Yes, they blew this game big time. You want to know what's not going to make this loss suck any less? Calling for the firing and beheading of the coach.
By doing that, you are being what I like to refer to as "hockey stupid". So yes, that would mean a LOT of you are being really, REALLY hockey stupid right now.
I've been around the Rangers long enough to realize that these kind of losses are going to rear their ugly heads now and again. Can anyone remember the 4-0 comeback run from the Thrashers two season ago? I sure do. I was really pissed after that game. I was calling for Tom Renney's head just like many of you are calling for Tortorellas head right now. That game meant so much to me, it sparked a personal protest of mine, where I stopped watching games for an extended period of time, and would not repeal until Glen Sather was fired.
Eventually, Tom Renney was released, but Glen Sather still remained. You want to know where the firing of Tom Renney got the Rangers? Nowhere, they still missed the playoffs in the shootout to the Flyers.
As a man who lied and told a girl he was a psychology major at a party recently, I'm going to analyze why the common hockey stupid fan calls for the firing of a coach, especially after a loss like this one. It's typical mob mentality. Look at all the folks sitting out on Wall Street; when something happens that you don't like, people of a common effect like to ban together and call for change. So when a loss like this happens, the typical hockey stupid person thinks, "Wow, I'm really angry over this loss! Maybe if the coach gets fired, it'll make me feel a little better".
I've got news for you folks, John Tortorella is not going to get fired over this loss. Erik Christensen is not going to be traded because of this loss. And I would be willing to put money on the line that Sean Avery doesn't get recalled to give the Rangers a jump because of this ONE LOSS.
(UPDATE: ...Ok I was wrong, what of it?! We never shook hands on it.)
(UPDATE: ...Ok I was wrong, what of it?! We never shook hands on it.)
Calling for a coaches firing is like taking one step forward, but four steps back. Yeah, you'll feel happy that the team can finally move forward from the flaws of the old coach, but in the end, it's still the same players on the ice making the same mistakes they made in the bad loss that caused the original coach to get fired. So do us all a favor hockey stupid people, please be quiet about John Tortorella getting fired. Even if by some miracle he does get fired, the team is still going to struggle. John Tortorella was not the one defending Jason Spezza, he was not the one who let the tying goal squeak in, and he wasn't the one who hit the post on the shootout attempt. It was not John Tortorella's fault the Rangers lost today, it was the players' fault.
Oh, and to all the "bright-minded" individuals out there who are still sour about Tortorella getting rid of Avery, you need to be silenced from all mediums of conversation. If you, and this is coming from a man who loved Sean Avery, think Sean #!@&ing Avery not being in the lineup today is the reason why the Rangers lost, go get your head examined for the good of the fan-base so we do not have to listen to your drool anymore.
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