That’s not just the score, that’s the number of players who were trying.
Does anyone want to volunteer to write a playoff preview? I thought I was going to have some time to write one myself but I’m afraid that won’t be possible.
That’s not just the score, that’s the number of players who were trying.
Does anyone want to volunteer to write a playoff preview? I thought I was going to have some time to write one myself but I’m afraid that won’t be possible.
175 responses to “Rangers 3, Penguins 2”
A win is a win no matter how many players were healthy scratches.
Good morning all! Happy playoffs season! LGR!
Good morning, boneheads!
A lot of emotions last night. They know how to do it at the Garden, that’s for sure. Classy. And the fans chanting “104” while everyone is tearful on the ice tells you everything you need to know about New Yorkers.
I had another bout of moist eyes this morning while watching Bryan Bickell score the SO goal.
Moments like these reminds one it’s not all about hockey.
They had another shootout a couple of nights ago in his first game back and he didn’t get to shoot. I thought to myself how dumb it was that Peters didn’t put him over he boards first. Good to see he rectified his error.
BTW, how was he not Carolina’s Masterton nominee?
Game 1: Wednesday, April 12th at 7 p.m.
Game 2: Friday, April 14th at 7 p.m.
Game 3: Sunday, April 16th at 7 p.m.*
Game 4: Tuesday, April 18th at 7 p.m.*
Game 5: Thursday, April 20th time TBD
Game 6: Saturday, April 22nd time TBD*
Game 7: Monday, April 24th time TBD
Round 1 Schedule above. Home games starred.
We will be thrilled by Staal and Montreal will pay for it!
SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Ouch for Eichel
Rod Seiling just named his new son Glass in honor of his wife’s job.
That 2 mil would have almost tripled his salary.
Wow, I forgot he was on an entry level salary. Talk about a bad night
Good morning Boneheads! I do not have the same anticipation and for that matter the same anxiety as I had in their Presidents Trophy season. I really believed they were going all the way that year. This year not so much. I don’t think Montreal is a better team but Price is the better goalie by far, and that will be the difference. So no stress watching the games this year as I expect an early exit similar to last year. I hope I’m wrong I really do.
Playoff preview:
Scenario 1 – Rangers win and the four RR Horsemen will nitpick and predict doom
Scenario 2 – Rangers lose and the four RR Horsemen kick their heels and predict doom
I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said the Four Horsemen, I should have said the four ‘realists’
Ouch re Eichel, just ouch baby
Good to see Vesey score last night. Not so good to see him utterly whiff on Bonino earlier on. Vesey is an exciting player but still an utter liability in-zone, still puck-watches far too often. Surprised he’s never really entered the conversation about that 12th spot. It’s been all about Glass and Buchnevich, the former who’s not in the lineup for his production, obviously, and the latter who’s been more productive (per game) than Vesey. Pretty good problem to have, I suppose. And I still have no idea who’s got the 6-spot on D. I would guess Klein, but neither he nor Smith has covered himself with glory during these admittedly meaningless games.
Probably numerous opps for Sabres unable to finish his passes that contributed more to missing the bonus.
Interesting that they use pts/game given he missed 21 games…
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Hey Now, Hey Now
Eichel Eichel All Day.
WoW, it starts early. What can’t you guys just get along?
What=why…ugh
The Four Horsemen of Boater Fame.
If Draistaitl wasn’t so much bigger than Eichel, I’d say Eichel should fight him next season.
So much for folks being positive, all neggy vibes from FG already…sheesh
Greek Football: The Four Horsemen of the Acropolis.
No neggys, only pozzys
Our sexy boys have this one!
What’s the cause of Klein’s rapid de-Klein? Bad back?
Both VC, Butch, and Glass should all be watching two veteran 2 way forwards with PK and/or FO prowess that Gorton should have picked up for late round picks.
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Dwight King for a 4th rounder and Steve Ott for a 6th rounder come to mind. We’ll see how those pan out in the next 2 weeks.
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Post ASG:
Butch: 23 games; 2-4-6; ) 0 PP pts.
VC: 31 Games; 4-3-7; 1 PP pt. (G)
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LGR !
I sense a lot of nervousness on the blog this morning. Me, nervous? Nah. Just a little too much coffee 😃
The first two games in Montreal are meaningless. Game 7 comes close to being a must win. 🙂
Guess Eichel finally got his pee pee slapped.
AV: “I thought we had some looks there in the first period. Anything else? Thanks, guys.”
I’m not nervous. A little farty and bloated perhaps.
Dreidel probably should buy Eichel a drink sometime
lose in 5. price with 2 shutouts. holden just watch will a horror show
Good morning, Eric!
Eric is never nervous. He knows exactly what will happen.
good morning ilb. just my usually charming self. i will say if we beat habs we lose to caps in conf finals in 6
What happened to Ottawa/Boston before they play the Caps?
we win that series over whoever. get by habs we go to conf finals
Top of the morning Boys!
Anything could happen this year, and the Rangers are healthy. But is Hank at the Top of his game? Can he just flip the switch and decide he is all world and shut down every team every game forward? We will see…..
If I was a betting man I would go with the Caps at 7-1 as the Stanley Cup favorites THIS year.
Oshie will bring the Cup back home to the Ralph this year, but if the Rangers could steal it from him, I wouldn’t mind a bit 😉
Almost forgot….. new GBaby Sioux born this weekend, Max weighed in at 9.1 lbs. So we have a new hockey player in the house 🙂
congrats sioux. i would bet caps in a heartbeat this year
Eric the Dread strikes again. 😉
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The Posy Team is aghast at such treasonous talk.
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Congrats!.
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would be lovely to see the Rangers of games 1-10 make an appearance and take a few encores
Congrats Souix!!
Ohh -Baby!!
I’m not nervous. I really want the rangers to win it all like all other ranger fans do, but I’m less enamoured with this team than in less seasons as far as playoff success goes. I sincerely hope I am wrong, so LGR!
Sioux
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Everyone else
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Congrats, Sioux. All the best.
Congrats Sioux!!!!!! Another baby bonehead in da house!!!! Keep him pozzie please!!!!
The Vancouver Canucks have fired Willie Desjardins as head coach. (As per Bob McKenzie)
I got $10 on Caps not winning the cup this year.
Anyone else?
Wicky I pretty much said the same thing not nervous at all. If they win it all the only explanation is we are in the Twilight Zone!
Congrats, Sioux!
9 pounder? What do they feed them in ND?
Pucks 😉
Yes , Price hands down. 23-27, 2.62, .912 lifetime in the playoffs. Never played more than 12 games. …
I know, he’s been better than Lundqvist this season. But, c’mon.
Congrats, Sioux-Per-Man!
Also, the Habs picking up Steve Ott means more opportunities on the PP for the Rangers. … and their PP’s been pretty good lately.
Does anyone know if any of the rangers first round series games will be on msg? 😉
will the first round be on msg????? guys?!?!
Carp may know, guys. He’s an icon at MSG now 😄
Montreal radio…they are really concerned about Galchenyuk and the vowel and how they play. Player interviews bringing up 2014 and Kreider (good for us). Most hockey reporters covering them seem to think it’s just talk and not really that big of deal.
It’ll be a big the moment Kreider enters the blue point. And I hope he does. And I hope Montreal responds.
Carp won’t like those “analytics”…
IN OTHER NEWS!
Caitlyn Jenner has undergone sex reassignment surgery. He’s a happy woman now!
(:
Brassard has been invisible for the Rangers all season
Make Caitlyn Bruce again!
(ok, that’s it…i’m done lol)
sorry…
Very true, Rob… I don’t know why they pay him so much money and he doesn’t even show up!
I’m sure Brassard will show up in the postseason like he always does 🙂
Miller, Kreider and hayes need to score.
Can this team score 2+ goals per game against the Canadiens? I hope so, but the new Canadiens defense is pretty stingy.
Bruce Jenner used to be my hero. i don’t know what the heck happened to that guy. I think he watched too much daytime network TV.
Bruce Jenner has been re-accommodated.
Tarrytown NY’s Bruce Jenner – we hardly knew ya!
‘Today the page has turned,” said AV, “Everybody has a clean slate.” If he truly believes that, he hasn’t learned a thing all season long.
What is there to learn? The slate has been cleaned. Nothing to learn from .
Everyone has a clean slate? So it’s like training camp? Going to play several ahl guys to see if they have a shot at making the roster?
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Or does he mean every team is now in the same position? (Which quite honestly isn’t accurate)
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Odd statement either way
BTW, remember during the World Cup when Melrose hollered: “Winnipeg is gonna be AWESOME this year!”?
When all you have to say are cliches, eventually you’ll say things that make no sense.
Maybe it means that Boo Nieves is going to get a look, Wick.
Carp, he’s a buffoon. That said, I liked Winnipeg a lot this year if they actually had a goaltender that was anywhere near league average.
Prucha remains scratched.
I think this series will be won or lost in the neutral zone and along the walls.
Wolski still in the tub
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Musky still missing
Referees:
Francis Charron, Gord Dwyer, Eric Furlatt, Trevor Hanson, Jean Hebert, Marc Joannette, Steve Kozari, Chris Lee, Wes McCauley, Brad Meier, Dan O’Halloran, Dan O’Rourke, Tim Peel, Brian Pochmara, Kevin Pollock, Chris Rooney, Francois St.Laurent, Kelly Sutherland, Ian Walsh, and Brad Watson. 20 TOTAL ROUND ONE
Standby referees are Kyle Rehman and Graham Skilliter.
In: Trevor Hanson, Brian Pochmara
Out: Dave Jackson, Frederick L’Ecuyer,
especially the neutral zone with the puck, along the walls in the D-zone. Not to mention the front of the net. Snow Angel City.
TSN just ran an article: “Is Galchenyuk’s move to the fourth line a demotion?” Ha.
Odds that E3 will be on the can for at least one period per game: 1/1
Why do they call you ‘Boo,’ Cristoval?
“I dunno.”
Anyone have any reporters they want added to the widget for this series?
Vegas sees this series as a pick em as well apparently.
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I’d list Toronto as the least likely to win it personally
Doodie
Yes, everyone from RDS 😉
Dave Stubbs, Doodie. Most of the old guys up there don’t tweet much. Some are in French, so it’s limited.
Habs’ team account is fairly thorough @CanadiensMTL I believe.
Kreider tried sarcasm with one of the Montreal writers today. The guy didn’t get it. LOL.
Amanda stein doodie
Carp
That was awesome…great skating coach here…working edges lmmfao
Reporter sticks the mic in front of Kreider’s mug while he asks #20 questions so no one listening knows what in hell the question is. Pathetic.
I’m sure we’ll hear about this being a rematch between these 2 coaches from the 2011 Final. Two different teams. A different time. Hopefully, a different outcome.
Can Buch survive and prosper with small rink, tight checking?
Congrats, Sioux. All the best.
Still though
Screw Oshie
Exactly! Screw Oshie and Brock Nelson while we are at it…
Le Kreider..sacre bleu!
**LE**
Doodie, I hear @E3s_can on twitter has fragrant hockey commentary!
Kreider gives good, if laconic interview. Heard the Met’s Syndergaard a number of times. Intellectually challenged, and egocentric to the extreme, poor chap. But the boy can throw it.
https://twitter.com/MattCalamia/status/851540767365619714
Rangers in 3.
Headzo – I pinched a Claude Julien this morning that had hair on it.
Rangers in 6 over LeHabs
Rangers in 5 over Bruins
Rangers in 6 over CBJ
Rangers in 6 over Chi
Captain Ryan McDonaugh come get the Stanley Cup
Eddie! You learning French this week?
Guess TB won’t be beating the Penguins this year.
Ricardo, I say this to all French maidens – voo lay voo koo Shay ahhh Vic moo what says what
That’s French for “say hello to little e3”
Tanner Glass with a hattie in game 1
“I pinched a Claude Julien this morning that had hair on it.”
The hair is what separates it from a normal Claude Julien.
In high school, one of my classmates asked the teacher, a Catholic brother, “voulais-vous coucher avec moi?” Without missing a beat, he responded “Voulais-vous faire les devoirs?”
French jokes.
Broadway hattie?
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Can’t see anyone beating our sexy sexy boys this year. Rob is correct. POZY POZY POZY. No neggy
Eastern conference
Price vs Kreider
Dubi vs Sid
Speed/skill vs SPD/skill w/size
Trap vs no trap
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Western conference
McClellan vs sharks
Yeo vs wild
Rinne vs Crawford (part trois)
Duck pond vs flames
Sorry, I was bored in the can 😉
Rangers win the cup. it will be Fo, Fo, Fo, Fo.
In the can? Not on the can?
One more flush at the can?
Geez, no hockey until Wednesday. I guess I could talk to my wife.
haha….yeah, right.
E3 sings tribute to our Northern Neighbor, and Nabokov: ‘Oh Can Ada.’
WHL playoffs on NHL at 9pm ET. nYR prospect Zborovsky play for Regina
J.Lo is marrying A-Rod… wonder if she knows about his performance issues 🙂
“Les Rangers me font peur!” – Guy Carbonneau
Guy Carbonneau était le valeureux capitaine de cette équipe. Il ne s’aventure pas à prédire la coupe au Canadien cette année. Selon lui, l’équipe de Claude Julien en aura plein les bras face aux Rangers de New York en première ronde.
«Je crois que ça va être plus serré que les gens veulent le croire, a-t-il raconté. Le Canadien a gagné ses trois matchs contre les Rangers cette saison, mais les deux premiers auraient pu aller d’un bord comme de l’autre.
«Je prédis une victoire du Canadien en sept rencontres. Pour y arriver, l’équipe devra éviter de perdre l’un des deux premiers matchs disputés à Montréal, a ajouté «Carbo». Les Rangers me font peur.
«C’est une équipe expérimentée, rapide et lourde. Ils jouent très bien défensivement et leur attaque a plus de punch que celle du CH. De plus, ils savent qu’ils peuvent battre le Tricolore dans les séries. Ils l’ont fait en 2014.»
Je ne sais pas quoi dire du chat effrayé… autre que Le Kreider! Ou est-ce juste LE?
Dena Lombardi and Mumbles both whacked in LA. Guess the 25 goals for the $16 Million annual payments to Brown and Kopitar caught up with them.
The Regina Monologues
E3 is a can do kind of guy..
Black Hawks are the favorites? Black Hawks over Rangers in 6. Chicago always wins it in 6.
Black Hawks won’t get outta 1st round. Book it.
Oh, 3CP you say the darnedest things…
Kings fire Sutter, Lombardi. What HAVE you done for me lately?
Sutter’s Reply: “Flubba uppa. Numba uppa. wunna Cuppas. Whadda fukka?”
Sutter to wife: “Put some clothes on that young-un. You see what he just dragged through the soup?”
Darryl Sutter on what he’s going to do next – “wubba Jubba tubba rubba. Goobie toobie, woobie, doobie do.
Kooz – I’m looking for a place near the park. 10 rooms minimum with a view. Budgeting about 200/month. can you help a brutha out?
Headzo / can I do the can/can? Why, yes I can.
OY I ATE TOO MUCH!
Sutter may just land his feet.
*land on*
Tomb said “Regina”…aha ha ha ha
I can see isles going for lombardi or sutter
Pretty shocked about Lombardi. I hope his terrible World Cup team had something to do with it.
Meanwhile, Garth Snow still has a job.
Sather still has a job. 17 years and counting… no Cup.
Sather > Snow
Cccp – sleet > snow
Cold, Rain & snow
Ain’t it sooooooooooooo
SN – listened to my fav dead show ever today. 5/7/77. Boston Garden. Brilliant performance.
Snow>Mike Green.
I have no job.
Good morning Boneheads welcome to Tuesday. On a positive note Rangers have a 1st round pick in this years draft.
Boring, un-sexy comment, but although Cally way overpriced himself and Boyler refused to play 4th line, these two contributed a simple yet effective energy that was never really replaced.
E3 – I have it on good information that if you discretely slip the building manager at 8 East 62nd a crisp Jackson, he can set you up with a 6BR, 4 bath with a terrace overlooking the Park for under $225 per mo.
Carp stayed up late and is sleeping in. Perfect opportunity to steal one of his pink plastic flamingos from the lawn.
Good morning, boneheads!
So the more I read around the internet, the more it becomes apparent that it’ll take a miracle for NY to win this round, and Montreal should be getting ready to play Boston. Alrighty then! Have these people watched any games this season?
I like and admire Tanner Glass, but for Gorton and AV to drag him up from the foggy bottom of Hartford every time they need grit and energy tells me that they are (at least in this instance) incompetent.
If the Hawks win it again, after pollinating the rest of the league with so many important guys, this is the one that would impress me the most
‘Talk about the boys from New York City-
They’re really down
And they’re no clowns
Finest penthouses ever seen in town
And they’re cute
In their mohair suits
And they keep their pockets full
Of spending loot.’
@coos: not to suggest competency in NYR front office, but what gritty, hard nosed player that can skate and contribute on a regular basis would you suggest they get (in the past or next season) and at what price? My take is we remain heavily cap constrained and that is why Tanner Glass (who I do like and admire and think is not as dreadful as most believe)
Desperate times =desperate measures, Coos. They built this team with the mind set of maximizing speed and skill and thought early on that if they shoved those attributes down the leagues throats every night they would be fine. Once they got healthy and saw what they had with everyone finally playing there was some physicality and grind thrown in their way and the 82 game schedule wore on some guys and they realized they were missing an element they only have in this guy. Not goos
Not sure, Beezle. Spend most of my time trying to clean up my OWN yard. 🙂
FG – pollinating? Can’t you get five and two for that?
depends what team you play for
the isles have to bring in lombardi and sutter right? like those new owners should just bring them in today and tell garth thanks for the memories
tanks for the mammaries?
Beezle – we were way under the cap at the deadline to add players. Picked up Smith for a 2nd/3rd which is pretty steep for a guy who plays like anywhere from a 2nd pair to a 7th D from game to game. I like Smith but he is another 2nd/3rd pair guy on a team full of them.
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Dwight King went for a 4th rounder. My guess there were other bottom 6 forwards that could have been added for depth. Very thin on the bottom 6 depending on how you define a defensive player in AV’s system.
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LGR!
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I’ll say one thing about this season’s version of Glass–the man is getting to the net. There is, of course, a next step.
I think even if they hadn’t brought him back up before the post season they were going to use him for the post season. Too many teams w guys that do what he does. Esp Montreal
Will he be the first Dartmouth grad to get his name on the Cup?
Well, he won’t be the first Potty Mouth.
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