It’s Go Time!

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…LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 PM EST FRIDAY…

  • WHAT…Heavy lake effect snow expected. Total snow accumulations 8 to 20 inches in the most persistent lake snows. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph will produce considerable blowing and drifting snow.
  • WHERE…Northern Erie and Genesee Counties. The heaviest snow is expected just south of Buffalo and across far southern Genesee County.

The reeling NY Rangers were probably hoping that storm came in earlier today so the game would be postponed until late April, if necessary. NYR enter this tilt 2-8-0 in their last 10 while BUF comes in 3-4-3 with wins against SJS, ANA, LAK and OTLs against DET, WPG and VAN. Unlikely also that the Rangers won’t make it back to NYC for the game Saturday afternoon against the LA Kings. If any boneheads are at the game tonight, please get home safely and make sure you fill up the Sno-Cat before leaving home!

Panarin enters the match with 8 points (3G, 5A) in his last five games and besides Cuylle, who continues to motor along, is the hottest thing the Rangers have. Thompson comes in with 4G and Zuker 4A in their last five games for the Sabres.

Line up changes tonight: none besides your wishful thoughts. Newcomer Vaakanainen continues to skate at practice in a non-contact jersey. Reimer (3.58 GAA and 0.879 SV%) is expected in net for the Sabres tonight. He’s had a tough season so far but looks to start his Vezina run tonight. Samuelsson is expected to return from IR while Dahlin and Lafferty remain out. Buffalo is pretty middle of the pack in most areas but are almost rock bottom on the PP.

The zebras tonight are Brian Pochmara (11178 GP) and Corey Syvret (330 GP). One has hair, the other does not, but both are somewhat loose with their whistle. Pochmara tends to call the visitors more than the hosts.

Keys to a Ranger victory tonight: Score more goals than Buffalo. At this point, it matters not how that happens or how bad their defense is so long as they stop the skid.

On this date in history: In 1973, former NYR GM Glen Sather had a goal and four assists in a 7-3 STL win over TOR. However, this is also a dark day in NHL history, in 1992 Bary Bettman became the first, and so far only, NHL commissioner. Boooooooooo!

Probable NYR lineup

162 responses to “It’s Go Time!”

  1. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    from colin

    Igor Shesterkin leads the #NYR onto the KeyBank Center ice for warmups. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen leads BUF out.

  2. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    bummer for nyr. Guess they don’t want to chance blowing 2 pts

  3. richinhagerstownbywayofbrooklyn Avatar
    richinhagerstownbywayofbrooklyn

    My question is where are the Rangers going? They sure seem lost.

  4. SN Avatar
    SN

    Mika first shift; loses puck battle on the wall, takes a penalty and opponent still gets shot off after he trips him.

  5. hockey721 Avatar

    Let’s Go Rangers!

  6. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    early start to game. like 7:03

    due to weather alert later in night? or does buff do that all the time

  7. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    Laffy gotta shoot there

  8. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    or nba stuff at 9:30

  9. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    LGR!

  10. Evrockriser Avatar

    We’re playing against a team that’s lost their last 7 consecutive games? That usually works out well for this team.

  11. hockey721 Avatar

    Chytil going to the net with a nice effort

  12. SN Avatar
    SN

    great play by Flip

  13. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    pretty sure they always go of 7 sharp

  14. wwpd Avatar
    wwpd

    LGR! and here we are against better judgement, watching another game 🙂

  15. jpowell4968 Avatar
    jpowell4968

    Beezle-Key to victory is to score more goals than the Buffalo ..😂🤣

    thanks for the laugh before we all cry

  16. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    Yay.

  17. wwpd Avatar
    wwpd

    Mika, give us a smile!

  18. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    eureka

  19. hockey721 Avatar

    There you go, Mika!

  20. SN Avatar
    SN

    Merry Christmas Meeka!

  21. Upstate Ranger Avatar
    Upstate Ranger

    Woot, per Gravy

  22. Evrockriser Avatar

    It’s keystone cops defense time

  23. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    when was shestys last shutout?

  24. hockey721 Avatar

    K’AM with a nice play

  25. Upstate Ranger Avatar
    Upstate Ranger

    Carrick cares.

  26. Evrockriser Avatar

    Carrick leading by example. Went to the net for the second straight game.

  27. Evrockriser Avatar

    They should argue for the time back because of the laaaate icing whistle

  28. SN Avatar
    SN

    Sam the man drawsd the penalty

  29. hockey721 Avatar

    K’AM breaks up the rush a the blue line

    and another clear right after that

  30. wwpd Avatar
    wwpd

    Good sstick

  31. Evrockriser Avatar

    Second unit 🤮

  32. SN Avatar
    SN

    2nd unit not ready for prime time.

  33. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    K’Andre learning, or just an aberration?

  34. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    So far, so far. One goal isn’t enough for these guys.

  35. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    swell period?

  36. SN Avatar
    SN

    Best period in 2 months

  37. Evrockriser Avatar

    Schneider with the huuuuge giveaway just before the buzzer. That’s something you don’t see very often. Unless K’andre is wearing Schneider’s jersey.

  38. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Ceat ill could be a star if he puts a couple positives together and leaves a couple neggies behind

  39. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Cheat ill

  40. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    That giveaway was Trouba-esque.

  41. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    survived leg day without wanting to puke even though nyr audio playing 😁

  42. richinhagerstownbywayofbrooklyn Avatar
    richinhagerstownbywayofbrooklyn

    That was a hard working period. Something to build off. One step at a time.

  43. hockey721 Avatar

    Pretty cool how Michael Peca repurposed an old picnic blanket into a dress shirt

  44. jpowell4968 Avatar
    jpowell4968

    can we get Greenway?? He just blasted KAM

  45. wwpd Avatar
    wwpd

    Esa-Pekka Salonen in net definitely has been a beneficiary of some poor shot selection and execution by the rangers, but that was just a steal

  46. hockey721 Avatar

    Sabres turned up the hitting there

  47. hockey721 Avatar

    Laffy with the sneaky stick to prevent a high danger chance

  48. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    opponents have renamed the blue line the go line when playing nyr

  49. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    rare miss for coolio

  50. wwpd Avatar
    wwpd

    Rangers’ kryptonite!

  51. wwpd Avatar
    wwpd

    LG power players!

  52. 4everanger Avatar

    Cuylley could be a very discent captain material…Just saying.

  53. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    4th line has been excellent

  54. hockey721 Avatar

    Berard with some great stuff that shift

  55. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    way too early. too much pressure on him at this age. seems pretty soft spoken as well

  56. hockey721 Avatar

    Why do the board advertisements that they choose not to show, for whatever reason, look like someone took a big gray crayon and scribbled over them?
    Obviously they could mask them cleanly or omit them if the chose to. Is it their way of saying “Your advertisement here”?

  57. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    So, does the rubber hit the road or the chit hit the fan?

  58. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    The Norwegian cruise was cancelled.

  59. jpowell4968 Avatar
    jpowell4968

    Biznasty is like a 7 year old. He is around the Greatest pure hockey player ever and almost being disrespectful or at bare minimum being a tool

  60. hockey721 Avatar

    What? loI I’ll need to think about that one for a bit

  61. hockey721 Avatar

    If Lindy was Bugs Bunny he would have just set himself up for a nice shot from the point.

  62. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    Maybe Gretzky sent the golfers after him 🤣

  63. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    What is clearly different about this game compared to pretty much all the others this season is there is a group of Rangers together after every stoppage, especially in front of our net.

  64. Evrockriser Avatar

    WHAT TF IS GOING ON HERE??!! WORST “POWER” PLAY THEY’VE HAD ALL SEASON.

  65. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    Shooting into the block 10 feet from the blue line… no very smart

  66. Evrockriser Avatar

    How tf do you give up THREE odd-man rushes against on your own friggin power play opportunity??!!

  67. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    Sour Play

  68. Evrockriser Avatar

    That was only one of the trillion brain farts they had in those two minutes.

  69. SN Avatar
    SN

    Are the Rangers D allowed to hit?

  70. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    It looks like are working on losing this one. They have done nada in the third.

  71. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    Kreider stumbling …if it’s his back rest hin

  72. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Rangers will let one up when the Sabs pull their goalie. Loss in OT to follow. Book it.

  73. hockey721 Avatar

    I wonder if that Greenway hit might have caught up with K’AM.

  74. noblewines Avatar

    The Sabres interference is constant, picks now allowd in Hockey

  75. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Miller getting his purse adjusted

  76. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    skill and many hours of practice!

  77. Evrockriser Avatar

    Buffalo has missed the net 17 times and we didn’t trade Trouba there? That’s pretty bad.

  78. Karl Hungus Avatar

    miller bubble wrapped?

  79. SN Avatar
    SN

    Jones/Fox pairing is very intimidating

  80. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    Lindgren been on wrong end of a few of those interference non-calls

  81. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    Rangers just need a good 10 minutes.

  82. Evrockriser Avatar

    Great. So we’ve lost our best faceoff guy for half of the rest of the game. Sometimes you’ve gotta just take a number and get him later.

  83. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    The Sabres picked up their intensity and the Rangers can’t match it?

  84. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    That Bill banging on the glass hits it harder than any of our soy boys do.

  85. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    Do you bubble wrap between the 2nd and 3rd?

  86. Karl Hungus Avatar

    if he had 2 good periods, maybe?

  87. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    Only if you are a miniature horse

  88. noblewines Avatar

    Dirty reverse head hit on 16

  89. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    yeah but he’s slow on his skates

  90. Evrockriser Avatar

    Rangers zone is giveaway central

  91. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    Sabres have owned the third. That is a recent pattern for the Rangers.

  92. Evrockriser Avatar

    We have three shots this period to nine for buffalo. They’re playing no offense and just giving the puck back to Buffalo like they don’t want it.

  93. Evrockriser Avatar

    And just as I mention that….

  94. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    Once again, Carrick makes the play

  95. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    Sammy Carrick again

  96. richinhagerstownbywayofbrooklyn Avatar
    richinhagerstownbywayofbrooklyn

    Right time right place goal.

  97. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    Been a long time since they got a greasy goal like that one

  98. Upstate Ranger Avatar
    Upstate Ranger

    Wootx2, per Gravy

  99. hockey721 Avatar

    Good work by Carrick and Smitty around the net for the goal.

  100. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Now play some dang D

  101. noblewines Avatar

    Lindy has Sabres playing picks & interference. Amazing how many Rangers have been dumped on the ice long after the is gone from the area

  102. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Troubs -2 vs Sens

  103. 4everanger Avatar

    Possible SO for Shesty finally?

  104. SN Avatar
    SN

    all 3 forwards with skates in blue paint for that ugly goal

  105. wwpd Avatar
    wwpd

    good bounce, good bounce. they deserved it.

  106. Evrockriser Avatar

    Leave it to the rangers…

  107. 4everanger Avatar

    NO!

  108. SN Avatar
    SN

    The obligatory Chinese Fireplace

  109. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    wow that was a rifle of a shot

  110. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Here we go

  111. Evrockriser Avatar

    Rangers NEVER go for the guy who has the puck and goes right up the middle. It finally bit them in this one.

    Shades of Seattle….

  112. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    They have checked out of every third period recently. Conditioning or lack of heart?

  113. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    How many minutes since?

  114. noblewines Avatar

    Not only can Sabres bowl over Igor, but so ca the ref

  115. hockey721 Avatar

    Well that didn’t take long

  116. Evrockriser Avatar

    63 days since the Rangers played even decent defense in front of Shesterkin…. I mean Shesterkin’s last shutout.

  117. Evrockriser Avatar

    Being outshot 12 to friggin 4. This is going well. Smfh

  118. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    Carrick is a more than adequate replacement for Goodrow at a third of the cost.

  119. 4everanger Avatar

    More insane turnovers that critical mass in hydrogen bomb…

  120. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    K’ream puff done for night

  121. Evrockriser Avatar

    Buffalo is doing in the third period what the Rangers haven’t done all season.

    “We’re down by one? We took three shots. We tried all we could.”

  122. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    They lose every 50/50 puck.

  123. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Lindy Maloney

  124. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    I really hate seeing goalies pulled with more than two minutes left

  125. Evrockriser Avatar

    FOXY!! WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY? GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!

  126. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Aboot time

  127. jpowell4968 Avatar
    jpowell4968

    quick trade fox now that he scored a goal

  128. hockey721 Avatar

    Fox Finally!!

  129. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Just like Jon Chik of locked on NYR podcast

  130. Evrockriser Avatar

    That is in no way, icing. He intentionally took the wrong path to the net, right in front of the ref.

  131. Evrockriser Avatar

    Rangers scored on their last two shots on goal.

  132. Evrockriser Avatar

    Jesus Horatio Christ

  133. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    Lav should have taken time out before that goal

  134. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    They are awful. What will happen when they play a good team?

  135. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Take 2 & run fast

  136. Evrockriser Avatar

    Couldn’t make it a good win though. This is a post-game tape burn.

  137. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    3 stars – Henry Fonda Clark Gable and Gary Cooper

  138. Evrockriser Avatar

    We got lucky. We played a team that is just slightly worse than us.

  139. richinhagerstownbywayofbrooklyn Avatar
    richinhagerstownbywayofbrooklyn

    That got way too interesting in the last 5 minutes.

  140. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    They escaped with the win. Some aspects better but defense is still doodoo

  141. jpowell4968 Avatar
    jpowell4968

    To me that was like one of those early season wins where they didn’t play that well but got the points

    Buffalo is going to be a good team new few years i think . Powers is a big, talented defenseman with some snarl.they have some talent that i’d love to have on the Rangers

  142. Upstate Ranger Avatar
    Upstate Ranger

    Delayed woot #3, per Gravy

  143. jpowell4968 Avatar
    jpowell4968

    *in the next few years

  144. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    ugly but better

  145. Evrockriser Avatar

    The funniest thing about this game is Foxy’s empty net first goal of the season was the winner.

  146. Evrockriser Avatar

    No post-game. Thanks, Bettman.

  147. Jeff Avatar
    Jeff

    Love how the whole team,including the goalie gave Fox a group hug after goal. THey still looked and played like crap. Will Cullye should have know his 2 d men were gassed and he should not have iced the puck. OH well. Here come St Louis and Buch with at least 1 goal.

    So sad to see Miller take a bodycheck and get hurt. Who fills in for him Sunday?

  148. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    Vaanakainen

  149. SN Avatar
    SN

    I’d like to buy an ‘A’

  150. Old Ranger Fan Avatar
    Old Ranger Fan

    I didn’t see the hit on Miller.what happened?

  151. Jeff Avatar
    Jeff

    I think Greenway hit Miller high and hard into the boards. Did not look all that much of a big deal. Just a normal body check. Sort of like what Rempe was doing last year. Oh the days when the Rangers use to hit people. Was that all a dream from last year?

  152. bobbyo2019 Avatar
    bobbyo2019

    solid clean hit by Greenway..Miller had his head down too long. Too bad it was one of his better games and honestly they missed him in the 3rd period

  153. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    could be much worse…. Finns love i,j,k and l’s

  154. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    We have a special guest doing the post game today, just waiting on the copy

  155. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    i didn’t think the pony express still existed.

  156. hockey721 Avatar

    Cancel my subscription

  157. JBytes Avatar

    …to the Resurrection

  158. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    *NEW POST*

  159. hockey721 Avatar

    Mika’s Mojo Risin?

  160. mkh Avatar
    mkh

    I read an article that when Gretzky agreed to be part of the show, he said the only way it would work is if he was treated like everyone else on the show including guys chirping at him the way they would any other host/player, etc. I also believe him and Bizz are very good friends.