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BONUS PODCAST: Boomer & C-Lo say goodbye to the Peter Laviolette era

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.4676 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Rangers' season ended with a thud last week, and both head coach Peter Laviolette and associate HC Phil Housley were let go Saturday. In a special emergency Blueshirts reaction, Boomer Esiason and Chris Lopresti look at Lavy's dismissal and what players had to say as lockers were cleaned out at MSG.

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0:00.0

All right, here we go. We figure we finally give this a shot. You got Cilo, Chris Lepresti,

0:04.1

honored to be joined by the great boomer Asiason here to do a little Rangers season wrap-up,

0:09.1

a little first four-rangeants, maybe a Rangers podcast. Full disclosure, we're recording this

0:13.9

as Rangers' breakup day is going on at their training center after a very disappointing season.

0:18.9

I would say let's begin with the most recent news expected. Of course, head coach Peter Lavellette being fired over the weekend.

0:24.6

Lucilo, great to do this with you. And as a New York Ranger fan, like I know you are and how passionate

0:29.4

you are, much like myself, I think we both felt like Peter Lavellette should have been fired.

0:34.3

I felt like he checked out halfway through the season. And then you hear

0:38.0

some of the stories about him not going into a locker room after the game. And I think that's

0:41.8

the way most NHL coaches handle things. It's not the way that NFL football coaches do their thing.

0:48.1

It's just a little bit different kind of protocol. But for me, I just didn't see a guy engaged

0:53.8

on the bench. And that's the thing that

0:56.2

troubled me about it, especially when you think about how many good players are on this team and had

1:01.2

career years last year that unfortunately did not live up to that. And then I worry about the

1:06.2

development of young players like Keandre Miller and of course, Alexeifagnier and how they in my eyes anyway took a step back

1:13.6

a lot of guys took a step back and totally agree with you especially down the stretch where even though

1:18.7

they were still in that wild card race it just didn't feel like the guys were engaged from the cojean down

1:23.8

from the performances out on the ice but the thing to me witholette all season long, where it seemed like a stubbornness

1:29.7

came into play.

1:30.9

This man-to-man defensive system that they insisted on playing.

1:34.3

And you had guys, even Adam Fox, late in the season, talking about confusion out on the

1:38.7

ice.

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