Jagr back for finale
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- September
- 29
The first time the Rangers ice a full team will end up being the first game of the season. But at least they will have Jaromir Jagr back in the lineup tonight against the Flyers.
With Tom Renney wanting to give Nigel Dawes another look, he’ll sit Petr Prucha, and will also rest his top pairing of Michal Rozsival and Marek Malik in favor of Paul Mara and Thomas Pock. Sean Avery (groin) and Stephen Valiquette (hand) are also out, as is Artem Anisimov, who will likely be shipped to Hartford by Monday.
As for lines, you can expect Renney to stick with Brendan Shanahan and Scott Gomez together, and to give Jagr his first test run with Chris Drury.
Still unclear is how much Henrik Lundqvist will play, although Renney sounded last night that he wanted to give the Swede—who has yet to exhibit his best form this preseason—at least some more work before Thursday.
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Will that game be on Center Ice tonight??
Orr- it sure will be!!
Hopefully Jagr/Drury can have the same success that Gomez/Shanny had last night show some early chemistry.
With this injury that Valiquette has, does that mean he won’t be the backup to begin the season?
And is there any update on Avery?
Well, I hope they are not going down like 0-5 at the Garden or 1-6 in Detroit….
Isn’t Gomez more of a playmaker/set-up guy than Drury?
The Flyers will definitely have an almost full lineup playing at home allowing to read more out of the game than last night against the Islanders….
Sam do you have some updates on that ?... What a surprise the Kings leading 3-0 against the Ducks in London….
Pavel – Yes, but there was really no chemistry between Jagr and Gomez so Renney wanted to see what Drury and Jagr could do. The chemistry that Gomez shown with Shanny was great.
3-1 Kings now
I expect another blowout
CML- Are you sure it will be on Center Ice Online? I didn’t see it on the list when I looked yesterday?
I’m 100% positive!! I was watching the Ducks vs. Kings game today and on the list had the Rangers vs. Flyers. Go check now if you don’t believe me. But yeah, it’s online.
Yes it will be on Center Ice Online, it was on the list and it said it on the Flyers website
The Game is on Center Ice and why not sit Betts and Give Anisimov a game even if it is on the 4th line. Although I think the reason is Betts will center the 3rd line and Dubinsky will center the 4th line but if not then playing Betts tonight makes no sense.
TIM
Its still early to say anything. Gomer and Shanny did good against to goaltenders who will never be in the NHL. Bit hopefully they are a fit for each other.
That is strange that Renney would put Hollweg or Betts in, instead of Anisimov. Then again Dubi and Dawes look like they will be brawling for a spot on opening night, so i guess Artie has no shot.
I realize they had it against two goalies who will never be in the NHL. But it wasn’t even the goals, they knew where each other were going to be on the ice and the passes were perfect. It was more then the goals that had me impressed with them.
I think the game is blacked out. Not sure, but I read the thing that sadi blackouts for September 29 nand it says Rangers local viewing area will be blacked out. It doesnt make sense, but thats what it say.
I can’t even acces nhl.tv, something is jacked.
is the game on or not i can’t find it
I just got kicked off nhl.tv, it said there was an error of some sort. Ahhhh
nhl.tv is up but appears to be very/very/very slow – anyone had any luck getting the game up?
The game was listed earlier, and I was watching part of the preview to the leafs game, but I think their web feeds went down. The console won’t launch.
The site (for the few times I have used it) is fairly buggy. Kinda supports the NYR in their suit vs the [f*cking-]bettman hockey league – they can’t even keep their ‘premier’ bband offering up and running.
fyi – just got in to nhl.tv game … looks to be back up and running now …
I can’t even get back into center ice… alright I’m getting pissed off.
17 minutes later, but I’ve got it. Dang that was frustrating!
center ice is sucking
Is the game on or what…i cant get into Center Ice cause my comp sucks….but the “Real Time” feature on NHL.com isnt even moving.
Is the game cancelled?
Well that was a fun 1 minute of action. Booted again!
Not your comp Orr, nhl.tv sucks…
If I had paid for this crap I’d be pissed. But there’s no way I’d pay for it now!
Is anybody getting a “ERROR – Code=12031”?!?
i still can’t get it to work!
OMG!!!! IT WORKS!
wait I take that back
Okay I got it back, there is 7min left in the 1st, no score, betts just got a penalty.
Flyers fans are butt ugly. Grizzly…
center ice = kicked out again …yeah it sucks
Its 11-3 shots on goal w/ Rangers having 11 shots. So far, really good penalty killing by Shanny.
i got no love on nhl.tv….and i DID get the isles game last week…any thoughts?
Anyone else reminded of the panthers/rangers away game shortly after the hurricane when it sounded like the announcers were using bad cell phones?
Works now. Thoughts? Picture is at best so-so. No pause rwd functionality. The 4 screens sounds kind of cool, but on balance I wouldn’t pay for it. Center Ice off of the dish and Tivo is a better bet.
CML
Keep the updates coming…I still have no work….
Three different comps…no luck…I feel like Marian Hossa in the playoffs.
Orr just kicked Jason Smith’s ass…
Good for Drury not even hesitating to throw down in defense of Jagr.
Richards ran Jager and then Drury took him on
ridiculous, showed stupid fans instead of replay
Yet another goon show – the flyers announcers are SERIOUS homers
the video is what is shown on the screen
You are going to get a lot of fan shots – what you are watching is the scoreboard feed
I guess they don’t show any replays?
the screen at the arena i meant
Drury got game misconduct?
no a 10 minute misconduct not a game
Okay, in less than 3 minutes of coverage the idiot announcers have said the following:
Hollweg is going to get a 20 game suspension for his hit on Timmonen (basically comparing Hollwegs hit to Downie’s) Gee, he only got 2 minutes? Dang those refs! ;-)
Drury should get the instigator- and the refs conveniently evened up the calls.
I hate Philly.
drury has 17min in total for penalties
I think this announcer works at a strip club on off nights. Geez he’s annoying. “T-shirts-T-shirts- T-Shirts, Last call…”
Idiot.
when you get on nhl.tv you have to login right? then what? go to flyers page? i am logged in, itg welcomes me, and then i am unable to get the game going. anyone care to let me in on the secret?
Click Center Ice on the right top, sign up for free then watch the game
thanking you CML….i knew there was something to click….i watched the isles rangers game this way earlier in the week….got it now….really love seeing hte flyers promotions…what losers!
I’d rather see ugly fans and bratty kids than this spinning flyer logo. I’m getting a headache!
did anyone’s video freeze???
Wait….
Did Drury fight someone???
Who did he fight??
Gimme Updates pleeease.
thanks
this sucks… i got nothing, getting audio error messages, im about to give up
try again… it is working, maybe just busy
Nope my video has been fine, a little lag here or there but fine otherwise
Close everything down and then go to nhl.tv in a new browser – it has been working since the end of the first.
Shanny drops the gloves against Smith
Its always nice to see Shanny stick up for his team
God I love Shanny
shanny fought jason smith!!!
“Strudwick holding on for dear life” .. is that a joke????? That’s not what I saw. I hate these announcers!!!
Guaranteed Goal on this PP
they are amped from Shanny gettin’ jiggy
This takes the cake for the most homer announcers
This is going to be a VERY fight filled season, I can feel it
DUBI!!!!!!!!
Dubinsky PPG
Dubinsky on the rebound, PP Goal
1-0 Rangers
Nice work by Dubinsky on the rebound
Untz’d
Salty, buy a lottery ticket… now. While you’ve got the good luck.
Oh Jeez….
Dubi scoring a PP goal, Shanny and Drury fighting…Orr kicking ass as usuall.
And i CANT FUGGIN WATCH IT…
I hate life
“and THEY say it was offside” You’ve gotta be kidding me.
Hollweg’s 20 game suspension sure went fast!
Orr- why can’t you watch it?? You also forgot Gomer fighting right after the 1st period ended.
Orr why can’t you watch?
“They felt Lundquist had it covered and he didn’t”
“Biron does not give up rebounds”
“The Rangers D are scared of the Flyers”
“Teams used to SHAKE” when they came to play the Broad Street Bullies. They are doing a good job of recreating thatthat this year.”
Just some of the brilliant nuggets offered by the homer announcers.
CML
Quit yanking my chain..
Your telling me that Drury, Shanny, Gomez all fought
Noooooo i wanna watch
Everytime i sign in to center ice…it goes to the 4 boxes but then goes straight back to the sign in page and kkeeps doing that over and over
Is the video miscolored?
Annoying Ryan Sechrest guy. Why not go with a stuffed mascot like most teams?
ouch, sorry Orr
Jagr is an idiot clueless defensively
Colorado – We don’t have a mascot! We have Bobby Granger, Dancing/Homo Larry and Dancing Granny.
I hate Mike Richards.
4 minute penalty? no dipshit
GOD these guys are dumb
Now he said DRury “goes in” for the other penalty?
just AWFUL…
glad I was typing this and didnt see the goal….
those announcers are pitiful though
Betts deflected it in with his block
I am worried that Drury isn’t very smart—fights and goes down to block shots in pre-season
Is there a Flyer player called “Topeco”?
Whats going on…..is the game tied??
Yes, tied… so far. We’re on a PP.
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php3?pid=73496
“shanny started as a gang-buster last season”... wow what loser announcers, I’ve never heard that term for hockey in my life. And it now sounds like they’re reading off of a stat sheet.
boy, these announcers are brutal, got like the ice girls.
Flyers scored on a 5 on 3
thx Strudwick
Flyers make me sick
The Flyers rinkside announcer chick is a lot cuter than Al Trautweg
“beerire” yeah, sure if you really think thats how you pronounce your own players name.
Its better for Strudsy to screw up now…so he doesnt get a shot later.
SHOOT THE PUCK! SHOOT THE PUCK!
Refs are a joke, Girardi didn’t take any penalty.
And Staal also has a penalty
Knuble sucks
and Gange or Gagne or however you spell it
Jeez put in Montoya
Flyer fans are even more retarded than Ranger fans
What is this crap, two 5 on 3 power plays for the flyers, I guess the refs feel that this is the only way the flyers can score, what a joke.
So much for me actually writing my essay on the Canterbury Tales.
Jagr will not get more than 75 points this season.
2nd intermission
whats the score??
Who did Gomez fight?? did he do well??
Gimme a run down on the fight’s
thanks.
The flyers icer girls actually mane the islanders ice girls (ice J.A.P.s) look good. woof
BTW
Shanahan fought a white guy for the first time in the last 2 or 3 seasons.
Lol he fough Brash and Mayers and nearly Grier…Some people were saying he might be racist..
But as Doc would say…but thats a story for another time.
2-1 flyers scored on 2 seperate 5 on 3’s Dubinsky scored on a NYR PP earlier in the second. Most of the fights were in the first.
2-1 flyers. I don’t remember who fought with Gomez… it wasn’t a ligit fight… just a couple of quick jabs at the head. fairly okay game. Refs suck. Stupid calls that shouldn’t be calls. Rangers were scored on twice by 5 on 3s. I hate the announcers, they are dumb.
I love this NYR team.
Sticking up for one another…I highly doubt we’ll here NYR fans bitching about them not sticking up for each other.
CML,
couldn’t some it up any better than that.
“Flyer fans are even more retarded than Ranger fans” ... and the thing that wrote this post knows only ridiculous comments . Go root for the fishsticks.
The best fight was when your boy Orr used Jason Smith as a punching bag.
It appears the flyers are trying to go back in time and try to emulate there broad street bully days. I hope they have good penalty killers or it will be another long season for them.
God, the picture is even worse in the MTL v OTT game – looks like a reelplayer feed ca 1996…
Someone tell me if one of the text messages on the screen reads “Flyers suck. GO RANGERS!” I have to finish some work, so I can’t check.
These fights better be on Youtube
I still didnt get a chance to see orr kick Suttons ass….
No one posted it on there yet.
Its tough to be a broad street bully when there last 2 enforcers got knocked the hell out…
Now it looks like a reelplayer feed from 1976 (no feed at all) – keeps going in and out – nhl.tv sucks
the announcer doesn’t know the mic is still on… DUMBASS
Mara shot tipped – PPG
SHOT BY PAULA MARA AND TIPPED BY DAWES!!! GOALL!
GOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLL
Yeah baby Yeaaaaah
i didnt see it but it sounds sweeeeet
Doesn’t it sound like the announcer is pronouncing Hank’s name wrong, like he’s saying Lungfist?? IT’S LUNDQVIST.b
sounds (i still havent seen a second of the game) like dawes and dubinsky are duking it out for the possible final spot
LOL
I hate morons who do that…They thing the QV is an F.
Thats how Bill Clemment said it in NHL 06…the game..
we have a 2-man advantage. lets get a goal boys!
“the announcer doesn’t know the mic is still on… DUMBASS”
good thing he didn’t go take a dump
Damn….Dawes is really making a statement for himself…
but then again i like Dubi alot better, and he was one of my fav propects. I dont know…its a tough choice to make.
Either way it looks like Hoss will have to go home to his fav place…..the 4th line (dramatic 1950’s horror movie theme in background)
“jagr shoots and oh my he missed the net” okay.. so. It was deflected. What did you think he meant to miss the net?
has Jagr made a single good play tonight?
Jagr is probably nervous about hurting himself….
Just a thought.
“Hollwegg hits ben eager, he should get a penalty, no?, i don’t think he should get away with that!” well get over it. it wasn’t a penalty. I’m sick of how when a Ranger touches a Flyer after getting hit the announcers are like ‘why did he do that?’ ...”apparently they took the whistles away”, not when they feel like giving 2 consecutive penalties to the Rangers like they’ve been doing. Oh look, a Flyer penalty. Yeah!
why are they showing baseball plays?
And Tommy Pock’s name is pronounced “Poke” not Pok.
“And Tommy Pock’s name is pronounced “Pokeâ€? not Pok.”
you sure not Pyok or P’ok?
Bite me.
Damn you guys are actually making me feel a whole hel of alot better about not watching the game..
Thank god i dont have to hear those D*cks
Must say Staal is not overly impressing me
Preseason games are a perfect time to let players like Hollweg, Dubinsky, Dawes, etc kill penalties, but no not Renney. It is Shanahan again all the way.
Hollweg can become a top knotch agitator for us. As long as he hits big and clean.
The guy knows how to agitate everybody…
If he cant hit and / or punch you…he’ll pee on your leg.
Oh bastards.. they’re chanting “Rangers suck”...
anybody impressed with Gomez?
Ahhhh, Betts almost got a goal.. it was in the CREASE… AHHHHh…
I hate to agree with this brain trust…
But i do…there isnt any reason to play Dru or Shanny on the PK…especially this being a pre season game…
Gotta play Dawes or Dubi in those situations.
Hollweg is on the loose
Hollwegg – “public enemy #1” ... “he’s hitting everything that moves” ... “Oh, penalty, he deserves it”
The announcer deserves to get fired.
the flyers dancing guy looks like a bowl of orange jello
HAHA, nice similie Too Boo-Coo
Oh man some fat guy is dancing and was a few ass shakes away from a heart attack
Boy, I don’t know who is refereeing this game tonight but these ref’s truly suck. Eager runs Hollweg and hollweg didn’t have the puck and than hollweg drill a flyer with the puck and the ref calls a penalty on hollweg for charging, just brutal call.
These refs must be a bunch of Flyer fan suck ups. What a bunch of assh*les.
Does anyone know how many penalties were called on Hollywood???
STAAL SCORES
Marc Staal goal 3-2
WOOT.. only one min left!!! So much for not noticing Staal.
HOW WE DOING, Marc Stall scores!!!!!!!
Dawes, Dubinsky, and Staal score. Who needs stinking Jagr?
silly Biron, arguing with the refs does shit.
Scooooooore
How much time is left and how pretty was the goal
Deeeeetails please
i love how the 3 guys who don’t have to clear waivers and the youngest members of this team are scoring goals in this game… don’t make the last 2 (not including a goaltender) cuts easy or anything
penalty on Jags?? WHY?????????
THIS IS BULL!
44 seconds left in game. I want an open netter boys!
20 seconds left, Hossa missed the open net. 6-4, we’re on PK
Hossa missed the EN (from his own blue line) 20 sec to go
Oh jeez…im gonna throw up…
Everytime i refresh this blog i have a bad feeling that ill here an “oh damn the flyers scored”
Close this game out boys…do it nooooooow
sorry, 6 on 4
Wow, I’ve seen everything now. There’s no doubt this ref should be investigated for betting on this game, he obviously bet on the flyers, calls Jagr for elbowing, jagr is 6 feet plus and the guy who tried to hit him looked like he was at best 5 feet 7 inches and ran in to Jagrs elbow, another unbelievable brutal call.
WE WON!!!!!!!!
what Lundqvist was bad towards the end of the season?
Rangers Win
“The flyers game the win to the Rangers”
PLEASE SOMEONE PUNCH THE ANNOUNCER!!!!
Yeeeeeeah baby.
Dubi Dubi Dooo Where are yooou
Hopefully on the 3rd line when the season staaaarts
*“The flyers gave the win to the Rangers”
That was truly the worse announcer calling a hockey game since I’ve been following hockey since 1967, that’s how bad this guy was, he must be brothers with the ref who called those brutal penalties against the rangers.
Homer announcers is the biggest problem with the center ice package. I live in CA, so I only get to see half of the games on MSG. The other half are on whoever has the home feed. Some of the announcers are as bad as these two were…
The rangers out shot the flyers 30 something to 20 something.
haha—- good for Marc
Too Boo-Coo,
I’ll take your word on that, this was my first time ever doing this and since I live on long island, I get all my home team channels.
It is truly funny that the three stars of this game were stall, dubi and dawes, three guys who probably won’t be on this team, where’s Vinnie Pooh and Bonfire, there going to have a nervous break down.
The web center ice in new this season (and so far it sucks). As soon as I moved to California, I got a sat dish to watch the Rangers (couldn’t miss the Peter Nedved era…)
Cetner Ice has probably 80% of the games played on TV. I get to watch LOTS of hockey. HNIC is fun sometimes too.
Ok
So tell me
Who won the Gomez fight..Drury fight..and Shanny fight??
And who did Gomez fight??
Didn’t see the Gomez fight (the web thing didn’t work for most of the first). Drury came in second, but didn’t get pummeled. Was nige that he went after an enforcer that had just taken a run at Jager. Courage. Shanney won his.
“Drury came in second, but didn’t get pummeled. Was nige that he went after an enforcer that had just taken a run at Jager.”
Richards is not an enforcer
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php3?pid%5B%5D=59738
strudwick got a left in when he fought so i give that one to strudwick.
Was “nice” [fatfingered] that he (Drury) went after an enforcer (Cote?) that had just taken a run at Jager.
Shanney didn’t pummel the guy he fought either, but definately landed more/better shots tha the other guy.
Thought it was Cote? But whoever it was he had definatley just taken a run at Jager and was a bigger guy that Drury is, but then again that is about 3/4 of the league too.
The Strudwick fight was more of a clutch fest.
Good game…Just someone should tell the Flyers that if they’re going to be the reincarnate of the Broad Street Bullies, they’d better learn to fight. From what I saw, they lost just about every one. Orr KICKED SMITH’S ASS. Then Shanny kicked it again. Hilarious. If you’re getting your jock handed to you buy a 39-year-old guy who doesn’t even drop the gloves much anymore, the best policy is to avoid fighting altogether.
Announcers: Worst ever. I could hardly sit through thier BS.
NHL Center Ice: I don’t know if it was just this broadcast or what, but it was horrible. Quality of the image was good, but they spent more time showing the butt-ass Cryer fans than they did showing replays. If the games are like that during the regular season, this service will crash and burn.
DAWES: He earned a spot on the team, IMO, with that redirect. Unfortunately, it’ll probably be at the expense of Dubinsky, who I also feel should be with this club. In truth, Blair Betts could end up soon on the outside looking in.
Another player who was very visible again(in a good way) was TYUTIN. He’s skating with assertivness and authority, definitely looking more offensive. Me likes what I see.
One guy I really haven’t been impressed with so far has been DRURY. I know it’s preseason and a lot of people say Dru comes on when the action heats up. But I thought for sure he’d make more of a splash. Frankly, I’d like to see him with Jagr and Hossa, instead of Straka.
Overall, AWESOME team, AWESOME effort. Good things are ahead, for sure.
Straka, Gomez and Jagr are not impressing me so far.
Drury was penalized for 17 minutes so it is understandable whe he wasn’t seen much, another reason is he was playing with Jagr and Straka who were bad.
How did JJ look? Only saw a bit of it…
“How did JJ look? Only saw a bit of it…”
like he should retire
TDCHI
“NHL Center Ice: I don’t know if it was just this broadcast or what, but it was horrible. Quality of the image was good, but they spent more time showing the butt-ass Cryer fans than they did showing replays. If the games are like that during the regular season, this service will crash and burn.”
100% true. This service could be incredible but it is just very unpolished. We need a clock to watch and replays of the significant action, at the very least.
Jagr looks to be skating strong and moving around well in the zone and drawing attention to himself and then looking to distribute the puck, but he does look sloppy with the puck as well. That pass D to D pass he tried that got intercepted was awful, but it was also well played by that guy. Gomez, looks to be moving well but I agree, very quiet.
I’m impressed with Drury so far although tonight was strange. You’d think he knows the rules there and had to know he was taking himself out for almost 1/3 of the game. Either way, it’s good to see him go to bat for Jags, and /i think he looks very good so far. I’ve been a Drury doubter but, I’m very excited about him.
tdchi, you mean, this is what we’re gonna get with the nhl center ice online?? The dam scoreboard feeds??? OMG this stinks.
I hope you’re wrong.
anyone know where we can see highlights of tonight’s game?
I think I would be humiliated if I was 6’3” 240lbs and a much weaker 5’10” 185lbs guy had to protect me.
So what about the final starting lineup? Who doesn’t make the team?
Dubinsky better make the team. Maybe we should trade Straka to make room for Dawes? Or trade Dawes? Or make Dawes wait till there is an injury?
Personally I would look at trading Gomez before everyone figures out what a huge bust he is. Having him for 7 years is a big mistake, he is no Nylander, not even as good as Dubinsky, even Anisimov is more impressive.
Personally I would look at trading Gomez before everyone figures out what a huge bust he is.—-
I’ve been saying this all along, stop copying me yenner.
the person or persons that should not be on this team are malik and hossa,hollweg.the kids really showed them tonight.this defense would look alot better without malik and strudwick in the lineup.Drury is really a heart and soul player.gomez looked good.dubinsky in somewhat limited action scored and was very effective.clearley should be the third line center.Dawes showed that he belongs.staal is already the third or fourth best dman oon the team,just a little more expierience UP HERe, NOT with hartford.
Hollweg definitely should be on the team.
Hossa looked very good
Malik, Strudwick are useless.
Straka, Gomez, and Jagr look very expendable
NOOOOOOO i guess the rangers gave in to the nhl about their website
i cant find anything now
Deja,
http://www.newyorkrangers.com/
Comes us as it always has. Try again.
comes up [fat-fingered again]
Anyone concerned that Prucha’s roster spot is in jeopardy? After last night’s game, Callahan pretty much replaced him on the PP unit, Dawes took his spot at even strength. With the NYR’s continued dedication to Marcel Hossa, I wonder if Prucha is now the odd man out.
too boo thanks i saw that last night but apparently now when you try to go there from nhl.com it goes to the newer site
OC1001
Hell f’n No…He wont go back to the fourth line. He’s gonna be on the 3rd and possibly 2nd.
Ive been saying i want Hollweg gone…but if he can agitate like he’s been doing, then i want him here…as long as he throws heavy hits and injures guys left and right….with clean hits though.
I was looking at the stat sheet…
There was no Gomez fight…he didnt even get a roughing call…So im guessing it never happened..
Gomez, Shanny, and Girardi had assists, Mara had 2 assists
Dubi, Dawes, and Staal had the goals.
Here is the kind of thing I am talking about on this blog…
“Straka, Gomez, and Jagr look very expendable.”
The idiot who wrote that either doesn’t know the meaning of the word “expendable”, is too drunk or high when he is writing on this blog, or is just a total moron. I cannot figure out which (or all 3 maybe)?
That same person (with maybe the stupidest blog name ever, btw) says, “Maybe we should trade Straka to make room for Dawes?” Is anyone else up for having the webmaster just ban that idiot’s comments? Come on. That person is on this particular page of blog postings maybe a dozen times (and countless others if the same person is using a few aliases on this page, highly possible) and that person’s commentary is really an insult to anyone with half a hockey brain.
Sam, ban that punk’s comments. They are useless.
Straka played 18:34 had shot on goal and 1 giveaway and that is all folks. If he keeps this up they better do something about it.
Newman he’s not a fan and he posts just to annoy and complain. He’s the Devils’ & Fishsticks’ advocate thru tearing down anything the NYR do, and putting down any fan that supports what they are doing. Thankfully his priorities & ideas are not Sather’s.
What’s with this moderation stuff?
How did Drury manage to play 18:15 even though he was penalized for 17 minutes? Even in preseason Renney is doubleshifting his vets because he does not trust rookies. Dubinsky once again got less than 10 minutes. Staal got 13.
“What’s with this moderation stuff?”
just ignore the loser—same guy is posting as new newman, imagination and hoof and mouth disease. He obviously has issues and goes nuts whenever someone has a different point of view.
New Newman – I thought Yenner’s most recent incarnation of a handle was actually mildy humorous, of course taken out of context with his hackneyed claims that Jagr’s over the hill and of course, the ‘trade Gomez’ comments.
Yenner: I’m not sure what preseason you were watching but Gomez seemed like one of the better players out there in all four games I watched. Straka seemed decent as well. Jagr is the only one that seemed a bit invisible. But I wouldn’t take this as he’s washed up. JJ will be back with a vengence once he aclimates to his new pivot. That might take a few games, seeing as though he’s skated the better part of two years with the same guys…
Frankly, I think the whole kids cluster will be solved next season when Straka, Shanny and posibly even JJ depart. Also, Avery and Hossa will both be UFAs at seasons’ end. So if Dubinsky and Dawes don’t play prominent roles on this team, they’re both VERY young and will certainly get a fair chance next season, if not sooner with injuries.
LAST NIGHT: I don’t know who is claiming GOMEZ fought. By my count it was Orr, Dury, Strudwick and Shanahan. And the only guy that didn’t utterly beat the piss out of the Flyer fighter was Drury. Like I said before, if the Flyers are going to be the “tough guys” on the block, they better take Jessiman’s cue and get a boxer to give them lessons. Otherwise they’re nothing more than a cheap-shotting team that clearly looks like they’re trying to injure players.
“don’t know who is claiming GOMEZ fought. By my count it was Orr, Dury, Strudwick and Shanahan. And the only guy that didn’t utterly beat the piss out of the Flyer fighter was Drury”
Strudwick was more interested in hugging.
“they better take Jessiman’s cue and get a boxer to give them lessons. ”
it sure helped him, lol. Hockey fighting is no boxing, they all need to attend Boogard’s goon classes instead.
“Frankly, I think the whole kids cluster will be solved next season when Straka, Shanny and posibly even JJ depart.”
if they depart, they will sign new replacement UFAs.
“Yenner: I’m not sure what preseason you were watching but Gomez seemed like one of the better players out there in all four games I watched. Straka seemed decent as well. Jagr is the only one that seemed a bit invisible.”
Gomez looked good for a grand total of half a game. Straka has been beyond invisible. Jagr doesn’t look like the same player, seems to lack any passion.
loser would be what the NYR would be following your skewed point of view. As usual you state non-facts as facts. Take a vote on who agrees with more than 10% of what you post. In your mind there is a conspiracy of one. Let’s find out so you get a glimpse of reality. One thing is consistent, that’s you being way off base just to be off base. My vote is your basically clueless on what the NYR should do this season. ANYONE ELSE AGREE? Of course you’ll believe only one person is posting with different names, but that’s your MO.So take everybodies name & post they agree with you.
tdchi – don’t be so sure Straka will be gone next yr. I know the kid fanatics want that to be the case. I certainly hope not. He’s a very valuable member of this organization on the pp, pk and 5-5 offense and defense.
“”Gomez looked good for a grand total of half a game. Straka has been beyond invisible. Jagr doesn’t look like the same player, seems to lack any passion.””
It’s the preseason and none of those guys are fighting for a spot. They are bored. Give them the benefit the doubt here and don’t be so quick to write them off.
“It’s the preseason and none of those guys are fighting for a spot. They are bored. Give them the benefit the doubt here and don’t be so quick to write them off.”
why aren’t Shanahan and Drury bored?
“why aren’t Shanahan and Drury bored?”
because you touch yourself at night.
Yenner
Shanny was bored against the Devils…Which you bitched about.
That’s how pre season is…sometimes vets show up, sometimes they dont. Every team had a star player not really playing during a game. It doesnt mean anything.
well so far , not much agreement with the devil’s advocate. Keep plugging to find more to knock guys down, very constructive criticism. Little is good or ok, very original. Is Joel L a NYR yet? Trade Gomez straight up.
Slow day today…
I hear Peca is injured…Lol…Poor BJ’s..
And to think that we could have signed him.
Is it Thursday yet?
Set up a new hockey league
http://hockey.fantasysports.yahoo.com/hockey/77269
It is a YAHOO league that is daily and very easy to understand and play. 16 teams. Head to head. Draft is Autopick at 7pm thursday. I may change it to live pick if I get enough requests.
PASSWORD: rangers
LET’S GO RANGERS!!!!!
Kid fanatics? How about old, infirm, washed-up, faking it journeymen and veterans fanatics? How about those living in 2003 in 2007, who don’t know the difference? How about Pittsburgh having the nerve to promote teenagers to the NHL, and who do those kids think they are, stepping on the ice and taking over the sport?
I just love it when the oldies but goodies lovers say: “Yes, but those Pittsburgh kids are really talented,” in the context of it really isn’t fair to the Rangers to point out how talented other teams’ young players are, as the Rangers don’t have prospects that talented and precocious.
I don’t want to hear this “kid fanatics” crap, anymore. There is more than enough old, dead wood on this Rangers team to recall about five of the recently dispatched, so called kids, who are really talented young men ready for the big time – except management and its legion of suck-up fans are gutless to an extreme and can’t see beyond their noses or beyond breakfast, tomorrow.
Maybe the ever-popular Strudwick should run for Mayor – since “personality,” in lieu of ability, seems to be a requisite for a roster spot, around here.
I’m gonna name my next puppy dog, “STRUDWICK.” Strudwick the puppy – got to like it. “Here, Strudwick, here boy – that’s a good puppy!”
Robby don’t forget to take your meds. Then check the ages of guys on the NYR, then show who is close to Crosby, Malkin, or J Staal in talent. You sound like you’re having a puppy.
Bonfire give me a break – Strudwick will be sitting most games in the stands. I know you don’t want Shanny here. But now you and your ilk also want core players like Straka and Rozy gone to make room for another kid or 5. There will be several rookies on the team this yr (Cally, Girardi, and prob 2 of the following 3 Staal, Dawes, and Dubinsky) maybe all 3. You act like a player doesn’t get any development if they don’t play in the NHL on October 4th. I really wish you would root for a different team (still not convinced you don’t).
Also we can’t have too many small players who play the same game. Dawes, Prucha, Cally will be hard to get all three in the top 9 forwards.
And Pittsburgh’s youth are mostly top 3-4 in the whole draft. We have noone like Sid the Kid, Malkin and their Staal. So to compare our youth to their’s is crazy.
By your method of approx 5 young players at least at age 18 per yr, by the time a guy got to 23-24 you would look to replace them or there would be no room for that yrs 18 yr olds.
BTW – I would have used Logan’s run fanatics but that was Colorado Mark’s so I used kid fanatics and that is certainly appllicable to yourself and several others.
Also, let’s not ignore the over the hill veterans that Pittsburgh is carrying. For all of the teenagers, they sure are an old team.
http://beachthe.net/category/general/hockey/
What’s funny is that even though our average age (last season) we had one less rookie and 2 less guys over 30.
Bonfire for your reading pleasure a preview of our division. Read especially where many of the Pitt players were drafted. Also see a guy like Comrie (just coming into his prime at gasp 27 yrs old)
http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/story/7277480?CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=142
these arguments are pointless, those who get it got it, those who don’t get it never will get it.
Lafleur is doing horrible in the Q who was the fool who scouted him? Should have gone with Unice or Sexsmith instead. Sanguinetti got 10 points in 4 games.
My point, exactly, imagination – it is getting late to call most of our prospects “kids.” Christ, Sanguinetti, at 19, would be up now, were he with Pittsburgh, and would have a fine rookie season. Here, he will be lucky if he comes up by 23.
I speak for myself, BOZO, I don’t have an “ilk.” Go put on your checkered jacket and go shoot a rabbit or a partridge.
“Still not convinced I root for the Rangers. Convincing you that “A” precedes “B” would be a massive undertaking.
DUMP STRAKA, SHANAHAN, MALIK, STRUDWICK, MARA, BETTS, and HOLLWEG, and bring back Sauer, LIffiton, Sanguinetti and every other talented young player just killing time down on the farm – NOW! (National Organization of WINNERS!)
Yes, we have a quorum, Pittsburgh has too many greybeards. This is a byproduct of last year’s GM change, there. Craig Patrick was light years a better visionary than the new, myopic hack. And to think Patrick was originally affiliated with the Rangers, in the tradition of his family, the “First Family” in Ranger organizational history, what with what Lester, Muzz, and Lynn contributed on the ice and in the front office.
I don’t know what Craig Patrick is doing these days, but how great it would be to bring him back as GM. He would be a perfect fit for keeping the minors to the majors pipeline flowing. Not bad at drafting prospects, either.
The new guy in Pittsburgh is starting to look like a Sather clone. This is good for the Rangers, not so good for Pittsburgh, except that they certainly have the replacement parts in the system. I will not defend the Pens adding too many scrap heap rejects to their roster – it’s as dumb as it gets.
O.k., kids, with the new season just about upon us, I am all geared up, and all psyched up to share with you – my legion of adoring fans – my estimable Fibonacci Clutch Goal Scoring Even-Strength Numbers, for yet another time around the block. Understanding that you, “Strudwick The Puppy,” and Secretariat are all “chomping at the bit,” (har-har), as I do, trust me, I won’t disappoint you – only the old guys will disappoint you with the “results” they get on the ice, so be prepared to defend them and burrow-in for a long winter and a long season.
Your friend, Bonfire – the Islanders fan, lol
DUMP ROBBY
DUMP ROBBY
DUMP ROBBY
Just cause that load of crap is taking forever to pop out, dont take it out on the blog.
My question to you Robby…is..
WHY DONT YOU ROOT FOR THE WOLFPACK INSTEAD OF THE FUGGIN RANGERS???
You sound like an idiot, if you and Yenner and who ever the fugg else hate the NYR “oldies”, and want all those young farm boys, then JUST WATCH THE WOLFPACK, this way you can never run out of watching teens, and young boys. You are a weirdo.
The way you talk about little farm boys, creeps me the fugg out. Enough already.
Why don’t you just cut yourself with your Fibonacci numbers instead? It will fit your disappointment when possiby none of Dawes, Staal, Dubinsky, Anisimov make the team.
Do Rangers have a mascot? I propose an laughing aging hyena with arthritis. And of course the loser inside it should be Bobby Granger.
anyway, lets wait and see what the real Hyena does and see how the team performs on Thursday.
Speaking of Bobby Granger…..
has he been fired by MSG or something…usually right about now they would play his commercials.
Cant say i’d be disapointed…the guy is friggin annoying…i just like whne he gets bitched by jags, and Pruchs.
Hello all, just a quickie…Was at the bar with the upstairs bar outdoor across the street from Penn Station Saturday nite, (the name escapes me at the moment), around Midnight, after the last pre-season game—getting ready to take the NJ transit back home.
As my party and I walked out the front door, I saw a familiar looking smallish gentleman in a suit, with a distinct hockey-like cut up face, standing in the middle of a small group that was getting ready to enter.
To my surprise, the smallish gent I saw was Chris Drury. To my greater surprise, I soon saw that he was surrounded by fellow Blueshirt newbie Scott Gomez, Jason Strudwick and behind them, strolls King Henrik, looking spiffy in his crisp suit and typically well coiffed ‘do.
Like an idiot, I yelled, “Go Rangers!”, first to Drury and Gomez, who looked a little surprised, then to Henrik, who was the only one who smiled and he was the only one who looked like he actually enjoyed being recognized.
Colton Orr walked outside, away from the group to make a cell call-
but the key thing was that it was great to see this core bunch of Rangers hanging out together on a Saturday nite-a little pre-season Bonding can only do our boys good!Well, I continued on my way into the NorthWest entrance to Penn Sation, ready to walk down the steps, when to my even greater surprise, riding up to the top of the escalator comes a tall gent with a strikingly familiar countenance-
another hockey face appeared- and there was Brendan Shanahan, coming up the escalator with Sean Avery close in tow. Again, I yelled, “Go Rangers!”-Shanny smiled; Avery looked mildly annoyed. I can see why guys want to punch him in the faceit’s just the vibe he gives off-which ain’t a bad thing if he’s on your team!Anyway, I thought it was cool that all of them got together to hang out on a pre-season Saturday nite to do a little bonding and chemistry building. Hope it bodes well for the season to come…”Go Rangers!”
Then you saw the Grim Reaper, but then looking closely it was just Blair Betts with a stick.
Then you looked even closer and it was actually John Kerry but when you got really close it turned out to be Mike Ricci but once you turned back it turned out it really was the Grim Reaper.
I know who I want as Bobby G’s brother Booby G , and he can do the stunts for real. Starting with the apple on his head.
Sanguetti is ready for the NHL? ABSURD!
No answer for the Penguins? Shero has been the GM, PatricK was in 2005. Shero resigned & traded for old guys & a goon. But if the NYR do it , it’s not ok. DOUBLE STANDARDS!
complain, complain, complain….go play fantasy hockey….
SAM you might have to take the NYR logo off with napoleon buttman & his NHL cartel.
How much better was Greschner at 19, than Sanguinetti? Greschner stepped right into the NHL and immediate stardom. Sorry you have no faith in young phenoms and a vacuum for knowledge of league history when it comes to the success of literally dozens of under-20 players over the years.