Marc Staal will be a gametime decision, based on how he feels in warmups. You probably know his decision by now, via twitter, tweeter, tooter, or the MSG pregame show.
Fedotenko is back in.
So here are the probable lines according to our sources (the guys who are actually doing their jobs at MSG, unlike me):
Dubinsky-Anisimov-Callahan
Wolski-Stepan-Zuccarello
Avery-Christensen-Prospal
Fedotenko-Boyle-Prust
Eminger will be prucha’d if Staal plays. Sauer and McDonagh would be reunited, and McCabe would pair with Gilroy.
No Ocho Cinco tonight … at least for starters.
Marian Gaborik will travel with the team to Ottawa tonight, but will not play tomorrow. And I’m sure you’ve seen by now that Michael Del Zotto broke a finger last night with Connecticut, and is out 4-6 weeks.
Hope to catch Rangers in 60 following my hoops marathon, second of five in a row for me.
ps, the March 20 game in Pitt has been flexed to an NBC 12:30 start.
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First!?
LGR!
Manfried and Mao – 1st and 2nd… and 2 of my favoooorite things!! :)
This is finally starting to be my day!
Tiki = Hero
I’ll be watching from Colony Grill …
Pizza, Pizza!
Cullen is due for a goal tonight.
Jose Thee-or-more is 8-0 at the Garden?? For real?!
That’s un-real.
George: “You don’t like the move?”
Woman: “No – it feels like aliens poking at my body”
soon to be 8-1 !!
Tell him Tony!
I got a feeling tonight’s game will go to the shootout.
Where is Linda? Or CT? Come on guys…come out come out wherever you are!
No shootout – 4-2
LGR
lol Chris Drury
We need Vicki Valencourt to get in here and start making some predictions!
“Mud Dogs are gonna win, 30 to 27.”
4 goals at home?? Tony, pass the bong!
Ever notice that all the women in Sandler movies have the intials VV
C3P , 3 goal & a empty netter !
Bong is empty !!
Is this true?
Vicki Vallencourt
Veronica Vaughn
Virginia Venit
You’re Right! What does this mean?
LGR! Hope Tony is right!!
Kurt
I never knew that! And I saw all of the Sandler movies! How did you figure that?
LETS GO RANGERS! LETS GO RANGERS!
Im not a hero, but the real Tiki is a hero! She visits the elderly in nursing homes to cheer them up. She’s never met a person and not put a smile on the person’s face :)
Smiling rules. Humor is the best medicine. Real Tiki is a Hero(ine).
refresh, refresh, refresh !!!
I OWN you guys!
Let’s go Rangers!
anyone’s adthe net stream not working?
TROLL!!!!! JOSE THREE OR MORE IS A TROLL!!!
I want to meet the Hero TIKI!
Well…I just looked it up and not all of his lady characters have VV initials…but still it’s pretty weird to have that many VV initials anyway
Dunno C Just clicked one day
Anyone have a working link? (Better than the one that is on ATDE?)
Whats the others?
Miked, try adthe.me
I found 4 girls that are VV and one V. Obviously he made a LOT of movies. Julia Gulia was so good as a name I am sure he couldn’t pass it up.
So Hank is technically 1 game bellow .500
Awesome
avery-prospal-christensen line i think could have some potential
That’s it for me.
Don’t want to ruin the game, I’m recording it at home.
Only 5:00 here
LGR !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kurt
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091111163755AAxg8lD
I’ve already made my peace with this season. We’ll be in 9th place by 10:30 PM.
OMG
AVERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally!
HOLY CARCILLO!!!!!! GO AVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course Avery. HAHA!
Wow – I believe someone predicted that in the previous thread!
holy carcillo avery scores!!
Rangers lead??? woo hooo…AVES!!!
BANG!
Theres one for all the Aves haters
Goal # 3 for Avery
3 more than Drury
>>...Michael Del Zotto broke a finger last night with Connecticut, and is out 4-6 weeks.
That kid can’t seem to catch a break this season. Oh wait…never miiiind!
see. toldya Avery should be playin’ more
WOW! Avery scores!
“It’s a sign.”
“Yeah, going out of business!”
This is hilarious, off the fresh avery debate on this blog and who scores the first goal in the game?
GHOSTBUSTERS!
Hey – You can’t park that here…you can’t park that here…
I was changing TV rooms during the goal. I better keep walking around!
don’t be a malcontent. don’t be a griper.
just admit that Avery is a sniper
We couldn’t even be in ninth tonight. lol
Minnesota drafts guys based on their name…Cal Clutterbuck, Clayton Stoner….
manfried – “i met her on monday, it was my lucky bunday…you know what i mean?”
He scored that goal because you people wouldn’t shut up aboot him. Bwahaha!
good start
yes mccabe time!
Yeah, apparently they let Seth Rogen do the drafting.
Rangers should score some goals tonight, Theodore stinks.
FOZZY!
Mama at painting class misses Avery’s goal! HARUMPH! AVERY!
Time for some McBombing
CTB is at MSG! The Rangers better get him a win!
Let’s Go Rangers!!!!
Let’s go PP lets pound the Wilds!!!
>>This is hilarious, off the fresh avery debate on this blog and who scores the first goal in the game?
Funnier still is the fact that I went at it earlier today with a buddy who dared comparing Avery with Cooke and Gillies. I asked him when was the last time Avery got tossed of a game for a dirty play. No answer! When was the last time Avery got suspended for dirty play? Still no answer!
JOSE THREE-OR-MORE!!!!!!
THREE-OR-MORE! THE-O-DORE!
Boy, McCabe looks like he is skating in slush, kind of slow.
WHY is Prospal on the pp?
This is not a good PP.
Spider great minds think alike…hahaha
I am so not impressed with McCabe’s play.
that PP stank!
Wow that Wild player came off the bench early at the end of the PP to even up the Rangers odd-man rush. Should be a penalty even though they didn’t touch the puck.
I guess we’re back to the old “don’t try to shoot” strategy.
Horrible pp
Indeed N.Country
why is prospal even dressed?
This is one of those games where Aves will be great, then he’ll go back to suckage.
Avery with the Gordie tonite
whens the last time Avery even started a scrum like that…where has he been lately, nice for him to show up once and awhile.
oh, Tiki….poor Mama….maybe that’s why he scored!! she needs to keep painting!
that hit was on the side!
Kingborough College is a good school with lots of hot Russian girls! I took bunch of prerequisite classes there. Love that college
Wild’s first shot on goal will probably tickle the old onion bag.
Nice setup pass by McCabe
we need to put everything on need Three-or-more looks very shaky
someone needs to drill clutterbuck!
net
Another chance at this whole PP thing…
The Minnesota coach is writing a reminder to buy liquor before he leaves NY.
After this period, he’s going to need it.
“3 bottles Red Flavor MD 20/20”
“tickle the old onion bag”
sounds dirty
may use that line on the wife later tonight
The refs/linesmen are getting crushed repeatedly tonight. I love it.
“Spectacular save”, Joe? How about lousy finishing?
better PP same result!
Sick save
Does anyone know how to lift the puck
>>may use that line on the wife later tonight
Dear me! I hope you won’t be thinking of me when you do.
>>Does anyone know how to lift the puck
Two inches off the ice and we’d be up 2-0.
almost a puck in the ol
Onion Bag
the problem our team has is we can not finish and then it gives even the worst goaltenders confidence against us.
Nice baby hip check by the Zuekster
Oh where, oh where has Dubinsky gone?
Adam Sandler has a double dose of the “V” is what it is…
Great start for the Rangers…finally!
Good first period, needed to cash in at least one of those PPs cause you know the wild are gona get few next period.
When was the last time we actually came out of the first period with a lead?
anyone else have Center Ice?
Rangers game is supposed to be on regular channel
and HD channel but
the HD is blacked out.
same problem?
For all the little things that can be complained about, the Rangers did the one big thing we’ve all been complaining about them not doing – starting off the first period strong. That’s huge. First goal and almost complete domination of the first period. Yeah, they need to put more of those close ones in the net. And yeah, the PP still looks weak. But they kept the Wild shot-free for the majority of the period, and they took a lead into the second. That’s big for these guys.
I have center ice,wild feed is in hd, but no problem
jpg – yeah, me too. I got the MSG SD feed, but can’t get the Minnesota HD feed. :\ Might be regional blackout based on location.
Avery prob gets a few more minutes tonight
alright, checked again HD is working
but i think it’s the wild channel
oh well
Guess who has the least amount of ice time? No prize to be awarded, as it’s such an obvious answer.
Marty Biron!?
Boogaard!
Gabby?
Steve Eminger? Chris Drury? Prucha?
All are good answers, and you’re all very close.
>>Steve Eminger? Chris Drury? Prucha?
Ryan Hollweg?
Jed Ortmeyer :-(
I’m hearing the song Carp was talking about betwen periods.
Sounds like the chorus is “All Night Long?”
When was the last time we actually came out of the first period with a lead?
————————————————————-
3 Games ago against Washington.
why is it our players take so looooooooong
to shoot?
What’s the real answer?
horrible pass by Cally
Dubi not right
yeah i feel Dubi came back too soon, he should have sat out at least two more games when he was injured
Well that was stupid
No Joe, EC isn’t dumbfounded, he’s just DUMB!
another offensive zone penalty!
So was that
WHY THE FACE?!
Wow! Dublowsy!
freakin dubi!
THE RANGERS NEVER SCORE ON ODD MAN RUSHES HOLY #&*$ !!!!!
what the hell was that Dubi!!!
WTF (Why The Face) ??
Amen Noah!
Callaman should have never passed it to him.
Stupid EC
Dumbass Dublowsky
fugg
uggg, here we go!
a billion dollars to the person on this board
who DIDN’T see that coming
Why the Byfuglien?
Free fallin’
of course Three-or-more is settling in…we can’t finish.
Shoot…people in front…deflection…puck goes in
Simple enough
Sauer-McDonag don’t seem to do too well on the penalty kill. A lot of goals are scored against them.
The Rangers are responsible for my SVT (heart condition) and my hyperactive thyroid. ‘Nuff said. Why didn’t we all pick Detroit or Montreal or a nice team that would not cause us so much suffering.
>>WTF (Why The Face) ??
Want To Fly?
Theodore still stinks but the rangers stink more!!!!!
Sabs up 1-0 on Canes. Not good!
double fugg…buffalo is up 1-0
Are there scouts in the stands from Barnum and Bailey’s Circus? Because the Rangers are playing like clowns out there…
And because we can’t bury a friggin’ puck in what seems like have been about 6 open nets, now we’re tied, and are back on our heels! This should be a 4-0 lead at this point!
Remember when the Wild has 0 shots in 17 minutes?
Now they’re out-shooting us.
Only 17 games remaining! wow
The season went by too quick
Yeah – fame is fleeting, Orr!!
LoL Olga!
It’s a McPower-Play
ok our 3rd PP, we need a goal
was Dubi taking Kovy lessons?
why is Erik on the point again?
he has nothing on his shot
but at least it’s getting through…a bit
jeez
Ugh, Dublowsky is stuck in a world of suck right now.
Arrrgh! Toothless PP…...
id trade dubinsky for richards in a heart beat
Wolski = MONSTER…pile of carcillo
the wild are practically trying to give us this game and we are too inept to do anything
“id trade dubinsky for richards in a heart beat”
That sounds kinda like Sather except Sather doesn’t have a heart…
Dubi has been MIA for about 2 months…
LOL @ Sam. Sin-Dromes
Let’s GO RANGERS!!!!
We need to play with desparation every shift!
Bwaha! Olga!
This looks like an AHL game.
at least richards shows up
Intervention is coming. I seriously need help.
Dubi and all the other RFAs
are going to have a “fun” time during contract
negotiations when sather brings lots of
video of our suck-@@@ power play
Game Over
Season Over
Game over. Season over.
I give up!!!!! This is unacceptable!
Wow, who knew Brent Burns could pass like that?
man how many of those types of goals are we gonna give up lately
gee, is American Idol on or something less torturous than this?
If Gaborik is waking up with headaches, it could be that he’s getting TOO MUCH sleep.
first freakin goal! what else is new!!!
cannot lose to the Wild…
Game over.
Season over.
We had a million scoring chances vs. Jose Three-Or-More and we have nobody with enough talent to convert on em.
“man how many of those types of goals are we gonna give up lately?”
As many as it takes to put us in ninth place…..
Zuccs got tripped no call
Start practicing for the playoffs- Let’s Go Black Hawks!!
BREAKING NEWS
The refs handed Lindy Ruff an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, because he has a massive hard-on on the bench after he found out that NYR are down 2-1
LOL…”they wanted to win a 2-1 game”... guarantees a win agains the Rangers
the rangers must have been trained by the nypd they always shoot dead center mass!
Apocalypse is coming!!!
hahaha…nice Jimbo
Ah, there’s that comfortable come from behind feeling.
Boyes with two goals in two games for the Sabs.
Yeah, we could have used some “scoring punch” in our lineup. Only would have cost us a fuggin 2nd round pick.
it’s not even just amount of talent
it’s playing with Stupid as their Co-Pilot
Dubi, weak wide shot.
Cally no force is wide open net
not enough intensity to do anything other
than **** around on the boards in offensive zone
looking forward to tonight’s desperate rush in the last
few minutes and an empty net goal.
“BREAKING NEWS
The refs handed Lindy Ruff an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, because he has a massive hard-on on the bench after he found out that NYR are down 2-1”
Comedy Gold, Jerry!!!!!!!
The islanders skated circles around the wild last night and the rangers are making the wild look like a playoff team. That’s all you need to know about the rangers. The question is, will they lose enough to be in the top five in the draft this year.
sit Dubi’s aassen!!!!!
Sauer, McD are willing to
and taking better shots than
him right now
Guys – Why The Face – what the Hell is going on!?
Our offense is more pathetic than it’s ever been. So many stone-handed slugs on the ice.
As Rob Schneider said OH NO WE SUCK AGAIN
Thanks, NCountry! And by ninth place, I mean after game 82 is over…...
Good one!
Waterboy’s a cheater! Cut his head off!
well, at least we can expect the typical furious 3rd period effort resulting in an empty-netter…lose 3-1
I agree 100% jpg
Orr- Sather didnt want to add any more cap commitments beyond this season- Boyes has 1 yr @ $4M left.
N.Country
i can’t even gripe about non-calls
right now when it’s just a matter of
us wasting two minutes of the game
might as well just take
another tv timeout
could be more exciting
Why do the rangers hate me
funny how McCabe didn’t get any shots at all
during pp
Wouldn’t be a Rangers game if we didn’t go into the third period behind by one… sigh
maybe torts has never told them that the curved part of the stick goes on the ice!
My mama said Dubinsky’s so ornery because he has all those teeth and no toothbrush.
And there’s something wrong with his medula oblongata, Colonel Sanders
I say, bring Dale “The Pale” Weise back up.
this is hard to watch right now!
I’m going out to feed the neighborhood stray cats – that might calm me down a little bit to overcome the disgust I feel right now with this team….
where’s our physical play tonight??
No penalty for dry-humping, apparently…
Losers
i see the refs put there whistles away early tonight…not like it really matters i guess.
their
Rangers are not scaring anybody with those jello shits they take from bad angles
If this is a preview of Rangers playoff hockey then no thanks…I’ll pass
He could have just waived Boyes’ ass if it didn’t work out.
Or trade him.
at least il be out of town for the next 2 games,dont know how much more of thie carcillo i can take!
And I wonder if this friggin’ organization should just concentrate on trying to improve their play on the ice rather than all this feel-good BS with every A-H charity that seems to rule our schedules!!! For goodness sakes, this is a professional HOCKEY team, not the Sisters of Charity!!!
i`m feeling alittle sweaty, alittle confused and alittle horny
Shots*
bricklayers. dubi 2 on 1 fiasco with cally and boyle 4 on 2. this team does not even get the shot on goal.
btw if a ranger d man did what burns did that would be 2 minutes.
this team just cannot hit the net with the puck, that is a problem in hocky.
Ha CCCP! Capitalizing on a “typo” there.
this team does not deserve to be a playoff team the way they are playing. The only reason i would like to see them make the playoffs this year is so that it gives our young guys a taste of it and the experience.
Rangers blood drive? I feel like they drain me every game these days…
this team is falling apart. can’t believ that is happening. finding a way to lose game in and game out. after 2, outplayed the opponent and guess what they are losing, that is a theme…........
I still believe this team isn’t going to make the playoffs. I’ve felt this way since the beginning of February. The rangers don’t pass the puck well at all. It’s great they work along the boards but you need to score, not waste more than half the game along the boards and in back of the net.
Sabs and Canes most likely going to OT.
Somebody mentioned benching Dublowsky. I agree. Sit him for a game. It might do him some good.
Orr, don’t you think JD called the NYR? I think Sather passed because he was trying to go after Richards (maybe Stastny too)...I agree that it would have been a low risk move.
Kurt
Are you pregnant?
I knew I didn’t remember a brown jello…
>>The question is, will they lose enough to be in the top five in the draft this year.
The answer is NO! They’ll miss the playoffs by five or six points and get the 12th pick.
Manopause C
Ha ha ha. What a joke.
I see them ending up in ninth, the worst draft pick without making the playoffs.
FI-RE SA-THER!
Looks like the Rangers are seeing a big drunk penguin in front of the net
Hate to say it, but … BUSH-LEAGUE
agreed…no playoffs for this team. It gets worse every week!
I know, it’s frustrating to always be drafting in the mid rounds, hence why the rangers young players are decent but nothing great.
4 on 2 and no shot on goal. With few exceptions, they’ve abandoned the cycle. When the opponents are in the Rangers’ zone, everyone’s looking beyhind the net.
I understand the need for patience with a young team, but we’re holding their hands, for Christ’s sake.
I am really sick of hearing people say “The Rangers Don’t Panic. They know how to play a goal down.” Guess What!? It’s TIME TO PANIC! PLAY LIKE YOU’RE PANICKING.
just got here but hey eddie, awesome movie spinal tap !! haha that is one of my fave movies man! i like the song “big bottoms”. what was the song you were referring to? my favorite part is when they order the stonehenge prop and u ee this tinu thing lowered from teh ceiling and the little druids dancing around it!
This just sucks. It always sucks. Year after year of suck. At least this is young home grown suck so we can watch this suck mature rather than have to sign overpriced over the hill suck to make us feel like this. Other than the look on my face my wife had no idea they lost the lead this period. Intervention may be avoidable.
good example is the Flyers. The Flyers traded away there team, tank a few years, drafted high, made some good trades and now they will contend for the cup. It always goes back unfortunately that Darth Sather is the rangers gm.
i saw half of teh first and all of teh 2n. man what happened? teams dont even have to play half a game against us and still win. its pathetic. especially for the fans at the garden to watch that. no wonder its dead in there lately
If Keenan and Trautwig put their heads together they can make an ass of themselves…
JD had to make an offer.
Would have been a good trade. A little extra offense, which they desperately need.
Ugh, that clip of the Dublowsky 2 on 1 is just sad. He’s usually so confident on odd man rushes, but he looked like a scared fuggin kid.
Stupid game! I hate MSG! I wish we played 82 fuggin games on the road.
The answer is NO! They’ll miss the playoffs by five or six points and get the 12th pick.
***
JB, IMO, that is the biggest problem for the future of the organization. Hands down. So long as Dolan owns the team, I don’t think the Rangers will never bottom out.
looks like its gona be another 40 shot 1 gal performance!
*ever
Maybe when the renovations are complete at the Garden, NYR will start winning there!
some of these young guys havent really improved either and guys like duby AA and cally all sem to go through long periods of crap play. not necessarily cally, cuz he works his butt off and does his job, but these guys have to start scoring and leading this team. they are the leadrs now.
Watching this team lately is like taking a great dump and then sticking your finger through the toilet paper
Bwahaha! It is!
You guys crack me up. C’mon Rangers! Stop making me crazy. Oh man, btw, I highly recommend peanut butter and jelly panini on multigrain bread. Amazing!
The New York Disaster on Wheels
whats a 3rd period lead!
Joe M. STFU. They are good at desperation hockey because they have to play it every third period…
Mediocrity lives here
85-Year tradition of Mediocrity
They’re good at playing desperate hockey? Really? Why have they been coming up short in all those one goal losses?
john- i didnt get surprised when we got scored on by 2 crap goals. i knew it was coming. you gotta just brace yourself. and know that something bad will happen soon. i dont flinch or get excited anymore. i just smile when minny scores. thres nothing else you can do. i hope my comp works long enough for me to watch the 3rd. or do i know the end of this movie already? i think ive seen it all last month. maybe we tie it up? 1 point? that would seem like a playoff series win at this point
Right now the fish sticks are laughing their aasens off!
kurt- lmfao!! thanks for the laugh man!
bench Dubi!!!!!!
maybe he should have gone to dallas
This is becoming unwatchable.
like i said dead center mass!
yeah, i said it.
what has he done for the past 20 games
and tonight
if Dubi is not hurt
then what’s his excuse?!?
does no one on this team know how to lift the puck?—prospal
Jose One-or-fewer.
Zidlicky Kloucek and Rem Murray for Mike Dunham.
Nice one, Glen…
McDonagh goes down the day after MDZ. Awesome.
Dr. Zuccarello.
I’ll be right back, I’m going to set the rope up, so I can hang myself right after the game ends
well this just sucks
there is NO offensive chances
if the ONLY way they play
is just messing around on the boards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
another injury? season over…
Thanks Carp. Always here to lift our spirits.
LMAO @ Jim Ramsey pushing the ref
Rut Roh…
carp needs to change these post titles in a few weeks to :It’s golf time!
It’s good that McD is not going to the locker room.
We always look slower by the 3rd period
Vinny stop and lift the puck!!!
I think the ice just cost us our second best D-Man.
no offense Mama
but you know things are bad
when Avery is best shooting forward of the night
Ignored the game tonight…had dinner, went to the gym, showered and come back to find the expected on the tv screen: Rangers down by a goal, can’t score a goal.
This isn’t even funny anymore. And certainly not entertaining.
These guys are making me watch Jersey Shore.
I guess they’ll play with desperation now in the third period…but I’ll ask the board: Did they show ANY urgency through the first two periods?
Micheletti’s mot du jour: desperation.
AMATEUR-HOUR
funny how we always miss rebounds
as if we’re surprised that the puck wasn’t in the goalie’s
chest or glove and play didn’t stop
Bienvenido a Miami
maybe we should have signed that pee wee player who they showed
scoring during between-periods game
LOL! Miami! Indeed, sir!
Why do I feel referees are letting teams like Wild and Devils get away with the old interference away from the puck?
and another one bites the dust…
Shyte
now McDonagh hurt. what else can go wrong
We need a fight!
jpg- we already have a little leaguer…
i do what I can, miked.
actually, I’m getting tired of being Mr. Sunshine amid all the gloom around here. Last year I was getting killed for being too negative. This year I really believe in this team—even though this team is not about this year.
Trade everybody, dammit.
oh. god. why the face.
Fugg this team
They suck
fugg this!
Nice givaway
LOL I love it now.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!
Well, that does it!
Hank had no chance. Don’t blame him…
That’s it. I’m done. Can’t take any more of this tonight. G’nite all.
AND THAT’S THAT, FOLKS
Typical Hank goal.
3-1
Can I get a FI-RE SA-THER?
Where’s Roy Orbison!? “It’s OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOver!!”
ummmm…..so who do you think we’ll get
with our pick this year?
This team is an epic disaster, really.
Well-deserved loss.
same old story.
rangers will score one more, lose 3-2, just like every other game they played in february.
And that’s enough for me…
This team completely and totally sucks out loud. For the past how many weeks have we seen this?
No playoffs for sure. I’m just wondering if both the Devils AND the Isles are gonna finish above us in the standings.
Don’t laugh…it’ll likely happen with the way this team has been playing.
Well Carp – I think this team is playing too negatively. You can be sunshine or gloom or whatever. It doesn’t matter anymore.
I really believe in this team too.
ummmm…..so who do you think we’ll get
with our pick this year?
Jessiman’s little brother.
I knew we should have kept tim kennedy!
ORR!!!
don’t forget typical Rangers play in their zone.
notice how our guys are rarely left alone
but there’s the wild guy able to shoot it in
of course,
if that was us, it would go wide.
power play time! meaning short-handed goal by clutterbuck
WTB?>!?!?>!>!>!>!?!?
is Erik doing on the point?!?!?!?!?!?
I wish we would stop having good starts to the season. This is gut-wrenching.
Here comes the SHORTIE!
I blame this loss on Dublowsky
orr thats it in the nutshell!
EC & Dublowsky
FATSO jinxed this team! This slide started when he opened his trap about Rangers making the playoffs.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I’m still waiting for McCabe’s first assist on the power play.
This is classic.
and mcd hasnt been back.
NYR are 0-3 with McCabe
I bet he’s thinking to himself “boy, I can’t wait to go back to Florida”
Henrik Threeormorequvist
This team collapsed the moment they started talking about “moving up in the standings”
How’s that Jack Adams Award looking there, Torts?
We’re gonna likely have the WORST home record in the NHL this season.
THAT is an absolute joke.
McCabe is an idiot. He was in Miami. He had it made.
henriks save pct going down the carcilter!
This really is GUT wrenching.
Yeah, he traded a nice tan in Florida, for freezing pink balls in New York, with a whole lotta embarrassment on the side.
Great move!
>> bet he’s thinking to himself “boy, I can’t wait to go back to Florida”
The only reason the guy came here is to be close to his wife and kid.
LOL! And to think, the Isles beat these guys 4-1 yesterday.
All McCabe has done so far is 1 asst and knocked our backup goalie out of commision!
Game over at 3rd goal no longer watching
Are we really blaming the slide on McCabe? Please.
His family is happy up here. You can’t put a value on a happy family. Just looks at what a positive effect it has had on his play!
Carcilter. Hahaha.
McCabe still has done more than Drury has all season
Sorry, there are no excuses. Whomever utters an excuse tonight (on this message board) is a complete clown.
Stepan hurt Biron, not McCabe.
LOL ! Orr, the Isles actually have a few natural goal scorers in their lineup right now, we don’t…
next year can we skip the holiday break?
Why has it been for YEARS that one team starts the season and their just learning to play hockey in bantam’s twin returns after the holiday break to barely make the break or not make the playoffs that year?
First Question to Torts: “Why does the team suck?”
Minnesota knows how to play defence [yet managed to cough up four gaols to the Islanders last night.]! It’s funny how every team Rangers play knows how to play defenece and has the greatest goalie on the planet. Yah!
Dont know whats worse, being a rangers or a jets fan!
Miami, is that Bozo, or Eric the Clown?
Jets.
It’s the media’s fault.
Knicks.
Yeah, the Isles manage to pick up random nobody 30 goal scorers like Moulson, and Grabner, and give our sloppy seconds a chance, and he has 20+ goals.
Fugg it all!
your probably right.
$20 say Torts will be beating someone up at the bus stop during post game
Maybe the should cycle the puck behind the goal line more. I don’t think they are spending enough time behind the goal line. In fact, I think they should send 4 guys behind the goal line, 3 just isn’t enough.
Trivia: Who is the only person to play for both the Knicks and Rangers this year?
I feel sorry for the people who shell out big bucks to see this carcillo live!
I have a rant about this team when the game is over.
This team is a joke.
Has anyone heard Boyle’s name in the third?
LOL! PAP!
Dublowsky = Blowster
Joe Micheletti just said that Ansimov got stoned. Makes sense to me. Must have been between periods…
It’s worse to be a Yankees fan. To know that everyone is out to get you, and to have to fight against everyone to come out on top.
However, it’s an honor to be a Knicks, Jets, Rangers, etc. fan. There is no greater a place in the world than New York.
Im about to jump through my TV screen listening to Joe Micheletti.
could be worse, could be a Mets fan.
Time to bring up grachev and vtank.
When Bouchard found himself ten feet from our net, his shot beat Lundqvist. Our guy made a hero of Theodore.
.......and Jose Theodore is now
9-0-1 at MSG!
season over. another playoffs blown
Can’t wait to see Rangers in 60. They could probably do it in five.
i agree with person above. started to get bad again as soon as fartarella said he was “looking up in the standings, not down”. End any doubt by losing the next two please. This system does not produce goals. Bring a new coach in next year before he completely ruins the youth!
Thank god baseball is almost here….
do we have an extended road trip
that just might turn things around?
We can’t even hit the net with our shots
Trivia: Who is the only person to play for both the Knicks and Rangers this year?
———————
Lundqvist
>>I feel sorry for the people who shell out big bucks to see this carcillo live!
I feel sorry for the young players who are playing so darn hard and not getting rewarded. That has got to be discouraging.
boy we suck!
where is the fight in this team and I literally mean fight. the first half of the year it seemed like if we had a fight in the game we would win, ever since the All-star break we haven’t fought nearly as much.
I understand the boogeyman is hurt and so is prust but c’mon.
this team can’t buy a goal. serious
Group
Full
Of
Losers
That might be the dumbest comment of the whole year.
just because i’m in such a spectacular mood
right now
wonder at what point
we greet the devs in our elevator going down!!!!
effin pathetic!!
ToMG
I do like the Mets, not paying attention as much this year since my cousin was drafted by the Cubs may have to become a Cubs fan if he gets called up to the majors.
CARP: Why would you even watch this garbage? I mean, seriously, save yourself … down some leaded gas instead.
I would seriously dangle Gaborik in the off season and see who comes a calling. It’s time for Prospal to hang them up and I’m not sure Zucarello is a nhl player. Dubinsky better not hold out for more money in the off season. If anything Dubi should get no more than a 500k raise.
I meant OH BELOW’s comment.
LOL Carp!!
Trivia: Who is the only person to play for both the Knicks and Rangers this year?
The Organist at Madison Square Garden.
Sam pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze
theodore, the story of the game!??!?!?!?!?
“off this world saves”
38 fairly crappy shots doesn’t make for a great goalie
just a matter of the Rangers making another grade B- or less
goalie look like an allstar
Canes better score a goal in the next three minutes, or else we’re fugged.
And Ochocinco might get tomorrow’s game, so that’s probably another loss.
well, I am use to being tortured. I’ve been a mets/jets/knicks/ranger fan since the late 60’s. I am used to this by now, bullet proof.
I agree, about that comment, Carp!!
I think I’m gonna take a ride up to CT and get some pizza!
Just got home from work-related travel, turn the TV on, and watch the team cough up a 1-0 lead and lose.
Someone needs to teach these guys how to finish against someone other than the Capitals.
It seems like they wait until they are down in the third to play aggressive hockey. Why not just play that way the whole damn game? They obviously have the young D they want, and those kids are pretty good skaters… let them jump into the play more often. Too damn conservative for 2 periods…
ncountry id agree they sem to play better when their pugilistic attributes are utilized!
Wow. They stink. It doesn’t matter who they put on the ice.
Bryan McCabe = Derek Morris 2.0
There’s a reason even Toronto wanted to be rid of him.
NYR_FAN March 3rd, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Joe Micheletti just said that Ansimov got stoned. Makes sense to me. Must have been between periods…
Bawhahaaa! Classic
LMFAO @ The Organist at Madison Square Garden.
That’s a good one, Olga
The sky is falling! Baseball is miserable!
Horrendous loss – this team is totally inept on offense. Dubi looks lost, Prospal needs to retire.
I feel horrible for the Yankee fans. It really must be hard rooting for a winner.
Jackwagon!
any news on mcd?
Unbelievable. Three home games in a row they should have won going away, but I finish the Sunday Times crossword more than this team finishes easy scoring chances.
It’s officially starting to slip away.
Rangers are turning me into a drug addict.
It’s drug’s called the “charlie sheen”
ps, hate to say told you so, but told you so about mccabe. If he doesn’t perform on the PP, he’s worse than Rozsival. And Morris. And Eminger.
coulda shoulda woulda….......
same old story.
avery cheating on the final goal to get out of the zone early shrewd move from the big goal scorer. 3 on the year but no need to be responsible defensively since he is such an offensive threat.
dubinsky is a moron, shoots when he should pass and vice a versa…
cally should not be fit for his hall of fame sweater, none of this little man have done jack when it counts. the rangers outplayed the opponent but cannot take advantage of opptys., PP still sucks, and they often get caught in there own zone with no one on a side…....have no clue why they consistently do that, but they are friggin in free fall…............
FREE FALL FREE FALL.
The rangers make all goalies look good…..............
MZA has done jack, dubi jack, etc…...............
Sabres Hurricanes to overtime- a 3 point game. Rangers lose again…
Carp
Can we get a new thread pls? This one is kind of hard to keep up with on my phone
and the canes-sabres game is going to OT, even further burying the rangers
At least we didn’t give up anything special for McCabe.
Should have went after Boyes, and we should have kept Del Z up.
“any news on mcd?”
I bet he faked the injury to prevent any possibility of him being called up to play with these no-talent clowns
>>I would seriously dangle Gaborik in the off season and see who comes a calling.
Due to his injury history, not many teams came calling when Gaborik became a free agent. With one more very serious injury added to his resume, I seriously doubt ANY TEAM will come calling for a trade now.
You can’t just go out and play 60 hard minutes of hockey. You gotta hit the clubs after the game, and you don’t want to be tired. Probably got some commercials to shoot and some fine dining to do. Also, you got three or four black tie events coming up.
Can’t be ruining all the fun of City life worrying about hockey. Go play for some other organization if you’re interested in your silly little skating game. These guys got benefits to get to.
yea, McCabe is brutal. The guy can’t even skate and someone on this blog posted they would sign him next year???? It must have been sather’s nephew, runs in the family.
Leave it to the Rangers to make the Wild look like the Oilers of the early 80’s. This team stinks, plain and simple!!!
Stu – 3rd goal was McCabe’s ( the statue) guy. He is just horrendous in his own zone.
disgracefull….............
dubinsky is a dope. ceritfiable.
henrik has done jack also. now the excuses from the players and MSG.. usual the other goalie is great bull crap, lift the friggin puck or maybe hit the damn puck…...........
3 regulation losses at home in a row. That’s about right.
same old freaking script. this team is a DEAD TEAM WALKING.
HARD WORK BUT NO SKILL.
MSG THE HOUSE OF HORRORS FOR US.
I AM READY TO JUMP
Carolina wins in OT
Shockingly, the Canes and Sabres went into OT.
Matt L
Agree. What happened to all of the speed of the young guys too?
Sam Rosen said oh the d is doing great and The Wild don’t have any shots on net. Spoke too soon, Sam?
same old freaking script. this team is a DEAD TEAM WALKING.
HARD WORK BUT NO SKILL.
I AM READY TO JUMP
Canes give us a break and win
no playoffs 2 years in a row after good starts.
HORRIBLE.
A team of bricklayers, no touch… minny played rope a dope and when they had there chances boom, in the net…........rangers bewildered dopes…...
f-ck gaborik, he is christenson, soft…..........
hey at this point I hope the rangers lose all there games and maybe we can get a high pick. One can only dream of the rangers actually drafting a elite player.
Season’s done folks. We made Theodore look like he did 10 years ago. There is zero offensive talent on this team. I’d honestly sit Dubinsky in favor of a callup.
At least Avery scored, we spoke about his aasen enough yesterday!
We’ve been pretty bad ever since we traded Rozi
http://www.hockeyfights.com/
check it out, lead story on hugh jessiman for his fight…back to the minors tho….
last player in 2003 1st round draft to play an nhl game lol
Sky = falling
mccabe and avery for the 3rd goal, avery was doing his euro routine trying to leak out of the zone early.
since he is such a offensive weapon…........
what a joke this team is…they simply cannot score goals…............that is it the rest is noise…..........
TURN OUT THE LIGHTS THE SEASON OVER.
I DONT WANT TO HEAR ANY MORE WE TRIED HARD BS FROM THE PLAYERS.
ITS ABOUT RESULTS.
RANGERS= DISGRACE
See guys, it was fun for a while watching the Prusts and the Boyles of the Rangers succeed.
It’s been fun watching the Christensens, the Zuccas, the Wolskis score in shootouts.
It’s been fun watching the hard work of the Callys and Prusts.
It’s been watching the youth of the AAs, the Stepans, the Zuccas, the Staals, Sauers, etc.
But, when it’s all said and done….
We don’t have a real fan base that wants the team to win.
This organization has not had an identity since Jaromir Jagr left. We have not had a go to guy to score when we need goals, a leader to carry the power play.
Our youth, contrary to many’s opinions, don’t have extraordinary upside.
So Cally and Dubi can score 25+ goals in a season, but they don’t have the ability to prevent us from being shutout or shut down to the tune of 1 or 2 goals.
The only youth player with any ability to score and who I think is going to be a stud in the future is Stepan.
AA will not be a star.
I will not speak to the defensive aspect of our defensemen, but as to the offense, there has not been any progression from any of them, except for maybe Staal. But Staal is a franchise defensemen IMO anyway, regardless of scoring skill.
And as for Henrik, there is not a more inconsistent star goalie in the league. He can shut you out one game and give up 5 goals the next. He’s good, but he’s just not good enough. His only consistency is in recording 30+ win seasons in, as Carp calls it, the Shootout Era. He can’t put a team on his back. We had 40+ shots tonight, scoring only 1 goal, but they had 19 shots and 3 goals. It’s far more difficult to find star scoring in this league than it is to find a serviceable goalie. I think it’s time to explore trading Henrik, but that’s not going to happen and I find it hard to believe we’d ever receive the return of a star scorer. So, we’re stuck with Henrik, a guy who has no desire to change his style of goaltending, and a YOUNG team with not much hope for the future, aside from Stepan, Staal and few others.
Final point, when Avery is your best player in a game, you’re in trouble.
canes win in Ot, and Leafs come back to beat flyers. it’s all bad for the rangers
stranger,
mccabe wasnt on the ice… it was girardi and gilroy
These guys are not…good. Cally has to bury those shots early. If he does the final is 5-1
Ha, Buffalo and Carolina go to OT, glad worst case scenario didn’t happen there
dubinsky with 8 shots on goal and 8 missed shots.. the guy could not hit the side of a barn….....
19 goals for the magic man…..he had 17 at the all star game…......he is a 22 goal scorer playing minutes of a 40 goal scorer….........
So, the Leafs can beat the Flyers, but we can’t?
Fugg it all!
You know who can hit the side of a barn?
John Erskine
Because he has a great shot
I couldn’t agree more about McCabe, Carp.
When we aren’t scoring, he is useless and worse than Blowzy…
Hat trick??
There you go again, stopping the hat tricks!
LOL!!!
RANGERS DEVILS TIX SAT APRIL 9TH.
SECTION 330 AISLE SEATS
ASKING FOR A DOLLAR
I have a knack for it ;) Put me in coach!! I can stop hat tricks!
mostly agree with tiki. you can win with a team of all 20 goal scorers if you have 9 + 20 goal scorers not 3….
you can win without a superstar if you roll 4 lines and have no boogard types in the lineup.
my only complaint with torts is he acts like his first 2 lines are studs and plays them a ton and they are not studs….this is a team of plumbers, roll 4 lines all night long and distribute the talent on all 4 lines more evenly….....
LMAO! A dollar.
I wouldn’t even take that deal. Seriously.
LOL! eric, no joke, I have tickets to that game too!! 306
and let’s look at this—not scoring goals
what do they do forever and ever and ever and….
play around on the boards
who do they think they are Don Maloney?
they’re helping opposing dman do his job
and create no chances!!!!!!!!!!
it’s a stupid stupid system when they do that
and when they don’t they play better and usually win.
don’t know why they change.
eric –
Seriously? Ill take the tickets for $50 if you’re interested.
Bwahaha! Like rolling four lines will make a difference.
Delusional!
I will give it two more games before I throw in the towel!
Just not enough top line talent or creativity.
McCabe is awful! But that goal was all Girardi. He failed to clear the puck up the ice and then was
Out battled for the puck.
Hope McD is ok, second best damn on the team.
Yet another season that LQ has a mediocre stretch run. I really think it may be time to examine the issue as well
Very disappointing.
.
Anybody like looking at the Eastern Conference standings while chugging vodka?
It’s quite the experience.
With our complete lack of star scoring, I could see our team being successful employing the Lemaire Devils style of play. Help Henrik out and help to hide his flaws while also turning the game into a low scoring affair, helping our anemic offense too.
Play this Safe is Death crap and we get our lack of offense and Henrik exposed for what they are.
Being a Giants and Rangers fan really goes hand in hand. Fast starts, mid-season swoons, then a desperate sprint to make the bottom seed.
I wish I didn’t care about sports so much. Sigh.
So angry right now. It’s all about draft position. No talent = No playoffs. Simple as that.
orr. screw your self you loser..
have your mommy give you the tv dinner in the basement and play stratomatic you moron.
now we go with the over try and build up the competition line if bullcrap..
according to orr if the rangers just had more fights they would win more….orr the talent evaluator of the under 10 year old crowd….
this is a team of many many mediocore forwards. they have very good young d and henrik is all look and no results. can the guy steal a game????????????
toronto 3 points out with that defense…....
the Fishsticks handled this Minny mouse team easily, 4-1. but they are just too tough and mighty for the Sather Rangers
Nyr13
Girardi = mccabe
They both stink. Whoever was the damn who arrived just after the goal was scored. Thought it was macabre but the blind rage could have impacted my vision
stuart
i would like to a fly on the wall
during contract negotiations for
Dubi
if his agent tries to get a raise
sather should just show clips of tonight’s
game, which are only different from previous games in
that he actually shot the puck, just that it was weaker than Gabby
could have done a week ago with a boo-boo head and include
that with his bum shoulder.
“We gotta, we gotta….” but they DON’T! They CAN’T!!
Do we have to fight with each other now? How does that help anything?
Forgo
maybe trade Henrik for Montoya. at least he can beat Minnesota
Just asking – what is the team’s record since PROSPAL came back? Don’t get mad, Slats and Torts, get some relief in there, somebody who can at least keep up with the flow of the game.
tiki, the difference is the devils have two elite scorers, Kovalchuk and parise.
It appears as if Olga and Linda are right.
Fire Sather. This organization really is going nowhere. We’re stuck with Gaborik, and soon, we’ll be stuck with Richards, another overpaid weasel. Overpaid for different reasons (Gaborik because of injuries, Richards because of skill-level)
That 2 on 1 was a nightmare – looked like high school hockey from Dubi
Forget contract negotiations with Dubinsky, it’s time to ship him out at the draft.
TomG – I dont know. Just putting ideas out there. Ill give you Parise. He’s better than any Ranger. Kovalchuk too, but doesnt Kovy have like 10 goals all year?
Dubi vs Stoner. how appropriate
I remember making a post back in December about how Dubinsky was finally maturing into a man, and into the player we thought he could be. He had the right attitude and started take this team on his back. Seems to me that he’s regressed and isn’t as mature as I thought. He’s gone right back to being the Dublowsky.
Also, forget Richards too. It’ll turn out to be another Dreary/Blowmez signing.
Only one acceptable course of action for me July 1- Unmatchable Parise offer sheet.
Welcome to the Club, Tiki!
Bwahaha! I was wondering how many jabs it was going to take before this dork took the hint.
Stuart, reading has never been your forte. I never made that comment, dipshit.
Fighting? Seriously. Am I not the one who has been saying for the last two years that we don’t need a goon??
can’t wait to see what Torts has to say
FIRE SATHER! Tiki…
unless there is some major injury that he’s hiding
and if there is
then give me a freekin break about playing
him
it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s his should because
he got nothing NOTHING on his shots tonight
kind of like Christensen’s shots from the point.
don’t know why Sauer or McD aren’t used there instead of a forward
both have more offensive that majority of our guys right now.
Fire Sather, Olga and Linda!
Look on the bright side, we broke the streak. We didn’t lose by one goal!
ANYONE WHO DIDNT THINK WE WOULD LOSE AFTER CONTROLLING 1ST PER AND ONLY BE UP 1-0 IS A PUTZ.
OUR PP IS BEYOND FREAKING PATHETIC
By the way, I don’t eat anything you have to cook in a microwave :P
There’s a reason why old people get microwavable dinners, it’s so they die quicker.
Don’t trust nurses!
Eric, I was thinking the same thing. We usually have two crappy periods, then one good 3rd period, but it was reversed tonight
Don’t get in the way of my hat trick
I guess Sam was right in ‘94. that one will have to last a lifetime.
the only guy who scores a goal for us tonight, Avery, only got 7:54 of ice time??
Not sure if it would have made a difference but just maybe put him out there a little more.
Glen Sather in NY- a legend that will last a lunchtime…
DJK
don’t take it the wrong way but I think you have a mental problem…all you ever talk about is trading players…if not at the deadline now you trading players on July 1st
Mmmm…shall we initiate a pool to predict where overall in the league the Rangers will land? My guess is 19th.
seriously,
we played better with Newbury and Wiese in the lineup
too bad the trade deadline passed
11 years and counting,
his money
after watching the rangers play of late,I could use a good colon cleansng!
Canes pass the Rangers, Barfalo 2 points in arrears (with a whooping 3 games in hand) and the Leafs only 3 behind (with a game in hand).
Incredibly enough, perhaps the biggest game so far of the year is up next for the Rangers, against the lowly Ottawa Senators.
I predict the devils will finish with more points than the rangers.
As a veteran Ranger fan- (nearly 50 years)- I know exactly what to do- stop watching the games until the team falls out of playoff position- maybe 3 points or so- then resume watching the gallant playoff push that, like a microcosm of each game, will fall painfully short in the end.(I said I know what to do- I didn’t say I’d do it.) Right now I’d almost be happy enough so long as the Devs go home too- lets face it- the way Henrik has played this season- we are going nowhere even if somehow we make the dance. I’m not a Lundqvist basher- but certainly there have been more games this year where we have simply been outgoaltended than in any of the Henrik era. (Although, this team does for goalies what the Mets do for pitchers- or was I the only one to see Theodore laughing with the backup during the final timeout because he obviously didn’t even see that last “great save” since he kicked the wrong leg at the puck.)
Avery with least TOI again
Torts got nothin but love for Avery
Yeah right
LOL! You people wanted more ice time for Aves, and he got it, and screwed up on the third goal.
Have to learn the hard way!
This is just a sad team and sad organization.
I see some of you fighting with each other, and Id like to remind you of a story I read yesterday.
A sad sad sad story about an 18 year old mother who killed her motherly-like friend – 22 years old – over $20. $20. This economy has caused people to be killed for a measly $20. And yet here we sit typing on RR fighting with each other. In the end, it’s only a game.
And Id have paid the 22 year old woman – whom I dont know and have never heard of before today – $2000 just so that she’d be alive today. A bright future looking to go to law school and that’s gone, over $20. Just sad.
BTW, the Devils are 10 points in arrears but have 3 games in hand. The Rangers are 8th with 70 points, the Sabres 9th with 68, the Thrashers 10th with 63 and then the Devils. The only team that doesn’t concern me of that group are the Thrashers.
Some things never change.
SIGH
Anyone still believe they make the playoffs?
as per sny rangers blog mcd with a wrenched knee,and is day to day.
yes.
Our 2 “best forwards” (dubi and cally) are nothing more than good third line players
Carp says yes. 1 vote yes.
ORR!!
you beat me to it.
i think Torts and the rest of us
could deal with more defensive lapse like that
if he scored a hat trick tonight
and most games
but, c’mon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we have nearly a dozen
of these lapses EVERY game. it’s only been five months since
they’ve been playing games that count.
Jpg – Spot on – if you are going to grind and hit, you need grinders and hitters. Bring up the kids
Saddest/funniest play was EC slew footing Vinny behind the net and then get Jack hammerred into the boards. Lordy lord!
new post.
wow. leafs are 3 points out of playoff spot
OMG, if Sean Avery’s lack of icetime is this team’s problem…then wow, this team’s problems are HUGE.
Avery wouldn’t be in the NHL if it wasn’t for Glen Sather. And let’s not forget that Glen Sather has achieved nothing (NOTHING) worth noting as a GM/president/whatever-the-hell-he-is since the late 1980s. That’s an incredible 20+ years ago.
This man is a dinosaur who should have had his ass fired after the 2002/03 season when the Rangers shamefully led the NHL in payroll and finished 21st overall in the league (and this was after they failed to qualify for the POs in the first 2 years of his tenure).
In other words, this man’s hockey insight/judgement/skill/whatever-you-wanna-call-it SUCKS and has SUCKED for 20+ years.
Cheer up .. at least it’s dolan’s money thats being wasted. all we lose is our time watching unless you go to the games.
How many minutes did Avery play tonight. AH Tortorella still has this dislike of Aves. He’s trying hard every shift. He gets 7:54 check it out. No wonder that he didn’t want to talk post game
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