While other NHL players were shaking off the rust following a truncated preseason, Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin had no time to do so.
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Shesterkin → shake → time
The Blueshirts abandoned their defensive structure numerous times through the first two periods of their 3-0 loss to the Bruins on Tuesday night, leaving their star Russian netminder to fend for himself on multiple odd-man rush attempts.
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Blueshirts → abandon → attempts
tRY IT NOWShesterkin, who finished with 20 saves on 22 shots, stood tall for every one of them, before Fraser Minten put the Bruins ahead off a snipe from the high slot late in the third period.
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Minten → try → period
“We turned pucks over in the wrong areas of the rink,” head coach Mike Sullivan said after the loss.
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Sullivan → turn → loss
“I thought we were trying to play a little bit too much East-West, instead of simplifying the game and playing more straight ahead.
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we → think → game
I thought we were standing on pucks instead of moving our feet when we got them.
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we → think → them
When you stand on pucks, the world closes in on you out there.
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world → stand → you
We try to encourage the guys to move our feet.
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We → try → feet
We turn some pucks over and we give them some grade-A looks off those turnovers, and then we gave up too many odd-man rushes.
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we → turn → rushes
I think we gave up three 2-on-1’s in the second period.
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we → think → period
“As I said to the guys after the game, if we want our D to be active off the offensive blue line, off the rush, things of that nature, then as a forward, we have to build a level of trust that we’re going to replace that defenseman, and we’re going to stay out and stay above the attack until the defenseman returns.
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defenseman → say → attack
We would replace, but then we wouldn’t stay out, and then we would leak back in and dive back into the play before the defenseman returned.
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defenseman → replace → play
It happened four times in the second period.
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It → happen → period
“That’s how we gave up the types of odd-man rushes that we gave up.
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we → ’ → that
I think that’s a discipline that we’ve got to develop, and we’ve got to be better about that aspect of our game.”
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we → think → game
Sullivan coached his 1,000th NHL game against the team he started his coaching career with and in the state he grew up in.
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he → coach → state
“I don’t know, I think it just suggests that I’m probably getting older,” the second-year Rangers coach said before the game.
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coach → know → game
“But, you know, it’s a privilege to coach in this league.
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it → know → league
I’m grateful for the opportunities that I’ve been given along the way.”
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I → ’m → way
Sullivan’s first coaching job was with the AHL’s Providence Bruins in 2002-03, during which he was only one year removed from his playing career.
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he → remove → career
Later in that campaign, however, Sullivan was brought up to the Bruins to serve as an assistant.
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Sullivan → bring → assistant
It turned out to all be an audition for the head coaching position in Boston.
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It → turn → Boston
Sullivan was ultimately named the 25th head coach in Bruins history.
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Sullivan → name → history
Vincent Iorio was placed on injured reserve with a lower-body injury, but the 23-year-old defenseman participated in the Rangers morning skate.
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defenseman → place → skate
He was waived in the afternoon.
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He → waive → afternoon
… Scott Morrow, Matthew Robertson and Jaroslav Chmelar served as healthy scratches in Game 1.
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Morrow → serve → Game
… The Rangers enter the season with the second-youngest roster in the NHL with an average age of 26.63.
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Rangers → enter → 26.63
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