NYR even in series at 1-1
26 May 2024 3:00 PM EDT
Amerant Bank Arena
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The NY Rangers look to add to their gutty overtime win at MSG on Friday night with a victory in south Florida this afternoon. They’ll need to overcome a number of challenges first to get there.
Lineup wise – rampant speculation about who is to replace Vesey who was injured in the second period Friday and is now listed as “week to week,” likely with a shoulder separation. Questions also remain about other recent lineup moves. Though Rempe appeared to play well enough to alleviate any concerns about playing him in tight games, will Laviolette still play him outside of MSG? Hopefully so, after all there are likely to be a lot of Ranger fans at Amerant Bank Arena. The Panthers have confirmed they will make no changes to their lineup.
Note: reporters believe the final NYR lineup will not be known until players hit the ice for game time warmups. Lineup box is best guess at 1PM.
Keys tonight: the Rangers need to pick up where they left off on Friday. Keep their feet moving and play a defensively sound game. Where they absolutely must improve is the power play and reducing turnovers, especially when entering the offensive zone. Whether a change in method or personnel, something needs to give on PP1.
On this date in history: In 2015, the NYR fended off elimination with a 7-3 victory
at the Lightning in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Final. In 2006, former Stanley Cup winning NYR coach Mike Keenan was hired by the Florida Panthers as GM.
Zebras tonight (from Scouting The Refs):
Prossible NYR lineup
1st line ⊳ Kreider ⋄ Zibanejad ⋄ Chytil
2nd line ⊳ Panarin ⋄ Trocheck ⋄ Lafrenière
3rd line ⊳ Cuylle ⋄ Wennberg ⋄ Kakko
4th line ⊳ Goodrow ⋄ Rempe ⋄ Roslovic
1st pair ⊳ Miller ⋄ Trouba
2nd pair ⊳ Lindgren ⋄ Fox
3rd pair ⊳ Gustafsson ⋄ Schneider
Starter ⊳ Igor Shesterkin
Backup ⊳ Jonathan Quick
Healthy scratch: F: Brodzinski, Kakko, Edström, Wheeler D: Ruhwedel, Jones G: Domingue
Injured: F Vesey (upper body)
In the Cooler: none
Long-term IR: none
421 responses to “It’s Go Time: Game 3, Round 3 !”
Rich, what did I miss?
What do they do this to us. I can’t take much more of this.
Ranger hockey
krrider, Panarin suck
Their defense is non-existent
I can’t take it anymore
That took a while 7 minutes
The hit behind the net on Robocop.
*whole
Well that lead went south fast…
Good defense by Chytil
With a little luck NYR can still win this one!
This will be a very bad loss. Even though they’re getting dominated, they had a 2 goal lead in the third. Can’t give that up
The rest of this period will be in the rangers zone
Time for men to appear and dig deep. Do they wear the Rangers sweater? We’ll see
That’s a weird time to call a timeout
Horrible D again and Igor needs to make a save.Panthwrs own them again. Not enough gamers on this team.
It will be an absolute miracle if they win this game.
I ran an errand at the end of the 2nd it was 4-2. I come back its 4-4. Huh
Panthers will hit 100 shot attempts before end of the period book it
please blood please
If there’s any time to get your power play straight, it’s now.
Scratch that. No penalty
Taking stick in the face may be all Mika May is good for.
I thought you weren’t allowed to review 4 minute pps
🤣 Mika’s own stick
can they review that if it’s not a major?
93 and or 10 need to step up right now or they just don’t have the berries for playoff hockey. If they want to lift the chalice they have to fight for it. Nothing is free….. usually.
Back to being behind the 8 ball
Awful time for them to get one right!
So now 93 is sticking himself in the face. Priceless.
Panarin is f@#$ing horrible in the playoffs
papa, they make up the rules what they can review or not on the fly
Another BS call
Chytil fscking tackled him
Well day good night Gracie.
Sutherland to the rescue as usual
There’s no hold anywhere
another dive by a Panther
I’ll try that again.
Well say good night Gracie.
Watching the replay, it was Trouba who took him down but not sure either was a penalty
Bad time for a penalty. What do we have suffer all the time. Can’t we steamroll our way the playoffs just once.
Trouba had little choice but to tackle there.
another dive shocking
When it’s too good to be true it’s too good to be true
It’sa friggin shooting gallery
you gotta call both if you’re gonna call one
I think I’m mostly upset that nobody has even TRIED to hurt tkachuk
Good kill, lets win now
They’re back to their usual we can’t get it out of the zone
just need a good 2:49
Weird that the ice is still tilted after the PP ends
It looks like there are 8 panthers on the ice.
The massacre of the babies…
Rangers skating in mud
Is Panarin worth 11 million?
Play for the point.
Tactical icing 🙄
St Pete. No.
They’re just barely hanging on
play for overtime? do they think theres a winners point?
Overtime not gonna happen at this rate
Like Ben Stiller getting pulled by the little dog leaving finger nail prints on the ice
My word what a clown show.
100 shot attempts looking good however
miracle it’s going to ot
what a disturbing effort from Mika, Bread, Kreider, Miller, Fox, Trochek
The cotton candy six!
#13 wins it in OT
Mika and bread not playing well.
Time to push these clowns back.
Never thought Twerkin could possibly be the one giving up 5 goals.
Florida is an excellent team…no doubt. However, this is what happens as a cumulative effect when your opponent isn’t afraid of getting hit. You get no sustained o zone time and their heads don’t need to be up constantly. The Panthers are in scrimmage mode, the Rangers are in fireplace mode
Bread is useless. But he’s got to become a factor at some point
Anyone hear Florida is a great team?
We got totally undressed in this third period awful awful hockey
Are the Panthers really this much physically stronger than the Rangers? The Rangers lift weights, work out….do roadwork…. don’t they? It seems absurd…..like the sixth grade baseball team playing preschoolers. Bizarre? No?
Admiral…..a factor at some point…yes….but now not dancing with his best good buddy after this all over. That video was….well… disconcerting.
we have good prime rib ready for the grill. A ranger loss will ruin the taste
this is a game you can’t lose on the way to winning a series.
Up 2 goals under 15 minutes to play
They don’t deserve this anyway. Payments really want it. Rangers want to take a nap
Panthers
Time for 21 or 13 to get the hatty
sportsnet guys mostly saying goal shouldn’t have been allowed, directed off hands
are you guys gonna quit again …really?
Rangers better score quick. They looked gassed in the 3rd.
SN is a great broadcast
Great game between two great teams. Not sure why we’re down on all our players.
Janice wins it
Honestly I am not concerned I’ve always had low expectations. I’ve seen this show many many times before. Anything can happen in OT, but they are not playing anything remotely close to a championship team.
yawn
The stats say the Panthers only had 6 power plays. They’ve had 8.
the biggest basest team in the league dives
this team has been resilient all season. Why not now???? LGR!!!
We’re getting out things ready to leave. We’ve seen this before…
This overtime will not be kind to NYR.
I’m hoping that this game it’s not a turning point in this series.we really don’t deserve to win this game. They have us skating in quick sand
They can’t score if they can’t get it out of their zone
93 is playing like he is sedated.
Fox can’t win a puck battle. Not one
Panarin, is just sending the puck down the other end. HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN HOW TO SKATE???????
Rangers playing rope-a-dope in OT
They’re protecting a 4-4 lead in overtime.
Kreider flicking the puck out instead of skating up. Our legs seem gone.
none of the Rangers have their legs under them anymore. i dunno why we can’t skate for isht
6 more years of Mika.
Putting Wenberg out there now is saying “well, we’re not scoring for 2 minutes”
Panarin = laughing stock
Yay! we made it across the red line. Yay!
Panarin has a hole in his stick?
lol!!!!!!!
Holllly mollly
How could that happen?
they are going to take it away
Good night friends!
Matty you nailed it 😂
Weinberg sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gave it to Barkov have to give it to us
Oh ye of little faith.
bail bail bail
This is magical baby.
Has to be soooo deflating for Florida.😁
CONFESSION: I. DO. NOT UNDERSTAND. HOCKEY!!!
According to Sportsnet, the better team didn’t win. I’m OK with that.
Jbytes yeah the better team definitely did not win 🤣
I’m hearing the better team didn’t win. Oh well!
merry Christmas. Lmfao!
@wwpd
I always say the team that executes best always wins.
Now, I shall go for a walk; I need to decompress.
Great escape. Defense sucked team and players for most part. Chytil brings nothing. Mika in purgatory with Panarin
Delayed Woot, per Gravy 😃
Apparently the Rangers are the only team that can be totally dominated. Score 4 goals in regulation, give up a 2 goal lead in the 3rd, then pot the 5th in OT. I am mentally bewildered!
Zibanejad with some great defensive plays today. Lots of time matching up against Barkov, who’s an out-and-out monster. Tough task.
I guess we will have to be happy with Goodrow,Wenberg and Frenchy scoring. I’m down with that. Our pretty millionaires look like crap. That throwing the puck out of the zone stuff drives me crazy. Maybe I don’t know nutthin, but it seems rather foolish to keep having faceoffs in your own zone.
Last but not least. Wheeler must not be ready because putting Kako in is just damn stupid. He brings nothing to the game There has to be another forward for next game. I will take Johnny Bro. He cannot be worse.
LGR
Also. Why wasn’t Bob checked for a concussion when Laffy skate hit him in the head?
Thank you New York Rangers. I needed that.
Ok if you can do it six more times?🤓
robocop a warrior. Needs new orbital
Question. What’s up with Reinhardt constantly shaking his head from side to side?
Norm all that is true but I think Barkov has scored and Mika has not. Need offense too
I love our resilient sexy boys
our sexy sexy boys are a team of destiny.
rangers merely play hard enough to win.
very clever game plan. Let the panthers dominate and tire out. Then, we will sneak the winner in when they’re not looking.
this game was a gift.
Most undeserved win of the season. Just win, baby.
A win’s a win
Well we won the Bob blowup game. Don’t expect to put up 5 Tuesday
i embedded it, but it didn’t work
Beezle, the Panthers should also not expect to put up 4 on Shesterkin.
Jamesgeau for the win
Call the cops!
Anyone else notice the televised on-ice play seemed a bit faster than real life?
Miller’s positioning and wandering is so bad, he’s not even in the TV picture for goals or near goals.
It’s very helpful and comforting to have our lesser paid players come in and get the job done. Our core vets better start coming down on the pedal. We have been lucky to have a goalie that good. These. Puddy cats have worn us down a bit. Need rest
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cooscoos KAM is pathetic and needs a good talking to
Trade Miller at the draft. And get a real defenseman. Panarin looked like he was chasing a mouse with a yard stick.
Saddest thing about KAM is that he knows he outright sucks, but management won’t believe him.
#8’s high elbow was hanging in the air for an extended period B4 that noggin swipe. His victim had plenty of time to avoid it, took a dive and stayed down while the ignorant zebras ate it all up.
Panerin negative comments are a bit off base. First 2 rounds wasnt he involved in multiple GWG’s? he draws the attention of the other teams best defenders opening up other lines to attack.
Reinhart with his 57 goals was pretty quiet until he wasnt today. Thats what happens in the playoffs. Why to people think that it shouldn’t happen to rangers players too?
goody proving drury right to a lot of people who have questioned his contract since day one! goody for HIM!
gustafsons best game in a long time
laffy backhanders were spectacular. WOW!
also, rempe seems to play with a different rule book against him that sam bennet and math tchacthcukc and lombardo dont seem to have a copy of
Rempe got less than 5 minutes. He also got a BS call on him. J Bro or Wheeler on Tuesday?
Drury had a good game. Goodrow with 2 and GWG Wennberg from Lindgren and Roslovic.
At some point NYR will play a good game and win.
I am still smh what did we just see? This usually happens to our boys in blue.
How many times this year have we seen it this team. Bad process getting outplayed all facets and good result. If it turns out this is the most successful team ever for how statistically “bad” it has been would it come as a surprise?
how many guys wanted to trade Goody or buy him out this season ?
may see Wheeler and or Edstrom this series just for some bigger bodies
if Rempe can’t play more than 5 minutes — and personally I really like him in the lineup, then maybe it’s time to consider Wheeler. If, of cousse, Wheeler is indeed at 100%.
Lafreniere first goal, he had the puck on his backhand forever before shooting it I can’t remember the last time I saw anyone do that
100 plus shot attempts but 37 shots ..that means a lot of blocks right? Defense hung tough tonight against a big nasty group of forwards that frigging dive constantly
DoosDoos perseverate much?? They have meds that can help you with that.
Miller leads the team in even strength TOI.
His +5 is best on the team.
His zone starts are 61.4% in the Defensive zone, second only to Schneider.
D Zone starts %:
Schneider 67
Miller 61.4
Trouba 54.2
Gustafsson 48
Lindgren 41.9
Fox 32.6
And yeah, he had a rough patch in this game, but who didn’t.
miller and Schneider have been solid overall they are eating minutes against elite opponents
should
I’ve been rewatching the game and that Trouba elbow is really bad. That play epitomizes why the rest of the league’s fans see him as a dirty player.
That hit on Crosby 2 years ago was still accidental though.
However the initial slash was an incredibly weak call.
Wennberg sux, I mean he scored the OT winner
League office is reviewing calls and said Rangers will play short handed in the first period of the next game
Just win baby, 10 down, 6 to go!
It was an elbow to the shoulder and he stayed down for 3 minutes and came back the next shift
Trouba got him in the neck and just missed the head.
That’s a dirty play no matter how you look at it.
No concussion protocol a bit of a giveaway. Sold it too hard, launched himself—refs don’t like that.
so. I can’t find anything about the Kulikov hit being reviewed by player safety from game 2 on wennberg
Kulikov got 2 games I. March for almost the same exact hit on Sheary who was bending over and actually had the puck
https://www.nhl.com/video/kulikov-suspended-two-games-6349201622112
Subban screaming for Trouba to get 5 minutes during intermission. What a clown. King of slew foots!
If Miller played in the Middle Ages, he would sucketh. Oh, and hire a proofreader or take an ESL class, whatever your name is.
With all the talent around, who hired this ego-obsessed ‘all about me’ Slewfoot Subban?
Kulikov’s clean hit through the head into the body? What’s to review?
I do think it’s interesting that the league will see past the initial head contact when the hit itself was already illegal because it was interference even without the head.
bobbyo – try not to equate Miller with Schneider. And visit your optometrist posthaste.
Looks as though miler and Schneider had very similar zone starts but with very different results
I see the comments here and most are usually overly negative given the opportunity. It’s a bit boring to be honest. I take comfort every time I read a positive comment. Having said that, you guys know we are playing an extremely tough opponet. Their two top lines out performed ours throughout he game. In such cases it is difficult for Kreider, Zibanejad, Panaring not to look lost and bewildered, no matter how good they should be. On the other hand our bottom two lines outperformed theirs in parts of the game. Still they battleld hard under siege and came out with the W. And that is the only thing that matters at the end of the game. Hopefully the two top lines can find a little comfidence and some flow going in the next one, becouse they wont win a nother one like that. Sometimes a team can look just awful just because and then look completely different tje next. I think the continuous penalties in the first gave the cats a flow that they never lost throughout the game. The cats are a great team. We can also be when we get into the groove. And finally I just have ti say LGR!
Don’t hate me for my very long recap tomorrow….
At what part of the game would you have said “the rangers seem to be playing better than the panthers” and not “the rangers are lucky to be ahead/tied”?
Im looking forward to a very long, honest recap 😊
I’m not saying Trouba’s hit wasn’t an elbowing penalty. Here’s the point. Rodriguez is moving forward Trouba drives his elbow into his shoulder, shouldn’t Rodriguez’s momentum cause him to continue forward down to the ice? Instead he reacted like he was punched in the face by Mike Tyson.
Has anyone heard the Panthers are a great team?
Rodrigues dove after the hit like he was buckshot. What a joke. Twidiots all up in arms over the play, but crickets regarding Lomborg’s unpenakized “interference+” hit that knocked Jimmy Vesey out of the playoffs.
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