Scary costumes (updated)
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There were some ugly ones on my porch last night, but none compared to the Habs’ throwbacks (CP photo).
I know I told this Halloween story before, but it’s worth repeating for those who missed it.
Remember Scott Fraser, the terribly over-rated, good-skating winger signed for ridiculous, silly, money by the Rangers back 1998-99?
Well, the Rangers always had a team Halloween party. Fraser shows up with a bag and wearing a ski mask.
“What are you supposed to be?” one of the Rangers asked.
“My agent,” Fraser said.
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Did you remember to move your clocks (and gain an hour of sleep)?
My wife always says that I gain an hour when we move the clocks ahead, when we move them back, and when we don’t move them at all. I just always sleep an hour later than I should.
Also, if you’re going to the game today, take the train. The NYC Marathon will make driving a disaster.
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Here are today’s pregame notes.
Boston goalie Tuukka Rask had a shutout yesterday. Remember him from another shutout in another matinee last season?
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MORNING UPDATE, 11:44 A.M.: Marian Gaborik will skate in warmups today and could possibly play against the Bruins. Higgins and Avery, who also missed Friday’s game in Minnesota, will be game-time decisions as well.
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Josh Thomson Josh, who is 26 and a native of Carmel, graduated from Boston University in 2002 and began working for The Journal News the following March. 
First???
Whoa…my first time being first.
{Pats FiveFootZero on the back for being first time” first”}
Scott Fraser hahaha Fantastic story Carp!
Rick do you have a real good chadwick story you can tell?
I am going to have a Bill Chadwick tribute show and I am going to have his grandson on the show.
Also, I will be posting some pictures of the Big whistle this week on my site taken a few years before his death, that will bring a tear to any ranger fan who recollects him.
Geez.. Who was the Habs’ designer back then? Cher’s grandfather?
i like the throwbacks, but i think i’m the only one
Happy Sunday!!!
Great story Rick! I sometimes go through the hockey data base & look through the Rangers rosters in the 90 early 2000’s and cant believe the players who were on the team LOL
Carp – funny story although for the life of me I can’t remember Fraser. (must have been a lasting impression…lol)
LGR
Thanks, Mako.
Mouth, it struck me when the Big Whistle died that we had just mentioned him on your show that week, and I said that he was not doing well. I had no idea it was so imminent, though.
I wasn’t around in the Big Whistle days and only remember him as a broadcaster, although I did meet him several times later. If I remember a story, I’ll pass it along.
Now that you mention it, I do remember that story about Fraser. The only thing is that other than the Halloween story, it wasn’t really funny.
Is Gabby going to play today?
You know what I do like about the Canadiens’ throwbacks? The brown gloves. When I was a fan as a kid, all the gloves and goalie pads were natural leather color. Very old-school.
I remember some publications writing about the Rangers BIG signing of Frasier. Ha.
I think he played a few games with the Rangers and was sent to Hartford. Hard to remember anything about the Rangers from those years…
Rick
That’s funny you said that. I like the gloves too. I actually found a sweet pair of branches on ebay a month or so ago that were the same color – but the bidding got so crazy that they went up over $200. I bowed our gracefully LOL
Rick, are you sure those gloves are brown? Look yellow to me…We should ask our blog sisters…Girls, what d’ya think?
Bill Chadwick was such a great guy. I met him a couple of times and I spoke with him when he was a guest on the Pete Franklin show in the early days of the WFAN (what an effin jerk Pete Franklin was). Anyway, at that time, we (Bill Chadwick and I) agreed that perhaps it was time to eliminate fighting in the NHL. It was quite a long and thorough discussion and for him as an ex-ref to be so adamant about eliminating fighting was quite interesting. But it was all about trying to appeal to the masses in the USA fan industry. Since then I have read the book “The Code” and now I believe fighting is a part of the game. However, today’s players do not honor the code so that is a huge problem.
Anyway,I would love a tribute to Bill Chadwick.
Thank Wiki. Fraser spent 20 some games with the Rangers, finished with Hartford, and then retired. He got his MBA and now owns a Quiznos. So about 200 people’s season ticket money was used to get this guy a degree and a sub shop. Awesome.
Yeah they tried to mimic the old time all leather brown gloves.
Speaking of the marathon. I never really watch it a little here and there and the pace that they run at is just incredible.
I was up in Montreal 2 weekends ago and someone sitting in front of me was actually wearing one of those jerseys. It should come with a warning that it may induce seizures. Only upside I see is that it my initials on the front.
Thanks CCCP…
I don’t post often, but I read multiple times during the day. I LOVE reading everything, and it perks up my otherwise boredom at work.
On the uniforms, they make me nauseous…literally. And the gloves do look yellow on my monitor.
update above: Gaborik will skate in warmup and could play. Higgins and Avery, too.
Gross says he thinks all 3 guys will play, and so will Byers. Brashear would be the scratch. Just his opinion, though.
Good morning, Carp! Do you know what any of the Rangers were for Halloween this year? I’m gonna guess that Drury wore his Captain Clutch costume out in public, Voros was Blair from Gossip Girl, and Dubinsky was the Grimace. Am I right? Am I right?
http://rmfo-blogs.com/karibeth/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/grimace.jpg
ahhh sally, too funn
Morning all, have a crease clearig hard hitting physical d man day to all!!
Anyone know how dandenault is doing in hartford??
Let’s go rangers!!!!
I seem to remember Scott Fraser was signed at least in part because of his production in a brief spell with the Oilers, in which he had the highest points-per-minute plated of any NHLer that year (23 points in 29 games, playing only 12 minutes per game).
The league leader in that stat in 2008/09 (for anyone scoring more than 20 points)? Step forward Marian Gaborik…
So, if Gabby does any better than owning a Subway in the next couple of years, we should consider ourselves very lucky.
need more coffee…funny, not funn! Sorry!
Good morning, Sally! Of course you’re right. I watched some of the Batman movie with Michael Keaton last night (between Fox World Series promos) and I swear he was driving the Clutch Mobile … with the new clutch, of course.
I think Higgins was the Invisible Man, and Gaborik was one of those zombies from the Michael Jackson Thriller video, whose limbs keep falling off. Rozsival was a traffic cone, or Pinter (from Seinfeld). Torts was Fonzie. Prospal was Vegetable Lasagna (from Seinfeld). Lisin was Andy Kaufman. Redden was the pre-2008 Redden. Staal was the post-2008 Redden.
Haha! What about Lundqvist and Cally?
High Noon…18 hours !
Uncle Rick !
Why don´t have the Rangers more afternoon games, it would be so much more comfortable for me :):):)
hank was the goalie from slap shot (can’t remember his name though), and cally was the energizer bunny!
Yeah, but why does this one have to be at 1:00 up against both local football teams? Scary!
LMAO!! Rick – I swear I asked my father if he thought Lisin looked like Andy Kaufman – He busted out laughing.
YES! That is how I envision the Clutch mobile LOL The old bat mobile!!!! HAHAHAHAH
Im watching pinky and the 3 brains discuss hits. Man, there have been some VICIOUS hits around the league lately. I still think the hit on Booth was dirty. Richards lined him up the whole way and shouldered him right in the face. He was knocked out and smashed his face on the ice.
did anybody see the Mara-to-Gomez 2-on-1 last night? Gomer was stopped. But he did score the winner in the skills competition after the tied game.
The Habs uniform. Dr. Suess plays hockey?
wicky YES! Denis Lemieux! OWNS! OOWWWWNNNSSS!
LOL Sally
So many great lines from that movie. But unfortunately, cant be repeated on the Festivus Blog ;)
‘You’re kids gonna grow up to be a CROSBY!!”
sally
when he is shell shocked in the lockerroom and still trying to make saves….priceless. Oh, and trade me right effing now!!!
MAKO, I just saw it too. Again. Richards deliberately went for his head.
Marty looked like Nutty Professor, Brashear was sporting Tyson’s facial tatoo and Holyfield’s ears.
Let’s Go Rangers! We better win today, or at least put forth a hardworking solid effort. I am so spent from PJ closing out the Spectrum last night. Played for a little over 3 and a half hours, and 41 songs. That plus the Yankees winning made for one of the most memorable evening of my life. Simply AMAZING!!!!!!!
Great day to sit and watch Rangers, Giants, and Yankees and do nothing else!
LET’S GO RANGERS!!!!!
I hope are all well.
What was up with those uniforms? Looks like Dr. Suess plays hockey!
hit was probably borderline, and it sucks booth was hurt, that being said I wish we had guys that would hit with that level of aggression!
I hope Dubinsky, Cally & MDZ are putting on the foil right now!
Nasty, glad you had a good time! Even though I can’t share your happiness about the Yankees. Lets go Mets!
ilb
Yep. Goring says “its clean, its part of hockey”. I call BS! You see him zeroing in on Booth, yes Booth wasnt looking and should have had swivel head but come on that hit was just criminal. I mean what is the difference between an elbow to the face or a shoulder to the face in a situation like that? Not very much. I love open ice hits just like the next guy and love that fighting is still apart of the game, but garbage like that needs to be stopped OR policed by the players. Instead of Bettman trying to make equipment smaller or the goals bigger, he and the rest of the NHL really need to start paying attention to these hits to the head. Seriously, someone is going to get SERIOUSLY injured.
ilb
I remember that home and home with Philly a few years back when it was the Rangers last two games of the season. Richards IS a dirty player that goes unnoticed…
I wonder if richards gets benched or moved to the 4th line because he took a penalty??
Let’s go Rangers!
LMAO “wrist shot with feeling!!!”
Brahsear and Voros scratched. I hope to see the Bubi, Cali, Byers line tear it up. If they are still together by game time that is.
From Zipay:
“Lisin-Prospal-Gaborik, Higgins-Drury-Boyle, Byers-Dubinsky-Callahan, Avery-Anisimov-Kotalik. Brashear and Voros scratches.”
I don’t know about that second line. I bet it doesn’t get as much ice time as the third.
tomb, are you tbassler on hockeystreams?
Morning guys…
Well, first lesson: do not consume half a bottle of red wine on an empty stomach on halloween. Even good red wine. Bad idea.
Second: despite being in the heart of bruinsland, my campus does NOT have NESN on their cable listing. We have every single international soap opera channel, but no NESN. What is wrong with the world?
Anybody have a stream?
YAY, game is on Yahoo.com, so I can watch in the background while the football games are going on.
I just can not watch chara anymore after that pic the blogettes were circulating on the blog. Really like the goalie masks valli and hank have, pretty cool. C’mon boys get a win!
grabachev
good luck to you and the minnesota warriors today!!!
wicky
It was a 5 min major with intent to injure, 10 min misconduct & game misconduct. but of course no suspension.
thanks for the insight, spiderpig! i didn’t think yahoo streamed…
thanks mako!
I have a few things i’m confused on and I was wondering if someone could clear them up for me..
did gilroy have a dad that played another sport and did gilroy play hockey in college? did drury play little league baseball? Does gaborik have an injury history? With the msg broadcasts, I’m not really clear on some of these things!
I hope we don’t have one of our normal matinee performances.
LGR!!!!!
Here’s a link:
http://atdhe.net/9660/watch-boston-bruins-vs-ny-rangers
Hi Linda, how’s everything in ‘bama?
I’m writing a paper (and drinking mimosas), but I’ve got my radio on. Come on boys! The Grimace hat trick today to prove you all wrong!
wicky, I’ve never heard anything about that, but did you hear that Staal has brothers that ALSO play hockey?????
lol apparently according to zipay Drury is centereding 4th line with boyle and higgins.
Byers on 2nd line with duby n cally
I’m stuck with the NESN feed and cackling Jack Edwards.
Sally
OMG!!!!! are you serious!?
spider, who’s doing the broadcast on yahoo??
hi sally!
I’ve got nothing
atdhe isn’t working… and yahoo is giving me trouble.
oy.
Yahoo is not working for me, maybe have to try atdhe.
WOOHOO GABBY IS PLAYING!!!!!!!!!!
the radio says that the 14 year old has a pretty fantastic voice. A little bit riffy, but the three octave span required for the Star Spangled Banner is impressive.
Linda!!!
We missed you!!!
leine, how do you guys NOT have NESN? that’s just peculiar
http://www.channelsurfing.net/
That is a pretty sweet mask!
hey sharkie!!
Because I go to Women’s College, and CLEARLY Women don’t like sports.
rips out hair
wow, that IS freakin cool!! good going hank!!
nice to see gabster!!
Damn. I forgot Milbury works for NESN too. A man so qualified, three networks somehow employ him.
leine, that’s barbaric! start making some noise about it!
LW3H, i think it’s part of the stimulus.
I mean, bizarre. We have TWO different ESPN’s, the TRAVEL CHANNEL, but nobody wants to watch local NE sports?
sigh I’ve spent two years listening to rangers on radio. Looks like one of those days again.
How’d the rangers come out? Flat or active?
Me thinks the 4th line has lots of potential !!!
Great play by Gilroy!
i wish there was a way you could get in on my hockeystreams feed. you should have someone get you the hockeystreams for christmas! i think they charge like $5 a game, but I got their HQ plan for $70 for the season
Apparently, Byron Bitz is out with a “mid-body injury”. Does that mean he’s hurt his Bitz?
lmao..lil bitz
Aww, thanks Linda. At least the game sounds good.
atdhe is still giving me trouble. Any others people know of that night have the game on?
Good start for them. This is the team I was used to seeing at the beginning of the season. They are playing very smart. Good to see finally.
Drury is on the fourth line… and, btw, i haven’t heard about any of those things Wicky! Baseball, Boston, Staal brothers… all news to me.
Lots of funny humor here today…is everyone on a sugar/chocolate high? (except Sally, who’s on mimosas)...LGR.
hey laurel! I gotta watch my language since it offends so many people
Aww, they were talking nice about my boyfriend…OK, off to watch. Later heads.
Hmmmm I think Torts is letting Avery play his game. He’s been very feisty so far.
hey i just wanna thank all of you who had my back a few posts ago. love you guys
spider, i was laughin when you mentioned that you knew how i felt with the feed being behind the blog. i’m wondering if by my resetting the buffering, i’ll be more in tune with you guys
here u go it has no sound though
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/barneysports
Heh I’m on mimosas.
Linda, you know we gotcha back girl.
Go little man!
Linda, byfuglien!
thanks cold—it’s like watching in mime!!
Surely a game with no sound is like being at a Devils home game?
i’ve got the radio going too, which is about a minute and a half ahead of the stream…
A game without sound is bliss! No Joe Jerk.
good one lw!
true
Oh, ok! guess i was misinformed of those things by msg, I think they only said them like once! Thanks fo rstraightening me out!
Laurel
still working on too much kokanee and not enough coffee for me!
Don’t you hate when they say something really fast one time and you never really had a chance to appreciate it! Like this new system the team’s playing, apparently it’s changed since renney left?!
That’s not a throwback jersey, it’s a Throw UP jersey.
Is it me, or do the Rangers defensemen seem to spend a lot of time behind the Bruins net?
sally, i am serious about gettin a refund on higgins.
Olga, they looked a bit freddy krugerish to me! and those mustard colored gloves, i guess grey poupon.
Is it me, or do the Rangers defensemen seem to spend a lot of time behind the Bruins net?
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Drury’s hosting a halloween party back there, he even has a pinata full of half-chewed mouthpieces they’re going to wack with their hockey sticks in the third period.
Linda, I don’t blame you.
Linda-
For me to poop on?
you got it olga!
True, would they be similar to the wax lips and vampire teeth? or would they have that lip bit of sugar liquid in it? aaaaaaah memories
they never mentioned dru’s on the 4th line today. but they mention that AA is moved up a line. kinda funny how they dont mention these little “insignificant” facts
The way I look at the Higgins situation = a. They arent choking on Sanchez’s salary anymore b. one has one year on his contract.
Why did Anisimov get put on the 4th line with Boyle and idc whoever and why is Drury playing on what seems like a 3rd line with Higgins and Kotalik? Oh, i forgot, clutchness doesn’t ride in the backseat.
LMAO @ sanchez
cally looks great today. just needs a goal and i can see him scoring today for sure.
Linda, they’re actually clutch mouthpieces that the Captain has saved for years, each one in its own special case; the cuff of his sweat soaked gloves.
thats awesome True!
Was that his clutch hand? What a disaster!
Up, Drury can no longer clutch/clench his hand… this might mean Paranteau and an upgrade!
drury looked like he was shot there! ouch that had to hurt
lmao @ Sally and True. that was as clutch a block as I’ve ever seen.
Drury’s clutch hand is now a claw hand
Grabby
Agreed…
Gilroy is playing great today too….
Gabby please dont get hurt!
battle level, isnt that a renney phrase?
Linda, I knew there was a reason I cringed when i heard that!
Tommy John surgery for the Captain?
is it just me or is almost every game the rangers have played with the bruins the past 2 seasons been really close…the first one i remember is last season i think the bruins had a 1-0 SO win
claw hand! Like Calibos from clash of the titans???
i think you are correct potvin.
Were you guys listening to the game Gianone called about 4 weeks ago and on an anisimov goal which they showed from behind the net he goes “Bang.” I almost Carp’d my pants because I had just watched the “boom… goes the dynamite” after seeing it posted here.
Drury and Rozival both in the locker room due to injury = best Sunday ever.
I want to see how Drury’s line mates play since he is not on the ice.
Rozsival and Drury both left today?! OMG! Best halloween ever!
lmao Chuck!!! today must be a holiday somewhere in the world. and are we really that evil that we’re kinda giddy that they are hurt???
Drury out, FDR out limping, they’re dropping like flies…
Chuck, we’re thinking alike.
WTF !?!?!? Are you kidding me? HAHAHAHAH 2 min for being Avery!!!!!!!
here’s the weirdest ‘holiday’ i have found so far..
Day of the leaders of the Bulgarian National Revival
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the bulgarians are dancing in the streets! Drury and Rozsival are in the lockerroom, and I have leftover halloween candy!!
Linda,
I won’t let their injuries ruin my Día de los Muertos.
plus, the giants just scored and the awesome heineken commercial is on! Now if i could only get a jets score!!
OMG then if you are going to call Avery, why not call Cally too? stupid refs!
i knew you wouldn’t Chuck!
Great minds True, great minds
aw thats pretty awesome!
This just in:
Drury’s Boston trapezoid Halloween extravaganza has been postponed until further notice.
PS: whoever called it was right, “2 minutes, being Sean Avery.”
omg the eagles just scored again! this is not a good game for the giants.
Nice play Boyle! Someone pay that man $7.0 million
this crowd is soooo quiet! are any of the boneheads there today?
LOL THat was me True.
HAHHAHA the puck hit the cotton candy person LOL
The Avery penalty according to NESN: “That was so obvious. And guess who was involved?”
Hmmm…
Last two years against the Bruins:
3-2 (SO)
0-1
4-3
0-1
0-1 (SO)
3-4 (SO)
1-3
1-0 (SO)
So, fairly close, yeah. And they haven’t got Savard and Kessel in this game, unlike the last two years, so not all that surprising we’re seeing so much offense today.
Joe “Boyle body… big and thick” Uhhhh Huhhh LOL
True, i was just gonna say that! boyle’s been making some good plays lately. now if we only had a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge hard hitting crease clearing defenseman and a number 1 center…
is freakin eli manning freakin blind today? or his he just horrible???? ANOTHER INT!!! threw it RIGHT to the guy. holy crap, bench him!!
i see your $7m and raise you 500k
Gabby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gabby’s back!
GOOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!
damn i feel bad for dru’s mouthpiece. he must go thru one every few minutes.
GABBBBBBBBBBBBBBBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
very good news for the Rangers? OH REALLY JOE??
“very good news for the Rangers” ... i’m still waiting, what was the good news? Oh, maybe Joe knew Gaborik was going to have a shift
Yeah, having Gaby back doesn’t seem to make too much of a difference….who needs him!
AAAAAAAAWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGABBY!!!!!!!!!!
Ha! I thought the same thing! “good news…”
i hope that was it True, but they showed the capn in all his clutchness! I wonder what his bite radius and psi are!!!!!!
Gabby? Awesome!!!
How did Drury get hurt? I go away for one period and suddenly my sister calls and says “Dru’s injured”
Jeez.
wow. gabby scored the first!!! that is great and it just makes the rest of the team look bad. they need this guy soo bad its pathetic
leine, he just had a little tingling in his wrist of clutchness…....the good news, according to Joe, is that he’s back on the bench
the funny thing is, have ANY of us commented on Rozsival other than the first few? did he come back and did i miss it???
And why the EFF WASNT THAT BOARDING!?!??!?!?
OMG! That wasn’t boarding?!
Now Cally is hurt. Face first into the boards…
that just proved that penalty on Avery was BS!
hey is there a stream of this game?
sonofableeeeeeech!!!!!!!!! dont you be messin with the Cally!! yea, how is that not a penalty??????????????????
2 minutes for being Avery. 0 minutes for not being Avery (and for being an All-Star defenseman).
i wonder, with the eye in the back of his head, if cally SAW chara coming and that’s why the refs didnt call that… hm.. the other guy didnt see avery coming…makes sense doesnt it?
Cally was cut too!
WHAT KIND OF CARP WAS THAT?!?!? Of course, they call Avery for the same thing, but when a 7’ 260lb. guy does it to 5’ 11” 185 lb. Ryan Callahan, it’s totally not a penalty. Seriously?! That was complete garbage.
Oh, and the NESN view of Chara-Callahan: Clean hit, Callahan just “wilted on the boards”.
LW, the refs must’ve seen the nudie chara shot going around and were thinking about it when the hit happened.
Why are they saying the same things 5 times in a row? Annoying me.
LW,
It was a clean hit! It wasn’t sean avery!
Derek Morris does the mouthpiece chew too! Jeez. Well, maybe Drury will be clutch and give Cally one from the pinata for his headaches.
I love it when the queen gets run. Anybody else enjoy that as much as me?
if dru, rozie and cally all had to miss the next game, who would be the call-ups? PA? and grachev? sangs or potter or heikkenin?
Chara is not Avery, Ergo, ipso facto, to wit, ad hominum (Bettman legalese) it cannot be boarding.
It’s right there in the rulebook.
local fan,
I thought the devils had the day off?
Thats why sean avery is not an asset. he gets every call against him. i personally also enjoyed caly’s face getting smashed into the boards.
Absolute BS non call on Chara.
Also, don’t you just love Morris taking the “Fatty” approach to commenting on a goal against? “He fanned on the shot and it beat Thomas.” Ha
True,
They do.
Geez, you two brainiacs kill me.
“queen comment” mikesonchief.
joke, search it.
Am i the only one here that got excited when Dreary, and Blowzy both went into the locker rooms ?
I was a wee bit disappointed to see them back, i wont lie.
Go Rangers !
DON’T FEED THE TROLLS!!!!!!!
Theyr’e full of crap already.
Mike Milbury is a genius. Hey Mike, I’ll trade you.
True, please don’t talk to him. Game on, remember?
GAME ON!!!!!!!!
CCCP is not here to remind everyone, so I’ll step in for him!!
I did like mikesonchief’s comment. Henry is more like a queen then a king thats for sure.
I think some people here just enjoy talking to him. Best thing to do is to skip the posts.
Did Richter just say “hardasses” on live TV? Ha.
Listen to Sally
Richter looks like he’s tweeking on meth
Orr, we have a nice exchange about it above. We all enjoyed it, until Joe says “well here’s some good news for the Rangers…”
Haha, I didn’t make the connection to Morris’ comments but yea, these guys always fan on shots against Brodeur! Like 200 times a season! It’s crazy that’s the only ways they can score.
Nasty
Did you also pick up on him saying “we have a great group of guys who ALL get along” Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Henry is more like a queen then a king thats for sure.
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Becuase you only have room for one king in your … heart.
Yeah, I picked up on that too.
what in the blue hell is wrong with Joe? “Chara so big and strong” when he says it, it just sounds dirty!
Heh Higgins is never gonna score! He’s never gonna score!
Linda, did you hear earlier when he was talking about the thickness of someone’s body? (I think it might have been Higgy, can’t remember.) So dirty!
lets get a pool going on that sally, grabby says february 1, i said April 1, and it wouldnt ruin drurys april fools day.
WTF?? You’re a turd, Rozi!
Linda, much agreed. It’s very unfortunate HockeyStreams has the home feed today.
Good to see that the earlier injury hasn’t effected rozival’s lazy play
Sally
It was Boyle when he dropped down to block a shot. BLAH CREEPY!
so much for our joy at drury and rozsival being out for a time in the 2nd. grrrrrrrrr
Sally was it Kotalik? I didn’t hear it today, but i’ve heard it at least 4 other games “he’s such a thick player…huge forearms.”
...thanks for the shower update, Joe. How about you grab a towel and go watch Drury LLWS hilights or something.
he just gushes too much about mens bodies, its unnerving
At least those two penalties were taken in the defensive zone – that’s some improvement.
Linda, you mean for Higgy’s first? He’s never gonna score!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81bfTuBRwwA
You guys see the Higgins “defensive hilights?” haha… now he’s on the payroll as a defensive specialist.
Thanks MAKO, you’re right. Boyle’s got such a thick body.
Wideman definitely held Higgins, obstructed, and grabbed his stick. This Higgins, i’m telling you, he’s such a great PK’r. Man… give him a raise.
lmao Sally, that was hilarious! Higgins new name is Beavis~
Obviously Sather has ordered the Rangers media to prop up Drury and Higgins.
great highlights
Man, Avery has those behind the net, back hand passes down to perfection.
MDZ, another 10-15 pounds of muscle and he’ll be pretty thick too eh ?
Joe was right, doesn’t seem like Drury’s game has been affected at all.
ya know, MDZ is pretty good at avoiding a big hit, that’s probably the 3rd or 4th time i’ve seen him do that
True, NOTHING affects Drury’s game!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mako – I know! That is one of the strongest parts of his game, beautiful to watch.
Is there a stream????
True,
You’re absolutely right, he’s still invisible
Hey Liza!!!
Linda, that would be a great quote!!!
“I’m not going to let a broken arm ruin my (insert nearest holiday”
Chuck, we all know you truly mean INVINCIBLE
Liza
I always knew he was an underrated player…. He’s a very good player away from his ahem “reputation” LOL
Hey Linda! How are you?
Gee, thanks Joe, didn’t know Chara was 6 foot nine….argh!
Hahaha… Linda’s gotta be right.
LOL @ INVINCIBLE! Nothing bothers the Captain.
oh yes Linda, of course
CHARA IS 6’9”????????????????
Drury won the LLWS???????????
Gilroys dad played basketball at ST Johns?????
Kotalik has thick forearms??????
true- at least hes doin something. i mean if he cant score,. do something positive. i know it sucks that we have about 11 of them and 1 goal scorer on the team, though lol
you just had a lil typo Chuck! you’d NEVER say anything derogatory about the capn!
These NESN announcers are so awful. They whine for several minutes about an icing call, and ignore clear penalties that should have been called against the Bruins. I mean I know it’s their team and all, but don’t be so disingenuous about what’s really happening. Plus, they’re idiots.
Linda, thanks for that info! I did not know!
here’s the capn from last night….
http://www.sethskim.com/Captain%20America%20is%20Back2.jpg
And yeah, good to see Captain Chewy McClutchington’s play hasn’t been affected!
st0w! you win the $10 word award of the day!!!
giannone-”great job by drury winning the faceof against bergeron, WHO IS A GREAT FACEOFF MAN”!!
NESN announcers are the worst homers in all of sportscasting. Doesn’t matter which sport, their teams can do no wrong.
Torts that is a HORRIBLE shirt!!!!!!!!!!!!
st0w, sad to say, without Sam (not Weinman) MSG ain’t much better today. And this used to be the best network for game announcers/color….sigh.
NOW i know what CCM stood for!!!
torts must’ve used the same designer of the Habs uniforms from last night for his shirt today!
WTFFFFFFFFFF! AGAIN! AVERY WAS CROSS CHECKED IN THE FACE!!!!!!!!!
hmmmmmm… i miss sam’s “and a lets go Rangers chant goes up in the crowd’ line. these two are just rotting carcassess
yea mako, after cally was tripped eh
ok, on 2nd look, maybe he just lost his balance ;-)
Is cross checking a penalty? I think Chara elbows avery too, intentional or not.
Joe. SHUT UP!
Aw the just made a real pile. So cute.
LETS GO RANGERS!!!
phweeeeeeeeeeeew!
True
Yeah sorry normal speed at that angle I thought it was a cross check. But replay he definitely high sticked him.
The NESN announcers are totally biased…but I feel like the MSG announcers can be biased too, and I love it. So I don’t think we can complain. Even if the ref should have called that thrice-cursed penalty.
it’d be freakin hilarious is Boyle popped chara!
WWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOO YEAH!!! A SHUT OUT FOR THE KING!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay Lundqvist! Wooooooo!
“What a hockey game.”
I think Joe Micheletti is a byfuglien carcassdouche. Geez. I hate him, he is the worst, rot joe. Rot.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! wow they needed a hard game like this to get their freakin heads back together!!!!!!!
PS: YEAH! Way to play hard and break a funk.
Not as much scoring, but a great showing during a matinee. These are the Rangers I want to see!
Great comeback game from them. Always pressure….great hitting, quality chances. Good game. Congratz KING!!!!
Local fan. Hahahaha… Now that’s how you get it done with injuries up and down the lineup. Don’t let Brodeur get outside spoon tonight. Later guys.
me too Leine! Finally! and Hank gets his first SO of the year!!!!
great game, great win
have a good one True!
Alright, I gotta stop Crosbyin around and write this Byfuglien paper.
Later ‘heads!
Yeah, I really miss the days of Sam and JD :( “OHHHHHHHHHHHH BABY!” Not a great win, but hey, 2 pts.
how, on a sunday, does CBS NOT have an early football game on in the souf??? infomercials and bull riding, on a freakin Sunday!? are you kidding me????
Linda, so funny, I was thinking that about his tie.
HAAAAANNNNKK!!! Phew, finally!
Is it just me, but I love the stick salute to the fans at the end…truly.
Good game. Finally some hustle and aggressiveness.
have fun sally!
Rangers win.
Giants stink.
Let’s go Yankees!
See you all late Tuesday!
Good luck Sally. You off the mimosas?
“Kotalik, man, he is so big and thick, just so big and thick.” “And Avery coming around back door!”
Jesus, is MSG going to have to go TV-M for mature audiences only?
Pearl Jam came out during the second encore dressed as the guys from Devo and played Whip It. Hilarious!
Hey Nasty, you never said (gulp, I have to ask) did Bruce show up?
LOLOLOL Nasty!!!!!!! They’re gonna have to bleep him out.
Laurel, I’m just drinking them really slowly. I don’t want the fizzy to go to waste!
Good girl!
thatwas the best 1-0 game ive seen since renny!! lol. no, really, goal-droughts aside, they kicked butt in their end tonight, and hank came out mad as hell and got us a win. higgins was ok but at this point, he cant get a scoring chance. but he was a good d man today. it was the afternnon game, so that could be why no team really scored. if gabby didnt score itd be a 1-0 shootout loss. good checking game though, everyone looked better. rozy, even with the penalties, still sucked. and was a pile of elephant alex semin drippings
Laurel, this will make you feel better. No, no Bruce. They actually didn’t have any guests at all. They played from 8:57-12:38ish. The reason I am getting so accurate with the time is because it officially became their longest show all time, going over the 3.5 hours they played at Penn State a few years back. It truly was a hell of an evening. It was funny, they had a score card girl come out when it was 1-0 Phillies and 3-0 Phillies, and she never came out again after that. I was on the floor, 6 rows from the stage. It was electric in that building.
So that’s the 5th time in the last 9 meetings with the Bruins that the game has ended 1-0 (or 0-0 plus a shootout).
eeeeeeeew
gotta see pics of PJ as Devo, that’s too funny
Grabby, I love Hank’s reaction when the horn sounded. OK heads, time to get some stuff done before the sun sets….Good day!
9-5-1!!! were almost there guys!!!!
Nasty, phew! sounds totally amazing, but my jealous streak has eased up quite a bit. I still have the last Garden show of the tour on Sunday, floor seats! Wheeeeee…..
yea laurel- i was soo happy for him i yelled GO SWEDEN!!!!!!. MY MOTHERS HAPPY I JUST CALLED HER. SHE WAS SOO CRAZY WHEN SWEDEN WON THE GOLD IN 06. SWEDEN IN 10!!!
NICE NASTY!!! oops sry for caps. just glad yanks won and rangers win today!! now i can go to work happy!
Fankist has the best facial expression LOL
anybody have link for postgame torts presser?
Maybe Sather can trade Drury for JD…..
catch yas later, enjoy the rest of your Sunday!
hey Rick
and everyone else!
on a lunch break.
got to see the last 6 minutes of the game.
at least it looks as if we’re doing a better job
of forechecking and puck pursuit than we’ve been
doing over the past 8-10 games.
hopefully
that was the case the entire afternoon.
btw, Rick
thanks for posting that Montreal uniform abomination
i saw it last night and it looked like they were
wearing prison uniforms from the 1930s!!
as far as tuning the clock back. i forgot and work up an hour earlier than planned today. hey, at least i wasn’t late
and i actually got some work done.
CINDY IS SUCH A PUNK!!!!!!!! UGH I HATE HIM
Noting yet Mike from Torts.
“It needed to be a patient grinding game, thought the decision making was good, Cally & Higgins had good games. Kotalik had a good game. Found a way to score a goal, found a way to win”
“thought we lost ourselves with the penalties in the 3rd, important part of winning in the 3rd was the goalie. We are getting better, Hank comes up with a big save. We were ok with the forechecking”
“There is a pretty good chem. with Gabby & Prospal… we are trying to find out way… Gabby scores a big goal for us. We just got banged up. He took a shot off of the foot. Im not sure where the lines are going to sit when we play again”
out way = our way
grabby
loved the rozy comment…LMFAO!!
Any word on dandy in hartford??
mako- thanks. that was from torts right? and at the end was he talkin about drury with teh blocked shot??
wick- i couldnt think of a cleaner way to put it lol. i loved that we won a hard fought tight checking game. sometimes youre just not gonna get the breaks and score 4 or 5 a night. but ya gotta wonder when some of these other players not named gabby and prospal are gonna do anything offensively. i see that for the most part, duby,avery,higgy(defensively),and cally especially had good games. still not getting enough clean scoring chances, so when they do get them they have to bury them. boston was missing 2 or 3 top players for them so i cant really get so excited about a 1-0 win. hank and gabby are this team really. it all hinges on them unless we get some of the rest of our so called “offensive players ” scoring and helping out. it looks like dru and higgins are gonna combine for 5 goals this year. redden will probably outscore them combined.
gaborik makes all the difference in the world. 1 guy.
i like the non traditional 4th line with guys who can actually play and score on occassion.
again voros adds zippo to the team…
A real good effort all around. Fun game to watch.
Fraser’s contract, after looking it up, wasn’t all that nuts. $4m over 3 years in the non-salary cap era. Granted, salaries were lower back then, but still. Reminds me of another signing we made recently…....(Voros)
Mike
NP. Im almost 100% he was talking about Gaborik. I was looking for a replay of the interview all this time so I can be positive.
There you go! First full 60 min effort in some time. Fun to watch is right.. If they play like that every game, they’ll win most of ‘em. Easy it wasn’t, pucks didn’t go in, Thomas was good. We’d drop most of those games last year. All the team needed was one shot. And the person to deliver it. Got them both.
Higgins played well, should get some confidence from this one. Avery is back. Is it me, or is everyone else’s heart stops when he tries to clear our zone to the left from Hank?
Did I mention Kotalik had thick forearms? Joe, please learn some new lines…
Watching the Caps game. WOW that goal they just scored beautiful passing. 5 tape to tape passes. tic – tac – toe in the net. Beautiful.
They just showed Boudreau and Hitchcock side to side. Avery may have a point….
the refs were pathetic. that was a clear penalty on Chara hitting Cally from behind. it was a complete joke that Avery was given a boarding penalty just before that and it was a reputation penalty, but Chara gets away with a major penalty, as Cally was cut on a clear hit from behind. it was a major for boarding if the refs aren’t biased toward big name players, as we all know they are.
Rangers had to overcome the refs today too
ilb
OMG I KNOW!!! I saw a xerox commercial with Boudreau in it during the first pd. That guys stomach sticks out like 2 feet in front of him jeeeeze!!!!
Definition of loser….I went up the street to grab a bite, and this guy is lamenting about how “all our teams lost today.” Not only had baseball not started yet, but I had to pipe in, no they didn’t. He says, who are you talking about?
And yes, he’s from NY.
Sigh. Some folks just don’t know how to spend a fall afternoon, or what sport to follow.
btw all, careful about “mikesonchief” (mikeschoenf). That’s all I’ll say for now….figure it out.
refs, and post game, Joe the genius went on and on about what a great game they called. I almost choked on the remote.
refs
Nothing was worse than the Chicago game where Renney blew a gasket. That was the WORST officiated game outside of whenever the Rangers play Cindy & Co I have ever seen. I remember reading blogs around the league and even the Blackhawks fans saying how bad the calls were.
Nash just scored a beauty of a goal.
Game tied 1 – 1
Laurel
You are on the money girl. I know what you mean about the person you are talking about. Ironic how when one shows up, the other one does to eh? ;)
right, Laurel. Joe M is too busy admiring the “thick body” of Boyle. it is Joe’s thick head that is the problem.
MAKO, good for you. and still keep game on. I just had to say….
refs, did you know that Chara was 6’9?
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