Expect the Rangers to match my half-assedness against a Senators team battling for home ice advantage in the first round. I don’t think it’s going to be pretty.
Expect the Rangers to match my half-assedness against a Senators team battling for home ice advantage in the first round. I don’t think it’s going to be pretty.
first?
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The Taylor beck era begins. Is it Wednesday yet
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Fifth Metro!
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Still a little time before the puck drops, so I’ll post this.
Should the following situation play out, it’ll be interesting to see how Torts handles it. Columbus like a lot of other teams at this point have nothing to play for, as far as standings. However, if Toronto is limited to a Parity Point or less in today’s game against the Penguins, then the Lightnings can potentially win the final wild card spot Sunday with a win against the Sabres… AND a Toronto loss (or an OTL if they lost outright vs Pitt) against Columbus on that same final day. You probably recall 2010–11, when with Torts as Rangers coach, the Rangers needed the Lightning (with everything wrapped up like Columbus) to beat Carolina on the final day for the Rangers to get in the playoffs. Word was, Torts made a special appeal to his former team to ‘play the right way’ for that (meaningless to Tampa Bay) game (and promised free dog sitting services for life). Does he owe it to the TB organization or the game itself to reciprocate?
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Let’s go leafs. I don’t want this islander crap lasting past today.
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Must win
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Côme on Toronto, put a dagger is that stupid Tampa team!!!
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Go Ricky!
Too soon…
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great, great point, nevermind.
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I think it would kind of funny if Toronto missed. There fans and media had them in ECF last week.
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I remember that game very well. Tampa played their tails off in a meaningless game against Carolina. By the time Carp got off the train returning from MSG ( NY beat the Devils ), it was already 3-0 by the end of first. 6-2 was the final. Remember, Carp?
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nevermind
except the isles are in the mix and ahead of tampa due to row assuming both win out in regulation.
if ottawa cliches 2nd today they will totally mail it in tomorrow in brooklyn.
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Remember it well. I left msg around 3:30 as rangers played Devils at 1:00. Got home took wife out for sushi. Shut off phone and wouldn’t check score until I went on rangers report and you guys were all celebrating. I then watched Tampa Carolina game on dvr at 11:00 at night.
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Exactly need leafs get it done today .
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Thanks Carp.
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hahaha, ilb. I don’t even remember where my car is. Though I do recall the situation, Rangers winning and needing for Tampa to get them in. And Torts talking to Marty and insisting that he knew TB would play the right way.
But scores and time? No clue. 🙂
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Had a great day yesterday, speaking to Brian Leetch and James Patrick for a story I’m doing about the last four Rangers-Canadiens series (since I’ve covered the team).
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it would be pretty funny if TOR misses
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Alex – True, but they still need to win 2 games, plus no Tavares, plus… they’re the Islanders.
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LGR!!!
Youse guys and this HAV are still the best in the business
Must W…
Must Not Los…
Must Not Get Hurt!
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Second!
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Let’s go boys! We need another half-assed performance!
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Agree. Let’s go no injuries!
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Carp – ilb can probably tell you where your car was too lol
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Sure ref, don’t call the too many men right in front of you…. Smh
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Let’s go Leafs!
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Ugh. Hockey night in Canada feed. Yuck.
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And can’t wait for the NHL network intermission where they totally forget that this specific game is being broadcasted by them.
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would love to see Matt Mary Martin stick out his knee tonight as Kessel is skating by him Martin gets suspended..Kessel gets shelved all is beautiful The East The West…
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Great knee by boriwiecki or however his name is spelled. Another penalty not called directly in front of the ref.
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and yes Let’s Go Leafs get er done..send the Islanders to the Century 21 office to look for a new home…
good riddance
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They just showed Lundqvist’s putrid numbers over his last 10 starts. But they failed to mention that he had an injury and was out for a while right in the middle of that. Smh
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NHL reffing is as inconsistent as cable companies keeping their appointments
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atta boy Tanner
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Way to go Glass.
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Wonder how everyone here will feel when big game brass is hugging the cup in a few months!?
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Glass fighting his way onto the roster vs. Montreal.
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I’ve gotta say that I’m really not a Brendan Smith fan. His ability to play crappy defense and his penchant for taking penalties notwithstanding.
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Brass…..the cup? Bwahahaha
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Takes a lot of balls to go into every game knowing you might be doing that..
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Yeah, this is Nick Stevens, from Plaza Cable.
Well, I waited all morning again. You said you were gonna be
there from nine to one.
I was there. Where were you? You think I got nothing better to
do than stand outside all morning, waiting for you to show up?!
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Struggling power play for the sens. Uh oh.
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Holy crud.
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The Ottawa player that fought Glass looks like he should have starred in Trainspotting
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Art least Smith took an opponent with him this time.
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Has Hayes hit anything except the pipe all year??
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Nice one Finn.
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love for Burrows to face Boston again maybe first round…what a weasel
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Nice. The Trainspotting reference I mean.
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really EV he skates over near Burrows takes a look and skates away what’s he shopping for? bamboo?
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either that or Edward Norton in fight club…
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Pirri! Pageult! Puempel! Sam is having fun
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More like Jared Leto in Fight Club after he got his face mangled.
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More like the caveman in the Geico commercials…
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I’m not saying the Rangers were the better team in that’86 series but I did expect them to win
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Did Sam just say Beck was playing for the Bakersfield Condoms?
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This will be the second time we have acquired a Beck and immediately expected to win the Cup….
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Thank the hockey gods this is a hockey night in Canada feed!!! What have I missed? How many wall battles has skjeL lost already?
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What an exciting period. Yawn.
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Guy Boucher=Keanu Reeves stunt double
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Shoot the puck Taylor, shoot the puck!
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Shoot the puck, Taylor?
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Girardi should have done the right thing and gave him #5
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The Glass fight illustrates the problem with Buch -just zero ability to or expectations he can stand up for himself. Kid has to bulk up and find out where Dubbie went for fight club training.
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5finns – Jeremy Roenick likes illiteration, too
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Great minds think alike Ev. So do ours…
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Buch still looks like he’s playing inline roller hockey and that he’s surprised when someone hits him or tries to hit him..again looks like the only training he has done is to binge watch Netflix
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Luckily this is the only game being played right now so the nhl network intermission is actually centering on it. Thanks for small favors.
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was Puempel in the Wonder Years?
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lol never last night JR said about 20x that a player ooozed talent…
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My bad. This isn’t the only game. Nhl network just reminded me.
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Next year I hope it is repeated incessantly how Buch *gained* 15 pounds through off season training.
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Wait wait, hold it, hold it. Look who’s over there. Don’t look, don’t
look! It’s Fred Savage.
He’d be perfect for my movie. I gotta go over there, I gotta give him a
copy of my treatment.
Why are you breathing so hard?
Well, I’m just a little nervous. OK, I gotta relax. Phew. Wish me
luck, huh?
Hey. Oh, did I frighten you? I’m not crazy. I mean, I may look
weird, but I’m just like you, I’m just a regular guy just trying to make it in
this business. You know I really like your work, the, uh…
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Buch should contact Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon
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it worked for Aaron Rodgers why not…
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Nice check by Smith. Oh wait…he missed. Smh
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Liked the first period (now that I’ve caught up…thanks DVR)…good on glass, love the chippy nature of the game. Beck looks ok. Someone needs to give skjeL some how to win the wall battles lessons before the playoffs…could be a disaster waiting to happen.
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What a serving of azz by Tanner Glass I love It
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D Zone Coverage a Ho Sang Fire Drill
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They kept the sens to 4 shots the entire first. They have 6 and a goal in the first 3 mins of the second. Smh
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And once again pirri…ugh. Terrible coverage by pirri
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poop
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PirriPoop sounds like the name Perrier rejected
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Poor grabner
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Will Grabner score another goal this season?
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Next weeks scheduled bouts…
Glass v King
Glass v Shaw
Glass v Benn
Glass v Ott
Glass v Radulov
and…
Buchnevich v Gym Bike
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Man, Hoffman just blew by skjeL
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ForeGlide so smooth…. Glad they gave Kreider the day off…
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Grabner should just be utilized for what he is- a speedy 4th liner. Going into the post season hoping he’s going to start lighting it up is a bad idea.
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if we could only play in the Premier League …we need a soccer net
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Wick, would love to have Hoffman on this team.
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Definitely not a Brendan Smith fan….
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Gillette ProForeGlide now in Ocean Breeze scent
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Meaningless-Game Brass!
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More great d coverage from the Rangers.
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Lundqvist should have had that one
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Brass must be outta stamps
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Grabner due …getting closer and hitting posts last week that would have went over net
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Not fantastic by the king either but I’m not going to put that one one him.
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Zucc just spilled his popcorn
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we traded brassard away for who? and why? glass best player today
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Looking like another 3+er by Lundqvist.
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WoW…learn D brady
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Isles guarantee win tomorrow with Ottawa clinching today. Leafs need get this over with
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James
Absolutely re Hoffman
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Buch has shown nothing and gets easily pushed around. I’d much rather have grabner in top 9. it’s not even a contest.
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Considering Ottawa is the only team with anything to play for I’m guessing this will be one of those rare games by the Rangers that doesn’t feature the token one good period.
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classic rope a dope by blueshirts…we’re trying our best to be DiverDan these last few games…
NYR version’s of Rope-A-Dope…
Grab-A-Dope
Hank-A-Dope
Garden-of-Dream-A-Dope…
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Can’t wait for trolling meaningless game apologists later!!!
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Don’t know why I get pumped for the playoffs….. clearly setting myself up for a major letdown…
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Great save by hank
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what is AV’s spin gunna be? We got a lot of good looks?
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Always nice to get a power play in Canada
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Who’s winning the match?
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Atta boy miller
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Good God, Wicky, you’re right, this is a really, really important game! 👹
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Norm in honor of your trip the Rangers have activated the WindMill defense ..everyone turning around waiting for the next one…down 2 zip BigGameBrass with one Glass best player on the ice for us
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Norm
Brassard 1 zpack 0
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Nash is invisible out there
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lmao Nash…
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Plenty of time… until Wednesday.
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Glass must dress next week. Buch needs LOTS more seasoning.
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France in the air…
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Remember- they’re going to flip a maaaagical switch for game one in Montreal and dominate….
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Nice looking pp. Took bad none of those players will be playing together in the playoffs.
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we have the switch Craig..but Montreal has the Dit Toe Clapper
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Norm
I’m stunned with this game being so meaningless that the rangers don’t just pull the goalie right after the opening puck drop and just st go 6 skaters the whole way…wow, you are so correct just like with every other thing you think you know so much about!!!
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Keep trolling norm, keep trolling
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However this offensive crew is not very offensive.
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Joe keeps touting Wed.-Fri. We know networks dictate, along with arena availability. We also know Joe works for NBCSN. So Wed.-Fri. it is.
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Buch-A-Dope
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Remember everyone, hank is letting in goals because it’s not a big deal and a meaningless game.
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Joe Knows..Joe Knows..
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don’t know how Rangers survived without Brassard and his 14 goals.
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Shots are 13-5 this period.
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Will 30 ever again be considered elite?
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Anyone have any idea if it’s going to be Wednesday Friday next week?
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Its time for Klein to score
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What’s today?
It’s Thursday.
Tuesday has no feel. Monday has a feel, Friday has a feel, Sunday has a feel….
I feel Tuesday and Wednesday…
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Omg, will the brassard hate ever end
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You stay here. I may need you to get me a soda.
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Forget Grabner. It’s looking like the big question is can the entire Rangers team score another goal this regular season.
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Again, can Hayes hit the guy at least? 3 wacks and no body on him..Hayes is stoned
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Kevin Hayes has major dog tendencies.
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my hatred is unstoppable, Wick.
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sounds like this game is being played in the Tokyo subway
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Yup… if we meet scarface’s team in the 2nd round (lolol 2nd round) we’ll dominate….the foreglide.
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I still think I’d buy out staal over Girardi.
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Olga don’t just sit there do something about this mess!
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Wicky, I respect that you believe I’m always right, but I want you to know that really I put my brain on one lobe at a time like any other troll.
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Why wait? This is a meaningless game for the Rangers with 7 starters sitting, against a good team, playing at home, with something to play for
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This game is so meaningless the ranger centres have decided to not win important D zone draws
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This is ugly. I realize they have nothing to play for and Ottawa wants home ice advantage in the playoffs but….c’mon.
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AAA just called me back it appears our road to Washington goes through Canada…does that make sense to anyone? says to drive up to Montreal then go west to Ottawa the down thru Buffalo and on to Washington…I’m Toby I’m brimming with positivity
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Even the guys who will be playing this playoffs look like shi-te. Apparently even that word won’t escape moderation. Smh
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I think the odds of that are pretty slim, Wick. Starting to wonder if Girardi buyout will happen, too.
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No sense to, Beezle. Just a lot of gums flapping… The blog makes a boring game even more so.
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Hope we don’t face Ottawa if we make it past the Canadiens (lmao). They’re going to be pumped with tons of confidence after this one.
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I have no problem giving up those 5 players for Beck..
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They could replace Anderson with a cardboard cutout and it wouldn’t make a difference.
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Ottawa. LMAO.
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For a big dude KBongs sure doesn’t like to hit.
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What’re you talking about Olga. We add excitement to it.
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I thinbk it was Pat Hickey, Lucien DeBlois, Mike McEwen, Dean Turner and Bill Pidto for Taylor Beck..i might be wrong though
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Hayes becomes Droopy Dog when faced with a little adversity.
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Hayes hits the Drake Cakes and Yodels more than anyone in a game
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Yeah.
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It’s funny how Pitt can win so many games missing the same amount of starters. Where’s that depth that was so boasted about earlier in the season…..
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We get by Montreal which we won’t prob lose in 6 we will be in conf finals over the 2-3 matchup most likely Ottawa Bruins.
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Hayes would be perfect in Denver, recreational, non-physical play has been legalized in Colorado I believe
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Anderson should play the third period facing the glass. Then he could really embarrass us.
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Olga, how’s the outta-town scoreboard look? How ’bout them USA lady pucksters? Anything? Nothing?
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No one can face the Glass …he is unstoppable
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Norm
You can spin it how ever you want in that frontal cortex of yours, but the fact you try so hard to make yourself always “right” when you aren’t is just a total douchebag move.
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Fans come on here to openly and honestly comment on the game progression and events as they happen. All you do is troll for a spot to pop on and criticize other posters and attempt to validate your “own version of 100% correct” evaluation (which it isn’t) of this team.
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I feel sorry for you that you can’t accept being wrong at times like the rest of us.
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No, the Rangers centers are losing faceoffs with the same intensity as they would in a meaningful game.
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Talk about the throw away effort. The Kampfer/Clendening pair is entertaining to watch.
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Evr, your valiant effort to get your knickers in a twist over nothing at all is making my night. This HAV rocks!
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Damn Wick. You’re getting on the harsh train today. Keep it up!
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Hank’s husband, Vally, just gave the Rangers advice…”Don’t Overdo it..you have Montreal coming up…”
Hey TV Steve there’s no danger of us overdoing anything
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At least we got more shots in the second. Maybe we can aim for 6 in the third.
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Some of you guys make Pittsburgh fans look enlightened.
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Carp
Yeah, I know. I just think Girardi (kinda like zucc) means more to the roster off the score sheet than on. That being said, I’d be a little shocked if they didn’t buy out Girardi…cap considerations and all. I’d still buy out staal first though 😉
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easy does it.. he said…THIS IS HOCKEY not Gump playing Ping Pong ( or as the Chinese say it..”Ping Pong”)
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Buch hates the smaller rink. He’ll hate the closer checking Playoffs even more.
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so, they don’t want to play Washington, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Montreal or Ottawa. That leaves Boston and/Toronto/Tampa/NYI. Which of those should they avoid?
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I like day drinking..you get a better night’s sleep…
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They think very highly of Staal, and, as I said, I fear they think as highly of Girardi … and a buyout will still be costly. So …
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I’ll take Boston. Hehe
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I’d like to play Colorado in the first round
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I also think Staal would be second pair on almost every team in the league. top pair on many.
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Vegas has odds on the Rangers scoring another goal during the regular season.
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Heavens!
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They won’t buy out TRS, but in his current incarnation, he is ordinary and over-rated.
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Are people here really blaming Hank for this game? He looks pretty good to me. Lots of in close uncontested chances that he has played well. Also think Brass’ shot ticked off Skjei’s stick….
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Hayes is the Tragic Clown…someone should put the kie-bash on him
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Eddie LeBeck!
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Way to go Henrik.
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it’s official…we are in Vally’s Eagles Take it Easy mode
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Anderson working on a season shutout of the Rangers.
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Ev
It’s just sad that posters come on here from start to finish of a game and comment on the ups and downs of the game as it goes along, then to have someone who isn’t willing to do the same because something they say might be wrong or would rather just critique other posters, come on like some sort of know it all D bag and criticize real fans.
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This place is tame as hell compared to other fan bases (especially some of the Canadian ones) and twitter. To see trolls get their panties in a bunch over honest fan comments here is just sad.
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I think hank is playing pretty damn well considering.
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Lately the Rangers are the gift that keeps on giving. San Jose clinched. Teams on losing streaks get wins. Presidents trophy for wash. And home ice advantage for Ottawa. Maybe they’ll try tomorrow when Pitt has nothing to play for either. Who here thinks they will….?
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I don’t know, I’d consider pulling Hank. Enough of these stretch saves. Let the dude rest and not get hurt.
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Troll Panties…I like that
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Will be interesting to see who starts the last game. Sneak preview of playoffs team or final auditions, final rest day. I was assuming last week they’d ramp up, but resting experienced vets was the thing.
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Evrock – NYR also help opposing goalies find their game.
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Game over
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I believe they opened for the Clash at CBGB’s Troll Panties..if they were a band I’d go see them…
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Wasn’t this team not supposed to make the playoffs and finish 5th in Metro?
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Pull LUNDQVIST, damn it!
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Good thing Girardi could not bother to bump Pageau. Would not want him to get hurt.
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They should suit someone else up amd put him in net. Lundqvist is getting hung out to dry. If we’re worried about injuries maybe we should be worried about that one.
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If Hank was wearing my patented Flying Squirrel Jersey he would have stopped that.
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2 straight shutouts of the Rangers for Anderson. 2 straight shutouts for the New York Rangers.
C’mon. Even the normal players look like they’re brain farting all over the place. Veteran giveaways. Absolutely no try in anyone’s game other than Lundqvist. I’m surprised Glass even bothered to fight earlier.
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Time to call your Auntie
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Carp
I don’t disagree one bit with any of what you said…just saying what I’d do ;). Fortunately for everyone here, I have no ranger decision making power what so ever
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The sadness!
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Yikes. This defense is mind bogglingly bad. Poor Hank. Still think he is playing well…
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Tim Peel in The Quiet Room…tickets on sale tomorrow
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Great play by Skjei one the line on the pp. Brain. Farting.
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Vesey imitating Kreider there.
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that’s a set play …drag the puck out of the O zone while on the PP during possession..Scott Arniel has them practice that ..it allows us to re-set and most importantly to take time off the clock during a PP in an effort to get back to even strength
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Now it’s on to Chicago, and let’s win there!
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They won’t take Anderson out because he could be blindfolded and still win this game.
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now Sam is calling for running time while Joe says You Can’t Rest Everyone!!
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Carp
wed-fri makes sense
montreal can’t play saturday at home
chicago and washington can’t start wednesday.
it all adds up.
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Masters in 6 minutes..more contact in golf than Hayes or Rangers D has shown
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Btw this fantastic road team is about to enter the playoffs on a 4 game road losing streak. Just sayin’.
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Anyone else finding the Ottawa fans’ wave annoying as all hell right now?
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Pirri just skated himself into the boards
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Did AV roofie his team before this one?
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LOL at Hank and Brass,
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that means an Easter Sunday 12 noon start for game 3..remember when they pulled that hen house sheet on us in the past??
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So after the first round, who will all you guys be rooting for in the playoffs?
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The way the Rangers d is playing in front of Lundquist they’re not risking injury to the King, they’re risking death.
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Yeah. 4 jaw dropping saves by Hank this period, especially that last one on Brass. In a game that is apparently meaningless to everyone on the team but him…
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likely that the 3 guys wearing the letters today won’t be here next year
girardi – buyout (although that is still very costly vs cap)
klein – traded with 1 year left on his deal
grabner – expansion loss
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Let’s Go Blues!
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Is this a maintenance day for Hayes?
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JT Miller looks like that guy from 16 Candles
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Very hopeful numbers in the head to head matchup of hank and price. Smh
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Oh we’re DEFINITELY getting shutout after that.
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This is the Rangers good 5 minutes.
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I meant the Breakfast Club
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This game is so boring it should’ve been broadcast on PBS.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi (waves hand): “This is not the team you’re looking for”.
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olga if we lose first round i’d root for montreal/toronto/tampa or teams from the west, notably chicago, edmonton, san jose
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Well HL kept saying he wanted the work so…. definitely disappointed in NYR depth. Can understand some of the top guys backing off to preserve health but the press box crew should be playing their asses off and not seeing it.
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That’s a LOT of rooting there, Alex.
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The Rangers have plummeted in the league standings in the second half of the season. We’re currently 8th with the possibility of falling to 9th.
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this GAME should be under review
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Bubba Beck best forward today. Certainly isn’t Lassie Hayes or Mr. Softie Buchnevich.
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See? That’s what I meant before Olga, put your hockey mojo powers to good use!
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JVs are losing on the road–PANIC IN THE STREETS!
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Happy Kampfer with a nice shot
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Wick, sorry. I’ll un-bunch. I just don’t get it.
Coos, you want to see overrated D-men? Wait ’til the team in red on Wednesday.
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Do any of the guys here really think that if we go into the playoffs with no goals in the last 3 games (it’s possible), they can just turn it on?
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Buchnevich needs to grow some bark
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we just ran out of time today lol
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We’re breaking the stat sheet here with 9 shots this period so far.
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Everocker – Funny about that match up – the first match up in Montreal saw Price pulled after 3 early goals, Rangers go up 5-0, then blow the lead on 5 straight Habs goals and lose in SO. A big factor in Hanks fragile psyche there IMO.
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People on Twitter love Buch, not sure those people have been watching.
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another nice hit by Tanner he came to play
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Rangers are the newest NASCAR entry we hit a hundred and everything gets shut down
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can’t wait for the Mercedes Benz post game report
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Do any of these “glass is half full” fans not see that the non-jv guys that HAVE been playing have looked like crap on crap?
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MAKE GAMES MATTER AGAIN!
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Ahmedinajad!!!
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LMAO!!
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Zika’s revenge.
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Nice goal by Zika. No shutout. Lmao
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Afganistan Banananistan scores..
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We broke the seal! The goals would come flooding in now.
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*will
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Nhl network cut to commercial with 10 seconds left. Bwahahaha Bwahahaha Bwahahaha
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Black Hawks at LA 6:00PM
Let’s Go Hawks!
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Buch is next year’s model. Vesey too. That doesn’t mean by any measure they don’t have bright futures, just not yet.
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AV
1. We had a lot of good looks
2.I like our effort today…
3 I thought Henrik played outstanding today…
that’s it? thanks guys
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Go LA!
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Carp
Un-bunch not directed at you (I think you realize that). As far as “not getting (I’m speculating you’re referring to some poster comments) it”…they’re fans, don’t take it too seriously 😉
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France in the air..oh ah oh oh ahhh…AHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Brass 1 z pack 1
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Traded centre skills competition after the game to decide?
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I agree Beezle, although I think Vesey is more playoff ready this year than Buch
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Even without AV playing favorites I think Glass has earned a spot on the postseason roster.
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Not only has Glass earned a spot Evrockriser, but there’s definitely a need for him.
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Glass will be on the roster against Montreal, no doubt.
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olga
order would be
edm
tor/tb whoever gets in if not isles
mtl
chi
sj
definitely not a team in our division with washington the least of those evils
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Rammer gets a Brassard hug!
Hank playing better.
Smith had some bad shifts.
Could Beck become the 12th forward?
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As long as the rangers are playing, I don’t even want to decide who to root for
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Alex, Only one on your list I can’t stand is Montreal.
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The Philly commentators were just discussing Mason and hall of fame consideration if he gets up to 400 wins. He just got his 200th win. Really? REALLY?!
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Chart boys love Buch…he is gonna be a good one but needs to get stronger …think we are gonna see Glass unless they are down in series and need offense
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Waiting for Antti to pitch a shutout tomorrow against Pitt and the subsequent clamoring for him to start in Game 1…
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If they’re going to play like they did today, they should have also rested Glass’ knuckles.
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what I don’t get, Wick, is the season-long refusal to think they’re watching a good team. Not giving them a chance against Ottawa, never mind Montreal. etc. etc. You know the list.
should just watch baseball, some of them.
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It could be worse. We could be going into the playoffs on the back of 6 straight losses like Columbus.
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So much fun watching the opposition move US from in front of Hank instead of vice versa.
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Kern – agree of those two Vesey the one to put in as he’s been more consistent and willing to go to dirty areas. But nobody should be surprised if he has some mindless screw ups too.
Hoping Hayes can turn it back on again, of all the forwards worry about him the most in that regard
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Carp, you’re referring to my earlier comment about Ottawa there. I’ve never given the Rangers no chance against anyone in a playoff series.
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I’m starting to think there’s no need to protect Grabner anymore though.
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Well actually I shouldn’t discount his pk ability but considering the state of the pk one the whole that aspect of his game really might not matter.
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How does Swype on my phone keep putting in “one” for “on”? The “e” isn’t anywhere near it on the keyboard!
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Micheletti: “It’s not our decision; it’ll be the coach’s.” No chit, einstein.
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Carp
I don’t disagree, any team…ANY team can make a playoff run once in. This team has warts, all the teams do, but it can be a bit overboard (fwiw on both sides of the positive-negative spectrum). It’s frustrating for a lot of us here (I can only imagine how bad it must be for you…especially with twitter), but I think that’s just the “fan” in some people, make it worse case scenario that way if it does happen, there is less disappointment for them.
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Just my opinion of course
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So here’s my question, glass gave a full game effort, is his effort just more “noticeable” because he is a physical player? Did others not give a full effort? If they didn’t why is glass giving the effort and others aren’t? Is it just glass’ mental “attitude”?
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Carp
Oh, and baseball sucks 😉
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I definitely agree with you, Wick. At least when it comes to me personally. I can’t and won’t speak for anyone else. It’s definitely easier to deal with heartbreak in that manner. With my depression I think it’s obvious I’m not a glass half full kind of guy. Lol
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Glass’ effort puts many of the rest of them to shame.
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I also agree with that. Baseball sucks. However, go Yankees! 😉
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Come next week, and the Rangers start kicking Motreal’s ass, are you guys going to be able to enjoy it?
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Absolutely. But we don’t expect it. It makes losing easier and winning better. You should try it some time.
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It’s really hard to be positive when you see an opposing player just whacking away at your goalie, and the closest Ranger player (13) has absolutely no interest in doing anything about it. That stinks.
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Glass is not only playing for a spot in the lineup, but also his career.
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Baseball sucks more and more because, like with hockey, few learn how to play the game. Puny hitters (professionals!) with warning track power consistently swing for the fences, big Dmen think they’re Wayne Gretzky, and their coaches allow it – even promote it – from the time the kid is six years old.
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Maybe someone can answer this for me. How come we’re pretty much the only team resting a ton of guys, or even if it was a few guys, out of all the teams (that I’ve looked at) that have already clinched their exact playoff position?
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Ummmmm…..and it’s boring.
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Baseball, that is.
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Tanner is the new Bill Brasky…To TANNER GLASS !!!!!
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/braskys-buddies-at-the-bar/n11181
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Just finished watching the DVR replay, sure is tough being a Ranger fan. I do, I really do want to believe they can turn it on for the playoffs. Unfortunately I just don’t see it. Meaningless game Yada Yada Yada! Sorry Carp you’re probably shaking your head reading this but they are one and done! Glass in or out makes no difference. They are just not good enough. And screw the Hawks.
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I LOVE baseball, but even I am having trouble watching the game they play now.
I think I will stay away from the game threads during the playoffs … since, you know, it’s not part of my job anymore. LOL.
I think this series is a complete tossup, whether Glass plays or not 🙂 It’s entirely up to the Rangers. If they play the way they’re supposed to play, they’re the better team. If they play defensively as they have lately, and on PK, it’ll be over quickly.
I would guess it goes 7. Of course, Lundqvist has to be as good as Price.
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Ev, because their spot has been clinched for weeks and weeks. They knew they were fourth place and crossing over.
How about CBJ, six straight losses? I’m sure Torts isn’t worried.
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“Thought we had some good looks off the ForeGlide…. but give credit to Ottawa. Good? K, thanks guys.”
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Last year was, Tank, Tank Tank! Rest Rest, Rest! This year it’s, don’t rest, win games.
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I hope msg gives carp a blog…so he HAS to be there 😉
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You know, Carp, things are tough when the most interesting guy to watch in all of MLB from many aspects is an undersized 43 year-old from Japan. (Ichiro).
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I bet torts isn’t happy. Is he ever? 😉
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wicky229 – Do you think your criticism of Skjei might swing a little heavy to the negative side of the spectrum?
..and if you do it to tweak others a little bit, do you you consider that others might be doing likewise in some cases?
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Famous last words:
“Those injuns are all dead. I’m gonna go get me some souvenirs.”
“I got my owner up here yakking about a Stanley Cup.”
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George Patton’s team would never tank it.
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I will say this about mtl, they were the opponent in the only game this season that I actually thought the rangers were physically “run out of the building”. Glass was called up the next day fwiw. But like I always say, one regular season game does not a playoff series make.
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I think intangibles are going to hurt the rangers more than any other thing in the playoffs. If they can get those, they’ll go a lot further than many think.
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What lack of effort, Kreider did ‘pull ups’ all game.
I kid, I don’t think he skated hard enough to have to pull up.
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Carp, they didn’t officially clinch their actual spot till the last game against Washington. I know it was pretty much as foregone conclusion, but still.
Why didn’t they sit people earlier then? Also Washington had pretty much had the President’s trophy well in game for at least a week and a half or more. They’re not sitting anyone. Montreal isn’t. Columbus isn’t…..though they suck right now regardless.
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Beuk to his D: “You’re being hurt by intangibles.”
Shay: “I thought it was that big damned wing who blew by me three times.”
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Holy spell-check killing of a post, Batman!
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*a
*has
*hand
Did I miss anything?
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AV: “We’re gonna compete real hard.”
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>Puny hitters (professionals!) with warning track power consistently swing for the fences
Yeah, but only with a 3-0 count.
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Nevermind
Fair question. I point out the weaknesses of skjeL because he has them and some here treat him like he is a Norris contender. I think brady skjeL is going to be a very solid NHL D man in a couple of seasons when he learns the D zone. He loses a lot more wall battles than he should(so does staal)imho. All that said, he’d be one of my 6 starting D next season on the rangers (only way he wouldn’t is if he was involved in a big time hockey trade).
I do the same thing with step for the same reason, so I guess I’m a step ahead (see what I did there) on the tweaking others spectrum.
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And yes, I’m sure there is a certain poster here that likes to say things to tweak others (myself included).
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Play Tanner with #20 and instruct #20 to crash the net with intensity!
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I don’t know, I can’t get a feel for the Rangers intangibles.
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LOL blue jackets players say just can’t flip switch in playoffs, need to figure this out now
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You know, those intangible things like a timely save at a key time, a key face off win in the d zone, a pin the opponent in their zone forecheck for 70 seconds, a couple of hits that swing the in game “momentum”, etc.
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For the record, I am not a fan of resting and tanking. I get why AV would be doing it, but I am not a fan.
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Intangibles…the nuances…the sublime…the things you might not see or notice on the scoresheet/stat line.
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Off to Costco, enjoy your afternoon everyone
LGR
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Shark fans are hammerheads.
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Oilers fans are glad not every player look like Nail.
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Ev, I don’t know. If you do it earlier you risk a tailspin that could make the foregone conclusion not foregone (is that a phrase?). I think the way they did it is exactly right. And unlike some of youse, I think the coach knows what he’s doing.
Agree, Wick, about them being knocked around by MTL, which had just beefed up and was showing off its new muscles and its rat. Plus the Rangers played like absolute crap that day, refusing to get the puck behind Montreal’s awful defensemen.
I have no problem playing Glass over Buchnevich in this series. But they have to ignore the rat.
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UN fans are Hammarskjölds.
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I would prefer to see Buchnevich’s skill set over Glass’s, but I’m with Alex–he’s done little to deserve the spot. Still, Buch is in actual danger of scoring once in a while, and the Canadiens’ defense…
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If the choice was either Buchnevich or Glass I would pick a 7th defensemen. Neither of those guys are worth putting on the ice.
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Why did they claim Puempel and why haven’t they released him yet?
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Brendan Smith – great deadline pickup (rolls eyes)….There was nobody in Hartford they could bring up to give the puck away?
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This game was unwatchable. I’m glad I didn’t pay anything to watch it. Still, I’ll watch tomorrow’s game even though I know it’ll be more of the same. I guess that says something about me, doesn’t it?
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Tomorrow the actual Rangers might be playing–last game of the exhibition season and all–JVs sitting?
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As a true blue Ranger fan and one who hates the penguins passionately I will say this, the NYR will lose tomorrow’s game. You all know I’m right.
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Eli, what possible difference does the outcome make? All I care about is whether, if they’re dressed, the regulars look like they’re ready to get started. If they’re still rested, meh.
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Seven Dmen ain’t happening. It’ll be Glass or Buchnevich. … or Pirri. (ducks)
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It makes a difference to me Norm I hate the pens. Two teams playing a meaningless game why not win a meaningless game?
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Tanner be like…
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Every time I check in to buy Carp a beer, I get the same four guys giving me a Dutch oven. It stinks in here
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BOZAK !!!!! Leafs up 2 to 1..f’ing Sestito drives Anderson out of the game
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C’mon Leafs send the homeless home
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and by the way Baseball does SUCK…slow slow slow..man you need to be on life support to cheer for this sh I t
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cmon Toronto kill this penalty off
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PHOCK CINDY
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F ing Maple Leafs 6 shots by Pissburgh on net halfway thru the game and 2 go in…C’mon Toronto knock the Azzdancers out already will ya?
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somebody should run Fluery like Sestito ran Andersson
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Pissburgh has nothing left to play for… except to keep the FishTanks alive.
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Good luck
https://www.nhl.com/news/bryan-bickell-will-retire-from-nhl-after-season/c-288565520
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Leafs have to win 1…ONE period here to get into the playoffs…
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Can someone tell me, why the hell is Crosby playing this game – especially given his injury history?
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Man I hate Pittsburgh!
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I hate the isles and they WILL make the playoffs.
sad that i like toronto and tampa and neither will make it
toronto choking like they choked a 4-1 lead to boston in game 7
since expansion the leafs fans have it the worst.
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Once the Fishsticks get in, now all we will hear about is how courageous they are, without Tavares, and with the resurgence of the “great” Halak
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I predicted the FISHSTICKS would get in weeks ago. Looks like I will be correct. Sad.
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I’d have to root for Washington, although likely would anyway as hedge against Pitt-Columbus winner
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I sent a text to 2 isles fans 5 minutes ago proclaiming them as playoff bound. If leafs can pull this out they’ll be mad at that jinx text.
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THE HOCKEY GODS HAVE DELIVERED!!!!!! THE 4th LINE and HUNWICK !!!!
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lets go Leafs find a way
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Well it’s tied now. Leaves just need to win this game somehow. Or at least take a point and hope for the best against a (very hungry to get their game together before it’s too late especially with Tortorella) Blue Jackets.
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yes
go leafs go
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LEAFS>>>>wahoooooooooooooooo Brown !!!!!!!!!!! 2:48 to go cmon LEAFS put a dagger in the homeless barclays
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130 to GO !!!!
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empty net lets go leafs!!!! Holy McEilenney what a save on cindy !!!!
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BUENOS NOCHES, FISHSTICKS!!!!!
BWAHAAHAAAHHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
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48 seconds left to putting the azzlanders to sleep
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LEAFS WIN LEAFS WIN LEAFS WIN LEAFS WIN EMPTY NETTEr GOOD NIGHT AZZLANDERS GOOD RIDDANCE BROOKLYN
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sleep tight isles
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Wow! When is the last time Ranger fans had something like that to cheer about at MSG!
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su ck it islanders
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Wow. Turned on the last 8 minutes of the Toronto game. Nice to see what real hockey, played with passion, looks like again instead of these last few Rangers games…
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WHAT
A
WIN
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It will be very easy to root for the Leaves against the Craps.
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Good for Toronto and a most enjoyable night to be an anti-NYI fan
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Meaningless games why should the Rangers display any passion?
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this Toronto win has made my whole day..Brooklyn goes “home” starts looking for a new place to play..f off Isles..lmao…
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i hope toronto gets a point tomorrow to avoid washington
let boston deal w washington
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What I take from this is leafs could be beaten by us. Hopefully they get a pt tom and stay in Atlantic. Moot point prob lose to Habs anyway. Thank god no isles.
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Devils n Isles OUT Philthy OUT now if Pissburgh would just lose to BJ’s in round 1 I would be a happy man…
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Cmon Toronto beat CBJ tomorrow and leave Marchand to de-nut Wilson
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The East…The West…It’s all beautiful to me…
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“The islanders will win” -Nostradumbass
“I never get tired of being right”
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So glad the punk aasen lightning are out! No fishies either, no flyers, no devils! Best playoffs ever. The 4 teams I despise are all out!!
Woo hoo!
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Squirrels Bowman has the Summer off. So do the Fish Tanks and the Orange Crud. All good things for sure.
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Hugo Folkyerself.
Exactly
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From the headmaster: now, boys and girls, let’s remember, we root for our team and not against our opponents. Please join me now in singing the team song: “Rangers, Rangers, über alles…” Wait, not that one?
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FAKE NEWS
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RUSSIA
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Hey yoooo. Dis team sucks Her Hajestys royal balls. They’re not going nowhere this year. Time to watch the Yankees. These rangers wasted my interest in hockey. Bunch of losers.
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Good morning, boneheads!
Hard to watch these games. Wonder who else they will sit tonight.
I like what I see in Hank’s game. He will be ready and motivated.
It doesn’t look like Buchnevich will start on Wednesday. Glass. Or Pirri/Puempel.
Neither Toronto or Ottawa are going to ECF, imo.
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Forgot to mention one more thing. I’m sure a lot of history will be thrown around in regards to NY-Montreal match, including how poorly NY ( and Hank) play in Montreal. Except that NY won the last 2 playoff series. One in 2014, another one in 1996. Remember Vincent Damphousse?
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The troll continues to lecture others on how to be a Ranger fan.
#sad
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GOOD MORNING!
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Norm, many moons back the President of either Harvard or Yale found out that the offense was directing their attack against the weakest link of the opposing defense, and called for the banning of football at the University, as he considered this to be anathema to the school’s standards of fairness and integrity. Needless to say, the powerful Alumni had him removed. 🙂 True.
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The NYR are a funny (not in a good way) team. Perhaps with the exception of the earliest games in the season, they seem disinterested or worse until they are down by a couple goals. Then, like a switch being thrown, they storm back. That is what I am expecting in game #1 – we go down 2-0 by early 2nd and then boom! 3-2 by early 3rd, perhaps an ENG to win it 4-2 and Sam and Joe prattle about ‘character and leadership, so many past playoff games.’
The problem is, doing that against playoff caliber competition game after game is at best a 50/50 proposition. To win the series they will at some point need to play a full 60 minute game.
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they will at some point need to play a full 60 minute gameS*
*FIXED.
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I’m in love with Henrik Lundqvist
When he’s announced, I always pump fist.
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I’m in love with Derek Stepan
He’s our first line super weapon.
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I’m in love with Third Row Staal
He’s not too tough, but very tall.
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Brady Skjei best be no faker
His presence killed The Undertaker.
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I’m in love with Tanner Glass
If you want a fat lip, give him sass.
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Got a Kreider picture on my fridge
Jumping from the Hudson to the GW Bridge.
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Ilb
Trailed 2-0 losing first two games at home in 96. Won 4 straight.
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AV likes tight underwear
Which he picks from his crack
With the utmost care.
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Man some of you guys suck the fun right out of this time of year. Even in a game where they sit half the team people are hyper critical and pissed off? Astounding.
Maybe you’d like one of these teams that allegedly have so much more talent and potential than us that have been scrambling for two weeks to try to grab 8th place? idk anymore.
But to use a phrase from another Ranger every one of you hates “I’m not going to let this blog ruin my playoff hockey” : D
Anyhow, Lundqvist looks like he’s just about got it together for the post season which is the best you could hope for right now. Getting real curious which dman sits. I like the element that Smith brings, I think it’s important to have it against Montreal and through the playoffs but he’s certainly tough to watch in his zone at times.
As for the Buchnevich thing, we know how this coach operates. While I can probably make an argument for the depth of the offense with Buchnevich in the lineup, I guess there’s no point if he’s not playing top 9. Thus, Glass might as well play. Especially with the likes of Ott and Dwight King now in the mix for the Habs.
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Doesn’t really matter who they play btw. If their top guys do not perform the way they’re getting paid to play then the opponent won’t matter. Transitional season or not, I think there are going to be changes if this team fails to perform and gets eliminated first round- regardless of how high the organization may be on certain players.
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BRAVO! (LOUD STANDING CLAPPING!)
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Refs allow us to be beaten up in front of opponents’ net, both before and after whistles, and it will be even more allowed in playoffs. We, on the other hand, are soft and generally polite to the big bodies who screen and intimidate Hank.
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The pessimist says, “Things are awful. They couldn’t possibly get any worse.”
The optimist says, “Oh yes they could!”
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Coos, touché!
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Good memory, Eric.
I can’t imagine what you looked like after game 2 😀
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A metaphysician is a blind man who goes into a dark cellar at midnight without a light looking for a black cat that is not there.
A theologian finds the cat.
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Some day
Sean Day
Might make my day.
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Ovi: “Shoot puck, get check!”
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How about everybody burying the Leaves and putting the NYI in during that game last night. LOL.
coos, you’re killing me. Rhyming and stylin’ like E3. Boyeeeeeeee!
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Two bedraggled New York Chihuahuas after three years, finally reach the outskirts of Vancouver looking for Tortorella. “He got fired WHEN!?
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Hank: “I hate to put it this way, but I have a yacht and you don’t”
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ilb I’m doing a story about the four NYR-MON series during my time on the beat for Tuesday MSGNetworks.com. Speaking with players from each of those series.
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Fran Healy, after interviewing Hank on yacht: “Would you mind if I used your restroom?”
Hank: “I’d prefer if you waited until we tied up and you could use the pizza parlor.”
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Seems like we unsuccessfully tried to peel Chelios from Montreal all the way back to 1983.
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Is Kreider intimidatable? Hab fans will surely try.
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Gather around, children dear, for this morning’s lesson in how to be a proper Rangers fan.
First, emphasize each player’s faults. Make it as personal as you can, inferring character flaws where possible. Suggest, for example, that any any odd physical attributes are the likely result of drug overuse. If a Ranger is on the downside of his career, be particularly merciless and compare him unfavorably to the player he was in his prime, not that he was that great to begin with. Needless to say, management was moronic to sign him to that bloated contract, the one you see him pissing away in night clubs all over the city.
Regarding the coach, doubt, nay, decry his every move. The guy rarely has any idea what he’s doing, particularly in regard to the forward lines and defensive pairings he selects, rotations you could put together better in your sleep. That he has never won the Stanley Cup is an obvious sign of his mediocrity–scratch that–mediocrity is putting it kindly. The gum-chewing, obviously, is a dead giveaway. He takes a perfectly tough piece of gum and makes it as soft as his players.
To that point, you cannot–I repeat-cannot–go wrong pounding the point home as manfully as you can that the Rangers are as soft as buddah and that they hold each other in such mutual contempt as to run away when a comrade is attacked by the enemy . Make it clear you would never share a foxhole with any of them, and that if you were put in charge, there would be a veritable orgy of recrimination on the ice such that by game’s end, Rangers fans and players alike would stride out from the rink arm-in-arm, bloodied but unbowed, singing rugby songs. (While the enemy licked its wounds, sniveling in the corner begging forgiveness from rat-fink Islanders fans.) No player under 6’4″ and 250 lbs. need apply in your regime.
If, as sometimes can occur, the opposing team scores a goal, remember that A) it’s Game Over B) the other team, ironically, sucks C) If it was Crosby he really sucks D) McIlrath would have prevented it, and E) Lundqvist uses too much hair product.
Stay tuned for further lessons, but this basic intro should get you up and running. Until then, Let’s Go, Soft Rangers!
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I’d fly combat missions with McDonagh, JT, THE, Klein, Glasser and few others.
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Might throw Danny G in there.
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Do you have a combat mission license, Coos? Call me when you’re taking off, and Kev and I will join you. We’ll be in the smoke-filled adjoining jet, giggling.
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If you got ’em, smoke ’em.
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I can picture Staaler down there on the carrier deck, waving so long with his shuffleboard stick.
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Unusual amounts of acorns in Westchester this Spring. What does it all portend?
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James-10:14 & 10:17 Spot-on!
Norm-11:33 LMFAO!!
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Lots of pigs.
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