The Rangers season is over, and C-Mac doesn’t want to hear anything about praising the team for going on a playoff run that ends in the Eastern Conference Final.
He says the team should have provided more to the fans, and called out the stars of the team for once again not showing up when it mattered most.
“I am frustrated. I am annoyed and pissed off by the New York Rangers,” C-Mac said. “When you win the President’s Trophy, you’re gonna have a hard time telling me that another team was just flat-out better...I’m sorry, they didn’t show up.
“They’re wasting Igor [Shesterkin] right now with these ‘stars’ who don’t have it.”
The main culprit in the eyes of C-Mac is Artemi Panarin, who didn’t score his first goal of the series until the final 90 seconds of play in game six, when New York was down 2-0 and all but eliminated.
“I love Panarin…he should have been a finalist for the Hart Trophy. But this is not a one-year thing,” C-Mac said. “The ‘stars’ for the New York Rangers do not play the level of hockey needed to win a Stanley Cup.
“Chris Drury…has to look at the core of this team.”