Via the NY Rangers (from an anonymous source):
NEW YORK RANGERS vs. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING
Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016, 7:00 p.m. ET
Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
Rangers: 5-3-0 (10 pts)
Lightning: 5-2-0 (10 pts)*
* The Lightning are playing against the Devils tonight in New Jersey prior to facing the Rangers tomorrow
** See the attached document for additional background info on all Rangers players
TOMORROW’S GAME
The Rangers play their ninth game of the 2016-17 season and begin a three-game homestand tomorrow, Oct. 30, against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Madison Square Garden (7:00 p.m. ET – TV: MSG Network; Radio: ESPN 98.7 FM). Including tomorrow’s game, the Rangers will play five of their next six games at MSG. The Blueshirts have won three of their last four games (3-1-0 record) and have posted a 5-3-0 record this season.
RANGERS PRACTICE SCHEDULE
Prior to tomorrow’s contest, the Rangers will have a morning skate at 10:30 a.m. at Madison Square Garden. Rangers Head Coach Alain Vigneault will be available to the media following the morning skate.
*Schedule and availability subject to change
RANGERS VS. LIGHTNING
- All-Time: 45-35-5-7 (25-16-2-4 at home; 20-19-3-3 on the road)
- 2016-17: Tomorrow’s game is the first of three meetings between the Rangers and Lightning, and the first of two meetings between the two teams at MSG. Following tomorrow’s contest, the Rangers and Lightning will play against each other on the following dates: Mar. 6 (at Tampa Bay), Mar. 13 (at MSG).
- 2015-16: The Rangers posted a 2-1-0 record (1-0-0 at home; 1-1-0 on the road). New York allowed two goals in each of the three games and outscored Tampa Bay, 9-6, in the season series. Derek Stepan tied for first among all skaters with two goals and three points in three games, while Mats Zuccarello tied for first among all skaters with two assists and three points. Henrik Lundqvist posted a 2-1-0 record, along with a 2.01 GAA and a .934 SV% in three appearances.
- The Rangers have earned at least one point in 15 of their last 20 home games against Tampa Bay, dating back to the start of the 2005-06 season (12-5-3 record over the span).
- The Blueshirts have registered at least three goals in four of their last five games against the Lightning (15 goals over the span).
RANGERS-LIGHTNING CONNECTIONS
- Alain Vigneault and Lightning Associate Coach Rick Bowness were members of the same coaching staff in Ottawa and Vancouver. Vigneault was an Assistant Coach on Bowness’ staff with the Senators for parts of four seasons (1992-93 – 1995-96), and Bowness was an Assistant Coach on Vigneault’s staff for seven seasons with the Canucks (2006-07 – 2012-13).
- The Lightning have three former Rangers on their roster: Brian Boyle (2009-10 – 2013-14), Ryan Callahan (2006-07 – 2013-14), and Anton Stralman (2011-12 – 2013-14).
- Derek Stepan, Chris Kreider, and Tyler Johnson helped the United States win a gold medal at the 2010 IIHF World Junior Championship.
INDIVIDUAL CAREER STATISTICS VS. LIGHTNING
- Henrik Lundqvist – 38 GP, 19-13-6, 2.38 GAA, .916 SV%, 2 SO – Lundqvist has earned a win in each of his last two games against Tampa Bay, posting a 2.00 GAA and a .937 SV% (59 saves on 63 shots) in the two contests.
- Derek Stepan – 20 GP, 8-10-18 – Stepan has notched at least one point in seven of 10 career games against the Lightning at MSG (five goals, five assists).
- Rick Nash – 22 GP, 9-8-17 – Since joining the Rangers prior to the start of the 2012-13 season, Nash has registered 10 points (six goals, four assists) in 12 games against the Lightning.
- Ryan McDonagh – 14 GP, 0-10-10 – McDonagh has tallied at least one point in seven of 14 games against Tampa Bay.
GOALS GALORE
The Rangers have tallied 29 goals in their first eight games this season (3.63 goals per game). The Blueshirts are tied for the NHL lead in goals per game and are tied for fourth in the NHL in goal differential (plus-eight) in 2016-17.
FOUR SCORE
The Blueshirts are the only NHL team that has three players who have recorded four goals this season (Brandon Pirri, Jimmy Vesey, and Mats Zuccarello).
HIGH FIVE
The Rangers are one of two NHL teams that have at least nine players who have tallied five or more points this season.
HOME COOKING
New York has posted a 4-1-0 record at home this season and has outscored its opponents, 21-13, over the five games at MSG. The Blueshirts have earned at least one point in 65 of their last 85 home games, dating back to Oct. 16, 2014 (56-20-9 record). In addition, the Rangers have posted a 31-11-4 record at MSG since the start of last season. The Rangers are tied for the NHL lead in wins (31), and they lead the NHL in goals for (151) and goals per game (3.28) at home since the start of last season.
STRONG FINISH
Over the last four games, the Rangers have outscored their opponents, 12-3, in the second period and third period (8-3 in the second period, 4-0 in the third period). New York has recorded 23 of its 29 goals this season in either the second period or third period (12 goals in the second period and 11 goals in the third period), and the Blueshirts have posted a plus-seven goal differential in the second period this season (12-5).
SHOOTING GALLERY
The Rangers have outshot their opponents, 249-202, through the first eight games this season (31.1 shots on goal per game; 25.3 shots on goal against per game). The Blueshirts rank second in the NHL in shots on goal against per game and rank eighth in the NHL in shots on goal per game this season. New York has recorded at least 30 shots on goal in five of eight games this season and has held opponents to fewer than 30 shots on goal in seven of the first eight contests.
TWO GOOD
The Blueshirts have won 30 of the last 31 games in which they allowed two goals or fewer, dating back to Dec. 15, 2015 (30-1-0). The Rangers have allowed two goals or fewer in four of the last five games.
AV SQUAD
Alain Vigneault leads all NHL head coaches in regular season wins since the start of the 2006-07 season (462). With his next win, Vigneault, who has earned 149 career wins as the Rangers’ head coach, would become the sixth head coach in franchise history to earn 150 wins with the Rangers (along with Emile Francis, Lester Patrick, Frank Boucher, John Tortorella, and Tom Renney).
CAPTAIN MAC
Ryan McDonagh enters the contest with a six-game assist/point streak (seven assists over the span). According to the Elias Sports Bureau, McDonagh is the first Rangers defenseman to register a six-game assist streak since Brian Leetch (Dec. 15 – Dec. 28, 2001). McDonagh’s six-game assist streak is a career-high, while his six-game point streak is tied for his career-high. McDonagh is tied for second in the NHL in assists this season (seven), and he is one of two NHL defensemen who have recorded seven assists in 2016-17 (along with Duncan Keith). In addition, McDonagh is one of three NHL defensemen who have tallied at least one point in six different games this season (along with Shea Weber and Ryan Suter).
WELCOME MATS
Mats Zuccarello tallied both of the Rangers’ goals on Oct. 28 at Carolina, and he is tied for the team lead with four goals this season. Zuccarello has recorded six points (three goals, three assists) and has posted a plus-four rating in the last six games.
VESEY DOES IT
Jimmy Vesey leads NHL rookies in game-winning goals (two) and is tied for third among NHL rookies in goals (four) this season. Vesey is one of four NHL rookies who have recorded four or more goals in 2016-17 (along with Auston Matthews, Patrik Laine, and William Nylander).
MIKA MAGIC
Mika Zibanejad has tallied a point in six of the first eight games this season, and he leads the Rangers in points in 2016-17 (eight).
KING HENRIK
Henrik Lundqvist has allowed two goals in four of his last five appearances, posting a 3-2-0 record, along with a 2.22 GAA and a .912 SV% in those games.
IM-PIRRI-AL
Brandon Pirri is tied for third in the NHL in shooting percentage this season (40.0%; four goals on 10 shots on goal). Pirri is tied for the team lead in goals (four) and game-winning goals (two) in 2016-17.
IT’S MILLER TIME
J.T. Miller has recorded a point in each of the Rangers’ five wins in 2016-17, and the Rangers have posted a 5-0-0 record in games which he has tallied a point this season. He has registered four points (one goal, three assists) in the last four games.
STEP-AN UP
Derek Stepan enters the contest with 199 career NHL assists. He has tallied five assists/points in the last six games.
SPECIAL TEAMS
Since the start of the 2014-15 season, the Rangers have posted a 36-2-3 record in games which they have outscored their opponent on special teams. The Rangers have outscored their opponent on special teams in three of the last four games and in four of eight games this season.
Power Play:
- The Rangers were 1-for-2 (3:03) on Oct. 28 at Carolina.
- The Blueshirts rank sixth in the NHL in power play efficiency this season (25.9%; 7-for-27).
- New York has recorded a power play goal in each of the last four games (5-for-13; 38.5%) and in six of eight games in 2016-17.
- The Rangers have tallied at least one power play goal in six of the first eight games of one season for the first time since 2009-10.
Penalty Kill:
- The Rangers were 0-for-1 (1:33) on Oct. 28 at Carolina.
- The Blueshirts have posted a 21-2-2 record in the last 25 games in which they did not allow a power play goal, dating back to Dec. 22, 2015.
- New York has only been shorthanded 21 times through the first eight games this season. In addition, the Rangers have only been shorthanded three times over the last three games, and only once in each of the three contests.
UPCOMING MILESTONES
- Derek Stepan – 1 assist away from 200 in his NHL career/as a Ranger
- Ryan McDonagh – 2 games away from 400 in his NHL career/as a Ranger
- Rick Nash – 4 goals away from 400 in his NHL career
INJURIES (20 Man-Games Lost to Injury)
- Josh Jooris (separated shoulder) – 3-4 weeks
- Chris Kreider (neck spasms) – day-to-day
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
- Oct. 28 – Assigned Dylan McIlrath to Hartford (AHL)
THIS DAY IN RANGERS HISTORY
- Oct. 29, 1972 – Jean Ratelle registered four points (two goals, two assists) and Rod Gilbert recorded four assists as the Rangers defeated the Chicago Black Hawks, 7-1, at MSG.
- Oct. 29, 1990 – John Vanbiesbrouck recorded a shutout as the Rangers defeated the Quebec Nordiques, 5-0, at MSG.
- Oct. 29, 2001 – Theo Fleury registered his 1,000th career NHL point and Mark Messier tied Paul Coffey for fourth on the NHL’s all-time assists list as the Rangers defeated the Dallas Stars, 4-2, at MSG.
- Oct. 30, 1964 – Emile Francis was named General Manager of the Rangers.
- Oct. 30, 1965 – Ed Giacomin earned his first career NHL win as the Rangers defeated the Boston Bruins, 8-2.
- Oct. 30, 1988 – The Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins combined for 292 penalty minutes as the Blueshirts earned a 9-2 win at MSG. The 292 combined penalty minutes, as well as the Rangers’ 134 penalty minutes, are single-game franchise records. Tony Granato (four goals), Brian Leetch (two goals, two assists), and Kelly Kisio (one goal, three assists) each tallied four points in the contest.
- Oct. 30, 1996 – Mike Richter made 53 saves while appearing in his 300th career NHL game and Brian Leetch registered three points (two goals, one assist) as the Rangers defeated the New Jersey Devils, 6-1.
- Oct. 30, 2015 – Mats Zuccarello tallied his first career NHL hat trick as the Rangers defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-1, at MSG.
I’m not sure what happen last thread…what was posted and removed, but it’s probably a good thing I didn’t read it….thank you doodie for taking care of it.
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Thank CCCP. He alerted me to the situation.
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Please go away. Suiox is a friend to all of us here, and we support him and pray for him and his family. There is no need for what you are doing.
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no, thank you. 🙂
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It’s unfortunate that “it” found out about this site but please guys, do not respond to that corksucking asshole.
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Just saw these posts about our blog friend Sioux, so sad to hear one of this gang has lost a loved one.
Sioux there isn’t enough Scotch to dampen the loss, but if our paths cross at the Flying Puck let’s try anyhow.
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The NHL wants more scoring. Hank is happy to oblige. Just kidding (sort of). The thing is: if your goalie is the highest paid player on the team (especially with a salary cap) then he’d better be unworldly good. The only goalie in the NHL that I can see that is unworldly good is Carey Price. At his cap hit, Lundqvist is part of the problem because they are paying superstar price for merely good performance.
It’s the same with Nash. He’s turned into a good two-way player. In fact, the play that I remember from Friday’s game was when he hustled back to break up a Hurricanes rush. But, you don’t pay a tenth of your cap to second/third line wingers. He’s got to score goals. That’s what they traded for.
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Good morning, boneheads!
Game Day!
Don’t pay attention to him. That’s what he wants. He wants to destroy this place. Won’t happen.
And removing his posts? He won’t stop. There is nothing else in his pitiful existence. No attention, and he wil go away eventually
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I’m not sure what went down last night but I can figure it out. im wondering if there’s a way to block people here
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As far as I see, don’t think there’s a way to block people. Only delete comments or mark them as spam.
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What I miss last night?
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Game day, people!
LGR !!!
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Are we scoreboard watching yet?
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You don’t wanna know, eric. Someone posted your naked photos 🙂
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Screw Cooper!
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Ah man, C3, you broke up my Hattie.
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Good morning all! Doodie, that is one tremendously tremendous pre-game post!
Sioux, I’m terribly sorry for your loss.
I missed last night’s adventures, too, but all I can say is, don’t feed the troll!! Doodie, welcome to the dark side of blogworld admin. I sadly remember it well. Do you need me to save extra newspapers?
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You gotta be quicker, seeedubbb.
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Doodie, saw C3’s suggestion last night that you hand a spare set of blog keys to someone to help admin. It’s a good idea. You can’t be here 24/7…It’s one of the things I helped Carp with back in the day, before both our former overlords yanked my keychain.
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Hey, CCCP, please watch the language. If we’re going to honor Carp on this blog, how ’bout we honor his rule of thumb and keep it family friendly. Thanks.
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What did I say?
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Just a please-and-thank-you request. No worries.
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No seriously what happened last night.
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Derbils beat the Bolts to get them all pissed off for tonite’s game.
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I am hoping that, for Halloween tonight, Henrik shows up as the Henrik of 5 years ago instead of the 2016 version.
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Eric
We have a subhuman creature who showed up last night trying to disrupt the flow of the blog by posting personal info of the posters. I just don’t get what he’s trying to do since most of us who post on here know each other and know real names and whatever. The subhuman creature is looking for attention which we shouldn’t give him. His posts will be immediately deleted. I have the keys to the blog now.
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Derbils averaging second fewest goals per game so far and strangely they have as many points as us.
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Derbils have a goalie who is playing big. Mr. Softee’s performance has undermined the yeoman’s work of his team.
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C3 is a keymaster! The destructor is coming!
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The gate keeper is the key master. If goazer shows up I’m out of here
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Actually there are four horsemen as of this morning.
🙂
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James, let’s show this prehistoric beeatch how we do things downtown…THROW IT!
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My post last night went up and was “pending moderation” so there seems to be at least some gatekeeping ability. Hope I can continue to post freely on the “safe list”
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Oh hello sweeties! I’m back. Miss me? POZY POZY POZY!! No neggys!
As always
Cheer! Cheer! Cheer!
Never boo! boo! boo!
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Lmgo, Laurel!! 😂
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This NYRangers “team” is complete Mickey-Mouse level.
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Well done boys, well done! (And bag lady;))
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So the Finn is goaltending tonight. Good for him. I have grown to hate Tampa, especially Squirrely Bowman behind the bench.
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Remember when playing Tampa was all about rivalry because of the UFAs that left NY for Tampa? They’re some of the most insignificant guys on that roster except for Stralman at this point. I like beating Cooper and I enjoy watching Bishop lose.
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I happen to agree with Miami 🙂
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Sioux said a prayer for You & You’re family.I’m sorry.
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I’m on the can. Left foot fast asleep. That said, our sexy sexy boys will win tonight. Feels like the right foot is getting numb. How am I going to get off the can?
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I have a really bad feeling about tonight’s game, Bishop in net not a good outcome!
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Just dropped another few Gannetts in the can…
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Thank you, “Anonymous Source”. ; )
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Huge shout out to Doodie for taking the reigns here and putting this together. Super amazing work!
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MANNY!!!!!!!!!!!
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Really annoying to hear that the idiots that continue to try and ruin our community continue to follow and harass us. I’m going to use Twitter login so you will all always know whether or not it’s me. Because you will be linked directly to my Twitter account. I assume that’s the safest way for all of us. As far as personal info: we can all be hypervigilant.
Worst case scenario: you can always just require registration here. I am sure we would all be willing to go through that brief process to keep it clean, safe and fun
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My name says it all.
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Doodie – get a logging thread going. Let’s log. I’m a logger.
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I really hope they didn’t fire rich cause of something I said. I was recently banned from the site at some point towards the end of last season. I didn’t offend anyone or say anything rude ever here. In fact I’ve been poked at by some for who I am. I never said anything. But once I was banned I sent an email to multiple people asking if I can be unbanned. They said they would look in to it, and I’ve never heard from them except for some PC email saying how they don’t discriminate against race religion and gender. Which was a bit rude since I was banned for neither of the above. It was simply for being gay. Next thing I know, the site is down, and Rich was fired. In the beginning people were so nice until they realized I was not a girl. As if they’re looking for dates. Imagine how desperate you have to be to be in a sports site looking for a date. Well, I hope my complaint was unrelated, and in the future, I hope people can just get over that barrier and let people just be who they are. I do know that another writer was fired as well. It thatbsite never had traffic. I hope it wasn’t me
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Absolutely unrelated, Za’rat. We missed you here
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Zarat – our sexy boys better win today. POZY POZY POZY. No neggy
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Rangers 5
Bolts 0
GWG – The Cambodian kid
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Tried to catch up. Great job Doodie! Sioux, so sorry for your loss.
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Manny AND Pozy Guy are back!
Awesome sauce
Down note, where the hell is Coos?
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And an E3 game prediction.
Good stuff.
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Does anyone know how to notify Orr?
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Did Sioux’s son pass away? How terrible to bury a child. That’s so sad….
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Is there anyone playing tonight’s game with a connection to University of North Dakota?
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I got a bad feeling about this…
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Was very sick, so missed a lot of convo here. My biggest and deepest condolences to Sioux. I couldn’t even imagine amount of pain and anguishes he’s suffering. Totally heart braking.
Do I understand right, that some unbelievable jerk tried to make some jokes about it and/or was trolling this blog?
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NEW POST
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