Episode 82: Hanks For Nothing

The Hockey PDOcast

Sportsnet

Sportsnet, Sports, Nhl, Hockey

4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Nick Mercadante joins the show to react to the New York Rangers meekly bowing out of the opening round of the playoffs with the visuals of the Penguins skating laps around them fresh on the mind. We discuss where they go from here, whether Alain Vigneault is still the man for the job, and how blaming Henrik Lundqvist for the loss is missing the forest for the trees. Here’s a quick rundown of the topics covered: 0:40 The fresh wounds of the Rangers playoff exit 4:30 The overrealiance on Henrik Lundqvist 7:32 The pros and cons of Alain Vigneault 11:05 The untapped potential of Kevin Hayes 16:31 Fixing the Rangers this summer 19:40 The curious case of Jonathan Quick 26:45 The flawed idea behind "timely saves" 32:50 Introducing Win Threshold % 38:30 Boom or bust vs. Consistency Every episode of this podcast is available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher and can also be streamed from our website. Make sure to not only subscribe so that you don’t miss out on any new shows as they’re released, but also take a minute to leave a glowing review. Thanks for listening! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:25.3	Welcome to the Hockey P.D.O.cast. My name is Dim Dimitra Filipovich, and joining me today is someone who I honestly wanted to have
1:31.1	on for a while now because he's doing work that I think is pretty interesting and thought-provoking,
1:36.1	and it's about, it's on a topic that I personally don't know very much, which is a goalie performance.
1:40.9	But for our purposes here, he's most importantly a very disgruntled Rangers fan, and
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