Bantering Points: The Victory Hat And Brad Richards
by Brandon C. on Oct 20, 2011 6:00 AM EDT
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PrintBrad Richards has already started off building some chemistry with his new team members, as Richards started a tradition. Richards brought over a hat from Europe, the "Winning Hat," and the best player in each Rangers win will get the hat. Joe explained the hat here, and Puck Daddy adds more here.
As I stated in the comments of Joe's post, the hat has the potential to become a big motivator. During the Yankees 2009 World Series run, the Yankees had a "championship belt" sent to them by a professional wrestler. The best player in each Yankees win won the belt. This type of thing motivates athletes, and also builds chemistry at the same time.
Michael Gleich at Bleeding All Blue says that Ryan McDonagh's rising offensive confidence raises his defensive potential. McDonagh was the second best player behind Henrik Lundqvist on Tuesday, and if he can play like that every game the Rangers won't have to worry about Michael Sauer and Mark Staal as much.
The Rangers play the Calgary Flames tonight at 9:30 ET, make sure you are here for the open thread!
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We need Dig's photoshopping skills stat
Henrik Lundqvist and Brad Richards starring in:
by MyFavBaseballSquadron on Oct 20, 2011 8:22 AM EDT reply actions
is anyone else starting to get sick of talking about this damn hat?
if we advance to the conference finals this year, i’ll eat that thing at the end of the season—until then let’s not get too excited about one win.
Nope
never gonna get tired about hearing about the hat
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by Kevin Power on Oct 20, 2011 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions
The hat>anything else
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damn straight because if we hear about the hat…it means we’re winning
"Don't look now, but there's one too many people in this room and I think it's you." Groucho Marx
In Prust We Trust
"Kovalev would work with Tortorella like a kitty would work in a microwave.
A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep
Follow me @8kpower
I'll remember that!
My friend spells it McDonaugh!
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