Whether it’s Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, some other holiday I don’t know about, or just a regular day if you don’t celebrate anything, enjoy it.
And as Carp would say, if you drink today, don’t you even think of driving.
Whether it’s Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, some other holiday I don’t know about, or just a regular day if you don’t celebrate anything, enjoy it.
And as Carp would say, if you drink today, don’t you even think of driving.
325 responses to “Happy Holidays from RR2”
‘But I hit my best drives when I’m drinking.’ – John Daly
Happy Holidays to all and may Hank find his game and the D find someone to cover in front of the net.
Happy Holidays Boneheads!
Merry Christmas all you ‘heads out there!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Hoping this is the year Sam Rosen’s infamous proclamation comes to a miraculous conclusion with a Stanley Cup Victory celebration!
Good morning, boneheads!
Happy Holidays, everyone!
Happy 26th ilb!!!!
Happy holidays to all!
Happy holidays all. One day probably not in my lifetime we will a cup again
Merry, Merry and Happy, Happy to all of youse and youse’s.
Merry 5th in metro!
All I want for Christmas is a 5th in the Metro!
All I want for Christmas is a fifth of JW Black.
Happy 26th Birthday to ilb. He makes everyone that knows him into a better person.
Merry Christmas, Chappy Chanukkah and happy holidays, ya buncha boneheads!
Happy holiday from Norway to all boneheads and Carp! We need to get all the boys back from IR, and give Danny G some rest one in a while. Still not 5th in metro.
Merry Christmas to all! I hope everybody is doing well.
Its blowing 75 mph her in Denver here today. i lost my Direct TV and they won’t be here till Wednesday. I am watching football on my computer today.
Hey tomb 80 degrees down here in St Pete! Instead of a white Christmas it’s a bright Christmas
Wery wyte in wyoming.
Norm is peripatetic. I think you can die of that eventually if left untreated.
A merry and a happy to all!
LGR !!!
Sorry about the delayed Holiday best wishes, but the weekend was waaay tougher than I thought it would be. Looking forward to the WJC – Go USA!
Happy belated, ilb!
NEW POST
Lies…I don’t see a new post.
–
Happy Boxing Day everyone!
Wick, you know that boxing day doesn’t mean fights, right?
Carp
Lol…yeah. Probably the busiest day of the year at our house. Organizing stuff, going to different local charities and such stoping stuff off. It’s kind of like regifting day with really good intentions 😉
Stoping=dropping
Our wives would get along, Wick 🙂
January 27, 2007 Dan Girardi made his NHL and Rangers debut. January 7, 2011 Ryan Mcdonagh made his NHL and Rangers debut. Perhaps this is the perfect time to call up Ryan Graves and gives the blueline a boost?
I’m drinking, driving, and texting. Watch out world, I’m in a hurry.
Wake me up before you go go, dontbwantb to go in solo……take me dancing tonight!!!
go go Rangers!
Good morning, boneheads!
Game Day, finally!
Any updates on our wounded warriors?
Yeah, Roussel is on IR. Oh not who you meant, my bad.
Guys guys! Don’t post all at once! Plz! Can’t keep up with all your “thoughts”!
Roussel sux.
Everyone takes two weeks off. That’s why when the Cubans bombed Pearl Harbor, we weren’t ready.
Cccp
Watch your mouth 😉
The Holy Roman Empire wasn’t prepared when Napolean conquered them.
Rome wasn’t billed in a day.
Jeffrey Dahmer was accused of spreading roomers. On his toast.
Wicky
OR what? 🙂
Henrik SieveQvist has a flu. Raanta to start.
Is Hartley our coach yet?
Cccp
I’ll tell carp about you breaking the blog! 😉
Sure it’s the “flu”
Is there a call up or is Hank going to sit on the bench and get everyone else sick?
I was five and she was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
I wore black and she wore white
She would always win the fight
Bang bang…
The 2012 team was a skill player away from being a cup winner imho. The 2014 team was a goalie away from being a cup winner. Since then, they are being by more and more players away from a cup winner. Right now when the roster is fully healthy, they are 3 players away from a winner (minimum).
I kind of agree about 2012, Wicky. I fully agree with 2014, not sure I agree with your assessment of this team. Just curious, what three positions do you feel need to be upgraded?
Except that in 2014, the Rangers lost despite having the best goalie in the playoffs.
2 goal lead in game one. Three separate 2 goal leads in game two. A lead in the 3rd period of game 5. One goalie did not give up a goal from the period on. The other gave up two many to count.
Buchnevich was at the morning skate in a non-contact jersey. At least he is skating.
Bdl
Need a big centre that can win draws routinely and plays physical. Need a physical bottom 6 fwd that can play. I give .5 a player to 2 positions…not completely sold on the D and the 8.5 million dollar man.
The caveat I have about adding any physical player is the coach, who seems to be determined to make sure none of his players display any onions on the ice. So adding any guy that plays that way before becoming a ranger probably won’t continue to do so once they’re here as long as double bubble and his victim mentality remains.
Halverson called up. yay.
Wicky
A good 4th line center seems to be what you are looking for. I agree, but it can’t just be a guy. He has to be good at it. As far as the D goes, it’s going to cost you to upgrade.
RIP Carrie Fisher. What a crazy year thus has been. Can’t wait for it to be over.
The Kings badly outshot the Rangers in the 2014 series–that Lundqvist, who beat the Pens nearly by himself, couldn’t also steal the final hardly makes him the one player away from the Cup. He had the best goalie numbers in the playoffs (other than Rask, who played only 12 games) and the Rangers wouldn’t have been anywhere near the final without him. The Kings were the better team–Kopitar, Carter, Williams, Gaborik, Doughty vs. McDonagh, St. Louis and Stepan? Amazing there were any overtimes at all.
2016 sucks.
Bdl
Agree the upgrade will cost…I might just be willing to pay.
–
Norm
Hank just didn’t make the saves when they needed to be made. It’s that simple in my opinion. Hank is not paid to be a good goalie, hank is paid to be a difference maker and he wasn’t then and hasn’t been the best ranger goalie 3 out of the past 5 seasons, which is what he is paid to be.
Norm
I will also had the kings did have size and size matters.
Had=add
Typo Hattie 👍
That was the deepest team the Rangers have had in a long time, Norm. You left out Nash, Brassard, Pouliot, Hagelin, and you favorite player Kreider. It is amazing that the goalie without tge best STATS won the cup. Why? Because of the big save at the big time. Quick made them, Hank did not.
Bdl
Agree
I’m still waiting for someone to give me the name of the last top 3 goalie to win the cup….
Utter nonsense to say Lundqvist in 2014 didn’t make the saves when they needed to be made, whatever that even means, or they would not have gone on the [surprising] run to the final. Every save needs to be made, which is why save percentages and to a lesser extent goals-against are used to measure a goaltender’s worth. Lundqvist was the best Rangers player that year by a country mile, and to forget the saves he made when they needed to be made, to remember only the ones that were not, is pretty revisionist if you axe me.
That the Rangers were deeper than they had been did not make them anywhere as deep as the Kings. Quick had less to deal with, by far, and the story of that final was hardly some battle of goalies. A look at the numbers in the playoffs that year, with an eye to what actually happened rather than some preferred goalie-bashing narrative, is a reminder that the Kings had some real studs on their team, the Rangers not so much. It’s one of the charms of this blog (part of it) that it’s the only place in the hockey world where Lundqvist was the player-away in 2014 and where the Rangers were anything but overachievers that year.
Top 3 goalie…..anyone?
Brodeur? Roy? Hasek?
Agreed Norm. Los Angeles was dominant and lets not forget that Chicago and LA have been the best teams for several years (in some cases interspersed with off year in between). It was not any Rangers fault that LA won that cup. They owned the third periods and the overtimes. The better team won it’s that simple.
Finally got my Budweiser goal light. Rangers gonna light that thing up in May like Katy Perry’s vajayjay
Cccp
Ok, how long ago was that? Like many here say, game has changed…don’t need a top 3 goalie to win the cup, better than avg goalie will do it. Not to mention the cap hit is not necessary.
We’ll all be long gone before they win another cup. Fold the franchise.
quick – Conn Smythe winner? 2012
Quick was also a top 3 when they won in 2014. Tim Thomas was a top 3-5 in 2011 with the Bruins. It’s a lame argument.
In NYC tonight. Any of you animals gonna be at the puck for pre-game?
Thomas shared duties with rask (but I’ll give you top 5…maybe).
–
It’s not lame, sorry all the lundqvist groupies can’t face facts. He hasn’t even been the best goalie on the team some years, so please stop.
Well, given enough Rangers fans will turn on every Rangers player. Look, I am the first to admit the Lundqvist has been less than regal in 2016 (I blame the year – can we please start the new year early). But they tend to forget that a lot of the success the franchise has had since the last lockout has been built on his back.
Yes, I know that Henrik made sure he was taken care of contract-wise and could have helped out and taken a hometown discount like Uncle Daddy did in jersey. That still does not erase what he did no more than are Messier’s exploits erased because he left NY for Vancouver and then didn’t have much gas left in the tank when he returned.
Hank has short side sinus infection!
Hate to say this boys but the only way the Rangers win this game tonight is if Raanta plays lights out!
Valli-ket said force the dumps
Go time?
no easy goals against Rangers!
Ottowa is barely even forechecking, as usual
spoke to soon.
Well, this isn’t going well.
too
two
I’m no Lundqvist apologist, but I’ll say this, he has given this team a chance to win & go deep in the playoffs every year since 06/07. All this while NEVER having a true bone crushing, crease clearing D-man, or 2.
Sure, in 2014 I put some blame on Hank, a lot. But, IMO Quick was lights out on our attempted o-zone attack. And the damn zebra’s did nothing to help our cause. lol.
How I feel now In 2016. Knowing Hanks roots & past history, I believe that fate will never have him lead us to the promised land.
Wow just wow, paging Mr. Shesterkin. cheese & cracknuts.
Oh no we suck again!
Rangers aren’t going to “Go” until we get a Go Time! thread.
Girardi sucked on that play
This sucks so far.
I hope you’re right, Rob.
that Christmas break was supposed to be a weapon.
First!
Just turned on the TV. Seems things aren’t going well so far?
At least the Rangers have a bunch of injury excuses.
Rangers playing fancy-boy vs. another trap team? Yes or no?
Carp!
one forechecker and the Rangers can’t break out of their own zone. ouch!
HOLDEN!!!!!! He’s like Christensen!
Holden! nice shot! That was needed.
Big goal! Now put in Halverson!
First Again!
Please put in Halverson.
Catching up on my reading, “all the Lundqvist groupies can’t face facts”. Will be gratifying to watch my fellow groupies vote him into the Hall.
Maybe we could just focus on getting in and Teams below us. Forget the top 3 they’ll be long gone.
Rangers vs. Senators of late not the best formula for righting the ship. At least they’ve avoided the shutout this time.
This is brutal. These clowns are still on vacation, and they left 2 games early.
They also apparently go into a dead sleep during video meetings and gameplan meetings about how to play against trap teams.
Or maybe their coach isn’t interested in helping them adjust?
Halverson is barely an AHL goalie. Raanta really can’t be blamed for those goals.
First!
LGR !!!
This power play is unexcellent
Despite the goal I still think the power play was ungood
Team is garbage will
End in misery like always.
Lots of time left. Rangers got this one.
HOSED!
No “Go Time” thread? This is definitely a full assed venture.
Wow! Need to kill this.
Well, that was one hell of a save.
Save of the year?
I thought for sure that was in. That was a save!
Yahtzee!
Well, Raanta is having some period here. #Phrasing
Girardi got turnstyled again by Dzingel.
Who goes after Neil? Pirri, pimple or Stepan?
Yo, Gravy! Check your trade alert in bonehead league, son!
I’m like that poor man going from door to door looking for a goalie but ain’t nobody answering the door!
Neil can do whatever he wnts in this legue
Big Bad Rangers
Seriously, it’s absolutely marvelous that Chris Neil has figured out a way to make a career out of getting away with that crap.
It’s true Bobby, The ‘N’ in NHL stands for ‘Neil.’
LOL, that ott. penalty box can go directly to AMNH dinosaur display
Just a joke folks, I certainly don’t like our fancy boy style.
Whatever happened to J.T. Miller?
Normally I don’t mind when guys pass on a shot if a line mate has a better one, but Miller was insane there.
Neil can do whatever he wants in this league because he is a godd o’le canadian boy.
JT Miller? our old leading scorer? I think he made a mistake once and AV felt he needed more tough love and got put on the 3rd line forever.
J.T. Miller is now T.J. Miller again
FIRE SATHER?
Norm, we’re just lucky that Miller pass didn’t turn into a 4-on-2 the other way.
Miller lacks hockey sense at times, frustrating.
Good Power play
That was BEYOND perfect off the faceoff. Awesome!
1C.
so is stepan now the rangers #1a center, 2A center or 1B center?
That was HOT
Bingo!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOBY!
Stepan HAS to be convincing even his most stringent naysayers that he’s an excellent 1.5b center. But only when the Rangers are slumping. If they’re playing more gooder , he’s just an adequate 2a/b.
Refs suck both..weak call driving net
The Rangers would be nowhere without the much-maligned first line lately, Step especially. Other lines don’t even exist at this point.
PIZZA!
Stepan rules. I don’t know why people are ever upset about him. He’s not the most “physical” player but, we’ve seen from his injuries that he doesn’t lack toughness.
Good Evening, BearJew!
Nice to see a post from Rob too. Been a while, man.
People just hate Stepan because he’s bald.
Step’s mom should offset ANY issue you may have with him.
I believe JT is playing hurt.
Stepans head looks like a newborn baby
Newborn baby looks like Stepans head.
We’re getting the band back together!
Potato potahto
If the net was another six feet wide, we’d lead the league in SOG
I’m glad to be back. Been away from the blog for too long. I’m making it my New Years resolution to fix that.
LGR!!
Holy. Crap. Vesey. Is. Going. To. Get. Pounded.
Has Vesey ever fought? Doesn’t look like it
HODOR
Poor Brian Boyle. You bullies just leave him alone already!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZMdOZeZ-Ck
Was that our first fighting major?
Vesey now has 50% as many fighting majors as Alex Ovechkin.
Love the “officiating.” VC jumped by third man, given 2 for defending himself.
Or is it 5?
Vesey was making up for letting Eakin skate away from a crumpled-up Hank Lundqvist unmolested.
The NY Rangers have the greatest “immediately post-PP” offense in the GAME.
Holden is Rogue One!
Miller and Hayes reminding me of the Miller and Hayes opponents used to worry about.
Eff Derek Stepan. Nick Holden should be our 1B center.
Holden needs to center the second line.
I think Klein (at least) had a fighting major earlier in the season.
They do it on-purpose BearJew. They want that + stat.
Beset was definitely taking up two subway seats in the box
Beset? That’s Vesey dumba$$
Great call Big Davey B!
Rangers were offside February 2014, so, after challenge, tonight’s goal disallowed.
Nick Holden is the greatest offensive D-man since Brian Campbell circa 2007-2008
Wasn’t this guy Holden supposed to suck …pretty good trade by Gorton
I’m personally really happy with Holden. I dare say he’s looked better than Coach Klein this year (not handsomeness-wise)
If an offsides disallows a goal and the ref puts time back on the clock, does he also press just a little hair back onto Stepans head?
Four fights this season: Pirri, Kreider, Klein, Vesey.
Broadway Bullies
Vibin’ DaveB yoojly and bigly a little while ago.
Coos and Faux 🙂
For such a venomous game, Has Chris Neil been back on the ice at all?
Good to see some old-timers returning
Mickey Rivers and Lee Mazzilli?
LMAO @ Broadway Bullies
Bobby Ryan is such a basic biotch. When he mouthed “you gotta be #$&ing kidding me!” he looked like an actor in an after-school special.
Our penalty kill is so penalty killyish tonight
POWER kill, Faux Greene. POWER kill. Joe told us that story at least 4 times tonight.
I though Zucc would kick him in the ribs like Joe Pesci
Sly, Zook, sly. Almost got away with it.
Rangers may cough up a point or even two tonight, but good to see them fight back, good comeback by Raanta, too.
Weak call
Lots of luck on Raanta’s side tonight.
Seriously, no line but the first can score a goal.
The only luck Raanta needs is Benoit Allaire!
What will the league do when we get our guys back??!!
Holden, Step, and Raanta, irregardlessly scorewise.
Is there anybody in the league named Berry that Ottawa can get to play with Dzingel?
Would of been 4-0 if Halverson was playing
Is it cool if we call Halverson “Gravlox?”
and not particularly orderwise.
Holden just saved the game.
That block by Fast tells you everything you need to know about why AV keeps him out there. Holden also with a great saving play. Really disciplined out there, no fly-bys looking for empty-netter.
Chinese Fireplace
Pretty terrific win. And another great second period.
Rangers WIN!
Don’t forget to vote.
GUTSY!
Oh Yeah, A good ballsy come from behind win.
SHA-BOOM!
No ledge loungers tonight.
Would not want to play Ottawa in playoffs …when refs throw away their whistles
Broadway Bullies, LMGO
Holden, Raanta, Stepan