Rangers Recap: Rangers snap losing streak, whip Isles 5-2
by Jim Schmiedeberg on Dec 17, 2009 9:40 PM EST
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Player's only meetings, tirades from the coach, lineup changes, and fan discord. It was a full day in the world of the New York Rangers.
Oh yeah, they played a game too, and it was Henrik Lundqvist putting the Rangers on his back early, and then the offense did the rest.
Only the end result of tonight's first period looked different than last nights. The Rangers were still outworked and outshot for most of the frame, but managed to score twice off of Islanders goalkeeper Dwayne Roloson and took a 2-0 lead in to the intermission despite being outshot 14-4. The Rangers got goals from Ryan Callahan, who continued his recent hot streak, and Chris Drury (not a misprint) also found the back of the net. Drury's goal was his first since October 19th.
Callahan didn't waste any time adding to his totals, scoring his second of the game and ninth of the season just 27 seconds into the second period. The goal came on just the fifth shot on goal for the Rangers. Tonight was the first time in 8 games the Rangers found their way to the three goal mark, and they weren't done.
Marian Gaborik added the Rangers third power play goal of the night, scoring his 24th goal of the season with the Rangers on a two man advantage early in the third period. Artem Anisimov broke out of his drought as well, picking up his sixth goal of the season a few minutes later. Callahan assisted on Double A's goal, giving him the first four point night of his career.
Lundqvist was incredible for the Rangers tonight, making 35 saves. He kept the Islanders off the scoreboard early, when the Islanders were buzzing hard to the net, the Rangers were able to feed off their goalkeeper, and turn it into a big victory.
So after all the turmoil of the last 24 hours, the Rangers and their fans can take a deep breath and enjoy a well deserved victory. It feels like it has been a month since the last one.
Final Thoughts:
Can't say enough about the Rangers special teams tonight. 3 for 6 on the power play, and killed off all 7 minor penalties they took.
Michal Rozsival has deservedly taken a lot of heat from all of us, but he probably played one of his best games of the year tonight. Same goes for Chris Drury. Maybe Torts knew what he was doing by not benching them along with Wade Redden and Ales Kotalik. He dropped Drury to the fourth line early in the game, and at least for a night, it paid off.
Now can Artem Anisimov get more playing time?
How long has it been since my last apology for agreeing with the Brashear signing? Probably too long, so again, I am sorry. I was so wrong. Like "New Coke" wrong. Like the Wilpons giving all their money to Bernie Madoff wrong. Like Garth Brooks trying pop music wrong.
Ilkka Heikkinen looks to be getting more and more comfortable every game. If he keeps playing like this, he could make it very tough for the Rangers to keep him out of the lineup.
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think about the fact that brashear and kotalik are using up 4.4m in cap space this year AND next
what a waste
oh Jim, Lundqvist made 35 saves tonight, not 34.
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got it thanks
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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Dec 17, 2009 9:59 PM EST up reply actions
Unfortunately I missed almost the whole game but...
was I high or did Drury really smashed somebody hard against the glass? now that is what im talking about, we need more of that!!!!
thats the pic I used in the story
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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Dec 17, 2009 10:01 PM EST up reply actions
Good win
means nothing unless it’s built on though
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decent game
Avery was workin magic tonight. He was poking at guys left and right with his stick. Whether you approve of him or not, We need him as a troublemaker, it seems to work for NY and excites the crowd when start scuffles and battles.
Can’t spell his name but Hin-a-kin looks great. I noticed in both games him slaming the S&%$# out of other players. Like another cally only on d.
The difference I saw in this game with 5 goals and like the last 20 games with 2 or less is I believe 4 of the 5 goals were right at the net. We crashed the net(cally), carried it to the net(AA) and pretty much just overwhelmed the goalie at the crease. Aside from Gabby, who had a pretty nice f’in blast there (don’t recall ever seeing his slap shot but it too was a real dandy) we really have no shooting skills. This is the only way I think this team is going to win games…bring the puck to the net and everybody rush the goalie.
I don’t know what you were watching but towards the middle of the second period or even before, Rozsival looked like he was lost. I lost count of the times i saw him running around and scrambling to defend. He was at his worst in the last 10 minutes of the third.
well, I think you are kind of alone in that opinion, if you go check the game thread, there were plenty of people who thought Rozsival played well.
Do you really sit and count how many times he runs and scrambles?
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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Dec 17, 2009 10:25 PM EST up reply actions
I agree with Dougee
Rozi was horrible from what I watched. Other than slamming one of the Isles on D one time, he tossed pucks again at defencemens’ ankles for shots & gave away a few pucks.
idk all i can say is i completely disagree.
so far this season hes been awful. but the last few games hes been better and last night i thought he was very good
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I think he's been better...
I still think he is one of our weaker players, and one of our worst contracts, but he has been playing “better” in the last weak or 2 than he was earlier in the season.
Don’t take that to mean he has played well, just better.
Is New Coke bad...
…better or worse than Crystal Pepsi bad?
Yeah, nice to see Cally get rewarded for the hustle big time, he’s finally starting to come on. Now if someone can kick Higgins in the ass, we’ll be in business.
Oh, Gaborik = MVP. He’s disgustingly good.
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Does anybody know details
About the redden torts shouting match because he was scratched? The LI game announcer said something about it and said it could be heard frim far away…..
No idea
but hopefully it results in him getting waived
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by Joe Fortunato on Dec 17, 2009 10:43 PM EST up reply actions
Although if the
“If the Rangers lose tonight then Sather is fired” rumors are true then this win may have been very bad
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I dont buy it at all. Where did this rumor originate from? It's BS. Sather isnt going anywhere.........(unfortunately)
by giantsNYrangers on Dec 17, 2009 11:01 PM EST up reply actions
actually WFAN reported it
they are usually very good with this stuff
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by Joe Fortunato on Dec 17, 2009 11:14 PM EST up reply actions
Dont get me wrong I WISH it was true. I despise the man. Nobody should get that many chances
by giantsNYrangers on Dec 17, 2009 11:16 PM EST up reply actions
Agreed
but WFAN has had pleanty of chances to make stuff like this up and they never have
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by Joe Fortunato on Dec 17, 2009 11:18 PM EST up reply actions
Well then you know what Joe? If this rumor is tru then Sather doesnt last the season
cuz one game doesnt “fix” the rangers! we can only hope bro.
by giantsNYrangers on Dec 17, 2009 11:22 PM EST up reply actions
Look
you are 100% right, one game doesnt fix everything, hence my post lol
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by Joe Fortunato on Dec 17, 2009 11:24 PM EST up reply actions
Ok so lets say he does get the ax, where do we go from there?
Messier isnt ready to be a full time GM although im sure he is being groomed for the job but who do we go with?
by giantsNYrangers on Dec 17, 2009 11:26 PM EST up reply actions
Jim Schoenfeld
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by Joe Fortunato on Dec 17, 2009 11:46 PM EST up reply actions
Ok but only as a stopgap tho right? On an interem basis I would think.
Gotta go outsde the org to hire some1 real
by giantsNYrangers on Dec 17, 2009 11:50 PM EST up reply actions
for a year or two
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by Joe Fortunato on Dec 18, 2009 12:30 AM EST up reply actions
It started with WFAN.
Craig Carton heard from a source that Sather was getting fired if the Rangers lost. Boomer, who is a HUGE fan, season ticket holder, confirmed the quality of Carton’s source as “impeccable”.
Should that rumor be true, it means Sather’s days are just about over. Certainly doesn’t disappoint me, but it won’t make this a winning team.
I gotta agree with JIm
as well as continuing to apologize for my support of the Brashear trade!! I guess we were drinking the same kool aid, cuz i was kinda happy when we signed him, since i thought he was going to be bring the same game he played in Washington…o how wrong we were!! But i was also okay with the Kotalik signing, so i must have problems that i am not aware of!! haha
I have never seen a GM with a worse track record in signing FA. Aside from Gaborik has Sather signed a free agent that was productive and actually earned his paycheck and lived up to his contract.
And he’s been at it for 10 years now………………
by giantsNYrangers on Dec 17, 2009 11:08 PM EST up reply actions
hmmmm
ummmmm, well, if bure didnt completely bust his knees, he wudda paid for himself!! but other than that, i really cant think of a FA signing that truly panned out….maybe when he aquired Jagr, but wen ur team acquires a top 5 forward in the world, he shud be the most productive player on the ice!!
Actually, Jagr was a trade. one of the best in Ranger history. We gave up Anson Carter and only had to pay half of JJ's contract. That was truly a salary dump for Washington more than anything else. That just fell into Sathers lap. He got lucky with that
by giantsNYrangers on Dec 17, 2009 11:20 PM EST up reply actions
Sather pulls off the brilliant at times
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by Joe Fortunato on Dec 17, 2009 11:21 PM EST up reply actions
some of his trades are brilliant.
and the drafting in our organization has been very good recently (except for jessiman or w/e)
its just these contracts he gives out are a waste. just this year he added on brashear and kotalik. two players just to add to the list who are not worth the money they are getting
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Finally!! A win! Callahan was very impressive in this game, as was Lundqvist and Rozsival. Ignoring the ugly first period, good bounce back effort by the team.
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by Nick Montemagno on Dec 17, 2009 11:10 PM EST reply actions
10 years!! It's been 10 years of futility under Sathers watch. We as fans have been calling for his head for the last 5 yrs or so.
Does ownership even care what the fans think? That answer is pretty obvious. God dammit!!!!! Somethings gotta give here man. How many coaches has Sather hired and fired? A GM shouldnt get that many oporttunities to rip thru that many coaches. I want his head on a fuckin plate god dammit!!!! I have had enough of the Glen Sather regime!!!!! I want him fired!!!! Some1 please assasinate him!!! Im done with him!!!
by giantsNYrangers on Dec 17, 2009 11:15 PM EST reply actions
Now What?
Does torts continue into saturday with Redden and Kotalik scratched? Or does he just stick them back in there? I personally hope neither Redden or Kotalik play for a few games to really send a message, then if the team isn’t rolling right along, re-insert them. To take the team after a hard fought win tonight, considering we were basically scoring on the PP and counter attacking, and just throw sangz out would be a crime. Let Redden sit, what kind of reward would it be to bench a player after a winning effort, rookie or veteran asside?
you gotta go with the winning line up…i think sangs seemed pretty lost out there but he’s a rookie so i didnt mind it…but because the rangers are retarded they’ll probably put redden in for sangs and kotalik in for christensen…what i liked about rosival last night was he was physical…he’s been more physical lately and even tho he hasn’t been excellent he has been better…matter of fact the whole team was physical last night….i hope the rangers can dump some salary by the deadline…kotalik, brash, redden, and rosival all need to go but i can settle for half of those…i think most of us would
Plus I’m no islander fan but I think they have something with tavares….he has some moves…did you guys see that one move he almost pulled off where he lifted the puck and slapped it in mid air to almost get around the defender…even tho it didn’t fully work it was ballsy…the islanders are gonna be good and if the rangers dont start to get there shit together theyre gonna be the worst team in the Atlantic
well be tied with the flyers lmao.
and yeah jt has some nice moves.
its just such an aggravating feeling how much money wed have if we didnt make these stupid signings.
drury redden rozi kotalik brashear voros and higgins too.
thats worth. 26.5 mil.
imagine this next year.
kovalchuk marleau gaborik
avery dubinsky cally
grachev prospal anisimov
byers boyle parenteau
staal gilroy
girardi mdz
heikk sangs
lmao wed still have like 8 mil left after resigning staal and girardi. wow..
ugh sather why do u suck so bad
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That's a really good point
While I don’t see us grabbing the talent you outlined as replacements, the fact that our cap is so bloated with THAT is horrific under this context. Sadly, the Team loses almost nothing by dumping every player on the top list.
great example of the type of player we should be signing this summer -
Matt Stajan, currently a leaf @ 1.75mil. 11-17-28, 298 FOW @ 52%. awesome 2nd line center. UFA – 2010.
by #17ToTheRafters on Dec 18, 2009 8:44 AM EST up reply actions
Pru would fit right in
Prucha’s got 6 goals and 3 assists for 9 points. With #‘s like that he’d fit right in on this team.
Dawes was clearly the real deal...
Reminded me a bit of Tony Granato. I have no idea why we dumped him. Or Tyutin. Or Mikael Samulesson. Three smaller name players who know their role…and play it well.
again
Dawes is a 20 goal 40 point third liner, nothing more
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by Joe Fortunato on Dec 18, 2009 10:09 AM EST up reply actions
Nigel Dawes
At 10-9-19 he would be tied for 4th on the rangers for points right now!!!! He is a player that has skill and plays hard…. I miss him dearly… Pru on the other hand was a strait up flash in the pan….
"and this one will last a lifetime...." It may have too...
Also remember
Both those players are small players with speed playin in the Western Conference. The Eastern Conference is most notable for their size and physicality. It doesn’t surprise me one bit that they are doing ok, but it’s easier when you are playing a wide open style of play. Where the focus is on skating and not being physical.
hes also playing with Iginla
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by Joe Fortunato on Dec 18, 2009 1:00 PM EST up reply actions
I’d like to take this opportunity to say that I stuck up for dawes earlier this year on this board and Joe shot me down hahah
by ToddWilliams on Dec 18, 2009 9:06 AM EST up reply actions
Important win for the locker room. some players showed heart and leadership tonight. cally was hands down the best skater on the ice. hank was god with the pads. he was also brilliant with an empty net (how do you miss that shot?). did anyone notice how well lisin and dubinsky we’re skating through the neutral zone? i think that part of the game (transition) and the special teams really made the difference. sure, we’re not going to have a PP clicking @ 50% when we face real NHL goalies, but the movement and determination with the man advantage were very impressive. this has been by far the greatest improvement from the renney era.
i also thought MDZ played like a veteran tonight. his presence was felt equally in both zones, he was his usual poised self on the PP and was hitting hard behind the net. i’m so excited about this kid’s future as a ranger.
keep it up boys.
by #17ToTheRafters on Dec 18, 2009 8:18 AM EST reply actions
IN the Paint!
4 out of the 5 goals scored in or around the paint….AA goal was what we need more of go hard to the net with the puck…By no means was this a well played positional game by the blueshirts but it was gutsy..and at this point thats all we can ask for,if we continue this type of play I really think the Rangers will do better but the Key word is IF.the Rangers have proved many times when they go to the net hard and win the dirty battles in the paint they can score,and when you are searching for goals the K I S S rule always works….oh, GOD love King Henry once again the MVP of this team…
Im telling you guys the game before against the isles we were getting to cute, the board play wasnt working, this win was crashing the net getting pucks through…Let me add Cally came on strong late last year, maybe hes starting to get going a lil earlier this year. and maybe drury can net one every two weeks and well have a real team lol.
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