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[QUOTE="cuse10, post: 2186646, member: 5920"]
Rangers had no business losing that series. Coaching lost Games 2 and 5. Wholesale changes are going to have to be made to that roster and hopefully the coaching staff because Vigneault never learned from his mistakes in the Montreal series. Unreal how bad of a coach he is. In addition to the coaching, they had way too many no shows. Derek Stepan, JT Miller, Rick Nash, Chris Kreider, Marc Staal and Nick Holden all played poorly. Stepan makes way too much money for him to not have an impact on any playoff game. I wouldn't be upset if he were exposed to Vegas. They need to protect Grabner and Fast at all costs. Extremely disappointing because after Montreal, they had a path to the Conference Finals if they played their game. I passed on tickets last night because it was an elimination game with the Rangers facing an exit and had they lost (which they did), I wouldn't have been a happy camper on my commute home.

And yes, the NHL playoff seeding is an abomination. Ottawa, the worst team in the postseason, would have had to play Washington if Gary Bettman used logic in the postseason draw. Instead two of the best teams in the East play each other in the second round and Ottawa makes it to the ECF by beating a crippled Boston team and a Rangers team that gave away the series. Regardless of who they draw in the next round, they'll get punched.
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