Rangers Recap: Rangers Stay Alive With 4-3 Victory Over Islanders
by Jim Schmiedeberg on Mar 30, 2010 10:29 PM EDT
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PrintAfter a pitiful start that had fans re-opening their baseball schedules, the Rangers roared back with three goals in the second period, added one in the third and were able to hold off the Islanders tonight 4-3 at Nassau Coliseum.
When you fall behind 2-0 in the first, it helps to be playing a
Henrik Lundqvist was not at his best tonight, letting in a couple of soft goals, but for one of the few times this season the Rangers managed to bail him out when he wasn't on top of his game.
Mark "Matzos by" Streit (excuse the old SNL reference) opened the scoring for the Islanders just two minutes into the game while Vinny Prospal was serving a too many men penalty. Blake Comeau gave the Isles a 2-0 lead later in the period.
John Tortorella reportedly ripped into his lethargic
Prospal got the Rangers going in the middle period scoring with a shot that beat "Rollie the Goalie" to his right. Olli Jokinen tied the game later in the period, and then Marian Gaborik became the Rangers first forty goal scorer since Jaromir Jagr in 2005-06, putting the Rangers ahead to stay.
The Rangers also had to kill off a 5-on-3 in the second period, and did it beautifully, only allowing the Isles two shots on goal with the two man advantage.
Marc Staal scored five minutes into the third, and the Rangers held off a late Isles rally after Comeau scored his second of the game.
Unfortunately the news for the Rangers wasn't all good tonight, as Boston and Atlanta both won their games. The Bruins remain four points ahead of the Rangers, the Thrashers two points. The Rangers and Bruins both have a game at hand on Atlanta.
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These last two wins over the Islanders have been some of the best of the season.
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by Nick Montemagno on Mar 30, 2010 10:34 PM EDT reply actions
I’m not sure that’s saying something good.
by schwartzy on Mar 30, 2010 10:51 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
call up
parentau has played well in the limited chances he has had this season—-on an offensively challenged team like the rangers, his offensive drive and instincts are surely needed—-plus hes 2 for 2 in shootouts—-hes a keeper
only 20 good minutes
the Islanders really outplayed the rangers for 40 minutes, and that is not good for a playoff team. They did get the win, some nice shots, but didn’t play great.
I'm amazed...
at the fact we are so excited to beat a team we should clearly be beating, But hey, I’ll take anything we can get at this point. Just a couple of quick questions if you guys get a chance to answer, I’m interested in other takes .
Why Locke over Lisin?
Who “should” be our biggest off season target aquisition, other than resigning Staal?
In your opinion, are we going to make the playoffs? Playoffs?
Was it just me ...
Or did Rozi play a pretty good game last night? Positioning wasn’t too bad, got a few shots on goal, and even threw an open ice hit in the second period. I’ve been bashing this guy for years, and I still don’t think he’s worth half the money he’s paid, but I’ll be fair and say he’s been playing better. Now Redden is yet another story …
Rozi..
Rozi, regardless of what anyone thinks, has been great since the olympic break. REDDEN MUST GO!!!!!!!!!!!!
He SUCKS.....
They both need to go. One thing about playing in the NHL is you have to be able to skate. Roszival skates like he’s wearing cement shoes. And as an DFD, he’s as soft as they come. So he neither hits, nor can skate AND he barely hits the net with his shot. His play recently has been better but only because it’s in contrast to his play the prior two seasons. You can spray perfume on shit, it’s still SHIT.
Let’s not lose sight of the fact that these were the Islanders they were playing last night and they still only won by a goal.
I hate this end of the season scramble/struggle to make the playoffs. Good teams don’t have to do stuff like that, becasue their playoff positions are already secured months in advance. If we have to struggle to barely make it into the playoffs, that means we SUCK and will not accomplish anything meaningful once we get there. As a matter of fact we will only downgrade are chances of getting a good draft pick. But oh well, we’ll see what happens. If we get Nino Niedereitter, I ll be perfectly happy.
but we cant get him if we make the playoffs. thats the point. however, if we dont make the playoffs and get the 8th overall pick we can
LET'S GO RANGERS!!!
yeah and they said Kadri would fall to us last year and he went 7th soooo…….
by CrazyRangerFan on Mar 31, 2010 6:16 PM EDT up reply actions
he scored 36 goals as a rookie…..Hall got 40 I believe?? those are some serious numbers from Nino. I dont think he is gonna fall lower than 8th
Something to take away...
Regardless of what I think of his contract and his play the last few seasons, Rozsival had one of the most standout performances I have seen him play in a long, long time. (Take of that what you will.) I thought the line of Prospal/Jokinen/PA obviously was their best line and Staal looked like the player we all hope he will become.
When and if Avery & Cally comeback this season, dare I say they finally have 4 complete lines???
Dubi/Christensen/Gabby
Avery/Drury/Callahan
Prospal/Jokinen/Parentaeu
Prust/Anisimov/Shelly
I am a pessimist to the extreme but I am trying to take the high road on this and just enjoy the last few games of the season. Playoffs or no playoffs.
who cares
this team needs to be ripped to pieces, starting with the R&R boys. But hey, what do I know? I’m just a fan. I do know that making the playoffs would suck. I’d much rather have an impact draft pick, but I don’t own the team…so…meh.
"Fantasy, reality, science Fiction. Which is which? Who can tell?"
Not the Bruins... The Flyers!
I am curious to know why all hockey analysts keep talking about the Rangers beating out the Bruins for the last place in the Eastern Conference. We have ZERO games remaining against the Bruins and they are playing pretty well. They, like the Flyers, have 82 pts. We should be talking about the slumping Flyers! The Rangers have 2 games remaining with the Flyers. The Rangers can control their own destiny because they can set themselves up to make the final two games of the season against the Flyers a mini playoff to make the playoffs. 4 points back, the Rangers just need the Flyers to continue their poor play and beat them twice to finish the season. There is hope. As for Atlanta… everyone can forget about them being a threat to making the playoffs because they have to play the Caps and Pens twice to end the season. Lets stay positive… if Gabs, Prospal, and Jokinen wake up, i think we can make a bit of a run.
A bit if a run at what? the last playoff seed? Ok, so we get in and then what? No way we will beat the Caps and even if a miracle happens and we beat them, we aint winning the cup. We just dont have a team capable of doing that. I m hoping we lose all our remaining games this season, because this will give us nice draft pick. I am looking at this through a long-term perspective. We gain nothing by getting into the playoffs but we can potentially get a great draft pick by tanking.
I see where you are coming from, but the way I see it is the Rangers should have either decided to tank the rest of the season and get a good draft pick or try and make the playoffs. They obviously chose the latter. I know people may think i am crazy but this team is pretty much identical to last year’s team and last year we beat the Devils and I think we should have beaten the Caps if it wasnt for some poor decisions by the defense. I just hate to say it but every year we look toward the offseason and then nothing great happens. So as much as i want to look to the offseason, i see that there is not much hope coming out of offseason aquisitions. Someone has to knock the Devils out of the playoffs, let it be King Henrik and Avery.
Poor decisions by the defense eh....
My how things have ummm, not changed much since then. lol
IF the Rangers make the playoffs and we face Washington, we have a chance. If Hank plays like God (according to Ovi) and Theodore sucks again and Gabby brings us game breaking goals like the two he had against Washington earlier this year we can at least make it an interesting series. Now I know that tanking will help this team long term but I really want to get another shot at the Caps this time.
Curses!!
Apparently my wearing of my Dubinsky jersey is a curse. Had it on the first period, we play like garbage, and are down 2-0
I leave to go food shopping ( and take the jersey off) since I didn’t want to watch the horrible play, come back , and we score 3 goals… seriously? If we make the playoffs I am not wearing the damn thing.
As for the game, I think we were pretty soft, though we did have two AHL’ers out there who played well. I just can’t believe how often we MISS the net. Olli was like 20 ft out a couple of times and didn’t even put the shot on goal. I mean come on, we pay you guys the big bucks, make the goalie make a stop.
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New York Rangers
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49 | 32 | 12 | 5 | 69 |
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Philadelphia
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50 | 30 | 14 | 6 | 66 |
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Pittsburgh
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51 | 29 | 18 | 4 | 62 |
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50 | 28 | 19 | 3 | 59 |
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New York Islanders
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50 | 21 | 22 | 7 | 49 |
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