I’m a little down today. My friend Kevin Devaney Jr. left The Journal News for another job. He was a huge loss for us, and we’ve lost a lot of people. Kevin covered high schools and did it unbelievably well, especially in the LoHud site with his blog.
Personally, though, he meant a lot to me. When I was asked to give up the Rangers beat in 2002, to become a columnist with a strong emphasis on local sports, I was completely lost. And Kevin pretty much carried me from that day until yesterday, his last at the paper.
So I’m bummed, and if anybody’s paying attention, you know how many times I’ve mentioned people leaving.
OK, enough of that. On to Rangers-Habs.
Looks like same lineup, with Brashear and Kotalik prucha’d (Brashear said he’s been healthy, even though Torts earlier said he had a hammy or something, so we’re downgrading him to prucha status). And if you want to see some of the ridiculous things he had to say today, read Andrew Gross or Steve Zipay in their blogs.
I’m recording the game because I’m going to miss the first part, so I’ll see youse all later. Don’t forget it’s a WPIX game.
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YES!
hahahaha crazy. not even notified on twitter yet.
Sorry to hear about your friend moving on to another job. Seems like you guys have been hit pretty hard this past year. Hopefully we can make you chuckle to maybe lighten your mood a bit
tr, your jedi powers are astounding
guess the coach doesn’t need muscle, he has golden gloves and diaper man.
Carp and other boneheads,
I’m sure this has been asked prior to me discovering this great site (and great fans) but has anyone given thought to a live group chat that could be logged?
I love how everyone here posts during the games – and instead of hitting refresh, it would be really cool if we had real-time chat room functionality during games.
oh man, HNIC pregame o_O
like the old msn hockey chat…...sigh
Hi all!
hi beth!
hey, has anyone seen leine lately??
Yay, we’re on PIX 11, after the game i can watch the Gilmore Girls, weeee !
Hey Linda. How was Legion?
Great, the pu**ification has spread to Cally.
“We responded well”
Sure you did, you all got bullied, and you got shut out.
this game needs to start STAT!
Go Rangerssssssssssssss!!!
i enjoyed it, and the man didnt think it sucked. the old lady and little kid were the freakiest thing about it.
greg, i tried to email you earlier and it came back as undeliverable
at least u guys get msg feed. i got the hnic feed. and as much as the rangers dominated the habs last time, they are unbelievably bad in montreal. hopin for a good game from higgins here. he needs to not shoot wide all the time!! hes never gonna have kids thats for sure
not for someone who likes a detailed storyline ;-)
grabby, another ‘fun’ night in store on HNIC eh?
LETS GO RANGERS…hopefully they come out fired up tonight…lets get the puck deep fellas, win some pucks, go to the net show some f—heart, draw some penalties and PUT THE PUCK IN THE NET
LETS GO RANGERS
over/under on how many penalties MTL gets away with? They are at home on HNIC after all.
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tr- are u sure u want the game to start now??? dont u worry the misery will start soon enough!!
Lets go Rangers!!!!
get the puck deep drury!! dump that firebyfuglientruckin puck down the muckin ice you hero of hockey in harlem!!
I’m a bit nervous about this one..
lmao @ dubi stickin his tongue out!
lmao @ grabby. sounds like you’re engineering the paintrain tonight
linda- u watchin piss streams feed tonight?
yes its actually working great
i am just gettin ready . they never do well in montreal. im not getting excited yet until i see they are gonna really bring it tonight. ive ben getting more tired watching the rangers up until their last two wins, so if they start out like they usually do i might not even finish the first period.
Let’s go Rangers!
linda- can I get a FIRE SATHER?
I’d jump through her hoop earrings
going to be interesting to see if they are wearing the red white and blue jerseys tonight, or the pink ones ;-)
aaaaaaaaaaaah olga my friend!!
FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRE
SATHER!
Sinse when does WPIX ever broadcast a game? Maybe they’ll have seinfeld on instead?
No, they don’t play Seinfeld. They play tramadies, and tramas.
the blog is down a few members tonight, so we gotta step it up!!
It took me about 30 seconds to figure out HNIC stood for Hockey Night In Canada (instead of what I originally thought!)
Lets hope the boys show up early and often tonight!
-Matt
i hope its not in french tonight linda. lol ohh man i hate that
I CAN’T UNDERSTAND ALL THIS FRONCH!!! Wicky!!!!!!!!! Help us!!
Let’s Go Rangers!
matt-? what did u think it stood for?lol
Matt L , Really? shame shame…
Did anyone just see that vagina in the Rangers jersey ? I think the number was…5 ?
FAAAAAAAAAANKIST!! heheheheh
Linda -you getting a per post commission?
Guys singing O Canada with a sucker in his mouth?
Just yolking …Like I said , Ive read cereal boxes as a kid..I know this shtuff.
Rangerrrrrrssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!
carcillo scored today, i wonder if he got an iota of talent from gabby ;-)
It’s GO TIME!!!!!
This 7:00 o’clock game is fifteen minutes late.
Avery is wearing the “A”!
Right between the R and the N.
boyle.. voros, avery.
me likey.
Little argy-bargy!
Aves is in to the game.
damnit, another post disappeared.
dde, i wish i was, i wouldnt have to worry about being unemployed
Linda – Did carcillo pick it up by osmosis?
And guys and gals, it is me, Nasty 1 :)
Henrik’s Net Is Crashed
Higgins! Nearly In Corner
Halak Narcoleptic In Crease
Gaborik is cool how he tucks in one side of his jersey like Jagr used to
i hope that was the END of it Rob!
we had no idea Nasty ;-)
OMG Olga you shocked me!
LOL, we need this win tonight, because you know the game against CINDY CROSBY and the Pens will be a tough one.
Shor, what will be the over/under Monday night?
Hugging. “Nicked”. Insane Contract.
oh EC
WOW, how did EC miss that shot????
OMG EC?!! i even started to celebrate there!!!!
Hello Rangers fans! Good game to you all! :P
Linda…was Christs nick name FIM ? Why?
foot in mouth
HEY CCCP!! good eeeeeeeeevening
Linda, 20. I’ll take the over.
Evening all!
Let’s Go Rangers!!
lmao Shor!!! thats gonna be a disaster, the pens AND versus. oy vey
You guys were making up nicknames for Girardi the other night.
Dont know if this was mentioned, but if you’ve heard of Dick Vitale’s Diaper Dandies.
He could be Diaper Dandy Girardi or Diaper Dan Girardi.
EC – foot in mouth?
Gomer Pile of crap better not score on us.
Hope Nobody Insults Carp
If u like photoshoped pic.. you guys should check out the hfboards..http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=728180
Drury in diapers…need I say more! :-)
ok aves, no more talking to the refs tonight, that is never a good thing
where was girardi on that?
gooooood eeeeeeeveeeeeniiiiing!!
Gotta score goals..definitely gotta score goals!
girardi wound up being danny bibs and diaper dan, in addition to his usual danny g or g
Baloney!!!
Voros hit on the icing?
That was a “Canada Call”
yes dde, he made some funny quotes before the atlanta game, so wecalled him FIM (foot in mouth) and a couple of nights later he said some other crazy stuff so we called him QOM (quote o matic)
wow Rosival
Gomer.
Wowsa.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
i really hate when they are on HNIC
well… they scored first the other night too
I wish Voros had a brain and some skill cause he does have some heart
\
fn jesus gomez
Of course.
Roszival was pretty much USELESS!
damn i am way behind you guys!
Rozsival never does a reach around.
or so I’ve heard.
They just cheated us again!!!!!!!!!!!!
They called that a penalty on Voros.
That is not called on any other NHL team or minor league team.
Please agree with me on this one.
They just cheated us out of a PP and cost us a goal.
Scotty Gnomez puts burrito in a basket
good point beth!
lmao @ GNOMEZ
How many times should we end up with a PP because of after the whistle pushing and shoving, and they always call matching minors, but when we start something and deserve the only penalty, we sure as **** get the only penalty.
Jesus Gómez going hard to the net, just like he always did as a Ranger. He’s almost unstoppable there…
“Getting around Rozsival…” I think Sam meant, “Getting around a traffic cone.”
That’s a penalty.
It’s a charging!!!!
After the whistle, like the penalty on Voros.
COME ON!!!!!
rozsival forgot his orange DOT flak jacket eh?
Finally an entertaining beer commercial.
CR9 – it’s pretty much automatic now for a hit on an icing play to be called on anyone. You can’t blame Peter Gammons for that one.
Evening folks.
Gomez scores? YUCK.
C’mon guys, put the puck INTO the net, not over it or on the side of it.
Drury loses faceoff Rozi gets confused…story of the Rangers
HOLY CARP THE GAME IS ON NHL NETWORK!! woo hooo
LW… your fbprofil pic….? Is that for real ? Youre not at fotballhooligan are u? :-)
it was a good analysis but instead of saying Drury screwed up they say there was “confusion”
grabby where are ya bro???
Gabby hit the glass, not the crossbar.
Gabby just cannot hit the net anymore!
did sam just called Dubinsky a Jewbinsky? :)
Gabby can’t hit the f’n net lately
Is it going to be one of those nights that we get a ton of shots and just don’t score?
damn the osmosis worked the other way too then
No PIX again. Wonderful!
Linda, having trouble with my email on my phone :/
and they’re already down 1 – 0? Jeeeze
Can Gainey bail us out of the Roszival contract too?
damnit Mako,next time you go, bring a carrier pigeon!!
Krisy – I’m actually the only person in England who isn’t a football hooligan. It’s real and I got that way at a football match, but while playing – got kicked in the head by a team-mate.
Mako,any chance you get NHL network in PA
LW…ok…so city or united ?
its blow time!!!
LW3H
how did you end up being one of the Rangers sufferers? :)
Someone tell Staal body-checks are legal.
gabbys only got 1 goal in his past 9 or 10 games. weve been shutout 3 times in our last 3 losses. weve had secondary scoring for 2 games in almost the whole first half of teh season. were just not good enough to win more than 1-2 games at a time. lucky if we do
grabby, the game is on NHL NETWORK!
damn gabby. again a big miss
Maybe Gabby beats the shat out of Gomez then
I think Gabby is way too easy to shut down.
This smells like a shutout.
Or at least an extremely boring loss.
Why can’t we ever get those late goals that WE usually give up?
“you got a daaaaw, you got a gym”
Bleh, that was kind of a dull period, Joe. It wasn’t exciting at all.
Not a bad period, gotta get more bodies to the net and wake up in our own end.
“Go stand somewhere else!”
Haha shoryken glen sather Point on!!
he’s still getting shots – he’s just slumpin
LMAO Linda – I’ll send smoke signals!
No NHL network. Adams Cable sucks.
Krisy – neither, I’m a Liverpool fan (CR9 can add me to his blacklist now).
CCCP – don’t actually know how it started. Certainly wasn’t the never-ending success of the mid/late 90s.
jbytes- he isnt a great forechecker.he isnt that strong on teh puck, he is purely 1 dimensional sniper. and he sure as shat aint been snipin’ lately
“Shoryuken on Glen Sather
January 23rd, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Someone tell Staal body-checks are legal.”
I’m pretty sure the referees told him and the rest of our team that they are not legal.
I think Kevin Weekes is doing the game on NHL Network. If it is him, he is such a professional. The first real professional NHL analyst I’ve heard in a while. ANd he’s unbiased towards the Rangers…
I know. Who knew!
well Mako, you are out in the sticks… too far from the water!!!
i dont get nhl channel linda. i have cable.
CR9, you can’t hit on icing. Case closed. It was a penalty, a bad one to take.
oh my gawd what the hell is this guy wearing! a stop sign tie lmao
CR9, i agree,weekes is very good
I agree with Weeks too. The guy was born to be a broadcaster.
can we trade micheletti for him Nasty?
Man I wish I could listen to Weekes instead of weird-ass Micheletti.
“LW3H
January 23rd, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Krisy – neither, I’m a Liverpool fan (CR9 can add me to his blacklist now).”
?????
Why would I add you to my “blacklist”? And why would that matter?
I have no problem with any of you people. I have no problem with any team without Boston in its name. (I also do not like the Scottish team Celtic, and I root for Rangers in that league!) And if anyone could not tell, I truly despise referees, as they are friendless losers who become referees to taste power and control, and to exert their control over guys that rightfully make loads of money. It must make them feel high and mighty to control these rich athletes.
By the way, Liverpool has to fire Rafa, and Man U might lose Rooney in the summer!
How about we bring Weeks on board for MSG, Orr can be his partner, and I will take Maloney’s spot.
Maloney with the obvious there- score goals. Gee, ya think, Dave?
I also enjoy Kevin Weekes analysis on NHL Network… he’s definitely natural born broadcaster!
“Shoryuken on Glen Sather
January 23rd, 2010 at 7:54 pm
CR9, you can’t hit on icing. Case closed. It was a penalty, a bad one to take.”
Did not know that. I’ll take your word for it, but I’ll truly believe it when I see another team called for doing it against us (which will be never).
Great stuff on the facebooks page- thanks for having me
Of course, Dolan is too stupid to hire an actual professional like Weekes. He’d rather go with Joe M.
wow, don cherry ripped the Rangers for standing around , who hasnt?
glad ya liked it dde
we need some heartbeat videos on there ;-)
wtf?? “u dont fight europeans”???? this guy is a freakin jackass. theres plenty of euro’s who can and do fight.
Did JG actually ask if they’re hoping to do anything better? I would have loved to hear MDZ say, Uh, no, really, we like losing as we are….are you sofa king kidding me?
anyway, just a thought…just got back….catching up and praying for a better 2nd and 3rd…..
CR9 – only messing. And I can’t see Rooney going anywhere unless the Glazers have screwed up the finances even more than anybody realises.
Not for nothing, but Cherry is one of, if not the biggest, douchecicles in the entire universe. The Rangers didn’t stand around that much. We had NO problem getting through the neutral zone. He is one of the only people who actually has worse ties than Torts.
why couldnt he say, u dont fight the top players or you dont fight your talented non fighters? hes gotta say europeans. somebody please kick him in his old azz
nasty, he was talking about the Gaborik Carcillo event.
Sounds like I’m missing a lot of HNIC on NHL Network.:(
Somehow I have the game on MSG even though I thought it was on PIX.
that was my bad for not qualifying that in the original post. sorry
im nominating Rob E for comment of the week
“Rozsival never does a reach around.
or so I’ve heard.”
MAKO, you’re killin me, we gotta activate!
Oh, well, Cherry is still a douce nozzle. I have always hated that guy. He and Fischler should do a show together called, “Washed Up, Our take on the NHL”.
if he qualifies as a national treasure….....oy
“Hal Gill – Marian Gaborik is one of the most explosive skaters in the league. How do you, possibly the slowest player in the history of the league try to handle him?”
I’m still amused by Mark Lee (the HNIC announcer tonight) saying to Weekes during the Rangers-Flames game earlier this year that Valiquette was the “perfect backup” for Lundqvist. Weekes must have forgiven him for that already.
On the bronze statue of Beliveau, why is the ear white?
“douche nozzle”
Cherry and Fischler? Can we rename it ” THe Kick the Bucket Already List”
“Not for nothing, but Cherry is one of, if not the biggest, douchecicles”
I agree. The reason why he is, is because he’s a Bruin through and through.
And that was the nicest thing Cherry has ever said about us filthy Euros…
still cant score!!!
sigh…
is Vinny more orange that usual tonight??
YEAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
Took away our PP immediately.
Referees doing their jobs again!!!
Weak call!
Oh for the love of Christ
Come on Gabby…
is it possible gabby has dain bramage from the other night?
>>On the bronze statue of Beliveau, why is the ear white?
Because he’s a white man?
that was totally ridiculous
sigh….
ARGH!
ARGH!!
Mike, you bringin funny back man. lolza. how is everybody after that high glove side goal?
I’m slowly starting to hate this team…
Hank should never start in MTL again.
We should have signed Cammileri, so he wouldn’t score so many goals on us.
HIT HIM MDZ! This team is so soft!
Two PPs taken away by the referees.
Two 4 on 4s as a result of referee screwjobs.
2 goals as a result of referee screwjobs.
!!!!!
im now a coyotes fan
i wonder how Kotalik is doing?
LMAO – MAKO, you’re killin me, we gotta activate!
i dont even know what to say… it took a week to trickle across the line
Go Blackhawks!
Helpfully, Nobody Intercepts Cammalleri
So, 2-0 down. We have them right where we want them, no?
They are never going to score again. They used them all up in those two games.
how was that not icing!?
damn that guy dde! he’s not allowed to go to the sticks anymore until he gets his parents a computer up there
he’s bad luck
are you effin kiddin me with this crap
thank you and good night…
GAME OVER
TAKE A FIRETRUCKIN TIMEOUT FONZY!
Krispy
Why would you hate this team OUr team is not that great, but there is plenty worse in the NHL.
Hate the referees, as they are the ruination of every league.
They screwed us on that icing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
Thanks, Girardi!
Looked like a high stick
Wow. Girardi sucks ass.
betch del zotto is benched the rest of the game
This is hilarious.
Trade this guy now.
Are you kidding me!?
oh yay. Shoot me now, please.
Hi stick, but it hit another player before going in.
I dont care if he did not touch it. The referees are never getting that right in our favor.
CR9, come on man you’re just whining now. Gabby grabbed him and Girardi missed the puck.
Three weak stick-check plays in one from Girardi there. So much for the backlash from the last game…
get hank out of net,. hes gettin truked up. girardi n dz worst d combo ever??
3-0 Might as well go read a book.
This effort tells all- pussies, no doubt, 100% pure
I think I’m done with this game for tonight… it’ll be on but I can’t seem to dedicate myself to it.
Who were the people that thought Girardi would have a strong game ???
CR, you really hate those refs huh?
KURWA MACZ!
WWWTTTTTTTTFFF
LOL
Bring up the Wolfpack. Pull Lundqvist, please!
theyre funking smurfs!!! hit somebody!!!!
Pathetic. We always make them look so good.
Pull Hank now, and have the team molested by Andy Dick.
Hank needs to be benched. Not because hes playing poorly, but because the team in front of him needs a wakeup call
seriously?
train wreck
Shoryuken
Keep believing we’d get the same calls, then wake up from your dream.
Oh well, game over, the referees outcompeted the Rangers tonight.
I’ll bet Zaba isn’t nervous. LOL
yea beth, its as we expected.
who said they’d come out fired up. they look as weak as ever. No protection not hitting, stupid sissified stick checks
zaba time
18 hrs til kickoff
Too late for a time out. Throw in the towel.
WAIT! Zaba to the rescue!!!
Zaba zabadoo!
I wish they’d stop showing replays of that one goal Cammalleri scored over Lundqvist’s glove hand. What do you mean they’re not replays?
goaltending change?
can we have a GM change as well?
LOL@ KURWA MACZ!
Cammaleri OWNS Hank. This one is over and done with.
this is the worst team since sather coached it. get torts outta here too. get sather,torts,out of here!!! bring renny back!!!
God bless poor Matt Zaba, another sacrificial lamb for the weak ass team in front of him.
the first 5 mins of the game were fine…
The Canadiens played last night, right?
>everyone should now be aware that we signed Higgins and Kotalik instead of Camileri for the same $
Hank should never start in Montreal again, he never plays well there for some reason.
Dey wouldn’t scowre 4 gowls if i was in the lineup
At least this s*%$ clears up my Saturday night. What a joke
#1- Sit lundqvist once in a while. You’ll burn the only good player you have out
#2- Find another job or team for that Giradi guy. He is not a good hockey player
#3- Spend your money better…(maybe we should too)
GO HABS!!!!
dang. was just bout to shut the game off but am now curious to see Zaba
Hank must of had a late night, he looked tired. He needs a rest. Zaba will hold the fort.
OMG…this is crazy! cant belive it 4-0…maybe I should just go to bed!
Well, here is my opinion. Might not mean much, and don’t call me a bad fan here, but this is what I think is going to happen. Well, this game is already a loss, and I am pretty sure we will lose against Pittsburgh on Monday night. With confidence down, and Brash and Kotalik back in the lineup on Wednesday against the Canes, we will probably lose that game too. Come Thursday or Friday, a trade will be made.
van massenhoven has done this before.
hes doin it again
he does it to everyone
Not LQ’s fault. Those guys are WIDE open in front because our defense sucks.
CR9, you’d fit right in in Philly with the whole persecution complex thing. The refs have been fine tonight. We are the ones who blow.
Brutal.
I think this is appropriate: http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2010-01-17_6113807087448467/movies/animal_house/advice.wav
Geezus, could they play any worse?
This is defenetly not the refs fault, Rangers have a bruised ego.
i think those 14 goals in two games were last goals of the season for this team…
Lets see if all the Rangers who talk tough can act tough.
Show some god damn pride for the love of god.
absolutely tr, especially when its HNIC. i cant stand him
What is with the insults of the team.
Weak or not, we have yet to see an actual Power Play, due to the bias of the referees!!!
This team probably has a condition known as learned helplessness. They know that no matter what they do, they will be screwed, so… why even bother trying? If that’s their thinking, I’m okay with it, but I wish we’d stand up to the referees and make them pay for their corruption.
At the very least, bash them in the press conferences.
This team reinforces my Jet Theory.
Joe sounds like an idiot, it’s not Hank having a problem playing in Montreal it’s the team in front of him. How does Hank continue showing up for games? He must be so furious! What awful, awful defense! It was nice to see Boyle take the body and demolish that Canadien next to the net! Too bad Boyle wasn’t next to Cammaleri…
can you HIT someone??
Hank just isn’t allowed to have an off night with this team in front of him. So soft, can’t score, they don’t do anything right. If they could score then if LQ has a bad night it wouldn’t be a blood bath like this.
Last time I was up here I was told to stay & get fresh direct because they won & won well lol
Oh please, Sam, I don’t want to hear about “strong shift”. Let me know when we score a darn goal.
Ok, that was supposed to be Belushi telling Flounder to start drinking heavily – but for some reason it links to amazon (weird)
Back to the game – this team has very fragile confidence (or none at all). Carp posted a couple of days back on this subject and he’s spot on. They play like a totally different team when they have some swagger. It almost looks like they don’t care.
CR9
stretching your psychology 101 muscle? lol
Yeah, the teams in front of Hank always sucked, but so did he. Just face facts, cause it’s already proven..Hank sucks in Montreal.
Yay…
I think we are going to give up 14 goals this game!
Jesus HC!
I hate these frenchie queers. UGH
Who knows, maybe Philly does get persecuted by refs.
But I do know they definitely do not get persecuted when their opposition is a NY team.
The team tonight quit right after the first cheap penalty on Voros. Can’t say I blame them.
Will Brooks be at the post game conference?
Embarrassing! Disgraceful!
Keep standing around, D. Keep effin standing around.
I agree we need to start sitting Hank, why run this guy into the ground for such a lousy team? Anyone think we’re gonna follow this up with 5 straight goals and tie it up and eventually winning? these teams certainly have a recent history of that
wow… we are taking it like the whore who just got paid!
I’m out guys. peace
we will be shutout tonight. i already turned it off. cant root for this team anymore. btw, for all the rennyhaters, i was just joking!! dont rip my head off. torts is just as bad though. he cant get this team, (which is more skilled than last years) ready for the games. he just cant. we had plenty of chances to score in the first, and to come out lookin like crap after a pretty good first is just him saying good job boys, we forechecked and got chances. not good enough torts!!! they need a coaching change. hes too much of a beefbrain to teach these guys anything. hes toostupid fighting with larry brooks. anybody remember the movie labyrinth? hes the little talking worm. no he looks like smeagol/gollum from the rings movie. he is better at fighting with his wife larry than teaching or coaching the team
Is it even remotely possible for do a reverse Rangers/Habs from last year and come back from 5 down?
Nope, didn’t think so either.
These commercials are brutal….the Rangers don’t score here!
Will Brooks be at the post game conference?
....
No, but Torts will!
[b]>everyone should now be aware that we signed Higgins and Kotalik instead of Camileri for the same $[/b]
“CCCP
January 23rd, 2010 at 8:28 pm
CR9
stretching your psychology 101 muscle? lol”
No, that was not the point. I was actually told that by a fellow die hard NY fan.
It seems to fit, though.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
(eats double stuffed Oreo)
ok I gave up.. just gonna follow alerts from the phone.. time to watch the Barrett Jackson auction. Everyone try to have a good night… sigh…
Everyone who likes Riverdance, don’t raise your hands.
the absolute disgrace some of the guys are to the sweater just burn. has girardi been on the ice for all the goals? I know mdz was on for at least 2
CR9, do you honestly believe we are where we are because of refs? I’m just curious, because that is beyond ridiculous.
Ok, since this game is OVER… how the hell do they fix the team? Even if they fire Sather (which they won’t) you still have the same players. They obviously aren’t getting the coaching staff’s message.
Fire Sather – and replace him with whom? (Don’t say Messier… )
Fire Torts – and who becomes coach?
This team is a rudderless ship. You can see the lack of leadership in their uninspired play.
Redden stationary and looking at the boards was cute on the 2nd Camileri goal
FIRE SATHER! This has gone on for 10 years.
It’s so obvious Slats will fire Torts and replace him with Gretzky.
So predictable.
HIT HIM YOU IDIOTS.
whats the score now 6-0?
Shoryuken
I do not honestly believe that.
Our team is poorly constructed. We have no defenseman that intimidate others or help Lundqvist in any way.
Our scoring is inconsistent and we lack finishers.
But that does not mean I cannot get angry when referees cheat us anyways.
ORR…please be so kind as to tell me which of those goals you believe he should’ve stopped? Cam’s were perfect shots right at Hank’s only weakspot, which would’ve been goals no matter where he was playing. The baseball goal was just bad defense, why that guy was even standing is beyond me, dont know where the puck is? Just knock the other team off their feet! Let Hank worry about the puck. I didn’t see Gomez’s goal so I can’t comment on that one. Hank should b@tch slap 95% of his teammates after the second period
HNIC
Halak Not In Crease.
Game is over. Only thing left is by how much do we get creamed. This will be the most embarassing game of the year score wise. I hate playing games in Canadia. errr I mean I hate watching games beng played in Canadia. Which is odd because i love going to Canadia. Sigh.. already had to much to drink with this game.
The boys better get their feet moving or they might lose this one.
It’s not worth making a significant emotional investment in most sports teams (they don’t care why should you). Just pick up some team along the way (like hey, the Jets are from NY/in the playoffs) you get some excitement if they win great and if they lose ,oh well
They can’t get out of their own way tonight.
tumbleweeds would be more effective on the ice
im going to prove how bad don van mass is for the rest of the game.
this was ruled a goal
http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?hlp=8468635&event=BUF300
more to come later
JOHN
Im talking aboot the majority of the games they’re in Montreal, not this one in particular.
Why cant one of these guys sucker punch Lapierre ?
Prucha was the only guy with enough balls to fight him, everyone else just ignores him.
Now would be a good time to score.
Humiliation Now Is Constant
I will say this…...
It just so happens that we get our best 2 scoring outputs and performances of the season with 8 and 6 goals….
followed by getting cheated by referees in the next 2 straight games….
Coincidence?
I think not…. I think they purposely did this to thwart any momentum we may have had.
waive redden drury rozy cut em whatever girardi higgins and kotalik too,all a fuggin joke sather needs to step down what hes put on teh ice for us fans is an embarassment absolute embarassment
“Higgins shoots wide, that’s been the story of the season for him”
“aint that the truth”
Haha, amen.
This team’s inconsistency night after night really drives me crazy. It’s game 52 and we have no identity, no set lines/defensive pairs, no toughness or grit.
If we are getting shutout by Mike Brodeur, Ray Emery, or Jaroslav Halak at a critical point in the season you should think about a new system.
I just came from my son’s game where they were up by 2 with under 2 minutes left and the other team scored twice in 20 seconds to get the tie. I thought that was bad enough and had heard the Rangers were down 1-0 after 1st. What the heck happened tonight? Ugh this is a frustrating team to watch!
Higgins just miss one that should rattle them.
The only thing that could make this worse is finding out Milbury is on during the 2nd intermission segment on HNIC.
Hero Not In “Cite”
ORR, I think it’s ridiculous to make that statement about Lundqvist in this game as if it applies. This game is entire the team in front of Hank, and so it is not warranted to make a comment that explicitly implies the only player on this team outside of a handful who seems to care and shows real emotion
cr9 if u think its the refs go gte your fuggin eyes and head seriously examined you are A CLOWN
giving up on this one…Going to bed. i would wish u all a good night but I dont see that happening after watching this game. Damn, really was hoping they would win this one.
Higgins Now Is Crap
What happened between last saturday and this saturday besides philly. the bus carrying the real rangers got itself un-lost and booted those imposters out of the garden? I feel like win or lose the coaching staff buys everyone on the team a coke and a hotdog from the concession stand. Who really is taking ownership of their play? I see guys doing things that will help the team. I see them individually advancing the puck or making a play.. There is no support tonight. there is no second man in tonight. With the sucess they have had going to the net it seems 2 are standing in the crease while one gets punked into the boards. bah. gonna watch Prucha.
is responsible for this game. lol, forgot to finish that, still hurtin from last night I guess
haha higgins shoots wide and sam goes”story of the season for higgins” joe says”aint that th truth sam”. this guy is such a bum!! even still, i cant believe people were sayin to resign him for cheap now!! that is funny.
Thirteen years ago, Mark Messier accused Don Van Massenhoven of having a “vendetta” against the Rangers.
great post Straka
This is my first time posting here, but I have followed this blog since last summer. Its absolutely amazing how fundamentally pathetic this team is around the net. ALL 5 GOALS tonight have been scored because our soft players can’t use their sticks. No one gets tied up. 4/5 goals were scored right in front of the net solely because no one had a stick on a montreal stick. the other goal that pass somehow got through to camo because no one puts their stick in the right place. The simple things that this team can’t do is mindblowing…lets see what happens if we come out like this on Monday vs the Pens, it’ll be even uglier, which sucks because i go to school in pittsburgh…sigh
FIRE SATHER
CR9- Look! On the grassy knoll! A second shooter!
Consider things officially “worse”. Although I am keen to hear how Milbury tries to defend that Patrice Cormier elbow and blame it the pansification of hockey by “crunchy granola types”.
Shoryuken-
NOW YOU’RE TALKING!
i wish he would just spontaneously combust. he is keith jones father
I’ve become so disillusioned with this team, and so desensitized to them that the only real reason I’m upset seeing us get creamed is because I hate to think Lundqvist is suffering because of how awful this team is. Can’t we loan him to a good team for the season so he can enjoy himself and not waste a year of his career? I know I sound like an idiot but I don’t care
JOE
That being said, you cant just call it a coincidence that he only gives up a sh*t load of goals against this team.
He needs to make some of those saves. That’s all there is to it.
Especially if he’s the superstar everyone makes him out to be.
Not that im putting the blame completely on him. Like you said it’s the guys in front of him.
I think this is John Tortorella’s last game as coach of this team.
Coach Jacques Lemaire said the referees last night weren’t going to call any penalties on it because Don VanMassenhoven didn’t see it. So Lemaire told VanMassenhoven, “You better tell your partner to call something because [McCormick’s] going to get suspended.” In other words, Lemaire was telling referee Ian Walsh there better be a penalty or it would be embarrassing for the men in stripes. Lemaire, by the way, used me as the dummy to demonstrate what McCormick did. Luckily, Lemaire avoided my face with his stick by I’d say a good, I don’t know, HALF INCH!
john doe, i know its the d’s fault mostly,but you cannot say henrik plays good here at all. he never plays well here. no matter what. he is not at fault for most of teh goals, but it isnt just coincidence he gives up 4-5 or even more every single time he plays here. and the refs did screw us over on 2 pps and that did have an effect somewhat over the game. you cannot say when the refs screw you out of a pp or a mised call on the icing that it is the fault for getting scored on, but indirectly, they have definitely helped the habs with the game. not saying we wouldve won or had a better chance but the refs are bias and u saw it on some bad calls
this is how bad this team is..
my daughter just texted me to say how excited she is to see Torts post game presser!!!!!!!!!
lmao @ crunchy granola types
The Sens could easily be on a two-game winning streak, had it not been for one of the worst calls I have seen yet this season by Don Van Massenhoven, and Antoine Vermette having hands of stone.
Haha, the new chicks name is Lolita. Who names their daughter Lolita ?? Sick.
If you’re watching tonight’s Flyers game in New York and saw Markus Naslund’s goal 52 seconds into the game, you have to be wondering what referee Don van Massenhoven was thinking.
His goal call on a puck that was clearly frozen by Marty Biron was the worst call I’ve seen all season. And the fact it stood after a lengthy review is a travesty. Guess the NHL wants New York in the playoffs in the worst way.
Can they cancel the 3rd period?
I really think after that Higgins just miss, the Habs might be a bit afraid of what might happen in the third.
Van Massenhoven officiated the game in Toronto – his 1000th game. The Pens ought to retire his jersey for all the help he has given them through the years.
The New York Rangers just fired Glen Sather and hired Mike Milbury as their new GM!
FIRE SATHER!!!! FIRE SATHER!!!!
Grab Girardi clearly missed the puck, it wasn’t icing.
I did not say our team’s failures is due to referees.
I just think it’s too coincidental for us to get cheated in our last 2 games, after having our best performances of the season.
Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
CR9- Look! On the grassy knoll! A second shooter!
Olga! Lol you took the words right out of my mouth! Somebody has a case of delusional paranoia lol
This Patron stuff that i found in my house is a lot better than watching the Rangers get destroyed.
Here’s hoping to seeing Girardi got hit in open ice by Hal Gill, and getting laid out, then watching Dubinsky scream like a new born baby, and doing nothing aboot it.
clank
i cant post this one but heres the link
http://fiveforsmiting.blogspot.com/2008/11/special-message-to-don-van-massenhoven.html
get’
CR9…that happens to be exactlywhat you said lol
Verizon Wireless has the worst customer services reps.
BOOOO!!!
Ummmmm…. I just got home a few minutes ago. Listening between the static on the radio on the way home I heard it was 1-0. What the hell happened in the last 30 minutes?
CR9 we haven’t been cheated tonight, and even if the Habs were being cheated, we’d still be getting drilled.
Third period, finally. Put everyone out of their misery and make this quick.
PLEASE BLOW THIS TEAM UP !!
Messiah, our defense is incredibly soft. That’s pretty much it.
I take that back, it’s not what you said, you’re still a lil paranoid lol. Some ref’s clearly have a bias against us, there is no referee conspiracy against the Rangers. I will accept the concept that when Montreal plays and all the refs except one are french canadian they can’t help but be biased…it’s not even on purpose though. But to say ref’s intentionally started calling stuff to stop our momentum is just a lil bit straight jacketish
CR9 – sentence #2 contradicts sentence #1. It’s not coincidental that the Rangers haven’t shown up the last two games after playing well for two straight. That’s what they are. And it’s 5-0. Five.
Torts looks like he doesn’t even care anymore.
Heh, Dubinsky just said ‘F me’ while looking at the scoreboard.
Awww, look at the wittle baby Dubinsky. You wanna gwo to Wottowa, huuuh, noo, you wanna stay hewre and steal wmoney fwom usss ?
Hate him.
SUCK SUCK SUCK SUCK SUCK
MISSED OPPORTUNITY
SUCK SUCK BAD LUCK
SUCK SUCK SUCK MISSED OPPORTUNITY
WORSE WORSER WORSEREST…..........
YEESH!!!!!!!!!!!
Third period. Wonder what the score will be after this one…
Don’t let it get you down, Its only castles burning, find someone who’s turning, and you will come around.
Sam just said Lundqvist is by himself, just like when he’s in the game then?
How about one goal, just one, so you don’t get shut out yet again.
See that mark on Dubi’s neck? I bet Tots tried to choke him out Homer Simpson style. Lol.
by himself or besides himself shor?
Nice article by Rob Cristino in the Rangers Examiner on Brasher. Rick … is this the same Rob Cristino who’s Con Ed athlete of the week story I read today in the Journal?
http://www.examiner.com/x-968-New-York-Rangers-Examiner~y2010m1d22-Signing-Donald-Brashear-is-yet-another-Glen-Sather-mistake#comments
Hockeymon
nice Neil Young reference
Linda, probably a bit of both I would imagine.
Nasty,
Nah, he just sampled some of Montreal’s finest last night. Higgins showed him his favorite spots.
I don’t agree with the ref bashing. Every team gets “bad” calls against them just about every night. If you are a good team you will be able to fight through a bad call or two and get the job done.
Also Henrik is human and can’t save this team every night.
It’s a simple game…score more goals than the other team…and we just can’t score on a consistent basis.
Shor, i just gotta hand it to him for not totally exploding at some point. He totally deserves to, and noone would blame him if he did.
CR9, now you can get mad. That was bull. But it doesn’t matter now.
The New York Rangers just fired Glen Sather and hired Mike Milbury as their new GM!
CCCP- now THERE is some mixed emotions! Like watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new BMW.
Voros just put the “no fall juice” in his eyes. Now he’s like Superman.
we have to be th worst team when it comes to getting shutout. what is it 7-8 times we have got shutout and th seasons just half over?
Avery is inserting himself into the penalty box.
girardi witha nice play!!!! yea danny!!!!
So whats the prediction on the final score? 8-nil?
Having said all that…
That was a classic Avery call there. How was that any different from the scrum in the first, when Lapierre threw the first punch and both he and Avery went to the box?
At least we’re not mets fans…cant imagine how awful that is lol. Certainly getting a taste of it though
What do Boyle, Voros, Lisin, Girardi, Higgins, Christensen, Brashear have in common?
THEY’RE ALL MINOR LEAGUERS! Can’t win when half of your roster doesn’t belong on NHL team…
I did not see what just happened, but how is Avery the lone man sent to the penalty box in whatever scrum just happened.
Usually, they give matching minors, or at least when the PP is due to us.
The “every team gets bad calls” is BS. We have a guy on our team that is discriminated against by referees clearly. Sean Avery. How can that not resonate with you people.
I did not see what just happened, but how is Avery the lone man sent to the penalty box in whatever scrum just happened.
Usually, they give matching minors, or at least when the PP should be due to us.
good points straka. we can say the refs were bias but what oes it matter if we cant score just 1 goal??? we will be shutout yet again and the only reason is bad defense and no goals.
Torts is toast
and i didn’t go see Avatar tonight because…?
Grabby – amazingly, the 6-0 loss to the Flyers was the first time the Rangers had been shutout all year. Granted, they have been quickly making up for lost time on that stat since then, but tonight would only be #5.
CCCP
Eta govno.
loud clank, sigh
Ping!
as good as it gets.
if a trade doesnt happen tomorrow, we shouldnt expect anything. if getting shut out in 2 straight games twice in recent weeks, doesnt call for a trade, nothing does.
lisin hits more posts than anyone i ever saw. damn hes gotta work on his accuracy!! lol
John Doe, there are a few of us around here that are mets AND rangers fans. None of us can explain why, but we suffer the pain of both teams ineptness.
2 penalties, yay !
Linda, I actually am dying to see Hank have a goal scored on him and see him throw a total fit. I wanted to see him one inch from Girardi’s face screaming at him for being such a d@uche after he missed that icing.
Let me clarify my earlier comments.
Our team is not good. We have Henrik and Gabby, and pray for rain. That is the reason why we lose.
Referees occasionally cheat us; they cheated us these past 2 games after having our best 2 games of season (steal our momentum?)
Referees are still scumbags. They are power mongers and control freaks and love to control high priced athletes, because they feel inadequate, that they could never be an athlete.
They totally eff’d my fantasy team again this week.
I am Mets fan, that is just as embarrassing lol
wow i thought we got shutout more than that. maybe its all those games where we score 1 and the other team completely destroys us. the st louis game couldve been a shutout. so many games where we get a flukey goal and lose. and stop replaying gabbys goals msg!! he hasnt done that but once in almost 10 games!! its depressing
lmao ORR!
wow, Torts should just walk off the bench and go hang with hank.
cmon rangers kill this off we can win this!!
CR9 – everyone (the player himself, Torts, the opposition, the fans) knows Avery isn’t going to get favourable treatment from the refs. It’s a loooong way from that to there being a systematic prejudice against the entire franchise (and presumably in favour of the Bruins?) by the league and its officials.
This is just embarrassing….
They played this team less than a weeka ago, beat them 6-2, tonight they can’t seem to win one battle.
At least I am getting some good fantasy points from these Canadiens
The worst part is that the Habs really aren’t very good at all.
John, there have been times I’ve wanted to see Hank absolutely decapitate someone. How that guy holds it together is amazing! Calm Swedish demeanor i guess
This sick loser on NHL Network is still yelling after being up 6 goals.
They were not yelling on Versus after pounding the Lightning, as I was not even cheering.
When a team is getting pounded, why still yell over goals????????????
Does Torts finally explode tonight? Or is the lid still bolted down on the pressure cooker?
What do Redden, Rozi, and Drury have in common?
THEY TAKE YOUR MONEY AND RUN! Cant win like that either…
anybody just sick of rooting for this team or what? until sather goes or these players play with some damn pride it really is killing my love for the team.
CR9,
Were you screwed over by a referee at some point? Cause your venom towards all refs sure makes it sound like that.
Sam: “This is one for the memory bank.”
I’d believe that if they had some heart, but they don’t.
I’m sorry Mickey…I’m not sure if I’d watch sports if I were you. That’s 365 days a year of pure suffering
Shoryuken on Glen Sather
Mets fan here as well.
6-0
sheesh again!
Is there no floor for embarrassment for these guys??? Honestly, we thought the Islanders game was, then no, here comes the flyers game, and now this.
Nasty, Shor,Grabby… next time they win 2 games in a row, please remind me to NOT get excited!
I really am hoping for a shutout
EVERLAST!
a ragged slugfest lmao
The only Ranger with heart.
What a sick team this is.
maybe we should put Voros out as a Dman
since he shows more willingness to hit
and doesn’t score all that much anyway.
Linda, just bookmark the highlights of this one next time you get excited.
“Schooling the Rangers on the powerplay” according to Weekes and Lee. OK, the Rangers have stunk tonight, but it was a 5-on-3! How exactly do they prevent being schooled there?
How GD embarrassing. I’m glad I’m not witnessing this garbage. They should be ashamed of themselves. 6 goals on 22 shots.
Get it all out of your system, Voros.
Aw that was nothing.
Mets fan longer than a Rangers fan, but the Rangers are life. At least the THOUGHT of the Rangers. These guys are slowly killing me. Mets NEVER got to me like this
and uh i’m sorry but Voros wasnt actually beaten there it was a draw no
You have to give Voros credit. He keeps it real.
John Doe, both teams trade off on drugging us to the point of being numb when we watch the games.
DD
Really ???????? Well how aboot this, im hoping for the Habs to score 6 more goals, THEN we get shutout.
This team deserved to be more embarrassed than this.
Lets see if all of our leaders step up and show some emotion. Eh, they wont, cause they’re all pu**ies.
Take some notes Giradri, you loser.
WAKE UP CALL TO MONTREAL FANS:
Yo , Losers , ya cheer “hey hey goodbye” when ya take out a team in the playoffs you RETARDS!! Saying it now after we CLOBBERED you a few days ago is Classless as it gets .
Ok, I never really liked Voros, the last week or two how can you not? if we don’t give Hank the C give it to Voros, give Avery and Gaborik/Calli the A’s and make the rest of the teams wear blank jerseys with no logos. Except maybe Calli and Prospal
I agree with you Great White, it is a tough to watch this team.
At least Voros has some heart. Guy has little to no skill but will give it up for the team.
Gionta! Get off your knees!
Oh. He is?
lmao @ only 2 power plays..wasnt one about 8 seconds long?? that shouldnt even count
already planned on skipping the pens game on monday
because my hatred of that team will just be too much.
have to work on wednesday.
so, the way this team is going, i’ll just check out Gross’s tweets (i’ll be nice and not use the correct past tense of the word…) and shrug off what will probably two more
losses/shutouts.
Rangers are talking a bunch of low percentage shots and these talking heads are going on and on about how good Halak is?
If Glen Sather isn’t working at Burger King Monday morning, there is no justice in the world.
thanks jpg
Hooray! Next Is Crosby.
they are being shut out by a goalie who’s name sounds like the noise your cat make when it vomits
Anyone think CR9 might’ve made a bet the Orioles would win a game that was ended by a certain Derek Jeter home run?
“MickeyM
January 23rd, 2010 at 9:17 pm
CR9,
Were you screwed over by a referee at some point? Cause your venom towards all refs sure makes it sound like that.”
I guess I can smile that SB XLII was reffed fairly, and they did not call what should have been a holding on the Tyree play! In the biggest game in NFL history and probably the NY-Boston rivalry.
Gomez is laughing his face on the bench at this.
I can’t come up with a way to properly express our displeasure.
Perhaps Linda, Sally, Mama etc. should burn their bras.
Err, laughing his face OFF on the bench.
Do you guys think if Glen Sather was available for post game interview tonight…would this loss be ok then?
John Doe
January 23rd, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Anyone think CR9 might’ve made a bet the Orioles would win a game that was ended by a certain Derek Jeter home run?
That makes absolutely no sense. I would have given my life savings for that play to be called again (knowing the WS result in hindsight).
“NA NA NA NA MONNNTREAALL IS FULL OF TURDDDSSSSS.”
Got back tonight to turn on the game and WOW!!!...guess I’m glad I missed most of it. AM I seeing things or are we looking at another shut out?....jeez where’s the heart? Where’s the leadership? 4 times in like 6 games? I’m speechless :(
And the game ended with a Bernabe Williams HR.
Hockey Night Live= 3.5 seconds of Torts presser.
GREG
email me bro, met_giRL@Hotmail.com
tried to email you ,didnt go thru
John, there have been times I’ve wanted to see Hank absolutely decapitate someone. How that guy holds it together is amazing! Calm Swedish demeanor i guess
Preferably it’s be with his goalie stick! the satisfaction I would get from that make sickens me. Hank is clearly a much better man than myself, I would at least give them the Half Baked F U, F u, F U, F U, your cool, Im out!
well,
at least the town officials won’t have to worry about
the canadian fans setting cars on fire and tearing up the place because they’re angry about a loss
(ala canucks fans after game 7 and after g n’ r fans when that show ended early…)
I cannot believe any of you have the gall to defend referees….
They called the cheapest icing on the face of the earth with 2 SECONDS LEFT!
Just to give them one more shot.
The refs could not just allow them to have their championship, the one they earned, the refs had to screw them on the icing.
I’d love to see the response to this, with people whining that it was a fair icing call!!!
i always imagine him doing a decaptiation then a cartman
SCREW YOU GUYS, I’M GOING HOOOOOOME
This game has gotten so bad they are promoting the July Dinosaur show at the Garden….FML
“MONTREAAALLL ARE TURDSSSSS”
can the postgame be heard on the radio?
Who’d like to be the first reporter to ask Tortorella a question in the post-loss conference?
MDZ shoulda just popped that ass in the face who care about a penalty at this point lmao
ok Linda ,right after this dibockle.
“HEY HEYY HEYY MONTREAAALLL are turdss”
CR9 very good point, I’m a fool, it was Bernie who ended it, Jete just tied it. How do I know you’re not a Mets fan?
dde very funny!!!!!! if you think that’d help…
Wow, this will be the 4th time in the last 6 games they have been shut out.
YES! Shutout remains intact!
Del Zotto almost killed himself
I hope MDZ is all right after that failed hit.
The way Hank keeps it together is the secret dungeon lair he has where he tortures small animals that he dresses up to look like his teammates. He spends hours down there getting all his aggression and anger at his “teammmates” out. Only when he’s calmed down does he come out. That is the calm, cool, collected Hank we always see.
CR9
Every team gets “bad” calls against them just about every night. If you are a good team you will be able to fight through a bad call or two and get the job done.
Game over. Oh, so close!
Shutout by effin Jaroslav Halak, unbelievable.
Well that sucked. Good night everyone.
ONE WORD DISCRIBE THE RANGERS : DISGRACE!!!!
Think WPIX will ever show another Rangers game again!?!?
awful…
The Only players that are safe on this team are Hank and Gabby!!
whats funnier being shutout 4 of last 7 games, or Matt Zaba being a player of the game?
Lol, now who would do the OMG, they killed Girardi! You bastards!
the sad thing is… this is probably NOT the worst game they have in them. what a disgrace.
embarrassing.
btw,
typical that gomez would score and higgins doesn’t.
TAR AND FEATHER SATHER
I think Gnomez with GWG is the funniest!
Well, gotta go worm the cat….
G’Night
lmao John!!
OMG HANK KILLED GIRARDI…
FINALLY!
yes, i am probably going to hell
We are gonna get LIT UP on monday against the Pens on Versus.
Most of this team has NO HEART nor pride.
Kudos to Voros for battling til the end. At least that guy shows some emotion and that he cares.
This feels like 92-93, when the team had talent and played like absolute sh*t, missing the playoffs after winning the president’s trophy the year before. You keep waiting for them to wake up from the stupor they are in yet they never do.
worst thing is they didn’t look too bad in the first.
a missed assignment…..what new?....and montreal gets the first goal
so, there was nooooooo way that i expected us to come out even worse in the 2nd.
Per Brooks Twitter: “Coach Tortorella’s team getting blown out. Must be my fault.”
Dis Gwen Sava is stahtin to wub me da wong way.
Brooks gives himself too much credit
Linda, I think the Rangers just gave us an excellent reason not to sin. We all now know what hell will be. I play by play analysis of this game by Mike Milbury on repeat for eternity
Worse game: this one or 10-2 Dallas from last year?
i go back and forth with Brooks.
i like a number of his recent columns
but he still has the ***holiness about him too.
Torts should just not say a damned thing to any of the team until after the Pens game. That would be hilarious.
Would Drury pick up the mantle and freakin lead? Methinks we all know the answer to that
LETS GO JETS
I don’t know about you Matt, I can only speak for myself but…I think most of us have resigned ourselves to that not happening, and we didn’t have a good team last year, the funny thing is…if 93-94 Mess was on this team I bet you they’ve be a lot better. There is no way he would sit still for any of this pussyfooting around
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LET’S GO JETS
oh no John! that would be cruel!!!!
who is this guy onthe panthers they are talkin to? He is awesome! Kendall McCardle.
Linda , did ya get it?
i just might watch this chicago game to see how a real freakin team plays!
c’mon guys, any torts quotes for me???
We all know the potential this team has. We see flashes of it…because of that I have trouble knockin Sather to the extent he is. I still say fire him because of the Drury Gomez, and Redden contracts but even the Gomez and Drury contract, how many of us didn’t think those were the missing pieces we needed to get us over the hump? Isn’t an albatross contract or two worth aa legit run at the cup? He couldn’t have known that Shanny was going to fall off the face of the earth that year, or that Avery was going to burst his spleen as we were owning the Penguins in the second round. If we made it to the cup that year those contracts are a huge reason why, and it would’ve then been worth it no?
Does that make any sense to anybody? Or am I just making a donkey’s @ss of myself?
on the way Greg!
Ya know it’s a bad game when…..Watching “The Pregnancy Pact” on Lifetime would have been more productive for the night.
John Doe – agree whole heartedly – although it’s ironic that 92-93 Mess didn’t get them into the playoffs. I wonder if the leadership in the locker room has tuned Torts out, much like they did with Renney.
My point earlier was even if they fire Sather, there aren’t going to be immediate results. The next person that comes in has to deal with the awful contracts (both money and length) that Uncle Glennie saddled us with.
What GM in their right mind would want to take over this team? You’re maxxed to the cap with players who don’t produce, and most of them have at least 2 years left on their deals.
You’d have to give what little good players we have away just to get another team to take the high paid dead weight.
Hello From Montreal Ranger Fans!(wait a minute… Yeah, Montreal)
Wow! It’s just like Canada here, but warmer! It was 70 degrees here today! 20 in the morning, 30 in the afternoon and 20 at night…
(singing) “ You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This Song is About You…” That’s Dolan’s new ringtone. Hey, Big Guy!! I see the Knicks lost big to the Lakers last night. (click)
I had to do that to Dolan before he asked me about the game. Don Van Assisfrozen should be proud of this one! I left the game early to do some shopping in Montreal. Who finally won?
Brashear! Where’s my million-dollar boat ballast? Brash! Go get me some Sno-Cones. They make some really nice ones in Upper Greenland. The snow is a hundred years old. Yes, Greenland! Take the Clutchmobile, we won’t be needing you for awhile. Make sure you take a few loonies with you. Kotalik and Valiquette. They aren’t doing anything either.
Just think how bad this game would have turned out if I didn’t unload Gomez and steal Higgins from Montreal! Damn, I’m Good!
What ever happened to Sweet Caroline? I kinda liked that song. And did you notice? They don’t raise their sticks at home much anymore…
I gotta go count the holes in Lundqvist.
See Ya
Uncle Glennie
if it was only 2 albatros contracts, eh.. but we had 4 until he got rid of gomez. John, for year, I (and I know many more of us) have been praying for a hard hitting crease clearing PHYSICAL dman! We’ve been missing that probably since Beuk.
OMG TORTS ON HNIC!!
In defense of Shanny, he got pretty badly injured, and I think he was still second or third on the team with goals even though he missed something like 10+ games.
Hell, I’d KILL to have Shanny on this team now. He may not have the legs, but he’d work that locker room a hell of alot better that Captain Clutch. Also, he isn’t afraid to SHOOT THE PUCK on the powerplay.
When is Sather going to get fired?
How much longer can inconsistency be run out there?
Hank and Jagr are his only clear cut great decisions. Gaborik also, but it’s only year 1 for him.
wow…just wow….
Gotta give it to Torts for not totally losing it when that microphone pretty much was kissing him!
saw Tortorella press conference on Hockey Night in Canada
(center ice only shows that version tonight)
thought he was gonna kill the guy who had his microphone too close.
btw,
what was the second question asked? it brought out the first
“yes.”
here Linda
are two Torts quotes
“Yes.”
“Yes.”
The media should just the Rangers until Tortorella changes his attitude or gets fired.
details, Linda, details!
I was (and still am) on the Rangers Season Ticket wait list. They called me this summer to say seats were available (in the corner for 100 bucks per – no thanks).
I recently got an email asking for my feedback about season ticket waitlist. If they play like this, I’ll wait forever!
Sad to say that I’m actually glad I didn’t plunk down the money for this crap.
Dolan loves the fact that for the past few years, he’s gotten a couple of home playoff gate receipts. He does NOT care about winning, or championships. Sather has a job for life, or until he just doesnt want it anymore. Problem is,he gives up the GM portion, he is STILL president. His tentacled carcass needs to be totally removed from every aspect of the team. We also need owners who care.
[Oops, I forgot a very important word.]
The media should just boycott the Rangers until Tortorella changes his attitude or gets fired.
‘I am not going to dissect it with you guys”
can’t blame him.he said he had not spoken to the team,and he shouldnt say a damned thing to any of them. They should walk around with paper bags on their heads until Mondays game
i think sather’s spot as president is just a bunch of
ego fluffery with dolan acting as his fluffer.
Please allow me to clarify, in no way at all was I implying that Shanahan’s decline was due to anything but an injury. He was having a great season until he got hurt, if I remember correctly he only scored about two goals for the last two months of the season or so and was a complete non-factor if not a harm to the team come playoffs time. While I agree Sather should go, if Shanny stayed healthy, Avery didn’t get hurt I’m pretty confident we were going to the cup and maybe even winning. Jagr was playing like he was possessed, we were clearly the better team, the penguins were not ready yet. If we made it to the cup I would have trouble being overly mad at him considering he accomplished building a Rangers team that accomplished something so few have, if they managed to win it? There is no way we’re calling for his head right now. He is a god in our minds if we win it.
someone mentioned about watching the Canucks game to see a good team play
that’s one of the nice things and more frustrating things
with center ice
watching other teams play i can see how disgraceful our team is.
even if it is jpg, its still there and his tentacles polute everything with this team, him and dolan.
Well, for Glen, the fact that he was able to ditch Gomez and get out from his contract while getting (what we thought was a serviceable player in ) Higgins as well as a “top” prospect from Montreal – I could live with that.
He was undoing a mistake giving approx 6 million for a guy who has only score more than 70 pts once and has never scored 30 goals.
Kotalik and Drury are here to stay because of their NMC, and no one is taking Redden at the current salary.
So, whomever takes this team over, is going to have the same, expensive, no-production players as the previous regime, thanks to the previous regime of course.
I didnt see the postgame, if its still on I’m not watching it right now either. Torts will be Lethal Weapon’s Riggs tonight with a gun in his lap and a picture of this team next to him
I didnt see the postgame, if its still on I’m not watching it right now either. Torts will be Lethal Weapon’s Riggs tonight with a gun in his lap and a picture his cup winning lightning team next to him
sorry John, I’ve despised Sather from the second he got here. I give him credit when he does something that makes sense, but more often that not, if i could burn a hole in his forehead by staring at him, i would. If they ever won while he was the GM, they’d win IN SPITE OF HIM.
Torts should have gave that guy a smack to the face when he put that mic close to his face.
guys, even gabby isnt safe anymore. he has become higgins 2.0 lately. he’ll be stuck tryin to get his 30th by mid march at this rate. when your best player cant score anymore, its teetime in fla
Agreed John Doe. Teammates definitely looked up to Shanny, and he shared a lot of the media resposibility with Jagr, allowing Jagr to worry more about his play instead of the media.
Totally hypothetical question here – if we could sign any player in the league right now, which one do you guys think would make the biggest diffence for this team?
The new GM might not mind only because he’ll clearly not be responsible for the team’s performance until Drury’s contract is up
lmao ORR, the dude had the biggest mic there, and he’s tryin to get up close and personal with Torts chiclets
i guess what i mean was that it seems as if it’s name only….....or at least one would hope…..and he just gets some check or a percentage of something and just looks like he’s part of what’s going on
when in reality he just stays on the golf course.
at least that’s my wish.
na j/k. gabby aint goin nowhere lol. but damnit hes been flat out bad this month. he is either burnt out or is just disgusted with the rest of the team he just doesnt care anymore
has the hockey media in the u.s. and/or canada taken sather to task for ruining this team?
i thought there might have been some criticism last year but it might have been more local media.
Saw Torts post game on HNL. You can tell how mad he is at the team and how disappointed he is in them. You can also tell that he’s frustrated by them and that he has NO CLUE how to fix the team. I think he’s tried everything he can think of and still nothing, so he’s getting resigned to the fact that this team just isn’t good. No questions from Larry Brooks.
Lol, we’ll agree to disagree then Linda. I do think he should be fired though
Ah, Shanny’s my 2nd favorite hockey player of all time. There is NO WAY a proud, hard working player of his stature would stand for this crap. His injuries and age caught up with him and limited his effectiveness on the ice, but not in the room. We need a leader like him.
na j/k. gabby aint goin nowhere lol. but damnit hes been flat out bad this month. he is either burnt out or is just disgusted with the rest of the team he just doesnt care anymore
Ok I have to take issue with this statement. He isn’t scoring goals but he’s still making plays, and even if he is not playing as well as he can…flat out bad? When he’s “bad” he’s still one of the best players in the league.
John Doe
give me a break about firing Torts.
i haven’t agreed with all of his moves but there are only so few Scotty Bowmans….
he’s been handed a bad lifeless lineup thanks to Sather and he’s trying the best he can with it.
i really don’t understand how a team can miss so many assignments in their own zone or how a team of professionals who have been in the league for a number of years can completely forget how to act in the offensive zone or how to shoot the puck.
you got it John!
Yes, i realy feel Hank could be that guy if he would let himself. He’s got that same fire inside of him
jpg, john and i were talking about sather, i dont think he mentioned torts, or if he did i missed it
JBytes –
Your biggest concern is how Tortorella treats the media?? Am I missing something?
I think the organization treats these players too well. the MSG country club treatment they get must be affecting their play.
I saw Brooks in the Post say that Phaneuf is available. I don’t want him, but could you imagine if they traded for him and he had to share a locker room with Avery? LOL
jpg, coaches and managers are always the first to tell you ultimately its their responsibility to get them in game mode. We’re all sitting here saying we need a player who would lead this team in the lockerroom like Shanny or Mess. That’s the coaches job as well, not just the players
all things considered, i actually got to see Torts tonight, and he didnt pull a Linda Blair, so i gotta say he behaved!
In my opinion that’s probably the most important job of the coach. Thats why Joe Torre was so revered, he kept the lockerroom together, thats why Girardi has been praised so much for loosening up the team and building comradarie
Well I mentioned torts in a cople days ago
While I don’t think Torts does hmself any favours with how he handles the press (and I’m pretty certain he doesn’t care at all how he is portrayed), he can’t win after games like tonight. If he rips the team or individual players, he’ll get criticised. If he restrains himself and says nothing – like tonight – he’ll get the same treatment.
we have a lifeless captain,and two veteran defensemen with skills on the decline. Torts is here for almost a year, and there was a big turnover this past summer, so we really cant say they are still in a Renney coma. They need a system that allows the talent on the team to thrives. Torts cannot fully implement his ‘system’ because there are still guys here who cannot compete like that.
off to warren
sabres/sharks
hope you have a good time tr.
I’m sorry, this team is not as bad as they’re playing, we all know that, they show it sometimes…
you know you’re numb when even Uncle Glennies wrap up does not get one response!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench
the NY Rangers logo needs to be put next to that
Jack napier said it best “THIS TEAM NEEDS AN ENEMA”!!!
Need to know.
Andy Dick arrested for grabbing a bouncers crotch.
Just another of many tough nights to be a Ranger Fan. Sather should be proud. I would think Torts wonders what he is doing here. The way these guys are playing he may not be here much longer. Not his fault though. These guys just don’t get it. They quit. They quit when they miss a few chances. They are like kids when things don’t go their way, they just stop giving a total effort. Then things just start falling apart. They deserved every penalty they got, and the Canadians deserved every goal they scored. Hank has reached the point were he is overplayed. He was involved in this, and has take his share of the blame. Although the defense couldn’t have been much worse. The team fell apart, after the third goal, that it seemed was the point when the rangers quit, and the effort was not there. to make a long story short it was over. Zaba is not a bad goaltender, at least as good as Johnson. (just my opinion) How many good scoring chances did Gabby have? A great scorer like Gabby should had a least two tonight, he had some great chances. If the Randers had scored a goal in the first period, it would have been a different outcome. Its really difficult to say any one player deserved any kudo’s except Zaba, he came into a tough situatiuon and played well, for a bunch of guys that had lost a game with lots of time still left on the clock.
I love hockey. I love the Rangers. I’m a Ranger fan…yes I am. I am….I’m gonna keep telling myself this tonight.
Oy vey.
TR, wish I was with ya. As always, love to Mrs. TR…..
TRADE TRADE TRADE!!!!
So… did you guys catch Torts’ post game PMS outburst? Where do we go from here?
I hear ya Linda, Renney was in the exact same sitauation last year witha worse team and people were screaming for his head. This team is definitely better than last years, the addition of Gaborik immediately makes this team infinitely better than the one Renney had last year. My problem with Torts is his inability to adjust. Ok great, you don’t have the team for your system, so figure out another system that’s effective and wait until you do, like if Grachev is ready next year and becomes that big dominant power forward we need so badly.
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Too bad we didn’t get a full MSG postgame, would have been interesting to see what Hank had to say.
Baumgartner-Domi – Fotiu-Nystrom- Gilles- Hospadar ( hehe sorry Rangers fans)etc…fights and so many from the 70`s to mid 90`s were great fights between Islanders and Rangers and what was responsible for bringing the passion of that to become a great rivalry.
I cant even watch these 2 teams play each other now as they look like panzies out there and nobody fights- let alone hits hard.
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