PREDATORS (26-19-8)
RANGERS (34-18-1)
GAME #53.
Hey, kids! Odessa’s in da house once again! How bout that weather, eh?
Our sexy sexy boys looking for their fourth straight win.
Juuse Saros is expected to start for the Preds for second time in as many games against the New York Rangers this season. Last time it took a shootout game winning goal by Jimmy Vesey for the Rangers to beat Saros. Let’s hope the Rangers continue to stay hot tonight and neat the Preds in regulation.
Lundqvist in net.
Puree and Pumpernickel are healthy scartaches.
Danny G will not play. Ankle.
LGR!
First! Good evening all and good job C!
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Hey, 4everfirst is here…Mama, how dare you…
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I double dog dare!
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80 degrees here…LGR, beat the Saros.
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Both E3 and C3 think our boys are sexy sexy…..about time they acknowledged real facts
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I always miss home when I was watch games and see the city and around MSG….but not so much tonight…brrrrr 😜
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When you’re
With the Flintstones,
Have a yabba-dabba-do time,
A dabba-do time;
You’ll have a gay old time
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LOL! ITS BANJING TIME!
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Hi, Laurel! How are you?
Ilb, glad to hear your dad is doing better.
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first!
Hope to see some Kreider-Subban stuff tonight, like the old days.
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Their goalie is kind of shaky… Should shoot at him in any slightest opportunity…
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Hi C!!! We need to pick a thread here….two at once is too much for my brain if I also want to watch the game
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hey, good evening everyone!! back from 6 weeks in Europe! Nice to be watching the rejuvenated, Hanka Hanka-shampoo-boys!!! LGR!!!!
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LGR! Just do it!
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Yeah we have two gof time threads going here… need to deleted one
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I never did change my handle, eh? But I remain Mattyboy, and Sather still sucks!!!
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carp, back at MSG tonight?
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Olga? I want to hear it….????
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FIRE SATHER!
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Welcome back Matty! C, I called new post on other post….
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No, Mama. I can barely walk after that mess of snow.
nyr!
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Hi Mama, Rick! And, thanks, Slatsko!!! Needed that!
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So this is the post we’re going with?
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Joe DiMaggio, among others, walked with four balls.
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wow! Miller to Hayes…..all but score!
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Dang! So close…..
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JT has become quite the playmaker.
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I just made $1200 online
don’t click http://www.justkidding.com
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When everyone’s in this lineup and Hanka is Hank, this team is pretty good.
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Yah, Miller has vision.
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Carpy, you there? Any handle on how empty it is (snow)??
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Thanks, Mama for the Banj alert.
LGR !!!
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Yes noble….
tomb, is there a Nigerian prince behind that click?
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Fasth says no!
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Welcome see….the triple letter boys got overly excited tonight 😉
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ICYMI:
J.T. Miller responds to AV’s “tough love.” My feature on @MSGNetworks
http://bit.ly/2lvlipi
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kreider is a wrecking machine.
Hi mama.
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Hank!
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I really dislike this “long brown road” poem in the car ad.
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The world’s most famous online network refuses to load properly on my iPad……
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no esta, nyr.
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Thank you Hank….
signed Nick
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First ring! May Luck be with our guys! This game is so-o-o-o winnable!
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Fug
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Second was in. Could easily get out of zone and they didn’t.
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Uh, still got some work to do, gobbling up pucks. It’ll come. It’ll come.
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Great article on JT
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Nice D by the ’69 World Series MVP.
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Looks like Charles Oakley’s seat is empty tonight!!
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Plenty of time.
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I don’t want to hear about they leaders, their family’s life and how good and important are they for their team Annoying!
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Uncontested
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Exactly what position does Staal imagine he’s paid to play?
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Rangers score 3 in 2nd. Take command.
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Henrik axes the D to let him see the puck and they accommodate his request by doing nothing.
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Matty I miss your positive attitude! What were you doing in Europe for so long?
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Left shuffleboard.
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Hahahahaha
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Mother hartnell…..I want to wring my hands around those muppets’ furry necks……
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That was Staal turning over the puck and Step not marking his man out of the corner on that goal. But blame the kid because he was near the guy not the 2 Captains…
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Nice article, Carp.
Glad to be able to say that again.
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I blame all 3 … but Gerund was spinning like a top.
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Mama, thanks, missed being here! Just traveling. Recent empty nester, you know. Always wanted to hang in Prague, Vienna, Paris, Krakow, more than a few days. So, we did.
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That ad’s from a Walt Whitman poem, Carp. You can always tell when an ad is written by a 21 year-old English major from Bryn Mawr.
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First period they have controlled play in a long time. D pinching up to challenge rush before red line. O had some prime scoring opps but didn’t convert.
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I figured it was a famed poem … but I don’t care for it. And I hate the ad.
nyr, did you see any ponies in Krakow?
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O will convert. I’m telling ya. 3 in 2nd.
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Who’s “Gerund”?
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Woooh…where was Carp’s article?
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Clendening.
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6 weeks in Europe? Good on you!! That is awesome
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Wonder if it’s better to hang in Prague than to be guillotined in Paris. 🙂
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msgnetworks.com, nyr.
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now this ad. … the song was written by Mr. Bob Dylan and covered by dozens.
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🙂
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Carpy, you can call me Matty. Great!!
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That ad is so saccharine-sweet and pretentious, it could give you literary diabetes.
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Coos, Prague is a great, comfortable city. Great for hanging. Could live there. Very accepting, cool citizens.
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So many spires…
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untouched by wars. old architecture. and great beer!
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THE: “We will win this” “I mean, really”
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I think the team is adjusting to not having Danny Girardi tonight (S).
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Matty – I’m always in awe of places that are thousands of years old especially when, as I have said before, we Americans make Walter’s Hot Dog Stand an historic monument. Plus, I’ve heard from travelers that the beer in Prague is the best in the world…?
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Oh great……
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McDummah penalty.
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And fug…..
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Yes, Coos. Agreed on all accounts. Can’t beat thousand year old, well preserved buildings. A lot of them are red stone. Very pretty. As for the beer, there are certain places that just kill it. I haven’t been to Octoberfest/Berlin. Supposed to be good there, too.
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This suuuuuucks.
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OK, quick quiz, how old is Peter Laviolette??
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Too bad Eric’s not here, this game is right in his wheelhouse.
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One DMan goes to the cat box, the other one screens our goalie, and the third dances the dotesy-do.
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Eric:”This team loses the next 7 in a row, and there goes playoffs. That’s where they belong.”
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Oh Lordy, I would kill for a Walter’s dog right now…..
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52
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Eric was epic on twitter Tuesday. After Grabner stopped on breakaway and Miller put the SH try through the crease, he declared the game over.
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Sam: Rangers need to get the crowd back into the game.
Me: Get out the T-shirt cannons.
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Unlucky bounce on the 2nd one. Nashville sure plays tough in front of their net and their d-men get the puck up to the forwards.
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The Scoring Machine!!!!
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GRAAB!!!!!!!!
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pass-pass-pass
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Hooray for our side!
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Go Grabner!
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YES
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Ref created turnover..thx
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Z and THE, Perfect together!
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Plekanec?
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Buch…The best 4th liner in the NHL
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Nice kill. Whenever a team comes up high and presses, it is tougher for our boys.
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…had some good looks…
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I call you killer because you Skjei me.
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Former NHL STAR Anson Carter
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TYM – I cringe every time I hear that nonsense.
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Is Charles Oakley in da house?
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You can tell that it’s scripted and intentional, which makes it worse.
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BAM!!
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pass-pass-pass.
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YES!!!!!!!! Of man these guys…….what a line!
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great play by Hayes. Just excellent
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Great Day in the Morning !
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Confidence of this line is burgeoning.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
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Did I tell you I wrote a long feature on Miller today?
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Kevin Hayes is good at hockey.
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You’re prescient Carp…..
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Did you find Sather yet, Carp? He’s still there somewhere…
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Justin Terence Miller!
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I remember watching Miller at the WJC during the last strike. I was impressed then.
he has had his growing pains, but has developed into one hell of a NHL’er
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I’ve been to a couple of practices and a game and have not seen Slats at all, Slatsko. I think he’s gone.
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He’s in the baat-room…
With his prostate, probably 30 times a day.
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Has Slats been Oakley-ed?
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Tell me it isn’t so. He and Jimmy always best buds…
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Mentioned in the story, the last time the Rangers’ “third line” was their best line, they went to the SCF. Was also the last time they signed Vigneault to a new contract.
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When you do see him tell him that if everything he does is wrong, the opposite must be right.
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THE was spotted at the Russian Tea Room on 57th, ordering coffee in English.
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Gorton: “I will do the opposite.”
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they have good depth. Gorton has done well with very little to work with.
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True Carp only with Grabner a step or twelve above Pullout
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Carpy, do you see them making a deal at the deadline?
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I think Grabner is speeding up The Big Wolf, which is just what he needed.
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Is that what Duke called him, ‘the big wolf’ or was it something else with wolf in it?
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Seriously, I’m going to pluck every piece of fluff from Elmo’s head
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Hayes is such a goof.
But he’s our goof.
So you gotta love him.
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Hayes speaks eight languages, but none of them understandably.
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Did anyone sees Haze on the unwatchable Hockey Show? Spicolli would have been proud.
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Yup, the Big Wolf.
Matty, they are sure gonna try.
Pouliot was pretty good that year. Grabner, obviously, has been incredible.
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one bite everyone knows the rules
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Fish Tanks in a 2-1 game. Probably end up 5-4.
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Spicoli, lol
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Just got home a little while ago and only 10 minutes into first period, so far…
Someone needs to tell Sam Switzerland is NOT a Scandinavian nation.
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Tough collision with beep beep and Ellis
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I like that Watson kid from Nashville
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Staal and skjel still can’t play on the wall
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Will read comments later, don’t want any spoilers
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Dolan’s rep to Anson Carter: “We’ll give you $200 per episode and call you a “former NHL star.”
Anson: “Done!”
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Beat wide.
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If you see something, Skjei something!
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Carter is the worse part of that show, and that is saying a lot!
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No more beer for you coos! Your skjluring your words
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One horse open Skjei
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No Skjit!
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better tighten up. This ain’t Hank from 5 years ago. D needs to help him
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FIRE SKJEITHER!
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THE
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The!!!!
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Ding a ling!!!! THE!!!!!!
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K-MAN!
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“Mind if I score while passing through? “
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So, let’s let the coaches challenge. And we’ll give them a 1″ x 1″ screen to see. Gotta love the NHL.
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Check for an offside? Why not measure his stick while you’re at it.
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We are due to lose some of these “challenges”…. Hmmm
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Pure case!
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I know!!! Not even an IPad!!!
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Anyone know why teams are allowed to stall for so long before deciding to challenge?
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Too much scoring in league; need to allow for more challenges
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What colossal nonsense, staring for five minutes at an eight inch screen. Heard today that MLB wants to start every extra inning game with a man on second. Maybe they should just play 3 on 3.
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So, what’s Nashville’s record when they take the lead? 16-1-2?
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More commercials with “Walk like an Egyptian” please.
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Dolan just had security throw Rod Gilbert to the ground and toss him in the alley on 31st
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Is Kreider still an enigma?
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Gary Buttman involved in MLB also? That’s preposterous.
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the stall is longer than a timeout.
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Where in Holy Hell are Salt N Pepa?
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First!
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FG 🙂
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Hot Diggety!
… Sorry was on a bit of a delay.
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Gilbert landed on Kirstie Alley?
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Remember the league when even guys like sandstrom, sundstrom and Turcotte would score 35?
Ahh, good times
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Dog!
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Big deal
Wicky leads the league in posts per 60 minutes
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Didn’t Rudy Poeschek score 35 one year?
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On Notre Dame?
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Lindberg’s becoming a really annoying opponent. And i say that in the most complimentary way possible.
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If I see one more snowflake I’m going to scream “not my president!”
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Yeah, Dog.
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“Is Kreider still an enigma?”…No, he became an enema. (for some goalies, anyway)
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Jerkoff officials staring at Donuts being decapitated, play on.
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Nail biting time
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Poeschek scarred 35 in one year…
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I kinda miss the gate being left open…..
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I miss Pitbull. 2014. Good times
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Would be nice if they did not play the remainder of this period in their own zone.
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I miss Kelly Kisio.
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I saw Poeschek start a bench clearing brawl during warm-ups in Binghamton one time. We walked into the arena a half hour before gametime and they were all over the ice, fighting. And there were no officials present to break anything up.
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Has anybody watched what looks to be the stupidest show on TV, allegedly about hockey?
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Foxwood’s Five upcoming
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Slatsto, you got Olga locked in a closet tonight?
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Rud-eee!! Rud-eeee!!
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man, is that line playing well. In a zone
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Holy hell!!!
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Yahtzee !!!!
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Don’t pay the ransom Mama! I escaped.
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lock em down, Hank.
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Grab and Miller…..again….still considering third star….Hayes?
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I was escared that you couldn’t excape.
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James Tiberious Miller!!!
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Bing Bang Bing! It’s Ricochet Rabbit!
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Phew! It’s almost salute time!
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Four game winning streaks are the perfect antidote to that persistent cough that ails the blog
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Where’s Izzy?
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These guys are killing it for my fantasy team.
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He’s in the hospital
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Shay had better smarten up.
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This is where they miss Girardi
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This is a good special teams team.
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Fug…..thanking the heavens for our last goal…..
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Brady Skjei is like the Brady Skjei of hockey
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Eat My Shorts
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What in Holy Hell, Carp?
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Get out of the zone!!!!!!
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Hard to imagine a big defenseman less interested in contact than Staal.
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I went to Foxwoods once. Would have had a better chance of winning if I stayed in my room and flushed quarters down the toilet one at a time.
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yay!!!! Four is a lovely number! Salute!
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Healthy ranger team regaining confidence and momentum
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Zucc on ice in last minute??
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I smell Napalm!
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Four in a row.
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Four in a row, consecutively!
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I voter fer Grabner Miller Hayzer inner no particuler order.
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Tada! Mama calls the line!
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That entire line deserved the stars, but where would this team be without Donuts?
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One in a row, four times!
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Carp now building a bed under his MSG desk so Dolan will think he’s working there 24/7
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I was gonna vote, but Putin hacked my machine
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Papa, my two favorite lines I thought of when you said that … From “The Untouchables” … Where’s Nitti? He’s in the car.
and of course from Seinfeld, “Where’s dad?” “He’s in the baatroom.”
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Four in a row, consecutively, one right after the other.
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Don’t forget to set the alarm Carp…..and another lovely evening all….til the morrow….niters!
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Valiquette is Big Bird
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He’s in the car really cracks me up.
Izzy! Whats up, Butterbean?
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I’m Papa, and I gained 7 lbs. on nutrisystem. WTF?
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Where would it be if McMonster had a partner, coos?
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Is this Yahtzee?
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Izzy been bizzy.
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Carp working on a fusilli Dolan
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eddie eddie eddie licking the thin lead of his pencil, ruminating on an angle.
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Carp, we should of taken care of Castro when we had the chance
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Hey Fusilli, it’s me, Ziti!
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That was a good win at home. Mika played well. Can’t score but all over the puck
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Guaranteed by the playoffs Carp is dressing like Duguay
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FG, I am really enjoying all those MSG-related comments.
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I already said that SN but not to be picky but it’s Tiberius!
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we had a funny guy in Korea. Tailgunner. They blew his brains out all over the Pacific. There’s nothing funny about that.
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Carp giving Charles Oakley a ride home tonight?
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Former NHL Star Anson Carter.
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Nights like this, Carp has fond memories of the Sutter family.
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That would be funny bc Carp bikes to the garden
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Carp, have you seen the Clutchmobile there yet?
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‘Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the War Room!’
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Since Hayes is the center, can we call that line “The Brady Bunch?”
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Hey Carp…when are you going to be appearing on The Hockey Show with former NHL star Anson Carter? Now that you guys are associates and all.
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Carp, why didnt they have Alton Benes on the show more often?
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As in Tom Brady? please no
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Hay, Grab me a Miller line
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Yes, as in Tom Brady.
I’m not big enough for TV, TYM.
Alton Benes was one of the great characters ever … only one episode.
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AV best stop rubbing his nose, no wat Im sayin?
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He also seems to have frequent wedgie issues.
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coos, they stole from you.
You really need to get on that twitter thing.
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What? They stole my Hay Grab Me a Miller line line?
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I feel like Tesla when he was robbed by Edison.
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‘wedgies,’ lol. Now that you mention it…..
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I noticed it during pressers, and now I am fixated on it. And I wish I weren’t.
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Zucc The Big Zib line
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Topo Zika The.
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Hated Spicoli Beep Beep.
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The One of us Speaks Fluent Russian line.
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It’s V-easy, bud.
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The Jumps out of Pools Line.
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Rangers have fifth best record in the league…good enough for 9th in the metro.
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VC, Step, Nash line: Opie and the Mayberrys
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That Ambassador of Diversity gentleman still looks like a tough guy.
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How many times are these Stunads going to mention Harvard?
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I voted hated, no Doritos, and enigma…in no particular order.
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Man, that Colorado (former sabre) D man zadorov can really hit.
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Grabner 26-7-33; aka Cy Young
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If he gets to 30 he could be Denny McLain.
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Great article on miller carp! Well done sir!
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Zika, The, & Topo! The Zitt line!
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Miller, Hayes, & Grabner; The B line! Beer, Bong, & Beep Beep!
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Good morning all! This is absolutely the non funniest worst blog on the internets….
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Another good character game. Agree with @Carp about The Machine – he is playing fairly responsibly and taking the role of pest/agitator. The M/H/G line has to be close to a goal a game on the season. Making Hockey Great (Again?) Many Huge Goals Gotta Have Magic
@cooscoos: When are they doing to declare Sal’s a historic site?
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Spicoli, best name for Doritos
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Carp – just saw your article Miller -great read – sounds like you no longer ‘hate’ him.
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I love the smell of victory in the morning
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Been a lot of back and forth about who to protect and is Cy Young/Beep Beep/Grabber a one year wonder, I reference a comment made by esteemed Blogfather Carp; the last time this team went to SCF, their ‘3rd’ line was their best line.
This guy is Hags with hands. You have to keep him for $1.5 due next year at a minimum and possibly extend if he keeps it up. Not sure who this leaves out but this is becoming a big no brainer at this level of production.
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Remember that PP pass by Butch to Step on far post; that was impressive. May want to shuffle him and VC up and down the Nash/Step line to see if they can get some chemistry.
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new post? QAV!
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As bad as the Rangers can be at times, at least we haven’t done this – yet!
http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2017/2/9/14571618/dallas-stars-score-on-their-own-empty-net-jiri-hudler-ottawa-senators
Hudler has been beyond horrible this year. Two goals for Dallas and one against.
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Wicky has Carp’s photo as his avatar? Lol
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Tax Free has a no trade. Maybe Stevie Y isn’t as smart as we thought. Any interest in Adam McQuaid as depth rental on D?
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Bdl
Yes on McQuaid, but I’ve always liked him. I think he’d be a whipping boy in no time here. (All the speed only guys would be all over him…he’s more mobile than many think).
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If the price was low enough, I’d definitely take a flyer on the other Hayes from Boston (and it should be low enough)
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Watch the rangers trade a good prospect and a high draft pick for Boyle from Tampa lol (just kidding btw)
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