Norm, the letter of the law is the officials “saw” a high-stick and called that…AFTER discussing it. The only new info they received after the call was ALREADY MADE was the crowd’s reaction, the offending team’s coach’s explanation and the video. None of which is evidence that can be used to reverse that call! And the missed call right before it is just evidence of preferential treatment.
What are you having trouble understanding here?
EVR, you’re making my point for me. The letter of the law comes a distant second behind getting the call right. I’d like them to drop review altogether, other than goal line stuff (easily solved problem, see soccer “goal line technology”.) But I have no problem with refs making a call based on what the entire crowd can see/has seen, if that’s what happened in this case.
I was in the middle of formulating a message about the usual members of the 3rd line having a grand total of 2 assists in the past 5 games when Millz scored.
Grabner is back to the player he was when he was on the islanders. I remember him getting at least 1 break away a game and couldn’t finish to save his life, the Cinderella slippers are off.
There was a time when Lundqvist would have made that save, those were the days, now just a average goalie. Ranger fans got spoiled when it came to Lundqvist, unfortunately those days are over.
I love when they put the puck in the o-zone and glide in…. what a forecheck! If that’s by design, it’s just genius. It’s like pfffft…no tic-tac-toe option available on this rush? I’ll just shoot it in and make a half ass attempt to retrieve it or just glide to the bench!
EVR, thank you you for clarifying what I meant, that the fans should be the refs. I was so close to understanding what I was writing until you made my thoughts clear to me. Of course, there’s the piddling little matter that they got the call right…
Montreal, Ottawa, Colorado. It doesn’t matter who we play in the first round. The Rangers will be working on their golf game around the same time they did last year.
Nah ah, Eveockriser! Nah ah! You’ll see! We’ll rub our magic crystals and turn it on in the playoffs! We’re so good- you just need to have faith! Yep- that’s it! Otherwise you’re a fairweather fan. Don’t be objective and call it like you see it… that’s just silly!
At least they’ll get a decent draft pick. I hate when they make the playoffs and just get trampled on. I’d almost rather they didn’t make them in that case.
Psst, Evr: I don’t need your help. We disagree about the strength of the letter of the law, is all. I’m in the discretionary school formed by former NHL refereeing great, Ralph Waldo Emerson, that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Losing games like that usually comes to the 2 basic things – it is just inability to move puck quickly and safely out of own zone and lack of creative way of offence.
House of cards…. that’s what this team is. Absolutely baffled how they’re 20 over .500. And it’s NOT going to get better in the playoffs. But hey….. give me crap bc I’m critical of this awesome team that can’t even be bothered to compete, or for that matter…complete a freaking pass.
Baffling indeed. Winning games by accident all year long. Something to do with scoring more goals than the other team more often than not, can’t quite put my finger on it. But, yes, the true measure of a team is how well they perform in meaningless games.
Here goes Norm again with the meaningless games excuse….. Let’s talk again the playoffs because I have a funny feeling they’ll still be in “meaningless” mode… only those games count. Hey, come to think of it, we still haven’t clinched a playoff spot….
This team is pathetic. Norm, off you think this team is going to suddenly turn it on in the playoffs, prepare to feel incredibly wrong and ready for the “I told ya so’s”.
Man, I have no idea what the Rangers can possibly draw upon when the postseason begins. Not nearly enough guys on the roster who know what it takes to go on a playoff run. If only they had some experience!
There it is, the number one reason to root for the Rangers, loud and clear. Make enough gloomy predictions to be able to say “I told you so” if they fail. If they do well, everybody’s happy. All bases covered. Me, I say: Let’s Go, Rangers!
Are they capable of turn tide in 3rd? Doubt it, unless they will have some “Grey Goose” shots in the intermission and call Torts for motivational locker-room speech.
Why do we watch? Because we’re fans of the franchise….. I’ve been a fan since I could walk. But this team is trash. Their record is a mirage and when the men are seperated from the boys in the playoffs, we’ll be sent home packing real fast. I’m sorry but this team does not inspire confidence. The bottom line is, they won a lot of games they didn’t deserve, and when you have to fight for every inch of ice in the playoffs… pure luck doesn’t advance round after round. You get exposed.
Craig, I mostly agree with you. But unlike last year they actually deserved to win the majority of the games they’ve won this season. I just don’t know what happened to that team.
Btw, we haven’t beaten a playoff team that wasn’t already slumping, in about a month. Now we’re having trouble with the slumping ones. There’s nowhere to go but up.
I think the Rangers have a good shot, not a great one, but a good one. Lundqvist has five games to chip off the rust, the rest of the roster is relatively healthy, there’s some competition for the last couple of spots, and it’s time for them to gradually ramp it up, see what they’ve got going in. But these are exhibition games, and they’ve earned the right to treat them that way. Stay healthy!
In 2007/8, I did not watch the first playoff game against Tampa Bay as I went snowboarding, convinced the Giant’s were so mediocre late that season that it would be an awful game/waste of time and a miracle if they won it. Needless to say, they pulled out a efw more miracles that winter.
The Rangers may or may not hold on here, but this game is not the best example you might to pick to show that they have no chance in the playoffs. And the best away record didn’t happen by accident.
What the Heck was that clusterfudge one the offensive zone just now? At least fast didn’t lose the puck while he was consulting god on what he should do with it.
Good morning Boneheads! Just woke and checked the score another loss imagine that. Hank rounding into form. I know it’s not his fault, never is. But without him being Great this bunch has no chance. My question, will the NYR win another game this year with Lundqvist in net?
West Coast games = 3:30am puck drop here so no chance of watching that one!
From what the highlights show could easily have gone the other way but for a post.
My one and only observation would be to get Coach Orion and the Ducks teach the Rangers how to pick up the trash – most of these recent goals are coming from 2nd/3rd shots and rebounds – and generally players not picking up their men around the net or moving their feet enough once they get into a defensive position.
The enjoyment of reading the go time comments is gone. It has been hi jacked by one or two people who have nothing but hatred towards the Rangers. Norm and Olga are there trying to fight the good fight, but they seem to be out numbered.
hey gloom and doomers…in the playoffs in a good spot something we did not have last year… Hank just needs to get a few more games to get up to speed and a few guys especially McD should get a game or 2 off down the stretch.
At this point if we are going to leave a defenseman unprotected in the expansion draft I say it should be Holden. Klein has had a rough year but he’s been banged up for most of it. He’s been valuable in the three prior seasons he’s been here. Holden had one solid stretch and has had a lot of ugly out there. Not too big a difference in age. Not losing anything that can’t be replaced. Nothing good anyhow.
Good morning, boneheads!
BDL, I still enjoy reading it. It’s entertaining.
Carp used to spend a lot of energy trying to fight. So did I. It made no difference.
Didn’t everyone also freak out when Lundqvist came back after that vascular injury to his neck because he got shelled in Boston and then wasn’t as sharp as Talbot over the next couple of games? And then he found his game and everyone calmed down (really, they just moved on to the next problem)..You’d think at least some of those fans learned from that situation. The pessimism is really getting to be unlikable.
in the grand scheme of things I’ll reiterate my long term problem with this organization: Way too much time over the last two seasons talking about how they need to play a full 60 minutes. They know they have to be better, they know it needs to change, theyre pissed off about their effort, they’re not sure why it happens but it needs to get fixed. And yet it’s still one of the biggest problems to date. Maybe it’s time to find out who or what is responsible for this issue and attempt to correct it?
“I’m a big believer in playing the right way and for two periods we didn’t play the right way. We kind of got dominated,” Derek Stepan said
Agree perspective is needed but Step would be a Negative Nancy with his comment. What no Step comments on ‘playing the right way?’
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Some are more emotionally attached to the winning and losing of every game, some can see a bigger picture. Some just quit on them and root for another team (cough, cough)
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one cup in 77 seasons will drive some crazy…
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Just happy they stayed in 1st WC for POs. Got Pumps a game, kicked JT in the arse, exposed Holden as the real 7th D and created more Henk Angst.
I’ll be Mr. Sunshine when they show up for 60 minutes which they haven’t done in about a month. They had about 15 minutes of good hockey last night at the beginning of the third period. Just enough to rob an hour of sleep from me. Other than that it was another no show. JT got two but did watch Tierney get the third Shark goal. Sjkei is as good as Yandle right now and has the size and willingness to become a better defender. Keep those first rounders. Holden was awful, but, the call on him in OT was sketchy. If you put your stick in somebody’s stomach you shouldn’t get a call. Hank brought his B game. Let’s hope he finds his A game. IF he doesn’t does Raanta get a playoff start? Quenville did it with Crawford last year.
I am looking forward to Friday night I hate the pens. Rangers will rise to the occasion in spite of all the lackluster play of late! I’m believing they will break the home game losing streak. Go Rangers!
Last season 9-10 in March and April; This season 6-8 with 5 games left.
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Pens beat Bolts 2-1 in Game 7 of ECF so the spin of ‘losing to SC champ’ is a helpful yet tenuous claim.
I think if they’ve got any sense LV will stay well away from Holden or Klein and will probably steal one of Grabner, Jesper Fast or Oscar Lindberg. Lindberg would be my choice, he could easily move up the 2nd line (and possibly end up with Hagelin on his wing) – or Auntie if they’re not able to take someone like Malcolm Subban, Grubauer or Korpisalo
These games have not mattered, except for the 13- and 7-spot tryouts, for a month. They’re beginning to matter as they ramp up, but any team that tries to play 3-period hockey for 82 games, especially when they’re locked into a playoff spot early, is an idiot.
The reality is the Rangers have had nothing to play for, for close to a month. They are going to be the first wild card, and many of the teams they have been playing have had more to play for. I know that’s an excuse for the way they have been playing, but it also the truth.
Just a thought, if they are not going to put forth the effort as good entertainers do just because there is nothing to play for. Than may they should reduce ticket prices since we are not getting the best show possible!
As far as the hand-wringing Go Time comments are concerned, it’s just a way for folks to get through a game they care about. We all do it; it’s only a question of degree. And it is entertaining, especially the Rangers as a gaggle of eunuchs who can’t pass, shoot, forecheck, backcheck, goaltend–see, RIGHT THERE, Stepan can’t hit a barn door (later he scores a beauty), Grabner just showed you with that miss that the Rangers, just stating facts, are one-and-done, season already over, franchise over, city over, country over, world over. I told you so!! Where is everyone…?
Rangers Report 2.0 
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Atta boy, Eddie!
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I just smacked sharkie in the face.
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what’s the over/under on how many goals the sharks score tonight?
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Rangers 5
Sharks 0
GWG JT Milluh
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He’s going to have to do it while playing in the 4th line, e3
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Hopefully E3 will be the only one in a rangers jersey stinking up the joint.
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Sharks are dangerous team after all those embarrassing loses, playing in front of home crowd. It should be game of wills
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Holy Smokes!!! Wild comeback from 3-0 against the craps, tie game a minute left, 4-4.
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well!!! now there reviewing goal, possible offsides. This review stuff is starting to get ridiculous.
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What’s deal with Klein – opened old wounds , or he sucked last game in the eyes of AV?
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LGR !!!
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LGR!
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Good start.
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It’s almost as if Holden has been bad at hockey his entire career except for a couple of months.
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Butterflies and rainbows and cotton candy! This team is great!
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Salmonjoe thought we should’ve scored first…
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We suck again!
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Sharks looks 2 x quicker then our sleepy guys so far…
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There were plenty of observers on that shift, Doodie
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🎼🎼🎼When your scoring’s down…. and you’ve lost some games…. who ya gonna call?! Slump-busters! 🎼🎼🎼🎼
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Norm, the letter of the law is the officials “saw” a high-stick and called that…AFTER discussing it. The only new info they received after the call was ALREADY MADE was the crowd’s reaction, the offending team’s coach’s explanation and the video. None of which is evidence that can be used to reverse that call! And the missed call right before it is just evidence of preferential treatment.
What are you having trouble understanding here?
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That’s awesome, Craig.
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Took them 5 minutes to wake. Rammer needs to schedule their pregame meals better.
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I think Stepan’s shooting percentage on scoring chances is .004.
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EVR, you’re making my point for me. The letter of the law comes a distant second behind getting the call right. I’d like them to drop review altogether, other than goal line stuff (easily solved problem, see soccer “goal line technology”.) But I have no problem with refs making a call based on what the entire crowd can see/has seen, if that’s what happened in this case.
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Pimple instead Buchnevich…? Improving, ever missing a net, but Stepan and slightly regressing Purple Haze – key players to success.
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I already read that, Norm. Scroll up for my response.
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JT!!!!
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Miller time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nice shot by JT MILLER!!!!!
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Plenty of Miller time.
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Millz!
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JT Jambalaya!
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Woohoo- 4th Liner from Palestine, Ohio!
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That was pretty
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Smith takes some dumb penalties.
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I was in the middle of formulating a message about the usual members of the 3rd line having a grand total of 2 assists in the past 5 games when Millz scored.
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Impeccable suit…
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Nightly pk gaffe?
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I saw your second, EVR, same response. As you may be able to tell, I’m not a letter-of-the-law guy. The laws weren’t written by God.
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Why is Michael “no hands” Grabner trying to make a move on the breakaway?! Nooooooo!
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Grabner is back to the player he was when he was on the islanders. I remember him getting at least 1 break away a game and couldn’t finish to save his life, the Cinderella slippers are off.
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Stepan’s net-missing power is contagious – Grabner caught it obviously recently…
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poor Grabner. He must have nightmares about Babcock’s comments.
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No problem then, Norm. We’ll just put zebra shirts on the refs and the other 18,000 or more wannabe referees and let everybody make the call.
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Since the rules don’t apply apparently then.
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pathetic, truly pathetic power play, god awful.
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Again and again shorthanded…
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Wow. 2 shorties in 2 games. Arniel is a genius.
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This PP sucks.
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🎼🎼🎼🎼When your beards are long, but you come up short… who ya gonna call? Slump-busters!🎼🎼🎼🎼
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C’mon man.
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E3 – what s croon has the best can?
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Lundqvist also obviously needs some more seasoning.
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Too late EV, he’s done
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Croon = section. Spell check man must have hung in humbolt county today
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I’m serious when I say this. The Rangers should only ice 4 players on the pp. They’ll do better.
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There was a time when Lundqvist would have made that save, those were the days, now just a average goalie. Ranger fans got spoiled when it came to Lundqvist, unfortunately those days are over.
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Unforgivable. How come that all other teams are more opportunistic and use every chance and Rangers are not with their “speed and skills”?
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Where’s Carp to tell us that none of this matters in the playoffs?
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That goal is on Hank.
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Playoffs!!!! Where talking about Playoffs!!!!????
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The rangers suck on the power play because their only asset is their speed and that’s forfeit one the pp.
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*on
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Between the rangers defense and a average Lundqvist the rangers are one and done in the playoffs, book it.
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I love when they put the puck in the o-zone and glide in…. what a forecheck! If that’s by design, it’s just genius. It’s like pfffft…no tic-tac-toe option available on this rush? I’ll just shoot it in and make a half ass attempt to retrieve it or just glide to the bench!
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godawful pathetic
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EVR, thank you you for clarifying what I meant, that the fans should be the refs. I was so close to understanding what I was writing until you made my thoughts clear to me. Of course, there’s the piddling little matter that they got the call right…
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Headzo – I’m wearing the diaper for this game. Already dropped a deuce.
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Hank is the best! Hank is the king! How could you question him? (S)
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Montreal, Ottawa, Colorado. It doesn’t matter who we play in the first round. The Rangers will be working on their golf game around the same time they did last year.
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Black Hawks – Rangers Finals. Hawks in 6.
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Norm, if that’s how you think, I can’t help you and nothing I say will change that. Even though there are rules for how things are done for a reason.
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Haze wants to play Denver
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Rangers out in first round. Price with 3 shutouts. Book it.
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You playing Nhl 17, Olga?
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Maybe the Rangers will get it right next year and play their worst in the beginning of the season.
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if that happen, they probably don’t make the playoffs.
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Nah ah, Eveockriser! Nah ah! You’ll see! We’ll rub our magic crystals and turn it on in the playoffs! We’re so good- you just need to have faith! Yep- that’s it! Otherwise you’re a fairweather fan. Don’t be objective and call it like you see it… that’s just silly!
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Didn’t they play like caca AV’s first and go to ECG.
The West Coast massacre if my fading mind is working
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At least they’ll get a decent draft pick. I hate when they make the playoffs and just get trampled on. I’d almost rather they didn’t make them in that case.
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ECF that is
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You guys are going to need a second team to root for in April. I suggest Chicago…
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Go St. Louis!
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Cubs?
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Psst, Evr: I don’t need your help. We disagree about the strength of the letter of the law, is all. I’m in the discretionary school formed by former NHL refereeing great, Ralph Waldo Emerson, that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Short rope in the playoffs for 30?
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4th line on fire 🔥 thanks to Pumps
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Norm like Trump feels he is above the law
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On the bright side, the Rangers haven’t lost this game yet.
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Finally, Red Wings’ playoff string ends at 25 seasons… I’m was getting pretty tired of seeing them contend year after year…
On and, PS, This Rangers team sux 🙂
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Easiest trivia question evah
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E3 – just one diaper?
How on holy hell did this team get so many points? Some times I feel like I’m watching the NY Avalanche
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PS – Gire Forton!
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Nash having a rare stinker
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Miller inspired
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Vesey demoted, but you won’t hear that on the broadcast
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Everybody having a common stinker.
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FIRE TORTS!
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They’re getting manhandled right now.
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Who makes more money this year: Logan Couture’s dentist or E3’s plumber?
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Is Kreider dressed tonight?
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You can tell Lundqvist is pissed. He’s playing the puck way more than usual. That only spells disaster for us though.
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that was an interesting pass by Kreider
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Headzo
Was that a trick question?
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If the Rangers are lucky they might get 1 more win this season with their schedule.
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Losing games like that usually comes to the 2 basic things – it is just inability to move puck quickly and safely out of own zone and lack of creative way of offence.
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I can totally see them lose every remaining game this month.
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House of cards…. that’s what this team is. Absolutely baffled how they’re 20 over .500. And it’s NOT going to get better in the playoffs. But hey….. give me crap bc I’m critical of this awesome team that can’t even be bothered to compete, or for that matter…complete a freaking pass.
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Brendan Smith got away with one.
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It’s a headzo-scratcher CCCP
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Who’s giving you crap, E3?
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The sharks are ridiculously energized tonight while the Rangers look like they can’t wait to get back to hotel porn.
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Remember when jumbo joe called us soft in 11′-12′? I’d gladly take those softies over this crap. You got it right Joe… you were just off by 5 years….
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Great pass by Zucc. Crap stick work by Stepan.
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Baffling indeed. Winning games by accident all year long. Something to do with scoring more goals than the other team more often than not, can’t quite put my finger on it. But, yes, the true measure of a team is how well they perform in meaningless games.
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I mean, its still only a one goal game…. still.
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One positive observation: they haven’t played their one good period yet amd there’s only one left after this one.
Although if they have…..Ugh
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Why Zuk passing to Step, knowing his shooting percentage? His chances just to throw it towards the net and score are much higher.
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Because playing like crap in meaningless games and losing is great for a professional athlete’s psyche.
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Here goes Norm again with the meaningless games excuse….. Let’s talk again the playoffs because I have a funny feeling they’ll still be in “meaningless” mode… only those games count. Hey, come to think of it, we still haven’t clinched a playoff spot….
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Yank Hank
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Plenty of time.
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JT with the classic drive by
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Panic, collapse, defensive chaos – description of Rangers playing in own zone…
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AV looks seriously pissed.
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I think this team needs a new gum.
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Seeing eye single?
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This team is pathetic. Norm, off you think this team is going to suddenly turn it on in the playoffs, prepare to feel incredibly wrong and ready for the “I told ya so’s”.
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*if
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Olga I’m convinced you play “Winning” before every game!
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“I would say to you… we had some good looks but just weren’t able to capitalize whereas they did. We good, guys? Thanks.”
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So, why are you still watching (and posting)? You should take up gardening or fishing to fill those April days.
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When JT and THE shy away from contact, who’s left? No one.
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I don’t think Mess would have tolerated this nonsense. 4th line making them look soft. I see bedtime instead of a third period in short order.
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Man, I have no idea what the Rangers can possibly draw upon when the postseason begins. Not nearly enough guys on the roster who know what it takes to go on a playoff run. If only they had some experience!
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From what I have seen not meaning to be negative but this is another loss. San Jose lost 6 in a row before this game right?
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No, it was a bad play by VZ…
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One shot and done. It’d we’re lucky outs on net. They spend 5 mins at a time in our zone.
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There it is, the number one reason to root for the Rangers, loud and clear. Make enough gloomy predictions to be able to say “I told you so” if they fail. If they do well, everybody’s happy. All bases covered. Me, I say: Let’s Go, Rangers!
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Is it me, or is Hank constantly out of position?
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Nash flies into the o-zone, once there, he is lost completely.
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Crack of Midnight.
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The sharks took aderrall before the game. The Rangers smoked opium.
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Yay. 2 more minutes of the worst hockey in the NHL!
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Where was this San Jose team for 6 games? Waiting for NYR. to get their game back
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terrible play by Veesey, lackadaisical with the puck, horrible.
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That postseason experience really came in handy last year.
Right, Norm?
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Missed the first period, which had to have been better than this crap show inn the 2nd.
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Rangers have to do a lot of soul searching after this game… thinking about meaning of life and their place in it.
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Rangers are adept at shooting pucks off shark sticks.
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It’s a POWER PLAY GOAL!!!
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Kern – he is lunging at it big time
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Too late to dress Tanner?
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Sweeet. Step’s new office!
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OH DRAT! Now you can’t bitch for another 30 seconds or so…
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Stepan had an empty net. I’m surprised he didn’t miss it.
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That was a terrible play by Veesey, lackadaisical, horrible.
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Sure did, CCCP. Penguins were quite experienced! Won the whole thing if I recall correctly.
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Are they capable of turn tide in 3rd? Doubt it, unless they will have some “Grey Goose” shots in the intermission and call Torts for motivational locker-room speech.
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Why do we watch? Because we’re fans of the franchise….. I’ve been a fan since I could walk. But this team is trash. Their record is a mirage and when the men are seperated from the boys in the playoffs, we’ll be sent home packing real fast. I’m sorry but this team does not inspire confidence. The bottom line is, they won a lot of games they didn’t deserve, and when you have to fight for every inch of ice in the playoffs… pure luck doesn’t advance round after round. You get exposed.
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This has another 6-3 loss written all over it.
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Craig, I mostly agree with you. But unlike last year they actually deserved to win the majority of the games they’ve won this season. I just don’t know what happened to that team.
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Norm is funny. Funny is Norm.
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Hey if people can watch NASCAR, we can watch the NYR
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You have to separate the men from the boys on this team? Maybe THAT’s their problem…
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Btw, we haven’t beaten a playoff team that wasn’t already slumping, in about a month. Now we’re having trouble with the slumping ones. There’s nowhere to go but up.
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Ok I have hope again
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I wish I did.
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LOL nice Olga….
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Colorado -34 points from last season. No toke.
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…err – joke
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I’d be less annoyed if I didn’t have so many Rangers on my fantasy team. They’re killing me.
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I think the Rangers have a good shot, not a great one, but a good one. Lundqvist has five games to chip off the rust, the rest of the roster is relatively healthy, there’s some competition for the last couple of spots, and it’s time for them to gradually ramp it up, see what they’ve got going in. But these are exhibition games, and they’ve earned the right to treat them that way. Stay healthy!
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Well, I’m certainly not writing them off before the playoffs even start.
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and when there was no crawdaddy we ate sand….
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They also need to figure out how to win at home Norm
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Look what happens when you actually put the work in…. amazing right?
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Jesper Erixon!!!
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Yes
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In 2007/8, I did not watch the first playoff game against Tampa Bay as I went snowboarding, convinced the Giant’s were so mediocre late that season that it would be an awful game/waste of time and a miracle if they won it. Needless to say, they pulled out a efw more miracles that winter.
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Well, that was Fast.
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Just think all that bile might be wasted.
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Let’s Go, Trash!
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I went out to walk my dog. Came back, turned on my tv and they scored. I might go walk my dog again.
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Trash, trash, trash.
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On second thought……
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Special teams! I’m going to faint!
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The Bizzaro World
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Holy mackerel, Andy!
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Miller Time!!
4th line wonder. Who is this kid??
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Told ya they hadn’t played their good period yet.
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I like Ev’s “one good period a game” theory lol
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The #7 D is up to 38 points… must bench him for playoffs!
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Let’s hope that holds true for Lundqvist as well.
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Grabner: Shot on Toyota
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….on bated breath.
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oh what a feelin..lmao
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I need to get negative again. I’m getting too positive. It might affect them.
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Did anybody get hurt when you all piled in from the Ledge?
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I still think they’re going nowhere post season. :p
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The Rangers may or may not hold on here, but this game is not the best example you might to pick to show that they have no chance in the playoffs. And the best away record didn’t happen by accident.
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Miller FLYING all night
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my fall was broken by Sam and Joe
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Keep it there four 8 mins.
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*for
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Best Ranger period in a LONG time
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What the Heck was that clusterfudge one the offensive zone just now? At least fast didn’t lose the puck while he was consulting god on what he should do with it.
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The soft Rangers who never win board battles…
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*in
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WHo is eliminated tonight if the Rangers clinch?
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Grabner is just cursed.
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Grabner can’t finish a thought
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JT misses the net on a 2 on 1 and we almost get scored on.
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Probably Buffalo.
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Actually no one. There doesn’t have to be.
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Buffalo is already out.
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It just means not enough teams can catch us to knock is out.
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I TOLD you they stunk.
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All started with a Holden giveaway
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Oh geez.
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They always leave someone unchecked….
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That would count as uncontested.
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How the holy hell did Thornton not get a penalty there?!!
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He nut chopped him and then tripped him. Sounds ok to me.
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Jumbo Shrimp attempting to circumcise McDonagh.
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The same way there was no call on Kreider tripping before…
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Amazing Ev
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Rangers should try that Anaheim trick on the faceoff.
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AV should have benched Holden a bit longer
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Well, Carp did say we’d clinch with an OT loss sooooo…..
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Vesey 0 shifts in the 3rd period
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They lost a faceoff? No way.
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Playoffs.
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We got a check mark!
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Playoffs? Playoffs???
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Both teams wanted the point. The sharks players probably didn’t know they already clinched earlier.
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Ranger clinch. And my butt cheeks unclinch.
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Clean slate… Grabner it by the p$&@”
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Unfortunately they already played their 1 good period. Be happy with the point.
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Lololol Olga
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Well the Sharks had their shot last season. Won’t see them in the finals this season.
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Seriously zucc?
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Zuccarello with his typical 2:00 OT shift
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What the hell is wrong with Skjei?!!
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Cursed I tell ya.
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It’s over.
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Holden playing his way off the backline
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I’ll tell you one thing, the Rangers will never win a 3 on 3 OT in the playoffs.
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Holden will have allowed the tying goal amd be liable for the winner….
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You’re so negative, Olga.
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Lundqvist sucks and I told ya.
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Good point.
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Sam sugarcoating the scenario, as always
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And there you have it.
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3 points out of 6 one the road. They didn’t deserve that many but I’ll take it.
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Carp….if you see this, you’re the man. The prognosticator of prognosticators…. Carpadamus…. punxatanee Carp…
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No rush to get over there Henrik.
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We should’ve seen this coming. They were in ot and they hadn’t given up their nightly power play goal yet.
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Holden for all three stars. Oh, you didn’t mean the sharks three stars?
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This was also the first time we’ve scored 4 on a playoff team since February 9th…..
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I do not want to see nick holden anymore this season.
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Hank’s gaa since coming back is just under 5. I’m sure he’ll get it back by the playoffs. What he’ll get back, I don’t know.
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@hockeystatminer tweeted that the 5×5 high danger scoring chances were 19-3 in favor of San Jose. Can we not pin this loss on Hank please…
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Forgot the first goal. Holden was actually directly or indirectly involved with 3 goals, including the tying and winning ones. Ugh.
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It’s on Holden mostly. But at least 2 of those he should’ve had. The shorty and the winner are on him.
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Beep is a bit snake bit right now but I can sense he is on the verge of a 5 goal outburst!
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He’s like Vesey right now. Tons of effort but almost nothing to show for it. Hopefully that’ll change soon. Can’t last forever.
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Good morning Boneheads! Just woke and checked the score another loss imagine that. Hank rounding into form. I know it’s not his fault, never is. But without him being Great this bunch has no chance. My question, will the NYR win another game this year with Lundqvist in net?
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West Coast games = 3:30am puck drop here so no chance of watching that one!
From what the highlights show could easily have gone the other way but for a post.
My one and only observation would be to get Coach Orion and the Ducks teach the Rangers how to pick up the trash – most of these recent goals are coming from 2nd/3rd shots and rebounds – and generally players not picking up their men around the net or moving their feet enough once they get into a defensive position.
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The enjoyment of reading the go time comments is gone. It has been hi jacked by one or two people who have nothing but hatred towards the Rangers. Norm and Olga are there trying to fight the good fight, but they seem to be out numbered.
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hey gloom and doomers…in the playoffs in a good spot something we did not have last year… Hank just needs to get a few more games to get up to speed and a few guys especially McD should get a game or 2 off down the stretch.
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At this point if we are going to leave a defenseman unprotected in the expansion draft I say it should be Holden. Klein has had a rough year but he’s been banged up for most of it. He’s been valuable in the three prior seasons he’s been here. Holden had one solid stretch and has had a lot of ugly out there. Not too big a difference in age. Not losing anything that can’t be replaced. Nothing good anyhow.
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Good morning, boneheads!
BDL, I still enjoy reading it. It’s entertaining.
Carp used to spend a lot of energy trying to fight. So did I. It made no difference.
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Didn’t everyone also freak out when Lundqvist came back after that vascular injury to his neck because he got shelled in Boston and then wasn’t as sharp as Talbot over the next couple of games? And then he found his game and everyone calmed down (really, they just moved on to the next problem)..You’d think at least some of those fans learned from that situation. The pessimism is really getting to be unlikable.
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in the grand scheme of things I’ll reiterate my long term problem with this organization: Way too much time over the last two seasons talking about how they need to play a full 60 minutes. They know they have to be better, they know it needs to change, theyre pissed off about their effort, they’re not sure why it happens but it needs to get fixed. And yet it’s still one of the biggest problems to date. Maybe it’s time to find out who or what is responsible for this issue and attempt to correct it?
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“I’m a big believer in playing the right way and for two periods we didn’t play the right way. We kind of got dominated,” Derek Stepan said
Agree perspective is needed but Step would be a Negative Nancy with his comment. What no Step comments on ‘playing the right way?’
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Some are more emotionally attached to the winning and losing of every game, some can see a bigger picture. Some just quit on them and root for another team (cough, cough)
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one cup in 77 seasons will drive some crazy…
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Just happy they stayed in 1st WC for POs. Got Pumps a game, kicked JT in the arse, exposed Holden as the real 7th D and created more Henk Angst.
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Well..not really happy about the Henk part!
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Awaiting the E3 review; rumor it is a 3 flusher out of 5.
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I’ll be Mr. Sunshine when they show up for 60 minutes which they haven’t done in about a month. They had about 15 minutes of good hockey last night at the beginning of the third period. Just enough to rob an hour of sleep from me. Other than that it was another no show. JT got two but did watch Tierney get the third Shark goal. Sjkei is as good as Yandle right now and has the size and willingness to become a better defender. Keep those first rounders. Holden was awful, but, the call on him in OT was sketchy. If you put your stick in somebody’s stomach you shouldn’t get a call. Hank brought his B game. Let’s hope he finds his A game. IF he doesn’t does Raanta get a playoff start? Quenville did it with Crawford last year.
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James – they won’t protect Holden or Klein IMHO. I also wouldn’t protect Henk but many think his window is still open. #sad.
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I am looking forward to Friday night I hate the pens. Rangers will rise to the occasion in spite of all the lackluster play of late! I’m believing they will break the home game losing streak. Go Rangers!
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I agree with SN, they probably will not protect either. It depends on what they decide to do with Girardi. They have no choice with Hank anyway.
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Last season 9-10 in March and April; This season 6-8 with 5 games left.
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Pens beat Bolts 2-1 in Game 7 of ECF so the spin of ‘losing to SC champ’ is a helpful yet tenuous claim.
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I think if they’ve got any sense LV will stay well away from Holden or Klein and will probably steal one of Grabner, Jesper Fast or Oscar Lindberg. Lindberg would be my choice, he could easily move up the 2nd line (and possibly end up with Hagelin on his wing) – or Auntie if they’re not able to take someone like Malcolm Subban, Grubauer or Korpisalo
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These games have not mattered, except for the 13- and 7-spot tryouts, for a month. They’re beginning to matter as they ramp up, but any team that tries to play 3-period hockey for 82 games, especially when they’re locked into a playoff spot early, is an idiot.
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The reality is the Rangers have had nothing to play for, for close to a month. They are going to be the first wild card, and many of the teams they have been playing have had more to play for. I know that’s an excuse for the way they have been playing, but it also the truth.
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Is vibin’ BDL a good thing? 😳
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Just a thought, if they are not going to put forth the effort as good entertainers do just because there is nothing to play for. Than may they should reduce ticket prices since we are not getting the best show possible!
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As far as the hand-wringing Go Time comments are concerned, it’s just a way for folks to get through a game they care about. We all do it; it’s only a question of degree. And it is entertaining, especially the Rangers as a gaggle of eunuchs who can’t pass, shoot, forecheck, backcheck, goaltend–see, RIGHT THERE, Stepan can’t hit a barn door (later he scores a beauty), Grabner just showed you with that miss that the Rangers, just stating facts, are one-and-done, season already over, franchise over, city over, country over, world over. I told you so!! Where is everyone…?
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Norm,
We disagree about some players, but for the most part, I think we see the game the same way.
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Why jack ticket prices when you can call up Glass? I predict they’ll pay him for one more home fight.
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Norm- too many comas. Who do you think you are, Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
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*NEW POST*
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Does anyone know anything about this kid?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/fce77947-b676-3478-8953-ea446356f495/ss_rangers-in-hunt-for-hobey.html
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I am in Reykjavik. Spell that. Scouting, putting Icelandic sweaters on the table.
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