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Rangers Playoff Notebook: 4.19.09

Good Morning Ranger fans! The sun is shining just a little bit brighter this morning, wouldn't you say?

Here are some Ranger headlines for you to look over while you have your Sunday breakfast:

Washington Post: Rangers are paying the price to stop the Capitals.

NHL.com: Ovechkin: We can come back. What's he supposed to say, "We're done, back up the truck?"

Newsday: The Rangers will have a new fan at Monday night's game, Matt Gilroy

NY Times: Lundqvist Grateful for Help From His Friends.

NY Times: Caps-Rangers: Dim Realizations After Game 2.

Toronto Sun: Block party for Rangers The Rangers blocked 29 shots yesterday, giving them 50 for the series.

ESPN: Rangers winning physically, mentally.

The Hockey News:  Stage is set for Broadway sweep.

National Sports Review: Lundqvist frustrating Caps, Ovechkin

DC Sports Box: Caps Dominate But Can't Beat Lundqvist as Rangers Take 2-0 Series Lead

"Dominate" is such an overused term in sports.  Webster's defines the word "dominate" as such:

  • be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance;
  • be in control
  • have dominance or the power to defeat over

Do any of those apply to the Capitals yesterday? No. Because they lost. When you dominate something, there should be no "buts" in the sentence.

"Caps dominate but can't beat Lundqvist". "Beat" is the root meaning of "dominate". You can't truly dominate without winning, can you?

These are the things that keep me awake at nights.

Have a great day everyone, more later.

One last thing:

Henrik Lundqvist dominated the Capitals yesterday.

 

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Can't wait for Monday

All year, the Rangers lack of true, blue fire power in terms of scoring frustrated the hell out of me. In the back of my head, however, was the belief that if we snuck in the playoffs, we’d be a tough out no matter who we played. A roster stacked with gritty players like Callahan, Sjostrom, Drury, Betts, Avery, and Dubinsky paired with a top 5 goalie is built for the heavy lifting of a 7 games series rather than the regular season…dream big, Rangers fans; 2 down, 14 to go!

B.S.

by Benjamin Salem on Apr 19, 2009 10:11 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I do feel we are a much better

Playoff team than regular season team. I mean Drury for one thing is leagues better in the playoffs. Gomez has shown that he can be great int he playoffs, and has been. Redden and Rozsival have tons of experience ont he backline.

And get this. Staal, Dubinsky, Callahan and Girardi are all getting tons of playoff experience!

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by Joe Fortunato on Apr 19, 2009 10:47 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

the Capitals dominated stretches of Game 1 and probably should have won. But game 2 was a different story, the Capitals didn’t do the little things required to win and the Rangers played a much better game and deserved to win that one.

by Ryan McFadden on Apr 19, 2009 10:57 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Well Henrik Deserved to win that one

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by Joe Fortunato on Apr 19, 2009 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Pulled this from the Washington Post

In 2003-04 when his Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup they led all playoff teams in blocked shots (363).

by AveryGod on Apr 19, 2009 11:42 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

"his" being John Torts team

Rangers have 50 in 2 game. great googly moogly are we gonna beat that

by AveryGod on Apr 19, 2009 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

well the Rangers are averaging 25 a game, they would shatter that record if all went well.

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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Apr 19, 2009 11:45 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

We do have alot of guys who throw themselvs inf ront of the puck. Betts, Sjostrom, Callahan, Girardi all block like 3 shots a game consistantly.

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by Joe Fortunato on Apr 19, 2009 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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