Rangers Vs. Penguins: Fleury, Penguins Shutout and Shut Down Rangers 2-0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx4UEe98EkY

Pretty much sums up how I think everybody played tonight.

Shoot the damn puck.

Gonna be a tall task for NYR to beat the Ice Birds or the Wings in a playoff series, not cool

right?

right guys?

Pittsburgh is good, really good, and this is WITHOUT Crosby.

Imagine if they were getting the bounces (or had Crosby back)? Woof.

You dont win the CUP with a Powerplay like this. Although they do pass very well

But we are not gonna win playing like straight up ass

Alot of things were missing from their game tonight. They didn’t play like the normal Rangers we are used to seeing. Oh well, take it out on the Islanders Friday!

I dunno that one player will make them beat a team like the Pens either. The spacing on the power play is still a problem, you can tell when looking at the pens how they space out and move the puck.

Then again, the regular season generally means nothing, so hopefully they don’t panic and make a big dumb move.

Line 1 – Gas line isn’t bad and they have been playing well but ultimately i think gabby needs to be on the line with Richards. Some of the passes that richards gives to cally , gabby would bury them. Do they score goals ? A good amount of the time

Line 2- Love richards , cally and hags but hags needs at least another year of experience. I love the kid and have no doubt in my mind that hell be a top 6 forward but right now he is not ! Do they score goals ? A good amount of the time

Line 3 – Pure defensive line that has spurts of offense once in a while.
Do they score goals? Once in a blue moon

Line 4- The 4 minute a game line. This line has been completely useless the past couple of games. Do they score goals? As often as we see Rinaldo doing something dirty.

Prognosis : Whether its Nash, Carter, Ruutu, Seleanne, Gretzky, Anson Carter, or even Barack Obama , we need a offensive punch at the deadline to push for the Cup . If we do not move our pieces and acquire another offensive threat then we will be contenders for a while but nothing more. Lundqvist cant score goals every night !!!

Atrocious game, Hate when they play like that.

Do we have any Harvard graduate Asian-Americans in our AHL system that can come out of nowhere?

Where are all the people saying we don’t need a depth defenseman because our defense is so perfect?

I’m so ready to make that deal for Rick Nash after this game it’s unbelievable. I really hope Sather doesn’t feel the same way though and could hold back his emotions better than I can.

Dubinsky? Are you out there?

Still leading the east,don’t panic…not gonna win every game it is the NHL.They have been having trouble with Devils and Shi#sburgh lately because of good goal tending but this is Hank’s year in a series against these teams they will be better…I just hope Sather isn’t gonna hit the panic button and sell the farm!

That picture of Torts is an oldie but goodie, missing is the “Who hit what and ran?” look on Drury’s face sitting right in front of him

I’m one of the few here that likes the idea of adding Nash to this lineup, but I know I’m the minority

Richards was awful, not that anyone else was much better. I’m sure he knows that when you actually watch the defenseman rush the puck, right in front of you, you don’t follow him into the zone, you cover. Geez, I learned that in hockey camp when I was 14.

I can see us totally bombing the rest of the season and the Devils going from last (beginning of the season) to first within a few weeks beating us and winning the cup. That will have me kicking and screaming and saying everyone should be traded. Yeah……worse thing that could happen in my mind.

Apparently Thornton and Nash old friends and there highly interested in him. He’s going to LA or San Jose definitely unless he actually really wants to play for the rangers because of how close we are to the Cup.

Line-up change.

Anisimov Richards Gaborik
Hagelin Stepan Callahan
Wolski Dubinsky Mitchell
Fedotenko Boyle Prust

Sure, it takes away some toughness, but this team needs to put some pucks in the net. This at least gives us four lines who have the ability to score. Shit, break em up however you want, I just don’t want Rupp and Bickel as forwards, at all.

wants to completly forget the consequences of getting Nash and just get him…..but I will still be really upset if it happens

And so the scorer comments begin.

I just caught the game and here’s the screenshots that are the epitome of the night.

This is Letang springing Malkin. Both Stralman (he’s in the circle) and Del Zotto (he’s between the hash marks) are in the shot.

Who is circled in this shot? Ryan Callahan, and no one else is close.

Yeah, that shouldn’t happen.

Stepan – Richards – Gaborik
Dubinsky – Anisimov – Callahan
Hagelin – Mitchell – Wolski
Fedotenko/Rupp – Boyle – Prust

-Keep Richards and Gaborik together, that’s why the Rangers brought in Richards to get Gaborik going again.
—The Dubinsky/Anisimov/Callahan line was dynamite last year, let’s bring it back.
- Third line is whatever, Hagelin and Mitchell played well earlier in the year, give Wolski a chance to redeem himself with some guys who have some offensive game
— Checking line, last year these guys were excellent together. They played killer D and surprised just about everyone offensively.

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