Did youse see what happened in Philly? Simmonds had two goals then appeared to deflect his third. All those greasy, grimy hats came down onto the ice, and the goal was credited to Voracek. PA guy thanked everybody for the hats.
According to Sam the Rangers are “taking exception” to all of the cheap shots. Maybe after the game the team can write a letter to the Caps letting them know how upset they are with them and have Rammer take it over to the visitors locker room
We’re still not at the NFL-level of review, but there’s still time for the NHL to get this right: Take off-sides out of the reviewable items in a coach’s challenge. It’s embarrassing. I’m surprised the Officials union isn’t all over it – it makes the linesmen look bad on a nightly basis.
I think the ONLY challenge could be if there is a suspicion on goalie interference, which is legit “causus quo”, not what happened (or not) 20 minutes ago on the blue line under microscope; and has absolutely no relation and relevance to the scored goal. Apotheosis of idiotic…
Trying to imagine who in Toronto is sitting around giggling in satisfaction at the improvement to the game their clerk-y little delayed offside has brought. Every time a goal is scored now, the scoreboard should light up with an all-caps NERD ALERT.
Trautwig said that Kempfer has an unbelievable Stanley cup story to tell! Can’t wait to hear a story that was already told by Micheletti earlier in the game!
Norm – team was outhit and didn’t have the puck. Down by one goal is a testament to Henk. Been totally outplayed. Eventually you need to decide if you are going to be the bug or the windshield.
I understand our coach has won a lot of games,but not having an answer to the physical play of Wilson is embarrassing. Kind of miss then day when torts could put out a couple of players who could win fights.
I hate the wussiness of this team. The Panthers were like that most of the season too but somehow they all finally got on the same page.
Most of these guys have been playing with each other for a while now. You’d think they’d give a crap about their teammates by now. Smh
This game is right on point, had caps winning 4-2 on a empty net goal. I rather see the rangers stay right where they are, in the 7th seed. Lets pray they don’t lose to many games in a row or they could be fighting for the 7th and 8th seed.
The Rangers must fight them in the d-zone, in center ice… they shall go on to the end. They shall fight in France, they shall fight on the seas and oceans, they shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, they shall defend their end, whatever the cost may be. They shall fight on the beaches, they shall fight all the way to the penalty box, they shall fight in the fields and in the streets, they shall fight in the hills; they shall never surrender.
Why, evrock, is offside not reviewable regardless of whether there’s a goal scored? You’re offside and you then wear down your opponent for a while, to your advantage–why shouldn’t a coach be able to ask for that time back, to recover? It was offside, black-and-white, and an outrage that play was allowed to continue. Come to think of it, why isn’t the clock set back to when the offside was called, on a wiped-out goal? This rule is as black-and-white as gray underwear.
I’m going to have to put the phone down amd actually pay attention to the Panthers game, the way the Rangers game is going. At least I’ll save battery life.
Love watching this game on NBCSN. So #blessed to be able to listen to Joe Beninati call the Caps players by their first names and get super excited by every Washington dipsy doodle.
Here’s some physical stuff with the Rangers I absolutely object to, which is their forwards consistently pulling up on the rush when they have a step to the outside. They refuse to skate hard around the corner to get a shot, take a hit to make a play, or get hauled down for a penalty.
But of course, that uncounted goal changed the whole further game canvas…deflated Rangers, encouraged Craps and this team know what and how to do rest.
It’s a ridiculous call. It’s ridiculous to review an offsides on a broken play. Goal was not scored off the rush. Therefore offsides does not have direct bearing on the play.
If we are going to get all offsides calls “right”, why don’t we review all penalties and all missed calls??? Why stop at offsides?
These guys should be, but aren’t, embarrassed to play such dispirited hockey in front of the home crowd. Who will lead us? Huh? We need a trade desperately for a leader with a bit of an attitude.
But they still keep possession of the puck, Akbar. They wouldn’t have possession one that play unless they won the ensuing faceoff that’s now outside the zone.
I don’t necessarily agree with having that rule available but because it is, it’s a black and white rule.
By reversing a goal call and taking an unacceptable 10 minutes to do it, the team that gave up the goal now gets momentum whereas the team that scored the goal is punished.
Replay rule has done one thing positive. Creating jobs. Every team in NHL now has video techs rewinding and watching footage, fishing for a possible offside.
What a display on the PP by Pirri. Hope it’s awhile before he is dressed again. The PP coach should be looking for employment. Pretty pathetic display by entire team tonight except Hank
If I’m an official, I perform spotlessly up until I’m about to retire, then I bet my pension and the ranch on one final game which I direct like Alfred Hitchcock from beginning to end.
Let’s see, Step x 2, Kreider , Staal, Gerund, Fast, Nash, Hank have all been beaten up in some form or another tonight. Who am I missing ? Oh yeah they got to Mika before puck drop.
I sure do miss the days of some team toughness & physical accountability.
Who will be first to do the math: the Rangers lost this game to the Caps, therefore they can not beat them in the playoffs. Or has it already happened?
I don’t know why anybody is surprised with this outcome. Caps are a top contending team, rangers are not a top contending team and will most likely not make it past the 1st round. I don’t care who they play.
I do agree the refs let the caps get a way with a lot of penalties and dirty play. I haven’t complained this year about the refs like in years past but tonight was a blast in the past with these refs tonight. To say the refs had a one way eye on the game tonight is a understatement.
If I was Lundqvist I’d go on strike until the team decides to put in as much effort as he does. 20 minutes of hockey and 40 minutes of crap doesn’t make it against the Caps or anyone else. What does it take to get a complete effort? Not talking about a win- just a “work like a dog” effort for an entire game.
The window has closed on Lundqvist he will never win a cup. Time to regroup for next year trade Nash, Stepan, and Zucc this team is going home after round 1. Doesn’t matter what they do tomorrow.
‘You know this city’s full of hawks? That’s a fact. They hang around on the top of the big hotels. And they spot a pigeon in the park. Right down on him.’
I’m sure they will win a few more games before the seasons end but really do you think it will make any difference? Rangers display the on the ice the personality of their coach! “I thought we had a few good looks” Really!
Just catching up…lol, you guys kill me.
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I couldn’t figure out what that high pitched whine was during any sort of physicality on the ice, then I realized it was Norm.
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Carp kills me with the run out of the building comment…usually when he posts it, it means the rangers actually ARE being physically dominated.
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Good thing there’s time to make deals tomorrow, might not have enough healthy bodies
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How did stepan not get sent to the quiet room after that? Would not be shocked in the least to see him miss time with concussion like symptoms in the future like staal did.
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Lastly, hilarious watching 2 non fighters fight…winnick and clendening get an “A” for effort.
As we all know the Stanley Cup is hardest trophy to win in sports. Practically impossible to win the cup with below average special teams. Absolutely need to be able to make teams pay for their penalties with the PP and you must be able to bail out your team with the PK. For years now, Rangers PP has been awful, so teams take liberties against them with no fear of paying for it. PK is better than PP, but has been very inconsistent. Unless PP is fixed very soon, there is no reason to believe they could be legitimate contenders.
The meltdown after the disallowed goal was really disturbing. Honestly rather give Steps A to The Machine for all the good he seems to do as a team leader. Just bring Avery back and give him the C and you’ll see some fire under their asses. There is just so little edge to their game.
Interesting how Connolly has the audacity to run Henk with no fear of reprisal. Not exactly a bruiser. Team is softer than a mashed potato sandwich. They only one to jump on him was a player in his 1st game. McD or Staal would have gave him a mean stare down.
Alas poor Henk.
Team is friggin soft. It’s embarrassing and doesn’t represent NY. Again like Eric says: this team will never win the cup evah again. The Jets will win a SB before the Rangers win a cup. Yet I’ll keep rooting for them because I don’t know any other way. They’re like a bad girlfriend.
Stop. Just stop. You know Goddam well that all of you will be fawning all over them just as soon as they win two in a row. You can’t bear to trade any one of them, as they are too valuable, yet you run them all into the gutter as soon as they lose a game. Holy sheet! Make up your friggen minds! Chit or get off the pot! (and a nod to E3 there)
Thats it!! Trade everyone!! Get Sean Avery, Bran Bole and Norris Stralman back!!
On the other hand, still in that prime 4th spot….presumably that got mentioned in the first intermission which is why we looked like we were deliberately stinking it up after that?
Of course we fawn all over them when they win. We want to see them play well. We’re fans! This team is wildly inconsistent, however, and that is where our frustration lies. We’ve got some good players. No, we don’t want to trade them. These guys can do better. It seems like they lack heart. Maybe they’re giving their all, but sometimes it just doesn’t look like it. Tonight, in the first period, they looked like they could be Cup contenders. You can’t tell me they gave the same effort for the rest of the game. Inconsistent, say I !
I was standing on the edge of my toilet this morning, hanging a clock, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the sink, and when I came to I had a revelation! A vision! A picture in my head! A picture of this! I know how to solve the offsides review problem!
I leave my heart in the drawer when i bet, although its hard to bet against my team. Instead i bet on WAS/NYR over 4.5 goals and a Florida money line double. Double yer money winner there!!
Good morning, boneheads!
Injuries? I don’t think so. They dominated the first period, could’ve been 2, or even 3-0. And then they totally disappeared for two periods. A lot of passengers. I wonder if Eric called them during first intermission:”Are you guys nuts? Stay in 4th, dammit!” 🙂
4everfirst?
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4-1 caps no contest. Rangers again do nothing significant at the deadline except giving up more assets. I guess I’m stating the obvious.
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4-1 loss book it.
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Is it fair to say that this game means very little for both team, except for show off?
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NOT a MUST win game for sure, but should try to avoid an embarrassment of any kind…Show us some dignity, for rotten teeth of Trout sake…
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Good evening all! LGR!!!!!!!
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I think it will be a show case for Hank (and a tough one). Who want to bet, that Shut and kirk will score tonight?
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Mama!!!
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4ever!!!!!
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Mama!
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Boy I miss home when the boys play MSG and they show shots of the city…..don’t even think about it except then….
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Headzo!!!!!
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LGR !!!
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I miss it too…ready to go crash at my brother’s place one of these days!
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Screw Oshie !
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Where you now shorts? 😜
And what are the thoughts on Smith here? I’m catching up….
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Kinda bummed Kirkenshatt went to DC but hopefully they’ll be ousted in Round 1 & he then signs with NYR in the offseason.
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Mama – re: NYC – agreed & it makes me miss it sometimes, but it was 80 today in the big D!
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lgr
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We scored first! We scored FIRST!!!!
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Shea Hey!!! LGR!!!
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Our Skjei is > than their Sat and kick..
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Yeah, Headzo, I hear ya….I wore a sundress for the second time this week….
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LGR! Smith lives!
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Mama…grrrrrrrr!
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FIRE SATHER!
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Hope I’m wrong but I think Kreider got hurt along the boards.
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Jambalaya !
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Skjei hey!
When I said Disneyland a few posts ago, I pretty much meant it!
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How many silly mistakes you are making? Can’t waist the opportunity so easy when you play good team
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Time for a PP goal…
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Hate to say I told you so, kreider hurt.
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Pp is a horror show
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Eric! Olga!
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Mama! How you be?
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Except for admittedly poor play in PP, I like what I see in 1st from Rangers.
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Kreider is not playing?
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Exactly 1st period game 9 days ago vs caps. Should be 3-0. We got through last Sunday not tonight.
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Well, they did hit two posts on the PP. I’d say they were trying…
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Kreider is hurt, got hurt along the boards earlier in the period.
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C3! He gots hurt….went off…
Olga, same …. Perturbed!!!
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Tried to skate, went to room.
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Rangers getting knocked around pretty regularly.
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Carp!
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wow!! rangers injuries starting to pile up again. Team can’t stay healthy.
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I got the end of season upper body injury blues….
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Did youse see what happened in Philly? Simmonds had two goals then appeared to deflect his third. All those greasy, grimy hats came down onto the ice, and the goal was credited to Voracek. PA guy thanked everybody for the hats.
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I’m at the Panthers game watching the Rangers game on the NBC app. Lol
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Mama!
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Rangers look totally intimidated (s)
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Ready for the shootout, Ev?
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Wilson kill someone by end tonight.
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Oduya and his beard back to Chicago, Olga.
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They started it after the anthem.
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Holy hartnell, I’m gonna shove a sleeve of hash browns in his face if I ever get the chance
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Again with late period chinese fireplace.
On the Posy posy side, they didn’t give one up late.
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Mark Twain = Samuel Clemens = Beast
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does anyone miss the muzzlim tonight is nash playing
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Jagr. Pp goal.
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JR said the caps had plane legs. Is that anything like the jimmy leg?
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For real, Carp? You have a reputation now, you know…
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Second period start yet?
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Trochek. 2-0
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Ovi wearing the green shade.
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It looks almost as if the Caps are trying to set up Ovi on this PP.
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Ovechkin sure ain’t no Pirri.
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Even Staal’s retaliation is via shuffleboard.
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MIracle Met brought down twice…no calls
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Shattenkirk. The Captain’s log?
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Ha! Good one….
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For real, Olga
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Why is Miller heading back to Dzone as Caps bring puck up?
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Valiquette waxing poetic about Smith. Wonder how many Detroit games he watches. My guess few or none.
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Another penalty not called
WTF?
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Unreal no-call there.
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Now the Hawks just need Sharp back…
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Nash – Step – Fast : the checking line
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Tom Wilson, is that the creole chef, Carp? Or is that Justin Williams?
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Staal Crosschecked by the Great Ape
Miracle MEt tripped
Henk run into to
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no calls. Even the refs don’t want to see the PP
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Coos….no carcillo…..
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Step, Staal with A’s. Why?
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According to Sam the Rangers are “taking exception” to all of the cheap shots. Maybe after the game the team can write a letter to the Caps letting them know how upset they are with them and have Rammer take it over to the visitors locker room
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This year the refs have been much better against the rangers but there pissing me off tonight.
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Instigator?
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Been waiting for this fuglyness…..
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Learn more and more about Clendening with every game..tonight for instance- clearly he cannot and should not fight. got it. check. moving right along
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Either one of the teams or neither is going to get a huge lift from the fisticuffs. Bathroom break.
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coos, those A’s stand for “alternate captain”. Glad to help.
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Fugg
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And fug…..
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Haze has to tie that man up
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I take exception to that goal
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Holden sleeps through the rebound.
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Plenty of time.
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Can’t be more juicer from Hank…
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Holden had the best seat in the house for that goal.
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just like the previous game. great first period then just send the Caps a written invitation to get back into the game. which they do with pleasure.
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It’s easy to score when you ha e the slot all to yourself. Hayes’ man?
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Have NYR had hte puck yet this period?
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Winnik is as close to todays goon as you can get. he is a fighter, don’t understand what Miracle Met was thinking.
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Tin Pan Alley
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imagine the plays that could happen if any of Grabner’s teammates could keep up with him?
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Justin Wilson: “how much hottah? Bout foah miles hottah.”
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they have, SN. I saw it clear as day. it was right there in the back of their net
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Not leading by more then a goal and pp 0-2 the story after 1
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Glad to see THE is back playing.
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Tom Wilson must think he died and went to heaven playing with Ovechkin
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Our D corps is ill-trained.
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For every Winnik there is some Colton Orr, somewhere…but not in the Rangers roster…Sigh.
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James, I think one reason for Haze centering Grabner is to force #13 to speed it up.
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“I garontee that’s gonna be hot enough foa’ you”
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VC?
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WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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Grabbr!!
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Hot Diggety
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Graba daba doo!
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Yippee!!!! Jambayahtzee!
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Rangers were offside three minutes earlier. Will come back.
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Holtby should have flung his helmet off
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2-1! Grabner that bounce!
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NYR playing with some passion after that fight much to Norm’s chagrin.
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i’m really growing tired of these coaches challenges. highlight of the ‘new nhl’
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Refs suck tonight so not expecting much on challenge
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I was actually joking. Honest to God, this rule can’t go away fast enough.
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I’m goddamned fed up with this off-sides bullcheet! Fed up!
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Ed Asner with the challenge.
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SN, Caps got the goal immediately after the fight, so they must have gotten the lift. Grrr.
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Why don’t they just have an off-ice official at the arena looking at this
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The way things are going tonight this will probably come back as no goal.
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Can’t stand this…..
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This kid, Kampfer…I like him so far. Very descent and cool play…
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Just watching them take the body Norm. The goal was a bad Haze back check.
Meaning everyone taking the body from Fast to Zucc to Staal.
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Once again, had NOTHING to do with the goal being scored. Nothing.
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Micheletti: “They put the rule in for the right reason.” What a nitwit tool bozo chump.
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Mama, that’s a beaut !
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Figgers
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Mother hartneller!!!!!
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Bet Toronto made that call
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Utter nonsense. Makes the NHL look even more like the Mickey Mouse league it already id.
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Norm – I know you hate physical play, it is part of the game, sorry…
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is.
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That’s it. I’m turning on Impractical Jokers.
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This IS travesty!!! No other words to describe that BS.
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well that sucks
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now give up a softee because everyones legs are cold after the 45 mins review
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😜 see…..just covering all the bases….
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Worst rule in all of sports.
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Bettman should be impeached with that offside bullschist 10minute delay of game
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Micheletti is a Bettman schill
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Buttman should have been impeached along time ago.
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We’re still not at the NFL-level of review, but there’s still time for the NHL to get this right: Take off-sides out of the reviewable items in a coach’s challenge. It’s embarrassing. I’m surprised the Officials union isn’t all over it – it makes the linesmen look bad on a nightly basis.
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I think the ONLY challenge could be if there is a suspicion on goalie interference, which is legit “causus quo”, not what happened (or not) 20 minutes ago on the blue line under microscope; and has absolutely no relation and relevance to the scored goal. Apotheosis of idiotic…
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Buttman’s next decree will be that any State that doesn’t allow Bullwinkle the Moose into any bathroom he wants will not get an NHL franchise.
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Trying to imagine who in Toronto is sitting around giggling in satisfaction at the improvement to the game their clerk-y little delayed offside has brought. Every time a goal is scored now, the scoreboard should light up with an all-caps NERD ALERT.
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Where has this Kampfer been hiding? A Trailer Park?
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We are a different team without Zib
And by different I mean slightly worse
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Lmao olga
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Micheletti sprays his head with black aerosol outdoor furniture paint. I have kept this fact quiet long enough.
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Offside?
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Was that offside?
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Double stuff fug
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The Miracle Met with the error
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Everyone was mesmerized by smooth skating?
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OMG!!! Miracle Met with the swing and a miss and the rest of the rangers acted like the puck was a live grenade, my goodness.
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Still plenty of time.
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what happened to Mika?
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You know, if you challenge a goal you get a longer timeout than if you call a timeout.
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can the rangers hit the net, jeez.
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olga – very true, particularly if its close
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Mika, upper body injury…
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Gerund lost his ing there.
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Lucky it’s not 4-1
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fuggin shooting gallery
sloppy seconds rewind
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Not much fight in this Rangers team right now. Caps playing w/ a bit of a playoff style tempo. Good night grandpa. Good night John boy!
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That was a great first period
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Miak – 1st period injury or didn’t suit up?
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LOL Staal, our star Dman spends his time not aggravating and frustrating Ovi, but rather taking a beating from him.
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Micheletti wears Gary Bettman’s women underwear.
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Another wonderful 2nd period ends… smh
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Warmed up pre-game but didn’t play
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When the Rangers win this game, PapaJohns is paying for about four of you to go to therapy
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So maybe in the third, if Gerund attacks another Cap’s fist with his jaw he can give his team a lift?
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SN, got hurt in the last game the rangers played.
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Didn’t suit up, sn. Injured last game from a blocked shot.
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Thanks to Gary Butthead for the offsides rule —
Not only does reversing a huge goal kill momentum, but the 10 minutes of iPad review kills any possibility of regaining composure.
Bettman is worse than Drumpf
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Trautwig said that Kempfer has an unbelievable Stanley cup story to tell! Can’t wait to hear a story that was already told by Micheletti earlier in the game!
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Buttman turned the NHL into a glorified WWE a long time ago.
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This group has no chance in the playoffs oh wait Brendan Smith is coming.
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The offsides rule — “let’s make sure we get it RIGHT, even if the offside HAS NO REAL BEARING ON THE PLAY AS IT UNFOLDS.”
NHL logic SUCKS
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Al Troutface is a total moron!!
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Admiral! You disparage the commander in chief? Turn in your aircraft carrier!
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And I even shut off Maloney — kissing the Craps’ ass — not that impressed with the Craps. They will choke at some point during the playoffs.
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When the rangers win there are seven posters. When they’re losing, eleven
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Here comes Trump… nope, offside.
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Akbar, it had everything to do with the play. It’s a black and white rule. I don’t know why do many people can’t understand that.
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It appears to me the rangers have had troubles in the 2nd period all year long.
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If trump blocked all NHL immigrants, the rangers would be the only team left standing
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Norm – team was outhit and didn’t have the puck. Down by one goal is a testament to Henk. Been totally outplayed. Eventually you need to decide if you are going to be the bug or the windshield.
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Kampfer to Troutwig: “You gotta put your best foot forward.” Gees, we got ourselves ANOTHER Rhodes Scholar.
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Not in the first third or so of the season, Tommy. It used to be their best.
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Hartnelling Hartnell…..
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Did you guys see that awkward hand shake between Kempfer and Trautface? LOL…Kempfer squeezed Al’s hand so hard Al was rubbing it after lol
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I understand our coach has won a lot of games,but not having an answer to the physical play of Wilson is embarrassing. Kind of miss then day when torts could put out a couple of players who could win fights.
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This game is driving me to drink!
I love it!
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I hate the wussiness of this team. The Panthers were like that most of the season too but somehow they all finally got on the same page.
Most of these guys have been playing with each other for a while now. You’d think they’d give a crap about their teammates by now. Smh
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Evrock:
It LITTLE to nothing to do with the play.
It’s a bullsht rule. Let’s review the past 30-45 seconds or more of tape to see if there was a skate blade ahead of the puck.
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This game is right on point, had caps winning 4-2 on a empty net goal. I rather see the rangers stay right where they are, in the 7th seed. Lets pray they don’t lose to many games in a row or they could be fighting for the 7th and 8th seed.
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My ex-wife drove me to excessive drink. I never really got the chance to thank her.
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They miss calls all game long. Why does a missed offsides cancel a goal? Just play on…
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I told my ex-wife “You’re driving me to my grave!” She had the car out in two minutes…
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The Rangers must fight them in the d-zone, in center ice… they shall go on to the end. They shall fight in France, they shall fight on the seas and oceans, they shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, they shall defend their end, whatever the cost may be. They shall fight on the beaches, they shall fight all the way to the penalty box, they shall fight in the fields and in the streets, they shall fight in the hills; they shall never surrender.
Or they could try outscoring them.
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Av listed as 5’10, 195. Small, weak, not completely there mentally. Not my business, just stating.
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They wouldn’t be in the zone to even score a goal if that offsides is called correctly in the first place, Akbar. How does that not affect the play?
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The handshake
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So, which team comes out for the third? A totally different one than the first two?
Let’s Go stRangers…
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Whole new crowd at MSG lately. The old crowd would not let management get away with girly girl hockey.
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….and then depression set in…..
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Kampfer.
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nice tip
team just doesn’t have the puck. Hard to score playign D all night
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Marcus Johannson for the Caps.
Marcus Absent for the Rangers.
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Goodnight. 1-0
After 1st
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And another. At least I don’t have to go home and watch this game after the panther game. Smh
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New crowd doesn’t look up from their cell phones enough to notice, Coos
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Butch Cassidy coachign the Bruins?
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KOA Kampfers
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Why, evrock, is offside not reviewable regardless of whether there’s a goal scored? You’re offside and you then wear down your opponent for a while, to your advantage–why shouldn’t a coach be able to ask for that time back, to recover? It was offside, black-and-white, and an outrage that play was allowed to continue. Come to think of it, why isn’t the clock set back to when the offside was called, on a wiped-out goal? This rule is as black-and-white as gray underwear.
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KMart underwear the best, definitely.
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Yet another game against top team and yet another disappearing performance by Zucc.
Some things just stay consistent.
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The clock is reset, Akbar.
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Shut up c3po. That’s my boy!
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I’m going to have to put the phone down amd actually pay attention to the Panthers game, the way the Rangers game is going. At least I’ll save battery life.
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Rangers are bad again? I wish you guys would make up your minds.
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Ah, well, they have that right, then. What about the offsides that are not reviewable?
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I had to put my phone down. It broke it’s leg…
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Love watching this game on NBCSN. So #blessed to be able to listen to Joe Beninati call the Caps players by their first names and get super excited by every Washington dipsy doodle.
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Zucc is playing? Is Nash or Step??
Anybody?
Bueller?
Bueller??
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Here’s some physical stuff with the Rangers I absolutely object to, which is their forwards consistently pulling up on the rush when they have a step to the outside. They refuse to skate hard around the corner to get a shot, take a hit to make a play, or get hauled down for a penalty.
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But of course, that uncounted goal changed the whole further game canvas…deflated Rangers, encouraged Craps and this team know what and how to do rest.
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This team has been bad angle shot central lately. Wtf?
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If this is a tank job
tank you
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Ev rock:
It’s a ridiculous call. It’s ridiculous to review an offsides on a broken play. Goal was not scored off the rush. Therefore offsides does not have direct bearing on the play.
If we are going to get all offsides calls “right”, why don’t we review all penalties and all missed calls??? Why stop at offsides?
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That Scott Arniel guy…whats his job, anyway?
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These guys should be, but aren’t, embarrassed to play such dispirited hockey in front of the home crowd. Who will lead us? Huh? We need a trade desperately for a leader with a bit of an attitude.
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And by the way, its ADMIRAL to you, Evrockriser.
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Nash knocked down by 180 lb Backstrom – what a wuss
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No leaders needed. This team is a Cup contender
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Ovi left his feet on that boarding penal… never mind.
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But they still keep possession of the puck, Akbar. They wouldn’t have possession one that play unless they won the ensuing faceoff that’s now outside the zone.
I don’t necessarily agree with having that rule available but because it is, it’s a black and white rule.
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Pirri is amazingly useless!
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And to belabor the point:
By reversing a goal call and taking an unacceptable 10 minutes to do it, the team that gave up the goal now gets momentum whereas the team that scored the goal is punished.
Silly rule, imo.
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Ovi manhandling the Big Blue. Nobody cares.
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PIrri is struh-ga-ling.
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ovie can leave his feet every check …league aproved
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Pirri is not nearly as good at hockey as I would like him to be.
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Evrock –
No doubt it’s “black and white” — but it’s a needless rule, especially when the review is initiated by coaches rather than officials.
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Whatever….im switching this sh!t off… gonna go play with my daughter.
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My microwave broke and I didn’t even throw it
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Donuts leads by example. This group pays no attention. We need a nasty loudmouth.
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What in Holy Hell?
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Replay rule has done one thing positive. Creating jobs. Every team in NHL now has video techs rewinding and watching footage, fishing for a possible offside.
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What is the team’s record with Pirri and Pumps both in the lineup?
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What a display on the PP by Pirri. Hope it’s awhile before he is dressed again. The PP coach should be looking for employment. Pretty pathetic display by entire team tonight except Hank
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If they get this next goal, and two more, they could win this thing.
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If I’m an official, I perform spotlessly up until I’m about to retire, then I bet my pension and the ranch on one final game which I direct like Alfred Hitchcock from beginning to end.
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Puempel, Pirri, Kampfer…giving it their best, but not going to win a lot of games with these fellas.
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How many more PP we will waist?
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Gerund! Has a Grade B+ shot, and passes it to a guy behind the net.
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Ranger pp 3 for last 47…
…Yikes.
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Pick on someone your own size!
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5 Admiral, 5. (Mika’s called back, Miller’s 2 seconds late. Still sucks.)
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Maybe holtby should get a strap
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People paid money to watch this live
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PP is impossible to watch…
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Zoom pulling a kreider.
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Uncontested.
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henk is wasting a great game. Could be 12-1 if he doesn’t stop all these grade A chances.
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Ah yes – the Holtby hat
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If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren’t people from Holland called Holes?
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Predictable outcome. Lots of 4-1’s called, though. Caps need one more to beat the spread. Regardless, trade everyone, season over.
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I watch games like this one and wonder how we’ve ever scored a goal ever
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C3, shouldn’t she be asleep already? What is she, on Ukraine time?
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Let’s see, Step x 2, Kreider , Staal, Gerund, Fast, Nash, Hank have all been beaten up in some form or another tonight. Who am I missing ? Oh yeah they got to Mika before puck drop.
I sure do miss the days of some team toughness & physical accountability.
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Where is the Netherlands? And what about the Dutch?
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And when we do score, they’re disallowed.
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You said idt, HillBil
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Coos – who are the Dutch?
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This has been a highly unsatisfying evening…..
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Caps having fun laughing at this pathetic cotton candy team! A pool table has more balls!
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Sometimes I feel like an out of work porn star
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Ddn’t Michael Jackson own Nethernetherland?
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SEINFELD! FOUR!
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4-1 – there ya go
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Who will be first to do the math: the Rangers lost this game to the Caps, therefore they can not beat them in the playoffs. Or has it already happened?
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Filth in the Metro
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Hank was pissed at Shay.
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Not our night
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Norm – who knew your head was so big?
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Another great game….
Back to the Panthers and not losing Amy more charge on my phone with this drek.
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…and……yep, I think it’s safe to call it a night. Got an early alarm….sigh. Things better be different Thursday…..Niters all!
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If Smith was here, they lose this game 3-1
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Top wildcard here we come!
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I don’t know why anybody is surprised with this outcome. Caps are a top contending team, rangers are not a top contending team and will most likely not make it past the 1st round. I don’t care who they play.
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4-1 caps didn’t I say that already. Jeff Gorton SELL!
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One day left! Trade ’em all!
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Kirkenshatt not even needed in this game. Woof
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If they woulda fought, they woulda done won. Wussies.
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If Shattenkirk played for the rangers, the rangers would still lose this game.
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Booed off their own ice by a bunch of Wall Streeters with seats on the arm. Hang down de head, mon.
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Bogus.
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Doesn’t matter anyway. Even if the Rangers beat everyone in the East, The Black Hawks would beat them in 6.
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No reason trade picks for rentals. We’re never winning. Shattenkirk can’t save this pp. nothing could.
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Go Panthers!
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Did jester fast come back to the bench? Did that mean brady skej have 2 goals? Had to find some humor in this game
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eric, rangers traded picks for smith who has a bad knee.
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A good 20 minutes, a GOOD 20 minutes!
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Not your night kid, we’re going for the price on Wilson.
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Another first round exit coming.
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When we get to the playoffs, we will be berated and beaten up more than ever and the zebras will say, ‘let ’em play.’
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They coulda been SOMEbody, instead of a bunch o’ bums, which is what they are, let’s face it.
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Eric pessimistic after a loss disappears after a win
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It was you, Normie.
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I do agree the refs let the caps get a way with a lot of penalties and dirty play. I haven’t complained this year about the refs like in years past but tonight was a blast in the past with these refs tonight. To say the refs had a one way eye on the game tonight is a understatement.
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Tomorrow, for a month, I become O’cooscoos. Set ’em up, I’ll be knockin’ ’em down.”
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If I was Lundqvist I’d go on strike until the team decides to put in as much effort as he does. 20 minutes of hockey and 40 minutes of crap doesn’t make it against the Caps or anyone else. What does it take to get a complete effort? Not talking about a win- just a “work like a dog” effort for an entire game.
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Nitwit Valiquette says we win if the offside goal is allowed.
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Predict a giant wedgie tonight
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Valiquette pretty vocal tonight on officiating
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Looking like ot in South Florida.
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The window has closed on Lundqvist he will never win a cup. Time to regroup for next year trade Nash, Stepan, and Zucc this team is going home after round 1. Doesn’t matter what they do tomorrow.
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John O’Grodnick
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AV: ‘I thought we had some looks.’
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Atta boy, Pete
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Micheletti on the defeat: “Sometimes around the trade deadline, you lose your focus a little bit…” Gees, pity the fool.
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At least I didn’t have to watch Drumpf.
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“Maria…did those size 42 jockey shorts come in today while I was out?”
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I shoulda taken care-a you, coos, just a liddle bit. Makin’ you take them dives, none-a them called.
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St. Pete, I had my money elsewhere, but you win the prize. It’s over, it’s over, it’s o-o-o-o-ver!
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‘You know this city’s full of hawks? That’s a fact. They hang around on the top of the big hotels. And they spot a pigeon in the park. Right down on him.’
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Carp, good call. It’s another shootout!
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I am so dog-tired of our guys with letters on their sweaters mumble their way through the same after-game lame excuses for unspirited play.
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Somebody tell doodie or whoever writes the next post to ask who’s coming to the game down here in South Florida next week. And to somehow contact me.
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Step needs to get off of the PP, let alone the team.
Sell! Sell! This team has no soul
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Fast looked like a shoulder or collarbone. Didn’t look good.
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both skates off the ice for OV. Refs lost the pea in the whistle.
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‘no soul’ is the phrase. Like a Christmas tree from Home Depot.
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If Fast is dinged, that’s a bunch of soul lost right there.
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I’m sure they will win a few more games before the seasons end but really do you think it will make any difference? Rangers display the on the ice the personality of their coach! “I thought we had a few good looks” Really!
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Just catching up…lol, you guys kill me.
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I couldn’t figure out what that high pitched whine was during any sort of physicality on the ice, then I realized it was Norm.
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Carp kills me with the run out of the building comment…usually when he posts it, it means the rangers actually ARE being physically dominated.
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Good thing there’s time to make deals tomorrow, might not have enough healthy bodies
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How did stepan not get sent to the quiet room after that? Would not be shocked in the least to see him miss time with concussion like symptoms in the future like staal did.
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Lastly, hilarious watching 2 non fighters fight…winnick and clendening get an “A” for effort.
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I don’t get the wedgie joke…someone enlighten me
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As we all know the Stanley Cup is hardest trophy to win in sports. Practically impossible to win the cup with below average special teams. Absolutely need to be able to make teams pay for their penalties with the PP and you must be able to bail out your team with the PK. For years now, Rangers PP has been awful, so teams take liberties against them with no fear of paying for it. PK is better than PP, but has been very inconsistent. Unless PP is fixed very soon, there is no reason to believe they could be legitimate contenders.
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I wish I were a big, tough manly man like you, Wicky. Alas, I am but a little, whiny wuss. Even my wimpy fingers are having a hard time manning up.
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The meltdown after the disallowed goal was really disturbing. Honestly rather give Steps A to The Machine for all the good he seems to do as a team leader. Just bring Avery back and give him the C and you’ll see some fire under their asses. There is just so little edge to their game.
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Norm
You sir are a riot
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Interesting how Connolly has the audacity to run Henk with no fear of reprisal. Not exactly a bruiser. Team is softer than a mashed potato sandwich. They only one to jump on him was a player in his 1st game. McD or Staal would have gave him a mean stare down.
Alas poor Henk.
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They are soft, that’s for sure.
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Wick, Bazooka Joe is always, or often, reaching back to make an adjustment during his pressers. Especially when they get run out of the building 🙂
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Team is friggin soft. It’s embarrassing and doesn’t represent NY. Again like Eric says: this team will never win the cup evah again. The Jets will win a SB before the Rangers win a cup. Yet I’ll keep rooting for them because I don’t know any other way. They’re like a bad girlfriend.
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Runaround Sue.
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Carp
Thanks
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Stop. Just stop. You know Goddam well that all of you will be fawning all over them just as soon as they win two in a row. You can’t bear to trade any one of them, as they are too valuable, yet you run them all into the gutter as soon as they lose a game. Holy sheet! Make up your friggen minds! Chit or get off the pot! (and a nod to E3 there)
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St Pete and Eric – i hope you put some money on that prediction?
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Thats it!! Trade everyone!! Get Sean Avery, Bran Bole and Norris Stralman back!!
On the other hand, still in that prime 4th spot….presumably that got mentioned in the first intermission which is why we looked like we were deliberately stinking it up after that?
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Of course we fawn all over them when they win. We want to see them play well. We’re fans! This team is wildly inconsistent, however, and that is where our frustration lies. We’ve got some good players. No, we don’t want to trade them. These guys can do better. It seems like they lack heart. Maybe they’re giving their all, but sometimes it just doesn’t look like it. Tonight, in the first period, they looked like they could be Cup contenders. You can’t tell me they gave the same effort for the rest of the game. Inconsistent, say I !
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Dan Girardi has a deep ankle gash…..which , if he were a normal human being would mean his foot was literally hanging on by a single tendon
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I didn’t UK I’m a Ranger fan. I always hope for the best , but expect the worst!
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I was standing on the edge of my toilet this morning, hanging a clock, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the sink, and when I came to I had a revelation! A vision! A picture in my head! A picture of this! I know how to solve the offsides review problem!
STAY ONSIDES!
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I leave my heart in the drawer when i bet, although its hard to bet against my team. Instead i bet on WAS/NYR over 4.5 goals and a Florida money line double. Double yer money winner there!!
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Good morning, boneheads!
Injuries? I don’t think so. They dominated the first period, could’ve been 2, or even 3-0. And then they totally disappeared for two periods. A lot of passengers. I wonder if Eric called them during first intermission:”Are you guys nuts? Stay in 4th, dammit!” 🙂
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Eric was too busy yelling at his neighbor’s kids for knocking over his garden gnomes
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Footage of Eric
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Are we trading everyone? everyone??
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Seriously. What do we want?
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Where’s the new post?! I’m sitting here in my fuzzy pink slippers, hair in curlers, coffee going…new post?
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Anyone got the tsn link to coverage today. Sportsnet is terrible on nhl network.
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NEW POST PLEASE – TRADE DEADLINE DAY!
Where is the admin of this QAV?
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Can’t do it without Doodie’s permission, SN.
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Get Franson if price is not too high. Slots into PP QB and RD1 (in name only)
McD – Franson
Staall – Smith
Shea – Klein/Girardi/Clendening
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C3P and E3 have admin rights
get a new post or somebody wake up Doodie – he may be shook up by this article of his profession
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-28/jpmorgan-marshals-an-army-of-developers-to-automate-high-finance
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Mika’s upper body was his hand. Was in a splint pre game.
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Go big or go home.
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I have the rights, too, SN. I think Doodie may have something scheduled.
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I’m hoping for hockey trades today. No draft pick crap. Player for player.
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they were talking about franson on mtl radio yesterday and no one wanted him, said his foot quickness was lacking
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Ok, I took it upon myself. this one was getting too long. Sorry, Doodie
NEW POST
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Either way, I have no interest in franson
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