Rangers In Russia?
by rmc235 on Jan 21, 2011 4:51 PM EST
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PrintSix NHL teams have been invited to play in Europe next year for the NHL Premiere 2011. The Anaheim Ducks, Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers, Washington Capitals, and the New York Rangers. While no team has accepted the invitation, apparently the Rangers have decided to explore the KHL's Vityaz for some exhibition games in Russia. If you don't recall the name, maybe this will jog your memory:
Mass Brawl on Ice: KHL teams fight 6 seconds into game (via RussiaToday)
According to the Russian website sovsport.ru, the Rangers contacted them about the possibility of playing a game. Using google translator, here is an excerpt:
That is not the Vityaz summoned to battle the Rangers, and vice versa?
- Exactly. Why choose us - have no idea! The first time I got a call last week. And on Thursday, a representative of overseas clubs will fly to Moscow. On Friday, going to meet with him - even for detailed negotiations. We are very interested in this project. No doubt - to agree or not - was not.
Alexei Zhamnov, the GM of Vityaz, said the clarity of this will be revealed within the next week.
This was expanded by Puck Daddy in this recent article about possibilities of NHL Premiere games in Moscow:
Another team that may supposedly head to Russia is the New York Rangers. And their KHL opponent? Vityaz, of all teams.
You may recall that name from a couple of bench-clearing brawls last season. Vityaz GM and a former NHL player Alexei Zhamnov confirmed that the club is negotiating with the Rangers.
Zhamnov said that such a game would be quite expensive and both teams will have to agree on what portion of the expenses each side will bear.
With that, I don't know what the Rangers are thinking in seeking out a match against this team. Vityaz is a team comprised of.. well, look at their roster yourself.
I am all for the Rangers going overseas for the Premiere games, mainly because of the delay in the opening of MSG for next season due to construction, but I don't want to see them play against Vityaz.
Thoughts?
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Could be a fun game for Prust, Avery, Boogard and Brashear.
Other than that… i dont see the point.
Vityaz plays really dirty and i dont see the point in risking injuries by playing a team like them.
My Sather review: Even a broken clock shows the right time twice a day
Who's Brashear?
"Mes que un club"
-Ahmad Bradshaw is undoubtedly a psychic genius.
by Scratch and Snif on Jan 22, 2011 1:51 PM EST up reply actions
I'm all for it
Remember two years ago when we played those two European teams? One was a blowout, but the other was a 4 – 3 thriller that was the best exhibition game of all time. Both were exciting plus with NHL legends including but not limited to Jagr, Zubov, Yashin, Vladimir Vorobiev, Jan Bulis, Marcel Hossa and Chris Simon waiting in the KHL, what could be better?
by The Last Shall Become First on Jan 21, 2011 5:12 PM EST reply actions
I think we came back from 0-3 in the 3rd period to get that win. Gomez had the winner
"Mes que un club"
-Ahmad Bradshaw is undoubtedly a psychic genius.
by Scratch and Snif on Jan 22, 2011 1:51 PM EST up reply actions
Callahan had the game winner. He scored with about 20 seconds left on a breakaway.
"Jaromir Jagr.... it's a POWER PLAY GOAL!"
- Sam Rosen
"Let me ask you, would you want to play for the Edmonton Oilers...? (laughter)"
-Evgeni Nabokov
"We're not going to win a 1-0 hockey game tonight"
-John Tortorella, before the Rangers 1-0 win over the Canucks.
http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/1/IHM001902_74_3_0.pdf
how can you not remember Al Trautwig’s call? It’s a classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpFuKFATf74
"Jaromir Jagr.... it's a POWER PLAY GOAL!"
- Sam Rosen
"Let me ask you, would you want to play for the Edmonton Oilers...? (laughter)"
-Evgeni Nabokov
"We're not going to win a 1-0 hockey game tonight"
-John Tortorella, before the Rangers 1-0 win over the Canucks.
My bad
I remember it being someone unexpected, so I thought Gomez.
"Mes que un club"
-Ahmad Bradshaw is undoubtedly a psychic genius.
by Scratch and Snif on Jan 22, 2011 11:00 PM EST up reply actions
I am seriously against the Rangers doing anything with the Vityaz Chekhov organization. They are the dirtiest scumbags i have ever seen on ice. They are lead by the king of cheapshot artists in Chris Simon. This is like the third or fourth incident of straight up assault Vityaz Chekhov has planned on their opponent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r301KWc6JTg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zFcuS4bYHc
A few of the players on Avangard got seriously injured.
And in case any of you didn’t know, Cherepenov’s team was playing at Vityaz Chekhov’s arena when he collapsed at the bench. The ambulance left early, took 10 minutes to come back, and it wasn’t even properly equipped to save him. The defibrillators were out of battery or something like that.
Vityaz Chekhov are an insult to hockey. I support good clean fights, but premeditated assault is another thing.
AGREED 100%. Im not against playing a KHL team, but not Vityaz. NO WAY.
"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
LET'S GO RANGERS!!!
y not have the Rangers play the KHL's top team
if this is it…then No F’ing Way…you know that this team would be salivating if it could pounce on an NHL franchise and even more so the New York Rangers…I’d rather have the rangers play someone from the Swedish Elite league or someone like that
"If I had the Rangers payroll, I'd make the playoffs every year" Glen Sather
It took them 30 years to implement the forward pass and 70 to mandate helmets thus making all hockey players who wear helmets and visors as well as goalies who wear masks and pads all wimpy cry babies
In Prust We Trust
That video
Still makes me sick, it’s stupid shit like that that makes everyone hate hockey. There’s no room in hockey for fighting like that.
First post!
No way I’d support this unless the rangers sent a roster stocked with Prust, Boogaard, Weise, Soryal, Dupont, Avery and anyone else who can drop the gloves.
I wouldn’t want to see any NHL team play these guys. I think they spent all of last season with the goal of trying to injury Jagr. I want to see the Rangers play Modo or Frolunda.
welcome!!
"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
LET'S GO RANGERS!!!
Dubi and Cally will probably want to get their fists wet too. Besides, if we didn’t have them we’d ONLY win like 3-0 against such a skilled team as Vityaz
"Mes que un club"
-Ahmad Bradshaw is undoubtedly a psychic genius.
by Scratch and Snif on Jan 22, 2011 1:54 PM EST up reply actions
If this game does happen
Expect it to be Rollerball on ice. I can just imagine Dubinsky suffering a career-ending injury because of these guys.
With greats like Josh Gratton and Chris Simon playing for them, how can we say no?!?
"I like a man who grins when he fights." -Sir Winston Churchill
"In Prust we Trust."
we should sign tie domi and darcy tucker…our first line will be
prust-domi-avery
with tucker and boogaard on D (i noe they’re not D men but against this team it wont matter)
"If I had the Rangers payroll, I'd make the playoffs every year" Glen Sather
It took them 30 years to implement the forward pass and 70 to mandate helmets thus making all hockey players who wear helmets and visors as well as goalies who wear masks and pads all wimpy cry babies
In Prust We Trust
by Kevin Power on Jan 22, 2011 10:56 AM EST up reply actions
:) get ray emery in net too
"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
LET'S GO RANGERS!!!
Nah we got the Barbarian King
"If I had the Rangers payroll, I'd make the playoffs every year" Glen Sather
It took them 30 years to implement the forward pass and 70 to mandate helmets thus making all hockey players who wear helmets and visors as well as goalies who wear masks and pads all wimpy cry babies
In Prust We Trust
lmao true true
"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
LET'S GO RANGERS!!!
Brandon Prust would be in his element entirely can you imagine the grin on his face when he can finish one guy then go fight another player because the refs are not stopping him. Besides that id rather see Brandon Prust fight some of them in the octagon rather then send Gaborik out there to have his career end in Russia and if someone gave Hank a cheap shot like the one that happened to the goaltender we would be done next season before it even starts.
hank would go all conan the barbarian on their asses if they tried that
"If I had the Rangers payroll, I'd make the playoffs every year" Glen Sather
It took them 30 years to implement the forward pass and 70 to mandate helmets thus making all hockey players who wear helmets and visors as well as goalies who wear masks and pads all wimpy cry babies
In Prust We Trust
by Kevin Power on Jan 22, 2011 10:54 AM EST up reply actions
# 58 in black...
is the biggest pussy ever!
if you see a teammate getting pummeled while laying face first on the ice…you don’t just stand there and watch!
that little push is just a fucking joke…
by Master Ov Brutality on Jan 22, 2011 11:29 AM EST reply actions
he didnt want to take an instigator penalty
"If I had the Rangers payroll, I'd make the playoffs every year" Glen Sather
It took them 30 years to implement the forward pass and 70 to mandate helmets thus making all hockey players who wear helmets and visors as well as goalies who wear masks and pads all wimpy cry babies
In Prust We Trust
by Kevin Power on Jan 22, 2011 11:40 AM EST up reply actions
Which was a smart thing to do
After that brawl, he ended up being the only player left on the ice. Set a KHL record scoring 53 goals in that game.
"Mes que un club"
-Ahmad Bradshaw is undoubtedly a psychic genius.
by Scratch and Snif on Jan 22, 2011 1:56 PM EST up reply actions
see…its all strategy
"If I had the Rangers payroll, I'd make the playoffs every year" Glen Sather
It took them 30 years to implement the forward pass and 70 to mandate helmets thus making all hockey players who wear helmets and visors as well as goalies who wear masks and pads all wimpy cry babies
In Prust We Trust
i think we just play jagrs team.
"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
LET'S GO RANGERS!!!
Any team other than Vityaz would work. Jagr’s team, Avangard Omsk seems like a logical choice, but it’s not up to them.
"Jaromir Jagr.... it's a POWER PLAY GOAL!"
- Sam Rosen
"Let me ask you, would you want to play for the Edmonton Oilers...? (laughter)"
-Evgeni Nabokov
"We're not going to win a 1-0 hockey game tonight"
-John Tortorella, before the Rangers 1-0 win over the Canucks.
If we do go play this goon squad....
I don’t think it would be anywhere near what we saw in this video. It would ultimately end any NHL team going to play a KHL team if it was a cheapshot affair. The KHL probably loves having NHL teams come and play. No NHL team would play any KHL team again if this were the case
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