“This hurts,” said Rangers coach David Quinn. “I am disappointed with the way we played. We only played well two out of nine-thirds, which we certainly can’t be proud of. “
His selection last Wednesday lost to Caroline 1: 4, who dominated the entire qualifying series 3: 0 for matches. While the Hurricanes are waiting for their opponents in the 1st round of the Stanley Cup in Toronto, the Rangers are the first team to pack home from Canadian hotel bubbles.
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In a shortened series, they arrived on a lax defense. The elite center Mika Zibanejad and Artémi Panarin, who is nominated for the Hart Trophy for the most useful player in the entire NHL, did not shine in the attack. The Rangers were not lit by Filip Chytil or any of the young men’s army.
Be sure not to look for the cause of the exclusion in the goal area.
But after the infamous end of the playoffs, it is expected that this is where the biggest change will not occur. “The era of Henrik Lundqvist may be over,” reads the headline in the New York Post’s web commentary. “Lundqvist’s era ends with the elimination of the Rangers,” writes the well-known server The Hockey News.
He amused to warm up
The Swedish goalkeeper has been catching up for the Rangers for fifteen years. Dominik Hašek and no other goalkeeper from Europe managed more matches in the NHL and did not claim more wins. Lundqvist won the Vezin trophy for the best goalkeeper of the competition, earned the nickname King Henrik.
But the Rangers have been going through a difficult generational change last season, which will probably be felt by a masked giant.
It would make sense.
Lundqvist will be 39 next season. His place was already successfully pushed in the interrupted year by younger Russian competitors Alexandr Georgiev and Igor Shestorkin, who caught Wednesday’s third game against Carolina.
Coach Quinn pointed to the Swedish matador for the first two swords. An entertaining video from Lundqvist’s warm-ups, which were exactly the same, circled the hockey world. But it was as if it meant that Lundqvist would attract more attention with his name than with what he would show in the match.