As we hit the final 30 …
Brandon Dubinsky, Ryan Callahan and Dan Girardi are all in. Michael Del Zotto, too. Lundqvist starts in goal. Steve Eminger is prucha’d. Again, no Sid the Skid, no Evgeni Malkin for the Penguins.
Here are the probable lines and combos, according to Andrew Gross’s blog:
Brandon Dubinsky-Artem Anisimov-Marian Gaborik
Wojtek Wolski-Brian Boyle-Brandon Prust
Mats Zuccarello-Derek Stepan-Ryan Callahan
Sean Avery-Kris Newbury-Chris Drury
Marc Staal-Dan Girardi
Michael Del Zotto-Matt Gilroy
Ryan McDonagh-Mike Sauer
820 Comments
Let’s go get them, boys!
You think you’re better than me?
Not by much :-0
Where’s Izzy?
Lets go Rangers!
Carp, we think we’re better than him..
Still lmao at Sally’s take on rabies!
I don’t know, if posted already, but according TSN and Sport-Express, Fedotenko rehabilitation goes in a good pace with encouraging results and he will be cleared in a 10 days. So, we will most likely see him Feb.,12 in game against Atlanta.
And where in holy hell is Linda?
LGR!!!!!
Sire Father!!!
NYR_FAN- funny, but her take on rabies was very close to reality…Very, very close
goin’ goin’ back back to Cally Cally!!!
Welcome back Cally!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Really, where is Izzy?
Most importantly, where’s Orr, Izzy, and the Folkyerself family?!
WOOOT! Officially GO TIME.
Let’s eat some waddling ducks for dinner, eh?
Do you believe it’s only been a week? How exactly we survive the whole summer is beyond me…
LIL MAN!
And a Cally interview!
EEE!
How will we survive the summer, ilb? Guess you’re gonna have to be a Yankees fan for me! Boom!
Where’s Fozzy and Krisi and noremry?!
Where’s ORR!?
did you guys hear what Milbury said to Jones?
he was like “Hey, did you see Lundqvist and how good looking the guy is?” HUH?? creepy!
Ilb, how many cases of rabies have you treated? There were so many raccoons in my backyard in Brooklyn all the time. Terrifying!
SALLLLLLLY!
NYR_FAN
i was wondering too..where’s ORR? nobody knows? its been a week! very unlike ORR..he’s usually here all day every day
Tiki, thanks again for lettin me watch the game tonight :)
Sally, I was only laughing at your detailed description about a rabid bat…I know how serious rabies is…
no problem, Sallllly! Thank you for being you! :)
None in this country, Sally….Luckily, it’s still not very common.
Phew. Most of my house is now clean, but I’m like a rabid raccoon :)
dont worry ‘bout ORR guys , Im here!!!!!
WOHOOOOOOOOOOOO Rangers baby , I cant wait!!!!!!!
Go tome go timee go timeeeeeee!!!!
I think I’m gonna watch The Thing tomorrow. Best snow day movie ever.
Mama – I thought I told you last night to fade to black and to never come back!
LETS GO RANGERS!!!!!!
Rangerssss!!!!!!!
Go Zucco go!!!!!!!
C3P
I saw ORR! post on Sunday when we were talking about Iginla and Kreider getting a shot nex year..haven’t seen him since…he said this:
Kreider and McIlrath should finish College, and Juniors, respectively, before signing. It wont hurt them.
How did Stahl, Lungfist, and Step-On do last night? I didn’t feel like watching that borefest.
I can’t believe I have to sit & watch the Curses network for yet another night. I never thought I’d miss Michel spaghetti & Giagavone so much
That’s good, Ilb.
ORR is protesting the early return of his hero Dublowsky
hope ORR got abducted by aliens cuz I could owe him some coin come seasons end..
Maybe Orr’s at spring break? Hope he’s just been taking a breather during the six-day respite and he’ll be back tonight.
whats up guys? lets go rangers!
great blog Rick!
I want Orr! I love that kid!
Normally I prefer the 7:30 starts, but today it’s killing me. Just start the damn game already!
Here he is. Looks good for someone who is concussed
Tiki, you wanna take on the mama….it’s go time!!!
Linda abducted Orr
Brodeur should’ve been a player of the week… Hey, he didn’t let any goals in for 7 days
Orr is definitely my favorite blogger here. Sorry, Carp. ;)
Beninati! :(
KING OF THE CREASE!
Get the Byfuglien outta here Mama! Ill take you on, lady!
BACKSIDE BULLSEYE!
perfect conditions for the Penguins to march into MSG.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/atdhe-sports-streaming-website-seized_n_817224.html NOOOOOO
channelsurfing.net down too. anyone have a link?
I think gilroy is our oldest defencemen tonight?
Spider, I almost spit out my beverage when I heard that!
tiki, I’ll get you, and your little dogs too!! :)
Jordan Staal’s hair is everywhere!
I think Linda was abducted by Bostonians! Let’s get them!
Jaffe and Backside Bullseye got the same suits on!! how hilarious is that?! LOL
Times must be hard for Billy Jaffe since losing the Islanders gig. He’s had to borrow one of Beninati’s mafia suits. Should’ve taken one that wasn’t identical to Beninati’s choice tonight though.
miked – Go to myp2pforum.eu
Oh, not Milbury…
miked, wtb??? for the record, here’s what the end of the post said
For the record, ATDHE.net appears to have moved to ATDHE.me and is working fine,” tweeted @Amgodd.
Mama – I aint afraid of you! You come after my puppies and Ill be forced to catnap and cuddle with your kitties! :)
No sausage lips, no malkenstein…who’s the #3 carcillo-head on the ice chickens? That piece of cooke Cooke?
miked, Try justin.tv
I think that’s how it’s spelled.
Wolski…that would be correct.
tiki, they scratch….!
miked – Also, if you would have read the whole article, ATDHE is now at the website ATDHE.me
Let’s GO RANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beninati and Pidto for me like ugly twin brithers in their un-hockey-ness. Can’t stand them.
Jaffe I don’t mind at all, thou
typo – brothers, it is…
It’s Snow Time….
Not one for prognasticating, but I think we break 800 posts tonight :)
Whatever Milbury was trying to say did not come out right. Rangers have 6-7 multiple…10-goal scorers, Pittsburgh only has 6. HUH?
huh? who’s eric lundqvist?
Thought it was ice time, Izzy…whatever, welcome back!
Izzy!!!
I can’t stand this… 7:40 and the puck still hasn’t dropped…ridiculous
Anyway, the Rangers have six double-digit goal scorers (one with nine goals), Penguins have five in double digits, and two guys with nine goals. So Milbury just needed to fill time with nonsense I guess.
GO TIMEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Lets get ready to RUMBLEEEEEE!!
Hockey’s back! Let’s do this, boys!
Versus continues to be bush.
Really? The national anthem on TV? Great.
LOL: “Maybe 2000-2500 fans at prudential center for nj-ott game. Freezing rain.” http://twitter.com/Citizenkwarren/status/32595174693539840
wow this group is good
Mama – Yeah, yeah, yeah! I dont care about kitties that scratch. My puppies scratch! Stanley and Cup will soon be mine, and Stanley’s Cup will soon be property of the New York Rangers! BOOM!
IZZY!
LETS GO RANGERSSSSSSSSS!!!
Why isn’t MLK Day in Black History month? I’m just sayin’...
Rangersssss!!!!!!!
FINALLY!! Been a long assen week without hockey.
LGR!!
Except it doesn’t look like there’s any precip in NJ right now.
Now that’s a national anthem! awesome…..
That was good
Did Staal buy his engagement ring from Kay Jewelers? :)
It’s go time!
We’re amateur-hour if we can’t beat them, at home, without having to play against Crosby and Malkin … but I’m sure we’ll make it interesting.
wohooooooooo gametimegametime!!!!
That was one of the better Anthems I’ve heard in a while…
Let’s Go Rangers!!!
Orr…what is it good for….
Lil Man getting the love.
Dubi hasn’t scored yet!!!
bring up Grachev!!!!!!
Working on a screenshot of the twin Beninati-Jaffe pimp suits…
Girardi is actually our oldest defenseman tonight, at 26, beating Gilroy by a few months. Girardi is obviously also the most experienced.
i missed it.
who is Zuc with?
HELL YES!!!!!!!
A PRUST THRUST!!!!
Prust!!!
PRUSTACORE! It ain’t hardcore unless it’s Prustacore!
PRUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BoylePrust MONSTER
Prust with first rabies shot!
Let’s go Rangers! Let’s go Rangers! Let’s go Rangers!
Prustbyterians Unite!!!!!!!
Boyle = Monster
PRUST = DEITY
Yeah Baby!!!! BOOOMSHAKALACKA!!!!!
Callahan playing with two rookies: MZA and Stepan.
Prust!!!!
In Prust…..
Another assist for Brian Boyle…
Monster=monster
Prust – when puck sees him, it goes in by itself!
idiot announcer!
Prust is not on the 4th line!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That what I call PrustCare!!!!
thanks for the info Spider
NYR_FAN
some would argue that it was a lucky assist :)
For every goal Prust scores, they should make Drury pay him a bonus….
Yeehaw! Just got a call from work to not come in til 10am tomorrow. This day is getting better and better!
Drury sucks!
Seems like Drury loses any battle along the wall these days…
Prust The Gr8! goal this season.
Who would win the race between Ironman and Superman to the moon?
Brandon Prust.
leave it up to Versus to give you the worst HD picture possible! Thanks you Gary Bettman for sticking with VS
Prust drew a penalty yes!!!!!!
that shift did not look good.
hope it’s just a blip
or
Torts is going to need to match
that line with someone else
Hank was kind of rusty there..
Prust – the new “Great 8” in town!
CCCP, I was just thinking that this game looked awful on tv for a garden game.
Two Tikis are blogging tonight. I am negating Tiki 2’s 7:46 bad luck post! :)
wow we BLOW on the PP
I don’t think it’s HD at all. It’s maybe E or FD….
Beninatti
“Rangers are looking to dent the twine behind Fleury”
Nice to see the PP is as awful as it was before the break. LOL
huh? i don’t see how that was offsides.
and our PP still sucks
The look of disappointment in Jaffe’s face as he learns he finished a distant second in the Beninati Lookalike Contest (Right here on Versus!) to runaway winner, a Mr Joe Beninati of Washington D.C.:
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/394/beninatimafiasuit.jpg
how was that not a penalty on a hook on Callahan?
how did cally miss that
time to get a PP QB
Our PP sucks so bad that we got a tap-in goal from right in front that just was not converted…
For once, an offsides call wasn’t Avery’s fault!
is it me or does the commercial look in hd and not the broadcast?
Callahan has bad hands!
oh you whiners…..I’m happy. welcome back cally!!!
LW3H
LMAO! great pic! i almost choked from laughing when i saw it on TV
Just muted the curses channel. Can’t take it anymore.
ummm…a commercial for Glee during a hockey broadcast
where milbury or don cherry to comment on this?
On the PP, that pass MDZ made to MZA was the right play but MDZ put too much on it and it cause a turnover that lost about 30 seconds on the PP…MDZ is over-thinking simply plays….
gee Mama
you missed my comment on
bringing back Grachev in place of
Dubi since Dub didn’t score on his first shift
simple*
Laurel
of course you’re happy… it all looks the same on your 1959 Zenith TV Set :P
well, at least we can pretend tonight
when our pp stinks
that the pens have the league’s best pk
shocked!
Anisimov needs to spend a bit more time in the weight room.
AA definitely need more meat on his frame.
commercials have a lot better quality than the game broadcast lol
CCCP – Mama doesn’t even know how to operate a DVD player, nevermind her ‘59 Zenith TV. She probably has a butler flip the TV on and off for her!
Torts looks as if he’s going to kill the interviewer
and then yell at the players
wow. don’t sugar coat your feelings Torts…
Torts not happy with the way the team is playing. I wouldn’t think he would be after the layoff. Thought it would take a period to shake all the rust off.
Fleury 8-0-2 in last 10 at the MSG…yikes
Torts is not happy. He’s been watching his teams Power Play…
sorry jpg :)
C3 and tiki…..man you guys are gonna inked bad
McDONNA?!
LOL. Beninati, you idiot.
“Lundqvist helping his own cause?” what is that mean?
Im liking the broadcast so far tonight. It’s nice to hear about our players rather than hear Joe M fawn over the opposing players and how big and strong everyone is.
he stopped the puck
those vintage Caps jerseys look pretty sick
Check your email Blogmama
Guys does the broadcast suck or is it just my tv? Do they have cheap cameras or something?
CCCP – I bet they bought them at Rudy’s
In baseball, a pitcher helping his own cause is getting a hit to score a run. Maybe Benishoddy meant that LQ has been helping his own cause with all of his assists.
Anisimov looks like he needs a sandwich. I really hope he bulks up in the next couple of seasons…he is still awkwardly lanky out there…
Torts is right , were playing like Carp!!!
They need to pick it up a notch. They’re playing against the team with Mike Rupp as their second center
Well, they still can’t go two minutes without mentioning Crysby.
hmmmm….funny how poor marc savard got
crushed by cooke and others
equals
headshots not much of a big deal (ya know, it was his fault)
cindy
is involved in an accident with opposing player
and suddenly
headshots is a MAJOR probelm
bunch of carcillos
Nice hit by Cally
There you go. A couple of shots from the point can go a long way..
Alrighttttt dat more like it!!
Lets Go Rangerssss!!!
SIGH!!!!
can’t we just decline the pp
sigh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WW not bat at all.
Anybody who doesn’t have Versus on mute is missing out on a great broadcast by Kenny and Dave…
i just synced the radio audio with TV broadcast… bye bye Clichenatti
I prefer not having the power-play … Mickey-Mouse
you guys should do the same
http://rangers.nhl.com/club/RadioPlayer.htm?id=2010020753
Zucarello is a feeder….oh, vey..
again
icing!!!!!!!!
byfuglien!!!!!!!!!!!!
stop banging the puck around the boards forever!!!
they did better when they actually moved the puck around
instead of chasing it
the usual New York Rangers shot to the chest
jpg, I couldn’t agree more. I’m still upset about how poorly the savard check was handled by the league. It was so obviously an intent to injure IMO. Well, at least the league is really getting serious about it now…
When the Rangers get a PP, they should have the option to opt-out of it…so 2 minutes come off the clock, and they just skate full-strength effectively skipping the whole thing. The PP’s a joke.
nice saucer pass
I cant stand reading the crap about declining the PP.
It’s just stupid.
There are 3 inherent advantages to a PP.
1. You have a chance to attain a 5 on 3.
2. You have 2 minutes in which the other team is unlikely to score
3. If we get a penalty, it takes away PP time for the opposition.
i could like to listen to radio broadcast
but the stream is approx
15 seconds behind
Shameful PP, not even a chanc e
not wanting a PP – bush-league!
Drury with a pulse..
not physical??
there’s been lots of hits
Torts will have to discuss some points…..using soft, low voice.
Unless and until we get a dude who can fire rockets from the point, our PP will be craptacular.
More like Drury with a purse….
Gaborik has been non existent in this game.
also, we need a dude who can deliver puck in zone in PP
You dont need a guy that can fire rockets from the point. You need to be able to move the puck with efficiency and catch defenders out of position. You need constant movement and players finding open areas of ice.
LOL OMG LIKE I WAS SERIOUS ABOUT DECLINING THE PP. HAHAHAHA, what a dolt!
ahhhhh…Kenny and Dave…much better…
Pretty bad first period, though they picked it up late in the period. I expect Torts will give them a colorful pep talk and they’ll come out hitting hard in the second.
Penguins suck
Penguins are bums
Penguins are useless without Cindy and Meathead Malkin
Penguins are lame
Penguins are weak
Penguins are done
Penguins are garbage
Penguins are boring
Penguins need to miss the playoffs
still lol’ing here. Thanks for the PP breakdown. Man, you’re right, it IS an advantage! LOL.
nice Prustism from Prust
FIRE SATHER, he’s the one running the Power Play.
“I would fight him”....LMAO Prustie!
i wasn’t talking about anyone specifically, billybleeds. Ive seen 50,000 comments about declining the PP over the course of this season. And Im sure at least some of those comments are serious. That idea is just plain ridiculous.
Tiki: Rockets from the point fired on net with guys in front to screen/put in rebounds and deflections >>>> puck movement.
Stupid question. “What do you do when a guy goes out of his way to bump you or elbow you?”
“I fight him.”
Prust didn’t wet his bed as a child. The bed wet itself out of fear.
declining the pp is loaded with sarcasm
because we’re so bad
the pens were mentioned as having the best pk in the league.
and Tiki
an inherent advantage of pp
is that our team has an extra player
which should give them more room and a better
chance of scoring
chasing the puck around the board for a minute
is not taking advantage
you can talk about pp quarterback all you want
but if moving the puck around the board for awhile is all that you
do then what’s the use
...”what you do if…” – immidiate responce – I fight!
exactly Tiki
movement during the pp
but not back and forth along the boards
somehow we make it look as if the other team’s pk unit
has 6 guys to our 5.
amazingly pathetic.
Tiki, i guess sarcasm is often lost via text on a blog…
I’m still LOL’ING from your explaining the advantages of the PP though…oh man, thanks for the tips! :D
on radio next—Andrew Gross
Lousy 1st period, that’s for sure. And what’s with the Penguins, anyways – Cooke, Godard, Rupp and Englenob (or whatever his name is), geeesh….
How do you synch radio with TV, because my radio is like 12 seconds ahead of TV? And I can’t listen to this amateur anymore.
That is hoping for good luck, DJK. Firing shots at the net and hoping for deflections and rebounds is luck. More efficient production from the PP comes from efficient passing and finding open teammates.
Greg, but what are your feelings about the Pens?
crosby crosby crosby crosby crosby
blah blah blah blah
I propose a new channel. Much like Oprah has her own network now, let’s create one for Crosby. It can be all Crosby, all the time. With one rule, his name shall not be uttered anymore on any other network besides his own.
Carp if you get the radio from the internet, there’s a pause button…I got it pretty close. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than the alternative…
billybleedsblue – Sorry for the confusion. It was not directed at you or anyone specifically. Like I said, at least one or 2 posters on here would rather not have the PP. And yes, my explanation is so obvious, it is rather funny, so Ill join you by LMAO!
It’s funny how some folks are making a huge deal about “hits to the head”, yet have no problem cheering two goons punching each other’s face into a pulp.
tiki, just got your e-mail…....mailed back :)
Milbury with his medical knowledge. Barf.
The Rangers should just send out 4 guys when they are on the PP. They would probably be more effective 4 on 4.
weird that your radio is ahead
mine was behind
i changed from the link at Rangers site
to link from CCCP
maybe that will be more in sync
I miss Milbury as a GM. Sather didn’t look QUITE so bad.
billy, i listen on internet too…...i never thought of that…thanks!
my radio is behind too
No problem blogmama! Let’s go Rangers!
radio is always ahead of television however, internet feeds and internet radio are behind both TV and radio.
btw Kris Letang is really really good…
If the league ever listens to what Milbury thinks is a cause of concussion and how to prevent it, there will never be enough beds in US rehab centers to accommodate all hockey players.
Momma , Well ….Im still upset they got 2 outdoor classics already and we have’nt had any!!!Rangers in an outdoor classic against Vancouver or Toronto. Prust’s answer made me chuckle , I loved it!!!!
Cooke is chicken-carcillo
Haha…knew you guys would be goin nuts with Prusts’ answer.
Instant classic
Game back on. Better second period, pls.
oleo, thanks for the tech answer :)
Greg, me too. Great answer to a stupid question.
did Avery just run into Fluery??? haha go Avery!!!!
Ouch, how that didn’t go in?
Stepan was robbed. Damn
we need to start burying these chances
Gaborik went flying into the post. Wowza.
omg!!!!!!!!!!!
my radio just had Gabby knocked into the net
how was that not a penalty. if that were crybaby it would have been called
There you go…They got some jam
anisimoV!!!!
What hands by AA!
Hey hey AA!
WOOOT!
TIC TAC GOAL!!!
Yahoooooooooo!!!!!!
AA baby nice hand eye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yessss yess yesss yess yes!!!!
whoooo ohhhhh ohhhhh whoooohhhhhh hey hey ehy!!!
Drury will be proud of that bunt into the net. 2-0.
That was all created by Gaborik staying with the puck and shooting it towards the net. Great deflection by Dubinsky to get it on net. Great overall teamwork.
Keep it up, boys!
hmmm.. wait a sec. If my internet radio broadcast is already behind, how will hitting pause help? wouldn’t that put it further behind? I am so confused.
Avery got elbowed in the head.
That is a penalty.
That was your head shot
Shoulder to the head.
Hit in the head!
hit to the head! WTB!
WTG Artem “Pocket Aces” Anisimov!!!! AA
grrrrrrrr. taking out Sweet 16 like that!!!!
Prust <3
Go Prust!!!!!!
PRUST IS A MONSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Boy, Prust is tough
beat ny lottery
that if Avery would have got a concussion
from that
not a peep from milbury
Hope that hand is alright
unfortunately that is where we wouldv’e needed the Booger.
ilb you think Prust is tough? pick anything in this room i’ll lift it over my head
James G, I noticed that too…..oy
Prust is thinking:
” now just need to get my assist…”
I’m SO sick of different rules for Avery. THAT should have been a penalty. He tried to elbow Avery’s face off (pun intended)
We have not had a penalty called on us all night.;
The TV, James..
Since ORR isn’t here, I’ll be the first to say it: Noberries
jpg’s sister….no kidding!
That’s my Sweet 16!!!!
What??? BS call refs!!!!
You know what Prust said when he got to the penalty box: “It’s only pain.” Prust = monster.
Great. We get called for the elbow, but they don’t. SIGH.
Damn, that was fast..
Hartnelling clutterbuck!
how pathetic. they call the Newbury elbow
but not the pens elbow.
i guess the refs aren’t in the can just for cindy
STBU Tiki! You just cost us that penalty!!!! AASEN! And you cost us a goal! Hartneller…
That puck should have left the zone.
oh fug them.
fuggin refs screwing us even when the Skid isn’t playing
Staal’s goal
Not only PP sucks, now PK down to toilet..
ya know HANK
if YOU STAND ON YOUR G******* FEET
THE PUCK JUST MIGHT HIT YOU A LITTLE MORE!!!!!!!
Because it has nothing to do with the Skid or the Penguins or the Flyers or Shmigeggos. It has to do with the red, white, and blue, and number 16.
wtb!!!
jpg’s sister can post
but not bother to watch game
with her brother.
i’m behaving
LMAO!!!! the two tikis getting into it online!!!!
Blah Jeffrey… I thought Jeffrey worked for the parks department.
We can’t we create a sick deflection like that into the OTHER goal.
big save by hank
You all know Crosby’s watching the game from the war room in Toronto, right…with a direct line to the refs.
Nice forecheck shift by the Cally-Steps-Zuke line.
hahaha….blue seat…I wouldn’t doubt it!
jpg sister – watch the byfuglien game with your brother!!!!!!
prust needs the asst for the GHHT
why doesn’t jpg watch the game with his sister!!!
That puck double deflected. Jordan Staal’s stick was last
Johnny, you know what his favorite animal is? The leopard. ... he likes the spots.
I have a great idea for all of you. When you all realize that the referees are biased against the Rangers, then the Rangers will win the Cup. Deal?
yeah Blue seat , He gets glances at the head officials as a call is being reviewed. Crosby nods or just shakes his head . “Ahh I’ll let that one go …” is what he mutters the odd time.
why can’t Avery ever hit the net?
Avery wide
ummm….do you understand what payback is?
Back.
Girardi seems to have a bit of the ‘hot potato’ syndrome tonight.
5-3
Let’s Go Black Hawks!
i’m sitting here Mama
she keeps running around
maybe she’s nervous
i don’t know
jpg, no wonder your sister won’t watch the game with you…...
Crap.
Darn it
avery needs a new stick either that or he’s just mad @ the glass
sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Lundqvist has to control that rebound.
Back to work, Boys….
how in the living hell could he send a rebound
to a herd of players coming towards him?
how?
how?!?
HOW?!?!?!?!?!?!?
MDZ with a gift.
gimme a break !!! come on!!! what up!!!???? geeeezee man , this is sick.
Come on Michael, you are going to let Rupp beat you? Terrible.
Rupp = Ranger killer.
Rupp Roh!
Rupp plays in the garden like a ex ranger
Hank sloppy on that one, needs to control that rebound.
That is a bad goal to give up. Bad rebound.
Hi Sally!
Maloney’s (on the radio) saying that the ice is really bad.
one bad rebound and all hard work in toilet.
Holding on Step-ON?
Man, that was a horrible rebound by Hank, but DZ got out-muscled big time.
ever since that non call on Avery/call on Newbury it’s been all Pittsburgh, fuggin refs, thanks alot.
Whatever..Mike Rupp and the rest of these flaccid pen()ses wouldnt even bother desiring to beat the Bruins.
Yes, important PK
Ice bad. It doesn’t seem like the boards are screwed on tight either with all the weird caroms. Rangers seem a little sloppy tonight, swatting at the puck like it’s a hand grenade.
Need to fake the wuck up!
Come on boys!!!!
Fire Olga!!!!
LETS GO RANGERSSS!!!! lets pick it up !!! In Prust we Trust!!
Ugh, waddlers pp now.
Girardi is still not his self yet – a lot of simple mistakes. I don’t like when our guys are hoarding densely in the middle of defense zone under Pitss siege.
yep. just checked
byfuglien radio broadcast is
15 seconds behind
the tv broadcast
jpg is going nuts over here!!!!!
jpg is getting angry!!!
Great play by Sauer
If we lose this game, I blame the PP’s inability to score. PPG’s decide game folks.
DJK, blame the referees, not our inept PP.
jpg is getting upset!
I 2nd that motion, Tiki. A combination of 5 bad calls and missed calls so far this game against the Rangers.
Has Prust come back after his fight?
how was there no call on Aves again
Seems like Letang has a crosscheck for free card tonight.
Good job Staalie. 1 pen()s down. 19 to go.
Good timout by Torts.
jpg – Life is too short! Just smile! And hurl curse words at the referees!
Once AGAIN, where’s Gaborik!?????
He was just killing penalty, JBytes
Can’t blame the refs Tiki. That’s a losers excuse. Gotta be able to beat ALL opponents, including the refs.
Holy Hank! 3-2 now…
this team sucks
what ever , aww come on!!! Hank why Tank now???? BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! come on!!!!
Oh. My. Dear. Torts’ mood is like his tie now I bet.
So much for a “good timeout”.
Boy, I cant take it!!!!
Call a timeout now Torts….
You guys see why you gotta have D that shoot the puck?
sigh
wow…the ref let everything the Pens do go by and now every redirection is going in
Referees are always a legitimate excuse. Excusing the refs is a “loser’s” reasoning :)
this whole team sucks hard. no malkin, no crybaby, home game with 3 good players returning and this is the effort? get mdz and hank outta here. put farty in.
Wow, the Rangers are getting absolutely pounded tonight with very little physical pushback in response. Not good.
hawkeye, don’t be silly.
And centers that can win faceoffs, for that matter?
Not excusing the refs. Just saying you gotta beat them too.
The Rangers need to have some more players injured.
Well, Im having 2nd thoughts about us winning the Cup now. Maybe it was no games for a week that had me hopeful. With this goaltending and the anti-Rangers referees, I dont think so. We’re playing a Crosby-less and Malkin-less team. UGH!!
The timeout was forced by the icing with a mixed line on the ice. The goal was caused by another lost faceoff and the all-star defenseman letting a little guy escort him to the net for an uncontested deflection.
Had nothing to do with the timeout.
Need to start hitting and gettting the forecheck going again. And getting the puck, too.
Monster Boyle needs to step up once again.
smash the living byfuglien out of that carcillo cooke
Tonight is the perfect night for the Rangers to figure out who will be dealt…
i don’t care if the refs call a tight game as long as it’s fair and tonight hasn’t been
everytime gabbys line is out there they get no forecheck. our top line gets out forechecked and outchanced almost every time. im sick of this team losing home games. our pp is horrible, our pk is horrible, our best player is a 4th line fighter
Noooooooooo.
thats got to be a penalty!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTB!!!!!!!!!
And it’s time to call up Justin Soryal when the Rangers are matched against a team with 5 goons dressed. Prust did great against Englenob, but come on…more help please in these types of games.
Time to forget about winning…
Nice sucker punch there Jordan….
Look at this loser Jordan Staal. That ought to be 5 minutes. That’s not just roughing. You cant just punch a guy in the face for nothing.
why the heck didn’t Boyle beat the living carcillo out of Staal
i don’t care if his brother is on the team!!!
take his assen out
Boyle sticking up for his boy ‘Prustie’. Love that.
But, man, Prust took a helluva punch.
Marc should take out his brother
5 min?
Prust should know there’s no way in hell that piece of cooke is going to fight him
amazing that he got the match!!
FIVE MINUTES.
WHOA.
Match Penalty. That could really help us out the rest of this game.
Staal is gone!!!!!! Match Penalty
no need to worry , WE ARE WINNING!!! btw Tiki , Cup is ours!!!!
Yup. And a match penalty
one of the 4 must have peaked at the jumbotron…
That is exactly the right call!
Too bad the Rangers don’t have a power play.
Good BYE, Staal! Hit to the head, intent to injure.
What the hell was that anyway? Staal been taking ethics lessons from Cooke?
i know Carp
in fact i thought it was cooke that did something
to prust until the replay
Really? A five-minute major and match penalty? Don’t think it was warranted, but it’s the power of PRUST!
finally a good call tonight
OK guys NO excuse here. This is 100% on the PP. If we lose now, blame the PP.
i am being silly mama. im sorry im just pissed cuz i wanna see some effort and some damn defense instead of whatever theyre doing.
Marc, your brother is a $&$*(($#Z#
way to shake it off Prust!!! now go get him!!
WE WILL SCORE MULTIPLE TIMES ON THIS POWER PLAY!
WE WILL SCORE MULTIPLE TIMES ON THIS POWER PLAY!
WE WILL SCORE MULTIPLE TIMES ON THIS POWER PLAY!
This team has no balls
Two “tallies” on this “PP” would be nice.
i hate to say this but the pens
are such runny carcillos
that i would have to cheer for philthy
when they play against each other
really!!
and to see Tony Granato behind the bench.
what a bummer!!
i know a person needs a job but…
these Pens are a bunch of scumbags!!!
We will NOT score on this PP … guaranteed.
i cant watch this pp. its making me crazy. how do u play worse with a man up????
We can haz PP goal? PLZ??
Tiki
i’m amazed we have it in the zone for a bit
how majorly pathetic!!1
sorry
btw
nice slashes there by 54 of the pens
GO RANGERSSSS!!!
Come on nobs, Prust takes one for the time ALL the time – score a flipping goal….
no reason not to win this game
>>WE WILL not SCORE MULTIPLE TIMES ON THIS POWER PLAY!
Small correction!
That was quite a sucker punch.
jesus my god they actually play like a pk
who the F is our PP coach?
i agree 100% jpg
Good God can these guys play with any less urgency? When did Renney get back to town?
do they know they’re down a goal
and on the pp!!!!!!!!!!!!!
seriously!!!
how lazy!!!
How are they going to get two goals, when they can’t get two shots on goal?
No goals this or any other PP guaranteed. Trade for a point shooter NOW.
gilroy sure can skate but what else?
jpg: “and to see Tony Granato behind the bench.
what a bummer!!
i know a person needs a job but…”
please don’t remind me. makes me want to throw up a little
What is Jordan excuse? That he is Marc’s bro…It is his luck, facing brutal retaliation after.
cally blew a wide open net earlier. i know hes rusty but my grammy couldve scored that
passing to nobody??!?!?!?
the only shot by Callahan
pathetic!!!!
there is NOTHING you can say to defend this.
i’ve seen better pp from the Youngstown Phantoms junior team last friday.
Threatening is not enough. Need a goal!
OMG, this is ridiculous….shameful….
if you guys wanna keep all these young players and go with a veteran free team then we are going to continue to have a bad powerplay…
they approach the pp like they’re in a beer league
and if they score they have to buy the keg
Game over.
what’s a POWER play i haven’t seen one in awile.
we should just call these a waste of time.
Decline the next PP please! It’s too embarassingly frustrating to watch….
Awful, just godawful
oh dear
at least send a shower of ice in fleury’s face!!!
pathetic!!!
That’s real shame…when needed the most. Given the best opportunity. If not score they are deserve to lose.
Power Play hint for the Rangers: The guys in white are NOT on your team. Stop passing to them!
I said
FINALLY!!!!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
ok not bad dz
HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE
CALLY!
WOOHOOOOOO!!!
CALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!
Nice! Captain Cally!
OMG, a shot from the point actually resulted in a goal….what a concept!
MZA on point making the play to make room….very nice!
Simple play- shot, deflection. GOAL!
Callahan is getting his hands back. 3-3.
Thank you Jesus…I mean Prust
Listen to that ovation when Callahan’s goal was announced. <3
Boyle = Monster Beast
in response to whoever asked who is our pp coach?
maybe Mess works on pp
after all that faceoff work
See? How hard is that?
Shot from the point, pack it in.
The Penguins committed 2 penalties against us during that 5 minute PP.
We still can score multiple goals on the PP in the 3rd.
Maybe you hartnellers guaranteeing that we aren’t going to score on the PP ought to try having faith in your team once in a while.
JPG … classic. I made it my facebook status.
nice work by the two Ms…..welcome back Cally!
Braunschweiger …. also a classic
When a team’s power play fails each year, maybe the staff should try something different instead of being content with failure.
Prust with the GWA for the gordie, no reason to lose to the group they have left on the bench, no reason. But boy oh boy our points s**k on the PP
these Pens are the biggest douchebags…jeez, Cooke(aka chicken Carcillo), Talbot( total douche),Skid (Mr. Ed), and now Staal ((sucker punch Staal).
the PP is going to be a problem all season and into the playoffs. You can’t have it both ways. You cant say you wanna keep every single player under the age of 25 and then turn around and complain that our PP is no good.
The players we have are simply not capable of forming a good 5 man PP unit at least not this season. The ONLY way to get a better PP is to get top line talent…
John Buccigross appears to be extremely drunk tonight.
Just tweeted that it was a “terrible call on Jordan Staal…elbowed in the head, pokes Prust with a jab, Prust embellishes…”
Then “Chris Drury has been good-get him on the power play!”
cally sure made up for that missed open net in the first. thank god but hank is gonna have to be perfect the rest of the way. i love when they show him in the commercial saying” you cant let too many points slip away”. he better be able to stop this team with staal now gone too. they never make it easy on us
I think they should call in Leetch to work with the PP. Seriously.
CCCP, how do you synch the radio cast with the TV? Because these Versus amateurs are killing me, and Jaffe is having a bad night, too. Maybe it’s contagious.
That cheap shite by Staal is what you call a real sucker punch. Yet all the Avery haters insist he sucker punches people.
I know it is his first game back, but Girardi has been awful tonight. That second goal allowed by lundquist was terrible.
I don’t like the lines that Torts has come up with tonight at all.
They have not been sharp tonight at all.
The lack of a power play is really a major concern. It is also quickly becoming a momentum killer.
what??? Milbury is smoking crack are you guys listening to Versus right now….what total BS!!!!!!!!!!
This versus broadcast is just awful. Was that Milbury who said that Prust was “giggling on the bench”? Clown.
I’m SO SICK of Mike Millbury. The guy is a Grade A moron.
Talking about how the Staal punch was a bad call on the ref’s part. Are you kidding me? The guy has NO RIGHT TO TALK. HE BEAT THE CROWD WITH A SHOE.
Can you imagine if Avery did that? They’d be ALL OVER HIM.
So unbelievable. I’m irate right now.
cmon that was an embellishment by prust. u guys cant think that hit put him down like that. but the refs screwed up already on some bad noncalls on the hit on avery, the trip on avery, and gabby getting tripped.
These losers in the Versus studio are a disgrace
Ahhh, I love the sweet smell of a biased bostonian! Like I said earlier, Bucci-GROSS is a sickening and terrible human being. As is Milbury. If their byfuglien-buddy Marc Savard got hit like that, the 2 of them would be crying a river.
Milbury is a moron
the vice versus guys just are for carcillo…..bad call of Staal? lordy, I could do a better job than these nuts
LW, that’s what you get for paying attention to an asshat like Buccigross.
Hawkeye, one of the reasons Cally missed the open net in the first was because he was being tripped. Can’t totally blame him for that.
Ya know what, hearing and reading Milbury and Bucci-disgusting, Im glad about Marc Savard. GLAD about Marc Savard! Take that, you filthy pigs!
the sad part is they all agreed on Versus, total sucker punch, Staal is a grown man throwing a punch that connected they can’t tell me that didn’t hurt, let one of them get punched in the face.
Wow. What a bunch of COMPLETE hypocrisy from the Versus pieces of Carcillo!! The last break, they were going on and on and on about how the league has to do EVERYTHING to stop head injuries. And then when a Penguin gets ejected for a direct sucker-punch to the head, what do they say? “It was just a punch to the head!”
Unbelievable. I mean really, I can’t believe somebody could spout something so byfuglien hypocritical in the same broadcast.
Disgusting.
oleo, we tried Aleš Kotalík as point man and that didn’t work. He has one of the best shots in all of hockey. Too bad he is lazy and enigmatic.
MZA will be our PP QB. He did it tonight almost effortlessly. He created space for Dubi to make that pass and Cally to make that play…
Every team in the NHL needs a Pronger or a Niedermayer or a Lidstrom or a Rafalski…but there aren’t that many guys like that…it is far better to be patient with MDZ than go out and get a Kaberle or a Pitkanen…
I really want to ask Bucci-sicko and Milbury how Savard tastes. All 3 of them are Hartnell-buddies!
Tiki
it’s not a matter of watching with rose-colored glasses
it’s a matter of the team doing what a team should do with a pp
which is move the puck around, make the opponents tired,
get pucks to the net, be set for rebounds, and not mess around
for what seems like hours on the boards.
i don’t think that one person is all that’s needed on this pp
it’s a whole different approach and better coaching and getting the
players to reset their minds from merely grind and jam
to movement, passes and jamming the net for rebounds.
Meanwhile, in a good news, Isladorks in a scary good style game leading Atlanta 4:1.
Yes, Mats Zuccarello-Aasen will be our PP QB!
LW, that’s what you get for paying attention to an asshat like Buccigross.
_
THANK YOU CARP! THANK YOU CARP!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!! bucciGROSS! bucciDISGUSTING! bucciSICKO!
st0w, exactly!!!!!!! I was thinking the same thing. I want to sucker punch the whole booth.
Folks, after you see the replay tomorrow, you just might realize that Prust did try to elbow Staal. And Prust did embellish it a bit….
st0w – It had nothing to do with the Penguins throwing the punch. It has to do with the Rangers receiving the punch!
Carp, asshat? Buccigross? Do you speak from personal experience?
I just added “Versus” as an entry on Urbandictionary.com (it’s being reviewed):
Versus, n.
an utterly bush-league, amateur-hour, mickey-mouse network that attempts to broadcast NHL games … but instead, embarrases itself in every regard via shoddy camera work and insipid commentary (particularly by a clown nicknamed “Mike Milbury”)
Ex.: I’d rather watch 4th division Honduran soccer on Telefutura than catch an “HD” NHL game on Versus
Dear VS or that car maker, pls fix the sound on that commercial. Thnx
i’ll say this. if it was somebody Prust was ready and willing to fight
he wouldn’t have gone down so easily.
did he embelish? i think a bit
but it takes nothing away from the suckerpunch from staal
and the correct call (amazingly) by the refs.
Prust didn’t try to elbow Staal, Prust threw up his arms because Staal was coming in late to hit Prust , Prust did get him in thre chops a little bit, but totally the right call, even if Prust didn’t go down from the punch
NYR Fan – Ill speak from personal experience. BucciGROSS spit on me once many years ago. The guy is a steaming heap of carcillo.
agree ilb
if staal would have used an open hand pushed against
Prust
then no penalty or both would have gone off for roughing
That was the right call, no question. But look at the replay, I could be wrong.
i agree he embelished a bit, but doesn’t mean you can punch someone in the face when they aren’t ready to fight.
These versus guys are unreal. Milbury says that it was a blown call? Thats irresponsible. THE INTERMISSION BEFORE they went on about dangerous hits to the head, so its clearly only Crobsy’s head they care about. Bottom Line. This is what happened….Prust makes a legal hit in a scrum, Staal comes over to obviously hit Prust back(who is backing away from the puck), Prust puts his arms up first to block and hit Staal who he sees coming, then Staal takes his shot. Kicked out of this game. Should sit for one more. But for Milbury and Jones to say that Staal was “retaliating” or “baited” into that sucker punch. Awful, Disgusting, and more adjectives that Carpy doesnt want published on here.
also
i wonder if Prust had his elbow up
in anticipation of cooke or someone of that ilk
coming over for a cheapshot
Miami, excellent!!!
papsmear is having a boyle like season over there. see what happens when we give up on the young guys?? haha j/k thats about as surprising as boyle this year too. but at least atl lost. now the canes gotta lose and the habs
I’d rather be infected with rabies from raccoons than ever be spit on by bucciGROSS again!
I think you are ilb, but still love ya :)
Rangers specialty teams PP and PK are just particular awful tonight, 5×5 regular game is not too bad IMO, considering general rust and first for Duby and Cally. Giradi, as I notice, kind of sleepy and slow
ok now get the lead!
ha, Maloney, “Rangers have to put on their big boy boots now”
Third periods have been their best this season. C’mon boys and get this win.
Skid must have gone to bed, the calls are starting to even out now
OK, another PP goal?
cmon artie!!!
god artie is so easily knocked off teh puck.
prust didn’t throw a elbow he put it up to defend himself from Stall. He did act a bit going down but no doubt cheap as hell and I would respect him if he squared off with BP next time they meet, but I somehow doubt it. Yet Prust fights a legit HW tonite, that’s why we luv him
MDZ completely blew that possession in the offensive zone with a clownish pass to Zuccarello.
Dubinksy with the penalty
ohh cmon refs!!!!
back to jerking around on the boards
and look what happens
nothing
absolutely
nothing
oh wait!! pens send puck out of zone
I didn’t see the stick come up there.
How could that be a penalty on Dubinsky exactly?
For serious?!?
nice move by Sauer
Seriously, how come Letang gets to slash and crosscheck all night? This is ree-pen()s-you-louse.
PP needs to be better.
Tiki – I know you despise Boston. I understand the bias you speak of with Boston, baseball, and ESPN’s reporting and analysis. But I don’t see a connection to hockey or the Bruins? Why do you hate on a guy like Buccigross?
Has Letang left the ice tonight?
NYR – First, the classless bum spit on me many years ago. Second, he is a lifelong Bruins, Red Sox, Celtics fan. And every time the bum does ESPN’s top plays and he gets to number 4, he always says “Numbah 4, Bobby Orr”
lmao at drury. it just cant get any worse for him
When you can’t buy a goal, buy a pizza place instead!
would be nice to see drury score a goal before he bought out this summer
Cally with the block :D
And Captain Fantastic with the shot ON net. What?
Did I hear the name Drury?
if I had a penny for every stupid cliche that’s come out of the VS mouths tonight, I’d never have to work again.
Tiki was it a “Magic Loogie”?
Girardi is having a really rough night
hahaha…reminds me of June 14, 1987…. Mets Phillies. We’re enjoying a beautiful afternoon
in the right field stands when a crucial Hernandez error to a five run Phillies
ninth. Cost the Mets the game.
nice high hit to the back of the head of Prust
who did that?
Pizza, Pizza
something happened that changed us in a deep and
profound way front that day forward.
Another nail biter…
Olga – There was nothing magical about it. I had to scrub my face for days to get the putrid vile stench of bucciGROSS off of me.
He spit on us.
Are Dubinsky-Anisimov-Callahan back together?
No reason to stop pressing..They’re really shorthanded
we just look bad tonight in every area. barely hanging on against a team with 3/4ths of their offense out.wheres gabby? last time he scored a goal where he actually shot the puck was the toronto game. this is garbage to gte outworked like this at home
Maloney just mentioned some tragedy in the Giannone family???? carp?
Gabby’s been quiet. Too quiet.
Would anyone trade for Mike Fisher from Ottawa?
Yes. Not discussing it here.
I agree with HAWKEYE …
this is amateur-hour
ok.
Carp, those 3 are on the ice together right now.
“tests the leather”
jesus
Great shot by Avery. It is going to be a tough final ten minutes.
Don’t know the story about Giannone and his family, but my condolences and prayers to all of them. I hate hearing about bad stuff happening to anyone.
thanks carp
AA’s gotta stop those blind passes to the crease when he has so much time behind the net.
ON net, DZ.
wow sorry to hear about tragic news to john giannone and his family.
looks like a street hockey game the way the puck is bouncing
This game has late/OT winner by some scrub like Conner, Rupp or Adams written all over it.
Good pressure. Keep it on, boys
TB 4 Phi 0
Nice!
artie is struggling with consistency real bad this year. even though hes on pace to have a better statistical season than last year, he hasnt shown enough for me.
LW, you mean by Zucc, Cally or Dubi…..
Pens are really playing dirty
We can haz pp goal again, plz?
come lets get our PP rolling now
Letang is such an assen-hole.
He spit on us.
Are Dubinsky-Anisimov-Callahan back together?
***
Yes, Carp.
.... and I screamed out, “I’m hit!”
Now make them pay
Letang goes to Le Box
cross checking.
was it too much to call it boarding
since he could have made Cally like
that kid from boston who was paralyzed.
World’s Most Famous Ice.
yea it does lw3h. it has last years team written all over it. i hope they pull this out but ya gotta put this team down pretty handily missing crosby,malkin and now staal. or at least not have to struggle just for teh extra point
Mickey, LOL…..
back to the boards and
the puck is back out of the zone
will they ever learn?
Man, the Penguins block a lot of shots, too.
problem again
Wolski
takes the time to check out the situation
NO, act on your advantage
and move the puck or shoot it!!!!!
you big dolt!!
what a clutch pp dump in
Carp, madison global warming I tell you….
c’mon boys!
aww, fudge.
I need a Win in regulation against this team for my money and all of aggravations.
Power play will be the downfall of this team in the playoffs
Fleury’s made a couple of really, really good saves, also.
Stepan scores the Game winner….
Mama, I don’t know what that means.
hope your right greg
pucks look when they did chuck-a-puck promotion during last friday’s game.
maybe they weren’t frozen properly in fridge. should have left ‘em outside.
Did anybody call here asking for Vandaley industries?
Yes, Fleury has been very good. The Pens have been playing the way the Rangers played all year too.
Avery has taken a few really good shots tonight. Hope he keeps it up.
Can we NOT give them a point? PLS?
and a clutch late 3rd period icing, and another one
cmon wolski.
This hasn’t been the best-played game, but it’s been pretty entertaining, and a lot of stuff sure has happened.
We need a Good Gabby Goal!
So that earlier conversation about ice time for Dubi and Cally? Totally moot since they both eclipsed their avaerages already.
“This game has late/OT winner by some scrub like Conner, Rupp or Adams written all over it.”
AGREED.
another missed one by artie!!!!
bad ice, global warming, madison square garden…..yeesh, I didn’t think that was so obscure :) guess my brain makes its own connections …..
omg!!!!
radio is so far behind the tv broadcast
i think the players will be showered in real time
before the radio guys say the is officially over
Ha Ref tripped over a stick.
Started out slow, Carp, but it’s gotten better as it’s gone along
Giving them a point doesn’t really matter. Let’s just find a way to get 2 points out of this and to at least get a point ourselves.
“This hasn’t been the best-played game, but it’s been pretty entertaining, and a lot of stuff sure has happened.”
entertaining to me = winning the game
Damn, OT.
Good. Glad to see the ref trip like the fool he is! :)
period over and Albert is talking about orpick behind the net with 5 seconds left.
ARGHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
ok, at least a point in teh standings. i’m sure that made drurys day
Point taken!
cally with the winner
We deserve better than 1 point tonight!
I’ll take the point the way they played through half that game. Let’s hope they can finish it in OT.
yes , we got a point . Now to go get he other Zuccooooo!!!!( if there is a stuiped shoot out) I still say Stepan in ot!!!!
I don’t know where to start with this game. I still can’t believe that blatent elbw to the head of Avery by Orpick….what a piece of carcillo…
at least shootout will favor us. if rupp doesnt score. or engelland
One point in the Barn. Go for two!
We don’t deserve $hit
hehehe. Prust is trending in NY right now.
We should have beaten this skeleton Penguins team by 3
there has to come a time when the Rangers have to recognize that they should
pass or shoot the puck in a spot where the pens is stick is not located
there has to come a time when the Rangers have to recognize that they are playing a team that is without 3 centermen
bet that’s what other teams said about us, too, miami….
if we don’t win, I will get very thirsty…...
GRRR. Stop passing it back!
watch Drury score the winner
The Penguins didn’t have much of a chance in overtime, and I’m guessing they won’t in the shootout. Too bad Rangers couldn’t win this in regulation.
OK, it’s MZA time!!!!!!!
Zucc0
Stepan
AA
Carp’s favorite coming up!
Shootout?
Shoot me.
ok, this should be a big advantage but they got letang, and besides zucc and wolski, who else has scored a shootout goalthis year??
hope you’re right Spider
but i’m the type who doesn’t like
to kick an angry dog when it’s sleeping
OK if we can’t beat PIT in a shootout without Malkin, Crosby, Staal, and Letestu, I’ll be Byfuglien’d.
Wolski
Stepan
Zucarello
“The Penguins didn’t have much of a chance in overtime, and I’m guessing they won’t in the shootout. Too bad Rangers couldn’t win this in regulation.”
The very words that will lead to all 3 Penguins to score in the shootout.
well, just getting crazier.
it’s kind of raining on top of the snow
and freezing
so, i may have a fun drive home.
only a few minutes but…
Drury
Girardi
Avery
let’s all think positive please!!!! good vibes!!!!
the Rangers really arent in competition with the Penguins in regards to the playoffs so them getting a point isnt really a big deal. 6th place is really our best option at this point…
as I said earlier no reason to lose this, how about something bigtime Hank!
please win this one rangers!
Chicago Wins 7-4
Go Hawks!
the shoot out is a carp shoot…no dvantage for anyone.
C’mon Hank!
yea baby!!!
Nice try Letang.
weak
c’mon Zuccs
WTB WAS THAT MOVE WOLSKI?!?!?!?!
seriously!
go wide. get no angle and then don’t move inside.
bored with scoring?
were done
WTH was that from Zuke?
close
maybe this will be Drury’s night
cmon rangers im having a coronary
Nice save by Hank.
Crap shot by WoWo.
Pascal Dupuis is playing tonight?
Frodo? How could you Frodo?
What’s with these horrible shootout camera angles?
AA = Awkward and Anxious
we sucketh
I hate this camera angle, btw
bring on Stepan!!!!!
c’mon lets get this done Cally
Bring Drury
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
this is sad. put marty biron in there he wouldve scored by now
Yeah Versus angles are crap.
yeah camera angle sucks
come on Stepan!!! Bring on Stepan!!!!!
can no one on our team
make one more turn back and put it
where fleury has left net wide open??
maybe like Wolski used to do
UGH. Get that up, Stepan
boooooooooooooo shoot outs suck!!!!
Versus is COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE … my goodness, WTF is up with these horrific camera angles
c’mon lets score on Flower
pathetic!!!!!!!!!! why doesnt gabby shoot?
c’mon Dubi
booooooooooooooo!!!! Go Rangersss!!!!
Torts really?
really?
just bring on Drury or Avery or Biron…
just shoot the damn puck!!!!!!!!
here it comes…
Damn. Game over.
pleaseeeeee Gaborik
well, finally figured that was going to happen
CLUTCH!!
i give up. this team is garbage
Boo
Bah. Pathetic loss.
what a disappointment tonight!
Since ORR’s not here, I’ll say it: Game Over. Season Over.
FIRE SATHER!
byfuglein carcillo to lose tonight. Blew a 2-zip lead and cannot do that when the Pens had not Skid or Shrek.
Dont know why MZA and Wolski didnt bother to try dekes. They probably figured that the league was informed about them, so they tried to change things up. Typical New York idiocy
oh just a big fat fug. hawkeye, I am gonna pluck your feathers and shuck your corn….
wow what absurdity … no good team loses to skeleton teams … BUSH-LEAGUE
at least one point, thinking positively
did the capitals win?
now a text from my friend, the Pens fan
sheeeesh!!!!
this team looked like they partied waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too
hard with MDZ during the break.
Torts should rip a few new ones because they played
against a team with a few of its major players and put in a subpar performance.
yeah
Carp will go on about how the pens had to be more aware of their own zone because of that
but it doesn’t matter. we stank up MSG BIG TIME with a pp that, when it works
they immediately forget what they did
and
shootout attempts that were half-hearted
and i included
Wolski and Zuc (who at least was close with that weak 5 hole attempt)
7 breakaways and not 1 goal. time to trade for some offense. id do a gabby for iginla straight up right now.
gaborik sux. you can’t count on him in big games vs good teams. he did not do squat in the 4-on4 OT, or the shootout, or the PP during the game. what effin use is he?
that’s my girl jpg’s sister!
And with all of Gaborik’s skill and shooting prowess, 2 for 19 in the shootout. Use your shooting prowess Gaborik!
this game shows exactly why everyone is saying the Rangers wont win the cup. As gritty and hardworking as they are, the lack of top line talent is really apparent.
They’re too healthy, and they won too much in the face-off circle. Should’ve come into the third trailing 3-2. They need to play the underdog or they don’t win.
Well, they gained one point on Carolina and Atlanta
Wow! A Boyle double-header on Versus tonight.
what ever , a shoot out? these are really dumb. Exciting but dumb. Like why is it exciting? cuz ya got the shooter under fire (pressure) and the goalie back there fending for himself. Its a old “show down’77” at intermission on NHIC back in the old days. Whom ever said to bring it to real hockey!!!!???The shoot out is exciting but it is stuiped. Heck we lost out in game 82 cuz of it.That game should have went to double ot . The season neeeds to flip to continious ot for the lat 20 game or so. This shoot out stuff is for the birds.
BRAD RICHARDS
xtremely bad loss. bad game from Dan G. Hank(2/3 goals) Gabby ….. big names not making the big play uuuugh
pluck me, shuck me, and well, and then turn me over. im done.
Did anyone see a shot earlier in the third period of the Rangers bench and you could see Drury just sitting there not saying a word and being totally emotionless?? Really glad he’s our Captain.
Pull his C now, I could live with him if he at least gutted it out like the rest of the team and set the tone. I wouldn’t even care if he wasn’t putting up decent numbers but he is a total waste at this point.
Gabby for Iginla ..straight up? ok.
Penguin power!! NYR can’t even beat Pitt without Sid and Gino. Priceless.
hawk, even though I’m annoyed with you tonight, you just made me LOL….:)
How fitting is that Gaborik, who’s underachieved all season, save for 3 games, doesn’t score with the game on the line….quite, actually.
Rangers definitely let a point slip away tonight, but they still put an point between themselves and Carolina, so that’s a positive.
They’ve also got to get used to playing together again. They were a little out of sync tonight. They played well except for part of the 2nd, but not great. This could have been a loss
Whatever trade needs to be made this year, make it now.
I like how Torts let Gaborik go, not a great result though…Gaborik is dreary…
Credit to the Frenchie Flower I guess. Penguins practice is essentially Malkin and Crosby practicing penalty shots for 30 minutes on Fleury. He’s pretty good at it.
NCountry, before the shootout I saw him looking at his hands, while in gloves, like he was checking out if he needed a manicure.
ouch, I don’t generally get that mean about one of our own…..but…..
if Torts coaches this team next year
there is no way Drury is wearing a Rangers
uniform
he would have to do a double or triple Boyle
for him to even make it through training camp
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ummm Hawk ya didnt like yer old name Gabby?
Joe, I like your thought
They seemed really out of sorts tonight. Lines weren’t really working well. Girardi was off the entire game. MDZ is going back to Reddenville. Hank wasn’t sharp like he was before the break.
I don’t know why it’s so hard for some here to believe that the Rangers lost to a depleted Pittsburgh squad. The Rangers have been winning with half of the Connecticut Whale for the past 6 weeks.
Greg, you gotta keep up…we changed that the other day :)
Who’s worse at shootouts, Gaborik or Jagr?
its really sad about Drury, it doesn’t even feel like this team has a Captain, what does he do to lead this team. This is the first time since i’ve been a fan that I really wished our Captain was gone.
overreact a little more everybody!!
i love this team and i love the rangers. i just hate losing babs. im just venting. i have to or i’ll go insane. u know i really love these guys im just pissed we couldnt win a game we had laid out on a silver platter. oleo is right. we wont do jack this season. but its another small zuccarello step towards our goal. which is a cup. so im not real mad anymore. just have to stop going through an emotional rollercoaster rooting for this team. i gotta think positive. but some of these younger guys and top players have to get their stuff together. im talkin gabby and drury mainly. these guys are killin the spirit of this team right now. they gotta help out scoring. im sorry but if dru doesnt score 1 next game, torts should scratch him the rest of teh season. boogaard will score again before he will!
Drury is worse than useless. Sit him a few games, then take the C from him, then buy him out. Then DON’T let Sather do it again!
IMO, given the injuries on the Pens, this was an important game to win – Montreal and Detroit in 2 away games over the weekend, but the Devils first and in case anyone is thinking that’s a cakewalk, you probably shouldn’t. The Devils won again last night and while the players haven’t changed much since the last time the Rangers face them, their play sure has.
If the Rangers aren’t careful, they could be looking at a 5 game losing streak come Tuesday morning (remember, they were weak against Florida in their last game before the break).
Miami Pimp
Your posts are hilarious tonight. I agree that Drury should have been given the go!
I will refuse to blame Gaborik. Its really hard for a skill player like him to score when he has no other top line talent to play with. We really need to hope Prospal has something left in the tank…
Really?, I’m with you!!! LMAO!!!!!
still a lot of season left, and I’m too tired to jibberish/debate/etc. here anymore tonight, so LGR and til tomorrow and Carp’s insights…..TA!
p.s. that reminds me…where’s wicky??
Here’s the e-mail that I just sent Versus:
I’ve been watching hockey since the early 70’s, and I must say that the camerawork was the worst I’ve EVER seen, especially during the shootout. I would have preferred watching the game without HD, if I was just able to watch normal, routine camera angles.
TERRIBLE!!
Looks like the MSG ice didn’t do any conditioning work during the All-Star Break.
Some positives:
-Avery was starting to take some nice wristers toward the end of the game.
-Good to see McD using his wheels there in the OT.
-Stepan made a nice move in the OT there for the Ranger’s best chance.
-Wolski had a few flashes of authority with the puck.
Dan G was very off tonight and getting 3 guys back into the lineup I think shook them up a bit. I would have preferred that Dubi sit one more game and slowly intergrate our healthy players instead of dirupting the whole team.
Also it’s always hard to play after a long break for any team, Pens just got some lucky deflections in front and won in in the skills competition. Oh well, no reason to declare this team a bust yet.
left another point on the ice. florida game should have been a win also.
drury gave newbury a great pass in the first, newbury did not even get it on net.
drury wins every key faceoff. the 2nd pitt goal was simply anisimov getting blown away on the faceoff and then a deflection. last 2 games the rangers have given up some soft goals.
can’t believe the rangers won more faceoffs then the crosby’s.
mcdonagh and sauer are legit. DZ played fine, the rupp goal was a horrible juicy rebound by henrik, who has looked off the last 2 games…...
right right , I missed that bigtime .I’ll have to take a looksie while im bawling my eyes out on how we lost cuz no one could see through all that white on Fleurys stuiped pads.
BOOOOOOOOOOO!!! but we got a point. We must move on…
Oh and Gaborik has officially been declassified as a “Winning Player.” Get rid of him, please. He does not fit in with the identity of this Ranger team. If he was thought of as a leader and a franchise player, he’d be wearing an “A.” Do not wait for Prospal to come back, do not pass “Go,” do not collect $200.00, just ship him out of here. Now I understand how the Wild fans felt about him.
Him for Iginla = Gartner for Anderson 2.0.
Bad loss. The worst game they have played in a long time. I am a bit surprised they did not come out flying tonight with some of the injured guys coming back. They need to bounce back quickly here to stop it from becoming a three game losing streak.
I thought Sauer and McDonough were the best dmen tonight.
BOOOOOOGAARD BOOOOOGAARD!!!!
in the shootout for some reason the rangers were looking 5 hole… the hobbit changed up his usual move, why? do it until they stop you.
rangers out chanced the crosbies by about 23 to 8, nothing else to do except callahan hit the wide open net in the first and newbury hit the net period…
the young d is real good…
hy greg i liked grabby but babs christened me with a new name. in the spiriot of the guardian project, i am now hawkeye(iowa is teh hawkeye state), guardian of corn, everclear, and livestock
is Blowzy playing for the Yotes tonight??
niceeee grabby!!!
Hank let in too many goals during th game.
wolski is going to be a beast come playoff time ( golf course or ice)
Drury is an embarrasment as a Captain for us. For us. Drury….Captain!!??? Nawww he need to be demoted to Assistant and give it to Dubi or Staal.
Zucco needs to play with Gaborik and wolski
That’s awesome. I missed the christening. Hawkeye is my new favorite guardian. What are your powers? Hopefully better than the PC garbage Stan Lee shattenkirked out.
torts needs to bench gabby a few. i dont care if we lose them. if this is it, if this is what hes gonna be this season, we arent makin the playoffs. arties gola was lucky, prust had an open net. and we had at least 3-4 wide open nets that they fumbled cuz they cant recieve passes well enough. or be quicker on the puck when they get it, to shoot it. a few more years for soem of the kids and some upgrades on offense, and we have a bright future though. i think sathers retiring after this season. i heard that recently and i hope he keeps going the right way so his replacement has a good team with a future to work with
Sather retiring? Be still, my heart…
I heard James Dolan was going to replace Sather as GM so he can get rid of all these kids and get some name players in here to fill the seats.
I kid. I kid.
no top line talent? what bs. what kind of “top line talent ” did the Minn Wild have for him? less than the NYR, that’s what. he has been set up from behind the net in previous games, from the blueline in, and been on the PP, the 4-on-4, you name it, and all he can do is run it up vs the patsy teams, but zilch vs the good teams when they need a clutch goal. we know Drury is washed up, but what is gaborik’s excuse? he has none, but some will make them up anyway.
Lackluster play tonight by the boys..even in the shootout they just didn’t seem to be “there”...
this is a pathetic result. if anyone here is satisfied with a point against a team that was giving you the game with all the penalties then you need your head examined.
OUR PP IS THE REASON WHY WE WILL BE LIFE AND DEATH AGAIN IN GAME 82.
ONE MORE THING WHY TORTS THAT MORON DRESSES MDZ OVER EMINGER I HAVE NO FREAKING CLUE.
MDZ IS WORTHLESS AT THE MOMENT MAYBE IN THE FUTURE BUT NOT THE PRESENT
benching Gabby ,gabby(Mike)... isnt going to help gabby.Gabby needs to be gabby and even Gabby knows that. Gabby needs to score like gabby and have more “gabby” moments. Maybe trading Gabby for Iggy may stop me from saying gabby and start saying Iggy!!???
yes greg!! i might make a hybrid name, like grabbyhawk, or hawk-achev, or grabbyhawk in Ia. grabhawkachev in ia, or maybe mike grabachev hawkeye the iowa lone ranger, aka guardian of peace and justice, aka guardian and last known hope for the humanoid race of bird men
Don’t bench Gaborik. Trade him for a player or two that actually fit in on this team. Off hand I’d say L.A. or St. Louis would take him, Nashville would take him, Toronto would take him, and Edmonton or Calgary would take him.
I can’t get behind this guy anymore as a Ranger fan. This is a team of the Callahans, Prusts, Boyles & Staals. All his “goal scoring wizardry” did for us last season is cost us the opportunity to draft Jeff Skinner.
Wow I’m angry tonight.
hahah greg.
olga- im serious i heard on some nhl related show that rumours were this year or next will be when slats retires, hes just puttinga good core in place and setting up mess, or whoever will be the next gm. but i think its mess.
So Sather stays as President, and Messier is to be GM?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!
Good point, NCountry. As I said earlier, the entire team looked off and out of sync. I think Torts sleeps on it tonight, redoes the lines at practice tomorrow and they’ll be better on Thursday.
I like ” grabhawkachev in ia” ...not to shibby.
DJK , the result was sick and lame but don’t fret. we come out hard and start winning some more games. Alot of guys were tired and back from injury. Just wait and see ,, our team needs a few games back to get into our goove.
im angry too djk. im still pissed. i hate bylsma too. i hate his stupid lisp, and his emrick face. i hate that our full team couldnt beat a 3rd of a pens team on home ice in a shootout where the only goal in 14 attempts by both sides was a ahl callup!!! yea and bylsma is better than torts. everyone knows you put the superclutch capn drury out there to score. no really i hate the pens so bad. thats all
hahahaaa Olga!! suffer , hahhaaa suffer some more…Sather as President and clone Messier as new GM…..ahhhhh NOW IM HAPPY!!!! : ) you suffer Olga and ima lovin it!!!
Watch us beat the Dweebils on Thursday 6-0 and watch Gaborik score multiple non-impact goals. He’s the second coming of Kovalev.
Gaborik’s last 2 years in Minnesota he had Mikko Koivu whom is probably one of the top 3 most underrated players in the game. Then before that he had Brian Rolston and Pavol Demitra who are certainly better than anyone we have now. Although he hasn’t been healthy the last 3 years, Pierre-Marc Bouchard put up a string of 50-60 point seasons from ages 21-23.
Did he every have another player of his caliber no, but he never had a bunch of 40 point players either…
LETS GO RANGERS!!!!!! yeah baby !!!! No need to worry , next game we score 6 goals or more or Hank gets a shutout….
i mean how soon do you forget Gaborik had the best season of his career last season…
wow, DJK and Grabby. Chill guys, please.
Yes, they should have won. But they were putting 3 major components back in the lineup tonight and it made everyone disjointed. They’ll be better on Thursday.
greg, as the year goes on the harder teams are playing for points. we will not get by with even our better efforts weve had like all those come from behind wins. we gotta get gabby and some others to start scoring. the special teams have to be better, or changes made. thats the problem. we have to be careful with who we trade and if its not a contending year, then why bother? hope slatipuss stays the course. i say give gabby a chance when prospal returns. if he still doesnt do much, then we can call it a season i think. boyle is not gonna keep scoring. and our other good players we have dont score 30 goals. hes it.
Oleo- all that is irrelevant. I don’t care who we have or don’t have for him to play with. I think he may have lost his shot with the shoulder injury (as did Jagr?) and we should deal him while we still can. His play this season is unacceptable and he does not put forth the same effort as the players around him.
Does anyone on here honestly believe that Gaborik will get us a Stanley Cup?
So Gabby has a bum shoulder, doesn’t make an effort anymore, makes 7.5 mil per year and has 3 years left on his contract.
What do you think we can get for him?
Jesus, you people are making Gaborik out to be a slug. How bout this, quite possibly he IS trying as hard as he can, but he’s SO talented that it looks like he’s not.
Marian Gaborik= Carlos Beltran, apparently.
WOW.
Prospal should be getting Gaborik’s salary, because without him Gaborik is nothing. he scored 42 with prospal, and this year he looks lost without him. there is nothing elite about Gaborik, he does not make other players better, but instead vice versa.
The Devils are a cluster-Byfuglien this year. While it always feels good to beat them, I’ll still be pissed off from this loss to Pitt unless the reasons WHY we lost tonight aren’t addressed. I have not been this angry all season long.
Im optomistic that things will go to the better then to the worse. We have a plan and an identity. Tonight we were flat and ran into a hot goalie whom had nothing to lose. Fluery was fresh off the all star game and he looked confident. He was hot.
Mickey predicted over 800 posts tonight ….well thats close to where were at. WTG Mickey!!!
DJK – Don’t you mean that the Devils are a Clutterbuck? :P
Gaborik isn’t a “slug,” I’m sure if we trade him he’ll immediately do fine elsewhere, but this Ranger team FINALLY has something it’s NEVER had – a team identity – and Gaborik does not figure into the equation.
Re-adressing an earlier discussion… Dubinsky had 23 minutes and change tonight. And was 15-4 on faceoffs, granted the Pens were down 4 centermen, so not all that surprising.
Wonder how that leg will feel in the morning.
Get typing! 800 is just around the corner…
Olga – we can get a player or two for him that overall we’ll be a lot happier with.
omg, there’s a fire at another building in my complex and people are being evacuated. On a cold, messy night. I can’t see the building from here, but that is still scary, especially coming on the heels on 3 fire alarms in my building last month.
Who would be stupid enough to trade for him? Sather is the only one…
jesus, and then a bunch of you laugh at how other teams fans react to games on their boards….look in the mirror, sheesh.
oh well…another broken stick by Hank…though, we played a pretty decent game, especially in the third.
I was surprised that WoWo and MZA didn’t use any dekes in the SO
Can Avery do any worse than Goborik, Dubi, AA or Cally in the shootout? Why not try Avery for once?
There must be something wrong with Gaborik…it has to be! It just a mystery why he suck so much this season
Bring on the Devils!
Olga- the Kings and Blues for sure.
LOL @ Olga
Olga LOL @ Sather
Pretell, DJK, who are we getting from either of those teams that would fit with this team? Players that the Blues or Kings are actively shopping? Blues are so wracked with injuries that they aren’t dealing anyone on their current roster.
One more…
eight hundred and one!
Mickey- we could get 1 forward and 1 D from both of those teams for him.
If the Blues offered us Dave Backes and a quality defenseman, I’d take it, and if LA offered us Dustin Brown and a quality defenseman, I’d do it.
Id much rather have a 30 goal scorer who grinds for impact goals than a 40 goal scorer who does nothing if he doesn’t score.
Surely, you can’t be serious. You think JD will trade with Sather for an injured, no effort, former scorer with a monstrous contract?
“Id much rather have a 30 goal scorer who grinds for impact goals than a 40 goal scorer who does nothing if he doesn’t score.”
So would any other GM.
It also goes without saying that I would take Iginla for him, straight up.
I’d like to once again Steve for the tickets tonight. I’d like to again congratulate CCCP for receiving so many Congrats today. I’d like to smack the Rangers for blowing a 2 goal lead, letting Mike Rupp score again and losing to a Pens team without Crosby, Malkin and Jordan Staal for tue 3rd period. They need to get back on the road.
Olga – have you forgotten what always happens to those players the second they aren’t Rangers anymore? :)
DJK, those teams are NOT offering us Backes or Brown plus for Gaborik. Hell, neither team would do those deals straight up. STL LOVES Backes, I know this for sure as I see his jersey all around town. LA isn’t trading their captain. So forget both deals.
http://defendingthecore.blogspot.com/2011/02/quick-hits-on-tonights-game.html
thought mdz struggled in his own end tonight.
Cally with 21 minutes plus and SEVEN hit tonight. A fine game in his return, very much like he normally plays
DJK, no I haven’t. I also haven’t forgotten what happens to 30 goal scorers who grind for goals, when they come to NY.
See Drury.
Mickey- What about Brian Burke and the Leafs? What can we get from him?
How about Edmonton?
Hey, we did hit 800. I am a GENUIS prognasticator. Maybe I’ll buy a lottery ticket tomorrow.
Burke would trade is entire team for Gaborik, but there isn;t anyone on the Leaves that I would want if I were Sather.
Edmonton- fine. Give me Hall and Eberle straight up for Gaborik. Otherwise, no deal.
wow “blast from the past” actually posted something (but first he posted link to his site) other than the link to his site! have you emailed Carp yet, blast from the past? lol
CT
i’d like to thank you once again for congratulating me on all the congrats i got today! Thank you! Your congrats on my congrats mean a lot!
new post.
Can the GENUIS spell genius? If you get a lottery ticket, make sure it’s all numbers…
If the Leafs would give us Kessel and Komisarek (neither of whom their fans much care for) I’d think about it.
Edmonton? Penner and Whitney, done deal.
DJK the Leafs will gladly offer Jeff Finger and Komisarek and Oil will offer Sheldon Souray. Or did you want Kadri of Taylor Hall.
All that grinding by Dustin Brown has led the Kings to outside the playoff bubble on a team with a core of Brown, Doughty, Kopitar, Johnson and Quick. That team doesn’t need a major upgrade in talent. And they’re not trading their captain who even though is on pace to tie his career high in points still is producing at an inferior rate than Gaborik in a down year. And remove Brown from
Kopitar and I will give you extremely good odds that he produces even less.
Trading your high end talent at low points in production is a surefire way to get ripped off.