No Habs No: Rangers Thump Canadiens 6-3
by Jim Schmiedeberg on Mar 18, 2011 10:14 PM EDT
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Print[Note by Jim Schmiedeberg, 03/18/11 10:19 PM EDT John Tortorella has told the media that Lundqvist is ok]
The Rangers rode a first period offensive outburst to a 6-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens that unfortunately left Ranger fans worried about a possible injury to their star goaltender.
Henrik Lundqvist went down hard in the third period when Steve Eminger and Benoit Pouliot bowled into him. Henrik was down on the ice for several minutes, but stayed in the game, despite being obviously feeling the ill effects. John Tortorella kept Marc Staal on Girardi on the ice for most of the remainder of the game to protect Henrik.
A high flying first period that had Artem Anisimov getting the Rangers on the board with a breakaway goal five minutes in, beating Montreal goaltender Carey Price with a beautiful backhander. The Rangers lead was short-lived, as P.K. Subban tied the game just over ninety seconds later. But the Rangers were just getting warmed up.
With good luck charm Eddie Gieck in attendance, Dan Girardi got the Rangers back on top, scoring his fourth of the year, third with Eddie in attendance. If Eddie had season tickets, Girardi might be a Norris Trophy candidate.
With just under three minutes remaining in the first, Ryan Callahan scored a goal after a scrum in front of the net. The play was originally ruled no goal, but after review, it was clear that the puck had crossed the goal line after it appeared to bounce of Price.
Thirty two ticks later, Marian Gaborik continued to show signs of breaking out by scoring his twenty first of the season. Bryan Boyle would add his twenty first as well just a half minute later, giving the Rangers three goals in a minute seven, and a 5-1 lead going into the second. Price's night was also done at this point, he was replaced by former Ranger Alex Auld. Price gave up five goals on just twelve shots.
James Wisniewski scored for Montreal early in the second, a shot Henrik Lundqvist would love to have back. The rest of the second period was uneventful, except for Subban taking a run at Lundqvist, and then turning tail and running when Mike Sauer wanted to fight. Subban did a good job of pretending he wanted to fight, skating away, throwing his gloves down when he was far enough away from Sauer, and the refs were getting between them. My mother would say "That kid need's a beating", here's hoping one day he gets it.
Things got a little tighter in the third. Brian Gionta pulled the Habs within two with a goal just fifty four seconds in. The Rangers were clearly back on their heels at this point, and a nervousness had settled in among Ranger fans.
Lundqvist made an absolutely spectacular save while sprawled on the ice with four minutes to go before going down about a minute later.
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So that makes Detroit the only top team we haven’t beaten, right? Anyway, people taking runs at the net still a problem, but we’ve handled it pretty well of late. Sauer and McD so willing to get their hands dirty
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by Scratch and Snif on Mar 18, 2011 10:20 PM EDT reply actions
I love Sauer, kid’s got an awesome nasty streak
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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Mar 18, 2011 10:25 PM EDT up reply actions
I loved when he was screaming at Subban and slammed his stick on the ice
to try to get him to drop the gloves.
by Chris McShane on Mar 19, 2011 8:22 AM EDT up reply actions
And Tampa – didn’t we get swept?
Let me know how that works out for you . . .
by SimpleManiac on Mar 19, 2011 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions
PK Subban... what a punk
Great win regardless. Prust set the tone right away fighting out of his weight class again.
Don Cherry just ripped PK on HNIC. Not a big coach’s corner fan, but at least some media is picking up how much of a punk this kid is.
by bleed'n blue on Mar 19, 2011 8:25 PM EDT up reply actions
He should be called out. Hey, I think Subban has a boat load of talent, but he needs to man up. Don’t be a punk.
by nathansfamous on Mar 20, 2011 2:46 AM EDT up reply actions
I forgot, I watched the game 2 more times (lol), and I forgot that he head tackled Prust from behind. Prust also dropped the gloves in that incident. But we know, Subban wants nothing to do with Prusty, you can tell by his body language he was scared.
by nathansfamous on Mar 20, 2011 2:48 AM EDT up reply actions
Oleeeeeeeeee ole ole ole oleeeee ole. Bahahaha.
Still amazed at the number of canadiens in the house, they had nearly a full 5 sections together, and plenty more scattered everywhere. They got pretty quiet after the fifth verse of the goal song though.
Great win. 40 goals in the last 11 games now. I love when the law of averages kicks back in.
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by George E. Ays on Mar 18, 2011 10:28 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
You are welcome.
Seems we (MTL) are one of the most hated team in the league. So I guess it must be pretty sweet to watch your boys take them down in your house.
But don’t get your hopes up too quickly: The habs are lacking half their roster (the good half, mind you) and were on a third game in four nights. They were flat out painful to watch in that third frame.
Other than that, I had the Rangers outchancing the habs 27-14, 22-10 at ES. Man, what a beatdown.
Thats funny, rangers had to accomplish half their season on a depleted roster with random AHL plug-ins, we never needed that as an excuse…..
by teknics on Mar 18, 2011 11:47 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 4 recs
thats because no one cares about the rangers
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+100000000
i was going to say….so many shitty Habs fans use that excuse…and probably would have protested the next Rangers game if Pouliot got injured while taking out Hank at the end there.
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by Master Ov Brutality on Mar 19, 2011 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions
+ infinity
Rangers FTW!
by BleedsRangerBlue on Mar 19, 2011 12:13 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
genius.
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That sounds about right, I imagine the spread is mostly from the 3rd period. 2nd/3rd periods seemed even to me, but obviously I wasn’t counting last night.
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by George E. Ays on Mar 19, 2011 10:52 AM EDT up reply actions
Actually...
The splits were:
1st: 11-3 NY (10-3 ES)
2nd: 8-5 NY (7-3 ES)
3rd: 8-6 NY (5-4 ES)
Thing is, the Rangers chances were mostly top-notch, point-blank shots from between the dots while the habs were mostly coming from the fringe of the scoring chances area.
As for the Rangers’s roster being more depleted than the habs for most of the season, I’m honestly curious, I don’t know your roster that much. Apart from Frolov (gone for the year), Callahan and Gaborik missing 20 games or so, who would you qualify as a core player missing significant time?
Dubinsky missed a couple of weeks and Prospal missed 60 games
by NastyNate82 on Mar 19, 2011 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions
Some won’t admit it, but Chris Drury wasn’t around for at least a good two months or more from his injuries before he came back and hasn’t been here for the last month & a half with that leg injury. So instead of bitching on who’s not on the roster for Les Canadiens, look at the Rangers sucking it up and actually putting wins together with the amount of man power lost on the ice.
by NYR #35 Richter on Mar 19, 2011 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions
As Nate pointed out, Prospal’s been out all year, Fedotenko missed 16, which hurt. Dubinsky missed 5. It wasn’t so much significant time, as it was multiple players over a long stretch, when one came back, another went out.
Next year, I plan on adding notes on the locations of the chances. Not worth it now with 10 games left, but I think that distinction (point blank/fringe) is pretty important, since the point of the exercise is to represent quality.
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by George E. Ays on Mar 19, 2011 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions
a stat like that would help break down goaltending #’s to much cleaner apples-to-apples type comparison. Save% can be pretty circumstantial.
by bleed'n blue on Mar 19, 2011 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions
We are slowly creeping toward touches recording one way or another, I guess. The Toronto chances recorder does some kind of a distinction between good and bad chances.
But I don’t think (and I can understand me being wrong here) that distinction is useful.
Chances, over a 10-15 games span, already veer toward Fenwick/Corsi. They are mostly useful for short timespan, I think.
As for good-bad chances, again I think they are directly correlated to a given team’s ability to get chances. That is, my guess is that when it comes to scoring chances, quantity goes with quality. My gut feeling, from recording chances since the beginning of last year, is that The habs were crappy at ES last year and they had a lot of fringe chances. This year, they are actually pretty darn good at getting chances at ES and they get a higher proportion of good chances.
But then again, I don’t have hard data to back that up.
As for the injuries, I’ll stick with my impression that the Habs are way more banged up than the Rangers are now or have been. Doesn’t matter, we’ll still end up way in front of you guys ;).
yea, maybe...
Canadiens are playing some pretty good hockey., and despite all of the hab-bashing going on here, I really enjoy watching them. A lot of good, respectable hockey players (with the exception of pk subban who is good but not very respectable and scott gomez who I am constitutionally against liking). If there is any team other than the Rangers I would like to see do well in the eastern conference, it is the canadiens.
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I think the Canadiens are a good team, there fans are the opposite end of the spectrum, only ones worse are Philly and Pitt fans…
by CrazyRangerFan on Mar 19, 2011 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions
As for good-bad chances, again I think they are directly correlated to a given team’s ability to get chances. That is, my guess is that when it comes to scoring chances, quantity goes with quality
You’re probably right, it would be nice to have the data though, especially when shot distance is really unreliable because of the scorers, most notably MSG’s.
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by George E. Ays on Mar 19, 2011 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Montreal
Looks like an easy team to out-muscle down low. I don’t understand how the Rangers cycling wasn’t able to make it work for them before but they dam burst tonight.
19 goals in the last 3 games at MSG.
by MyFavBaseballSquadron on Mar 18, 2011 10:30 PM EDT reply actions
Score lines seem like a tennis match...
Rangers win 7-0, 6-3, 6-3. Fun to see the results of effort when it goes right!
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Big win for our boys. Could have been much worse if auld did not play out of his mind. Couple of quick notes:
-dare I say that gabby is back??
-the two goals scored on hank from the point could have been avoided if the high forward would step up sooner
-finally we get a bounce our way..had that goal not counted(obviously over the line) could have been a different finish
let’s keep rolling and we don’t need to worry about anyone below us
by inHANKweTruST on Mar 18, 2011 10:31 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Two straight games where he’s scored goals that he was scoring last year. He’s taking more shots and not deferring as much to his teammates. Don’t know why he works well with Prospal and EC, but I’ll take it.
by MyFavBaseballSquadron on Mar 18, 2011 10:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Because both Prospal and EC can stick handle just enough to worry the opposition and make space for Gabby. It only helps that they’re both very good passers too.
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by Scratch and Snif on Mar 18, 2011 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions
As much as I have been on EC’s case all year, the fact that he has a somewhat accurate shot that he uses A LOT is his biggest contribution to that line.
EC has been playing out of his mind since coming back from being a healthy scratch
by The Blue Seats on Mar 19, 2011 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions
One would think he realized the NHL door was closing on him if he didn’t get back in the lineup and produce.
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by George E. Ays on Mar 19, 2011 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions
that, my friend, is the exact reason we should consider Frolov as a cheap alternative stop gap for next season. Not trying to re-hash the whole Richards line-up conversations again, and didn’t say commit, meerly consider.
by bleed'n blue on Mar 19, 2011 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions
No way, this was his year to prove if he could still bring in and quite frankly he just does not have the skills. As much as I do not like he, EC has the skills.
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by Blueshirt in Paris on Mar 19, 2011 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I’ve said this many times, in lots of other posts. I’m not a huge fan of Frolov, Christensen, Avery, Drury or Prospol FOR NEXT SEASON. However, I’m less of a fan of breaking the bank on an UFA signing at this stage of youth development. We have so many potential players in the pipe for so many positions, that I would understand cheap, short “rental” (or “do you want to still be in the NHL”) type contracts to allow our prospects to develop. If we are truly 2-3 years from being a serious contender, then spend the money on short term stop gaps. Froggy should be one of those stop gaps to consider. I’m not saying definate, but invite him to camp and let him compete for a spot with the rest.
by bleed'n blue on Mar 19, 2011 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions
no way hes lost a step this year and his injury should only hurt him even more, there are far better stop gaps out there for less money if thats what your looking for, in other terms lets just let the young guys play it out.
by CrazyRangerFan on Mar 19, 2011 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions
i'd prefer to
let the young guys play it out, but I highly doubt our “NY sense of mind” would ever allow true development at the big club level – see MDZ. I guess that’s the only way I’m justifying my unpopular position to go with rentals and not go out and sign another Gaborik, Drury length contract on yet another UFA. But like I’ve heard, don’t worry, this one will be better!
by bleed'n blue on Mar 19, 2011 5:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Good win since Hank is alright
Agree our forwards sat and waiting for the defenders to wait to shoot they should have rushed at them it would have forced them to shoot quicker.
I pray Gabby is back but we will see how it continues remember he generally throws down a hat trick this might have just been that third goal that was missing against the isles. He is looking much more explosive then he has been earlier this season which is a great sign.
I cant believe the refs broke up the Sauer Subban fight. Subban is a punk and he got his team molested by the Bruins for playing the punk. That was a game the refs couldnt handle I was surprised they protected him when they know that this game had the same chance of going to hell. A team with a huge lead and pissed off can feel they can afford to take some penalties to get at people. He will get his sooner or later, he is a pest but he is more like Avery then Cooke I feel, which is the right way to be an agitator.
Who wants to take bets that Crosby finds his way back into the Ice Chickens lineup for Sundays game on nbc? it seems to prime time for him to miss his huge unveiling after he went down with a serious injury and Bettmann finally got around to trying to stop Headshots more. He says he has been symptom free for a few weeks I think he is just waiting to make a big appearance. Its funny how Gaborik the glass man can get concussion like symptoms and miss 6 games then come back and Crosby has been symptom free for a while (besides headaches after exercise) and he still is not back trying to help his team.
regarding Crosby...
but i do believe hearing that he’s out at least till the end of the season and maybe even the first playoff series.
unless he’s made some drastic improvements recently, i can seriously doubt him returning against us.
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by Master Ov Brutality on Mar 19, 2011 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions
even though torts said "he's ok"
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For a guy who’s okay, Lundqvist has been getting treatment for a long time.
that tells me otherwise. I know this may sound drastic but i wouldnt play henrik against pittsburgh sunday afternoon. If it was a night game i would consider it but I dont want to take the chance with such a short break in between games
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He was getting x-rays, that all came back negative
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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Mar 18, 2011 10:55 PM EDT up reply actions
well thats a bit of good news
gotta see how he feels tomorrow…thats gonna be the key
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by Kevin Power on Mar 18, 2011 11:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Dan Girardi got the Rangers back on top, scoring his fourth of the year, third with Eddie in attendance. If Eddie had season tickets, Girardi might be a Norris Trophy candidate
So, do we all want to chip in and contribute to the “Eddie the Mouth Season Ticket Fund”? Because Girardi scoring goals is superior to, uh, Girardi not scoring goals.
If you have ever tried to buy tickets on Ebay, you will note the scalpers based in Canada (Toronto) who have rows of tickets a 2x face.
I imagine those assholes are quick to turn them over to their jerky countymen for a song and some maple syrup.
Anybody ready to take a trip up to Montreal?
Calmer than you are.
i like your logic :)
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aww guys i think they really like us
The Rangers take from Blueshirt Banter and might I say, I really enjoyed this tweet from our Rangers counterparts on SBN; “Screw you Montreal, get the eff out of our building.” Wow, and they all seem to think Habs fans are the worst fans in the NHL.
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"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
Gaborik, tone down the celebrations...
When Gaborik scores in these games, I find it more annoying than encouraging.
I hope Hank is okay. For his sake, I hope he got a facial scar of some sort so fans focus more on his play than how great looking he is. That goes for the announcers, as well.
That he piles on the goals in the games we don’t need them. Now that we have a lot of secondary scoring, we need him to be a clutch player.
We don’t need 40 goals a season, but we really don’t need him to score a ton of goals in games we’re already dominating.
by GaboriksGroin on Mar 18, 2011 11:15 PM EDT up reply actions
He does have the gwg tonight.
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by George E. Ays on Mar 18, 2011 11:19 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
+1
Does it ever occur to people that those blowouts where “it doesn’t matter that he scored 3” would not be blowouts if he hadn’t scored? Perhaps could have been losses, even to bad teams?
+1
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he scored his goal in a time that was clutch…it wasnt like he scored the 7th goal in the third period of a 8-0 blow out…he contributed to keeping the habs down early and often
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A lot of smoke and desperate clawing at the door. It wouldn’t work. It would just be a big, hot mess." -Dig Deep
by Kevin Power on Mar 18, 2011 11:21 PM EDT up reply actions
um..
Gaborik had the GWG tonight.
Sometimes I really, really, hate the internet.
by MyNameIsJohnnyMotto on Mar 19, 2011 1:28 AM EDT up reply actions
because I cant punch anyone that makes brilliant comments.
by MyNameIsJohnnyMotto on Mar 19, 2011 1:29 AM EDT up reply actions
I just think they're "brilliant"
or maybe not so much, and I reach for one of these
And after all – it was just the day after St. Patty’s Day…..
I find him scoring against a good team
better than piling on against the Sticks or the Oil Stains. Its a 6-3 game, yeah, but his goal was crucial in building a cushion they ultimately needed.
by NastyNate82 on Mar 18, 2011 11:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah and the most important thing is that his last 3 goals were all Classic Gaborik, not garbage like 3/4 of his other goals this season. I like seeing these goals and Gaborik emotional about it, he may be getting his touch back exactly when we need it.
He's also the type of talent that....
could end up with 30 goals by season’s end…if he gets on a tear, like he was in the first half of last year.
by NastyNate82 on Mar 18, 2011 11:14 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd also like to say SCREW THE HABS
I hate them almost as much as Pittsburgh.
By the way...
I’ve got a bet on the Pgh. game with a buddy of mine…loser of the season series has to grow a mustache and sport it at work. If they tie the season series, we both have to do it. Any suggestions? Handlebar, fu manchu? I need some ideas, folks.
by NastyNate82 on Mar 18, 2011 11:21 PM EDT up reply actions
80s porno stache
You know the big fur lip the kind you see on to catch a predator.
Wonder if Ochocinco get's in on sunday
After the beating he’s took in the last couple of games, I think he deserves a well deserved rest. He really seemed shaken up after getting bowled over late in the third
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by The Last Shall Become First on Mar 19, 2011 1:27 AM EDT reply actions
Anyone notice this one on the hab's sbnation?
On many instances, Carey Price has pulled up the slack to get his Canadiens teammates out of a jam. But the league’s busiest goalie couldn’t pull out another gem playing back-to-back nights. By the time the first period had ended, the Rangers had a 5-1 lead and had chased a Hart Trophy contender out of the crease following three goals in 1:07. Price allowed all five goals on just a dozen shots, yielding the game to Alex Auld.
Didn’t know Daniel Sedin was in net tonight for the Habs. Or does Price have an ass-ton of assists that I’m not aware of? Surely, the writer meant the Vezina…but is there really any contention for the vezina this year?
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I’ve seen rumblings outside of Habs Eyes that Price would get some Hart love. I could see him and Thomas finishing in the top 5, with Crosby out, the race is a bit wide open.
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by George E. Ays on Mar 19, 2011 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions
yea?
He’s got good numbers, but nothing so stellar that I think it warrant a place in the top 5..
"I've been really working on stick-handling with my head up,"
- Eric Lindros
i mean...
on msg they ran a comparison of hanks and prices numbers, which as they put it, were “eerily similar”. I know numbers can sometimes be deceiving, and I have certainly followed the rangers closer than I have followed the habs, but they just dont stand out. Are the habs where they are b/c of price?
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quite frankly yes, the Habs without Price playing top notch goaltending are right in the thick of the Playoff race with us, buff, and carolina.
by CrazyRangerFan on Mar 19, 2011 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Are you saying...
he made a five point difference? Which is what i believe is the diff between the habs and rangers right now? To me that doesn’t warrant the hart trophy…If you are telling me the habs would be on the outisde looking in…maybe 5-10 points behind the rangers without price…then maybe he should be considered, but even then I would say its a stretch. There are lot of teams in playoff contention who wouldnt be in their position if it werent for a specific player. Often, teams dont make it to the playoffs without good goaltending, so unless he has really gone above and beyond and put up some remarkable numbers (which he hasn’t)…i don’t see the argument
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I should have made it clearer, I think they would be closer to Carolina on the outside looking in, but yes I agree in that he is not a Hart Trophy winner but he has been extremely important to that team this year, similar to Lundqvist and our team.
by CrazyRangerFan on Mar 19, 2011 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions
point of note
It’s great bto see the effort rewarded, but I did note that our highly touted (and very young) defensive corps isn’t the same as it was earlier in the season. With the added pressure of the playoffs, perhaps I’m begining to realize (or Torts has), that the youth needs more seasoning. No MDZ, no gilroy, and while MCD is playing well, he has had some breakdowns, and his ice time was pretty limited in the 3rd period of a 3(2) goal game. Of those 4 early season young stars, Sauer is the only one truly left standing as the real deal right now. I’m sure the other three will progress, but it is interesting to point out how long it takes to develop defensively. I think Gilroy and MDZ should simplify their games (when they get another chance), play solid D first, then work in the offensive part or they may ultimately find themselves permantly on the outside watching vets like McCabe and Emminger log their minutes. I would expect Gilroy as a healthy scratch (again) on Sunday.
Eminger is still fairly young, 26 I think. Plus I think staal has been doing pretty good, other than giontas goal last night.
I don’t have many gripes with the D, McD has been making some missteps but rarely for an entire game, he seems to have small hiccups in each game which to me is fine for a rookie.
by teknics on Mar 19, 2011 10:47 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
wasn't meant to be a gripe
More like a recaging of expectations that have been placed on guys like Gilroy and MDZ, and to a larger extent our 4 young D as a whole. I have NO complaints as to how they are developing, but putting their development in the context of a larger picture, guys like MDZ and Gilroy are a couple of years away from carrying or meeting the expectations of being impact players. By 4 young D I mean Sauer, MCD, Gilroy and MDZ. Staal and Girardi are known quantities by now. As to the small hiccups with MCD, he played less than 5 minutes in the third, and didn’t really have a shift after the 13 min mark of the 3rd. I’m not saying he played poorly, but when the pressure builds, torts (perhaps righfully) shortened the bech considerably.
by bleed'n blue on Mar 19, 2011 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions
Oh ok I see what you’re saying now and I def agree. I do remember the announcers saying torts was basically sticking to girardi and staal in the third when the Habs started cranking up the pressure, which in a way is good since it was a game that we needed points from and if we lost would have deflated everyone but at the same time staal and girardi have been logging serious minutes. Like you said though, it’s basically how things have to go with a young D.
by teknics on Mar 19, 2011 11:52 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
i actually was wondering if my engineer english was making it difficult to communicate … again, no panic for our young D. I’m really starting to beleive playoff experience wil REALLY help our youth; from Stephan to McD. Rangers need to realize last night’s effort is an every playoff game norm; and expect the other team to match it. Really like the physical play and wish the zebras woudn’t have rescued PK Punk.
by bleed'n blue on Mar 19, 2011 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions
anyone else have commercials during the game?
whoever was running the feed last night was terrible. on at least 3 occasions there were commercials during game play. typically they cut off the commercials midstream if they have to.
I missed at least one PP because of a commercial.
anyone else have this problem? Is it worth writing an e-mail to them and to whom do I address?
PS: I have Verizon Fios, in case the distributor affects the feed.
by truebluesince75 on Mar 19, 2011 11:05 AM EDT reply actions
Same here on both accounts (fios + commercials) and I lost the first half of a PP and the commercials themselves were cutting each other off, something had to have gone wrong.
by Zuppa Di Pesce on Mar 19, 2011 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Standing chart
Carolina has played 72 games, not 70.
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I definitely think we can make some noise in the playoffs, especially if we work the way we did tonight and vs. Vancouver
Rangers FTW!
by BleedsRangerBlue on Mar 19, 2011 12:20 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Pierre Maguire
Pierre-i-hate-the-rough-stuff-Maguire said more than once “… if the Rangers lose Lundqvist …”. in the words of Archibald Bunker. SHUDDUP YOU!!!
Still only 4 points out of 9th. Every game is huge, tomorrow being no exception.
Geez I’m loving Sauer more and more.
wa-hoo
I was at the game (sect 307) with a buddy of mine from Montreal and it was a wild atmosphere. Apparently a radio station in Montreal was advertising a road trip heavily the last few weeks which accounts for all the Hans fans in attendance. my buddy being bilingual made friends with all of em (including the freakazoids in the red body suits with the don cherry signs).
I’m waiting for my car to be serviced and typing this on my phone is annoying. I will give kudos to micheletti for giving the crowd a thumbs up indicating the dally goal was good while he saw the replay. I had no idea arenas can’t show the replay while it’s under review.
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