Huge early season meeting...
16-3-2, 1st in Metropolitan Division
v.
16-4-2, 1st in Atlantic Division
Let's try to continue my winning streak of 1.
Some fond recent memories. Rangers are currently incapable of losing. Not playing well and this is a good team. I will be realistic based on the recent struggles in games that the Rangers have had. Not going to be easy at all.
4-1 Rangers.
Hart
Winner: Henrik Lundqvist, G, New York Rangers
Runners-up: Patrick Kane, RW, Chicago Blackhawks; Tyler Seguin, C, Dallas Stars
There's no way that Lundqvist can continue at his current pace, with a league-leading .946 save percentage, but there's not much argument that he's had the greatest impact through the first quarter of the season. That's not to say that Kane and Seguin haven't been great, because they are both on pace for better than 115 points, and the last time the NHL's leading scorer had more than 115 points was in 2006-2007 (Sidney Crosby had 120).
Vezina
Winner: Henrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers
Runners-up: James Reimer, Toronto Maple Leafs; Marc-Andre Fleury, Pittsburgh Penguins
It's easy to pick the first quarter winner, since Lundqvist has been so great, but the challengers are a little more wide open. Fleury has covered for a lot of the Penguins' flaws, while Reimer has taken over the Leafs' starting job with his impressive start to the season. Detroit's Petr Mrazek, and Montreal's Carey Price, who missed time with injury, are other viable candidates.
The Rangers will suddenly score or habe something happen with like 6 minutes to go in the 3rd. And then they will suddenly start playing the right way and we'll all be lke "Well nice of them to show up "
Now lets get back to Rangers hockey in the last week (meh effort...then a little better....then good and then win after a mostly crappy game)
HA!! i wish! 1 in 4 is Rangers in 1994 numbers. Thats way high. THink they are at 19-20. 1 in 5. Rangers usually need 3 games to get 5 pps/
Two horrible defensive plays in a minute.
Hopefully this is a bit of a wake up call - team has to be better than this. Burn the tape and play well in Boston
Why did Price finish that period if he got hurt?
Why did Price finish that period if he got hurt?
I read he was warm and didn't realize the extent of the injury until he rested after the period and cooled down.
hopefully it was just a precaution, but if you watch that video it looked like one of those NFL non-contact injuries.
try this link, just looks awkward
Price injured - ( New Window )
You do realize the Rangers are the #1 defensive team in hockey?
So obviously neither Staal nor Girardi has been brutal. Staal struggles with speedy, elusive forwards, so there are certain teams like Montreal and Tampa Bay that will give him problems. But he is far from "brutal." He is a solid second-pair d-man
Sorry if I took this loss bad, at my age and as many times as I have seen this replay, it's tough not to. I guess I should be happy they won 1 fucking cup in the 50 years I have been following them.
What Brett said. Henrik, prior to tonight, was performing at a record setting pace (granted its early). I don't watch the Rangers like you guys, but their D gave the Montreal forwards a lot of space and a lot of freedom to move around, in addition to turning it over.
yes, they asked the NYPD to issue a warrant for his arrest.
I'm not even saying those guys are terrible - but they don't need to play 82 games plus playoffs anymore. Save 'em (I also think mcilraith can help us more this weekend than they can)