Rangers vs. Capitals…It’s Go Time!

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  1. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    Why, evrock, is offside not reviewable regardless of whether there’s a goal scored? You’re offside and you then wear down your opponent for a while, to your advantage–why shouldn’t a coach be able to ask for that time back, to recover? It was offside, black-and-white, and an outrage that play was allowed to continue. Come to think of it, why isn’t the clock set back to when the offside was called, on a wiped-out goal? This rule is as black-and-white as gray underwear.

  2. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    KMart underwear the best, definitely.

  3. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    Yet another game against top team and yet another disappearing performance by Zucc.

    Some things just stay consistent.

  4. Evrockriser Avatar

    The clock is reset, Akbar.

  5. Evrockriser Avatar

    Shut up c3po. That’s my boy!

  6. Evrockriser Avatar

    I’m going to have to put the phone down amd actually pay attention to the Panthers game, the way the Rangers game is going. At least I’ll save battery life.

  7. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    Rangers are bad again? I wish you guys would make up your minds.

  8. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    Ah, well, they have that right, then. What about the offsides that are not reviewable?

  9. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    I had to put my phone down. It broke it’s leg…

  10. DaveB Avatar
    DaveB

    Love watching this game on NBCSN. So #blessed to be able to listen to Joe Beninati call the Caps players by their first names and get super excited by every Washington dipsy doodle.

  11. SN Avatar
    SN

    Zucc is playing? Is Nash or Step??
    Anybody?
    Bueller?
    Bueller??

  12. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    Here’s some physical stuff with the Rangers I absolutely object to, which is their forwards consistently pulling up on the rush when they have a step to the outside. They refuse to skate hard around the corner to get a shot, take a hit to make a play, or get hauled down for a penalty.

  13. 4everanger Avatar

    But of course, that uncounted goal changed the whole further game canvas…deflated Rangers, encouraged Craps and this team know what and how to do rest.

  14. Evrockriser Avatar

    This team has been bad angle shot central lately. Wtf?

  15. SN Avatar
    SN

    If this is a tank job
    tank you

  16. Admiral Akbar Avatar
    Admiral Akbar

    Ev rock:

    It’s a ridiculous call. It’s ridiculous to review an offsides on a broken play. Goal was not scored off the rush. Therefore offsides does not have direct bearing on the play.

    If we are going to get all offsides calls “right”, why don’t we review all penalties and all missed calls??? Why stop at offsides?

  17. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    That Scott Arniel guy…whats his job, anyway?

  18. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    These guys should be, but aren’t, embarrassed to play such dispirited hockey in front of the home crowd. Who will lead us? Huh? We need a trade desperately for a leader with a bit of an attitude.

  19. Admiral Akbar Avatar
    Admiral Akbar

    And by the way, its ADMIRAL to you, Evrockriser.

  20. SN Avatar
    SN

    Nash knocked down by 180 lb Backstrom – what a wuss

  21. SN Avatar
    SN

    No leaders needed. This team is a Cup contender

  22. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    Ovi left his feet on that boarding penal… never mind.

  23. Evrockriser Avatar

    But they still keep possession of the puck, Akbar. They wouldn’t have possession one that play unless they won the ensuing faceoff that’s now outside the zone.
    I don’t necessarily agree with having that rule available but because it is, it’s a black and white rule.

  24. 4everanger Avatar

    Pirri is amazingly useless!

  25. Admiral Akbar Avatar
    Admiral Akbar

    And to belabor the point:

    By reversing a goal call and taking an unacceptable 10 minutes to do it, the team that gave up the goal now gets momentum whereas the team that scored the goal is punished.

    Silly rule, imo.

  26. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Ovi manhandling the Big Blue. Nobody cares.

  27. mromeo58 Avatar
    mromeo58

    PIrri is struh-ga-ling.

  28. Bobbyo Avatar
    Bobbyo

    ovie can leave his feet every check …league aproved

  29. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    Pirri is not nearly as good at hockey as I would like him to be.

  30. Admiral Akbar Avatar
    Admiral Akbar

    Evrock –

    No doubt it’s “black and white” — but it’s a needless rule, especially when the review is initiated by coaches rather than officials.

  31. CCCP Avatar
    CCCP

    Whatever….im switching this sh!t off… gonna go play with my daughter.

  32. goodguyinsports Avatar
    goodguyinsports

    My microwave broke and I didn’t even throw it

  33. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Donuts leads by example. This group pays no attention. We need a nasty loudmouth.

  34. Izzy Mandlebaum Avatar
    Izzy Mandlebaum

    What in Holy Hell?

  35. mromeo58 Avatar
    mromeo58

    Replay rule has done one thing positive. Creating jobs. Every team in NHL now has video techs rewinding and watching footage, fishing for a possible offside.

  36. SN Avatar
    SN

    What is the team’s record with Pirri and Pumps both in the lineup?

  37. MKH Avatar
    MKH

    What a display on the PP by Pirri. Hope it’s awhile before he is dressed again. The PP coach should be looking for employment. Pretty pathetic display by entire team tonight except Hank

  38. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    If they get this next goal, and two more, they could win this thing.

  39. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    If I’m an official, I perform spotlessly up until I’m about to retire, then I bet my pension and the ranch on one final game which I direct like Alfred Hitchcock from beginning to end.

  40. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    Puempel, Pirri, Kampfer…giving it their best, but not going to win a lot of games with these fellas.

  41. 4everanger Avatar

    How many more PP we will waist?

  42. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    Gerund! Has a Grade B+ shot, and passes it to a guy behind the net.

  43. Admiral Akbar Avatar
    Admiral Akbar

    Ranger pp 3 for last 47…

    …Yikes.

  44. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    Pick on someone your own size!

  45. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    5 Admiral, 5. (Mika’s called back, Miller’s 2 seconds late. Still sucks.)

  46. Bobbyo Avatar
    Bobbyo

    Maybe holtby should get a strap

  47. SN Avatar
    SN

    People paid money to watch this live

  48. 4everanger Avatar

    PP is impossible to watch…

  49. seeedubbb Avatar
    seeedubbb

    Zoom pulling a kreider.

  50. 4everanger Avatar

    Uncontested.

  51. SN Avatar
    SN

    henk is wasting a great game. Could be 12-1 if he doesn’t stop all these grade A chances.

  52. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Ah yes – the Holtby hat

  53. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren’t people from Holland called Holes?

  54. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    Predictable outcome. Lots of 4-1’s called, though. Caps need one more to beat the spread. Regardless, trade everyone, season over.

  55. DaveB Avatar
    DaveB

    I watch games like this one and wonder how we’ve ever scored a goal ever

  56. Blogmama Avatar

    C3, shouldn’t she be asleep already? What is she, on Ukraine time?

  57. Hill Bilaye Avatar
    Hill Bilaye

    Let’s see, Step x 2, Kreider , Staal, Gerund, Fast, Nash, Hank have all been beaten up in some form or another tonight. Who am I missing ? Oh yeah they got to Mika before puck drop.
    I sure do miss the days of some team toughness & physical accountability.

  58. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    Where is the Netherlands? And what about the Dutch?

  59. Admiral Akbar Avatar
    Admiral Akbar

    And when we do score, they’re disallowed.

  60. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    You said idt, HillBil

  61. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Coos – who are the Dutch?

  62. Blogmama Avatar

    This has been a highly unsatisfying evening…..

  63. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    Caps having fun laughing at this pathetic cotton candy team! A pool table has more balls!

  64. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Sometimes I feel like an out of work porn star

  65. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Ddn’t Michael Jackson own Nethernetherland?

  66. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    SEINFELD! FOUR!

  67. SN Avatar
    SN

    4-1 – there ya go

  68. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    Who will be first to do the math: the Rangers lost this game to the Caps, therefore they can not beat them in the playoffs. Or has it already happened?

  69. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Filth in the Metro

  70. seeedubbb Avatar
    seeedubbb

    Hank was pissed at Shay.

  71. Bobbyo Avatar
    Bobbyo

    Not our night

  72. SN Avatar
    SN

    Norm – who knew your head was so big?
    https://m.popkey.co/c3d6a5/Jm8m6_s-200×150.gif

  73. Evrockriser Avatar

    Another great game….
    Back to the Panthers and not losing Amy more charge on my phone with this drek.

  74. Blogmama Avatar

    …and……yep, I think it’s safe to call it a night. Got an early alarm….sigh. Things better be different Thursday…..Niters all!

  75. SN Avatar
    SN

    If Smith was here, they lose this game 3-1

  76. Evrockriser Avatar

    Top wildcard here we come!

  77. tommyG Avatar

    I don’t know why anybody is surprised with this outcome. Caps are a top contending team, rangers are not a top contending team and will most likely not make it past the 1st round. I don’t care who they play.

  78. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    4-1 caps didn’t I say that already. Jeff Gorton SELL!

  79. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    One day left! Trade ’em all!

  80. Headzo Avatar
    Headzo

    Kirkenshatt not even needed in this game. Woof

  81. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    If they woulda fought, they woulda done won. Wussies.

  82. tommyG Avatar

    If Shattenkirk played for the rangers, the rangers would still lose this game.

  83. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Booed off their own ice by a bunch of Wall Streeters with seats on the arm. Hang down de head, mon.

  84. seeedubbb Avatar
    seeedubbb

    Bogus.

  85. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    Doesn’t matter anyway. Even if the Rangers beat everyone in the East, The Black Hawks would beat them in 6.

  86. Eric Avatar
    Eric

    No reason trade picks for rentals. We’re never winning. Shattenkirk can’t save this pp. nothing could.

  87. Evrockriser Avatar

    Go Panthers!

  88. Jpg's sister Avatar
    Jpg’s sister

    Did jester fast come back to the bench? Did that mean brady skej have 2 goals? Had to find some humor in this game

  89. tommyG Avatar

    eric, rangers traded picks for smith who has a bad knee.

  90. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    A good 20 minutes, a GOOD 20 minutes!

  91. seeedubbb Avatar
    seeedubbb

    Not your night kid, we’re going for the price on Wilson.

  92. ThisYearsModel Avatar
    ThisYearsModel

    Another first round exit coming.

  93. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    When we get to the playoffs, we will be berated and beaten up more than ever and the zebras will say, ‘let ’em play.’

  94. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    They coulda been SOMEbody, instead of a bunch o’ bums, which is what they are, let’s face it.

  95. Bobbyo Avatar
    Bobbyo

    Eric pessimistic after a loss disappears after a win

  96. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    It was you, Normie.

  97. tommyG Avatar

    I do agree the refs let the caps get a way with a lot of penalties and dirty play. I haven’t complained this year about the refs like in years past but tonight was a blast in the past with these refs tonight. To say the refs had a one way eye on the game tonight is a understatement.

  98. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Tomorrow, for a month, I become O’cooscoos. Set ’em up, I’ll be knockin’ ’em down.”

  99. Hockey Sittoo Avatar
    Hockey Sittoo

    If I was Lundqvist I’d go on strike until the team decides to put in as much effort as he does. 20 minutes of hockey and 40 minutes of crap doesn’t make it against the Caps or anyone else. What does it take to get a complete effort? Not talking about a win- just a “work like a dog” effort for an entire game.

  100. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Nitwit Valiquette says we win if the offside goal is allowed.

  101. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    Predict a giant wedgie tonight

  102. Bobbyo Avatar
    Bobbyo

    Valiquette pretty vocal tonight on officiating

  103. Evrockriser Avatar

    Looking like ot in South Florida.

  104. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    The window has closed on Lundqvist he will never win a cup. Time to regroup for next year trade Nash, Stepan, and Zucc this team is going home after round 1. Doesn’t matter what they do tomorrow.

  105. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    John O’Grodnick

  106. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    AV: ‘I thought we had some looks.’

  107. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    Atta boy, Pete

  108. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Micheletti on the defeat: “Sometimes around the trade deadline, you lose your focus a little bit…” Gees, pity the fool.

  109. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    At least I didn’t have to watch Drumpf.

  110. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    “Maria…did those size 42 jockey shorts come in today while I was out?”

  111. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    I shoulda taken care-a you, coos, just a liddle bit. Makin’ you take them dives, none-a them called.

  112. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    St. Pete, I had my money elsewhere, but you win the prize. It’s over, it’s over, it’s o-o-o-o-ver!

  113. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    ‘You know this city’s full of hawks? That’s a fact. They hang around on the top of the big hotels. And they spot a pigeon in the park. Right down on him.’

  114. Evrockriser Avatar

    Carp, good call. It’s another shootout!

  115. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    I am so dog-tired of our guys with letters on their sweaters mumble their way through the same after-game lame excuses for unspirited play.

  116. Evrockriser Avatar

    Somebody tell doodie or whoever writes the next post to ask who’s coming to the game down here in South Florida next week. And to somehow contact me.

  117. SN Avatar
    SN

    Step needs to get off of the PP, let alone the team.
    Sell! Sell! This team has no soul

  118. Rangers Report 2.0 Avatar
    Rangers Report 2.0

    Fast looked like a shoulder or collarbone. Didn’t look good.

  119. SN Avatar
    SN

    both skates off the ice for OV. Refs lost the pea in the whistle.

  120. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    ‘no soul’ is the phrase. Like a Christmas tree from Home Depot.

  121. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    If Fast is dinged, that’s a bunch of soul lost right there.

  122. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    I’m sure they will win a few more games before the seasons end but really do you think it will make any difference? Rangers display the on the ice the personality of their coach! “I thought we had a few good looks” Really!

  123. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    Just catching up…lol, you guys kill me.

    I couldn’t figure out what that high pitched whine was during any sort of physicality on the ice, then I realized it was Norm.

    Carp kills me with the run out of the building comment…usually when he posts it, it means the rangers actually ARE being physically dominated.

    Good thing there’s time to make deals tomorrow, might not have enough healthy bodies

    How did stepan not get sent to the quiet room after that? Would not be shocked in the least to see him miss time with concussion like symptoms in the future like staal did.

    Lastly, hilarious watching 2 non fighters fight…winnick and clendening get an “A” for effort.

  124. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    I don’t get the wedgie joke…someone enlighten me

  125. MKH Avatar
    MKH

    As we all know the Stanley Cup is hardest trophy to win in sports. Practically impossible to win the cup with below average special teams. Absolutely need to be able to make teams pay for their penalties with the PP and you must be able to bail out your team with the PK. For years now, Rangers PP has been awful, so teams take liberties against them with no fear of paying for it. PK is better than PP, but has been very inconsistent. Unless PP is fixed very soon, there is no reason to believe they could be legitimate contenders.

  126. Norm Merton Avatar
    Norm Merton

    I wish I were a big, tough manly man like you, Wicky. Alas, I am but a little, whiny wuss. Even my wimpy fingers are having a hard time manning up.

  127. Beezle Avatar
    Beezle

    The meltdown after the disallowed goal was really disturbing. Honestly rather give Steps A to The Machine for all the good he seems to do as a team leader. Just bring Avery back and give him the C and you’ll see some fire under their asses. There is just so little edge to their game.

  128. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    Norm
    You sir are a riot

  129. SN Avatar
    SN

    Interesting how Connolly has the audacity to run Henk with no fear of reprisal. Not exactly a bruiser. Team is softer than a mashed potato sandwich. They only one to jump on him was a player in his 1st game. McD or Staal would have gave him a mean stare down.
    Alas poor Henk.

  130. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    They are soft, that’s for sure.

  131. Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) Avatar

    Wick, Bazooka Joe is always, or often, reaching back to make an adjustment during his pressers. Especially when they get run out of the building 🙂

  132. Scottsdale Ranger Avatar
    Scottsdale Ranger

    Team is friggin soft. It’s embarrassing and doesn’t represent NY. Again like Eric says: this team will never win the cup evah again. The Jets will win a SB before the Rangers win a cup. Yet I’ll keep rooting for them because I don’t know any other way. They’re like a bad girlfriend.

  133. cooscoos Avatar
    cooscoos

    Runaround Sue.

  134. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    Carp
    Thanks

  135. Olga Folkyerself Avatar
    Olga Folkyerself

    Stop. Just stop. You know Goddam well that all of you will be fawning all over them just as soon as they win two in a row. You can’t bear to trade any one of them, as they are too valuable, yet you run them all into the gutter as soon as they lose a game. Holy sheet! Make up your friggen minds! Chit or get off the pot! (and a nod to E3 there)

  136. UKRanger Avatar
    UKRanger

    St Pete and Eric – i hope you put some money on that prediction?

  137. UKRanger Avatar
    UKRanger

    Thats it!! Trade everyone!! Get Sean Avery, Bran Bole and Norris Stralman back!!

    On the other hand, still in that prime 4th spot….presumably that got mentioned in the first intermission which is why we looked like we were deliberately stinking it up after that?

  138. EddieJ Avatar
    EddieJ

    Of course we fawn all over them when they win. We want to see them play well. We’re fans! This team is wildly inconsistent, however, and that is where our frustration lies. We’ve got some good players. No, we don’t want to trade them. These guys can do better. It seems like they lack heart. Maybe they’re giving their all, but sometimes it just doesn’t look like it. Tonight, in the first period, they looked like they could be Cup contenders. You can’t tell me they gave the same effort for the rest of the game. Inconsistent, say I !

  139. UKRanger Avatar
    UKRanger

    Dan Girardi has a deep ankle gash…..which , if he were a normal human being would mean his foot was literally hanging on by a single tendon

  140. St Pete Eli Avatar
    St Pete Eli

    I didn’t UK I’m a Ranger fan. I always hope for the best , but expect the worst!

  141. Family Guy Avatar
    Family Guy

    I was standing on the edge of my toilet this morning, hanging a clock, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the sink, and when I came to I had a revelation! A vision! A picture in my head! A picture of this! I know how to solve the offsides review problem!

    STAY ONSIDES!

  142. UKRanger Avatar
    UKRanger

    I leave my heart in the drawer when i bet, although its hard to bet against my team. Instead i bet on WAS/NYR over 4.5 goals and a Florida money line double. Double yer money winner there!!

  143. ilb2001 Avatar
    ilb2001

    Good morning, boneheads!
    Injuries? I don’t think so. They dominated the first period, could’ve been 2, or even 3-0. And then they totally disappeared for two periods. A lot of passengers. I wonder if Eric called them during first intermission:”Are you guys nuts? Stay in 4th, dammit!” 🙂

  144. Family Guy Avatar
    Family Guy

    Eric was too busy yelling at his neighbor’s kids for knocking over his garden gnomes

  145. SN Avatar
    SN

    Footage of Eric

  146. SN Avatar
    SN

    Are we trading everyone? everyone??

  147. SN Avatar
    SN

    Seriously. What do we want?

  148. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    Where’s the new post?! I’m sitting here in my fuzzy pink slippers, hair in curlers, coffee going…new post?

  149. Eric-5th in metro Avatar
    Eric-5th in metro

    Anyone got the tsn link to coverage today. Sportsnet is terrible on nhl network.

  150. SN Avatar
    SN

    NEW POST PLEASE – TRADE DEADLINE DAY!
    Where is the admin of this QAV?

  151. ilb2001 Avatar
    ilb2001

    Can’t do it without Doodie’s permission, SN.

  152. SN Avatar
    SN

    Get Franson if price is not too high. Slots into PP QB and RD1 (in name only)
    McD – Franson
    Staall – Smith
    Shea – Klein/Girardi/Clendening

  153. SN Avatar
    SN

    C3P and E3 have admin rights
    get a new post or somebody wake up Doodie – he may be shook up by this article of his profession
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-28/jpmorgan-marshals-an-army-of-developers-to-automate-high-finance

  154. SN Avatar
    SN

    Mika’s upper body was his hand. Was in a splint pre game.

  155. Bdl Avatar
    Bdl

    Go big or go home.

  156. ilb2001 Avatar
    ilb2001

    I have the rights, too, SN. I think Doodie may have something scheduled.

  157. Bdl Avatar
    Bdl

    I’m hoping for hockey trades today. No draft pick crap. Player for player.

  158. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    they were talking about franson on mtl radio yesterday and no one wanted him, said his foot quickness was lacking

  159. ilb2001 Avatar
    ilb2001

    Ok, I took it upon myself. this one was getting too long. Sorry, Doodie
    NEW POST

  160. wicky229 Avatar
    wicky229

    Either way, I have no interest in franson