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at least tom renney showed some emotion and spirit in his post game press conference.

i'd like to see if he acts on that ,....

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Renney Explodes After Rangers Implode

Do not adjust your TV set. There is nothing wrong with your picture. If you were watching Tom Renney's post-game press conference and your TV screen went white, there was nothing wrong on your end -- that was the steam coming out of the coach's ears that fogged up your screen. After a long post-game locker room tirade in which he reamed the team for its mega-sloppy 5-3 loss to the slumping Islanders, Renney came in for his customary Q&A with the press fuming -- literally fuming. "I am really pissed off," he said. "I am really really mad at this team."

"They have no spell on us," he said of the Isles."I am not happy. We were brutal. It's us. We're awful. We have no concept of camaraderie, no concept of team play, no concept of circling the wagons to go play these guys intelligently. We beat ourselves. We did some dumb things from start to finish. There was a point in time when we had about six minutes of good transition hockey, got our second goal. And then a ridiculous line change, a delayed penalty, and they score -- we're in the dumper.

"When you're big dog's runnin'," he said of Jaromir Jagr, who had a goal and two assists, "maybe we stood back and said, 'OK Jags, lead us to the promised land.' That's a bunch of BS. He's an important part of our team, but there isn't a single team out there that can do anything less than we did out there tonight to help us win. It was awful. And I'm really PO'd. There's a certain responsibility that goes along with being a winning team in this league. And just because you bang off four in a row after losing seven doesn't mean that you've arrived anywhere. It means you're going to have to work that much harder because you've got something going and teams know that.

"We were perfect for the New York Islanders tonight. This is exactly what they [losers of six straight coming into this game] needed and we measured right up to them. A real good rival, where every game is a four pointer -- if that doesn't bring a sense of working together and following a scripted game plan that brings you success, I don't know what does. Seems to work against everybody but this team. You gotta think after three [losses to the Isles], maybe that's got our attention. For me it was a battle level that we didn't have. It was taking the last two strides to complete whatever the task might have been -- that wasn't there. Our thought process was slow and cumbersome and didn't involve five people on the ice. The Islanders work hard, they have an idea of how to play us, and we allowed them to do it."

Not bad on the attack, the Rangers were awful in their own zone, giving up the first three goals by failing to clear the puck, giving up the last two goals (in a span of 27 seconds) by turning the puck over and then giving up on the play. "You can't just go for the big swing if there's a turnover," Renney fumed. "You've got to come back as hard as you were going if not harder. In the first period we actually came back hard, came back too deep, left the points open -- good night. Then we got behind -- now we're looping, we're leaving the zone early, we're trying to make 75 foot passes through people -- It's minor hockey.

"Maybe we were over-intense," he said, perhaps reaching for straws by this time. "I thought we were pretty intense to start the game. I thought we were kind of tight, I thought we were working hard -- but not smart. Ultimately they tie it up and it's a different ball game after that. We were fighting ourselves. We were really struggling to avoid beating ourselves. I think we did, we completely did. It's about puck management, clock management, line management, knowing who you're out against, all those kind of circumstances. And by the nature of how this oppenent plays, double trouble."

Well, that's quite a mouthful there for us to digest (and we moved things around a bit to tell the story a bit more chronologically, hopefully without altering the substance of any of the statements). But where does that take us now that all that water is under the bridge? "I'd like to play again right now," Renney said. "I'd like to put the stuff back on and go out there and play another three periods of hockey." One can see why he'd want to do that, knowing what he knows in hindsight, but of course not only is it not possible, it begs the question of where that emotion was when the game was actually played, and what that means going forward.

"Pissed off, going forward," Renney said. "I'm not happy." Obviously, he was not going to announce any rash decisions publicly in the heat of anger, but he did say this much: "There's been signs. Look at our season -- it hasn't been stellar. There's been signs that would suggest maybe we need to improve ourselves in certain ways. We just finished losing seven in a row, it doesn't mean you're doing a lot of things right. Let's not hide behind the fact that just because we've won four we've corrected everything. Whether it leads us to redefine ourselves with some different personnel remains to be seen."

We don't want to start speculating about personnel, but here are some personnel notes from this game: Jagr and Shanahan both broke eight game goalless streaks -- the last time either of them scored came the last time these two teams met at the Garden, a 4-3 Ranger loss. Straka also had a goal and two assists and hit a goal post -- Shanahan hit iron too near the end of the game. The line of Cullen, Shanahan, and Prucha looked feeble at even strength. Jed Ortmeyer looked like his old self for the first time, throwing his body with abandon, working hard, drawing penalties, making things happen. Hossa had another strong game, but the guy refuses to shoot -- you can't score if you don't shoot. Hollweg played well but got no help from the officials or from teammates when he was repeatedly run.

The biggest goats -- Jagr for getting lost on the backcheck on the winning goal, Prucha for the turnover that led to the next goal and Tyutin for giving up on the play after Lundqvist made the initial save. On the Islanders' second goal, the one that really turned this game around, allowing the Isles to escape the first period tied even though the Rangers were the better team for at least that one period, two players were without sticks -- Michal Rozsival and Blair Betts. And the Isles had an extra attacker on because of a delayed penalty (that's how Rozsival lost his stick, taking the penalty). The whole sequence never happens if Malik doesn't whiff on a shot from the point.

Renney tried to match lines to keep Jagr away from his shadow, Brendan Witt. But the match game backfired, mainly because the unit failed to control the puck on numerous occasions, thus giving the Isles a chance to get Witt on the ice. The final tally -- Jagr scored with Witt stuck on the bench, and the Rangers scored a power play goal because Witt took himself out of play to hit Jagr, but Witt himself scored one goal and was on the ice for another goal, both against Jagr's line. Malik went after Witt early, to no effect -- A-Ward went after Witt at the end, but it was too little, too late for a guy who has to stop talking and do some walking.

To hear other Rangers chime in on their poor effort, see today's game reports in the Daily News, Journal News, Newsday, Post, Record, and Advance. Other takes on Renney's rant can be found in Blueshirts Blog and NY Sports Day. Other recaps: AP, NYR.com, SNY. Islanders' take at Newsday. But perhaps most telling are what Lynn Zinser of the Times and Mark Herrman of Newsday say -- the Isles lose after beating the Rangers, every time, spent from their supreme effort against their rivals that the Rangers can't seem to muster. Hockey Rodent says much the same thing and has some good examples of Ranger breakdowns. Additional game notes in the Record.

wonder if tom renney chopped all the rangers players heads off after the press conference the other night.


how will they substitute everyone if he's killed them all ? :eek: Hartford Wolpack against the Ottawa Senators at the garden tonight ?

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down 5 goals into the 3rd

i kinda gave up then

all the line combos are scrambled , and what the fuck

4 goals in 4 and a half minutes

still couldnt pull it off but wtf ?


this team is water and oil and no gel to be seen anywhere.

already one year ago today/tonight


January 12 , 2006


and look at the difference 1 year makes.


playoffs look a world away.

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