A bit premature for a game thread … but several reports from Nashville have Gaborik missing tonight’s game with the flu. He’s not even at the arena tonight.
So the Rangers will use seven defensemen and 11 forwards, since Boogaard’s shoulder is still bothering him, and Michal Rozsival is ready to return tonight.
John Tortorella said he will rotate a forward into the 12th spot, and not use Matt Gilroy there.
Also, Henrik Lundqvist, off his shutout in Sunrise Friday, gets a second start in as many nights.
Should be interesting.
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Barry Trotz, member of the no-neck coaching fraternity, also members, Bruce Boudreau, Claude Julien and the original founding member, Scotty Bowman.
You think you’re better than me?
Damn straight, Im Byfugliening better than you!
CTB, you forgot Ken Hitchcock….He could the HOF candidate…
Gaby is out could only mean AC/DC line back together…
I’m tired of all your macho head games
Anybody spot Linda in the crowd yet?
They should keep Gabby in a bubble. Don’t want him to spread any diseases. Well, at least the ones that weren’t already spread by Aves.
Emile Francis is probably the coolest old dude ever.
Gabby’s out? Looks like they couldn’t pull the Team Slovakia jersey switcheroo in his locker.
And Im tired of all your macho body games! :)
All aboard the pain train!
Get off my pain train! There’s only room for one of us! ARGH!
Let’s Go Rangers!!!!!!! I think this will be a good one!@
Tooooootooooo!
LGR!
Sire Father
why is nashville wearing blue? i thought they were brown and yellow…so confused
Tiki – you’re extra angry tonight without Linda!
Nice check by Dubi
Im just kidding around Shattenkirk!
Craptasic PP.
Dubiiiii, I think everybody’s going blue this year.
rangers off to their patented fast start
No worries Tiki – I knew you were just giving me carcillo!
Soft!
what a terrible turnover. and Giannone is yelling like a maniac. Thanks Nashville broadcaster Giannone.
They look a might bit feeble this evening.
I think I heard Linda yell out Carcillo
This is really shaping up to be a boring game.
Don’t take it personally, Tiki. Giannone yells like a maniac all the time.
And this is why a craptacular PP leads to lost periods, and ultimately lost games.
I just don’t like this Giannone fellow.
I’ve never liked Giannone. He’s such a dork. He asks the dumbest questions too.
Is there ANY reason why Frolov is still on our team?
one of those handful of games that you know are going to be a snoozefest even before it starts
Goal waved off. Van Massengill reffing. Hmmmm.
How is that not a goal?
Two Flyers fans behind NYR’s bench. They must be lost.
Yeah, it looked like a kicking motion. Pee-wee got outmuscled and had to cheat.
EC’s skate was pushed by Suter. Damn Van-Assen-Hoven
Sorry, that was not a kick! I’m a footballer, I would know a kick if I saw one.
Why wasn’t that a good goal? I’m watching with the sound off and I couldnt tell…
Hey Staal
Pass to the guys wearing white!!
Lost count of how many times Ranger players have run into each other.
Glad Gilroy’s playing. So far he’s had the Rangers best Shot on goal.
Hah, nice check on Weber by Avery.
Waive EC for just getting our hopes up.
I’m hoping Tootoo nails him at some point.
Rangers are getting outworked
Damn…Todd White sucks…
EC with a lot of jump but stone hands tonight
we should have waived White and picked up Prucha…i think it would be an improvement.
Great save Joe? No it wasn’t, White failed to lift the puck
i love Pru just as much as the next guy. but he spends just as much time off his skates and on his butt as Avery.
Why are we still fascinated by Prucha?
Aves should do to Tootoo what he did to Smid. He should make that a regular thing.
no fascination with prucha, just about anybody would be better than White.
He would…I just don’t think there is anybody is as dumb as Smid to let Avery do it…
Wow, Aves got PUMMELED
there they go
WOW – Avery = Angry
wow that was wild
Yeah, that one wasn’t even close.
and this is why Avery should not fight
Avery can’t fight…wow
Can we get Tootoo? I’ve been asking this for four years!
not his best effort… beaten by someone names tootoo…....
aves should take some lessons from prust
Thank you Prust. We were looking like fairies after the Aves fight.
Good Showing by Prust.. give avery some lessons eh?
Giannone is a excellent hockey guy knows his sport, lay off kiddies
22 is an ahole. that kind of showboating is more suited to wwe
Now let’s win this game!!!!!!!!!!!
Botle should have fought O’Brein – some nice Irish kisses would have been delivered
ok game’s not as boring anymore, eh?
I like Tootoo. I don’t mind what he did.
hey o’brien threw a cheap shot, prust still had a glove. that aves smid thing was so overblown…if that was aves it would have been talked about how dirty it was.
thats hockey…folks.
What’s the next fight? Linda vs the guy in front of her (who’s half deaf by now)!
We need Stepan and Boyle to score here.
wow cindy has 301 goals already.
Can we get out of this period 1-0??
When, if EVER, will we have a player who can put up 25 points in a span of 12 games?????
aka sausage lips
Never, DJ.
We need anybody to score… This team has not had a lot of good, solid hockey the last several games… And much of that against teams that shouldn’t be dominating us. We’re lucky to have Hank and Biron, otherwise things would be a lot worse.
Was that Linda that was stood up by Del Z?
Not while Sather is GM, at least.
St0w, we haven’t exactly been “lucky” with Hank.
Don’t say the “S” word! You’ll wake up the weirdo.
Wow! Torts face is cherry red in that commercial.
Sausage Lips is elite!
lundqvist better pick it up or he isnt going to win his 30 games this year.
Linda was wearing the Drury jersey by the rangers ice exit. Notice the drool?
Oh joy Cindy comes to town Monday.
OK. Got that garbage period out of the way. Now let’s see some hockey. Ice Hockey.
Let’s go Rangers!
two games vs the isles this week should = 4 pts. (SHOULD)
Staal and Girardi are just awful.
If we go down 2-0 it will definitely be CoD Black Ops time.
bad bounces happen…
“The law firm of Callahan & Dubinsk”? They hiring Beninanti to cut those MSG promos? I’m a real lawyer and I am not amused.
FIRE SATHER
Yes, so does bad positioning, bad passing, and bad shooting.
“Touch the ball”
Tiki’s newest pick-up line…
Gilroy looks good so far.
lets go our pp needs to get us going
Rinne though the net was blocking the ref’s view.
That trapezoid is a really useless and stupid rule…
Looks like the Panthers power play
Dopey PP.
this pp is pathetic…torts needs to change our pp philosophy
Game over. Our PP is as bad as it’s ever been.
Oh yeah, and Frolov sucks.
Friggins!
THAT was a hook?
seriously our pp needs a major overhaul
They need to stop working on the power play. Looked much better when they weren’t working on it.
>>Game over. Our PP is as bad as it’s ever been.
I thought Rozsival was supposed to come to the rescue?
Frolov may be the most idle, useless, do-nothing player to ever put on a Ranger uniform.
You do know that a team can look bad on a couple of Power Plays and then look better later in the game, and that the game is not over 24 minutes into the game only down 1 goal, right????????
Could have been a 2 on 1 if Frolov knew how to skate.
That was a dangerous hit. After the whistle
that looked like a late hit and from behind
Really tiki? I thought you were supposed to stop rooting as soon as the team got down. That’s what I learned from going to MSG.
Maybe if the Rangers handed a different random player a jersey with #68 sewn in on it each game, then Rozsival will know what to do.
I hope Aves isn’t planning on fighting again.
Friggins get the Malakhov award
Slow-lov
actually i’m glad that the refs didn’t give us a pp on that hit, our pp is so bad it would have just wasted 2 minutes
van Massengil taking over the game.
Power Play
Can we decline?
blue seat – i wasnt directing that at you. i think it was DJK saying that the game was over. As for the fans at MSG that dont cheer, theyre just losers.
Why exactly were the Rangers so excited to get this waste of Czech space Roszival back in there….and on the PP. We scored a PP goal each of the last 4 games. And entering the building, the useless Roszival.
>>Could have been a 2 on 1 if Frolov knew how to skate.
I couldn’t believe he couldn’t finesse a pass.
I can’t wait for Prospal or Drury to be activated, for no other reason than Frolov, Christensen and/or White being gone.
Seriously…our offense is offensive
Declining PP’s seems like a great idea.
You cant just assume a wasted Power Play just because they looked terrible in the previous power plays. And as long as we dont give up shorthanded opps, then it doesnt hurt to have them.
Up next: the diving finals.
Tiki- I think it’s safe to say at this point that we have 70-30 odds of losing this game.
We have more than half a game left!!!
phantom trip
Frolov suuucks!
wow frolov nice shot…my sister can shoot harder than that!
LOL! A push is a roughing minor?
pass pass shoot…pass pass shoot, that should be our pp plan. nice and simple.
EC sucks.
ec fired
EC = CUT.
EC – FAIL!
so much for a pathetic PP.
We just had FOUR great scoring opportunities.
waive EC
Christensen FAIL.
Waive Christensen NOW! Please!!!
EC=enigma
you SUCK EC, what is all that stickhandling in the crease. SUCK!!!
Wow. Pee-wee actually moved closer so he could shoot it into the goalie.
Tiki, no problem. I didn’t feel directed at. Just making a joke.
LMAO
It keeps getting worse!
Frolov=enigma
FROGGINS – FAIL!
Waive Frolov too! Please!!!
WTF is EC doing on the PP? Come on Torts. Fix that.
Bench EC & Frolov for SUCKING!!!!!
and a 5th great scoring opportunity and miss thanks to Frolov.
Im with you on Frolov. He’s horrible.
Wow…..EC is the worst….
Watch Nashville score on their next chance.
EC
Frolov
Fedetenko
Fail
mr furley can’t score either
we’re really dominating the game. Keep working hard and the victory will come,
Epik Christenfail.
By the way, our player got beat up by a guy named Tootoo, and we’re getting shutout by a guy named Pecker.
Insult to injury.
kern – hahahahhaha… no, there’s no enigma with EC and Frolov… they just suck.
Looked like somebody shot White there.
egg white faw down
LOL! White getting fancy, and he wipes out.
We have way too many stone hands in the lineup.
Sooooooooo much concentrated FAIL on the ice I’m ROFLing.
And Prucha is that miserable? he would have at least buried one of those opportunities.
Poor Linda must must be acting like Linda Blair in the Exorcist by now. Feel sorry for the fans around her!
LINDA LINDA LINDA!
The magical Kennedy bullet found White, which is why he fell.
>>Epik Christenfail.
I like that name.
With pee-wee and friggins, getting scoring chances does not equal domination. :-)
ROFLcopter of hockey fail
nice one DJK..hahaha. Seriuosly get EC and Frolaof off the PP and on the 4th line only. They are horrible. I am so disappointed in Froloaf, i thought we could count on him for 20 goals at least.
Z, Pruchs, and/or Mats Naslund would have scored on those chances.
Alexander Fail-ov
Hey, look! Artie put one in the net!
I told you all that Froloaf would be a bust.
I should have told Slats.
FIRE SATHER, Linda!
i have never seen an nhl player with a weaker shot than frolov.
If they’re gonna trade for Brad Richards this season, and not wait to get him as a UFA on July 1, do it immediately after this game. Please.
Sick-a-Moose?
The Stars wont trade him until the deadline. They want to milk what ever they can from him until they’re forced to give him away, if they do.
Froloaf-Dublowsky-EC
What a line.
hell the boogyman would have scored on one of those chances.
we’ve got two loser broadcasters talking about streets named after predators in some sick sounding town or something called “sycamoose” Im glad I tuned into MSG to hear the opposing team’s broadcast and some ridiculous word, SYCAMOOOSE!
Such a borefest of a game.
Per Brooksie Richards was offered to the Rangers already.
i’d rather see a foward line of Rosy, Gilroy, MDZ, instead of EC, Fro, White
Fail-ov draws a penalty!
He just banged his stick, and is arguing with the referee. How about a 2 minute unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on top of that!
Cally trying to make Froloaf feel better, by missing the net.
Cally now has ECfrolitis.
Cally shouldn’t even be on the point. What the fugg?
Nobody in white can hit the net.
Fail-a-han
Boring, crappy game!
Looks like a shutout.
another good power play, but no positive result.
keep playing this way in the 3rd.
EC will f-up the interview
The power play really seems to slow down the Rangers offense…
Torts should tell EC & Froloaf to stay in the lockeroom for the 3rd period, they are rubbing off on our decent players.
Playing like a bunch of doofuses.
c’mon ask EC why he sucks so bad…that would be great.
LOL EC may as well be wearing a bag over his head.
Pretty good look on the PP. Three players high with a fourth on the high boards. Making it easy for the predaters
EC admitting to kicking the puck. Trade him!
Love it! Only Pee-wee could see something in the five hole of a goalie that’s flat on his face.
hank is not getting any help tonight
The Connecticut Whale are undefeated after winning 3-2 in a shootout tonight. Goals by Dupont and Eizenman.
When does Hank ever get any help?
These are the games that cost you playoffs. We have pretty much dominated the game after about the first ten minutes. We certainly have had the chances. But unfortunately, the worst players on the team have had those chances. Frolov is a disgrace. EC is a fringe NHL player.
Rozi is taking Sauer minutes just as I thought he would.
Wicky
You still think we don’t need an offensive damn who can shoot the puck huh?
true st0w
Last night against Florida?
The only help Hank got last night is that some goals were actually scored. He still had to turn in an all-star performance because of awful defensive play.
Torts needs to start benching/sitting players ala Mike Keenan, why does he have so much faith in EC & Froloaf?? Torts needs to get his Carcillo together as well.
I thought it seemed crazy that Crosby had 300 goals already in his career, then I checked a more reliable source than MSG and discovered he scored his 200th. Talk about a big goof.
hey JCL nice find, i thought 301 sounded very high.
There is no excuse for Zuccarello not to be given a shot.
There is no excuse for Zuccarello not to be given a shot.————————————————————————————————-
I agree
Step=On flipping off the camera. Teach this kid some manners!
don’t hockey players ever get the flu shot…WTB???
perfect pass, and Frodo missed the net
There is an excuse to keep MZA down in Hartford, and it’s a good one. They don’t want to scare him away.
He comes up, and sees how bad this team is, then he jets back to Sweden.
Frolov-Christensen-White = puck in Rangers zone.
Why does this have the feeling of a shutout?
“Why does this have the feeling of a shutout?”
Because it’s Rangers hockey!
Avery killed him.
that was an accidental play
Good non-call by the zebras.
That was a follow through, not a penalty.
>>Why does this have the feeling of a shutout?
Because we’ve seen the future?
They’ve actually only been shutout once this year. They were shutout 6 times last year.
Maloney looks so damn scary on camera tonight. More than normal.
Maloney is standing in a “strategic” area.
nice how that flooding didn’t receive any media coverage…interesting…hmmmm.
i cant believe that one stupid mistake by girardi has us down 1-0.
N.Country, I was just thinking to myself, when the fugg did that happen? Haha! I had no idea.
If it makes you feel better, Tiki, 1 stupid mistake and 4 missed shots from the slot by the Rangers has us down 1-0.
Tiki, that wasn’t a “mistake”, it was a fluke.
It was a forward in the neutral zone that deflected the puck that made it bounce. Girardi was a bit unlucky to miss a bouncing puck and Wilson did a good job to lift Girardi’s stick to make sure he could gain possession.
Game over
Season over
Time for a Prust shorty.
That shot of Tortorella showed him swallowing back him stomach acid.
henrik goes to his knees and covers up!
Did that sound dirty to anyone else? At least Henrik knows about protection! :)
Orr, it happened last spring i think and it was just about as bad as Katrina as far as flooding, but yeah interesting almost no media coverage…not even a peep from our current president…hmmm.
Higgins the first shooter in the shootout. Bwah!
Every time they say the Predators’ goalie’s name, I think they’re talking about cheese..
And he misses a wide open top shelf.
GOOOOOOOOOOOO TIMEEEEEEEE!!!!! Dam , im not home…im watching at a friends place. I cant type till I get home!!! I was thinking Im jinxed cuz I didnt say “GO TIME”.
GO RANGERSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
Go boys , lets pop 1 in!!!!!
>>Maloney is standing in a “strategic” area.
Near the ice girls?
3 shots on goal this period. Pathetic.
also over twenty people died in the flooding…where was the lib media. sorry no more politics.
ECfrolitis ,Fail-ov and Froloaf are great guys!!! GO RANGERSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!
IM HERE NOW SCORE!!!!!
ok now back to this exciting game!!! LGR’s!!!!
didn’t feel so great so i missed party tonight.
then again, i’m watching this game and it makes me regret the decision
but
i feel really bad for Linda.
hopefully, SOMETHING HAPPENS that will make her smile during the game
cause it’s been pretty empty.
Cally!!!
WOOOO CALLY!!!!
FINALLY!
Thank goodness.
FINALLY!!!!!!
good for Linda!!
good for us!!!
Say Wha????
That puck went in despite of Callahan.
Cally scores! Tied up!
YESS CALLY!!!! Thanks Greg you brought us some luck.
The Captain!!!
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! I did it!!!! I mean we did it!!!!!!!!!
No prob North Country!!!
WOHOOOOOOOO , no shutty!!!! Let go Rangers!!!!!!
I wonder if there are any loose screws on the Preds that will throw their shoulder pads into the stands.
Looking good folks , points are a must and not getting shut out is AWSOME
Seems about time to pull Hank
Rozi keeping the crease clear?
Haven’t seen Aves in a while.
Great passing and goal by Cally for the tie.
Must I hear the Predators announcers refer to it as Smashville over and over again?
Smashville? What does that even mean?
Seems about time to pull Hank
Huh?
Go for the extra skater and the ‘W!’ The Rangers always do really well with an empty net..
At least we got a point out of this
I fully expect one or the other team to win on a PP goal. Van Massengil won’t be able to resist.
At least 5 of 8 points this week, not to bad.
whewww…at least a point, now lets go for two
Puddy cats beat the Bolts? I wonder if the Panthers are thinking “and we lost to the Rangers?”
Keep blocking those shots. Sooner or later, something breaks…
well, at least we got an undeserved point.
very outcoached tonight.
Dubi and Girardi have had a number of dreadful moments
then again, if our pp was slightly better
the preds goalie would be the goat for
his penalties
EC had Step open down th e right side and falls down
MDZ=sophomore slump
1st shootout of the season, interesting.
whens the last time we had a shootout
First shootout of the season! Linda’s getting an exciting finish…in Smashville lol
No PAP, no Jokinen, what does Torts do?
I thought we had a shootout already?
First shootout of the season.
Very outcoached??
Hurry up and win the shootout. Gotta switch over to Chicago-LA game. Should be a beauty!
I’d go with AA, Stepan, Boyle
Artie-Step-On-EC
Ok , Lets do this stuiped Shoot out and win the lame ,cool,exciting,dumb thing.
GO RANGERS!!!!
CTBlueshirt – It must be an exciting name for Nashville. Like girls named Ashley being called Smashley.
Frolov, White, EC
If a pig ran out on the ice, would that be considered bad luck?
Let’s do it King!
Good one Spider
does EC blow it???
Wow, way to go EC
Christenwin?
Good job by Christensen.
A painful goal. Win-win!
Ouch! Christenfail almost killed himself on that goal.
Wow – Micheletti called that one!
nice move…still sucks during normal play
Christian-in
Pretty exaggerated leg kick.
HANK!
Yes King!
I don’t like the Cally choice
lets go LQ one more stop is all we need
Cally with the same move, every time.
No hand Callahan!
Come on Kiing!
Henrik! Henrik! Henrik!
YES!!
Nice snag Lundqvist, great save.
Weeeeeeeeeeee!
Nice! Can the two points just be given to Hank?
Rangers Win!
Take the two points and leave town ASAP.
YES nice SAVE…two points
6-0 in back to backs, 5-0 on the road.
Yes! Told youse so!
YES!!!!
CONGRATS LINDA!!!
GO CELEBRATE!!!!
barely deserved one point
and preds are going to have a mighty sick feeling
losing the second point.
henrik needed the push from Biron to get himself going again.
Keeping
It
Not in the
Goal!
6 points out of 8 this week, good job.
HAHA! You see that smirk on Torts’ face?
ORR- what happened to “game over, season over”?
WE WIN!!! we win we win we win we win!!!
So I guess the game was not over, huh? :)
A much deserved 2 points for us.
Playing the 2nd of a back to back, without Gabby. Henrik in his 2nd straight game. Excellent.
Beautiful game.
And a big hearty Thanks to Joe Micheletti for saying he “expected Eric Christensen to score because of the game he had” Thanks Joe for some Ranger-biased broadcasting :) But you’re still a stinkweasel :)
EC partially redeems himself…can we just bring hin out for shootouts, like a DH in baseball.
I think I heard Linda squeal when Hank made that save.
Oh boy, if Christensen didn’t score we would have lost that shootout. We didn’t have any other good shooters in the lineup, except maybe Anisimov. I would have liked to see MdZ try.
WIN!!! 6-0 in the 2nd game of b2bs.
Great for Mickey, Clinton and Linda!!!! Terrific night!
That’s why EC is an enigma. He obviously has skills
On to Chicago…
Olga, I say that every game, you dope.
Clearly it’s a good luck charm.
yeah kern
outcoached.
the preds players were positioned quite well
throughout the 3 periods for just about every
single thing we did
and our players were continually trying to
put a square peg through a round hole
(i.e. Staal and Dubi passes that went straight to preds players)
the preds coaching staff did a good job with film and what we do on the ice.
Torts and the players changed a bit but we were still hemmed in by what the
preds did.
EC is the new P.A. Parenteau. shootout specialist
EC scoring changes nothing. He’s still garbage.
But, thankfully he did something useful for once.
You know Linda’s man is gonna get lucky tonight!
There was alot of snarl in that win.
Shattenkirk scored again!
ORR – It’s like wrapping yourself in Saran Wrap. Clearly, I see you’re nuts…
oh man Al is ripping on Duguay…hahaha!!!
Orr – and an assist! That’s my boy!
Holy shirt! What is Duguay wearing?
Says the guy with the flavored chloroform collection.
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Torts was fine tonight. They won a tough game on the road minus their best player. Not the night to bash the coach.
Shattenkirk is my favorite rookie. I don’t know why.
Way to gut out two points. Great effort by Duby, Hank and the guys. EC back a little respect for tonight’s game overall, topped off by the game winner.
Orr – he grew up next town over from me. Our parents are friends. He grew up a Rangers fan.
Christensen’s going to say that Avery sucker punched Tootoo.
EC thinks the PP was fantastic tonight??? Passing the puck around isn’t the purpose of the PP, it’s to score goals. I would hate to see what he thinks a bad PP is,jeez!
They have to do a right thing by making Dubi a captain.
Dinamo, let’s see how Dubi’s contract negotiation goes this summer before we call him captain…
kern
i rarely if ever bash Torts
but i was
first
amazed at how well the preds were ready for us
and
two
unhappy with how our guys were reacting to it
i thought that we’d look a little different in the second
or then in the third
each time it was slightly but not that noticeable
especially with the preds keeping up what they were doing.
i’m glad with the win but it was definitely a matter of stealing
2 points
and that happens
so i leave happy.
9-4 on the road
Let’s send Linda to all the away games!
Better yet, Greg should only post during the final seven minutes, and he has to watch all games over his friends house.
Roszival is back, and things are back to “normal” with him on the power play. No shots taken – the puck is passed around the perimeter, until it’s coughed-up for a breakout the other way. Maybe someone will check him hard into the boards during practice – he needs another paid vacation.
White is so bad it makes my eyes hurt. The reason he’s in the NHL is that the AHL won’t take him back!
David Jones, from the Avs, has 10 goals, 15 points in 20 games. He was a ninth round pick. Not bad.
If it’s okay with y’all, and no offense to Greg and Linda, I’d rather we don’t encourage a repeat of tonight.
They’ve played better and I’d prefer to see the better Rangers.
new post.
Balcony Bob
I wish you will fall down from your balcony on your brainless head – than, just maybe, you become thinking “normal” and your eyes will hopefully get in to right position.
djk
You should have seen Emil Francis as a young goalie…he was spectacular.
Only goal tenders who I recall could do a full ballet style split, when it came to blocking shots.Other was Johnnie Bower.
Sawchuk perhaps, but I don’t recall him doing so. Big Bill Durnan might have also, but I never saw him do it.