Norm, the letter of the law is the officials “saw” a high-stick and called that…AFTER discussing it. The only new info they received after the call was ALREADY MADE was the crowd’s reaction, the offending team’s coach’s explanation and the video. None of which is evidence that can be used to reverse that call! And the missed call right before it is just evidence of preferential treatment.
What are you having trouble understanding here?
I think Stepan’s shooting percentage on scoring chances is .004.
Norm Merton
EVR, you’re making my point for me. The letter of the law comes a distant second behind getting the call right. I’d like them to drop review altogether, other than goal line stuff (easily solved problem, see soccer “goal line technology”.) But I have no problem with refs making a call based on what the entire crowd can see/has seen, if that’s what happened in this case.
I was in the middle of formulating a message about the usual members of the 3rd line having a grand total of 2 assists in the past 5 games when Millz scored.
Grabner is back to the player he was when he was on the islanders. I remember him getting at least 1 break away a game and couldn’t finish to save his life, the Cinderella slippers are off.
There was a time when Lundqvist would have made that save, those were the days, now just a average goalie. Ranger fans got spoiled when it came to Lundqvist, unfortunately those days are over.
Between the rangers defense and a average Lundqvist the rangers are one and done in the playoffs, book it.
CraigWeather
I love when they put the puck in the o-zone and glide in…. what a forecheck! If that’s by design, it’s just genius. It’s like pfffft…no tic-tac-toe option available on this rush? I’ll just shoot it in and make a half ass attempt to retrieve it or just glide to the bench!
hondo
godawful pathetic
Norm Merton
EVR, thank you you for clarifying what I meant, that the fans should be the refs. I was so close to understanding what I was writing until you made my thoughts clear to me. Of course, there’s the piddling little matter that they got the call right…
E3
Headzo – I’m wearing the diaper for this game. Already dropped a deuce.
Scottsdale Ranger
Hank is the best! Hank is the king! How could you question him? (S)
Montreal, Ottawa, Colorado. It doesn’t matter who we play in the first round. The Rangers will be working on their golf game around the same time they did last year.
if that happen, they probably don’t make the playoffs.
CraigWeather
Nah ah, Eveockriser! Nah ah! You’ll see! We’ll rub our magic crystals and turn it on in the playoffs! We’re so good- you just need to have faith! Yep- that’s it! Otherwise you’re a fairweather fan. Don’t be objective and call it like you see it… that’s just silly!
SN
Didn’t they play like caca AV’s first and go to ECG.
The West Coast massacre if my fading mind is working
At least they’ll get a decent draft pick. I hate when they make the playoffs and just get trampled on. I’d almost rather they didn’t make them in that case.
SN
ECF that is
Olga Folkyerself
You guys are going to need a second team to root for in April. I suggest Chicago…
Psst, Evr: I don’t need your help. We disagree about the strength of the letter of the law, is all. I’m in the discretionary school formed by former NHL refereeing great, Ralph Waldo Emerson, that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
kern
Short rope in the playoffs for 30?
SN
4th line on fire 🔥 thanks to Pumps
SN
Norm like Trump feels he is above the law
Olga Folkyerself
On the bright side, the Rangers haven’t lost this game yet.
CCCP
Finally, Red Wings’ playoff string ends at 25 seasons… I’m was getting pretty tired of seeing them contend year after year…
Losing games like that usually comes to the 2 basic things – it is just inability to move puck quickly and safely out of own zone and lack of creative way of offence.
CCCP
I can totally see them lose every remaining game this month.
CraigWeather
House of cards…. that’s what this team is. Absolutely baffled how they’re 20 over .500. And it’s NOT going to get better in the playoffs. But hey….. give me crap bc I’m critical of this awesome team that can’t even be bothered to compete, or for that matter…complete a freaking pass.
Baffling indeed. Winning games by accident all year long. Something to do with scoring more goals than the other team more often than not, can’t quite put my finger on it. But, yes, the true measure of a team is how well they perform in meaningless games.
Because playing like crap in meaningless games and losing is great for a professional athlete’s psyche.
CraigWeather
Here goes Norm again with the meaningless games excuse….. Let’s talk again the playoffs because I have a funny feeling they’ll still be in “meaningless” mode… only those games count. Hey, come to think of it, we still haven’t clinched a playoff spot….
This team is pathetic. Norm, off you think this team is going to suddenly turn it on in the playoffs, prepare to feel incredibly wrong and ready for the “I told ya so’s”.
When JT and THE shy away from contact, who’s left? No one.
Headzo
I don’t think Mess would have tolerated this nonsense. 4th line making them look soft. I see bedtime instead of a third period in short order.
Norm Merton
Man, I have no idea what the Rangers can possibly draw upon when the postseason begins. Not nearly enough guys on the roster who know what it takes to go on a playoff run. If only they had some experience!
Jpg’s sister
From what I have seen not meaning to be negative but this is another loss. San Jose lost 6 in a row before this game right?
One shot and done. It’d we’re lucky outs on net. They spend 5 mins at a time in our zone.
Norm Merton
There it is, the number one reason to root for the Rangers, loud and clear. Make enough gloomy predictions to be able to say “I told you so” if they fail. If they do well, everybody’s happy. All bases covered. Me, I say: Let’s Go, Rangers!
kern
Is it me, or is Hank constantly out of position?
CCCP
Nash flies into the o-zone, once there, he is lost completely.
Are they capable of turn tide in 3rd? Doubt it, unless they will have some “Grey Goose” shots in the intermission and call Torts for motivational locker-room speech.
CraigWeather
Why do we watch? Because we’re fans of the franchise….. I’ve been a fan since I could walk. But this team is trash. Their record is a mirage and when the men are seperated from the boys in the playoffs, we’ll be sent home packing real fast. I’m sorry but this team does not inspire confidence. The bottom line is, they won a lot of games they didn’t deserve, and when you have to fight for every inch of ice in the playoffs… pure luck doesn’t advance round after round. You get exposed.
Craig, I mostly agree with you. But unlike last year they actually deserved to win the majority of the games they’ve won this season. I just don’t know what happened to that team.
CCCP
Norm is funny. Funny is Norm.
Beezle
Hey if people can watch NASCAR, we can watch the NYR
Olga Folkyerself
You have to separate the men from the boys on this team? Maybe THAT’s their problem…
Btw, we haven’t beaten a playoff team that wasn’t already slumping, in about a month. Now we’re having trouble with the slumping ones. There’s nowhere to go but up.
I’d be less annoyed if I didn’t have so many Rangers on my fantasy team. They’re killing me.
Norm Merton
I think the Rangers have a good shot, not a great one, but a good one. Lundqvist has five games to chip off the rust, the rest of the roster is relatively healthy, there’s some competition for the last couple of spots, and it’s time for them to gradually ramp it up, see what they’ve got going in. But these are exhibition games, and they’ve earned the right to treat them that way. Stay healthy!
Olga Folkyerself
Well, I’m certainly not writing them off before the playoffs even start.
In 2007/8, I did not watch the first playoff game against Tampa Bay as I went snowboarding, convinced the Giant’s were so mediocre late that season that it would be an awful game/waste of time and a miracle if they won it. Needless to say, they pulled out a efw more miracles that winter.
I still think they’re going nowhere post season. :p
Norm Merton
The Rangers may or may not hold on here, but this game is not the best example you might to pick to show that they have no chance in the playoffs. And the best away record didn’t happen by accident.
What the Heck was that clusterfudge one the offensive zone just now? At least fast didn’t lose the puck while he was consulting god on what he should do with it.
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Atta boy, Eddie!
I just smacked sharkie in the face.
what’s the over/under on how many goals the sharks score tonight?
Rangers 5
Sharks 0
GWG JT Milluh
He’s going to have to do it while playing in the 4th line, e3
Hopefully E3 will be the only one in a rangers jersey stinking up the joint.
Sharks are dangerous team after all those embarrassing loses, playing in front of home crowd. It should be game of wills
Holy Smokes!!! Wild comeback from 3-0 against the craps, tie game a minute left, 4-4.
well!!! now there reviewing goal, possible offsides. This review stuff is starting to get ridiculous.
What’s deal with Klein – opened old wounds , or he sucked last game in the eyes of AV?
LGR !!!
LGR!
Good start.
It’s almost as if Holden has been bad at hockey his entire career except for a couple of months.
Butterflies and rainbows and cotton candy! This team is great!
Salmonjoe thought we should’ve scored first…
We suck again!
Sharks looks 2 x quicker then our sleepy guys so far…
There were plenty of observers on that shift, Doodie
🎼🎼🎼When your scoring’s down…. and you’ve lost some games…. who ya gonna call?! Slump-busters! 🎼🎼🎼🎼
Norm, the letter of the law is the officials “saw” a high-stick and called that…AFTER discussing it. The only new info they received after the call was ALREADY MADE was the crowd’s reaction, the offending team’s coach’s explanation and the video. None of which is evidence that can be used to reverse that call! And the missed call right before it is just evidence of preferential treatment.
What are you having trouble understanding here?
That’s awesome, Craig.
Took them 5 minutes to wake. Rammer needs to schedule their pregame meals better.
I think Stepan’s shooting percentage on scoring chances is .004.
EVR, you’re making my point for me. The letter of the law comes a distant second behind getting the call right. I’d like them to drop review altogether, other than goal line stuff (easily solved problem, see soccer “goal line technology”.) But I have no problem with refs making a call based on what the entire crowd can see/has seen, if that’s what happened in this case.
Pimple instead Buchnevich…? Improving, ever missing a net, but Stepan and slightly regressing Purple Haze – key players to success.
I already read that, Norm. Scroll up for my response.
JT!!!!
Miller time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice shot by JT MILLER!!!!!
Plenty of Miller time.
Millz!
JT Jambalaya!
Woohoo- 4th Liner from Palestine, Ohio!
That was pretty
Smith takes some dumb penalties.
I was in the middle of formulating a message about the usual members of the 3rd line having a grand total of 2 assists in the past 5 games when Millz scored.
Impeccable suit…
Nightly pk gaffe?
I saw your second, EVR, same response. As you may be able to tell, I’m not a letter-of-the-law guy. The laws weren’t written by God.
Why is Michael “no hands” Grabner trying to make a move on the breakaway?! Nooooooo!
Grabner is back to the player he was when he was on the islanders. I remember him getting at least 1 break away a game and couldn’t finish to save his life, the Cinderella slippers are off.
Stepan’s net-missing power is contagious – Grabner caught it obviously recently…
poor Grabner. He must have nightmares about Babcock’s comments.
No problem then, Norm. We’ll just put zebra shirts on the refs and the other 18,000 or more wannabe referees and let everybody make the call.
Since the rules don’t apply apparently then.
pathetic, truly pathetic power play, god awful.
Again and again shorthanded…
Wow. 2 shorties in 2 games. Arniel is a genius.
This PP sucks.
🎼🎼🎼🎼When your beards are long, but you come up short… who ya gonna call? Slump-busters!🎼🎼🎼🎼
C’mon man.
E3 – what s croon has the best can?
Lundqvist also obviously needs some more seasoning.
Too late EV, he’s done
Croon = section. Spell check man must have hung in humbolt county today
I’m serious when I say this. The Rangers should only ice 4 players on the pp. They’ll do better.
There was a time when Lundqvist would have made that save, those were the days, now just a average goalie. Ranger fans got spoiled when it came to Lundqvist, unfortunately those days are over.
Unforgivable. How come that all other teams are more opportunistic and use every chance and Rangers are not with their “speed and skills”?
Where’s Carp to tell us that none of this matters in the playoffs?
That goal is on Hank.
Playoffs!!!! Where talking about Playoffs!!!!????
The rangers suck on the power play because their only asset is their speed and that’s forfeit one the pp.
*on
Between the rangers defense and a average Lundqvist the rangers are one and done in the playoffs, book it.
I love when they put the puck in the o-zone and glide in…. what a forecheck! If that’s by design, it’s just genius. It’s like pfffft…no tic-tac-toe option available on this rush? I’ll just shoot it in and make a half ass attempt to retrieve it or just glide to the bench!
godawful pathetic
EVR, thank you you for clarifying what I meant, that the fans should be the refs. I was so close to understanding what I was writing until you made my thoughts clear to me. Of course, there’s the piddling little matter that they got the call right…
Headzo – I’m wearing the diaper for this game. Already dropped a deuce.
Hank is the best! Hank is the king! How could you question him? (S)
Montreal, Ottawa, Colorado. It doesn’t matter who we play in the first round. The Rangers will be working on their golf game around the same time they did last year.
Black Hawks – Rangers Finals. Hawks in 6.
Norm, if that’s how you think, I can’t help you and nothing I say will change that. Even though there are rules for how things are done for a reason.
Haze wants to play Denver
Rangers out in first round. Price with 3 shutouts. Book it.
You playing Nhl 17, Olga?
Maybe the Rangers will get it right next year and play their worst in the beginning of the season.
if that happen, they probably don’t make the playoffs.
Nah ah, Eveockriser! Nah ah! You’ll see! We’ll rub our magic crystals and turn it on in the playoffs! We’re so good- you just need to have faith! Yep- that’s it! Otherwise you’re a fairweather fan. Don’t be objective and call it like you see it… that’s just silly!
Didn’t they play like caca AV’s first and go to ECG.
The West Coast massacre if my fading mind is working
At least they’ll get a decent draft pick. I hate when they make the playoffs and just get trampled on. I’d almost rather they didn’t make them in that case.
ECF that is
You guys are going to need a second team to root for in April. I suggest Chicago…
Go St. Louis!
Cubs?
Psst, Evr: I don’t need your help. We disagree about the strength of the letter of the law, is all. I’m in the discretionary school formed by former NHL refereeing great, Ralph Waldo Emerson, that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Short rope in the playoffs for 30?
4th line on fire 🔥 thanks to Pumps
Norm like Trump feels he is above the law
On the bright side, the Rangers haven’t lost this game yet.
Finally, Red Wings’ playoff string ends at 25 seasons… I’m was getting pretty tired of seeing them contend year after year…
http://i68.tinypic.com/296dgzo.jpg
On and, PS, This Rangers team sux 🙂
Easiest trivia question evah
E3 – just one diaper?
How on holy hell did this team get so many points? Some times I feel like I’m watching the NY Avalanche
PS – Gire Forton!
Nash having a rare stinker
Miller inspired
Vesey demoted, but you won’t hear that on the broadcast
Everybody having a common stinker.
FIRE TORTS!
They’re getting manhandled right now.
Who makes more money this year: Logan Couture’s dentist or E3’s plumber?
Is Kreider dressed tonight?
You can tell Lundqvist is pissed. He’s playing the puck way more than usual. That only spells disaster for us though.
that was an interesting pass by Kreider
Headzo
Was that a trick question?
If the Rangers are lucky they might get 1 more win this season with their schedule.
Losing games like that usually comes to the 2 basic things – it is just inability to move puck quickly and safely out of own zone and lack of creative way of offence.
I can totally see them lose every remaining game this month.
House of cards…. that’s what this team is. Absolutely baffled how they’re 20 over .500. And it’s NOT going to get better in the playoffs. But hey….. give me crap bc I’m critical of this awesome team that can’t even be bothered to compete, or for that matter…complete a freaking pass.
Brendan Smith got away with one.
It’s a headzo-scratcher CCCP
Who’s giving you crap, E3?
The sharks are ridiculously energized tonight while the Rangers look like they can’t wait to get back to hotel porn.
Remember when jumbo joe called us soft in 11′-12′? I’d gladly take those softies over this crap. You got it right Joe… you were just off by 5 years….
Great pass by Zucc. Crap stick work by Stepan.
Baffling indeed. Winning games by accident all year long. Something to do with scoring more goals than the other team more often than not, can’t quite put my finger on it. But, yes, the true measure of a team is how well they perform in meaningless games.
I mean, its still only a one goal game…. still.
One positive observation: they haven’t played their one good period yet amd there’s only one left after this one.
Although if they have…..Ugh
Why Zuk passing to Step, knowing his shooting percentage? His chances just to throw it towards the net and score are much higher.
Because playing like crap in meaningless games and losing is great for a professional athlete’s psyche.
Here goes Norm again with the meaningless games excuse….. Let’s talk again the playoffs because I have a funny feeling they’ll still be in “meaningless” mode… only those games count. Hey, come to think of it, we still haven’t clinched a playoff spot….
Yank Hank
Plenty of time.
JT with the classic drive by
Panic, collapse, defensive chaos – description of Rangers playing in own zone…
AV looks seriously pissed.
I think this team needs a new gum.
Seeing eye single?
This team is pathetic. Norm, off you think this team is going to suddenly turn it on in the playoffs, prepare to feel incredibly wrong and ready for the “I told ya so’s”.
*if
Olga I’m convinced you play “Winning” before every game!
“I would say to you… we had some good looks but just weren’t able to capitalize whereas they did. We good, guys? Thanks.”
So, why are you still watching (and posting)? You should take up gardening or fishing to fill those April days.
When JT and THE shy away from contact, who’s left? No one.
I don’t think Mess would have tolerated this nonsense. 4th line making them look soft. I see bedtime instead of a third period in short order.
Man, I have no idea what the Rangers can possibly draw upon when the postseason begins. Not nearly enough guys on the roster who know what it takes to go on a playoff run. If only they had some experience!
From what I have seen not meaning to be negative but this is another loss. San Jose lost 6 in a row before this game right?
No, it was a bad play by VZ…
One shot and done. It’d we’re lucky outs on net. They spend 5 mins at a time in our zone.
There it is, the number one reason to root for the Rangers, loud and clear. Make enough gloomy predictions to be able to say “I told you so” if they fail. If they do well, everybody’s happy. All bases covered. Me, I say: Let’s Go, Rangers!
Is it me, or is Hank constantly out of position?
Nash flies into the o-zone, once there, he is lost completely.
Crack of Midnight.
The sharks took aderrall before the game. The Rangers smoked opium.
Yay. 2 more minutes of the worst hockey in the NHL!
Where was this San Jose team for 6 games? Waiting for NYR. to get their game back
terrible play by Veesey, lackadaisical with the puck, horrible.
That postseason experience really came in handy last year.
Right, Norm?
Missed the first period, which had to have been better than this crap show inn the 2nd.
Rangers have to do a lot of soul searching after this game… thinking about meaning of life and their place in it.
Rangers are adept at shooting pucks off shark sticks.
It’s a POWER PLAY GOAL!!!
Kern – he is lunging at it big time
Too late to dress Tanner?
Sweeet. Step’s new office!
OH DRAT! Now you can’t bitch for another 30 seconds or so…
Stepan had an empty net. I’m surprised he didn’t miss it.
That was a terrible play by Veesey, lackadaisical, horrible.
Sure did, CCCP. Penguins were quite experienced! Won the whole thing if I recall correctly.
Are they capable of turn tide in 3rd? Doubt it, unless they will have some “Grey Goose” shots in the intermission and call Torts for motivational locker-room speech.
Why do we watch? Because we’re fans of the franchise….. I’ve been a fan since I could walk. But this team is trash. Their record is a mirage and when the men are seperated from the boys in the playoffs, we’ll be sent home packing real fast. I’m sorry but this team does not inspire confidence. The bottom line is, they won a lot of games they didn’t deserve, and when you have to fight for every inch of ice in the playoffs… pure luck doesn’t advance round after round. You get exposed.
This has another 6-3 loss written all over it.
Craig, I mostly agree with you. But unlike last year they actually deserved to win the majority of the games they’ve won this season. I just don’t know what happened to that team.
Norm is funny. Funny is Norm.
Hey if people can watch NASCAR, we can watch the NYR
You have to separate the men from the boys on this team? Maybe THAT’s their problem…
Btw, we haven’t beaten a playoff team that wasn’t already slumping, in about a month. Now we’re having trouble with the slumping ones. There’s nowhere to go but up.
Ok I have hope again
I wish I did.
LOL nice Olga….
Colorado -34 points from last season. No toke.
…err – joke
I’d be less annoyed if I didn’t have so many Rangers on my fantasy team. They’re killing me.
I think the Rangers have a good shot, not a great one, but a good one. Lundqvist has five games to chip off the rust, the rest of the roster is relatively healthy, there’s some competition for the last couple of spots, and it’s time for them to gradually ramp it up, see what they’ve got going in. But these are exhibition games, and they’ve earned the right to treat them that way. Stay healthy!
Well, I’m certainly not writing them off before the playoffs even start.
and when there was no crawdaddy we ate sand….
They also need to figure out how to win at home Norm
Look what happens when you actually put the work in…. amazing right?
Jesper Erixon!!!
Yes
In 2007/8, I did not watch the first playoff game against Tampa Bay as I went snowboarding, convinced the Giant’s were so mediocre late that season that it would be an awful game/waste of time and a miracle if they won it. Needless to say, they pulled out a efw more miracles that winter.
Well, that was Fast.
Just think all that bile might be wasted.
Let’s Go, Trash!
I went out to walk my dog. Came back, turned on my tv and they scored. I might go walk my dog again.
Trash, trash, trash.
On second thought……
Special teams! I’m going to faint!
The Bizzaro World
Holy mackerel, Andy!
Miller Time!!
4th line wonder. Who is this kid??
Told ya they hadn’t played their good period yet.
I like Ev’s “one good period a game” theory lol
The #7 D is up to 38 points… must bench him for playoffs!
Let’s hope that holds true for Lundqvist as well.
Grabner: Shot on Toyota
….on bated breath.
oh what a feelin..lmao
I need to get negative again. I’m getting too positive. It might affect them.
Did anybody get hurt when you all piled in from the Ledge?
I still think they’re going nowhere post season. :p
The Rangers may or may not hold on here, but this game is not the best example you might to pick to show that they have no chance in the playoffs. And the best away record didn’t happen by accident.
Miller FLYING all night
my fall was broken by Sam and Joe
Keep it there four 8 mins.
*for
Best Ranger period in a LONG time
What the Heck was that clusterfudge one the offensive zone just now? At least fast didn’t lose the puck while he was consulting god on what he should do with it.
The soft Rangers who never win board battles…
*in
WHo is eliminated tonight if the Rangers clinch?
Grabner is just cursed.
Grabner can’t finish a thought
JT misses the net on a 2 on 1 and we almost get scored on.
Probably Buffalo.
Actually no one. There doesn’t have to be.
Buffalo is already out.
It just means not enough teams can catch us to knock is out.
I TOLD you they stunk.
All started with a Holden giveaway
Oh geez.
They always leave someone unchecked….
That would count as uncontested.
How the holy hell did Thornton not get a penalty there?!!