Congratulations JT Miller on being awarded the 2025/26 Rod Gilbert Mr. Ranger Award
The Rangers hung in against a Canadiens team last night at the Garden and ultimately were rewarded with chants of Olé, Olé, Olé for further solidifying the #4 and possibly #3 spot in the upcoming NHL draft.
After a first period with no scoring (shots 8 to 7 MTL), the Canadiens would not waste much time getting on the board in the second. Newhook (12) at 04:36 after picking up a Sheary pass/turnover in the defensive zone followed by the one of the hottest players in the NHL – Caufield (48) at 06:20 with the one timer from the right circle. 2-0 MTL after two and only five SOG in the period for the NYR.
The Rangers chose not to roll over for a belly rub in the third period, apparently realizing fans paid good money on Stub Hub to buy their tickets. Fox (7) got it started at 09:23, picking up and snapping home a loose puck rebound from the bottom of the right circle; Zibanejad (38) and Gavrikov (18) with the assists. Five minutes later at 14:08 Cuylle (17), without a goal in many games, provided the second deflection of a Brodzinski (8) shot to tie the game at 2-2, Trocheck (35) with the secondary assist.
But you know how this story ends as you’ve heard it so many times before. Less than a minute later the Rangers would lose a draw in the defensive zone. The puck was quickly moved up the far wall to be picked up by Caufield (49), who then deked Gavrikov and wristed one past a frozen Shesterkin. 3-2 MTL and so it would end, the Rangers unable to get their Chinese fireplace lit.
Game summary below:
The next game for the NYR is again at MSG on Saturday 4 April against Detroit, 12:30 EDT. ABC and SN with the telecast.
26 responses to “Rangers 2, Les Habs 3”
Fortescue pretty sheltered last night, just 14 TOI. Sully screwing with the lineups, had Brodude playing with Tro and Cuylle. Seemed to work to the extent Cuylle took six shots after just one over the prior three games, though Sykora dropped to fourth line.
Sullivan still thinks the playoffs are in reach. Somebody should tell him they’ve been eliminated. Why are we still playing the x🐧? What does it accomplish? “Eckhardt think about the future.”
JTM -2; still standing at the faceoff dot hoping the ref calls for another draw as the Habs raced the other way
A competitive game. They out attempted the Habs and out hit them. They just don’t have enough high end talent to compete. Drury has to fix that and it won’t be easy. They can be a Torts team, but that won’t make them a contender.
Good loss..competed …Fowler was solid
I don’t really care (at this point) who is or isn’t on the squad next season. But whomever it is, they better learn how to make/receive passes and generally speaking, hold on to the freakin puck. So much of their downfall this season has been horrible passing/decision making/bobbling with the puck.
Puck mngt = hockey; inability to manage the puck is the inability to be good at hockey esp over the long run.
So the Rangers are locked in no higher than 2nd pick and no worse than 13th.
Celebrini 40G 65A in 74GP and the Sharks in WC2
In an interview with The Athletic, current Minnesota Wild and former Vancouver Canucks defenseman Quinn Hughes had this to say about the issues with their team in the 24-25 season. He points to the departure of current Rangers captain JT Miller as the breaking point for that group.
“I obviously have my thoughts on it, but I don’t want to point fingers at anyone. I would say that the trade last year with J.T. Miller, I mean, he was a top-five player for us the year prior. He had (103) points, PK, power play, taking defensive-zone draws. He had (103) points, and it wasn’t accomplished by cheating all the time; he had (103) points playing the right way. There were nights I’d watch him and just think, ‘This guy is unbelievable.’ To lose that guy the very next year … that was probably a fracture of everything. And yet, on some level, it felt like you could see it coming for years, I would say.”
Macklin Celebrini is my favorite NHL player right now. Have him on my hockey fantasy team and he’s a beast! Just 19 years old!
Wow.. the AI rubbing it in, volunteering this after answering a computer networking question:
The Rangers/Habs Post-Mortem
Since you were watching from the Green Mountains, I hope you didn’t bet too heavily on the “spoiler” narrative.
The Result: The Rangers’ win streak ended with a 3-2 loss to Montreal last night (April 2).
The Heartbreaker: After the Rangers clawed back from 2-0 down to tie it up in the 3rd (thanks to Adam Fox and Will Cuylle), Cole Caufield broke the tie with just five minutes left.
The Milestone: That was Caufield’s 49th goal of the season. He’s now one goal away from being the first Hab to hit 50 since 1990.
Good stuff on JT ..he’s not going anywhere
Serious damage control around JTM’s sheet season
First Molly ‘learns’ that he made the largest contribution of any NYR player ever to Garden of Dreams
Then he is selected Mr Ranger which is tied back to that contribution and is awarded by Rangers Mngt ie Mr Dreary aka Numbnuts
Then Quinn Hughes unprovoked comment to media
-28 so far
61 games: 20 pp pts out of 47 = 27 ES pts
54 ES/5v5 goals against, almost 1 per game
Good thing he wins those draws…
Any stat for lazy slashing penalties?? He may lead the league
Drury’s trade for JT Miller was a wasted #1 pick a loss of an Italian, and gives us a declining 33 year old center that won’t be here when the clown show won’t be a clown show anymore. And that my fellow boneheads may take a while.
Jonathan Quick will play tomorrow vs. Red Wings, per Mike Sullivan.
Quickie deserves a last hurrah! Garand has acquitted himself well.
Bazooka Joe
Gallant
Laviolette
Sullivan
The pain continues
You forgot quinnie
I do not recognize The Mighty Quinn as one of the Good Old Boys.
Tom Renney
Windsor and Flint sweep their first round series. Battaglia 5(2/3), Aspinall 4(2/2) and Greentree 3(1/2) in game 4s.
Wolfpack season will end before theirs do.
“The pain continues”
Who’ll always be King of Pain?
Are they going to allow Quickie to go out with some dignity or lie down against an opponent fighting for the playoffs.
The Filth refuse to go away. Though be a shame if both Filth and Icelanders missed the cut 🤣
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