Comments on: Too much, too soon?

By: theflynn

theflynn — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:36:09 +0000

I see that the HOckey Rodent has nailed the process of refeering that we can expect this coming season…notably from the Ottawas.

It’s the old Broad St Bullies all over again. Bust out 1st period, knock hell out of everyone anywhere near you, take you P’s kill ‘em off and then continue lambasting til the refs run out of guts to call more and you’ve got the other guy’s team so intimidated they don’t want to come off the bench.

There’s only one antidote to terrorism- counter terrorism! even if it costs you a game. When the terrorists find out that when they play your team, they’re all gonna go home breathing thru scabs, you’ll have made your point.

By: remthealamo

remthealamo — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:35:23 +0000

I found all of you at last!! My main, ORR is here and all!! Rangers!! Dubinsky going to light it up too! My two favorite alaskans: sarah palin and Dubinsky….Holla!

By: scabbie rabbit

scabbie rabbit — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:48:05 +0000

Zherdev is not “enigmatic” like people think. Rangers fans will remember another “enigmatic” highly skilled Russian named Kovalev. Well in many ways Zherdev is the same. He is not grumpy and a loner like the jerks in Columbus liked to promote. He was a kid, a very immature kid thrust too quickly into the NHL by a desperate expansion team looking to put fans in the seats. They should have never pushed him into the NHL as soon as they did. It would be no different than if the Rangers were to force Cherepanov in last season.

I saw Zherdev a lot first hand last year and he is a much matured person and hockey player. If he gets on a confidence high in New York City it will be, as they say “Fuggedabouddit” the guy will light up MSG on a nightly basis.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:10:18 +0000

there is a great beer garden in praha. i think its called ouh pinkasa and i believe its in old town sq or something like that. i was there last yr,the city reminds me of disney world.

playing nhl 2k9 is a bad idea

spiderpig ill join ur league

By: onecupin67years

onecupin67years — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:44:44 +0000

Sam, Now that Jagr isn’t a NY Ranger aren’t these European trips unnecessary? Weren’t these trips part of showcasing jagr, straka and prucha and a kind of payback to jagr? never mind the BS of show casing the NHL worldwide.The league wants to get richer and would probably to have teams all over the world ,all it will do is dilute the league .

By: UKRanger

UKRanger — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:02:56 +0000

Thordic – look on tripadvisor, its the #1 rated restaurant in Prague. If you want to turn that down its your prerogative. No offense to anyone but Czech food is not very exciting – what they excel at is making Beer…happy drinking….

As for NHL 09 – its not out until 24th October here..!! I might have to defect to NHL 2K9..!

By: Colorado Mark

Colorado Mark — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:26:47 +0000

What a lot of people are forgetting about this pre-season is that NHL Rules demand that a certain amount of players with NHL Contracts (and experience) play in each game, to avoid exhibition games being all rookies. They sell tickets to these games, and even though a lot of fans wouldn’t mind seeing all kids, the NHL seems to think that they can’t call them NHL exhibition matches without NHL players. This is partly the reason why there are so many guys like Rissmiller and Voros and the others. They will indeed have a split squad to avoid too much travel for all the players and still have the requisite amount of NHL players in each game.

By: Spiderpig

Spiderpig — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:47:26 +0000

I still say that signing Shanny is the wrong idea, unless they plan to get rid of players like Rissmiller and Prucha, which would be kind of dumb anyway since they could only afford recent and future draft picks in return.

I still have to catch up on some recent posts, but I hope Renney knows what he’s doing; Sather only sometimes knows, so it seems to me like it’s Renney’s responsibility to fix his mistakes, even tho it shouldn’t be, really.

Back to fantasy land, I guess since we have six committed players, we can afford six others. I’m surprised people from this blog don’t want to play! Anyway, the league is on Yahoo, ID# 13439, password rangers. Hope to see some good players there! :)

By: CCCP

CCCP — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:39:23 +0000

for all of u that confused about how similar Ukraine and Russiaâ€¦ is very similar…Russians eat â€œkartoshkaâ€ (potato) Ukrainians eat borsht and vareniki (pirogi as u Americans call it) it used to be one country called USSR remember?... and the first language was and still is Russian…although in Ukraine they are trying to switch to Ukranian everything now… I am from Ukraine (Odessa) and I speak perfect Russian and not a word in Ukrainianâ€¦ go figure

BTWâ€¦ does anyone here own new NHL09 game? Its pretty coolâ€¦ they have Russian league nowâ€¦which of course has the Avanagard team with Jagr and cherepanov on itâ€¦ sweet

By: Jeever

Jeever — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:59:35 +0000

Borman, I’m not sure if you’re complimenting me or laughing at my lack of knowledge of that part of the world… I’ll take it in a good way, until I know different. I was going based off of the Rangers roster on the website which states that Zherdev was born in Kiev, UKR and Kalinin was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

Then again, they could have been born there and moved when they were 2, so that doesn’t help a WHOLE lot.