{"id":183332,"date":"2021-02-19T22:02:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/brendan-smiths-goal-the-answer-to-david-quinns-rangers-pleas\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T22:02:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T19:02:33","slug":"brendan-smiths-goal-the-answer-to-david-quinns-rangers-pleas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/brendan-smiths-goal-the-answer-to-david-quinns-rangers-pleas\/","title":{"rendered":"#Brendan Smith’s goal the answer to David Quinn’s Rangers pleas"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Brendan Smith’s goal the answer to David Quinn’s Rangers pleas<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The Rangers\u2019 3-2 shootout win over the Flyers Thursday night was no \u201cPicasso,\u201d as head coach David Quinn put it, but it ended a four-game<\/a> losing skid and served as an opportunity for the team to implement parts of their offensive game they knew were missing.<\/p>\n

For several days leading up to the team\u2019s first win since Feb. 4, a span in which the Rangers were outscored 11-4, Quinn had been saying that his players simply weren\u2019t competing around the net enough.<\/p>\n

Their offense was suffering from a lack of aggression on second and third scoring chances, hesitancy to chase rebounds and failure to battle in front of the crease. Quinn pointed out how players were skating through the net, rather than stopping in front of it and fighting for the space to be there and clean up any loose pucks.<\/p>\n

But the Rangers broke through with a strong net-front presence Thursday, culminating in a third-period go-ahead goal from Brendan Smith in which he buried a back-handed pass from Artemi Panarin after lingering on the other side of the Flyers\u2019 net.<\/p>\n

Asked if he would put a clip of Smith\u2019s goal on replay for the rest of the team to learn from, Quinn said he\u2019d like to show it \u201cquite often\u201d going forward.<\/p>\n

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