Rangers vs. Penguins.
Game 2.
The 0-1 Rangers go with the same lineup, other than Arron Asham, coming off his suspension from last season’s playoffs, making his Rangers debut in place of Brandon Segal, who was returned to the Connecticut Whale (AHL) as planned.
Are you ready for some Sidney Crosby updates, interviews and general fawning?!
Here’s the lineup, at least to start, with Henrik Lundqvist in goal again:
Hagelin-Richards-Nash
Gaborik-Stepan-Callahan
Pyatt-Boyle-Kreider
Rupp-Halpern-Asham
McDonagh-Girardi
Staal-Stralman
Del Zotto-Bickel
Lundqvist/Biron
Steve Eminger and Matt Gilroy are prucha’d.
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And don’t forget to vote for the Three Rangers Stars at the end of the game, right over there on the left. One vote per customer.
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537 Comments
FIRE SATHER!
IT IS TIMEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
FIRE OLGA!!!!
LETS GO RANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
is MSG not going to show the player intros?
LETS GO RANGERS!!!!!!
CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP!!!
GO TIMEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
Lets do this!!! Letssss go gog og gog gog og gogogogogoo!!!
RANGERS will win , Gautreentee win night TONIGHT by me!!!
I Gregentree it too.
3 periods maybe even ot , of non stop hockey action!!!
BIG GAME !!!!!!
GO RANGERSSS!!!!!!
I want to see some thunderous checks…............by Rangers.
I think I was Carped, so repost….
Avery is purposely distracting Lundqvist with fashion to get back at Torts.
Greg – “I gargle-tee it!”
sweeet , games gregenteed!!
RAAAAAAAAAAANGERS!!!!
Tonight is our night bros!!!
LGR!
LGR!!!
...and ladies and Olga.
According to Crosby, the Rangers are in the conversation …..Are you as flattered as I am?
LGR!!!!!
The Rangers lost their first few games last year in Europe… look how they bounced back…. lasts night loss is just part of the process…
Banner raised 17 years ago?
FIRE SATHER!
Or is it 18?
RAAAAAAAANGERSSS googogogo go go gogogo!!!
Ranger gametime is ….NOWW!! Be back in a bit!!!
Was the conversation about “Home teams that are ignored by all broadcasters when Sidney is in the building”, ilb?
Must noogie game!!
Is Bickel taking the opening faceoff against Cindy?
Apparently, Duguay is up in the blue seats. Probably a struggle to pick him out of the crowd.
Lol, LW
Are they really not showing the intros? Wow…
LGRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course they are, Lev…
WE GET THE INTROS
thank god..
I’m guessing Sam and Joe will pick out Craig Adams as the Penguin to watch.
cool blue sticks
Good evening all! Man, I do love opening night…..LGR!
kinda cool they are surrounding center ice.
Bah, NHLN not showing the intros. Musttalk about Flyers/Sabres for 80 millionth time and genuflect to Skidney.
Sounded good…
I just got chills
wow el capitan
But it sounds really messed up…the 2103 season, the 2013 Rangers….
LGR!!!!
Don’t step on the Logo
Hey did u guys hear Callahan thank us?! I’m so honored that I’m going to go buy an authentic jersey tomorrow!
Thank you the fans (melky cabrera voice)
nooooooooo James dont do it lolllllllll
Are the Pens waiting to be introduced too?
Carp- Pittsburgh thinks they’re tough? Pick anything in this room I’ll lift it over my head!
Asham starting with Richards and Nash. LOL.
I think the league ordered the Penguins to start the game on the power play.
MSG didnt feel like showing the anthem…
OMG what a line Lev
Did Asham have any enemies in Pittsburg? Now would be the time to get even…
Ilb if there was a visiting team arrogant enough to think they would be it’ll be them
Daniel Rodriguez singing the anthem
Stepan …..step up.
Asham starting?? Is Bickel at center?!
no amirante.
And Tanner Glass starting with Malkin and Neal. What could happen here…?
Asham starting with Richards and Nash. Fireworks?
Is Aaham taking an opening draw?
WHAT THE HELL?
Asham and Glass right off the bat!
But sweet, Sam and Joe!
Bickel is still unbeaten in the circle
Hmmmm. OK…..I miss Prust.
Asham can take a punch
“hockey”
This is ridiculous.
Circus…...
ok stupid fight…
What’s with no Amirante?????
Think the Pens didn’t like Ashie??
Darn! I was looking for Nash and Crosby to mix it up…
Prust wouldve been on the ice halfway through that fight. Avery would have turtled right away.
I think Asham ate fists
ok who breathed on Crosby?
u called it Carp. Pens start on the PP
Two days in a row where PIT got a PP in the first five minutes..
Boy, that fight really helped out the Rangers.
Well that sucks.
Great way to start again, boys!
An early I tell you so?
Are you actually blaming Asham and the fight for that goal? Torts put Asham on the ice to start for the purpose of having that fight
JK- ASSHAT.
no, Lev. I’m saying it served no purpose whatsoever.
Just wonderful….
The fight had nothing to do with the goal.
Blame is solely on Richards. Back to back games with stupid penalties to start the game.
>>Darn! I was looking for Nash and Crosby to mix it up…
You’ll Still be waiting by end of season.
Time to ignore the troll
The purpose was for Asham to get one under his belt as a Ranger right away and to maybe rile up the crowd even more.
WTB?
wtb?
wtb?!@?!?
nhl network doesn’t show opening ceremony like it did with bruins
then
it’s BLACKED OUT the game in MY AREA of NE OHIO!!!
mothertruckin’ pieces of carcillo!!!!!!!!!
and
then they come to show pens effin’ goal!!!
so gd mad right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unimpressive is the right word, Sam.
Haha yeah any good coach knows the secret to winning games is getting fights “under your belt.”
Im almost as sick of hearing “Pascal Dupuis” as i am of hearing “Crosby”
Does anyone remember how to playw this game?
Anyone think Torts calls one of his 1st period timeouts.
DZ looking at the puck…..fail
Asham and Glass fought in a Penguins-Jets game last year, for what it’s worth. Most likely nothing.
Jog…you off the ledge? That was one angry haiku!!!!!
Carp, does the crowd sound as out of it already as it does on tv?
The crowd could not be more quiet, Lev, so I guess it didn’t work.
Oops …I meant jpg obviously…dang auto correct
Ugh. R-A-N-G … song.
Crowd sounds dead for an opening night, no?
Great, that answers my question…..and nobody negotiated that stupid song out?
The crowd will show up when the Rangers do.
Rangers Report ?@rangersreport
No truth to rumor that every fan got a copy of the Memorandum Of Understanding.
Can’t get any flow….Girardi did the right thing, shoot for now
found the game on NHL Network, they keep changing the game to Calgary. Do they look that bad? Only down 1
half way into the first period and season is already over…i see.
does not look like this Callahan and Gaborik line is going to work out. Gabby looks uncomfortable on the left
Is Kreider the same kid who played in the PO’s last year????
Now we know where to find JG during intermission….great
LOL, Carp.
Can we decline the power play?
Hard shift gets them PP…..now what?
Rangers Power Play.
be still, my heart…
5 on 3!!!
Another 5-on-3 for the Rangers!
?@rangersreport
Cue up the Jaws music. Here comes that PP.
New rule..
Ready for a crappy 5 on 3 again!
One, two three…hut hut hut!!!
oh dear 5-3..
Think they score on 5 on 3? I mean theRangers?
Five forwards for the 5 on 3.
CALLY
The Captain!
el capitannnnnnnn
Wohohohohohohoho
Cally!
HOLY MOLY!!!!
CALLY!!!!!!!
Yay baby!!!!!!!!!! Hallealuah!!!!!!!
CALLY!!!!!!!!!
Half volley.
Third liner….
How fitting! first goal on home ice goes to the captain!
Lets score another!!
That’s a very fine way to start…...
I have no prob with the opening fight, didn’t help/hurt either team. The b-rich penalty did hurt however. Nash with a great hit. Looks light Staal just stung Malkin with that cross check
Why are 2 forwards behind the goal line on either side of the net on their 5 on 3’s?
Did Nash get a big ovation at the intros? I missed them
that PP looked pretty good.
OK, that was better…
I like Stepan on the left wing half boards instead of behind the net on the PP. he has the option to pass or shoot.
yes, Wick. Probably third behind Lundqvist and Callahan. Or maybe tied with Callahan.
Why did Sutter’s penalty come off the board first?
Rod Gilbert getting a large ovation for breaking the Nash trade.
Was louder than “We don’t want you”
Soooooooo close
LMGO, LW.
Appears the team got the message the season started…
You think Nash can make a few defensemen back off?
Getting chances…
i cannot wait for “Rangers Goal His First of the Season His First as a Ranger Scored by #61 Rick NASH”
Does LeTang ever come off the ice???
MDZ shooting alot so far in the first 4 periods. Nice to see.
Arrrgh!
ugh
Bad Bickel
Pigman…
Bickel sucks
Kreider was daydreaming there….
Bickel got pickled
C’mon, there isn’t a D-man in the league who hasn’t been made to look like a pylon by Joe Vitale.
“Hagelin had a little trouble but was able to move it to Malkin”...ok Sam..
When is Gaborik coming back from his shoulder surgery?
MSG pulling an NBC… going to commercial during after whistle activity
Thanks carp
?@rangersreport
FYI, there is a new 2011-12 Atlantic Division champions banner in the rafters.
Breakaway by Rupp. It feels manic-depressive.
Piece of cooke
That Nash guy looks pretty good
Lordy…
buncha crap.
Trade hank
Hank doesn’t look sharp
Oh mother of pearl…...
Girardi…
Boys…don’t make me angry…you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry
game. over. season. over.
Kreider with a bad back check on the Kennedy goal
Decline the pp!!
Piece of Cooke.
Cooke back to his usual self
Sigh….
Piece of cooke
Cooke is rehabbing well I see
Cooke = Dumb.
What is this silly power play music?
booed off the ice
Need more blood pressure meds…..bring back the lockout…
Down 3-1. Not the Cup winning effort I was lead to believe.
If we don’t score on this PP, I’m going to wish Cooke had eaten a retaliatory crosscheck.
The ugly tie contest has moved I see…..holy heck!
Fudge
I think they need to put November calendars up in the locker room, so rangers think it is nov. not the often seen january slump time
Jimbo, My advice – Drink Heavily.
Lindsay Lohan rehabs better than Cooke…..
Why didn’t we get to see the banner raised ?
These guys need a fake girlfriend’s death to motivate them.
This team ain’t no good.
the NHL network guys are talking about putting in Biron…..
Mama
stepped away from laptop
and had a very nice ravioli dinner
now
that i see
the score i’m hoping that
the (anger) bile doesn’t swell up
and i vomit all over the keyboard
boy do i HATE the pens!!!
Olga, drinking won’t help the blood pressure…it might numb the pain, though..
Almost made me fall over there, JBytes.
Richards- Nash- Gaby to start the second?
We gotta be biceps, triceps, arseps hard!
We gotta be ancient Greek underground gay porn hard!
Rangers, gay porn hard!
GAY PORN HARD!
We look a step slow.
do you still want to maline me? LGR!!!
>>boy do i HATE the pens!!!
I hate every team in the Atlantic Division whose name is not Rangers.
They should force-feed opponents the MSG concourse chicken and fries before games ($9.95).
The sabres looked good today
Johnny, do you think you’re funny. Very sad.
My bad, wrong team
Watch your step over there, Carp! Don’t go pulling a Barbara Walters on us.
They actually didnt play that badly in the first. Hank gave up one maybe two softies. This game is far from over. They are missing some obvious pass plays and coverage has been spotty at best but at least they have their legs tonight.
This game is far from over.
Carp, I had the burger. Surprisingly good.
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Not sure that wasn’t a better period than any of the three yesterday (still not “good”), but can’t keep up giving these easy goals.
okok…i sowwy…I was trying to combat the negative nancies. It’s really me, Mao..lol
Stu Bickel is terrible.
They should force-feed opponents the MSG concourse chicken and fries before games ($9.95)
Brodeur: Force?
It was like negative nancy hyperbole….lol
I thought that was our best period of the year. And i wont be one bit surprised if they come back to win this game.
Pidto did the Lupul “joke” last year.
(And yes, I appreciate the irony of me pointing out somebody making the same “joke” repeatedly.)
so when is the funeral? cuz this team is as good as dead…
The pens d looks porous, if we can get sustained pressure, they will crack.
Rangers win 5-3
Malign*.
Hey, at this rate, maybe they have a good chance at Seth Jones?
Stanley Cup? This team shouldn’t even be lifting a protective cup.
Leetch’s analysis always carries more authority when he has FLUFFHEAD 46 over his shoulder.
I agree with Brian Leetch. Nash will score tonight.
Give Leetch a jersey and a stick! Put him out there!
Im hopeful for the season..
I’m more thankful that i don’t have to watch big bang reruns.
half the fun is watching the team grow each year. They will be better each game
Lesson from the first period: Never give Tyler Kennedy a sniff. He might inhale your arm.
Henrik with two softies
3 goals on 14 shots WTF
lol LW!
here we go! lets give up a few more!
uhhhhh…..i can’t even put my thoughts into words.
i think it’s time for wine.
at least if i get a headache from that
it’s for a better reason than a
byfuglien storm front coming by
and ruining my night and day
Richards is letting it fly
someone should hit crosby in the head…
rough sked: Marchand-Kennedy-Marchand.
If Boyle could only stay on his feet when he throws a check. He ends up taking himself out of the play and usually wipes out a teammate or two sliding along the ice!!!
Already mixing up the lines
Matt Niskanen wasn’t flaunting his new merchandise range this afternoon, that’s for sure.
Bickel and the fourth line on together might blow up the Corsi scale.
the more Sam and Joe talk about Nash being close to scoring the less likely I think it is that he will…just sayin’
Someone should clear Crosby from the crease
This game would be more fun if there were a “pens” autocorrect. Or if we scored more and let in less.
EDDIE!!!
Kreider needs Hartford time. He looks lost.
Knickerbocker update
CRASH!!!!!
Kreider and many others.
And of course this period they are playing as well as yesterday.
wow…soft call…
Oy….
JFC, I hate this team
pack it in… this game is over. Time to get back down to earth, Rangers fans.
Ouch. 46-2?
If Haley was playing we would be fine
Go ahead. Take some more penalties…
Now its over
This is not good…not to be a downer but this is NOT the start this team needed this year.
Biron!
Momentum
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo glad I didnt win tickets to this game…
Hank yanked.
another pooooooor shift and change
of course
ex-Ranger dupuis
always regretted losing him
and this is another reason why
Where’s Wellman when you need him?
Wtb? Pulling the goalie? Really? Season isn’t 48 hours old
Maybe spend the last 30 minutes just beating the s-word out of Cooke?
Why isn’t torts playing Avery? He must hate him!
Season isn’t 30 hours old.
Panic time?
As long as Kevin Stevens doesn’t score…
Nice I have dupuis in my Fantasy league.,..thank you!!
Hank is “fatigued”
Crowd sounds ugly…
Hank the yank
completely overmatched right now
Biron uses the posts better…
Great game, or greatest game?
it will only get harder from here on…
Not that I blame them..
@rangersreport
This would be a good time for an Avery chant.
Hopefully we win a game before february
C3, you takin’ that Cialis again!? ;)
Blame Nash….He brought this losing attitude from Columbus
yeah stanley cup team…Not even gonna win half a cup…its over people…pack up and go back on the lockout…looks like they didnt keep themselves in such great shape…
Biron for Vezina!
Carp
do they still sell foot long hot dogs at the garden? If so…can you buy “tree” of them and throw them on the ice for me, please? thanks!
Bickel ensuring he gets a decent chunk of ice time by getting trapped in his own zone for five minutes at a time.
was the timeout used?
Carp
Re Avery, great minds
Pitiful…
LOL Jimbo! No, but thanks for asking!
LOL @ Carp’s tweets
This is brutal.
there we go
Why did the Rangers call a timeout? lol
when do we play columbus…oh wait…
just to end this on a “positive” note
but the moment all these media types were
talking about us winning the Cup
i just had a gut feeling we’d do the
opposite
sorry Carp
but
while there should be some grit lost due to no Dubi, Artie and Feds
(sorry, if we’re in a bind due to Mitchell then we should just fold up the squad)
and that was a big part of team identity
but
the talent upgrade should make up for it
and like 96% of other NHL teams
they play hard with the talent that they have
Hags regressed
Kreider, huh?
Boyle, huh?
Staal, same ol’ same ol’ mistakes that media doesn’t call him out for… (yeah, i ended the sentence in a preposition. sue me!)
and don’t go with the pressure of New York b.s.
as if there isn’t more pressure in any Canadian city?
and the guy I’m playin has Hank…Thank you!!
Hank should pull out his guitar.
Looks like we are playing the Soviets
OK, C3 – after that last post, I couldn’t help asking.. :D
jpg, no need to apologize … but really, this team isn’t as difficult to play against. Or at least hasn’t been in any of the five periods so far, and some of that is the softness of the first three lines.
how could Kreider regress? It’s only his second NHL game.
Has Asham played since that fight?
Marie from the Bronx has a regular shift on the third pair D for the rest of the game.
Losing Prust should not equal pansification of the whole team.
Dubi > Nash?
Game 2 and Hank gets pulled ? This game is making me severely thirsty. I blame everybody
Asham is icing his face.
Can we blame the new lighting, Carp?
Nash doing his Kovalev imitation
Jpg, the grammar police will be serving our subpoena shortly….
rangers stink, no other way to say it. It’s laughable but Rick Nash looks good.
The Tampa Bay Lighting, LW?
This game needs a mercy killing.
Going to watch Downton Abbey at 9 instead of this
another creative winger wouldnt hurt this team at all… Semin woulda looked good here…
Played is a relative term, Lev. But he has been on the ice.
I hate our new 4th line. I’ve hated all the lines so far, but I really hate that 4th line.
Semin is softer than a puddin cup.
The only thing that could save this night is a Ravens win over Tom Very Brady.
Can we get a compliance team buyout and start over???
Games won since Woywitka left the organisation: 0
I think Richards is developing chemistry with the invisible Ranger
Let’s Go Black Hawks!
(Just practicing…)
Stupidest rule ever…
some retarded new rules i tell ya…
oye
Wow, what next?
Painful…
More penalties, WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Can’t anyone here play this game…?
Cheer up everyone! Its just pre season.
inexcusable
Time for a Torts temper tantrum.
Who’s hot in Hartford???
The Karl Alzner Rule.
The Great Wall of Callaghan
Thank goodness that period is over…hah!
It’s all part of going through the process folks.
Crosby interview coming up? Time to go take a dump.
The good news, it’ll get better next game. Can’t get any worse, so….
i wanna puke all over trautwig…
Boy, I’m sure glad they got Richards instead of Kovalchuk. Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
LOL Carp, i guess that can apply to most of the team today.. and yesterday. Ugly, plain ugly. Too bad there are no HBO camera recording Torts right now
“Sid: Rather than a proper first question, I’ll just bask in your physical awesomeness, if that’s OK.”
2 best lines so far Nash and asham
what I learned tonight:
if you had seats in the 300s, your new seats are absolute crap
Two pretty horrendous games.
Sid: Rather than a proper first question, I’ll just bask in your physical awesomeness, if that’s OK.
LMAO!
for Mama
ending sentence with preposition is alright in some cases.
it’s a
brand new
world
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ending-prepositions.aspx
Seriously considering going home now.
Gotta get one before the 10 min mark. If they give up another I’m out of here.
“This is what I gave up my overtime for? To see my kids taking falls!?”
Its amazing to see Pittsburgh looks in mid season form and we look in pre season form?
Prust is clearly the difference.
We seem to be a bit soft on the top lines
like, the lower 300s are now what the 400s were
if you’re in the upper 200s, you’re on the roof of the post office
Tonight’s game is more horrendous..
Are we playing for the #1 pick???
another “prust the saviour” comment and i quit!
sorry, I meant lower 200s are now what the 400s were
Egads… It’s only 1 2/3 games but they haven’t had much fight in them. Didn’t they lose a couple to start the season last year? I think they were in Europe though. I have no idea what planet they are on right now!
Sitting here at MSG it’s ugly. Team looks lost and, worse, disinterested. Oh, and the renovations suck. People have no room to move. Complaints all around. And the new sections mean when one person has to get up to pee that twelve or more gotta get up to let them out. Miserable feeling in the crowd. Nash looks good. But the Rangers look horrible.
look at the bright side, rangers don’t make the playoffs they have a chance at getting the lottery pick. The nhl is going to run it like the nba because of the shortened season.
CJP:
The concourses are an absolute joke – basically impossible to move. My once pretty good seats are now above the scoreboard and the lines are worse than ever. Bravo, MSG.
AVERY!
I think prust would be the savior for this team
Someone told me Maloney said the Rangers are bad because they lost Fedotenko, Prust, Dubinsky and Anisimov. To reach a conclusion like that after 1.5 games tells me Maloney has started drinking in the afternoon as opposed to his old routine of drinking at 7.
Is it go time yet?
oh i see what you doing there, wicky! i see…
Possible 0-4 start…does that put Torts on the hot seat?
Lloyd, the concourses are pathetic. No room at all. Joke all around.
Boy! This season sure is dragging….
CJP:
Don’t even get how any of this stuff could be perceived as improvement – unless you’re in the boxes they crammed in to screw the rest of us, I guess.
I think we played 2 teams with little roster turn over
Possible 0-4 start…does that put Sather on the hot seat?
bet if rangers were winning people wouldnt complain about no room…
Cccp
lol
No, torts would not be on the hot seat IMHO
They came back for the third? LOL.
Worst thing is that Crosby and Malkin have been relatively quiet so far
until the six points each they get in the thirdI don’t get it. Sam and Joe said the renovations were great. Hardly think they would say it if they didn’t mean it…
Girardi just got the first star from me…
The team is trailing by three huge goals and all I’m hearing from these talking heads is blocked shots.
1. Sam and Joe are broadcasting from a lower spot than before
2. Sam and Joe, although I leave at least one of them, are company men to the bitter end
3. Sam and Joe aren’t paying for seats in the 300s that are now crap
leave = love
Jpg, I’m all for for whatever you’re for…..:) except for this game….
Stepan gotta go.
Carp I can’t vote, Gilroy isn’t on the list!
I’ll use the sarcasm font next time, Lloyd.
Go Home Doodie!
Head for the hills…
{rages at the tv}
5-1 aha aha i dont like it!
Oh Danny boy
DannyG sleep walking there.
Didn’t they lose two in a row only twice after December last year?
g’night
now that guy was wiiiiiiiiiiiide open.
We got our new goal scorer, folks
oh wow Rangers player going to the net! unheard of!
Pyatt Riot!
Fedostinko.
Good for you Taylor….thanks for not making the final score look that miserable
Goal. Yawn.
Pyatt 1 goal
Nash 0 golas
goals*
improvement in goal scoring, got 2 today, progress.
LOL LW!
having Dubi is this game woulda been nice…
Cindy being his usual self
Stepan thought it was “a byfuglien joke ”
in this game*
darn it!
Someone should tell Sam that the Harbaughs are brothers.
Coors Light. For people that don’t like beer, but love to pee a lot.
What is with the football like song?
oy vey…
Jay Wells? I didn’t think you could still grow teeth after 50….
The team just went to the ECF when no one expected them to.. why would Torts be on the hot sat after a potential 0-4 start?
3 stars of game for Rangers – Bettman, Fehr & Slats
Hartnell you Crybaby! Easy to be a big man after playing less than one season in two….argh!!!!
Now if the Rangers can get a Power Play goal here, and another and another they might just tie it up and lose in OT.
John ” Chicken Little” Giannone. What an idiot.
Giannone… He must of had his lunch money taken from him everyday at school.
Power Play looked like brown creamed corn.
ha Olga! I think the next three months are going to be the longest season…...
They look lost.
Richards has eyes in the back of his head. Eyes that see imaginary Rangers.
Lighten up Lev. A little try at sarcasm
wasted “tree” hours…
I can’t take three months of this, Mama.
When is the Foxwoods Final Five happening, Sam?
Also, this team is insanely soft. No hitting, no forechecking hard no nothing.
Fight fight fight
in the final 5? lol
Brutal… Have to stop the parade to the penalty box.
GORGEOUS!
Here it comes. First goal
Nash gets no. 1
SHORTY
Gnash!
leetchy called it, go figure….
Sam, comments like big man has the hands belong to Joe…don’t.
If it wasn’t for Bickel’s penalty….
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Olga, a much as I miss hockey and our boys, I do not miss the evening intestinal twist…...oy.
Thank god hockey is back. I can’t take two weeks of talk of a HARbaugh bowl…or is it Harbowl?
Horribowl…
Come on gabby!!!!!!
Isn’t Joe Mich about as much a New Yorker as I am?
Sounds like he’s saying “Save A Coon!”
Turn out the lights…. the party’s over.
captain Giveawayahan….
Boooo-urns.
Callahan, y u make terrible pass?
Yea, Staal is back to his normal self.
Niters all. It’s still early…..let’s all breathe. I’m just gonna pretend season starts Thursday and pray from there…TA!
LW i think you’re more of a New Yorker than Joe lol
Kreider needs time in Hartford
Is staal a -7 already?
no suspension…
Kreider welcome to the party…
Shoulder to the jaw. Great clean hit.
That was clean. Kreider needs to go down he’s completely lost. He played with his head down just like Anisimov always did.
Let’s Go Black Hawks!
I say traid everyone!
That’s not clean. You can assign blame to Kreider and still admit that’s an illegal check. His head being down the whole time, if anything, shows that the hit was delivered high rather than ducked into.
now if they could fill entire post game by talking about crosby’s physical awesomeness that would be great.
Peng-wins.
No snarl. No grit. No nasty. What happened to this team?
lol Olga
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!|
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RAY LEWIS!!!! BERNARD POLLARD!!!! My heroes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They should just play flag hockey.
>>Kreider needs time in Hartford
Where was he during the lockout?
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PRAISE BE TO THE LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAY LEWIS!!!!
Youve helped me have faith in God Ray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too many chiefs not enough indians
Tiki
calm down bro lol
“They should play flag hockey.” – Lev, from his couch, where the odds of a life changing head injury are near zero
Too many passengers, not enough drivers.
Too many lumps, no Gravey.
too many red peppers, not enough tomatoes.
I can now turn my attention to the Rangers!!!! Wahoooo!!!!! Id been so angry the past couple months because of them. Im free again!!!!!! Until April. I never stopped believing. I spoke to mrs ilb and mr ilb yesterday and today and I knew my faith would be rewarded!!!!!!!
Only game I wanted today baby!!!!!!!!!! Ray Rice!!!!!!! Bernie Pollard!!!!
Clean hit
No Avery! And that was a clean hit on kreider.
Orpik gets away with some borderline stuff, but until the NHL outlaws all hits to the head, that’s a clean hit.
Ye but my 2 concussions in past 10 years can speak for themselves. A clean hit is a clean hit. Keep your head up kid. They tried teaching it to Anisimov he never learned. Hopefully Kreider isnt the same. Orpik has delivered his share of dirty knee on knee hits but that shoulder hit was not dirty imo.
I wish we had someone that hit like that
Teemu Selanne, Dion Phaneuf.
I posted on friday that I thought it would take 6-7 games to come together as a team. I also hoped that it would not mean that they would lose all of those games. I will say that they look awful so far and have a lot of work to do.
Looks like MSG was showing replays of a Rangers/Pens game from 2002.
That’s the first thing I thought- “Keep your head up Kreider”. Because clean or not, the bell is still rung.
He should be fine. I think he got hit in his chin area, same area Hagelin got hit yesterday. Going to leave a mark but should be ok this time. But he has to learn.
The Penguins were deep in the tanking years in 2002, Yergs.
Rangers need an Orpik on Defense. A player who smells a vulnerable opposition and snuffs him out with a clean but nasty “Scott Stevens on Eric Lindros” type bone crusher. I hate Orpik but I’d sure love to have a player like him. Kreider is not the first Orpik victim and he certainly won’t be the last.
Hard to pick three stars worth mentioning… Nash for his first. Pyatt for his first and Cally even though he blind-passed the empty netter.
Who has smelling salts and some balls for this team? They need both, stat.
Let’s remember that Pitt and Boston are expected to finish 1-2 in the East this season.
Id be much more worried if we were getting blown out by Tampa and Carolina for example…
Orpik hit was clean, unfortunately.
So why didn’t anyone lineup Crosby/Malkin/Letang/Neal all game-long?
Not enough jam.
3 Stars
Nash
Girardi
Asham
Rangers fifth loss in a row, if you include the last 3 games of the Devils series. They haven’t lost 5 in a row since the start of last season when the opened with three losses after dropping the last two of the Caps series in April of 2011.
In all seriousness, I’m incredibly worried about the lack of urgency/fight/heart this team has showed so far. It’s Pre-2004/05 Lockout New York Rangers hockey all over again.
Love the nashty
Jshim ….. We’d line em up. But we can’t skate fast enough to hit them.
Who sits on Wednesday? Bickel? Halpern?
3 Stars: Oprah, Manti Te’o’s Girlfriend, Wade Redden
Who’s Emery’s back up, Olga?
Got to figure they won’t be plagued by the number of deflections, faceoff plays, bad changes and missed coverage that have been a feature of the goals conceded so far, but its not like they’ll get a huge amount of time to fix it.
Well would you look at that Torts says:
1) Nash has been the best player. He’s the real deal
2) High marks for Asham. Pisses me off that team doesnt feed off energy he brought from the long fight
3) Clean hit by Orpik. Teams needed a wake up call and hopefully that was it.
Sounds what ive been saying the past 3 hours.
3 days may help, LW. Will require some time spent looking in the mirror
And while I’m still of the thought that if the sixth D-man position is the main problem, the team must be in decent shape, Bickel is spending most shifts stuck in his own end at the moment. The “process” with him needs to accelerate at some point.
Let’s hope Tyler Kennedy doesn’t spend the next three days looking in the mirror.
Hit may have been clean, but I can still hate on the pen….liked the Torts presser….and goodnight
Cally beginnings on now…..
agreed ilb.
Looked very sloppy and uninspired most of the first two games.
Nash is the real deal.
I am holding off on judging the team until after 1o games. I usually do 20, but with the shortened season….....
James Neal is a stud. I knew from watching him at Operation Hat Trick he was going to have an amazing season.
Things will get better. Henrik will be back to top form. Good move to pull him after 4th goal, no need to waste him in a likely loss. Not this season. Might have to do that a few times this season. Bernie Pollard
Lev
Completely agree with you and torts on those 3 points
I voted for asham
ilb – Crawford, or vice versa.
Hawks tie it up! 1-1
Nash
Asham
Girardi
Wicky, vibin!
Anyone else going to the game this Saturday against Toronto?
I was really suprised when they brought Krieder and Gilroy. Krieder was having a very hard time in Hartford. He was playing much the same as he has been these two games. He just doesn’t seem to engage the play. He just skates around a lot of the time, not getting anything done. I don’t know why they would expect him to be better in the NHL than he was in the AHL. As for Gilroy he was minus 16 in Hartford, but in his defence he was getting a lot of ice time. He played pp, pk, and took a regular shift. He’s just a bit loose in his end of the rink. He’s always been like that. Overall there were a few Rangers that look like they needed time in Hartford these two games. Could be some changes coming.
Rosival? Yes, THAT Rosival… He’s still playing?
Franklin Delano Rosival?
Welp…it certainly isn’t going to get any easier…Rangers have to work harder…and have to start doing the things that made them win games the last 2 years.
Clean hit by Orpik. Reminder: This is the NHL, Chris Kreider, keep your head on a swivel.
Sweet play by Step and pretty finish by Nasher on the SHG.
Richards = Horse Teeth. What else can you say?
Boyler and Staalsy are clearly rusty and need to return to form.
Stralman also needs looks rusty.
Way too early to panic…but that won’t be the case in a few weeks.
Boy, that did not go well. This is not a good hockey team. And I heard some people talking about not having training camp. That’s BS. Nobody had it. Not an excuse.
On the bright side, my commute home was super fast. Honestly, it was faster than my commute from work. I left right after the 5th goal. I was in the bathroom during Pyatt’s goal. I saw the replay. Really nice finish.
Wow. Ugly, Ugly, Ugly. What is with Bickel?? He looks like he had too manycheese burgers during the off season. I still don’t understand what Torts doesn’t like about Gilroy. He certainly can not be worse than Bickel. Wasn’t Gilroy a regular on the Ottawa team who extended the Rangers last season.
Not quite the 6-0 thrashing I remember Jagr, Lemieux, Roszival et al. inflicting on the Rangers about 15 years ago in my only live game at the Garden that year, but a pretty convincing win by the Pens. The Rangers seemed to have lost all their confidence by the middle of the 2nd period and stopped trying. I attribute it mostly to the compressed pre-season and lack of conditioning/training. This is partly a tribute to what Tortorella had done as a coach last year. The newcomers have not yet learned their responsibilities during the game, and the system was breaking down and not working effectively, despite the players’ trying to play into Torts’ system. How long it will take to get going is anyone’s guess, and no amount of bus rides to Hartford or street clothes attire at the game “punishment” will cure this.
One other question…when I clicked on a link to Chase tickets on NHL.com, it offered me $1,400 tickets to tonight’s game…if these are the new ticket prices, they can count me out. What is this about?
new post.
“48.1 Illegal Check to the Head – A hit resulting in contact with an opponent’s head where the head is targeted and the principal point of contact is not permitted. However, in determining whether such a hit should have been permitted, the circumstances of the hit, including whether the opponent put himself in a vulnerable position immediately prior to or simultaneously with the hit or the head contact on an otherwise legal body check was avoidable, can be considered.”
Immediately prior to. His head was down the entire time, Oprik hit his head. Illegal does not always equal dirty. Still illegal.
R in front of P.
little girls panicking after 2 games. same whiners whoi said they were going 30-10-8…
they will be fine, need to play harder and smarter else they are not talented enough.
amazing they cannot draft guys who have offensive skills..
Nasty, I almost got tickets for it, but I decided against it.