Game 35.
First of three in a row on the road for your first-place boys, on a five-game winning streak.
A 7:30 start for Versus (exclusive telecast). Followed by episode 3 of “24/7” at 10, and replayed at 11, on HBO. (Nine more days before I can cancel my HBO!).
Martin Biron starts in goal, vs. Tomas Vokoun.
Jeff Woywitka is expected to return from a foot injury, and Stu Bickel is expected to play despite his facial injuries.
So Sean Avery, Erik Christensen and Tim Erixon will be prucha’d. Erixon will be sent to Connecticut (AHL) if all the D-men come out of this game healthy. Who knows if Avery, Christensen or Wojtek Wolski (who’s almost ready to return) will be joining him in the Nutmeg State?
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As for my (and your) complaints earlier about the Empire State Building being lit on two sides with Flyers orange crud—could you think of something more despicable?—the NHL sent along this today:
In Philadelphia, the PECO Main Office Building’s iconic Crown Lights,
which display scrolling text around the top of the 23rd and Market Street
building, also will celebrate the Rangers, Flyers and 2012 NHL Bridgestone
Winter Classic on Dec. 28 with scrolling text in recognition of the outdoor
match-up between the two storied teams. The Crown Lights will also display
2012 NHL Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic text on Thursday, Dec. 29 and
Monday, Jan. 1.”
So, in Philly, the cruddy fans don’t have to be subjected to Rangers colors on their building (Iconic? the PECO Main Office Building? Yeah, exactly like the Empire State Building. Give me a freakin’ break).
Somebody who works for the Rangers told me they’re going to stick the NYR alternate Liberty logo on the Liberty Bell. He laughed when he said it.
Oh, did you also see the story where the ticket dispersal went something like 20,000 to Flyers season ticket holders, 10,000 to Rangers season ticket holders, and the rest (more than 10,000) to the NHL, sponsors (legal scalpers) and no doubt NBC TV stars and quasi-celebrities? The funny part is that in order to get tix for Monday’s game, the Flyers’ season ticket holders also were forced to buy tickets for the Alumni game on Saturday and a Phantoms game Sunday. Suckers.
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LGR!
Mandlebaum!
WTB is PECO anyway?
You gotta want it, Izzy. This One’s for you, Pop!
Play
Eric
Christiansen
Organization
I know that they holler, unbearably, that “the Flyers are going on the PECO POWWWWWERRRR PLAAAAAAYYYYY!” at that god-awful arena that changes names every five minutes.
Re-post from Fozzy earlier:
Fozzy December 28th, 2011 at 6:29 pm e
Sally, mission accomplished! Rocky is ready for the WC!
http://tinyurl.com/coppay7
The television!
lol, CARP …
I’m liking the tone of your entries more and more … very “pimp” like recently.
GO TIMEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
It’s bush-league time!! Here comes the loss …
Ugggg. The PECO building isn’t even the biggest building in Philly. That honor goes to the Comcast building. What a joke. PECO is the Phila Electric Co building Izzy. No comparison to the Empire State Building
Greg- are you ready, bro?
Thank you, Miami. You’re very bush league also.
lets go Rangers!!!!!
Another 2011 victory.
Ovechkin can go…... sit down.
FOZZY! How are you, girl?
can’t believe Versus is actually doing a pre-game show focused on Rangers … oh, right, Versus is owned by NBC (and will be named NBC Sports Monday) and NBC has the Hyper Bowl Monday, hence they’re paying attention to the Rangers.
FIRE SATHER!
Black Hawks play tonight!
That PECO building is so un-Carl Fardman like.
Rangers at Caps!!! Yeah baby , ov , is goinnnnn DOWN!!!
GO RAAAANGERSSS!! GO GO GO HO HGO G GO GO GO!!!
Super terrific carpal tunnel, Johnny.
Del Zaster interview coming up.
GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO RANGERSSS!!
LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO!!!!
Hi Ilb! I’m good. Thanks. Ready for some Rangers hockey! LGR!
LETS GO RANGERSSSSSS!!
FIRE OLGA!!!
LGR!!!!! GOOOOOOOOOO CAAAARRRRRRLLLLLL!!!!!!
Gametimeeeeeee!!
GO GABORIK!! Stamkos got 22 now , time to break the tie , 5 goals should do tonight!??
LETS GO !!! LETS GO LETS GO RANGERSS!!!
LETS GO RANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did ya know that a giant Rainbow appeared over DC yesterday when the Rangers arrived?
All right, I’m BACK. Drop the darn puck already.
BANJ, Anisimov tweet-pic’d it.
Ilb im ready!!!! BTW , that Tshirt ya got me fits now!!!! Sweeeeet!!!
GO RANGERSSSSSSSSS!!!
http://twitter.com/#!/Anisimov42/status/151782588342734849/photo/1
Wait, Eddie O thinks Tortorella coaches?
Do the Rangers have any prospects playing in the World Junior Championship?
JBytes – Miller is on Team USA.
Eddie thinks?
Carp, he tweeted a portion. The thing was HUGE. The picture on the news tonite was amazing. Arties rainbow was inferior.
Thanks, HWirth. Let’s Go USA then.
Ceresnak is playing for Slovakia in WJC also
drop the puck drop the puck drop the puck drop the puck …Are we there yet?
GO RANGERS!!!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Chicago Blackhawks suck!!!!! First place?? Whaa? its a FLUKE , they’ll prob trade ‘em all anyways at the end of the year.
GO RANGERSSSSS , oh yeah Lets Trade Dubinsky for Hemsky …maybe we’ll have to scoop Souray in that deal and giv’em one of our good Dmen ..ugh!! sorry Dubi but yer on da block!!
Banj – His rainbow might be inferior but not his weapon :)
Perhaps Anisimov shot off the rest of the rainbow? BANG! BANG!
>>Ceresnak is playing for Slovakia in WJC also
Okay then, I want a USA-Slovakia finals.
It’s so easy to poke the little weasel.
Let’s go Rangers!!!
something tells me Biron has a stinker tonight. Hope i’m wrong though…
>>…Are we there yet?
I was on a flight recently and the kid next to me wouldn’t shut up with, “Mammy, mammy, mom, how many more minutes?”
Krisy!
LET’S GO RANGERS!!!
Let’s GO RANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Carp – can you remember to cancel my HBO subscription when you cancel yours?
Lol HWirth!
Boyle line kept OV in their zone
good start
>>something tells me Biron has a stinker tonight.
The entire team is due for one.
New player for DC: “John The Big Guy”.
Great job again by the Boyle line.
“Divingly speared away”? Really, Emrick?
Mitchell has been solid and has helped Dubi get his groove back somewhat…that line has had opposition pinned in for two or three games now
AA with a great play
Fozzy!!! ;) How are you?
No Ranger stinkers tonight please, when I finally could get out of bed!
Rebound control…
DelZaster strikes!
Whoops DZ
Puck bounced on DZ. Then soft rebound by Biron. Tough one there.
Goalie?
Why does Emirick keep saying that people are “burrowing”? Everyone is burrowing into the zone!
oh boy… Come on boys!!
Del Zaster -1. Trade him.
Hey look, McBust got beat to the outside again! Burrow boys! Burrow!
Oops, there’s a minus. I was behind. I’m sorry I caught up
Semin will sulk for the next 3 weeks.
Good call LW. I think his +/- on the season might be down to +24!!! WEAK
Delzotto 1, rangers 0
McDonagh needs to score a couple of even strength points tonight, or I’d sit him for a few games.
Rangers should trade for Alexandre Burrows. That guy can BURROW with the best of ‘em!
Another good point, LW. Good thing we didn’t send down Erixon. Maybe we could bring up Redden to take his spot. Send a message. That kind of non-burrowing play will not stand.
Devs 2 – 0 over Ryan Miller who looks bad.
That is TWO golden opportunities. Shucks.
Dale Hunter is starting to look like:
http://tinyurl.com/copmmyu
Relax. I’m not sold on Caps D
Ryan Miller can’t focus because he knows he is being traded to Anaheim. He is excited to be near his girlfriend.
Everyone is relaxed, ilb. I think LW and I are just joking. I think.
LW joking? Never!
Ugly PP what else is new?
I know. Those brits are always so serious…
Also, ilb…I am not sold on this Capitals Goaltending, Defense and heart.
Ill say one thing. Whether it’s artificial or whatever, that Phone Booth always seems loud even with the team being lousy this year.
That might be true, HWirth but I find this tweet thing hilarious:
NYDNRangersInternet at Verizon Center is horrendous. So probably will be light on the in-game tweeting tonight FYI#NYRHow can the internet be bad at Verizon center? Isn’t that a bad advertisement for Verizon?
Good job Rupp
Fozzy and Krisy! It’s a post-Christmas miracle!
Free Hand? He tripped him, doofus.
Just got home – WTB? We’re behind already!?
Lol Mama! ;)
“Angled it geometrically” Sweet line, Doc! Burrow boys! Burow for all your worth!
DUBI!!!!
DDDDDDDDUUUUUUUUUBBIIIIIIIIIII
Good morning, Duby! Wooohoooo
Dubi! Time to drink!
Someone just got killed there blocking that shot…who was it?
Dubi! That’s 3! Take that Cam Ward!
Dubi Dubi Dooo! 1-1.
^
!!!
I brought them homecoming luck again!!!
The Captain with the block, Dubi with the finish! What a play to get free by Dubi!
I guess the goal is worth Callahan getting his leg amputated.
Who hit Bickel? Goliath’s big brother?
That was one shot.
Haha. Good one, LW. I wonder what kind of bionic leg Cally will get. I also wonder how many periods he will miss as a result. My guess is that Ryan comes back in the third with a titanium leg.
Cally’s gonna get killed one of these days.
CALLLLY
Callahan is my hero. This guy is unreal right now on the blocking. He is an absolute hero.
Callahan…..Time to get another jersey with his name.
Cally with balls the size of the Washington Monument! There’s a definite line there! ;)
Callahan is a lunatic.
Man, HWirth, those are some huge balls. Cally just burrowed in there to block that shot. And another one. Burrow boys! Burrow!
We need Dubi to excel against the Capitals.
Richards needs to step up tonight too.
Bad break for Del Zotto, but he made another mistake right after that to leave the guy free.
Is it possible to not completely LOVE Callahan?
So proud to have him as the captain.
Cally gets the Broadway hat after that!
can someone explain why Doc is considered this great announcer??
The guy is horrendous…
Another great period by Callahan, of course.
He’s gonna get hurt again, no doubt. But you can’t tell him not to do it.
Krisy!!!!!!!!!
I like Doc.
I hope it will be worth the six weeks out of the lineup, ilb.
It is actually scientifically impossible to dislike Callahan. I think we are predisposed, as humans, to LOVE him, Doodie. The guy is an absolute hero among heroes. A man among men. Blah Blah Blah.
That guy has serious Character.
Anybody see the end of Milbury’s nose? It looks like a little assen right in the middle of his face.
As someone famously said “It’s just pain”
LGR!Carp
Doc is awful. Im sure he’s a great guy and all but he never shuts up. He just blabs on and on and with that whiny voice its terrible.
I can take Doc a lot better now that he’s flown the Debbies’ coop…..
Cally has begun the show balls fight.
Pain is pain, but broken is usually six weeks.
Doc’s line of the night was “Just when it seemed safe for me to talk…”
That and the whole “burrowing” thing. Like we have a team of groundhogs.
Best part of a Versus game: No MSG 150.
Worst part: Mike Milbury. Go break up your son’s fight.
Who wants a whiskey?
Yes, me…
Doc says “Ohhh!” alot.
oleo, I can name a lot worse. A lot.
That’s the difference between people at home or in the stands and the professionals. Cally doesn’t worry about “what if i get hurt?” but rather “what do I have to do to help my team win?”
character=overrated.
how many goals does Callahan have? he sucks.
Carp – There are A LOT worse out there. As for Milbury, I think he’s pretty tame so far tonight. I like when he says crazy things better than boring ole repeat cliche’ analysis. Whether people agree or not at least he says something.
People in NY don’t realize how lucky we were with Doc, Sam and Howie. 3 of the absolute best.
he’s an asshat.
he was a good GM, though.
What helps more, blocking a shot that Biron should stop anyway, or taking a chance on sitting out with a broken hand/ankle/face?
Beninati is the worst announcer by far but he’s not irritating like Doc but definitely worse.
“waffleboarding”, “angles the puck geometrically” Just so unnecessarily annoying…
Cally also makes more than most of us will see in our lifetimes and has access to elite medical care and therapy.
Carp – But I think he knows and embraces it too. I’ll give him credit for that. Gets him paid by multiple outlets. It’s the old saying. It’s when they don’t have an opinion of you, you should be worried.
LETS GO RANGERS!!!
Keep it up boyss , who said trade Dubi earlier …geeezeee.
Gaborik needs a goallllll!! GO GO Gaborik Goal!!!
GO RANGERSSS!!!
Hey Carp: what happened to Mr. Character, catch22?
Manny – A 5 game winning streak! :)
Oh, right! I guess that put him in a “catch22” situation
ARTEEM Anisimov. What a peeniehead.
I think you should apologise to all the asshats you just called Milburys, Carp.
Manny- he isn’t the only one to vanish, I don’t know if you noticed.
I like Doc. At least he switches it up. Geometrically was an odd one though. First time I’ve heard that.
“hoping to pick cherries off a tree’
Kurt Sauer, eh?
I think Doc Emirick might be better suited to Horse Racing.
In Saskatoon ….ahhh sweeeet!!!
GO RANGERSSS!!!
From what I’ve seen of Milbury on Bruins broadcasts, he hams it up far less there, so it does seem as though he ramps up the asshattery for a national audience. Still doesn’t make the junk he comes out with any more palatable or disguise the fact that he has to get jobs through his act rather than his colossal lack of credibility as a failure of a GM.
Stu Bickel without any points for 4 straight periods. Time to send him to Hartford.
Bickel and Anisimov should be sent down. Anisimov should have buried that near breakaway.
Callahan vs. Ovechkin: Callahan 1, Ovehckin 0
LW – Thank you for putting the point I was trying to make into better English.
Great shift by our forwards. Poor Joel Ward can’t seem to catch a break in the corner.
Gaborik went all Olivia Newton-John there.
Beer-on!
ilb2001
luckily Ovechkin didnt score there or else he just might have been or at least sent to Prucha land
Beer ON!
Good Save , Marty ” is on ” Biron!!!
Callahan and Biron are saving our butts right now.
Versus is making a huge deal out of the positioning of the Rangers bench and their ability to change Defenseman.
LOL ilb!
oh man I thought Dubi might get another there
ilb, you shouldn’t give up so quickly on Don Bickels he can’t get a point every 10minutes…just impossible given number of goals scored per game divisble by his ice time..patience, grasshoppers
Looks like we better send down Mitchell also.
Hi Carp!!!
LW!!!
RangerSwede!
Mama!
It’s almost a Stockholm reunion! Anyone seen Ranger Kiwi? ;)
carcillo i saw that coming
That is entirely Mitchell’s fault for not dumping the puck there and allowing them to change. His fancy move to turnover hurt.
Awwww Hank woulda had it….
Pierre made an excellent point without really making it but you knew what he meant. Dale Hunter is too inexperienced as a coach to get this Ovechkin line away from Dubi-Boyle and Mitchell
Manny i thought it was Dubi
Erskine knows that Rupp is more his sie, right?
Dale Hunter….blech
boys need to refuel
He is about to find out, Manny
Ughhh, the once a game shift where they get pinned for a long shift finally burns them as Mitchell and Boyle both blew opportunities to get the puck out and get a change or at least an icing.
wasn’t Dale Hunter the player that basically killed Pierre Turgeon after Turgeon scored a goal
Yes, ilb! Good call!
Hey Krisy! You’re able to stay up tonight!
Now we only need a puck to hit Pierre whatshisface in the mouth and a couple of goals and this will be a good night…
Soft-ron!
>>Dale Hunter is too inexperienced as a coach…
Um, is this his very first match? Wasn’t he coaching in the minors?
Gaborik covering for MDZ. Gotta love it
I think Dale was in the OHL. That basically doesn’t count as a league…what great players come from that place!?
Dammit, Pierre. Ask him why Hagelin is not on the PP, will you?
That move by Richards was absolutely Pathetic.
Told everyone: trap game.`
Hey, that ghost just scored. Ugh.
It all right , its all right….
You called it, Doodie. They really have gone there.
this game is very very sloppy
oh dear….
TIME OUT BOYS!!
LETS GO RANGERRRRSS!!!
“Forehand, backhand, reach around.” Enough said.
Richards with a stupid play there. Get that puck below the red line! Lazy neutral play there. Another turnover.
JBytes
you don’t really have the mindset with matchups since there aren’t top checking lines in the minors…
will Torts bench B.Rich like he did Gabby earlier in the season
Rupp better get on the ice and pound Erskine (by pound I mean lazily throw a few punches and then hug him for a while)
Richards just said : “Byfuglien me”. Which pretty much covers it.
“Forehand, backhand, reach around.”
Sounds really dirty.
nor dominant offensive lines for that matter…
Dont think it made a difference, but was the ref trying to set a pick on both Woywitka and Bickel there?
One of the Beagle boys..
176-167 I think.
I think “Edzo” said it, Doodie.
ilb, what would make that amazing is if he actually used the word “Byfuglien” instead of the word we use it as a placeholder for.
Del Zaster’s move there to reach for the puck was totally reminiscent of George Costanza’s leap across the puddle.
Were trying , were trying….be patient.
Hey, where’s my Knicks promos and Time-Warner propaganda?
I could read the “MERDE!” expression on Biron’s body language after he played that puck around the board to an onrushing Cap.
Hagelin on the PP. BOom Boom?
Carp, they were traded for a concussion discussion. No intent to rhyme there.
i miss those too Carp!
McDonagh is not having a good game.
we are not helping out Biron here too much
It’s true, Doodie. He looks slow on his ability to turn. He has done it a fea times this year where he skates backwards and gets beaten. Tonight he looks like he’s lagging. Hope he’s not under the weather
McDonagh. Or Richards. Or Woywiytka-Bickel. Or Boyle (that one play, anyway). Or Del Zotto. Or Stralman. Among others.
It’s not a concern but it’s a game similar to St. Louis where they stop playing their game and get lazy with the puck and that’s when they get in trouble. Turnover and soft neutral zone/end board play.
We need to get more hits in…!
This is not looking good here tonight…...giveaways, sloppiness….
well, at least there’s a good game to watch on 24/7…..
I hate to lose to a slidding team, especially the Caps, but if we have to lose one in the next couple days, I’d rather tonight than Monday…..Prust saying.
MickeyM is at this game tonight – and it is looking like the last NYR game she attended in St. Louis not so long ago…...
AA tried the same set play, going forward.
Jimbo, that’s right. Oh, poor Mickey…looks like she has to be banned from live games :)
Jimbo – Yup! They got away from their game for a stretch of the period and it burnt them again.
Fire Mickey?
Told you guys, tonight was a trap game.
Yeah. I’m going to buy any product that Charles Barkley is selling. Hey Charles, go back to trolling for hookers.
The Caps are not really doing anything defensively to beat us, but they’ve capitalized on each mistake we’ve made.
Thanks for the image Carp
visited a friend with a leftovers care package
cause he wasn’t feeling well enough to come over
been watching the game
there
we looked good at times
but just not stiff enough
have we traded everyone yet?
Why so keen for taking credit for calling it a trap game? Any team on a winning streak will end up losing one. And someone posts “trap game” before just about every game that follows any win.
As great as it would be, they are not going to win every game. Like to see a solid 3rd period though and try to get back in this and force Vokoun to be good at the end.
Damn it, I just landed at Dulles and I see this crap score …
WTF are these clowns doing?!
Bush-league.
The lack of any semblance of a power play is not helping… they are having big problems gaining the zone and keeping the puck.
I think in general they are skating… just looks like the D got caught at the end of a long shift 2x, and they paid for it.
The Caps will fold in the third.
>>>Oh, poor Mickey…looks like she has to be banned from live games :)
I’m afraid that this may be necessary!
I’m hoping that they come out strong in the 3rd – maybe we can get the game into OT and get at least a point out of it…
Staal tells Maloney he feels good…his description of the post-concussion feelings are awful. I can’t wait til he gets back, and hope he doesn’t experience Crosbyitis.
“I have a whole new respect for the injury and what it can do to you”
“I think respect from player to play has a lot to do with it….”
yet, “it’s hockey, you’re going to get hit.”
Isn’t cwgatti a fellow bonehead? Why he gotta go blocking me on the Tweetuh?
Fortunately, she lives in Missouri, Jimbo. :)
Stralman has been strolling tonight, btw
The extended number of minutes Girardi is getting looks to be wearing McD down. He ain’t been spit for two weeks.
Tonight , were holding out for a herooooo !!!
Down by two , it’s not really a “must” win so ahhh what the heck , lets just pop in a few and win this thang and go home!!! ( well back to the hotel)
Chicago- LA tied 0-0 after one.
Yeah Girardi and Mcdonagh looked like spit when they allowed a grand total of 7 goals in 5 Wins.
LOL Carp! Indeed…..
Hey Greg!!!!
Cally, Hagelin, and a bunch of bush league clowns tonight.
none by Tavares, Giroux or Kovalchuk.
Carp, Barkley is trying to lose weight so he won’t have to pay for it anymore.
Olga isn’t there a CHICAGO BLACKHAWK SITE !!??? Why do WE care? Chicago sucks!!! We like you here because the only thing cool ‘bout you is you like Rangers and Linda …thats it!!!
The Short Happy Life of Rangers on a shaking top of Conference pedestal. Sloppy, slippery sloppy today. Boston leading. So are horned debbies. No love lost, though.
4ever!!
Hellooooooo Momma !!!! Rangers are first place in da East!!!!
GO RANGERSSS!!!
In a month where the team is 9-3-1 and might go to 9-4-1 what will the negative nancies or trolls or whatever be trolling about tonight.
1. The Coach?
2. You know who?
3. The record is a myth?
4. Biron shouldn’t have played?
5. Too Much TOI?
Rangers site tweeted Rangers 2-5-1 when trailing after two. Which is really, really good compared to the rest of the league.
I just love to rattle your cage, Greg.
Doodie, i think he’ll still pay for it.
I’ve got nothing against college hockey at all, but Emrick never stops making references between anything or anyone in the game to college hockey or just colleges in general, as if it’s the only way the many tens of casual American fans watching on Versus can relate to the game.
Yeah, probably.
Mike Knuble for Rob DiMaio. My God.
Yes, it is Carp. But Caps are 9-0-0 when leading after two. Then again, I generally don’t buy into such stats and go game by game. Then again, I may catch 24/7 at 10, or have to rely on DVR tomorrow.
Good test for the rangers; i smell a comeback!
Pierre is having a great game, eh?
I have two questions for you Carp
1. How many hookers have you attempted to solicit?
2. How man hookers have you successfully solicited?
The difference is probably vast.
Yes, Carp – good thing she relocated to Missouri – but we’ve gotta keep her from attending NYR road games anywhere else in the league!
Sigh
Dammit! Another penalty?
Yeah, I knew the idiot wouldn’t be able to not show who he really is for long…
Boyle needs a hands transplant. He has a handle like a stay-at-home defenseman.
We could have used that one…
Boyle
it’s been a close but no
goal for our side for much of the night
gibble….
gibble this, pal…
gibble gobble
Funny you should mention blood tests in light of the Rangers’ opponents in this game, Doc…
(Ducks for cover in anticipation of heinous “unprovoked attacks”.)
bye, gibble.
Stay classy, gibble….And the only one you’ve outsmarted so far was you. I’m sure youllbe back under different name, but your general intellect wouldn’t allow you to be unnoticed for long.
Well, they’re trying this period.
It’s hammer time!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo
Where is the Snarl? This soft team has actually somehow gotten us to play soft.
Need some Hagelin power here….
I bet Avery would have ignited a spark tonight.
We need more Snarl! Burrow boys! BURROW I say!
Manny – I agree. The more desperate team is playing like it and the other is up to their usual level of intensity.
Ha! There you go. That was fast!
Yeah, except the Empire State Building only has the Winter Classic colors tonight, then goes Pinstripe Bowl tomorrow, followed by another several days of Hartnelling Christmas colors! http://www.esbnyc.com/current_events_tower_lights.asp
Been a pretty industrious stretch for the boys since last week. I forgive. Carcillo happens.
Manny – not up to their usual level
Caps haven’t been soft at all tonight. Even their softies.
Alex Burrows, Manny?
ilb, he must think we are the trolls. Bwahaha! Idiot.
Yeah, and explain to me why the colors and “text” are up tonight?? who the heck is going to notice, or get that? why not Monday…..dumb aasens.
OK!!!
YYYYYYYYEAAAAAAAAAAH
Not so fast! Cally!
Booom! 3-2 Lesssssssss GO!
It’s a game again!
Cally!
Not gonna count.
No goal?
ahhhhh finally !!!! sweeet goallll!!
LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO RANGERS!!!
oh nooooooooooo no kick!!!!!!
Oh surprise. That bum captain of ours scored in a crucial situation…surprise!
No Goal!
POOP
fugg! No goal
Damn! He kicked it….
Sigh…
review…again….we sure are helping the guys in Toronto earn their keep this season
No goal.
Oh man. That stinks.
3-1. PP again
That would make a FG kicker proud!
Just try to score a real goal.
May not have even been intentional, but he did kick at it….
the idea was trying to turn skate to “kick” it
forward so he could put it in with his stick
but it went in goal
CBP, CTB?
Haven’t seen kicking motions be much more distinct than that.
PP again
C’mon! bury a friggin’ puck here….Caps are giving us the opportunity!!!
This Step-ON nonsense is annoying. Leave it to Jeanneret.
HWirth: To answer your question, the blame is clearly on this bum of a backup who is only 8-2. He’s only better than like Ryan Miller and Roberto Luongo. You gotta be better than that!
Citizens Bank Park, Carp….he scored tix.
More importantly, Mama, CTB found a sitter who was available on Jan 2nd.
Manny, ha! bum of a bush league back up! dime a dozen goalie! Fire good Marty!!
Doesn’t Rupp owe Erskine a punch in the face? Isn’t it about time for that?
I hate this Crap(ital)
Alright, this will do it. Good shot.
Game over. Season over. Trade/fire everybody.
Indeed Manny. I asked if he was bringing Little Mis CT, cause she’s got such a good record…but figure that trip may be a tad much for a tadpole :)
Game over….
Citizens Bank Park Carp
It’s more okay to lose when you don’t play like crap, and you have won a bunch of games in a row.
Well, I guess this just wasn’t our night…..I hate that Semin and Ovie had a pretty good game against us, though…
Well, Caps tried to give us this game with the penalty box parade, but since our PP was non-existent yet again (Perry Pearn?), we wind up with a loss.
As good as this team has been playing, the PP is going to be our Achilles heel.
Almost forgot what it feels like to lose a road game…
Boyle’s line is emerging, eh…Like what they do.
Capital Punishment.
Can’t win them all. Come back strong in Florida and then in Philly.
I hate Semin – the guy is a total bum, but against us he turns into Rocket Richard.
Well, that’s it for me… soft game…
Good night, Fire and trade everybody by tomorrow!
A-VER-Y! A-VER-Y! A-VER-Y!
rupp adds zero.. mitchell can handle the puck but needs to shoot the puck more also….......
again richards play has been bad.. he gets all the prime time on the ice and has done zippo and is soft on D, big time soft….....
Biron with anutha bad one ….
Carp , not you tooo!!! You can’t say , gameover , season over…can you?
that’s a warning, stuart.
Yay Caps fans, cheer the biggest underachieving team of the past 3 seasons!
Vokoun has done well to only concede one given it’s looked like he hasn’t had a clue where the puck is all evening.
just subbing for Orr, Greg. Where is Orr?
Craps think they just won the Cup….
Got to lose some, eh? :-)
It sets up a good one for Friday. And Monday, of course….Oh, yeah, and fire Torts!
Just in time for “24/7” ... if you’re looking for a bright side.
Not Biron’s fault at all, and I don’t think we really played all that bad. A couple of miscues on D and the puck wound up in our net.
FIX THE POWERPLAY!
trade everyone. fire Benoit Allaire…
Night Swede! Always impressed when you and LW are here for games….Krisy called it quits at start of third, but props to her too!
Niters all! Off for 24/7 … too tired to chat for it tonight…Carp, how will you balance post-game notes etc and show go time??!!! You need two blogs, like MSG :)
TA!
So since they played a pretty carcilo game I guess Tortarella is going to insert Christensen into the lineup next game?
PP was very bad tonight, and they couldn’t hit the net very much at all – lots of blocked shots by the defense – Vokoun really didn’t look to have a tough job tonight at all.
Haha!! ilb, it’s border line insanity….(doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results)....you know what i mean?
We lost …..Capitals are happy they beat the top team in the east. Closest they will ever get to the Stanley Cup.
warning for what? I did not use bad language…
Ugly night for Richards. Really ugly. Seems as if it’s becoming the norm.
Meh. Despite all we’ll no doubt hear about which player(s) would’ve given the team a “spark”, I think that was the least flat they’ve been in a loss for a while.
Had enough scoring chances, but no timely scoring on the PP (!) and punished for bad giveaways.
power play got no traffic in front of VOkoun. They until the last PP did not even really get the puck in the zone….
carp again I got a warning for what? My posts for many moons have had zero profanity and nothing innapropriate..
LW – I agree. Three bad turnovers/bounces all went in net. DZ puck bounced on him. Boyle didn’t get the clear when they needed one and Brich with a really soft dump in. Otherwise, it was a pretty even game. The Caps did look a little more desperate than us tonight which is unfortunate but it happens. Same way the Flyers got smoke last night by TB on road.
watching better times now
maybe Rupp needs to grow the beard again
what model was w/ Prust?
stuart,
probably for unbased pessimism…?
Stuart A – I’m pretty sure you used unedited version of carcillo.
you know, like unsportsmanship condact
..conduct, I mean..
wake me when this flyers portion is over
Stralman was pedestrian on defense, but he has a good R handed shot from the point. Maybe he should be used on PP more often?
Rangers fans hockey life is just back to normal…No tragedy, not even a big drama. I even felt before kind of a little bit uncomfortable, like “blue collar” in a high society …
I hope all the ice time Boyle got in the 3rd was to show he cannot play at this level.
Any other Ranger has the same number of flubs tonight as Boyle and they are banished.
We have no one better than Boyle in the system? hard to believe!!!
Was that not a dandy? They got out worked, pretty much the entire game. I knew the caps were due to have a good one, but the Rangers were a poor excuse for a good team tonight.
It still hurts to lose, 5 game winning streak and all…....you expect better results than we got tonight, especially against a defensively-suspect team like the Craps.
Stuart – Just be a “lady” at a tea party in your language and your approach to life and you will stay out of trouble. That’s what “manhood” is down to these days, anyway, so you are not alone.
Mike Rupp had 5:15 TOI…
If only you know who would have played that 5:15!
agree that it would have been much better
if there would have been a better effort
didn’t click on all cylinders
and there you go
Boom Boom – Is part of “manhood” having a “mancrush”?
Zing!
Rash prediction: Torts over-reacts to tonight’s debacle by replacing Hags with E.C. and by putting E.C. on the point on the power play to jack up the offense.
STRATEGY!!!
Is is Troll Day or something?
Is it*
Not to be lost in the shuffle: Dubi scored a game-tying goal (early) at even strength. Hopefully a harbinger of more contributions under pressure to come.
IBL
It’s obvious that you are David Klein aka blastfromthepast aka Hulk Hogan. Go away, loser. Stop calling Orr names.
Shinebox?
The worse in this game IMO, was that Caps really started this game visibly nervous and unconfident, and, as it frequently happened in emotional game of hockey, their first goal – our giveaway “gift”, changed psychology and fabric of entire game.
I’m not blaming Biron at all, just my point in previous post was that against the teams with higher offensive, “finishing” skills, Hank, as we know him, statistically would have a higher probability to make a “miracle save” and give an opportunity to team to score first and destroy Caps psycho, changing totally game scenario. But all this of course are from “If” Dreamland.
What’s this terrible stench?
LW3H December 28th, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Callahan is a lunatic.
Post of the evening.
I smell it too, 4ever. I think it’s troll cooke….
I vaguely suspect who is cowardly behind this butchered name…ORR hater. I just want to remind that this phrase in public place is borderline to death threat and that would be a punishable crime.
am i on the wrong thread or
is everyone so busy with other
matters that no one bothered to watch 24/7
and commented?
Rangers lost.
Black Hawks lost.
Not a good night.
LA – CHICAGO 2:0
FIRE BOWMAN!
stuart, yes, it was language.
Bowman’s Team won a Cup. How’s Sather been doing for the last 11 years?
He was doing fine, ignoring your screams. Don’t want to fire Bow Jr., than:
FIRE OLGA!!!
Phlyers suck
Doing fine?
BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
He’s a loser. You deserve him.
Carp, do you if the Mets are still 5-12?
know*
Everybody calm down in the room
You won’t have to worry about long losing streaks with this club
Goaltending is too good – overall defensive play is too good – leadership is too good
Couple of bad mistakes/minutes cost em a game they could have won
Back to it on Friday night in Sunrise
Then we get to play the Filth outside
Bring ‘em on
Vancouver leads San Jose 1-0, after one period. Anyone here who did not get down on Vancouver, per my earlier post, should be “pistol whipped,” providing it is not borderline “criminal” to say that. jajajajaja.
If only you know who had that 5:15 of ice time…
Bwahaaahaaa!...right…
Vancouver is a paper tiger
Showed how heartless and gutless they were in laying down at home in game 7 of the stanley cup finals against the B’s
how do you do that?
Plus they have the most overrated goalie in the entire league in Luongo – he couldn’t hold a candle to Hank
Rangers would absolutely grind them into the ice in a finals matchup
Fedostinko Nightly Chronicle:
10 minutes playing time; ZERO shots on goal; lost all four face offs he took, one giveaway, zero takeaways. BUT, bless my soul “Our Man From Vanilla” logged ONE blocked shot. Kind of makes it all ok, some how, right Fedostinko Fan Club charter members. jajajajaja.
Where can I pick up my Fedo HOF (Hall of Fakers) ballot?
Bah, humbug! Debbies won and USA lost in WJT against Finland – today was a total wipeout..
Boston wins in OT. Back in first in the east.
It was nice while it lasted.
You never got over buying that Edsel back in ‘58, did ya?
Isn’t it amazing that all haters or phony Rangers fan or trolls whatever seem to come out of the woodwork after 1 loss yet they’re no where to be found when they win 5 in a Row. This guy stinks. That guy stinks. Yeah Yeah. Alarm me when they have a 3 game losing streak before I even blink about this team.
Jimbo – Felt that same way! Nothing really good on the scoreboard today.
new post.
Vancouver just scored on the PP, and without Hags on the point! Up now, 2-0. Hey, making money in this world is easy, when you know what you are doing. lol.
I know all the hate will be over the PP and that’s understandable. But here’s a weird one. It’s a road game thing. They are the 11th best PP at 20% and 28th on the road at 10.4%.
Another episode of Flyers 24 Rangers 7…the ugly sweater party at Richards’ was good but could have used more, some decent on ice stuff from philly game(Sestito should replace Carcillo in RR slang), not enough from isles games, cally coaching torts=gold, but I nearly shut it off when I had to see the brzgolov family christmas.
Oh yea the game, tough loss, bad bounces, big game friday.