It’s Go Time!

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Stanley Cup Final, Game 2

Panthers (0) vs Golden Knights (1), 8 pm start, TV-TNT

79 responses to “It’s Go Time!”

  1. 4everanger Avatar

    First! …

  2. Corky Bucek Avatar

    Vegas is gross

  3. SN Avatar
    SN

    Brett Howden has entered the chat

  4. Kakko's Camp Avatar

    Why did I pay money to watch this in the arena? Smh

  5. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    the long break before series started affected fla. also affected my interest. following through scoreboard only. was going to watch about halfway through.

  6. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    Not much to watch tonight.

  7. Loneranger Avatar
    Loneranger

    One of the most boring Stanley Cup playoffs of all time. Is there a mercy score to give the to the Puddy Kats ???

  8. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    Vegas showing them how it’s done.

  9. Kakko's Camp Avatar

    Panthers sucked but the refs also gave them a raw deal…..again. Not an excuse, just an observation. They should’ve forfeited after the second period and made it a 1-0 win. Lol
    Did anyone see the news that three of the officials from the first game live in Vegas? Sounds fair.

  10. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    Adin Hill? Seriously? The game was so intense I feel asleep on the couch.

  11. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    Brooks on the Twitter: “Why does Quinn play Howden ahead of Lias? It’s not fair!!!”

  12. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    The first goal by Howden was a nice backhand move. Brace yourself…. 16:33 TOI, third most of the VGK forwards.

  13. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    EV had not read that about the refs. Were it NFL or MLB I might be slightly shocked. Not so much NHL/Bettman.

  14. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    good for Howden but lets not put him in Hall of Fame…. He’s playing with Stone and Stephenson which sure helps

  15. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    bobbyo – reading what you wrote is shocking enough, no? “He’s playing with Stone and Stephenson”

  16. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    If I’m the Vegas coach I’m putting up every newspaper headline from Game 4 of Bruins series. Puddy Kats haven’t run out of lives..yet.

  17. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    espn strikes again

    cans chelios
    keeps subban

  18. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    Subban and friend getting ready for intermission on ESPN

    View post on imgur.com

  19. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    my son ran into Subban at a club ..said he was a good guy…friendly and talked about hockey/playoffs

  20. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    I heard he tries to slewfoot you if you cut in front of him going to order 😉

  21. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    Subban just slew-footed Chelios

  22. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Lost Wages, Nevada

  23. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    The Filth did a three team trade:

    Provorov and Hodgson -> LAK
    Peterson, Walker, Grans, LAK 2024 2nd-rounder -> Filth
    Connauton -> CBJ
    2023 22nd overall, conditional 2nd in 2024 or 2025 -> Filth
    Provorov (LAK) -> CBJ
    Connauton (CBJ) -> LAK

    maybe someone can diagram that 😉

  24. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    I can, the filth just wanted to get rid of Provorov for his refusal to wear a colorful jersey.

  25. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    Vince Z. Mercigliano
    More #NYR    coaching updates: I’m hearing that whoever is named as the next HC will not be retaining assistants Mike Kelly, Jim Midgley and Gord Murphy. It does sound like goalie coach Benoit Allaire and skills coach Mark Ciaccio are likely to stick around.

  26. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    I thought those guys had already been canned. Maybe not Murphy though. Vince is hitting the bottom of the barrel for news now.

  27. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    would love to know why they canned jim ramsay. wonder where he’ll wind up

  28. wwpd Avatar
    wwpd

    Haven’t won a Cup with ramsay in almost 30 years. time to go a different direction 🤷🏼‍♂️

  29. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Smart Head Coaches want to name their own assistants. Management usually includes a viable heir apparent in their choices.

  30. SN Avatar
    SN

    It’s habbenin; dreary about to announce Mr Freeze or Knobcock or Eddie Munster according to Vince Mozzarella

  31. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Headline when Parcels let go – TUNA CANNED

  32. James G Avatar
    James G

    So Vince is saying in a nutshell that Drury fired GG because they had different points of views and that Drury expected to find some better candidates but hasn’t so will settle..do I have that right?
    He may want to update his resume..

  33. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    If Q is even a possibility you wait until Playoffs are over…. Knoblauch is always there as the back up plan.

  34. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    James, i think Vince is heading on vacation and wants this wrapped up asap

  35. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    I am completely confident Drury will do the wrong thing.

  36. Bdl Avatar
    Bdl

    I don’t see the need to rush the decision. Laviolette and Hynes aren’t going anywhere, and as bobbyo said, you can fall back on knobloch if needed. Wait on Q. Wait on the Toronto and Pitt situations to be announced officially. Until Keefe signs an extension, Keefe to Pitt, and Sullivan shaking loose, is still possible.

  37. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    I think you do want a new coach on board prior to the draft. Even at this point there is little time for coach input.

  38. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    It’s becoming more obvious that Drury is waiting for either Sullivan or Quenneville. It’s the only thing that make sense.

  39. Bdl Avatar
    Bdl

    Beezle,
    Coaches usually have little input when it comes to the draft.

  40. James G Avatar
    James G

    To hell with the coaching search, is anyone else concerned about the fact that it’s yellow outside? Holy haze of death!

  41. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    James
    It’s blue where I am at.

  42. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    Masks back in fashion in the big Yellow Apple

  43. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    This smoke is really something. I think I’m back up to a pack a day.

  44. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Smoke from Canada? Walt Disney was right. Small World after all.

  45. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    I was going to post a link to smoke on the water
    watch?v=zUwEIt9ez7M
    But wordpress has other ideas.

    just add the youtube part.

  46. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    GG will be announced in Calgary before Drury gets off the dime.

  47. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    Calgary is the only other current vacancy so Drury would have the field to himself. It would be nice to have the coach around for the prospects camp and 7/1 FA derby.

  48. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    yanks cancelled due to unhealthy air.

    yet they expect to play 2 tomorrow starting about 4?

  49. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    I heard it is supposed to improve overnight.

  50. Jeff Avatar
    Jeff

    What NYC needs today is what i am enjoying in Aruba,tradewinds. 25 to 30 mph winds that knock stuff all over the place. Hope weather improves for all of you and maybe we can have a new coach before July.
    LGR

  51. Admiral Ackbar Avatar
    Admiral Ackbar

    This is like the return of a nightmare:

    My college is now having optional on-line learning, and masks are everywhere.

    Lockdown!!!

  52. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    But, It’s unlikely to last for 2 years.

  53. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    Post Sports+ – Inside The Rangers

    The real Stanley Cup history that could await Peter Laviolette as Rangers coach.

    There’s this narrative that has bounced back and forth on social media that Scotty Bowman is the only coach in NHL history to have won the Stanley Cup with multiple teams.
    As with so much that is taken for fact on the internet, this is fiction.
    If Peter Laviolette is hired by the Rangers, he would be aiming at becoming the fourth coach — not the second — to win the Stanley Cup with more than one team.
    The second in 70 years, but the fourth overall.
    History did not begin when you (or even I) were born.
    Bowman is the only bench boss to sip from the chalice with three teams, having won with Detroit in 1997, 1998 and 2002 after winning with Pittsburgh in 1992 and Montreal in 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979.
    Before him, though, Dick Irvin coached the Maple Leafs to the 1932 Cup before winning the title in 1944, 1946 and 1953 with the Canadiens.
    And before that, Tommy Gorman was behind the bench for the 1934 champion Black Hawks before guiding the Montreal Maroons to the Cup the very next season, making him the only coach in NHL history to win the Cup with different teams in consecutive seasons.
    The Maroons played three more seasons before joining a list of storied, defunct franchises that includes the likes of the Brooklyn/New York Americans, the Hamilton Tigers, the Philadelphia Quakers, the Montreal Wanderers and the St. Louis Eagles.
    There have been a total of 51 coaches to win the Cup. Twenty-four did not coach another team. Twenty-four failed to win the Cup again when hired by a sum of 43 organizations.
    Since Bowman stepped down on the night he donned his skates and did a lap with the Cup at Joe Louis after breaking Montreal’s Toe Blake’s record with his ninth Cup as a coach following the 2002 victory over the ‘Canes, 14 Cup-winning coaches have been hired by 28 different teams.
    John Tortorella is on his fourth team since winning with Tampa Bay in 2004. Ken Hitchcock coached five teams in the aftermath of winning with Dallas in 1999. Marc Crawford worked for four teams after winning with Colorado in 1996.
    And Laviolette has worked with Philadelphia, Nashville and Washington after taking Carolina to the 2006 crown.
    No. 1 and done?
    Once the Rangers hire a coach, attention will turn to personnel matters.
    And Alexis Lafreniere will be among the most prominent persons of interest as general manager Chris Drury and the team’s hierarchy plot the club’s course through a challenging salary-cap maze.
    Multiple players own no-move clauses in their contracts, and No. 13 and K’Andre Miller are restricted free agents.
    There is credence to reports the Canucks have interest in acquiring Lafreniere, but this was first forecast when Vancouver hired Lafreniere’s initial agent, Emilie Castonguay, to become assistant general manager in January 2022.
    Even if the hierarchy would ponder moving the 2020 No. 1 selection after only three seasons, there is no obvious trade match with the Canucks unless you think Vancouver would part with the 11th-overall pick in this year’s draft and cover 50 percent of the remaining two years on 26-year-old right winger Brock Boeser’s contract, which has a cap hit of $6.65 million per.
    If the Rangers would entertain dealing Lafreniere, they’d almost certainly rather obtain a young player on an affordable, controllable contract who would be able to contribute immediately. Boeser and a prime first-rounder might be acceptable.
    There is no realistic trade scenario that would appeal to Rangers fans. Lafreniere has recorded 91 points (47-44) in 216 games in three seasons for the Blueshirts.
    There are only two No. 1 picks to have been traded so early in their respective NHL careers. The Caps traded defenseman Greg Joly, first overall in 1974, to Detroit for 31-year-old journeyman winger Bryan Watson after two years and 98 games (9-24).
    And the Blues traded 2006’s first overall, Erik Johnson, to Colorado after two-plus seasons, 203 games (20-71) and a conflict with the front office in a major deal that featured Kevin Shattenkirk going the other way.
    (Eric Lindros, taken by Quebec at the top of the 1991 draft, and Bryan Berard, first overall by Ottawa in 1995, were both traded because of contractual and cultural issues before playing a game in the league.)
    The comp pick pickle
    There has been some rumination as to whether Lafreniere might be susceptible to a Group II offer sheet that the cap-stressed Rangers would be unable, or unwilling, to match.
    The Blueshirts likely would match anything in the $3 million-$4 million range, if even it’s deemed a little rich for their tastes. The potential return of a 2024 second-rounder as compensation for a deal with an annual average value between $2,145,062 and $4,290,125 surely would not dissuade the Rangers front office from digging a bit deeper than it would like.
    Compensation for a contract carrying an annual cap hit of between $4,290,126 and $6,435,186, though, is a 2024 first-rounder and third-rounder. The Rangers likely would accept that in lieu of matching that type of cap-busting deal if we’re looking at giving the winger upwards of $4.5M per.
    But, A) Is there a team out there that would be willing to go long-term at this price?
    And, B) If the deal is not worth, say, at least $6M per, would Lafreniere want to lock himself in at around $5M per for six or seven years?
    A bridge deal in which Lafreniere could build his equity playing for a different coach would seem like the most likely option, but let’s go one step further.
    Teams must own the required draft pick(s) in 2024 to be able to make a bid.
    There are 10 teams that do not have their own 2024 second-rounder, and would be eliminated at that compensation range (a deal between $2,145,062-$4,290,125): Boston, Colorado, Florida, Montreal, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington and Winnipeg.
    And there are 11 opposing teams that do not have their own 2024 third-rounders, and thus would be ineligible to come in with an offer sheet for Lafreniere at that (higher) range: Boston, Colorado, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Minnesota, the Islanders, Ottawa, Pittsburgh, San Jose, Toronto and Vegas.
    So, chances of an offer slim seem slim.
    So, within any historical context, does a trade.

  54. Corporal Clegg Avatar
    Corporal Clegg

    Whoever the rangers pick in this draft likely will not be playing for the coach that is hired as they will be fired by the time the late first has developed into an NHLer

  55. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    Drury may not be around either. This is a big hire for him.

  56. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    Drury shouldnt be going anywhere but its a big hire…that why it should be Q

  57. James G Avatar
    James G

    So the Kings re-sign Gavrikov. Kind of surprise it’s only for 2 years but the AAV is excellent in terms of setting the market.
    Mikkola for 4.5-4.75 per would be a great deal right now

  58. James G Avatar
    James G

    Looks like Winnipeg is open for business.
    Could Drury covet Dubois? If you were going to move a young player this would be the guy to do it for

  59. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    like Mikola but but he has to stay under 4

  60. James G Avatar
    James G

    Market determines that, Bobby. Looking at the big picture guys like Graves and Shatty may command 4. Under 4 gets you the Kulikovs and Nick Holdens of the world. We’ll see

  61. Corporal Clegg Avatar
    Corporal Clegg

    Twitter:
    Vince M ; in a surprise announcement GM Chris Drury has hired former Stanley Cup winner with the 1996 avalanche (4 years before Drury won the cup with the AVs) Claude Lemieux.

    Asked about what the fans should expect and if they will be able to root for such a polarizing nemesis Drury replied “we need to get our noses dirty and the fans are smart enough to realize that”.

    Lemieux , who has always functioned outside the norm, is expected to bring on Patrick Roy (a former Drury teammate) in a co-head coach role.

  62. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    not sure about this market though James…not alot of cap space

  63. Gravy Avatar
    Gravy

    Vancouver is over the cap by 600k (thought they likely have LTIR of 5.5M to use) with 18 players on the roster, so unlikely they are considering retaining salary.

  64. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    Claude Lemieux? What? Lol

  65. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    Every day without an announcement brings us closer to Coach Norm 😉

  66. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    JT for the DJ straight up

  67. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    You know, with the air quality being so bad, probably should have shut everything down and have people stay home until it’s safe to breathe outside.

    “Two weeks off, so you don’t cough”. (C)

  68. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    bobbyo
    I make that trade in a heart beat.

  69. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    JT would have to agree to hug Kreids after every W as part of the deal

  70. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    bobbyo
    Lol! I don’t think JT is a hugger. I would also do Panarin for Kucherov.

  71. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    Panarin for Kucherov lol

    Why not Panarin for McDavid straight? 😀

  72. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    C3
    Yeah that was funny. Maybe Panarin for Buchnevich 😉

  73. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Proposal: Spin contest between our esteemed Cave Man and the Yank’s DJ LeMahieu.

  74. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    Rumor has Hynes is now the front runner.

  75. 4everanger Avatar

    God forbids…

  76. ilb2001 Avatar
    ilb2001

    I’m reading this article between the lines. You know what it says between the lines? Exactly the same it says in plain words-absolutely nothing!

  77. ilb2001 Avatar
    ilb2001

    But…

    NEW POST

  78. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    The Philadelphia Flyers are exploring the trade market for defensemen Tony DeAngelo.

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