Rangers Recap: New York Rangers defeat Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1, winning streak at 7
by Jim Schmiedeberg on Oct 17, 2009 10:35 PM EDT
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This was not one of the prettier victories of the New York Rangers current 7 game winning streak, but there are no style points in the NHL, and the Rangers will happily take their 4-1 win over the hapless Maple Leafs at the Air Canada Centre tonight.
Henrik Lundqvist made 34 saves and Marc Staal and Enver Lisin both scored their first goals of the season to lead the Rangers. Brandon Dubinsky and Michael Del Zotto also added tallies for the Rangers, who are now 7-1 so far this season. Dubinsky's goal was his 3rd of the season, but first since the 2nd game of the season against Ottawa.
For Del Zotto, the incredible start to the season for him continues, his second period goal was his 3rd of the season, and he now has 8 points, which is tops among NHL rookies. His parents were once again in attendance to see Zots pick up a goal. He might want to start bringing them everywhere the Rangers play.
The Leafs played much better in this game than in the 7-2 beating the Rangers handed them on Monday night at Madison Square Garden. The home team carried the play for much of the night, outshooting the Rangers 35-28 for the game. As mleetch said in the open game thread, the Rangers effort tonight can best described as "workman like"
Two concerns coming out of this game for the Rangers. One, they are still taking too many penalties. The Rangers found themselves shorthanded six times in the game. Only Toronto's severe lack of offensive ability kept the Leafs from capitalizing on the man advantage.
The other concern is that the Rangers continued to let opposing teams take runs at Henrik Lundqvist. Henrik was knocked over several times, with no retribution. This is something the Rangers are going to have to address soon, whether it be internally or externally. You simply cannot have your MVP as a sitting duck.
The Rangers 7-1 start is the best in team history. They will travel back to Madison Square Garden to face the San Jose Sharks.
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hey Lundqvist finally gets a blueshirt banter player of the game!
Yay! Lol. Also want to point out that Gaborik had two apples tonight bringing his point streak up to 8. Nice to see him rack up some assists since I think his passing is very underrated
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by Joe Fortunato on Oct 17, 2009 10:02 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs
Time for my obligatory pointing out a minor mistake in the recap
Dubi’s goal was not shorthanded. In a short span the Rangers went from a 3 on 5 to a 3 on 4 to a 4 on 4 right before Dubi buried that beautiful shot.
by XLII on Oct 17, 2009 10:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Thats the 2nd time they scored a goal I thought was shorthanded and wasnt. dammit
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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Oct 17, 2009 10:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
7-1 start best in their history huh? Let’s keep on rolling men! 10 in a row is in sight! Take it one game at a time, one shift at a time.
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by rmc235 on Oct 17, 2009 10:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Cut down on the penalties, play better in second periods, and we won’t have much to talk about. Oh yeah – they keep running Hank. Rangers need to nip that in the bud before it gets out of hand.
by 2mn8tr on Oct 17, 2009 10:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Big Zots mahgoats is incredible so far, sure he needs to work on his d a bit more but wow this kid is special.
by louielounz1 on Oct 17, 2009 10:22 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs
I agree with the running of hank of course, and i’m glad everyone got the points they got tonight. I just wanted to mention i was pretty excited to see Tort’s switch up the lines that game. He moved Avery up to the 2nd line with drury and cally, and then moved higgins back with Artem and Kotalik. I would like to see more of the avery and cally checking/scoring line combo. I liked Lisin on the 4th because i think he felt he skate with the puck more and open it up a little. I also think it was good to move Higgins. He plays so hard, but he wasn’t getting the chemistry going to finish. I also like Kotalik getting more 5-5 time. And did it look like Brash might really be hurt? I saw him walk away from two fights tonight. I would have loved to see him fight Komisarek. Gilroy seemed to play better this game as well.
by WalkerNYRanger on Oct 17, 2009 10:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
well walker
Brashear walked away from those fights because the Rangers had all the momentum. No need for Brash to go out there and give the leafs a reason to get fired up.
One of my—only—problems with Orr was that he never turned a fight down and sometimes gave the opposing team some momentum. Tonight was just a great veteran move by Brashear in my opinion.
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by Joe Fortunato on Oct 17, 2009 10:40 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, but it was Komisarek. That would have given us more momentum knocking out their new prized D-man. Now if he loses to Komisarek, we have more problems than losing momentum. We’d need a new enforcer.
by WalkerNYRanger on Oct 17, 2009 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Komisarek doesn't fight
Or, at least, rarely does.
by Lunkwill Fook on Oct 18, 2009 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The penalties worry me less than Hank
Something needs to be done about that. He can only be run into so many times before he’s injured. Not knocking Hank, just simple probability. One ankle turned or shoulder awkwardly landed on….. etc.
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by blueandorange4life on Oct 18, 2009 1:08 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
only 1 more game for mdz before we send him back to juniors right? haha.
it was a workman like night as i said and it was good to see them get the job done. also nice to see a bunch of different guys get chippy in defending hank. would be nice to see hank smack someone every once in a while, ala brodeur as much as i hate him, but he is good at the cheap shot on dudes coming at him and drawing the calls for anyone being within a mile of him.
we will have to be better, especially in taking less penalties against better teams, but good teams also do what we did tonight in making sure you beat the teams you are supposed to beat.
by mleetch352 on Oct 18, 2009 1:35 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
i actually think the rule is more than 10 games
the CBA says 10 but everyone else says 9 so idk who to believe … but ill go with the CBA. Doesn’t matter anyway lol.
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by Joe Fortunato on Oct 18, 2009 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think they're saying the same thing.
It’s 9 games. Once he plays in the 10th, it’s done.
by Lunkwill Fook on Oct 18, 2009 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
lunk is right the cba note is that once he plays the 10th he is ineligible to go back to juniors.
by mleetch352 on Oct 18, 2009 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
what was with the tripping call when the toronto player slid all the way into the ref.
thats what i call a flop.
good game for the rangers. lets get ready to make it 8-1
LET'S GO RANGERS!!!
by Moshe52792 on Oct 18, 2009 9:28 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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