For the Rangers, Next Week Can Wait, the Playoffs Start Now

Agree on Christensen and Prust. Prust is like a poor mans Avery who is a better fighter and Christensen has been better then I ever could have expected. I think of EC as a guy who can thrive playing with a star player, because that guy can create some room and Christensen has a great, quick shot with a fast release, he is one of our only players who actually looks to shoot the puck.

Looking forward to some good hockey, take care of the Flyers, watch McDonagh and Stepan do some work on Saturday against Chris Kreider.

Prust isn’t a poor mans avery- Avery, an Agitator and Prust, fiesty with grit.
Christensen hasn’t surprised me- 10-15 goal guy with 1st line minutes/82 games, minor playmaking skills with soft hands… he shines once every 15 games.

With that being said i do agree with some aspects of this post but lets face it, this is the Rangers. When we’ve had our backs against a wall, bubba’s come and bent us over and made us realize we aren’t clutch. I also feel like people go with the “flavor of the night” rather than an overall season performance when assessing their team’s players. Take Dubi for example. Dubi shows heart without a shadow of a doubt, but hes been proven inconsistent throughout the regular season. Sure he CAN come up big tonight and I damn well hope so, but I wanna focus on our 2 diamonds..Gabby and Hank. Gabby hasn’t been the goal scoring machine we need him to be since the Olympics. Whether its because he’s injured, we’ll never know. If we do make this final push he’s our key outside the paint. Now to Hank. Lets face it…. he’s tired..the dreaded 4 letter word. Torts abused him and Hank is showing signs of fatigue. Will he come up big? Probably for 1 or maybe the 2 games. Where do we go from there? 1st Round against Washington. The best all around offense in the league and a 4th line that destroys the Rangers. Their backbone, the Ranger killer and blueshirt brick wall…a rested Simeon Varlamov. Ok now to be a tad optimistic. Say we take Washington in 4, there’s a MINIMUM of 12 games to win the cup. Have we been consistent through a 12 game streak this season, yes…2-9-1(might be off). This years playoffs to us, is worthless bragging rights. Itll be another offseason of us crying for Sather’s demise and Reddens future “unfortunate accident” Sorry for shitting on the parade…couple beers+Rangers talk = not a good mix. Heres to hoping. LETS GO RANGERS

Cant wait for the game tonite but also charged up about how the Future Rangers are doing… Some good looking young players are in the pipeline…

Here’s some info on how the Rangers prospects did last nite in the Frozen Four.

http://theprospectpark.blogspot.com/2010/04/this-one-is-going-to-be-good.html

Man, if the Blushirts win tonite, what an awesome weekend of Rangers hockey. Tonite’s game, then College Hockey Final tomorrow with Stephan, McDonough and Krieder and a winner take all game on Sunday. Hockey Heaven !!

For all you pessimists and doubters from the DailyNews online that keep posting you hope the Rangers lose and miss the playoffs so we can clean house…Dont watch this weekend… Go to a Mets game or something….

…and I really feel like the past 10 games and especially these last two games cant help but be good for the developement of the current young Rangers. To be left for dead and still battle to the point were their destiny is in their hands right now. Everything on the line the last two games of the year against your hated rival….. Its going to be a really positive experience for the developemet for Del Zotto, Anisimov, Staal, Caly, and Dubinsky….even if we done make it in.

Cheers to Modano, Tkachuk, maybe Selanne. Three tremendous careers.