Rangers News and Notes: Pregame
by Jim Schmiedeberg on Apr 23, 2011 10:58 AM EDT
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So, as we prepare for what will hopefully be the first of three "win or go home" games for the Rangers, Andrew Gross at Ranger Rants has the possibilities:
Per research presented on NHL.com, in NHL playoff history, teams have trailed a best-of-seven series by 3-1 229 times. Twenty times, that team has come back to win the series, or 8.7 percent of the time.
But it has been done with more frequency lately. In fact, it happened twice last season, as the Capitals blew their first-round series to the Canadiens and the Flyers, en route to the Stanley Cup final, actually erased a 3-0 series deficit to the Bruins. And, of course, in 2009, the Capitals rallied from a 3-1 deficit against the Rangers in the first round. The Wild, with Marian Gaborik, did it twice in 2003.
Rangers are just 1 for 14 on the power play in this series, a pitiful 7.1%. Ultimately, this is going to be the Rangers downfall in this series if they don't pull of the miracle. Just think of how much different this series could look if they were 3 or 4 of 14.
Oddly enough, there has yet to be a first period goal in this series.
Great quote from Tortorella yesterday:
"I’m looking at our next game and my gut tells me we’ll be ready to play, I just have a really good feeling," Tortorella added. "It took me until yesterday afternoon to swallow the loss because that was a tough one. It was one of the tougher ones I’ve lived through. But once you swallow it and you puke it out, I just have such a good feeling. I just feel good about our club."
"Puke it out".....probably good advice for all of us.
No lineup changes expected today.
You guys know I am always the eternal optimist when it comes to this team. History tells me one of two things will happen today:
1. The Rangers will find a way to win, and take it home for Game 6.
2. The Rangers get blown out of the building.
That's just the way it usually goes in sports. I'd like to think they are strong enough to accomplish number one, but I do fear them number two-ing all over us.
I probably won't be in the game thread today, my son is here with me today. We will have Blueshirt Banter Radio at 7 PM EST. See you guys then.
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i really don't feel like shaving the playoff beard just yet
but i’m still scared
"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
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i see what you did there...
#2-ing all over us…without actually having to say it. haha! not today!
In Prust we Trust
"It's just pain."
This team has balls.
by Master Ov Brutality on Apr 23, 2011 11:16 AM EDT reply actions
LETS GO BOYS
One at a time.
I think Mccabe should sit tonight- who needs a bomber from the point if his shots get blocked every time?
Gaborik finally got something going in game 4- lets hope he finds some momentum off that.
You guys know I am always the eternal optimist when it comes to this team. History tells me one of two things will happen today:
1. The Rangers will find a way to win, and take it home for Game 6.
2. The Rangers get blown out of the building.
Sounds about right
I’ll take number one for a hundred alex
by Mr. Avery to you on Apr 23, 2011 11:51 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Agree Completely
and along with Torts I feel good about today, and winning at the garden! Seventh game in Washington, at that point, would be a coin flip. Let’s hope we’re flipping coins next week.
LET’S GO RANGERS!!!!!
Worst Rangers day: April 10, 1984
by Stepan the Ice! on Apr 23, 2011 12:24 PM EDT reply actions
Agree
We win this and bring the momentum back to the garden and were in incredible shape. We’ve bounced back all year and showed how tough we are. I think the debacle Wednesday night is going to help us come out hard, keep the pressure on, and finish strong. I have full confidence in our boys thins afternoon. This is when it counts, let’s make it happen.
GET RIPPED
Will the real young gun stand up?
You know what bothers me about this series…we are in every way the better team, we just cannot score on the pp. I really think we have better forward depth, better D corps, and thr better goalie. You cant tell me that their stars Ovechkin and Semin are winning this series despite all of that. Now is the time to start going nuts on the pp and for us to have a dominant 5-0 game against them. It can happen and hopefully it happens tonight, if it does this series drastically changes. I can see a blowout win in an opponents stadium as the difference maker. With that said can Boyle, AA, and Stepan put one in the back of the net because you dont just score 20+ goals in the season and come up dry in the postseason…Please no reply’s about youth and experience, I want goals. JVR and Pavelski didnt wait for Carter or Thorton last year, I see no reason why the kids cant chip in. Here here to a blowout today boys!
by louielounz1 on Apr 23, 2011 12:41 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
im really excited and really scared
"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!!!
Ditto
Same Old Sith. CAPS desperately need the help of The Force soon... http://tinyurl.com/OuttaTheWayDad-GotSomeSithToDo
by Christoph J on Apr 23, 2011 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Funny I feel that way before every game of the season lol just a little more magnified today..
by Mr. Avery to you on Apr 23, 2011 1:11 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
you dont just score 20+ goals in the season and come up dry in the postseason…
- from the red army would like a word with you.
Same Old Sith. CAPS desperately need the help of The Force soon... http://tinyurl.com/OuttaTheWayDad-GotSomeSithToDo
which red army?
"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
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by Kevin Power on Apr 23, 2011 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions
The one opposing the Rangers today.
Same Old Sith. CAPS desperately need the help of The Force soon... http://tinyurl.com/OuttaTheWayDad-GotSomeSithToDo
by Christoph J on Apr 23, 2011 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions
ah ok
i tend to call Detroit “The Red Army” since they have been so good for so long with basically the same players
"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
ugh … format FAIL. that should have read:
*Number 28 from the red army would like a word with you
Same Old Sith. CAPS desperately need the help of The Force soon... http://tinyurl.com/OuttaTheWayDad-GotSomeSithToDo
by Christoph J on Apr 23, 2011 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Semin is not the type of player you want on your team in the playoffs imo. He’s snake bitten in them.
But our young guys have 20 a piece in the season and 0 in the playoffs. We can all talk trash about the red army man but he has one for them. More upsetting is the one guy we could count on for at least 2 goals by this point is injured.
BTW dont ask why but I see a big game from AA and Step today, I can feel it.
by louielounz1 on Apr 23, 2011 1:13 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
It’s said the Caps will go as far as Syomin goes. There’s a shred of truth in that. Limit him to the perimeter like the Habs did last year and he’s harmless. Counting on Arnott to chirp in his ear effectively and for 28 himself to go to the net for some ugly goals. He hasn’t had a bad series so far, and any game he fails to complete his personal hat trick with the usual penalty it’s a bonus.
Yeah. Not having Callahan is a big factor, I’ll give you that. I won’t start anything with number 10. Must be frustrating as hell.
First 10 mins = CRUCIAL.
Same Old Sith. CAPS desperately need the help of The Force soon... http://tinyurl.com/OuttaTheWayDad-GotSomeSithToDo
I hope there’s some Ranger fans behind the Caps bench to make Boudreau’s life a living hell all game, see how he likes it when people throw ice at him…
Can’t wait to see the look on that bastard’s face if we come back and win this series
I listen to Enter Sandman before taking exams. I wear the exact same jersey every Giants game. The Rangers goal song goes off in my head when I achieve small successes in life.
HEN-RIK
by BombersGmenBlueshirts25 on Apr 23, 2011 1:09 PM EDT reply actions
nothing like a good poop joke
Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows
The boys have bounced back from gut-wrenching losses all year with a stellar effort the following game. I see no reason why today should be any different. Once we win today, winning the series won’t seem such a giant hill to climb.
"To everybody else we're underdogs, but we go in thinking we can handle any team in the NHL."
Brandon Prust, #8, New York Rangers
agreed
"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!!!
Pens are definitely demonstrating what not to do in Game 5. 5-0? No complaints here.
Same Old Sith. CAPS desperately need the help of The Force soon... http://tinyurl.com/OuttaTheWayDad-GotSomeSithToDo
6-0
"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
Fugly
Same Old Sith. CAPS desperately need the help of The Force soon... http://tinyurl.com/OuttaTheWayDad-GotSomeSithToDo
7-1
"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
7-2
Same Old Sith. CAPS desperately need the help of The Force soon... http://tinyurl.com/OuttaTheWayDad-GotSomeSithToDo
8-2
Bettman is probably having a heart attack about this…or is about to fire those refs.
BELIEVE!
Rangers FTW!
by BleedsRangerBlue on Apr 23, 2011 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm failry close to a nervous breakdown
The obvious solution: 100 beers.
This series has really gotten to me. Made worse by the low expectations I had at the start of the season.
Heh. Three emergency King Cobras ready in my fridge. Brown bag and all ready to go.
Same Old Sith. CAPS desperately need the help of The Force soon... http://tinyurl.com/OuttaTheWayDad-GotSomeSithToDo
You’re clearly prepared. If I downed 3 King Cobra’s I’d probably forget Rangers ever existed. Could be a decent solution depending on today’s outcome.
Cant remember a game in the last 2 years when the Caps blew us out of the building. Seems the games are either close or we blow them out of the building.
"To everybody else we're underdogs, but we go in thinking we can handle any team in the NHL."
Brandon Prust, #8, New York Rangers
by Joe1969 on Apr 23, 2011 2:14 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
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