wait i don’t have TV, what happened?

Larry Brooks, who asked him if the Rangers should have taken a third-man-in penalty after Carcillo went after Gaborik. Brooks apparently wrote something sarcastic about Redden fighting the other day and Torts didn’t like it. I thought the Flyers were ugly, man Brooks is a fat toad.
This was one of the most frustrating games of the year. Getting shut out by these bastards 6 straight periods – very tough to take. Infuriating.

Brooks is the same guy who Torts told to ‘get the fuck out of here’ a couple of years ago after another loss. It’s on youtube.

Night like this i miss Langdon

This team is really missing another Gravesesque player

carcillo will get his – but no punishment could ever be worse than having to wake up and look at that face in the mirror every morning.

dale rolfe and dave the hammer all over again hope dan gilardi had a good seat for his team mate getting his but whip come on boys a little late on the payback some guts and then the glory orland k

SIGN HIM.

so essentially, Gaborik needs to keep his gloves on and take a beating to justify Carcillo being a goon.

truly classic logic

comparing Carcillo to Dave Schultz – are you kidding? At least Schultz fought guys who could take care of themselves, not elite star players who have fought like once in their career. get real.

considering Carcillo dropped his gloves first, maybe yours are Stevie and Ray.

who threw the first punch?

why didn’t we do something after Hank got knock down? Based on our history I knew we would let it go. What are we afraid of? Why no penalty?? Funny how the first scoring chance after Hank got ran he gives up a soft goal. I guess we’ll never learn.

I feel we started the game right where we left off the previous two games, but then hit a brick wall that was the Flyers defense. and as we couldnt get any chances the team just got discouraged more and more. then with the Gabby incident it definately got them off there game and it went downhill from there. I know all I thought about after that was hoping Avery would give Richards a shot to the head, much like he did to Booth early in the season but obviously that did not happen. The Flyers are a very dirty team that starts right from their leader. and I feel Carcillo should be kicked out of the league for the BS he pulls. either a ban or he gets wrecked by a stick to the head and its a career ending injury because right now he is the most ive ever hated a single player.

than come here and post? What a bunch of lame ass losers you are.

Typical Philadelphia sports fans. Dont even care that they just won, all they care about is New York losing. This coming from the kind of fans who win the World Series and then immediately talk about how much the Mets suck. Get over yourselves, you’re not even the top rival of any New York team.

I see Flyer fans are just as classless as their new hero Carcillo. They deserve him. Talking smack on a Ranger blog because their team got the benefit of several non-calls in the first period and then gloating about beating up Gaborik? Outstanding. He was an immature punk with Phoenix, and apparently he’s picked up right where he left off, now gooning it up in Philly and continuing to embarrass himself on a regular basis. Pretty pathetic, because the kid actually has some skills, that is when he’s not running around acting like a complete lunatic. What comes around goes around, and someday Carcillo’s going to learn the hard way.

He gets punched in the face FIRST by Carcillo, and Gaborik throws his right glove off, not even a half a second later, Carcillo does.

Theres virtually .5 seconds in between them both taking their gloves off.

Brashear better take care of business next time we play them, clean, dirty, however he wants to do it, just get it done. And Avery tried to get Richards to fight at the end of the game, but RIchards punked out. Next time, don’t give him the option. This is NYC, Ranger fans are not gonna stand for this weak-ass, soft bullshit. I hope Girardi gets booed on Monday.

Before the whole Carcillo goes apes*** on Gaborik, how about what Arron Asham did to Lundqvist. He intentionally ran him down. He wasn’t pushed into Henrik accidentally, he wasn’t bumped, Asham intentionally ran into Lundqvist. Did the refs want to give him a penalty for it? No. That told the Flyers to do anything and everything they wanted to do with cheap shot antics.

While I understand no one wanted a third man in with the Gaborik situation, someone should’ve gone in there and be the third man in. How do you allow Carcillo to man handle Gaborik like that. This isn’t about who dropped the gloves first or both dropped the gloves. Gaborik is not a fighter and the refs have to understand that. Carcillo baited him into that and Gaborik gets a penalty for getting sucker punched.

This was a good hockey game till those two incidents broke out and the Flyers basically got away with murder. I will say that they did deserve the two points. But once again their goon mentality has gone over the line and the NHL as well as the on-ice Officials just won’t do their jobs. Two fighters going after each other is not an instigator. What Carcillo did to Gaborik the instigator rule is when it should be enforced.

This is the second game where the Rangers never truely challenged the Flyers goaltender. Both Leighton & Emery had it easy the last two games against the Rangers and this crap has to stop.

The refs have to go to Philly and do their damn jobs. They can’t officiate scared and worried that a Flyers fan is going to jump over the glass & boards and take them out. I’m all for letting them play, but when do these four blind mice with striped shirts call a penalty properly. Oh that’s right, with 7.1 left in the 3rd period when the game is already over. Nice job shmucks.

I have seen this all year and the Rangers do not stand up for their teammates. Lundqvist has been runover all year long because the entire league knows the Rangers sit back and watch it happen. And that results in teams taking further advantage of the crease.

Expecting the officials to police the game is not realistic. Hockey has always been “officiated” by the players. If you break a code then it is expected that you will pay for it later. that’s how hockey works.

Girardi should have at the very least held or pinned Carcillo down. Taken the 3rd-man-in penalty to save your star.

and do the same for your goalie. one of these days, Lundqvist is going to get hurt and it will be too late.

Even Barnaby agreed. this was a penalty Girardi should have taken.

I really wish somebody besides Avery (and Redden !?!?!?) understood this.

Maybe the Rangers need one of those “team-building” exercises.

Wow…

I need to throw my 2 cents in.

Gabby didn’t start that fight. It looked like his glove got pulled off so he threw the a punch. Good for him. Carcillio drew him in and that is where you need to make sure some gets him back.

You could say it should be Brashier but he’s a waste. Voros and Avery are now our enforcers (thanks glen sather).

No doupt that Philly out played us and we couldn’t get to the net. Still it looked like we left it on the ice and I can handle that. The best way to get even was to win and we didn’t. The players all looked like they played hard. I do think Girardi needed to jump in and get physical, he did play a hell of a hockey game.

I’m not sure about the 3rd man in. Gaby wasn’t get his a$$ kicked. Carcillio needs to get leveld the next time he’s on the ice. I also wish we stood up for Lunquist when he got ran.

I’m puzzeld at the officiating. With all the recent contraversy you would think the on ice officials would be doing a better job at trying to get things right. It’s a black eye for hockey.

This is hilarious. The rangers fans call the Flyers fans classless but say they have downs syndrome (yea because thats classy). They say Carcillo started the fight but its the Flyers fans citing picture and video to make their case. Its hilarious to sit back and read all these Rangers fans implode like their players did last night. Go FLYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (add your replys below so I can laugh some more…)

if Colton Orr was still on our team? Don’t think so, he would have passed judgement on the ice in swift fashion. Instead we have the waste called Brashear who probably wouldn’t have done anything if he were at the game. I applaud Avery and Voros for stepping up but until we get an Orr like player to command respect and protect Hank, we will continue to get manhandled

I have to say, all this bickering and fight analysis is getting me excited for the March 14th re-match.

I have tics and ironically I am taking my good friend who is a rabid Flyers fan as a reciprocation for helping me out on my house.

How won’t be able to complain that I don’t take him to good games!

torts should’ve known better and dressed Brash. end of story/

of Bill Burr ripping into the Philly fans…. Awesome !

Ok, this is not like the Mick Vukota/Jeff Bloomberg incident years ago. Guys Gabbs had no business dropping his gloves…..he chose to do it and unfortunately nobody did what they should have….be more concerned that Gabby doesn’t lose confidence in his team than the fact he took a few shots.

Carcillo is far from a classy player but he did what any of us would have done in this senario. Kinda like Pedro clubbing Don Zimmer.

I say 1- make Avery the damn capt or give him an A already and
2-sign Laraque, waive Brashear
3- the next meeting at the garden will be a must watch…….run Emory and Briere from the opening faceoff and send a message…..Broadway Bullies…for once.

I can see Laraque coming here after this game.
Brash is done, doens’t wanna fight anymore and is getting too slow.
Last night was the worst game of the year IMO, We didn’t play our game and got completely bullied by them from start to finish. I was horrified to see Gaborik fighting and people on the ice letting it happen. Carcillo should have walked away but took an easy target.

yeah I agree, but maybe with all thats gone on with him, hed be angry enough to fight and protect our stars.

Stop trolling our boards here and stop being delusional that it was Gaborik who dropped the gloves first when it was your boy Carcillo throwing jabs at him first. This isn’t “HE THREW HIS GLOVES DOWN FIRST SO GABORIK STARTED IT!” That’s complete crap and all of you shmucks know it.

Carcillo started the punches with his gloves on and then threw them off, then Gaborik did. What do you want Gaborik to do there? He has to try to defend himself, but he is not a fighter. That’s why Carcillo “INSTIGATED THE WHOLE THING” But the refs are too dumb and blind to worry about Carcillo because they were worried about Sean Avery too much.

This was a good hockey game till those two incidents ruined it. Your hero is an idiot. If Carcillo had the balls to do that to Sidney Crosby & Alex Ovechkin, he would’ve been destroyed by there respective sides & he would’ve been suspended to the max by the NHL. I hope when the Flyers make a return trip to the Garden, Avery will go nuts on Emery & Briere and we will see how you shmucks like it.

Carcillo was licking his chops when he saw gaborik. Like predator to prey gaborik never had a chance and carcillo attacked how we ended up shorthanded is beyond me. Carcillo is a piece of crap and I can’t wait until next game when twenty guys dressed in blue will be licking their chops to get at him. He is a disguisting person just like the rest of the flyers

Where is your logic? This is hockey dude, not tennis. Go to you-tube and watch the fight between Carcillo & Gaborik. Gaborik took the 1st two ( very weak ) rabbit punches, then Carcillo cleaned up. It cracked me up when you wrote " There are lines in this sport that you do not cross " my god, how long have you been watching hockey? Does Gaborik have written in his contract that he doesn’t fight? There should never be a " Golden Child " it did him some good, toughened up the poor boy. My bet is he’s home hitting the heavy bag right now. getting ready for his next fight.

You can talk all you want about “who threw the first punch” but the fact of the matter is Carcillo went racing into that scrum like a bat out of hell and intentionally singled out Gaborik, getting him in a headlock, and obviously trying to get him to fight. It’s no secret- Carcillo is a guy who looks for absolutely any excuse to start throwing punches, regardless of who he’s swinging at or whether it’s even worth dropping the gloves. He is completely tactless in this regard. And I suppose you’re still going to argue that Gaborik was the aggressor in this instance.
To “defend” Carcillo’s actions is purely asinine. The bottom line is he’s immature, reckless, has serious anger issues and he’s an embarrassment to the sport. There’s a reason the Phoenix Coyotes, yes the Coyotes of all teams, couldn’t wait to unload this guy. Even that organization, which is starved for fans and will do virtually anything to sell seats, got completely fed up with Carcillo’s childish antics and couldn’t wait to show him the door.
I’m not being hypocritical either in my assessment of Carcillo because I realize the Rangers have one of the most hated and controversial instigators in the league (you know who I’m taking about) who shares some of Carcillo’s less-desirable traits, but I highly doubt you’ll ever see Sean Avery start wildly throwing haymakers at a Pavel Datsyuk or Henrik Sedin. Avery at least has some measure of respect for the game and for players of that caliber, whereas Carcillo has none.

I think this Carcillo/Gaborik fight (if that’s what you want to call it) is now clouding over the fact that the Rangers cannot compete with big teams that play physical, strong defense. Unfortunately, that describes every other team in our division.
I also sense that many of our players DO NOT understand how important these divisional rivalry games are – for the team and the fans. I remember Avery saying something after the Islanders fiasco in December that not enough of our players understand what a privilege it is to be a Ranger, or words to that effect. I think he was 100% right.
To be fair, our play has improved in recent weeks, including at home. The next step – and I would think this is obvious – is to find ways to compete better in divisional matchups. I know we’re not built for it, but we play these teams more than anybody – find a way to get it done, or we’re truly going nowhere.

Fighting is all part of hockey and not the issue here.That being said we need a true enforcer though for when we play teams like the flyers, Orr was perfect and should not have been let go. The isse for me is our team, aside from Avery/Dubinsky and Voros were way too soft. Gaborik should never have been allowed to have that goon all over him. In a perfect world we would have a defenseman who’s going to be on the ice behind Gaborik to stop this from happening. somebody like Avery/Voros is rarely even on the ice at the same time.

what sort of clown wrote this article? Did you even watch the game? Gaboric dropped his gloves first and got what he deserved while the rest of his team looked on and did nothing. Then Avery the hero got chumped by Scott Fartsmell. Maybe you should mention that.

A+ quality reporting here.

I know this does nothing to serve the discourse but I missed most of the game anyway and I feel it must be said. People from Pennsylvania are primarily degenerate hicks whose ultimate goal appears to be to make those around them disgusted by their general unpleasantness and lack of character. And honestly, having been to Pittsburgh, Philly and the surrounding areas before, I don’t really blame them. If my home and the people I lived with were comparable to a bucket of diarrhea, I would be bitter and unpleasant too. As such, it is no surprise that the Flyers and their fans are the way that they are.

I think Gabs thought it was inevitable – it was pretty close on who threw the gloves first but honestly, it looks like Gaborik to me. That said, Carcillo didn’t really need to go that far – the haymakers at the end were more than a little over the top for such a miss-match.

It should have never come to that point to begin with – Girardi & MDZ should have been in there, as any responsible D would be. Hanging at the hash marks watching the whole thing is unacceptable to me.

and…sorry, but I don’t think calling a whole state “degenerate hicks” does anybody any good – every state has their fair share…