Rangers Recap: Blueshirts Overcome Adversity, Defeat Pens in OT 3-2

At least that I’ve seen. Great goaltending. Come from behind. OT win. Girardi coming out minutes after stitches at full force. Home-grown players making the difference. Defying the refs.Cally with a Gordie Howe hat-trick. Absolutely everything. I sleep well tonight.

There are games in a season that a player, a fan, and even a coach will remember for the rest of their lives.

A bit much.

It was a nice win, but if the Rangers continue to lose 60% of face-offs, spend boatloads of time in their own zone (which leads to penalties, questionable or not), and expect Lundqvist to stand on his head every game, this game will be quickly forgotten and replaced with talk of firing Torts for missing the playoffs.

phenomenal character win…hank kept them in it all night and then Dubi showed his start to the season is for real as he took over.

Crosby said in his post game that Hank was solid but he didn’t get a handle on Hank didn’t take away rebounds and they went off the side of the net. He said "we had our oppotunities and he (hank) didn’t take anything away from us.
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can’t can’t CAN’T believe that since the game went long…and my DVR stopped recording at 9:30…i missed the last 3 minutes and OT….im very unhappy right now….but not really…

too bad i had to sit though the most horrible commercials literally every 5 minutes on NHLN for like 45 minutes before they showed the highlights….

fucking beautiful play there for duby/cally.

Eric (the rat) Christansen? Did I miss a new nickname or something more sinister?

Of the 3rd period had the Pens on the PP. To come out with a win under circumstances like that is impressive.

Amazing Ranger game. Great Blueshirt Banter Radio. Watching Conan now. All I need now is to win the lottery and it will be the perfect night… too bad I don’t play the lottery.

Fantastic game. One of the best regular season games ever. Best since the Ranger comeback in Florida a few years back when Dominic Moore scored with seconds left against Luongo and the Panthers.

Interesting. The game review in PensBurgh is almost the exact opposite of this one (except for identifying Lundqvist as being phenomenal).

This one is much more accurate.

Great write-up Nick. This is the first game that has me convinced that we are truly a better team than last year.

Last year, we lose this game. No question.

They’re starting to rewrite the script, and it’s through hard work, good team play, phenomenal goaltending (last year Hank would have played against Edmonton and probably run out of gas in this one), and tough-mindedness.

Right on boys. Keep it coming. We’ll get Thomas on Wednesday, not Rask like last time.

True, but we practically never won overtime games last year.

The Rangers are becoming a team that other teams don’t like playing.

I love the grit, hard-nosed style we have this season. It seems that the stronger our young players get, the better we play.

I am really impressed with everything about this team right now.

Just need to stay consistent and improve the PK.

IM SUPRISED DUBI DIDNT KISS CALLY :)

so i found out that stepan stopped scoring after the first game cause he was afraid of what dubi would do next :)

damn i love this team

i love how torts says how proud he is of he team during his post-game interview.. its good to hear :)

also, in hindsight that trade for boyle seems pretty damn slick huh?

When the Pens scored the go ahead goal, I grabbed the remote in disgust and was about to turn the game off. I decided not to and to be honest, I wanted to see how Hank would react to this situation. Seeing him smash his stick on the crossbar was something new. Drawing a bench minor was equally out of character. I feel this show of emotion fuels his teammates play.

I think it is clear that we are watching the transformation of the clubs identity and a good amount of credit should go to Tortorella. I complained all last year that he was switching up the lines too often. He’s keeping them pretty consistent this year so maybe that has something to do with it. Either way, the team has taken on a new persona and the result of this game solidifies. They are relentless in their pursuit of victory.

Couple of side notes:

Girardi’s courage defines what hockey players are all about.

Can Gaborik get a solid pass though the neutral zone. It always seems like he’s dealing with a Mexican jumping bean (the puck).

The picture of Cally, Dubi, Staal celebrating the game winner was awesome. Home grown talent getting it done.

Crosby’s comments after the game sum him up quite perfectly… Saying Lundqvist wasn’t anything special and didn’t take anything away from them. Bravo, Mr. Crosby. I guess if you don’t get the spotlight, nobody else is allowed to have it. Absolute refusal to acknowledge an awesome game. Other players and every fan was able to see it, but not Sidney.

where the hell was the goalie interference penalty on Crosb!tch when he blatantly took out Hank’s skates ???? i guess ALL the officials just happened to miss that one.

But i’m sure if it was another player like Avery, they wouldn’t have thought twice about blowing the whistle then would they?

Man, the refereeing was absolutely atrocious that game. I saw 2 completely bullshit calls, and a good 2 non-calls (all to the Pens favor, of course). I think there was one non-call on us, but was offset by the double minor not much later.

Crysby must be teaching Geno the Art of Diving, because he drew a nice one grabbing Girardi’s (I think) stick.

Cooke scoring that goal on us was pretty heartbreaking, he had way too much time and space inside the right face-off circle to pick his spot. I would be pissed too if I was Lundqvist, standing on his head the entire game to lose in the last couple of minutes (a.k.a. typical Rangers coasting late in the third). Dubinsky setting up the tieing and game-winning goals was beautiful, though…

I had to watch the FSN Pittsburgh feed for this one, and god it was awful. I’ve said it many times, they rival Chico in the homer department… when Crosby blatantly ran the King, they were like “incidental contact… DEFINITELY incidental”. I wanted to throw stuff at the screen.

Great game nonetheless, so glad we got the 2 points with the deck stacked against us from the start.

three games ago numerous posts suggested that we would seroiusly be missing Rozi after he was hurt. I’ll pose the question – is this a better or worse team with Rozi in the lineup?

It’s really nice to see Torts system finally settle in with the players early this season. They’re forchecking hard with 2 guys and the D are consistently pushing up. Even though Hank kept them in there it was still a great character win. In years past they would definitely have lost that game despite an outlandish performance by their netminder.

Except for the holding call on Calli, I really didn’t have a problem with the calls made on the Rangers. They were mostly legitimate. What is not legitimate, though, is the lack of calls against the Penguins. It seems like for a while there the Refs forgot there were two teams playing last night.

It was nice to see Gilroy joining the rush as well. Although the numbers are against him once Rosi comes back, it’s nice to see him battling to stay in the lineup. On the other hand Del Zotto needs to get it together. He made some glaring mental mistakes last night and overall has been weak this season.

almost WWF like i really couldnt beleive it. It would be nice if that games officiating got reviewed,it embarrasses the whole league,but we all know it wont.
ej radek this morning was like,it was a great game but why keep whining about it? the win is the greatest revenge…….yeah but after that,any ranger fan has every right in the world to whine.Our boys showed great discipline in the after game interviews,i woulda went off.