it was written by a salty Devils fan who is butt hurt the Rangers have a perennial Vezina caliber goaltender while they are now relying on some guy named after a Japanese comic who happens to be tall and takes up a lot of net
Literally just seen an article on the Giants sub by these same ‘journalists’ slamming the Giants too. Someone has it out for NY sports teams..
Don’t give Deadspin the clicks. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jul/21/the-rise-and-fall-of-deadspin-how-jerks-in-brooklyn-changed-sports-journalism