Coos – I agree. I don’t understand. Do they really think the females are going to become fans just because a guy has pink skate laces or whatever? It’s ridiculous.
As for hockey. I was traveling this weekend. Got into the hotel with about 15 minutes left in the Ott/Pitt game. Holy cow it’s 1-0! Then Pitt scores and I think they’re going to win going away. Nope. Go figure.
The #Yankees are trotting tons of special guests onto the field, but they forgot the person who is most responsible for Jeter's success. pic.twitter.com/k9MRUb88Ta
Before last night’s game I thought wouldn’t Nashville vs Ottawa in the final be a TV ratings blockbuster? {s} I guarantee NBC is praying that Pittsburgh wins.
On Fathers’ Day, will teams wear a big black belt to remind some of us of Dad back in the day when a swat across the ass wasn’t defined as child abuse?
I was never sent to my room because I didn’t have a room. I slept in a soggy cardboard box outside the back door. And I felt lucky to have that box. 🙂
I’m pretty excited for the Memorial Cup. Aside from major junior being entertaining as hell, it’s going to have a few good opportunities to see Gropp and Day, especially on May 21 when they play against each other.
I’m particularly interested in seeing Sean Day. For a guy who has been labeled as having commitment and fitness issues, it will be very interesting to see what he’s done with himself over the past six weeks since his team was eliminated from the OHL playoffs by the London Knights, especially against teams that have been battling through their respective playoffs.
Wish I knew what allowed some teams to go down a couple of goals and comeback and win or a team to give up a goal or two and not just fold. Is it the type of players, the system they play, the coach? A combo?
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Just asking for a friend who roots for a different team 😉
I know I must sound like a broken record……broken record……broken record……but I still say the hated pens win the cup! And just for the broken record if we trade any of our young core out west for defensive help they will eventually wind up in Pittsburgh!
Watching every minute of these games. Though I am bored out of my mind. I guess boring hockey is better then none. Can’t stand baseball so football better be here soon.
Wicky these things tend to be cyclical in a league that is designed to even things out based on draft and cap. Yes exceptions like Pittsburgh exist (chicago had a great run too).
Has your friends team made the cup finals in last 5 years? Any other runs to conference finals in those years? Maybe it has an aging core and is on the downside of the cycle. Has your friends team kept their picks in the draft and rebuilt that way?
One of the things you learn from years of dealing with drug people, is that you can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it’s waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Don’t hate me, but I hope Pittsburgh wins. I always want the best team to win. Never want the small markets to win. Really dislike the way Ottawa plays. Am bored to death by Nashville. Anaheim is almost as good as the Rangers.
Coos I was thinking about you today with the roof rake as I raked rocks off my lawn. Too much yard work. I encountered a snake, a tic and a spider that was literally half the size of my size 12 shoe. Where have you gone Westchester County!
Eli, don’t want to be the bearer of bad news but Carp isn’t a fan of the Rangers. They’re on that list with Wicky, European hockey players, JT Miller, French Canadians, the L.I.E. , the Verazano, et al. 🙂
With that said, Carp you’re kidding right? lol I mean I get it but at the same time I’m just sick and tired of Pittsburgh just like people complain about the Patriots and the Yankees- there’s no fun when one team is loved by the league, has most the band wagon fans come post season time, gets most the calls and tends to be managed well, stacked with talent and wins championships as often as you and I eat fish on X-mas Eve.
Things I worry about because I’m a Ranger fan:
-NYR buy out Dan Girardi and 5 minutes later the Islanders, Flyers or Devils sign him to a 2 year deal for $900,000 per. Pierre goes on to refer to G as the “best 3rd pair Dman in the league”.
-Raanta is taken by Vegas and gets traded to an Eastern Conference rival team at the deadline when their goalie gets hurt.
-Grabner is taken by Vegas and is traded to Pittsburgh before the season starts since Vegas also picked Hagelin.
-Lindberg is taken by Vegas, gets traded to Philadelphia and becomes a solid 2C for the next 10 years.
BTW, there shouldn’t even be an expansion draft. They should have moved Arizona across the desert.
Sather’s NMC’s are the gifts that keep on cursing this organization.
This day in hockey history, May 15th 1973, the New York Islanders used the #1 pick overall to select Denis Potvin from the OHA Ottawa 67’s at the NHL Amateur draft held in Montreal.
Pittsburgh blames themselves U.K.
Clearly they need to address their glaring need for an enforcer who is willing to go after the opposing team’s star players. Matt Cooke is only a year older than Chris Neil who clearly helped the Sens defeat the Rangers. Maybe he’s worth a look 🙂
Pageau buried every chance he had against the Rangers but shanked his shots last night and no BGB three cushion shot at the end. Sens PK has been good. Maybe it wasn’t all bad PP by the Rangers. MAF looks shaky at times, but, doesn’t give up the killer softee. Sens trap hasn’t slowed down the Rangers or Pens, but Anderson has been better than he was against the Rangers. If Sens can win game 3 it may be a series. If not Pens will roll over them like they did the Rangers last year.
so it’s not Stepan, or Miller, or Kreider or Haze who need surgery… it is our MOST effective forward in playoffs who needs one! Unreal! Kid played hurt and still outplayed all of the fat cats who were healthy! LOVE THIS TEAM!
Love Mom and Mothers’ Day, but could do without all this pink on our teams.
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Coos – I agree. I don’t understand. Do they really think the females are going to become fans just because a guy has pink skate laces or whatever? It’s ridiculous.
As for hockey. I was traveling this weekend. Got into the hotel with about 15 minutes left in the Ott/Pitt game. Holy cow it’s 1-0! Then Pitt scores and I think they’re going to win going away. Nope. Go figure.
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Happy mum’s day all bonehead mums and mums of boneheads!
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Dats allotta meat on dat sandwitch
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Happy Mudders Day to youse mudders out there. His mudder was a mudder too. Loves the slop!
Is it October yet?
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Happy Mother’s Day to Mother. I think she’s still banned from the blog.
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Kesler strong as bull
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Ryan Gropp’s team won WHL playoffs… he finished with 7 playoff goals. @gropper8 on twitter
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Clean Slate. Gropp it!
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Getzlaf = BEAST OF ALL BEASTS
18 Points (8 g) in THIRTEEN games! Unreal stats!
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Before last night’s game I thought wouldn’t Nashville vs Ottawa in the final be a TV ratings blockbuster? {s} I guarantee NBC is praying that Pittsburgh wins.
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Good morning, boneheads!
Didn’t see Pittsburgh- Ottawa, but I thought Nashville- Anaheim series is pretty entertaining so far.
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On Fathers’ Day, will teams wear a big black belt to remind some of us of Dad back in the day when a swat across the ass wasn’t defined as child abuse?
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I was never sent to my room because I didn’t have a room. I slept in a soggy cardboard box outside the back door. And I felt lucky to have that box. 🙂
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5 minutes for boring and a 10 minute mis Bond Act.
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Just because it wasn’t defined as abuse doesn’t mean it wasn’t.
Besides, my mom hit me WAY more than my dad ever did.
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But Dad never reached for the broom.
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I reached for my belt, just to threaten him, and I got a glimpse of myself in the mirror. And “the Executive” was born.
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What about his brimless rain hat?
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For everyone who had a mother, was called a mutha, or bet on a mudder.
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It’s gonna be a long summer!
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Cats on a hot tin roof
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The Urban Sombrero. I put it on the cover.
Well, nobody sees the … cover.
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Baseball trivia:
How many top 10 playoff categories for Jeter on a per game or at bat basis?
i.e. batting ave., HRs/game, RBI/game, etc etc
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Answer: Baseball sucks.
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I’m pretty excited for the Memorial Cup. Aside from major junior being entertaining as hell, it’s going to have a few good opportunities to see Gropp and Day, especially on May 21 when they play against each other.
I’m particularly interested in seeing Sean Day. For a guy who has been labeled as having commitment and fitness issues, it will be very interesting to see what he’s done with himself over the past six weeks since his team was eliminated from the OHL playoffs by the London Knights, especially against teams that have been battling through their respective playoffs.
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I’m gonna guess zero.
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Luca Brasi was modeled after Stepan
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Corp – you are correct sir!
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Carp, I would guess the same, but to me, this is a big referendum on his viability as a prospect.
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‘You talkin’ to me?’
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Like with baseball, hockey players should be allowed to step off the ice and re-adjust their gloves after every pass.
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I was talking about Jeter, Doodie.
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I’m already sick of these Conference finals.
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Oh, see? That’s how little I care about bat ball.
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Nashville-Anaheim is pretty damn good., Carp.
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except Nashville bores the crap out of me for some reason.
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Really? I like them. But even putting that aside, that series is starting to get nasty.
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It really is. Lot of diving too. And a lot of bad officiating.
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Every series has a lot of diving. I just accept that it’s part of the game now. The bad officiating is what has allowed the series to get so nasty.
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Wish I knew what allowed some teams to go down a couple of goals and comeback and win or a team to give up a goal or two and not just fold. Is it the type of players, the system they play, the coach? A combo?
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Just asking for a friend who roots for a different team 😉
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I know I must sound like a broken record……broken record……broken record……but I still say the hated pens win the cup! And just for the broken record if we trade any of our young core out west for defensive help they will eventually wind up in Pittsburgh!
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Watching every minute of these games. Though I am bored out of my mind. I guess boring hockey is better then none. Can’t stand baseball so football better be here soon.
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eric, you should watch the Memorial Cup. Junior hockey is much more exciting because it still has mistakes.
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Wicky these things tend to be cyclical in a league that is designed to even things out based on draft and cap. Yes exceptions like Pittsburgh exist (chicago had a great run too).
Has your friends team made the cup finals in last 5 years? Any other runs to conference finals in those years? Maybe it has an aging core and is on the downside of the cycle. Has your friends team kept their picks in the draft and rebuilt that way?
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When start on NHL network.
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I think Friday is the first game. Gropp vs. Day on Sunday.
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Wake me up when duchesne and trouba are rangers.
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Eric will be asleep a long time.
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“Eric will be asleep a long time.”
Most likely forever.
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“Plenty of time to sleep when you die.” – Torts
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Just listened to the cerny podcast. Cerny isn’t bad, but the Scott Charles guy is a jackwagon.
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NEVER trust anyone with two first names. And if he has three names, he will try to kill Presidents.
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Is it October yet? YAAAAAAAAWN…
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One of the things you learn from years of dealing with drug people, is that you can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it’s waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye.
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Eric is gonna sleep with the Fishes.
Don’t hate me, but I hope Pittsburgh wins. I always want the best team to win. Never want the small markets to win. Really dislike the way Ottawa plays. Am bored to death by Nashville. Anaheim is almost as good as the Rangers.
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Carp you’re joking right?
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Coos I was thinking about you today with the roof rake as I raked rocks off my lawn. Too much yard work. I encountered a snake, a tic and a spider that was literally half the size of my size 12 shoe. Where have you gone Westchester County!
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Eli, don’t want to be the bearer of bad news but Carp isn’t a fan of the Rangers. They’re on that list with Wicky, European hockey players, JT Miller, French Canadians, the L.I.E. , the Verazano, et al. 🙂
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With that said, Carp you’re kidding right? lol I mean I get it but at the same time I’m just sick and tired of Pittsburgh just like people complain about the Patriots and the Yankees- there’s no fun when one team is loved by the league, has most the band wagon fans come post season time, gets most the calls and tends to be managed well, stacked with talent and wins championships as often as you and I eat fish on X-mas Eve.
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Well said James screw the pens! Sick of the league love affair.
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Carp is dead to me.
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Carp or corp is dead to you?! 😉
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Carp to Crosby: “I wish I knew how to quit you!”
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https://www.sny.tv/rangers/news/the-rangers-top-10-prospects-according-to-the-hockey-news/230428258
lots of goalies on this list. is that good or bad?
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Clark added that he (Igor Shestyorkin) is the “closest thing” that he has seen to Henrik Lundqvist. (NY Post)
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Well… here come few more cupless decades 🙂
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Anyone know anything about canon DSLR lenses? I need to pick up a telephoto
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Nikon forever.
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It’s not you, it’s not me. It’s them.
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Things I worry about because I’m a Ranger fan:
-NYR buy out Dan Girardi and 5 minutes later the Islanders, Flyers or Devils sign him to a 2 year deal for $900,000 per. Pierre goes on to refer to G as the “best 3rd pair Dman in the league”.
-Raanta is taken by Vegas and gets traded to an Eastern Conference rival team at the deadline when their goalie gets hurt.
-Grabner is taken by Vegas and is traded to Pittsburgh before the season starts since Vegas also picked Hagelin.
-Lindberg is taken by Vegas, gets traded to Philadelphia and becomes a solid 2C for the next 10 years.
BTW, there shouldn’t even be an expansion draft. They should have moved Arizona across the desert.
Sather’s NMC’s are the gifts that keep on cursing this organization.
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Turris looks average speed w/o Stepan on the ice
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Buyout staal, not Girardi
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Agree
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Dats da trooth
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Save the End Boards! Buyout Staal!
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JR thinks goalie playing well is good
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Pens and Sens — good game 2 – nuthin-nuthin so far
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Former Coach Killer Kessel scores. 1-0 Pens
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So what did Carp’s favorite franchise give up for Kessel? Kessel has been a clutch since he left Toronto.
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Tom K
only 1 guy per team is going to be drafted by Vegas.
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I know Alex-Doesn’t stop me from worrying about each of those scenarios.
Turris has some rat in him.
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1-0 Pens.
The Flower earns his 10th playoff shutout, tying him with Hanka for most shutouts by active goalies in playoffs.
FCK Kessel with the GWG.
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A total of 4 goals in 2 games
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Pens were dominant and can hold a lead. Let’s see if the Sens have run out of puck luck.
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Exact same firedrill 6-on-5 vs. Pens as it was for NYR. Only Sens didn’t get the bank-shot off BGB’s knee.
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Big Glide Brass.
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This day in hockey history, May 15th 1973, the New York Islanders used the #1 pick overall to select Denis Potvin from the OHA Ottawa 67’s at the NHL Amateur draft held in Montreal.
#VintageHockey
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I was dissappointed to see the Sens not score there.
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Rangers in 6.
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One and done.
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Poor dude… I feel bad for him
https://www.thescore.com/news/1301478
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I bet you that in Pittsburgh, they captioned this photo as “Karlsson’s vicious and cowardly attempt to injure Sidney Crosby”
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I don’t know what you mean, clearly Sid was just protecting himself – not a hint of aggression in his face or demeanour… 😉
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Pittsburgh blames themselves U.K.
Clearly they need to address their glaring need for an enforcer who is willing to go after the opposing team’s star players. Matt Cooke is only a year older than Chris Neil who clearly helped the Sens defeat the Rangers. Maybe he’s worth a look 🙂
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Carp is a closet Pens fan and I believe he orchestrated the Hagelin trade from Anaheim to Pitt.
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Pageau buried every chance he had against the Rangers but shanked his shots last night and no BGB three cushion shot at the end. Sens PK has been good. Maybe it wasn’t all bad PP by the Rangers. MAF looks shaky at times, but, doesn’t give up the killer softee. Sens trap hasn’t slowed down the Rangers or Pens, but Anderson has been better than he was against the Rangers. If Sens can win game 3 it may be a series. If not Pens will roll over them like they did the Rangers last year.
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That 2mins and 34 seconds turned the series on its head! 😉
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http://fulltiltnyr.com/new-york-rangers-jesper-fast-may-need-offseason-surgery
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so it’s not Stepan, or Miller, or Kreider or Haze who need surgery… it is our MOST effective forward in playoffs who needs one! Unreal! Kid played hurt and still outplayed all of the fat cats who were healthy! LOVE THIS TEAM!
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…and the kid will probably end up a Las Vegas shiny pony by the end of June
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Fukc Bettman
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Lindberg>Vegas
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good news on Gernander/Drury. Kevin Hayes just scored 1-1 against Russia.
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*NEW POST*
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