Clean Slate. Must Win Today!

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111 responses to “Clean Slate. Must Win Today!”

  1. E3 Avatar
    E3

    First.

    I’m expecting a passionate and hard working team with a high compete level Tuesday night vs the Dallas Stars.

    Sure was nice seeing the Cowboys lose in such a heartbreaking manner.

  2. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    First…of the non in charge variety

  3. Hill Bilaye Avatar
    Hill Bilaye

    Terd

  4. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    I’m not expecting much. Home game, dead crowd, struggling goalie, D working their way through fixing mistakes… They could win, but I prefer them on the road again–betting on a good performance in Toronto.

  5. EddieJ Avatar
    EddieJ

    Hey, wait a minute! This isn’t a clean slate. There are 4 comments here already!

  6. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    5 actually! Good morning Boneheads welcome to Tuesday! I have no comments on the game tonight I just hope they find a way to win!

  7. ilb2001 Avatar
    ilb2001

    Good morning, boneheads!
    Game Day!
    Did you watch Washington- Pittsburgh game last night? Wow! Passionate, physical, high scoring game. Defense? Out the window!

  8. SN Avatar
    SN

    The Defense Rests…bigger nets last night?? Murray 7 goals against on 28 shots

  9. noblewines Avatar

    What are the chances the real Henrik shows up between now & when Auntie is back?

  10. Cross Check Charlie Avatar
    Cross Check Charlie

    You’re wrong. Must win tonight!!! 🙂

  11. Cross Check Charlie Avatar
    Cross Check Charlie

    “Coach Alain Vigneault had Zibanejad on a line with Rick Nash and Pavel Buchnevich for Monday’s practice”

    The Gimp Line!

  12. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    Gimp Line 🙂

  13. DaveB Avatar
    DaveB

    Just like Buchnevich, Zika probably won’t be playing in back-to-backs for a while 🙂

  14. Rangers Report 2.0 Avatar
    Rangers Report 2.0

    Shane Doan is reportedly willing to waive his NTC to go to a playoff team. Doesn’t he have “bad Rangers deadline trade” written all over him?

  15. DaveB Avatar
    DaveB

    Shane Doan would legit put us over the top. Buch and a R1 seems fair. We might need to take on Dave Bolland’s contract though.

  16. E3 Avatar
    E3

    Doan for Hank

  17. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    Done Doan has been destined to be a Ramger for years. Iginla too.

  18. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    Gimp line lol

    Ilb
    Passion filled physical hockey…what is that? Lol. We do have the D out the window part down.

    No to Doan…or iggy for that matter (unless fast goes the other way).

  19. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    Lol carp…great minds (or in this case your great mind and me)

  20. E3 Avatar
    E3

    Doan and Duclair for Yandle

  21. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    You have to wonder if the rangers need a “vocal” leader in the locker room like
    Doan or iggy (S)

  22. DaveB Avatar
    DaveB

    I feel like Mike Ribeiro is approaching future Rangerdom as well.

  23. Faux Greene Avatar

    Journal News sports dept is fifth in Metro

  24. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    Hank needs a bigger glove and smaller 5 hole! And some side to side slide lessons from Danny G!

  25. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    DStars = tire fires, thusly the sexy boys will play down to their level & lose. Don’t book it.

  26. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    FG, not sure they can hold off Carolina or the Devils or Fish Tanks.

    Good point about Ribeiro, Dave.

  27. Rangers Report 2.0 Avatar
    Rangers Report 2.0

    I always like when their fans yell out “STARS” whenever the word is mentioned in the anthem. There’s usually a decent smattering across MSG.

  28. Rangers Report 2.0 Avatar
    Rangers Report 2.0

    Ribeiro isn’t the “leader” or “winner” that the Rangers usually overpay for.

  29. Rangers Report 2.0 Avatar
    Rangers Report 2.0

    TJN has a lot of loser points.

  30. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    not to mention football, Headzo.

  31. ilb2001 Avatar
    ilb2001

    I hope Gorton stays away from all these high prized, expensive rentals this year.

  32. cooscoos Avatar

    Maybe we can pry Barry Beck from Colorado.

  33. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    Brad Richards might be willing to return as well.

  34. cooscoos Avatar

    Do we still have any interest in Chelios to pair with McDonagh until Mac learns the ropes?

  35. ilb2001 Avatar
    ilb2001

    Caber!

  36. Bdl Avatar
    Bdl

    Who gets waived when Puemple comes back. I know the logical answer is Puemple, but I get the impression the Rangers really like him, and think they may have something. Would they carry 14 forwards? Not something they have done before.

  37. cooscoos Avatar

    we will have to get a youngish quality Dman in here sooner or later. May as well be sooner.

  38. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    Chance there will be somebody else banged up by the time Pumper gets back.

    Betcha Dan Boyle would come out of retirement to shore up the right side D.

  39. ilb2001 Avatar
    ilb2001

    BDL- I wouldn’t be surprised if they do carry 14 forwards. So long as they aren’t over 23 man roster limit. They are projected to have close to $9M space at deadline as it is, with all their injuries all year, more than enough to make moves. Removing Puempel will not make that much of a difference, and isn’t worth taking a risk. Especially if they like what they see.

  40. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    They’re crying about them too Carp

  41. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    also a pretty good chance that a guy who was waived by Ottawa, passed waivers all the way through to the Rangers, and has since had two concussions, will clear waivers.

  42. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    Time to acquire Roussel from stars

  43. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    In time for tonight’s game?

  44. cooscoos Avatar

    Dan Boyle? No play for Mister Grey. Richie Redux.

  45. Cross Check Charlie Avatar
    Cross Check Charlie

    Where’s Bobby Holik when you really need him? He’s a free agent, isn’t he?

  46. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    Carp
    I wish

  47. Bdl Avatar
    Bdl

    I don’t disagree Carp,
    But scoring is needed in this league, and in 12 games as a 4th liner, Puemple pumped in 5.

  48. jgt1900 Avatar
    jgt1900

    Hopefully Hank will string a few good game together and prove us all wrong. If he can’t pull it together it could get really ugly. Not only would the window close, but, the house would fall down.

  49. cooscoos Avatar

    Clean Slate? THE’s tee shirt reads ‘TABULA RASA.’

  50. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP
  51. cooscoos Avatar

    The one (semi) tough guy in the Ranger organization is doing crossword puzzles in Hartford.

  52. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    Mika is back! He’ll make Rangers great again!

  53. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    Didn’t Pumper pump three in one game? So other than that, his production is pretty underwhelming. I think they see some upside though.

  54. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    Dan Rosen
    @drosennhl
    Interesting tidbit from Vigneault. He said Zibanejad did the training camp on-ice testing again last week. His results: Better than in camp.

  55. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    So zpack came into camp out of shape…traid him 😉

  56. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    We shoulda traded Mika even before we traded for Mika! Fire Allaire!

  57. E3 Avatar
    E3

    Doodie – I can enter a title and publish it to Create a new thread

    But I’m unable to write anything into the WordPress editor.

  58. SN Avatar
    SN

    Not a fan of an offensive configured 4th line; Puree, Pums, etc. Watching Puree try to skate and back check is painful and Pumps has proven he is no banger.
    .
    Staal update?

  59. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    They should make 61-93-89 the fourth line. Then they’d have a really good fourth line.

  60. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    I’m glad the blog has finally moved to Eastern Europe Time (EET)! Bos, Otw, Fla, SJ and LA look to be the teams most in need of offensive help. Depending standings may be hard to deal in conference for D help but what do SJ/LA have that we could realistically trade for without giving away the kids (or at least not many)?

  61. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    Puempel and Pirri for Burns.

  62. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    Puempel and Pirri for Burns.

    ………

    Da! But only if Burns will shave that stoopid broom off his face. I bet mice live in that haystack of a beard.

  63. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    #Isles News: Jack Capuano has been relieved of his duties as Head Coach. Assistant GM Doug Weight will serve as interim Head Coach.
    18 mins ago – Twitter

  64. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    And yet, Garth Sather, err, Snow still has a job lol

  65. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    Can we somehow steal Tavares from them?

  66. E3 Avatar
    E3

    Burns is not pretty.

  67. Rangers Report 2.0 Avatar
    Rangers Report 2.0

    E3, I have no idea what your issue is. I have no problems.

  68. Rangers Report 2.0 Avatar
    Rangers Report 2.0

    What’s the WordPress Editor? Some other plug in or something? Or are you referring to just the native website?

  69. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    Gudbranson from the Canucks…no brainer

  70. Rangers Report 2.0 Avatar
    Rangers Report 2.0

    I agree, that would be a brainless move.

  71. E3 Avatar
    E3

    Rr2 – the WordPress window. Something happened somewhere somehow. Not sure what my issue is….

  72. Hill Bilaye Avatar
    Hill Bilaye

    Dallas with 2 wins in 10 against the East. Sporting the leagues worst PK @74.3, and a whopping 6 wins on the road. Should be a cake walk,

    for the stars

  73. Rangers Report 2.0 Avatar
    Rangers Report 2.0

    No idea. We can still go the old school way of you sending content to me.

  74. SN Avatar
    SN
  75. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    Not sure I see the problem with gudbranson. He’s a good player (been on crappy teams from day 1 in NHL), solid D man, good mobility, is a righty, a pending ufa, decent contract, only 24 or 25 yrs old

  76. Rangers Report 2.0 Avatar
    Rangers Report 2.0

    Everything you said before “is a righty” is incorrect.

  77. Rangers Report 2.0 Avatar
    Rangers Report 2.0

    SN, he uses my log in information and posts as me. It’s not a permission issue.

  78. James G Avatar
    James G

    I haven’t been nearly as active as I’ve wanted to be as far as contributing doodie. Do you hate me? It’s my wife’s fault. Can’t win an argument with an attorney 😑

  79. James G Avatar
    James G

    Let’s just call up Mat Bodie!!!

  80. James G Avatar
    James G

    He’ll be the guy with the rubber Ronald Regan mask and the parachute on his back

  81. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    @RR2 it could also be a cookie problem or possibly something related to an add-on such as noscript, ublock, adblock,etc.

  82. James G Avatar
    James G

    C3 they won’t have to steal Tavares. Just gotta wait til 7/2/18

  83. Rangers Report 2.0 Avatar
    Rangers Report 2.0

    Could be that stuff, but I run a lot of things like that on my computers without any issues.

  84. E3 Avatar
    E3

    I’ll try cut and paste from word when I get home

    Do you have Go time? I can do the new post

  85. James G Avatar

    I think we need the great Carpini back!

  86. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    E3’s WTF = Wide Toilets Forever

  87. James G Avatar

    Zibanejad will need a little time. Once he’s in full stride the forward lines should be better than we’ve seen since early Oct. Who’s on the fourth line? Pirri Lindberg and Vesey?

  88. James G Avatar

    BTW RE: Isles. Wouldn’t Gerard Gallant or Bob Hartley make total sense as the next coach? One who could come in change the dynamic over there and really do some good by installing values and setting the bar high? Doesn’t that make sense? That’s why neither will get the vacant coaching position. Makes too much sense. Snow will come hire like Tom Barasso or Barry Melrose. Stupidity loves company.

  89. E3 Avatar
    E3

    Why turds float

  90. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo
  91. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Click on that first video btw. Van Halen fans will dig…

  92. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    When
    Toilets
    Fly

  93. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    James
    Sshhh…Hartley needs to be available when we get rid of double bubble this summer

  94. James G Avatar

    Tavares > Hartley :p

  95. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    AV now the senior coach in the Metro? …

    Shelf life?

  96. James G Avatar

    So Lindberg the odd man out with Pirri going back to the middle on the fourth line? I don’t like it.

  97. James G Avatar

    Only ramen noodles have a longer shelf life than AV.

  98. James G Avatar

    “coach what are your thoughts on how Jamie Benn played tonight?”

    “well he’s no Yesper Fast” ::chomp chomp::

  99. James G Avatar

    Wick you don’t have to worry. The Isles will never hire a coach that makes any sense. That’s not Snow’s way. His top 3 phone calls tomorrow morning will probably be to Trottier, Nolan and Perry Pearn.

  100. James G Avatar

    And I love it. I love Garth Snow as the Isles GM. I really do. I hope he stays 15 more years. Meanwhile over in Winnipeg, I think the race is on as to which they bring in first. A new goalie or a new GM.

  101. SN Avatar
    SN

    Rumors that Trots is already scribing his coaching application/hockey novel

  102. SN Avatar
    SN

    Oscar hits too much, needs to watch Puree to know how to back check and turn left on his skates.

  103. Eric Avatar
    Eric

    Hopefully AV next to go.

  104. AnthonyM Avatar

    You gotta hand it to the Isles. Snow resists firing Capuano and then pulls the trigger after his team beats Boston 4-0. I wonder if Snow was afraid Cappy would get the team on a roll before finally flopping.

    From what I have heard, Gallant would be the perfect Snow hire. Not sure where I heard/read about it, but Gallant was not portrayed as a good coach at all.

  105. BearJew-O-War (@MannyOWar) Avatar

    So Lindberg gets the Prucha?

  106. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    Manny
    Rigoddamndiculous!!!

  107. BearJew-O-War (@MannyOWar) Avatar

    I was a little surprised at the choice.

  108. AnthonyM Avatar

    I would HOPE that Pirri over Lindberg is to showcase Brandon as part of a deal.

  109. BearJew-O-War (@MannyOWar) Avatar

    What could you get for Pirri? A 4th round pick?

  110. E3 Avatar
    E3

    New post