NY Rangers Lead 2-0
26 Apr 2024 7:00 PM EDT at Capital None Area, W. DC
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The NY Rangers lead this Eastern conference first round series 2-0 after beating the Caps at MSG on Tuesday, 4-3. Tonight they go down to DC to try to make that 3-0 and take a commanding series lead. The sooner Ovechkin is in tears, the better!
Game 2 was a very competitve event and it is not unreasonable to expect the same tonight. The Caps absolutely have to bring everything they’ve got as very few teams ever come back from down 3-0. The Rangers also have to recognize the significance of going up 3-0 vs the possibility they return to NY with the series tied 2-2. The Rangers have not always been smart about stepping on the other team’s throat when they have them down; time to get some killer instinct going. Or as Mr. Fox said:
“I know the Game 3 last year was a tight one, overtime (2-1 loss), you win that one, it’s a different series. But I guess all you can take from last year is that learning experience. You’re up 2-0, you want to win that Game 3. We know they’re going to come out desperate at home and it’s just about matching that energy.”
Lineup wise, no changes for the NYR. Wennberg took part in an optional morning skate today so is good to go after a maintenance day yesterday. For the Caps, defensemen Sadin and Jensen both skated this morning and it is possible they come back in. Caps expect Miroshnichenko to make his debut at 4th line RW. Miroshnichenko is 6’1″, 185lbs so not a bruiser. In 21 GP this season, he has 2 goals, 4 assists and just 6 penalty minutes.
On this date in history: In 2012, when they were still just kids, Dan Girardi and Marc Staal both scored to lead the Rangers to a 2-1 win over Ottawa in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals..
Zebras tonight (from Scouting The Refs):
Probable NYR lineup
Forwards
Top line ⊳ Chris Kreider ⋄ Mika Zibanejad ⋄ Jack Roslovic
Second line ⊳ Artemi Panarin ⋄ Vincent Trocheck ⋄ Alexis Lafrenière
Third line ⊳ Will Cuylle ⋄ Alex Wennberg ⋄ Kaapo Kakko
Fourth line ⊳ Jimmy Vesey ⋄ Barclay Goodrow ⋄ Matt Rempe
Defensemen
Top pair ⊳ Ryan Lindgren ⋄ Adam Fox
Second pair ⊳ K'Andre Miller ⋄ Braden Schneider
Third pair ⊳ Erik Gustafsson ⋄ Jacob Trouba
Goalies
Starter ⊳ Igor Shesterkin
Backup ⊳ Jonathan Quick
Healthy scratch: F Jonny Brodzinski, D Chad Ruhwedel, D Zac Jones
Injured: none
In the Cooler: none
Long-term IR: F Filip Chytil (upper body) and F Blake Wheeler (lower body)
FIRST and afraid (kind of,,,).
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blogfather gets a Valley Cat shout out
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let’s gigogogogogohogogo!!!
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Let’s do THIS!
NEW YORK RANGERS are in da HouWSeeeeee!!
Let’s go let go let’s go let’s go
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we all know the drill. Tonights will show us if yhey have learned anything from last year. 1st test on our road to the cup. I hope they are up for it.
LGR
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IT IS TIMEEEEE!!
Grab your beers , slap the dog and put the baby to bed cuz its GO TIME Boneheads so let’s gogogogogogogogohohoo!!
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This game will speak volumes…..about the Rangers, their killer instinct or lack thereof and their commitment to achieve victory.
My thoughts on the subject ….if they can be endured by the rest of you is…..
that they are going to win tonight in a close one and then crush a deflated and disheartened Capitols team.
This is a perfect season for them to erase and obliterate the curse of Sam.
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rangers 7
Craps 0
GwG – Rempenator
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I would consider quick in net today
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Kathryn Tappen > Paul Bisonnette
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Verizon can take their uber lame commercials and shove them up their conduits.
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The Great One is wearing a coat that makes him look like a pharmacist.
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someone needs to blast TJ Blow-she early and often.
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Here we go. LGR!!
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ovi and Wilson crashing into each other at full speed would be lovely too.
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Gonna be a bloodbath…Craps will throwing absolutely everything. Have to stay cool and weather first 10 mi,. ..than another 10, then.. – you got it.
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good start. I like it
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E3 said blow
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Why Roslovic didn’t shoot?…
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Brothers don’t shake hands brothers hug!
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Guess which Shesty we got tonight🤦🏼♂️
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Rempe is a beast.
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what a sh-t goal. What an absolute sh-t goal. Get your head out of your a**, Shesty!
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Igor?
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ummm.
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Lol.. well that was quick
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Perfect response
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way to answer right back
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Woot
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THE bailing out the blind 👁gor!
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Unexpected…Totally on Shesty.
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Hopefully someone got Igor his glasses after Kreider’s goal
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Good job by the huggie twins to tie it up. Shesty better get it together.
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belated…. THE SHAKALAKA!
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CK20 Likes to practice primal screaming. Awesome. Seems to work for him. Maybe I’ll try it. With a little luck maybe it will annoy the neighbors. But then again on the other hand…they might call the police.
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Nice getting the goal back quick so it doesn’t stick in everyone’s heads.
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Good start – everyone should be awake now 😂
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Dumb penalty by Lindy
omg they are playing Sandstorm
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Time for a shortie. Break them.
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short!
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wait.. no that was a good penalty by Lindgren 🤣
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What a f$&king dive!
Yessss Sam Goody!!!!!
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Woot woot
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Just how they drew it up before the game!
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Goody is a playoff player.
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someone say shorty? Wooooo!
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They should take more penalties
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Love the shorty!!!!
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This game needs to settle down, has all the makings a potential clown show so far
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Was that Wennburger with the terrible turnover?
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Miller working his magic
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that is not a penalty . 🐴💩
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Rempe come on dude… You can’t take a penalty every other shift!
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You say interference I say finishing the check
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on second thought….he did him in the head. Oh well….oops.
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until further replay 🙄
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I’ll take that penalty all day long since the Rempenator will now live in the heads of the enemy
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One of these days he’ll realize that everyone else is shorter than him.
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I love Rempes enthusiasm and aggression….just needs to be more circumspect.
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interference of the head? I’m surprised they didn’t call it
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Hard hit like that you go out and kill it for the guy
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Awful call IMO
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The problem there was the puck was long gone, kid has to be a little more aware. On the other hand, I don’t mind drilling one of their guys while we have the lead
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It wasn’t a penalty until the 2000s, but it’s the correct call.
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Patches could have shot instead of standing there for a 5 count waiting for his pass to materialize 😂
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Lavi just needs to whisper a few words in his ear and then send him right back out there for his next shift
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Killed the penalty, and the Caps D and will rush to move the puck 0.1 seconds earlier expecting the hit next time.
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“nice hit, kid”
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These losers boo Panarin
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Wilson can’t complain when it was just called on Rempe.
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Panarin obvious goon.
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our goal scorers were by 2 of the guys many ranger “fans” hated on all year
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It’s lazy penalty day. They’re just baiting them to score. Smh
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Wtf is with Wennberg tonight?
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Haha I could argue this one but what’s the point
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Another dive.
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they looking to tie it up for then
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i hate that penalty a lot more than what Rempe did. Hooks are terrible
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Smoking in the dynamite shed
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Roslovic is kind of shotshy, making silly passes instead…time and time again, except just incredible one
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E3 is it true you got a new OLED for the can just to watch the playoffs?
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would have been nice to score on pp. They have to stop taking penalties. You cannot keep Ovi of the board for much longer. Hope Rempe has learned to take a breath. He can be very effective but not from the penalty box. PP goal in second will happen.
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How can Gus be a Swede with hair that dark?
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LGR!
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Beez….maybe Gus dyes his hair…. doesn’t want to be known as a dumb blonde.
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So far, so far…
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mika has dark hair too
middle eastern swede
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This plane is like the old garden hallways, small and packed upstairs
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Clown show
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Nice of the ref to stop the puck for team Red
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from cerny twitter
There you go, off the Matt Rempe hit, TVR done for the night. #ALLCAPS down 3 regular defensemen (Sandin, Jensen yet to play in series) plus Iorio hurt in Game 1, too
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rempe has been on the ice right now for 25% of his entire ice time for the game
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Van Rymsdike got Rempied!
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Because Caps player was injured on Rempe hit; how much you want to bet The Kid gets suspended?
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More shots needed
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Monster save by Igor
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Caps the more desperate team. The boys gotta get some un-yuns going.
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The boys gotta stay out of the box for more than 4 minutes at a time
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IDK, on the replay it looks like Rempe made contact with his entire body, not just his head. Not his fault he’s 6’8 and the other guy is a 6’3″ midget who wasn’t paying attention
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Neveelr knew before this series that Carlson is such an impenetrable wall at the blue line who cannot be cleared past
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Need to weather the storm.. Caps will make a mistake
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Please do that power play goal here.
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Need to get one here.
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THere ya go!
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Vermont!
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Yes like that
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Woot woot woot
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VT!
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Feisty Kakko!
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HUGE
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Lots of phantom interference to call on that sequence!
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Too cute. Just shoot the puck
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Its funny how they can score when they shoot on the power play but not when they don’t. Someone should look into it
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When bread is the only shooter and just takes a slapshot from the blue line
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who beats the tar out of Wilson?
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Papa bear just guessing but… Nobody.
Rempe should since he’s suspended for the rest of the series anyway may as well get his licks in tonight.
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acceptable period?
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Pretty good so far. Not perfect. And as for that Oshie video posted above, I like him more now than I did after Game 2.
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Just enjoying the game so far.
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Don’t think he’ll be suspended, not on an interference call. But it is the NHL so…
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Like wwpd said Rempe should take his pound of flesh from Wilson after we score 1 more goal. Because he now has a history of knocking players out he will definitley be suspended.
So who do you put in Sun, Bro man or Chytil. I would stay away from Chytil because you know Wilson will mess him up.
LGR
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Suspended for what?
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Maybe stop it with the penalties
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That was a love tap.
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Suspended when the league goes back and reviews the hit and concludes it was suspendable because they want to and it’s a C-O-N-spiracy
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Igor Igor Igor
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Big big kill.
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It’s penalty mania in DC
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About time for another penalty isn’t it?
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The refs really put their whistles away in the playoffs!
Glad we got that debunked
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Smoking in the meth lab
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They really need to stop this stupid parade to the penalty box.
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jeez enough with the penalties.
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refs doing everything they can to make this a series
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Call everything on NYR and nothing on WSH time.
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These penalties are ridiculous.
i think Rempe shouldve fought Wilson bc the trade off is great. The caps need Wilson more than Rangers need Rempe. Im also extremely curious how that fight would go.
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At least they can just keep dumping it down into the other zone (like E3)
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They are doing their best to give us all heart attacks with all these penalties. It is going to bite their ass soon.
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Was that one late too? Just trying to understand the rules here
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That was not a penalty.
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Oh boarding the guy who turned last second away from the on-time hit. Got it.
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obi may as well be a linesman… this is great
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Holy shiz kreider is a rocket ship
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Gimme four steps… Lynard Skynard.
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Pucks deep no dumb stuff at the blue line time? Nah…
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Karl what a way to refer to our nation’s capitol!
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About time for another penalty, no?
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Ovi looking old
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Before the end of this game a Ranger will take a shot in Lindgren and be called for goaltender interference by hitting the goalie with a puck
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Add Mika to the list of crafty vets who just were biding their time to the playoffs. Of course he could still drive the net more 😉
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finally had our first shots of the period
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Is Ovi playing tonight? He scored 30 again this year right?
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caps may have to decapitate someone to get a penalty
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IGOR! No sleepies!
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when wilson bullied bread a few years ago was one team on a pp?
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Get Gus off the ice!
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VERY satisfying
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Dominant
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If I were Carbery, I’d seriously consider taking 8 off the power play. He’s a complete liability
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That game was mental. Rangers on Pk for half the time.
My world view doesn’t have room for a time when Ovi is a non-entity in the playoffs. Guaranteed game 4 goal for him. Hopefully in a 7-1 rangers win!
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Laviolette: “Sweep the Series.”
Shesterkin: “Da, Sensei-ov.”
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Lookin’ good, Billy Ray!
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Brooms on Sunday
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Thank God. I was afraid I would have to stop going to Ranger playoff games outside of New York. Only other one I’ve been to was that Tampa disaster 2 years ago.
Whew!
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That ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it
Money for nothin’ and your chicks for free
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A LOT less Ranger game there than I expected.
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Play off hockey at it’s best. We have the team. We have the coach, goalie players, system and the execution. Boneheads we have a lot to look forward to. Go Rangers; we just don’t ever give up
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Hope goody gets the broadway hat. He’s having a good series.
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Awww… Huggy Twins doing the presser together!
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sexy boys playing well. Haven’t swept a team in a while. Gotta keep pace with the canes.
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A workmanlike win by the better team. Close it out on Sunday. Isles hit the links Sunday morning.
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07 thrashers. Marek Malik the mini-Ent scored a goal in that series!
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from vince on twitter
Caps coach Spencer Carbery with some very candid comments again. Asked about why they’re giving up so many shorthanded chances to the #NYR, he talked about Washington’s “lack of foot speed” as hurting them. He’s not wrong…
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Someone needs to put this up on the board tomorrow:
CHOKE’S ON YANKS – GREATEST COLLAPSE IN BASEBALL HISTORY GIVES FLAG TO BOSOX
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Yup — Yankees choked there – it’ll happen when you’re in the playoffs as often as they are. That Red Sox team was awesome! And the fact that the Yankees have 28 other World Series makes it ok. At least Mets fans got to buy up some Boston gear and be proud of something.
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Alex your 9:38 rangers were on a power play and Buchnevich was down in the Caps’ crease
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wwpd thanks
i thought there was a pp. thought wash might use wilson on our late pp to start his bs
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Better late than never!
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Admiral I just don’t want them counting it as done until its done!
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Lavi’s post game presser – he’s not happy with the calls on our boys. I’m sure he’s especially annoyed with the call on Remps…
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rangers must quicker and faster than the craps. The canes will be a different beast entirely. Igor miles better than fab five Freddy Anderson and that is huge.
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Rangers-Canes only playoff series ever was a banger. Nhl would be lucky to have another like that.
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Happy to see Gus, Miller, and a couple others gone ’24-’25 in return for some talent. Everyone else is golden.
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We’re gonna win this race…..
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Workman like win, they are clearly the better team. I was about a period behind recorded on TNT so I couldn’t post. Caps whinging about the Rempe hit on TVR, trying to sway a suspension. Wilson of all people with the biggest mouth.
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Wilson may go postal on Sunday. His frustration is building with each loss. Rempe just laughs at him. The Caps’ problem is he is now the face of the franchise. OV is fading into history and they don’t have anyone to take his place. OV chasing the goal record will be their draw for the next two seasons.
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All the toughness signings that Drury did when he took over in reaction to the Wilson incident, and it’s a gangling 6th round pick that seems to have shifted the balance in their favor.
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*BONJOUR! NEW POST*
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gangly?
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