I love this place. Love coming in here and discussing hockey with my friends. Hockey is gone for now. We’ve resorted to discussing COVID-19, shared some medical info sprinkled with whatever hockey was there to discuss. Then we discussed some politics. Generally, that’s not allowed here. But I figured since there was nothing else to talk about it’s ok, so long as it’s civil and not personal. That didn’t last long. I find myself in a position where I simply do not want to come here anymore because all I find here is politics and personal attacks. That’s exactly what it turned into lately. This place is about to fall apart. I don’t want this to happen. I’m sure most of you don’t want this to happen either. It’s my fault that I didn’t do it before, but at this point in order to keep this place alive long term, the best way to approach it is to shut it down temporarily. I will still post any hockey articles that appear around the web, but until there is real hockey to discuss, we will stay silent.
UPDATE: a couple of new articles from LB, click here and here.
UPDATE ( 6/16): Not much going on except Trouba is taking cooking lessons and the Fishsticks are homeless again ( two articles about that, click here and here )
UPDATE 6/17; I have two updates this morning. One, new article from Carp, click here.
And two- HAPPY 26th, WICKY!
UPDATE (6/18): Aside from the great news you all already know, I found this article about Kevin Shattenkirk. The story is a little different from what we were told.
UPDATE: Click here to read Carp’s article about Lias.
And another article by LB. Kaapo Kakko gets the green light to play.
112 responses to “Let’s take a break”
Good morning, boneheads!
I opened it up temporarily for a special occasion.
But I want him to tell you 🙂
Yo Yo! Today at 2:10 am I became a father for the second time! Beautiful baby girl Averie! I’m doing fine… mom and the baby are doing good too! LGR!
Thank you, ilb! :*
congrats CCCP to your whole family
is she 26 yet?
Alex, almost.
Good news, she looks nothing like CCCP. Thank goodness!
LOL C3 and 3 women under one roof. The dreaded 3-1 lead, Sam! I’ll have a nephew for ya as a life raft in a few shorts weeks 🙂
Congrats CCCP. Some great news in these weird times. I hope she grows up to be just like her namesake
Well that’s a relief, ILB. 🙂 If she’s a pretty as daughter number 1 he’s going to need a lot of ammo in 18 years lol
I’ll do the honors of posting it:
The greatest Ranger ever! 🙂
Thanks, kids! Means a lot!
Miss you all.
Damn, you really meant it when you said you’d name the next one after #16! Awesome.
Lmao @ dreaded 3-1 lead! I’ll try to even the score as soon as possible hahaha
I’ve always said that if you have all your teeth, I don’t want you on my hockey team.
Yeah, Coos…
I don’t throw words around… only punches 😉
Post above updated. New article about Kevin Shattenkirk.
Until the recent good luck, Management has acted like drunks in choosing and over-paying a myriad of useless DMen.
Mazel tov CCCP.
Haha
‘I’m doing fine…. mother and baby are doing alright too’
If averie grows up to cause you many sleepless nights. Remember JPP saying you asked for it.
😉
Congrats CCCP!
lol jpp…
Thanks, guys!
“Shattenkirk” should put posts into moderation when it’s written on this blog 🙂
Great news 3CP. Just great. Congratulations!
Congrats you crazy Ukrainian bastage!
Congratulations! So around the end of the year the COVID babies will start to appear?
congrats CCCP!!!!
Congrats CCCP! I have a fraternity brother who had four girls, something to shoot for 😉
Can we now say that Lias has quit on the Rangers?
Yes, we can, BDL. Not sure they can get much for him at this point. But! If Chytil keeps progressing the way he has the second part of this season, it’s still going to be a very, very good draft year.
I’m going to say this, even if it may sound too early. Gorton’s best moves are signing Panarin and Fox, and a highway robbery of Zibanejad plus for BGB ( the last one isn’t too early to say )
So Lias is a goner. Too bad for a#7 overall pick. Maybe he never plays in the NHL.
Liked the pick when it happened. Liked the player when I saw him.
Did not like the player skating ability.
Thought he was better suited for the wing.
They better find out exactly what happened to him ( if something happened to him), so I never happens to another player. Kravtsov also took his stick and went home this season. Feels similar.
He uber sulked when he didn’t win World Juniors. He sulked here. He’ slow as molasses. Maybe he’s a perpetual molasses sulker, in which case, let him sulk elsewhere. SEVENTH OVERALL? Someone’s head should roll.
First; congrats on your daughter CCCP. Second. where did you guys see story about Lias be a goner? Was watching Rangers vs Devils 94 series and noticed a lot of dirty hits. Also against Vancouver; the Canucks seemed to be holding on almost every play. Can’t wait for playoffs to start. Stay safe everyone.
Oh, I’m shooting, Beezle… two for two so far 😉
Will we ever find out what happened between Lias and the Rangers? I mean, kid is salty as fugg.
Wow
https://thehockeynews.com/news/article/more-explosive-and-shocking-allegations-against-junior-hockey-in-newly-filed-lawsuit
Yikes. Some of that stuff is next level.
Wow is right. Disgusting. I wonder how much of that is still going on at different levels. Maybe not to that extent. But AHL? Who knows.
Congrats CCCCCCP!
Congratulations CCCP! From the whole family…
Sounds like Kappa Sig or Fiji in the 80s
If not for CCCP excellent news, we will have none…I heard, God loves Trinity. The third one will be a boy. Book it. Wonder, what his name would be after the #16 is already taken. Heartfelt Congratulations again, my friend!
If it’s a boy, it’s ‘Knuckles,’ on the ice; in the office, ‘PhD.’
What a sordid story 8:33 PM. However, I wouldn’t trust a thing Carcillo had to say without glossy pictures and sworn testimony
Mazel Tov 3CP! ברכות על התינוק החדש
Finally some hockey news…
Lias skated like his diaper was full and was a big fuggin baby who couldn’t deal with the pro game.
So Lias will likely wind up being a throw in as part of a larger trade and TDA is all that’s left of the Stepan/Raanta trade. Drafting Lias and signing Shatty were both decisions made in an effort to retool rather than rebuild. It wound up being a flawed concept that wasted a lottery pick and left them with dead cap space. They need to own it and move on. Lias will be a bottom 6 forward on another team which is what he was likely always going to be.
Guess the Middlestadt pick didn’t save Botterill ‘s job (snarky) . How bad do you have to be to get fired during this lock down?
Lias isn’t going to have much of an NHL career. That’s on Clark and the organization. But it is what it is at this point.
TD is a hell of a asset to pick up in that deal. Always want a top 10 pick to work out but TD has proven he can play at a high level in this league with props to DQ for providing the ‘structure’ he needed.
Welp
Reading that story shows I probably would have been an outsider on my hockey teams growing up if I had played juniors.
If any of my teammates ever tried that crap with me or anyone else on my team. I would have been swinging my stick helicopter style at the whole team was trying to haze me or a teammate.
Any NHLer who carried on like that is a punk little boy and should have had their zzz kicked by a standup kid on the team.
That kind of crap would never go down in a locker room I was in. I don’t care if it resulted with me kicked off the team.
Yeah I think DeAnger is the clear winner of that trade. I really like him as a player and a person.
CCCP and SN got that one right. DeAngelo is already the best asset in this trade. I’m going to say that even if Lias ended up being on this team as a third/fourth line center, DeAngelo would still end being the better asset.
Fugg Lias. Who does he think he is?
Are we open for business again?
Hockey business, yes.
CDC says we have to limit the amount of participants on the blog Wick. We’re one over so beat it! : )
Is it a little sexist that theres a big baby shower going on outside my office right now (father’s day weekend) for an expecting mother and all I have gotten today at work is more work?
Business types no longer permitted here:
Shady business
Monkey business
Child’s play
Snarky sessions
Fuddy duddies
Stinky Snarks
Naughty nagging
Snickle Fritz
Dumb Poo.
That means about 3 of you can participate from here on out. Proceed.
Not a fan of Deangelo as a player or person. Investing in Deangelo long-term might turn out to be another costly mistake.
It’s Mr. D’s opinion. Disagreeing with him is fine, attacking him personally will not be allowed.
We just entered the Phase I reopening. Any uptick in BC level, we are going back 😃
TonyD is one of my favorites on the team. Might be in my top 3.
Actually think the kid has a big heart and is gonna Continue growing and evolving before our eyes.
TonyD is winning us that trade.
(Sorry Step- always remember amonte, kovalev, stepan- only Ranger jerseys I own. The amonte was a kid jersey with the rubberish patches. But Tony Amonte was actually the first ranger jersey I ever had. Still have all 3)
Sooooooo.
Never mind
The primo Kovalev jersey my dad got me swam on me at first. He said look if we’re getting you an official jersey I’m getting you one you can grow into.
The thing is still alittle big on me. Back before they started tapering the jerseys. It’s like a goalie jersey
Wonder if that team is the rangers. We saw one day of tweets from the rink and none since.
@Coos 7:57 – Ewwwww
D’Anger has exceeded expectations offensively and probably the low bar defensively. But Mister D does have a point about longer term – you won’t be happy with a big money/term contract if his offense falls off very much because of the quality of his core defensive play is on a good day just adequate. He’s definitely the type of player who screams for incentive clauses in the contract but those really don’t exist in hockey.
Team in question is the Lightning. They’ve shut down the facility after 5 positive cases among players and staff.
That’s a huge set back for this phasing stuff.
Phase II around here is ILB dropping the Russian hammer like Nikolai Volkov did in the 80s 🙂
I deliberately referred to him as the best ASSET.
Agree with Beezle re: D’Anger. I think his D will improve. He has the latent moxie to make it happen.
My tongue is itching 😛
Go change another diaper then, CCCP
i hear you cccp
If you are able to give DeAngelo a partner who is all D, you can get away with DeAngelo being below average defensively.
I wonder if DeAngelo switched to the left side, some people may feel different about him. 🤔
Tony D nets the OT winner against Carolina and the Rangers win in 5 games then move on to play Washington. Book it.
The NHL is reseeding after rounds. Meaning if the rangers win the play-in round they will most likely be the lowest seed advancing (unless Montreal beats pitt) which means we’d be playing whoever gets the 1st seed from the top4 round robin.
Wow the lightning had 19 positive tests.
Goes to show so many are infected and undetected. We’re shorting the number of total infections cuz they aren’t even getting detected
But back to hockey
Well I’m idiot. Covid-19.
Not 19 positive test
Duffff
jpp I can see you’re just dying to start up the nonsense. Maybe take a break from posting here until it’s out of your system? Some of us want this place to stay open and for the purpose of hockey. Thanks.
I agree, Beezle. Deangelo’s exceeded expectations on the ice this season. His defense likely isn’t going to get better because moxie isn’t going to improve his hockey IQ and talent. I suppose a switch to the left side and partnering him with a defense-first defenseman could be an answer. However, if his offense drops off, his contract will look like a terrible decision.
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews has tested positive for COVID-19 and is isolating at home.
Frederik Andersen, who had been staying with Matthews’ in Arizona, tested negative and is no longer in Arizona.
Sure wish we had had Stralman and that big Irish ex-Bruin on D the past couple.
What?
I’m dying to start up with nonsense?
F me man
Certainly a couple of bumps in the road on the way to Return to Play. I assume these guys are set back at least 2 weeks as long as there are no complications.
TDA winds up being the best asset in that trade. His salary demands and the number of D prospects they have may cause them to move him. It would be ironic if they wound up packaging TDA and Lias and trading them for a 2C. (not Stepan)
Post above updated for Carp’s new article.
Congrats Freddy! !!!
Now LETS GO RANGERS!!!!
Lets go gogogigogogooooo!!!
Another article added above. Kakko can play.
some large amts testing positive in college football. clemson, texas and houston. the protocols for hockey need to be adhered to and the sooner the better.
If they, and by they I mean all pro sports, want to play, they are going to have to treat the virus as the flu. By that I mean, Joe Smith has tested positive, no symptoms, will be in the lineup tonight. If every player that tests positive has to miss at least 2 weeks you are not going to have to many of the real players competing. It will be a complete farce. I don’t believe they will do this, which is why I do not believe there is going to be any pro sports.
Scratch the clumsy, truncated ‘season’ and start up as normal on regular date.
Columbus, Ohio removing Chris Columbus’s statue. Petition going ’round to re-name the City as ‘Flavortown; in honor of native son Chef Guy Fieri. How’s Torts with the ‘Flavortown Blue Jackets?’ 🙂
If Joe Smith is asymptomatic but contagious I’m not sure he can be in the lineup. In a couple of day the whole team may test positive. If they are unable to control infections at all they will have to pull the plug. European soccer leagues are playing. The positive tests are not rampant there. Their protocols and experience may be relevant.
I’d like to share something with you but I decided that I need it all myself.
they’re showing 1994 playoffs all weekend. now game 3 vs isles. i was there. i remember the 14-nothing chant when rangers were up 2-0 in this game.
Larry Brooks
@NYP_Brooksie
From NHL GM’s meeting, Post has learned that training camp is set for two weeks, with teams traveling to respective hub city on July 23 or 24 before playing one exhibition game. The Stanley Cup tournament that begins with qualifying rounds is scheduled to begin on July 30.
Other info: Teams will be permitted to bring 30 skaters plus an unlimited number of goaltenders to camp, and 28 skaters plus unlimited GT for tournament. Players on IR do not count against limit.
Now ridiculous IMHO. Tentless Circus.
Take some Tamiflu and get your ass on the ice!
Coos
I thought you were kidding about the Columbus… holy crap! LOL! Flavortown! Hahahaha
Yet another reason to never go there.
New York Rangers vs Flavortown fruit cakes.
re: 12:17 Alex – Shocking to see how much blatant clutching, grabbing and interference was overlooked by the old Neanderthal Refs.
When I first appeared here in print, eons ago, I innocently use the word ‘fruitcakes’ and was jumped, mugged and vilified. I guess all (or most) of the ‘fruitcakes’ have resigned.
I’m a little late, but Congrats 3C!
From me also 3C Congratulations!!
Short Starbucks offering says: ‘I’m a little latte.’
Entire Brooks article on the dates: https://nypost.com/2020/06/20/nhl-sets-stanley-cup-playoffs-date-strict-coronavirus-guidelines/
Did not notice any mention of the home ice NYR issue
CCCP,
Congratulations! Enjoy every moment… even the crappy, sleepless nights… bc they’re only that young once.
My twin girls are 16 months old and it’s going by so fast….
Again, congrats!
“Coach any update on Wolski?”
“We’re still trying to get him off the vent”
….not as funny as the hot tub scenario.
Treat this as what it is or don’t play.
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