Rangers Show Up, ESPN Does Not

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[@mommared4456]

MSG has their 2 teams in playoffs and we have to watch it on ESPN, seriously? which has proven over and over how horrible they are on hockey coverage! Camera angles, announcing is a hot boring mess, cutting to another game, posting the wrong team winning at the wrong time! WHERE IS SAM ROSEN! The voice of the NYR!!!

[@islandblader]

The lady that interviewed Trocheck after the game was DULL!

[@rafisanders]

Rosen is announcing the games on radio

[@will-eh3qt]

@@rafisanderswe love Rosen, but I’d rather not try to synchronize my TV feed to a radio feed

[@TyrekeCorrea]

The national networks have stepped up their connections and one-upped local cable with national and international reach.

[@michaelryan1913]

​@@TyrekeCorrea Yup... And it sucks.

[@EvilClowns69]

They even flashed Carolina wins on the boards before the game even ended

[@noiisserpmii]

Yeah i thought i was going crazy lol

[@MichaelP0418]

I was honestly starting to think that the game was rigged when I saw that! I lost my shit too much watching the coverage for this game. Sean McDonough sucks

[@noiisserpmii]

@@MichaelP0418 i feel bad for the ppl who didnt experience Doc & we got this f**k head now. Disgraceful

[@Nud182]

To Evans comment regarding the commentators for ESPN. Evan is completely wrong. We don't hate them because they are not Sam Rosen. We hate them cause they're bad. I never had one complaint about Doc doing the playoffs for a decade on NBC. He made it exciting regardless of what team you routed for. Sean McDonough, or whatever his name is, sounds like he's half asleep when he makes these calls.

[@clydefrog203]

Not the Rosen, Not the Rosen

[@ryanedwards7645]

I mean sure but we still want Sam

[@Phijul]

Yeah McDonough sucks. I do like the #2 guy on ESPN though (Bob Wischusen). Obviously he doesn't even compare to Rosen or Doc though.

[@akuf4933]

100% agree. Doc was great.

[@islandblader]

​@@PhijulWischusen does great for the Jets radio.

[@Scratchyjackscratch]

I did the same thing, "WTF!?!....as I fumbled the remote...lol

[@davidzimmerman3778]

ESPN sucks! The play by play commentator is horrible. We don’t need to know every players mothers name. Too much off beat stats.

[@canadiansabresfan]

The best thing the Rangers did in the offseason was firing Gallant and hiring Laviolette. They have the right head coach. I knew it when they signed him.

[@JavaBum]

I agree. Gallant wanted his team to take it easy and skate through the last month of the season last year because they already locked up a playoff spot. They got embarrassed by the Devils. This year, they played hard all the way into the playoffs, and it's shown.

[@chrisearley3573]

The "intent" rule in the NHL is when the hit results in injury, the NHL will look to see if there was intent to injure.

[@oldskOOlsteve9]

Trouba did not try to hit Necas. He was avoiding getting his legs taken out from under him and almost injured himself. Get it right!

[@throughmyeyes...]

They pulled a Heidi and I lost my mind, but beyond that the overall coverage by ESPN has been horrendous, their stupid ice level camera where you can't see either the ice or the puck, useless, when play is taking place they're showing closeups of guys sitting on the bench. Somebody needs to be fired and a producer/director who UNDERSTANDS THE GAME OF HOCKEY be installed, it's really pathetic...

[@pbtaxes]

Well said 👏 👌

[@evokid379]

The national coverage is atrocious and this mishap just adds to it. Let people have their local broadcast for god sake! Especially if they’re not prepared to cover all the games on they’re schedule which they obviously weren’t.

[@TheGZA5700]

NHL should allow RSN's to carry all rounds of Stanley Cup Playoffs. MSG Networks 1000% better than ESPN coverage.

[@patriciavernon9795]

ESPN is awful! So glad the next 2 games are on TNT! 💙🤍❤️

[@tyrous1743]

Will never happen. They want their playoff games on national television, not MSG network

[@trondeaf]

@@patriciavernon9795and hbo max

[@Chyeahokay]

ESPN are terrible. They never show proper replays. And when they do it’s not the replay we want to see. And if it is, they are so zoomed in, you can’t get the full picture of what actually happened

[@philiplombardo4332]

After ESPN cut off the Rangers and Hurricanes I'm convinced that the MSG Network should show every playoff and possibly finals of the Stanley Cup should the Rangers make it, they did it in 94.

[@BlakeWheelersBurnerAccount]

1:42 same f’ing reaction 😆😆😆

[@marktarasiewicz3105]

I HAVE A N.Y. RANGERS FAN From the 70's when they were on channel 9 , I have seen anything like that playoff game last minute RANGERS ON POWER play RANGER PLAYER SHOOTS PUCK TO NET AND BOOM I SEE DALLAS GAME , THEN 20 SECONDS BACK TO RANGERS GAME IMAGE IF SUPER BOWL GAME BALL GETS THROWN AND BOOM A COMERCIAL 😮

[@davidzucca2910]

Trouba doesnt launch himself and the elbow doesnt come up if Neces doesnt hit the deck like that. If Necas is upright, its a hard hit to letters. Necas bails out and Trouba has to obviously go over him instead of skating right into him and brace from the wall impact. I do agree that it looks worse and hilarious when he's whiffing on air though.

[@jpcoqueran]

If he connects, he's getting suspended no question. Consider himself lucky

[@dustinsegrest832]

Teach me about the new versions of intent to injure and crosschecking. Things have really changed over the years...

[@cfrick1739]

ESPN owns 30% of TSN (The Sports Network in Canada). The fact that ESPN can't cover hockey right when they are partial owners of a company that covers it exceptionally is ridiculous.

[@AEFisch]

I'm 64 and watched "the Heidi bowl." Nothing in the world was automatic back then. Somebody pressed the button when the clock hit the hour.

[@rizkyridwan9829]

the NHL needs to give us the option of having local networks air all games for teams still in the playoffs. period.

[@Scott-jz6te]

ESPN needs to either bring back Gary Thorn and Bill Clement or give the controls over to the MSG Network!!! The coverage is just not good.

[@SunnymunnyHunnybunny]

Back in the Eighties, ESPN was the champion of the NHL. The network televised games all over the league and covered them as passionately as the LW politics it covers today. It's a shame what it has become.

[@dmiolesh]

Disney’s touch

[@islandblader]

NHL on ESPN was lit in the 80s and 90s

[@Scott-jz6te]

Gary Thorn and Bill Clement were awesome!! They could have been doing play by play for the Quebec Nordiques and the Hartford Whalers and it would have been a great game to watch. Today, ESPN is just terrible.

[@bhagmeister]

Flashback to Heidi (Sound of Music) and NY Jets…..

[@TheAvargas687]

ESPN is a joke the commentators are horrible specifically ray ferraro ' it's just not good at all

[@collinwelsh8117]

It’s days like these where I miss goat Rosen

[@TheAvargas687]

@collinwelsh8117 100 percent even when the Rangers scored it was so bland or either team anyway ' it's just bad all the way around ' miss the days where all the games were on MSG

[@Snoopy380]

What is ESPN's point in showing players skating to the bench, WHILE PLAY IS STILL ON???!!!!

[@robertevans500]

Exactly my reaction I thought the people I was watching with I thought they were playing with me Until I found out it was ESPN I was so furious

[@ghettoonion]

You're wrong about 'Intent to Injure'. If a Trouba makes contact on that hit and the officials determine the hit was dangerous then a major penalty (5 min + Game Misconduct) will be called on the ice. If the officials determine that there was a deliberate attempt to injure on the play then the major becomes a Match penalty (5 min + Game Misconduct + Supplemental Discipline after review by Player Safety.) He missed the hit entirely. Nothing to discuss.

[@ruelpile]

Relax-they could just show a replay if they missed anything.

[@davidzimmerman3778]

Went into panic mode when they cut to the other game during a power play. Thought my dvr switched it

[@donslahern4602]

When the game switched! I lost my FN SH!T!!! The camera work was also highly suspect. Wrong angles on multiple plays. Whom ever was running the booth last night needs to go. That was some intern level 💩

[@JayzBeerz]

Let’s Go Rangers! ❤

[@michaelryan1913]

Just an FYI... Apparently ESPN is planning on airing "Heidi" after the game tonight... IYKYK

[@bb-gc2tx]

as isles fan im preparing myself mentally for a ranger cup victory

[@TyrekeCorrea]

And ESPN made a lot of its name covering women's college basketball...

[@Nizeez.]

Worst thing the NHL has done has made this TV deal with ESPN

[@Nizeez.]

Even ESPN reporters like Stephan A. Smith have openly said they don’t watch hockey, and even dislike it!

[@Nizeez.]

On an ESPN show!!

[@ebizzle2507]

SportsNet had the best coverage for the game

[@patriciavernon9795]

ESPN is the worst! Besides last nights fiasco, they keep showing overhead shots where the players look like ants. They have no idea how to cover hockey! 😡

[@GlockPro4]

I especially hate the camera angle they show that’s from behind the net when the play is IN FONT of the net and the needless showing of players skating to the bench while the play is live

[@islandblader]

Hockey needs to get rid of the graphic boards

[@williamslattery2824]

It was like the Heidi game all over again

[@dwedge914]

The canadian feed is superior...better call...better audio...better overall broadcast....ESPN has become a joke..that's all they really are..a big joke

[@ErikShen2907]

These 2 HAVE FACES FOR RADIO!!! LGR!!!!!

[@JavaBum]

Can we just stop acting like special teams aren't a viable way to score goals and win games? They still score 5-on-5. You can't just say "If you remove their power play goals, they lose." That's some next level bullshit, and to be honest, one of the dumbest things someone can say. Then again, they only say that about the Rangers. It's fine for the Oilers to do it.

[@oldatarigamer]

Evan seems to be trying to put the jinx on. ;)

[@dwedge914]

no really.....he'll do everything he can do that

[@TyrekeCorrea]

Pretty much!

[@urNbrTotoro]

somebody's getting fired lol.

[@er070559]

Truba's hit on Crosby was clean. Nothing dirty about it. No penalty, no suspension. Also wrong again about Truba being dirty last night. He got undercut when he tried to deliver a check . Would have been a shoulder to the chest textbook hit otherwise. Obviously not a dirty hit but also no intent neither. Evan is a complete troll when it comes to the Rangers. What's worse is his hockey ignorance shines through with every comment he makes.

[@irishmjk427]

Also hate those stupid names popping up as the skater touches the puck. Local teams should have the option of watching the game on their own channel.

[@TyrekeCorrea]

I feel like ESPN was given the rights to this pretty much just because it's there, which conveniently makes it much harder for the same to be done with the WNBA. They already had the NBA playoffs; I can't imagine what else they could have really wanted. It seems it was ultimately more convenient for NBC to bear this load, and it feels like they never would have done this to us.

[@TyrekeCorrea]

Well, doesn't it seem like ESPN getting the rights to the Stanley Cup Playoffs came from out of nowhere? There you go. That kind of thing can only lead to so much good without people who stand to be affected by it bringing it into being or backing it up. Either they have to help build it or they have to help build it into what it is.

[@BlakeWheelersBurnerAccount]

🥁 🥁 IGOR! 🥁 🥁 IGOR!

[@sotiriosnovatsis4529]

Trouba wasn’t going for anyone’s head. And it wasn’t a “spearing” motion. You can clearly see from the height he hit the boards that his check was aimed at the chest and the only reason he turned into a human missile is because the Carolina player ducked at the last second instead of taking the hit. Of course he’s going to jump over him instead of cutting him up with his skates.

[@tonybuccino5546]

I am not familiar with this radio show. Does Evan ever let Tiki talk?

[@philreinfried8419]

Another Heidi

[@md20062]

espn is a joke, i counted at least twice where they focused the camera on guy on the bench while the play was going on 😂

[@jkahne9]

Their hockey director, Jeff Holmes, sucks. he is constantly punching the switcher for a close up of a random players face when there is game action happening or will cut away when the is a net mouth scrum happening. Stay with the flow of the game on a wide shot and cut to the important pieces as they happen. I worked in TV for 30 years including for SNY when I lived in NY and have never seen such a bad directing job.

[@nycny1090]

ESPN SUUUUUUCKS!!!

[@John-ce9uq]

#Igor #Tiki

[@MilTon-bz1cl]

ESPN sucks!

[@Unionjoint]

ESPN and TNT are biased against the NYR. Been watching them for years. Same old , same old. Brian Boucher is a clown, Ray Ferraro always downplays the Rangers’ playing . It’s so biased. Put Callahan on.

[@joewexler9568]

Evan hates the rangers and Knicks i mean hates them eat crow my guy tried to talk smack when the nets got the fake big 3

[@werst9]

To be fair, we probably better off if trouba suspended right now.

[@canadiansabresfan]

His turnover in the neutral zone lead to a Canes goal.

[@werst9]

@@canadiansabresfan I watched the game he was horrible outside of blocking shots.

[@canadiansabresfan]

@@werst9 Six minutes in penalties to boot.

[@AndrewGregorio]

Suspend him for what the attempted hit? Get a grip Chauncey it's hockey

[@werst9]

@@AndrewGregorio oh i don't think they should or would......but it might help the Rangers cause i think Trouba was easily the worst person on the roster yesterday

[@AndyPhillips-fo6zg]

That’s what DEI at ESPN gets you!

[@spiffo4950]

DEI

[@ShibaInu154]

ESPN dropped a turd the whole broadcast.

[@ShibaInu154]

Heidi can pre-empt football or the Jets anytime. Fine with me.

[@Dethrone55]

ESPN is total crap. And that announcer has to be the most boring !!!! Let Sam Rosen take over

[@MikeD0011]

ESPN laid off a bunch of people so maybe it was Ai that made that decision to cut from the game.

[@AnxietyAdvertisement]

Bruh, when I saw the Canes win on the boards I seriously was so bugged out, more so than the game cutting out.

[@electrophonicusersguide5020]

Wow what an annoying voice this dude has. Could only watch about 45 seconds. Sports media is the lowest form of entertainment, beyond vapid.