I blame the loss on torts...

I am going to preface everything by saying exactly what the title of this blog is, I blame this loss on torts. Of course part of the blame goes to the players as it has to because the coach is not playing, but torts' line combos from the beginning of the game were just plain wrong. You sent a message to dubi through the last two periods of last game' then in the media, then you plant him on the 4th line, just wrong... All else in the media that cover the rangers will claim that move is what made dubi score, it's what fired him up, but that's just plain wrong. Dubi had the same jump in his step all night, but playing with rump and useless John Scott, ( gave up s 5th rounder, and for all you that don't know, Carl hagelin was a 6th rounder), looks to be pointless. Dubi should have been playing on the second line with br and hags from the beginning instead of Feds who is one of those guys that torts just loves. Torts plays the Boyle line way to much in to many critical situations in my eyes and one more critism I have is why do we even dress 6 defenseman? Woywitka and bickell played 8:20 & 9:26 respectively. So why not dress five d-men and rotate all night, torts is running them dry anyway... Oh yeah and why not call up MZA? It was a perfect opportunity to slot him in as a top six forward which is what torts always says when asked why he isnt getting a shot.... Strange... - hank is allowed a bad game here and there, but he can't let that goal in from Malone. On a night like last where we are missing two of our top scorers he needed to step up and play lights out and he didn't. - Dubi was wrongfully benched for two periods in the Carolina game which almost cost us and then he gets relegated to the 4th line which was clearly a mistake. He should have been on the second line all night, creating and playing down low with br and hags... - I feel as if Tampa took the game to us all night long, they were tougher, more productive and more creative. We did to keep stammer off the puck like we did against kovy in the devil game. Same goes for st. Louis. I feel like there is an unofficial rule that players like st. Louis, older, smaller, and star player types are not allowed to be hit, or the opposing team is not supposed to hit those guys.. Thats pure bs to me, he is the type of guy who you need to hit and get under his skin, and we didn't... - tough week ahead starting tomorrow against Boston, then away to njd, Ottawa and chicago and the last three of 3 in 4 nights... Right now we have a ten point lead with Boston having one game in hand on us which is today against NYI, so assume an eight point lead going into our battle with them tomorrow afternoon. We still have two games in hand on the western conference teams and currently tied with Detroit and one point behind Van. Need to get at least 5 of the 8 points in this tough four game stretch to keep up with the pace of the other eastern teams and more importantly the western teams. - Onto the injuries. How significant is the cally injury? Contusions can be worse then break as they linger, and of course the foot area for a hockey player is a tough area. The hip area is also one that is needed to push off and get the speed that delz needs to be productive. One top six forward and one top four defenseman down and no one to replace them, this is why we needed to trade for someone other then John Scott who reminds me of and may he rest in peace, Derek Boogard. Can't complain about it anymore as its over so we have to hope the cally and delz injuries don't linger... Here is too a toy game tomorrow and hoping the cally and delz can get back and if not, bring up some scoring threat from Hartford.... Let's go NYR E-No out....