OILERS (14-15-1) at RANGERS (22-7-1)
22 Dec 2023 7:30 PM EST
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The NY Rangers, 1st in the Metro division, comw back to NY to take on the Edmonton Oilers.
Status report
The Oilers did not hold a morning skate after their 6-3 win against the New Jersey Devils on Thursday. … Skinner is expected to start after Pickard made 23 saves Thursday. … Brown, a forward, is expected to be scratched for the second straight game. Erne, who replaced Brown in the lineup, scored his first goal of the season Thursday. … Quick will start with Shesterkin expected to play against the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday. … Kakko has started skating on his own, according to Rangers coach Peter Laviolette. The forward will miss his 11th straight game since being injured during a 5-1 loss against the Sabres on Nov. 27.
Source: NHL
Possible NYR lineup:
Kreider Zibanejad Wheeler
Panarin Trocheck Lafrenière
Cuylle Bonino Brodzinski
Vesey Goodrow Pitlick
Miller Trouba
Lindgren Fox
Gustafsson Schneider
Shesterkin
Quick
Likely Průcha'd:
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137 responses to “It’s Go Time!”
Who’s here?
Can’t wait to listen to the crappy ESPe nis commentators while Edmonton game get their usual guys up in Canada
*fans
This better not be Edmonton focused or there’s going to be some REALLY PO’d fans.
Early Jamesgeau
LGR! Keep on Truckin’
The Canadian sports networks all play favorites with the Canadian teams. How about ours do the same for theirs.
The oilers were the team that played last night, right? Asking for a friend.
Ray Ferraro, Emily Kaplan, AJ Mleczko: that’s way too much for me. It’ll be a mute watch tonight.
So Brown hat trick tonight?
GREAT shift by the Zika line
Woot
Wheels are rolling.
Wheeler is a crafty veteran.
What a turnaround from the start of the period.
Anyone else notice that of the Fox-Lindgren pairing, it’s lindgren that goes the deepest and most often into the offensive zone by far?
How many mistakes can you make in the final 20 seconds of a period.
End of the first Jamesgeau
They need to be aware on the PP. Draisaitl is always dangerous.
♪ I’m just sitting here watching the Wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll ♪
So far, so far…
Is something wrong with Fox physically because he isn’t playing to his level ???
That’s a free goal if the helmet doesn’t fall off. Goalie was too far out.
I didn’t realize that Holtby was playing tonight
What happened to “continuous play”?
Play became a discontinuous function and was not differentiable, sorry.
Not sure what Fox is doing there
Why do we always have to play against Patrick Roy when we’re playing a team with sucky goaltending like this one
I know that. But if the puck had left the stick before the whistle on that play, they might’ve had an argument
WTF IS WRONG WITH FOX??!!
Ok a minute of zilch
Might be the worst power play I’ve seen them play all season. Jesus
that stunk.
That powerplay was fragrant.
Too many wish passes
Mika with the good pass in the first, but otherwise pretty bad with the puck.
The important thing is to keep playing a sound defensive game
Lindgren is an idiot
What was that about sound defense, Beezle?
Good opportunity to get a shorty!
Too. Many. Wish passes.
Quick is slick.
Great kill. Quick was the best penalty killer on the ice.
Panarin is way too pass happy tonight
When are they going to stop taking stupid penalties this season. Just way too many penalties taken every game.
The Rangers aren’t helping Quick at all, are they?
Goalie CONTROVERSY
Quick is the best player in the ice
And on the ice
Jonathan Quick just doesn’t have a chantable name.
Tremendous effort not just by Quick but also Lindy and Trouba
Not too comfy with a 1 goal lead here. Plenty of time.
Just a one syllable chant.. .Quick! Quick!! Quick!!!
Quick…ie
Quick…ie
🤷🏻♂️
Just like in Rollerball.
Jon-a-thon, Jon-a-thon, Jon-a-thon,
Why tf is my post not posting? All it was was a Quick chant and it keeps disappearing when I try to post it.
It’s better than being behind.
Edmonton is so fast and good with their sticks. I’m afraid Knoblauch has done a good job with them so far.
Holy crud. Again, and I changed it. What tf
WordPress AI thinks it is spam
Apparently I can’t say quick and ie together in any form unless they’re connected 🤦🏼♂️
Word Press AI, more like Artificial Dumbness
I unspammed one of them
Now go like it, since no one else will see it. LMAO
Just guessing EV but I think it could be repeating the same thing on multiple lines.
Never give your opposition hope; defense very sloppy. Thank God for Quick. Gees did he make incredible saves.
I’ve done that before though, Beezle. Eh, whatever. First world problems.
Rangers need another pp and they need to score on it too go ahead of Jersey. Otherwise, they just dropped. First world problems again.
*to
Can’t lick our Quick!
He’s Quick, not half fast.
It was only a matter of time the way they started this period
Trouba with the snow angel.
Call a f#$@ing timeout
Allow me to say… oy vey
If Trouba stays on his skates he would have broken up that play.
Edmonton has scored 6 goals in their last two 3rd periods over a span of less than 24 hours.
Rangers are in deep deep Schmidt right now
Can they take another timeout?
Did someone yell “SQUIRREL!”? Rangers seem distracted.
They don’t shut out the Oilers twice in a season. They need score more than one.
Is there a Spanish or even French SAP for this broadcast?
I’m not so sure they score another one tonight. The Rangers that is.
They still have trouble with teams that played the day before. It defies explanation.
Plenty of time if they would stop with the stupid passes
I don’t think I want to watch this embarrassment anymore.
The 2 periods strangers
Was that Cuylle with the lazy play on the boards going in ?
How do they always look like the tired team against teams that played the night before??!!
What. The actual. F.
Almost 7 minutes in with NO possession in the o zone.
Finished. See you guys tomorrow
Play for the point.
The Rangers have left the building.
How about they friggin hit somebody and act like they friggin give a schmidt
That escalated quickly. Can’t win them all.
I didn’t have a feed for the 1st but since the 2nd period it has looked like just a matter of time before what happened happened.
Patrick Kane is back!
Woot woot
Woot woot woot?
#1 power play in the league, boyee! 😭
They didn’t give up an ENG for a change. The Foegle and McLeod goals hurt. Can’t let their second tier guys beat you.
Panarin’s streak is in the same dumpster where this game is hopefully left.
The wheels fell off in the third period.
Next match.
This game soured after they gave Edmonton back-to-back power plays. They had nothing going until then.
The Helmet Fling seemed to take the air out of their tires. It was a different game after that.
The Rangers left the building after the first period. Gotta get back to the basics. No hitting. no checking fore or back. Breadman has to stop with his east-west play. The team was responding not initiating. Oilers not ever gonna win the Cup by playing pond hockey. Can’t watch the other team play and expect to win. This coach will straighten that out.
Rangers were the stronger team, when they wanted to be.
Looks like a mess. Now thinking nhl did me a favor that I couldn’t get the broadcast for this one.
Return of the Sidewinders!
They also lost the goalie contest tonight. Quick has saved them a few already. He wasn’t up to it in the third after being the best player on the ice for 2 periods.
I liked the wat Cuylle kept going to the final buzzer. He didn’t quit.
Scraping Mr. Camp’s vomit off the ledge. Poor guy has to go again tonight. Get your electrolytes on board, man!
Agreed Eli, Panarin line way too pass happy (Laffy softer on puck again) and man Mika is about as milk toast a top center as you can find with the level of strength he shows out there. And Fox, Trouba and Miller all sloppy with the puck. Just one game, but Buffalo can put up points, so have to tighten it up
I can’t tell you how many time I yelled at the east/west turnovers.
strong breeze might knock mika off the puck at this point
That was a garbage game by the NYR. Quick kept them in it as long as he could. Don’t understand the regression in play this team seems to go into on a dime. They had neither effort nor smarts. If they hit their head against the wall as much as they tried ridiculous passes there would be a very large pool of blood. Edmonton is, if anything, a fast team. You don’t try to do that stuff with a fast team.
From Uncle Larry: “This marked the ninth time the Blueshirts had surrendered two goals within a span of 1:18. Six times it has happened against Quick, who in fact had heard chants of “Quickie! Quickie!” late in the second period after several circus saves on an Edmonton power play.”
with the Rangers playing .500 hockey the last 2-3 weeks, every night is an adventure I’ll give them that! sorry to see Quick’s point streak come to an end that was a nice story of the year so far.
A bit flat but they still outshot them.. …Unfortunately Skinner played well for a change. Oilers will make playoffs but not go far with current goaltending
Quickie was very solid but that Kane goal was a killer ..kind of fluky but a bad rebound
Some of Bread’s worst tendencies are wearing off on LAF. He is making too many low percentage cross ice passes that become turnovers now. That line has to be defensively responsible. Cooscoos did get his predicted major brain fart from Miller. He not only fell down to cough it up at the blue line. When he got up he did a fly by and was actually behind the goal line when McLeod tapped it in. He wasn’t the only anger watching McLeod on that one.
Zibanejad season has been odd. You can count on one hand the games where you thought Zibanejad was really good. The rest of the time he’s just kind of there. Not playing poorly, but not really doing anything of importance. Yet he still has a good amount of points.
I looked at Vallikat’s expected goal model for the game and he had it pretty even for the game at 4.37 to 3.87in favor of the Rangers. The third was the killer. It was Oilers 1.95 to 1.87. They should have gotten 2 and got 4. That matched what I saw. The 2nd was off the juicy rebound from Quick and they all lost sight of the puck on the 4th. Most goals are scored off of mistakes. They needed to make less of them. Hopefully they will tighten it up tonight.
ORF
Panarin is an amazing talent, but he is as stubborn as they come. I agree his east/west tendencies are affecting Busto. But it also rubs off on the entire team. Shoot the puck fir crying out loud, crash the net, if nothing is open or there get the puck deep, my word hockey 101! Cross ice passes to McDavid and company doesn’t end well.
It is an imperfect stat but LAF, VT and Bread are -8, -3 and -6. LAF has the worst +/- on the team and bread is 3rd worst. LAF has been a + player in the past. (Zack Jones with limited ice time is -7). Mika, CK and Wheels are all +. That’s why they are the first line. Bread has been trending more – the last two seasons. He is dragging that whole line down with his turnovers. That will kill them against good teams and make wins harder than they should be against bad teams. Fox is also -1 for the season and that has to get better. He was +28 last year. Right now Gustafson is statistically comparable to him at <10% of his salary. I'm going to be optimistic. As good as their record is there is lots of room for improvement by key individuals. Better coaching has gotten better results even though some guys are not playing as well as they have in the past.
Bdl that sums up Mika well, not really there but still getting points
Dear Santa,
I write to ask you to bring gifts to my friends, the NYR, for their new year. More energy, fewer turnovers, and North 😉 – South play.
Thank you,
Beezle
Panarin needs to shave his head and keep it shaved. I’ve said this all along as good as he is Panarin has always been the issue, he can’t help himself, it is in his DNA.
Panarin just needs to be Panarin……that’s what he’s paid for and he’s been earning it
Bread and Circuitousness
‘Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.’ It’s come down to this.
Don’t forget the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl, coos 🏈
Lol Norm called me “Mr. Camp” 🤣
Panthers just outshot Vegas 20-3 in the first period down here in Sunrise. Vegas’ first shot was a clear from their zone on the penalty kill.
Flat. Out. Dominance.
But they also did what the Rangers do often in that situation. They didn’t finish.
Yikes… 25-5 SOG advantage on Puddykats are down 1-0? Fugly.
Exactly
The guy I always wanted ties it.
Would’ve been nice, Eli
Tkachuk just literally got suplexed. In all my decades of watching hockey I’ve never actually seen someone grab a guy and do that just out of the blue during play. Crazy.