Game 22
Rangers at Flyers -1:00 PM NBC
I hope you all had a happy and healthy Thansgiving. Today is the first meeting between these two historically bitter rivals. During the Thanksgiving day parade, Graves and Lindros stood next to each other on a float to promote the game. I can’t imagine that they would have been able to do that 20 years ago.
While I am off from work today, I will be watching this game on a delay since I will be outside doing yardwork during the game, but listening on radio via the NHL app. Clearly, this is an HAV.
Tonight’s probable lineup for the Rangers (14-6-1):
Michael Grabner-Derek Stepan-Rick Nash
Chris Kreider-Kevin Hayes-Mats Zuccarello
Jimmy Vesey-Brandon Pirri-J.T. Miller
Matt Puempel-Josh Jooris-Jesper Fast
Ryan McDonagh-Dan Girardi
Marc Staal-Nick Holden
Brady Skjei-Kevin Klein
The big news, of course, is that Matt Puempel makes his Rangers debut in place of Oscar Lindberg, who is Prucha’d. The lines otherwise remain unchanged from the last game against Pittsburgh, because why mess with such a smashing success? Puempel will also see some time on the PP. As for Lindberg, you have to figure he is not long for this team.
Lundqvist gets the start in goal. I find all of the Raanta clamoring hysterical. Everyone always loves the backup. I wonder if these people were begging for Healy in 94.
The defense remains unchanged, so Clendening remains Prucha’d for a fourth straight game. I still disagree with this arrangement. Skjei should be playing more often, not less.
For the Flyers, (9-9-3), the story of the season is their league worst .880 save percentage from their goaltending. However, more immediately, Sean Couturier is out 4-6 weeks with a “lower body injury.” Scott Laughton has been recalled to replace him in the lineup.
The Flyers’ defense is in a bit of disarray. Former Ranger Michael Del Zotto is in one of his trademark down years and is a healthy scratch. Formerly abandoned to the AHL Andrew MacDonald is on their first pair with Shane Gostisbehere. On the third pair is predator Radko Gudas. I’m sure he will do something that is borderline or over the line, and it will be interesting to see how the Rangers respond, especially since they rolled over after Crosby ragdolled McDonagh on Wednesday.
Don’t forget to tell everyone you know and to follow me on Twitter @rangersreport2. And don’t forget to vote for your three stars after the game!
Go Time! Will watch the first period before heading to the annual Thanksgiving Friday family activity of the Ducks-Blackhawks in Anaheim.
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So, who is this kid – Matt Pimpel? …and what he can do for us?
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Sorry, I misspelled, right name is Pimple.
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Watching game at Tamarack sports bar in Missoula while the womenfolk go about their business. Last full measure of devotion? No Rangers fans present. Or Flyers fans. Or fans.
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Can’t wait to see the “Thanksgiving Special” the no-talents serve up this afternoon. This third-rate, cut-rate, mailed-in, paper-tiger-of-a-squad is as bush league and Mickey Mouse as they come. As we speak, I’m looking underneath for couch-change Puempels who can’t cut the ketchup, much less the mustard. I expect nothing less than a 10-0 Flyers victory over the mediocre-central, faded-watercolor, lemon-stand NYRangers.
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First.
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Lundqvist shaky?
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Atta boy Carp
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5 different times in those 4 minutes, a Ranger tried to skate right up the middle through 3 Flyers.
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That’s a borderline hit… not a hit for a fight. Dumbazz Flyer
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Honestly that hit looked shoulder-to-shoulder to me. Manning was turned but Pirri came around.
At least the calls evened up.
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When Crosby does the same thing it’s not a penalty.
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Our guy gets 5 for fighting? Fighting what, who, when?
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Clean hit, and dive.
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Konecey isn’t exactly the roughest customer out there. And a rookie. The refs just taught him a valuable message about picking his spots appropriately.
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Hank not even thinking of playing the puck behind the net, which is good for the Rangers, but shows his deservedly low confidence.
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good for Hank. Keep it up!!
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bam
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Nice hands, JT!
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How what Konecny just did to Pirri was different from what Cindy did to McCaptain? Typical Cindy loving NHL.
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Game being played at Flyer pace so far, but, I guess we are doing quality over quantity again. Again a flashback to last season. Don’t like the looks of this.
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Pop that pimple!
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Pass of the year from Vesey?
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Nice shot Puempelmousse. Better pass from Vc
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Sheeeeeeet, the next episode of Chicago Fire sounds intense.
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Good comeback period for Hank.
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Staged handbags. Blech.
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Ditto norm. He bailed them out during that bad stretch in the middle.
Good win kreider. Now never do it again 🙂
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Nice to see THE smack around the faker. Guess Manning does not like to be hit.
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FIRE SATHER!
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And by IRE, I mean UCK.
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Let’s Go Hawks!!!!!
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THE KREIDER. That is all.
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Nice pass by VC but how did it get through two Flyers? Lindberg stays until Zika is healthy? He will get claimed and play for somebody in the league.
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I can’t believe norm is here and he didn’t even let me know?! We could have watched the game together 😦
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Kreider had me cheering
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Lindberg’s days might be numbered in NY. I like Jodi’s a lot better in the 4th line C spot and Puempel has already contributed.
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Let’s see if the ‘gers can tie the 2nd. Baby step before repossession.
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I refuse to believe there is more than one Rangers fan in Missoula. I am now surrounded by my Flyer-fan daughters, quite satisfying. For the moment.
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Our sexy boys are playing 180 degrees out of phase with their effort on Wednesday. JT will be throwing down with Simmonds at some point. I’m not sure why there are fights between players wearing shields. Broken hand is all that can happen. THE was trying to rip the helmet off of Manning – smart move…
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Norm – flyer fan daughters? I’d have shipped them off to the nearest orphanage.
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Our guy made Konecny look like Joe Frazier.
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Let’s go boys….
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With all the weight he lost, Milbury looks like he did when he played – butt ugly.
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Eye sing
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Oscar just looked down at his phone and saw he has a meeting scheduled with AV and Gorton for 11am tomorrow.
(Jk he clearly stays until Zika is healthy. I bet someone remembers his hot streak last season, sees his cap hit, and would make a low level swap).
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Coos Milbury is TV ugly. In real life I’m sure he’s a looker.
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Milbury isn’t pretty, but I do like pumpernickel
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E3, we raised them in Philly and gave them freedom of choice. May have been a mistake, though they’re all pretty good players.
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Let’s protect Hank. I’m talking to you McD and Girardi
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Hank is HUGE
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Can’t believe giroux didn’t need bury that. Makes me feel a ton better about Sanguinetti.
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so far, one of Hanka’s best games this year. so far
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Rangers look like crap. I thought it was a flyers PP.
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Are we sure this game is not a replay from last year? Only a matter of time until Flyers get a couple. Can’t play the whole game in you end and loose every one on on battle.
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Norm – still, I’d have boxed them up and left them on a neighbors doorstep.
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Millbury is pretty
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I like Piere’s ‘do’.
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Flyers want to engage purée
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E3, not only are your goggles neon blue, so is your blood. Respect.
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Pierre is very pretty. Someone must have pictures of him kissing Kristopher LeTang on the mouth.
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Norm 🤓
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They are playing Kreider physically. It’s working to take him off his game.
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Nice tip! 3-0
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Haze, missing his hazy dayz. Not missing net
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Klein is going to pound someone and ye right soon
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Purple.
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E3, how’d you know what I look like?
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Scuse me while I kiss the sky.
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I can’t believe I wanted to dump that big doofus for whatever we could get this summer.
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Holden Caulfield with another big assist
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Keep your focus, Hank. Play a full game. C’mon!!
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Norm – all mathematicians look like that….
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Hank’s best game Matty, no doubt. Much needed
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Haze is the most improved player in the league this year.
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Holden > Yandle ( and much cheaper too!)
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E3 – The catcher in the can
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Rangers with a 25% shooting percentage
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Olga said “nice tip”
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Headzo – I was seriously clogged the other day. Major pain. Nearly called 911 while laying naked on the floor.
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Papa – tip rhymes with nip
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E3 feet rhymes with tit
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Sorry to hear E3. A little silly-um husk normally clears that up for me. The coconut has been my savior this week though.
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Headzo – wrote half of my game review with a rock hard loaf refusing to enter the water.
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Almost pried it out manually
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E3…That’s called a stale loaf
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Enima rhymes with femina
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Papa – that baby was so hard a cat couldn’t scratch it.
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Chocolate diamonds
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3-0
No time to relax.
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Stew rhymes with poo
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E3 most mortal men would have made it 2 or 3 bullet points under those battle conditions. I throw up a Shaka for you
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NHL Wheel of Fortune:
I’d like to solve the puzzle Pat: Brady Skjei!
::wrong buzzer::
Give me an “N.”. Three N’s! I’d like to solve the puzzle please: Brayden Schenn!
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Richard Gere had a fury diamond stuck in his poop shoot
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Headzo – my eyes were tearing so bad I had to close them and type blindly
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“How’d that gerbil get there?”
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DaveB – that’s some pretty fancy spelling. Respect!!
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“How’d that tire iron get there?”
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Hank is wearing eye makeup this game. Mascara for sure. So pretty
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E3 did the in-laws clap after coming out of the can?
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“How’d that pitching wedge get there?”
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Norm
I know we are northwest neighbors but what brings you to my block of the ghetto?
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“How’d that tuna can get there?”
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Headzo – They waited for 40 minutes or so and then said “**** it, we are going to bed.” I laid there in pain pinching and squeezing trying to loosen my load. When I finally delivered, I couldn’t sit for about an hour and was lucky to have a plunger because that baby wasn’t going down without a fight.
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Monica:
“How’d that Cigar get there?”
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You show that turd who’s boss, E3
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Headzo – nearly had the same the next morning. Too much meat. Been going fruit and Flax seed since.
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“Who does brian Leetch work for?”
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Clendening made a pass like Streit did early in the season and hasn’t played much since.
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“How’d Mike Milbury get there?”
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My septic tank was howling.
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Way to fight through it E3. Bravo sir. I pray that doesn’t happen on my plane ride home tonight.
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Get a bean burrito from Taco Bell. Works better than Roto-Rooter.
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Jonesey has to be depressed watching this
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Wicky, offspring in MT, Korea. NH no longer an acceptable residence.
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Discover ads are not terribly macho
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Olga – no doubt. But roto rooter delivers.
Headzo – I was laying cable on a plane one time and when I walked out I told the next person to bring their oxygen mask. She went on line across the aisle 😜
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One of my favorite ploys is to drop a silent but deadly in a crowded space and say “I smell popcorn…”
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Those were the Rangers’ first two fighting majors this season, more than a quarter of a season gone. Sorry, Wick.
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Olga – especially in a crowed elevator.
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Hate to say it, but Klein’s been awful lately.
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There goes the shutout. Shay playing good D there.
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sure was a kick.
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Here we go
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Kicked motion to me
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Get it back.
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Did youse see where Prust might go play in Germany?
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Ein Klein – Ja Ja carp. Fessïnholtz göoselberd sig mazzenkraut. Mein stig helix”
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Next three goals are huge
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Miller having such a good season, but man does he find interesting ways to not score.
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Norm – indeed. JT could have 25 goals this season so far.
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THE CARP. That is all.
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Up and down. Back and forth action
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Norm
Well, give a heads up next time you are in the ghetto and I’ll buy you a beer.
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Carp
Yeah, regardless of their record, it’s a bit embarrassing
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E3
Stop teasing 😉
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Wicky – our boys playing with more chippiness than usual.
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Ever notice how we get creamed in front of the opposing net concomitant with and after the whistle and all we ever do in our end is shuffleboard and snow angel?
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Matty – and waffle board
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Kooz – not matty
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Wicket, what ghetto exactly? Missed that somehow, sorry.
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Autocorrect *Wicky*
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Let’s hold on and collect 2 points.
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Norm keeps moving because he is in the Witless Protection System.
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Norm
If you are in the program, let me know who your liaison officer is…we might have the same one 😉
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Montana
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Old-school 20-shots-from-the-point vs. new school skate-and-pass. New school shades it.
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Whew.
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We perpetually exhibit a paucity of poise in perilous situations.
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Let’s Go HAWKS!
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I’ll take it
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E3
After the mcdonut incident last game, they should be
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Witless is not a typo. 🙂
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Montana, eh? I won’t press for details until necessary.
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Whew !!!
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Don’t forget to vote.
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Dildo Pierre: “It’s good to see you having fun at the game.” What a bozo.
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Btw, first flyer goal 100% on Cinderella
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Here we go again. I have seen this show before.
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Wicky – werd
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Norm
No worries, I’m in Bozeman, but happy to make a short drive to buy you a brew next time you are in state.
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I voted the scarlet pimpernel, know when to Holden, and shampoo boy…in no particular order
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Bozeman is gorgeous. Had a niece graduate there a few years back.
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It is…liked Missoula, but it was getting too populated so we moved 😉
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My kid is playing junior hockey in Great Falls. I have not been there yet.
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What if the game was 5 minutes longer? With overall much, much better game it still not acceptable to let 2 goals on the end of the game in such a short time, pressure or not. What happened with ability to hang on.
…but what I’m talking about? They did!
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It’s too early to evaluate new Pimple, but hope is here. At least we know he can score.
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Hope we are not back to Hank having to be the #1 star of the game for them to win. He was the difference today.
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Tym
Not a bad place to be 😉
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Great win
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Scarlett Pimpernel? Cinderella?
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In the most HAV thing of all time: I forgot to record the game. Anyone want to write a review?
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Puempelnicker
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Scarlet Pimpernel = puempernal (sp?)
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Cinderella = pirri
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So shouldn’t he be Pumpkin?
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Carp that’s his next game when he stops scoring
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Doodie – I’ll write it
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RR2 = nhl network has 1 hour version tomorrow afternoon
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Carp
He certainly could be, but his “fight” was an insult to pumpkins everywhere then 😉
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Hilarious: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FftFvwwxD2U&sns=em
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Brandon Pirri … first Rangers fight of the season.
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I can’t think of any other game where we could have used a fighter
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Ah thank you Alex!! E3, I’ll handle it.
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Their success was built on their depth and they are missing Zika and Buch a lot. BTW this year’s version of #22 is much better than last year’s.
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Agreed. This year’s #22 is light years better than last year’s version
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They don’t need a “fighter”, they need a player that has some ability but is also willing to chuck buckles 8-10 times a year…a Roussel type.
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Buckles=knuckles
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