Game 8.
Rangers at Lightnings.
Holy mackeral, after tonight one-sixth of the season will be gone already.
The Rangers (3-4) will start Martin Biron in goal (first start, second appearance of the season) against the Lightning (6-1), the most potent offense in the NHL (37 goals in seven games), and a lethal power play (34.3 percent).
Matt Gilroy remains on defense, Stu Bickel remains at forward. Chris Kreider (ankle) skated but still cannot play and Ryan Callahan (shoulder) remains out. Steve Eminger is prucha’d.
John Tortorella and Brad Richards will be included in a video highlight package celebrating the Bolts’ 20th anniversary pre-game.
Tampa Bay has won five in a row and is 5-0 at home. Mathieu Garon starts in goal for the Lightnings.
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423 Comments
FIRE SATHER!
Let’s do this, boys!
That hurt my ears, Olga…
fire sather.
Time to gain some confidence and who better than the current #1
Lets hope the team is as fired up as the fans are.
GO TIMEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
IT
IS
TIME!!!!
FIRE OLGA!!!
GO RAAAAAANGERS!!! lets go gog gog og gog og gog gogogo!!!!
RANGERS RANGERS RANGERS RANGERS!!!!
fire olga.
using a butter knife for my chicken, on carp’s advice!
LGR!!!!!!!
LETS GO RANGERS!!!! LETS GO boys lets make some NOISE!!!!
lets go lets go lets go lets go!!!
lets try to play a disciplined and smart game tonight eh boys…
Duguay with the Grimace-skin jacket
Greg, excited?
Where’s Izzy?
You gotta want it….
I don’t think the Rangers do.
I think missing Callahan really hurts this team.
Oh, so now you think you’re better than us?
C’mon, Boys – let’s not let these guys embarrass us!!
Those are some below average 3rd and 4th lines…who cares, let’s do this!
...sloppy>? Understatement.
FOCUS!
Anything in the room, and I’ll lift it over my head.
48 of Stamkos’ 60 goals last season were even-strength.
48 of Stamkos’ 60 goals last season were against the Rangers.
They need to take it up a notch…
Yee-ha. Saturday night. No post-game. But some analysis of that fine butt-kicking Buffalo got today.
lol. 12 a game.
MSG Plus tonight for all you boneheads not attending the game in Tampa
Some Ken Danalysis of the Devils’ butt-kicking too, Carp?
Drop your purse, honey …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcFSOnumgZA
We got to take it up a notch.
did everyone see Austin Powers and mini-me in the MSG studio?
Here we go!
LGR!!!
Beer on. Hankie off.
they are showing Beer-on highlights with some juicy rebounds, and those are the highlights?
oy…
Rangers will make another backup goalie look like an All-Star.
Yay or nay on the Lightning jerseys?
I can’t think of anything snarky to say so I’ll just say I hope the Rangers win.
move your feet ot take a seat tonite
LGR!!!!
o my backkkkk
Who will give the memorial Anisimov sniper celebration?
Someone call an ambulance!
Oh wait they gotta score first
Nash and Gaborik for Malkin?
Let’s go Beer-on
Since they have the stick salute at home, if they win on the road, they should go to center ice and “shoot” the fans.
I think I saw one next door, Izzy. There is room for one more.
Blue glass supports are bush-league.
Torts spelled “Nash” wrong…
Bad handwriting, Torts. Trottier would never make that mistake.
What is with the freaking red clock tonight?! I am not color blind but cannot see that from across the room!
Oh, good, another story about brothers.
Gabby needs a slap shot,
Let’s go Rangers!
Torts: “S-T-A-U-H-L. How would you Byfuglien spell it?”
boyle comes in on 3 on 2 with gabby and nash and tries to take the puck himself – what a freakin dumbassen
Gotta score Hagelin, trade value dropping
Wait, Stahl has a brother?
fifth rounder, CT. Still a fifth rounder.
Sam telling us the weather in Tampa, u trying to makes us jealous here in the metropolitan area?
5th? I’m thinking ECHL waiver wire position at best.
Boyle’s a toolbag.
The visor that doesn’t cover Hagelin’s eyes is the perfect accompaniment to the chin strap that doesn’t touch his chin.
For those keeping score at home the red clock does not help.
They’re going to get burned with these odd man rushes
Could’ve been Holik’s old helmet?
Every time Tyler Kennedy is on the ice, the Penguins have an odd man rush, so to speak.
Oh the white clock is back now!
...no, much more composure.
Twitter questions for Stepan:
Derek, are you using a wrong-handed stick?
red clock gone.
Pyatt was dead on that last shift.
Place sounds louder then MSG
2nd time the Rangers defense has collided with the forward receiving the puck.
Once again we look a step behind.
Asham is obviously a mole for one of his former teams.
over/under on promos for HNL and that sad sack foursome of analysts: 25.
surprisingly building is even quieter than MSG.
Good play Strauhl-man
Big Biron!
Bombs away in Tampa
good shift by Gilroy
Nice tic tac no toe
OH, shooooot1!!!!
One heck of a pass!
Nash can pass too
Yeah Nash is a bust. . .
nothing quieter than MSG.
Trade Gabby for Parenteau
gabby, must finish, must finish, must finish
not great so far, but they’ve made more good plays already than they did in 60 minutes vs. Pitt Thursday.
good save Marty, close that 10 hole
Gilroy has kept a few tough pucks in
Biron makes a quality saves…
I wanna see one of those custom Asham slappers
Like Gilroy very much so far
seeing great play from all 4 lines
I think Rupp takes Pyatt in a race.
Sam: Good play by Salo.
Reality: Horrible play by Richards.
Stop dancing with the puck at the blueline.
Lol, Carp…but true. Pyatt is very ummm deliberate
Evening gang.
No more free Center Ice, so ‘watching’ via twitter until I can find a stream. Biron getting fed to the wolves should be miiiighty interesting.
I’m at work, so I’m not reading anything about the game (LGD), but wanted to say thanks carp and lw re last thread and games missed!
LGR
torts must be pulling his hair out with the back and forth action
i like these lines, lots of hustle out there
Richards clearly caught up the nostalgia by continuing to set up scoring chances for Lightning players.
Also, anyone remember Patrick Rissmiller?? He signed a PTO with the Amerks today..
It should count if Nash kicks it in.
Take Richards off the fist line and replace him with Stepan. Put Richards on the 2rd line lol
no help from me, Wick.
I agree that Torts doesn’t like the wide open style, but I think the Rangers have had the puck a lot more and have created more than the last few games. Maybe it’s not the worst thing in the world for them to play a game like this.
That looked onside
Safe is death? Must be air in Florida
Hit em wit ya purse Stephan
ilb, maybe thats why the old bags drive so dangerously in Florida?
Good period. Every line seems to be involved. A bit wide open.
Not the best period, but not the worst period. I do not think it was their best period as John is saying right now, but there were definitely many positive movements out there.
nice passing by nyr
D men in on the rush a bunch that period-I like it-
McD against Stamkos. Bet you Sather envisioned exactly that when he signed Gomez. Agree, Olga?
They managed to avoid the lazy, pointless penalties that usually make up their first periods. Glad to see it.
The way his season is going, Stepan is likely to become Bosley’s patient before he scores his first goal :-)
Without Rissmiller, we never would’ve had the chance to enjoy the Todd White Era.
Coming up, Bill Pidto has exclusive video of last week. #informative
I smell a Knickerbocker update
Yakupov was talking to Allah?
getting thirsty here…
Tampa building is so quiet, that I could hear Torts whispering to Nash’s ear: “safe is death”
Just watched the MSG feed showing Neil Young n jr. watching the Sharks. Always lookin cool
All Duguay needs is a cane and a purple hat. That stud
has Duguay contributed one decent piece of analysis since he’s been in that studio?
So that bumb Rick Nash has set Gabby up with great chances with zero result. Clearly its Nash’s fault. If Dubi,AA,Feds,Prust, Mitchell were still on the team, Gabby clearly buries those two chances.
One empty net goal in the last 5 periods of play.
Duguay looking like Hugh Hefner in drag tonight.
This two outdated, fashion and commenting wise, Bozos in studio, can really compete in The Most Ridiculous and Unattractive Show.
duguay channelling austin powers, liberace, and oleg cassini
The Rangers may not score 44 goals this season…
Let’s GO RANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
biron’s looked good.
watch these clowns melt here completely…
Miami?
Maybe if Biron does well tonight, he plays Thursday
Somebody tell Joe Mich that scoring chances include shots that missed the net.
lol Carp… kinda channeling Miami there ;)
and a lot of shots that hit the net are not necessarily considered scoring chances … and it’s pretty vague and arbitrary when teams count scoring chances, much less when a statistician does.
Bye Bickel
and here we….go
Game over, season over.
That’s a good play by Stu
Mike Rupp showing his superior passing skills.
Look at this joke of a line out there. And a stupid penalty too.
Bickel is a very nice kid and all…but total idiot.
Rupp and Bickel look lost out there. totally over matched.
Yup
Nash hesistated a second and got stripped
Stamkos….
here we go lol
That one is on The Big Nash.
Nash needs to get that one back.
great play by hags, bad play by nash… ughhhh!
Stamkos pure scorer
penalties are killing this team on a nightly basis…totally unacceptable for a “contender”
MacD’s …
It’s a good thing Bickel is in the lineup, dont want to mess with the physical Tampa team.
Garon better prepare his midsection. Nash is going to be fired up now.
wouldn’t any call up from Hartford be better than playing Bickel at forward
Ranger pure scorers…. Not so much
Stop with the defensive zone turnovers
Top line getting out chanced by Tampas checking line
That one was on Nash… if only we didnt trade for him it would still be 0-0 right now :)
I really still am doubting the Nash trade and letting certain players walk. Probably sounding like a broken record.
it’s sad when Joe and Sam call the first period one of the best of the season, yet we didn’t score a goal. I hope they don’t have anymore “great” periods like that again.
Don’t we need to score goals to win games?
Garon and Nash played together for awhile. Hopefully Nash remembers Garon’s weak spots.
can somebody mention one positive contribution fron assham this season. what a waste
I thought it was one of their best periods.
yeah if we didnt let certain players go Tampa’s PP wouldnt be so lethal…obviously.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KENNY ALBERT!!!
Yes if only we had Anisimov’s and Dubinsky’s 4 points (2 each i believe) on the season.
So top line anytime you want to bust out the goals again that would be great.
and part of it, Sam and Joe, is that Gilroy is not very good.
Matt Gilroy…..never worked out in Tampa.
Martin Brodeur….never worked out.
Here comes another lethal PP
Oh yeah, Tampa, watch this power play.
Isnt your birthday in 3 days Kenny Albert Rules?
And now we get to watch the Rangers non lethal PP
52% PP?
Tutin, Anisimov and Dubinsky are in top 5 from points perspective for CBJ :-)
CCCP I’m not saying that at all. Tampa does have a lethal PP. All I am saying is that from viewing this team this year, we have massive holes and no depth.
Best pass was Biron to the D
Cmon how can you not even fuggin set up on the pp? There has to be an answer for how to fix it
Stepan!!!!!
stepan!!!
D steppin
New York, your long wait is over.
TRAID STEPHANThere you go!
finally…of course I benched him on my fantasy team
It’s an almost-power-play goal! 1-1.
would ya look at that
Stepit!
Can’t say anything else about PP – it’s beyond ridiculous/ But after – yes! Finally. All they needed to get rid of PP
Maybe they should do the Stepan for fifth rounder right now.
I’m with you, CTB – any time they would like, some goals would be nice…..
Pyatt has been a very pleasant surprise so far this season.
steppin out!
I know Boyle is a popular player on this blog, but boy has he sucked for most of the games so far. He just got out muscled off the puck by the big bad Cory 5 8” Cory Conacher.
Hey when Richards was in Tampa was he any good?
Dubinsky was supposed to score that goal…not Stephan…but whatever. :)
love pie-hat planting himself in front of crease
Hey when Torts was in Tampa was he any good as a coach?
I thought that was supposed to be Prust’s goal
Pie-hat Stephan and Hay-glen line looks good tonight.
like that Torts at least is rolling the 4 lines tonight
CT
next goal they score goes automatically to Proost :)
except that two of the lines accomplish nothing.
how about showing an ice-level replay?
in fact… all of the goals they score this season go automatically to Proost.
Has to be conclusive. No goal
It’s a black and white rule Bolts fans
czech, He’s the softest 6’7 250 lbs you’ll ever see, he’s baby poo soft.
the 202nd consecutive 2-on-1 on which the Rangers D’man went down and didn’t stop the pass.
They have to check this against the official height of the crossbar in Toronto, which differs from the height of the crossbar on the ice.
Lightning’s little Cooke is definitely better than the Rangers’.
that 2 on 1 started with an uncalled trip
203.
Where’s Manny tonite?
Dial It!
sloppy secound…again
Tiki, are you talking Chelsea?
At least he didn’t hit Gaborik.
Matthieu Vezina Garon
The battle of backups
so now it’s Bryzgalov twice, Vokoun twice and Garon. Made them all look like Dominik Hasek.
nice dive by Halpern.
Boyle is a big 6’7” joke this season so far…
I agree Carp, the other two lines suck assen, but at least it helps keep our mediocre lines fresher for blocking shots and missing the net with shots.
Apparently, if you keep your opposition in their zone, you’re unlikely to give up scoring chances.
Man Richards’ pants are looking ragged…wait a second
Rangers, give up already on a PP
the third line’s been good in this game, but hasn’t produced jack all season.
What you be meanin carp?He didn’t dive.
Apparently Rupp has much longer recovery time than Brian Leetch did.
Watch them score on PP, just for carcillos and giggles.
ilb, what is Rupp recovering from, brain damage?
At least this game is keeping me awake! Playing with some passion, but still giving up way too many odd man rushes.
Actually, pp aside, I liked tonight Rangers – it come closiest to the last season Rangers – more energetic, more passion, better forecheck, lack of scoring.
Vinny called them “real NHL game”. I hope he doesn’t do opposite to what Jumbo Shrimp did last year :-)
bickell will not see the ice again tonight after his shrewd penalty.
bickell still better then Gilroy? no chance. play him against philthy and very few others.
rangers playing very good. shorthanded.. forward depth obviously is a problem. look for kreider on Tuesday and bickell being prucha’d..
Halpern best game so far.
mcdonagh not as good as usual. something not right with nash…seems a little slow or tired not sure what..
boyle needs to get his shot off some how someway…
Sam said something about “Brian Lee checking him” just then. Made me sad.
the
thirdsecond, third and outside of two games the first line’s been good in this game, but hasn’t produced jack all season.Fixed
Artie scoring another one of Stepan’s goals.
Nash is following his role models, Richards and Gabby who onlyhustle when the puck is on their stick or they can get a pass. bunch of floaters…
Better a big papi than a big poopie left in your stall
like Gilly getting some TOI
Anisimov should score more with the wrist shot he has.
Meanwhile, our beloved Artem is going for a hattrick (2 so far) against Red Wings. His 4th this season. Where have you been all your staying here?
Duguay is so orange i want to pill him.
Are you sure Duguay played hockey, folks?
Duguay satisfied with another impressive intermission segment:
http://j.mp/11v9LZL
Meanwhile, our beloved Artem is going for a hattrick (2 so far) against Red Wings. His 4th this season. Where have you been all your staying here?
uummm… playing fourth line for Torts?
LMFAO LW!
Rangers has to win this one in regulation or OT, Biron stands no chance in a SO with this scoring stars constellation in this team. (and lack of in our team)
That statue still has less bronzer than Duguay
Good evening all! Oh please boys, let’s break Tampa tonight….
Right now watching Little Anthony, formerly Tiny Tony, of AZ on the ice. Sadly, the Arizona Knights aren’t getting the W, but it is freaking weird sitting in an ice rink in the desert. Cool watching Anthony’s grandson following in his Papa’s foot…Eric, skate steps…...
LGR!
Richards couldnt hit an ocean with a beachball
Kovalchuk wouldn’t have missed that
How often does a player miss the net BEHIND the goalie?
Oy, not Eric…..er …..stupid autocorrect
couldn’t hit a bull in the butt with a snowshovel.
Didn’t Chris Higgins answer that question for us Capr?
Capr
Thats Carl to you, CT!
Nash!!!
NASHED!
VINTAGE NASH!
VAMOS
Nasher!!!!
What a move!
THATS THE NASHTY WEVE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!
It’s Nashty time!!!
Nasher
Good of him to get it back. 2-1.
NASH?
Must have seen what is going on in Columbus and said I’m going for it.
That’s Quintessential Nash!!!!
He wanted to show Richards how it’s done
was that one of those floaters, Stranger?
Nash completes Anisimov’s hat trick with that last goal.
LGR!!! Is the biggest noise in the building so far. Retired New Yorkers?
Just a pretty goal by Nash…wow!
On a night when Anisimov has scored twice, it’s nice that Nash finally put one in. What an amazing goal.
That’s a Kevin Collins game 7 icing call
NASHER!
Nah it was Prust’s 2nd
Anisimov scored twice? Has hell frozen over?
Nash has clearly only got one scoring move though. He’ll get shut down once teams figure that out.
when’s THE KREIDER coming back?
The Rangers have a big Boyle on their ass.
Guessing Tuesday, CCCP.
Considering it’s only 48 game season playing with only 2.5 lines seems appropriate.
guess Nasher heard about Artie’s goals tonite…
That was Del Zaster on the outlet pass … but he stinks, right?
I think our bottom 4 defensemen have been terrific tonight. The top 2… not so much.
Biron has been very strong too.
Hagelin and Stepan had a strong start but have disappeared a bit here in the second half of the game.
Beer-on
Please, son, please stop testing out the upper registers of your voice just because you can. Please sleep. PLEASE.
And insurance goal, somebody look it up and text the definition to the bench
Did you adopt Doc Emrick?
Hey Kenny
carp you got any super bowl boxes?
hags best game all season
got somemgrind and jam
thought Beer-on much better with puck than Hank
He is easily excited by mundane things….
Nope … that reminds me, we’ll do an It’s Go Time! tomorrow for anybody who wants to have a Boneheads Super Bowl party. Somebody get the Buffalo Baby Buffalo chicken wings and the little hot dogs.
But he wants to be just like his dad, Foodiesie!
Stranger, you’re better with the puck tan Lundqvist.
Saying Sami Salo has had injury problems “the last couple of years” is like saying the Islanders have struggled to make the playoffs recently.
Boyle just committed a blatant penalty. Lucky to get away with it.
Reminds us of last yr eh boys. best game of the season so far
I have a really deep voice. But I do love to hear myself talk. So maybe he’s got some of me in him after all.
How about that block by the Boston boy, Tiki?
LW, bigger understatement is what Duguay said during intermission:
“Stamkos is probably one of the best pure goal scorers in the league.”
Dime-a-dozen block, Carp.
Duguay probably hadn’t heard of Stamkos before tonight.
Doodie, that because Duguay thinks he is the best.
refs letting the game flow tonight, must be trying to hit Tampa town before 10pm
HAGS
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Hags!
HAGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yee-haw.
Insurance.
They soooooooo deserved it !
somebody go re-check that Mayan calendar.
HAAAAGGGGSSSS
Great play by Pyatt.
How does tonight’s game feel, haters?
There he is!
who knows – Biron is due
Breakout night for los niños. I think I heard Tappen. 3-1.
woo hoo
Pie-hat to Hags, the second line shows up!!!
Lol, Stranger
CT, I guess the bench got your text.
ERIC TOLD US THIS NEEDED TO HAPPEN
Except for that brief stretch in 2nd where they let a few odd man rushes, they have owned this game. Just needed to
...pot a few.
John IS on the ice level, Sam
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, Carp.
This is a nice win, Biron has been a breath of fresh air.
Duguay’s normal idea of understatement is to wear only four items of fluorescent velvet.
I think I tweeted it to DZ who relayed it to Torts.
Rangers faceoffs 27 to 38? Something for the nancies to complain about.
Joe Mich has a hard enough time discussing hockey, so he tries discussing rugby. Ugh.
Buyout Hank!
Buyout Cally!
Halpern’s game today made proud of being in medical field. He is officially off life support.
I miss so much action during the last five minutes of every game because I’m on Foxwoods.com instead.
There goes Beer On’s star.
That’s his wheelhouse
This Lightning guy is yelling like a maniac. What’s the likelihood they score again with 21 seconds left?
Unless you wrote “insurance goal” on a pair of breasts, CTB, I don’t believe you.
why was richards’ line out then?
Winning!
Yaaaaaahhhhhj
YES!
They got their goal, yelled like maniacs over it, and then may have gotten Lecavalier injured, haha!!
Biron actually gets a valid 3 star vote!
Whew!!! Damkos that Stamkos!!
don’t forget to vote < —————
stall should have iced it early in the shift
I photoshopped it on a pair of yoga pants and then put it on instagram
wow, that last minute of play in the 3rd period was ridiculous. I’m glad I have a strong heart, jeez.
Alright, good game. I guess Vinny was right. This is real NHL. Or close
Glad that shot didn’t hit Girardi or McDonough.
Also, the back of the net.
One vote for Rupp?
Rock the Vote.
where are all those cliff jumpers?
Keep building off this win. Onward and upwards!
Not sure Lecavalier didn’t tip that shot into his own leg.
To change karma through the game, I decided to keep my negative comments to myself. It worked.. Your welcome Boneheads.
Who wasn’t good?
Stars: Nash, Stepan (who?) Pyatt
Biron honorable mention
That goal by Nash was so sick
Pie-hat played with jam anf Hags was flying out there
Makes me believe.
No points for debbies,TB, Carl, leafs n 2 for the NYR… Good nite
Stu Bickel bordering on an all time high there with TOI of 3:27.
Gilroy (8:29) HAS to stay around when Callahan comes back and Bickel would ostensibly leave that forward slot.
Biron was pretty incredible tonight. Hope they can build off this, but the third period we got a little sloppy. Hope they do not eat too many wings and drink too much beer tomorrow so they are ready to play Tuesday. I hope the Devils game will be EPIC!
Jaffe …..must be Dolans nephew. What an effing arse hole. I can’t watch this silly smirken idiot anymore.
not sure why Ben F did not see the ice. he can skate just sit down the 2 big, slow guys.
nice win. besides the mega move I did not think Nash played great.
stepan and hags played well and Biron did a great job…
nice ranger type win..
Richards had about 5 turnovers at or near the opposing teams blue line….
Night, Hedberg.
Taylor Pyatt’s play has been a big plus for this team. The guy is slow as hell but he reads the flow like an allstar.
Let’s Go Hawks!
Who’s Duguay’s barber – Mister Bruce? Or Edward Scissorhands?
Carp, BTW, – Is that old weightlifter in the Seinfeld episode Jeff Bridges’ daddy?
Yup.
seriously, Benn F?
Hard to believe Richards commands 12 million dollars, 2013 salary and bonus. He’s useful, but come on!
Never mind the dollars, coos. The problem is the cap hit and the number of years. That’s going to be dreadful in a couple of seasons.
Have the feeling that the coach is giving the Irish kid more leeway seeing that he has some nice stick handling moves in the offensive zone. Led to a couple of 2 on 1’s tonight,though. A baby Leetch? Someday?
Can’t see many more of these long term deals going down, Carp, unless the recipient is young, young, young.
Hello. Missed a good game did i
dreadful!
Torts” “I’m not going to talk about individual players. But, Hagelin is dumb, dumb, dumb”
Dougie Hamilton talk on Hockey Night Live. WHY, WHY, WHY!
Also, Billy Jaffe, he wasn’t a first overall pick.
also, new CBA has a seven-year limit (originally “Hill We Will Die On” five years).
Carp – is Richards a compliance buyout?????
Hooray! Stepan-Hags-Pyatt looked great, Nash did what we were all waiting for and left us shouting in excitement, this is what the Rangers were supposed to do out of the gate this year…their best game of the year and closest to last year’s strong performance. Lucky on some of those missed pinches but came back nicely to backcheck on those. Defense played well on the whole, but let Tampa get behind the defense more than a few times, great at forcing the offensive flow. Boyle’s linke looked fine. Stamkos is awesome, could have played the Rangers single-handed with his hands tied behind his back and the score would be the same.
Doubt Richards gets bought out after this year, not with this coach, and not with that much money still owed. Gonna cost a lot. Maybe after next season?
Everything else being equal, shouldn’t he be???
I don’t think they’ll use any compliance buy out after this season. Their cap situation is stable for 2013-2014…But, yes, if he under-performs this year end next, he maybe a candidate….
I could see the rangers buying Richards out after next season. Callahan, Lundqvist and Girardi will be UFA’s.
Except for that last goal (didn’t look screened, but may have been,) Biron with no training camp and coming in cold after all these games deserves serious kudos.
Great win. Hags and step are alive and well
Stepan Fetchit.
This is a mediocre team at 4-4…
Not impressed yet with these guys. Sorry.
My foot remains on the cliff.
Good. A solid biron is avoid omen. Henrik or Martin vs his sieveness on Tuesday?gotta go with the king
Good omen
Unless the debutantes go with moosehead hedberg
did I miss it, or did they not show Torts’ post-gamer?
“The fat bastid over there wouldn’t shake my hand! And I’m the bad guy?”
Torts was on, Carp. Briefly.
He said “we still have a lot of work to do.”
If he wins the Stanley Cup, he’ll be on that night saying: “We have a lot of work to do for next season. Can’t play like this and expect to win consistently.”
E3 – Step came through for ya
NYR – great line about Nash’ move – needs to figure out another way to score
Thank you refs for letting them play – not as many FO tosses – heck, not as many FOs – barely any penalties – seemed to flow a hockey game, not a basketball game with all the whistles
Nash needs another way to score? Drop all those other ways in the suggestion box.
I am here to please.
:-)
new post.
Just to be clear, I was being slightly flippant (for once) when I said that about Nash.
S.Nation. My brutha. You know I be all psychic. Sit
Saw a cartoon where an office worker is dropping a note in the suggestion box. All you can see written on the note is FU.. A supervisor who is standing behind him says “That’s not a suggestion.”