but the real test will come on Sunday against Philly.

Just stopped by to thank Prospal for doing his part to help my fantasy team.

I can’t ever remember seeing anyone scream after a goal like Prospal does,I wish I could hear what he’s saying!,he looks like he’s gonna blow out a vein in his neck, don’t get me wrong,its awesome that he gets that fired up,fires me up.If anyone on here has heard him at a game,lemme know.

and were able to get on the scoreboard early in the second thanks to Rozsival and Redden being on the ice.

Haha nice

Anyone else have this sick feeling that the Rangers are going to make the playoffs, even now that many of us would rather see them get a great pick?

They can’t even sink in the standings when we want them to.

They are the ultimate example of mediocrity right now.

nice win but it is the thrashers . avery has to be back in the lineup for the flyer game so wake up torts put aves back in cause sundays game is going to get nasty i hope prust or shelley hammers that prick carcillo ..

and they’re not kidding about the Atlanta sports scene, it does seem to bring out the transplants rooting for their team away from home (along with me I think almost 40% of the fans there were Rangers fans). Saw alot of Chelios fans there too break out the old #7 Blackhawks jerseys.

During the game they put up some random items on the big screen, when Rozsival (who was the best Thrasher on the ice last night, I think he’d look good in powder blue…) was sent to the penalty box, I look up and they show a player in the penalty box who starts crying and the official in the penalty box with him hands him a tissue…for a second I actually thought that was really Rozsival crying, they fooled me with the actor they pre-filmed :P)

Even the best of first round picks can die from freak health problems, as we discovered. :( Callahan, Dubisnky, Lundqvist = non-first rounders.

I’ll take more of the same from Callahan, Drury, Staal, Prospal, and Gaborik who show up every night. Both our keepers play their hearts out. If we miss the playoffs, stumble to a top pick, so be it. At least – as fans – we’ll know our club did so with a fight.

Just my 2 cents.

“the Rangers made numerous defensive lapses, with Rozsival trying to rally the Thrashers on several occasions.”

I’ve been the one saying that Rozsival has stepped up his game tremendously since Redden got benched for 2 games (almost looking like the Rozsival that Sather thought he signed at times). I guess the motivation to do so could only last so long. I pray that he either sucks bad enough to get benched, or starts sneaking up to use the wrister he was once known for (yes, Rozsival has a nice wrist shot… not as pretty as Gaborik’s or Prospal’s, but it gets the job done just the same), instead of the wild slap shot that goes wide EVERY FUCKING TIME. You’re not young anymore, Rozsival, you can’t at 33 decide to try to add a new weapon to your arsenal, try to improve what you got a little more or just give up already.

I would love for this team to make a cup run, but they can barely handle one game against the top 4 in our conference, we expect them to play a best of 7? Against 4 different teams? The only way they’d have a chance in hell against the Pens, Caps, etc. is if Lundqvist doesn’t just stand on his head but flat-out break dances in the crease, Gaborik starts putting up points like he did early in the season, the almighty Captain Clutch doing what he used to do against us game in game out, and if one of our goons takes out at least one of their star players in game 1. Just about all of this would need to happen just for us to get out of the first round. After that…. good luck.

The other option is to bench the people that don’t agree, call up some fillers to play out the rest of the season, and shoot for #1 overall. This would have been much easier had Sather sold at the deadline (Girardi, Prospal, Jokinen). He could have brought back Prospal at the end of the season, and possibly Jokinen if he was cheap enough (a Kotalik-esque contract wouldn’t be so bad). We gotta find room to give Staal that 3M raise he’s earned, resign Girardi (if we don’t trade his rights away at the draft), see who’s ready to be promoted after training camp, all trying to fit under the cap (which will most likely be unchanged or DROP).

Had to give my delayed two cents.