NFT: Rangers @ Gods of the Second Round Exit, 7 pm

in the first 10 seconds ... wtf is THAT all about? How can you repeatedly not have your head into the game in the first 10 seconds? You forget your pregame pee or something?

Lucky to only be down one. Regroup.

If I see one more fucking defender flub an easy clear and give it right to the other team ... Jesus Holden

both teams sleep walking through the 1st period. What a difference from the Yinzer game.

They had 17 shots and passed up or narrowly missed on another 5 high quality ones. Still can't believe Ovi passed on a wide open slot shot he makes 9 times out of 10.

Some terrific saves.

Separately I got a feed that bettman said cap going to 78-82 mil next year. About fucking time. Tavares just got a lot more expensive for whoever gets him.

To score first goal as a ranger - I'm going to go with Captain Callahan. Buffalo native right?

Post. We can't buy a goal this period.

Love how love taps like Zuccs 'slash' earlier are a penalty but that obvious delay of game to thwart a prime scoring chance isnt

Bad bounce of Zuc's skate goes right to Backstrom and of course he scores. Rangers have totally dominated this period yet fall further behind.

Reminds me of Eli, who's not what he once was either.

Stay the course

You give a guy like Backstron a wide open chance right in front like that and he'll bury it quite a few times.

Great board work by JT to get one back before the break. Good period overall, keep playing like that and they'll have chances to win.

He'd Grab-ner by the Pussy but nowadays he'd be sued and shamed 20 years later so not worth it

Good period. Keep it up

And blames Lundqvist. That's as point blank a chance as comes in this league and by one of the best puck handlers of this era to boot.

If anything Holden's flubbing in our zone which eventually led to a clumsy pass right at zuccs feet from way too close .. and took a bad bounce ... was to blame

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Tie game, motherfuckers

In comment 13730961 MetsAreBack said:

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And blames Lundqvist. That's as point blank a chance as comes in this league and by one of the best puck handlers of this era to boot. If anything Holden's flubbing in our zone which eventually led to a clumsy pass right at zuccs feet from way too close .. and took a bad bounce ... was to blame

MAB, I wasn't blaming him for that goal, or for the 1st one. But he doesn't make as many brilliant saves as in the past, and lets in more easy ones too. He's still a good goalie; just not great anymore, imo...despite that very nice save.

And Quickie!

smart and scrappy 4th line! They’ve really got it going.

Goal.

Brand new game now, let's win this sucker

Amazing what happens once we got back to putting actual hockey players down there instead of sleds like Tanner Glass

Shitty penalty, Smitty

No hooking whatsoever

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For fucks sake

into the corner/behind the net and the puck was in front of Hank.

Just completely disorganized, like chickens with their heads cut off

Freaking dragged down Carey and should have been called about 30 seconds before goal

To that fucking sled? Give me a break

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with poor position ...Wilson walked right around him. Not the best look for the captain on those two goals.

Fuck Vigneault teams late and close. I'm expecting late losses under him for whatever reason

Great work tonight. Especially by the Hayes line - I've been critical of Kevin all year but he and his line shut down a red hot Taylor Hall line tonight and a beautiful top shelf to ice the game as well. Quickie deserves a lot of credit as well.

Well done. Bring on Dallas. Hopefully we get vintage Hank on Monday since a year ago he had maybe his career low at home against them.

Looking forward to getting through this absolutely brutal 9 day stretch.

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In this division, they could not afford to not get points out of this back to back and they played accordingly. Nash/Hayes had struggled the last few games and Fast gave them a nice boost coming onto their line. They shut down the Hall line and got two themselves. Well done

Pavelec was awesome in Pittsburgh ... they need to give him more burn. Might have been because these were division games - I hope they give Ondrej either the Dallas or Ottawa game (maybe after hanks performances up there in the playoffs they go with OP)... and one of the back to backs next weekend.

In comment 13732334 MetsAreBack said:

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Pavelec was awesome in Pittsburgh ... they need to give him more burn. Might have been because these were division games - I hope they give Ondrej either the Dallas or Ottawa game (maybe after hanks performances up there in the playoffs they go with OP)... and one of the back to backs next weekend.

MAB I wonder how much input Allaire has into these decisions??

Is my phone broken? Do we really have 7 shots on goal in 35 minutes against Dallas? That can't be right.

Somehow only down 1-0.

Lindy Ruff has apparently done a magnificent job getting us ready to play his former club.

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the Rangers’ holiday party was last night and Pavelec was the only one that had to drive.

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In comment 13736458 Greg from LI said:

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Second career goal, first this year. Healthy scratch last game so he’s “fresh” tonight. There wasn’t a single Ranger on his side of the ice when he got the puck and scored. Vesey and McD were both on the ice and seemed caught out of position. This just after killing two overlapping penalties with 50 seconds of 5-on-3.

Wow. Nash has been working hard though, well deserved.

take it and run

and we stole a point while two teams were chasing lost in regulation.

That's about all I got for tonight. Brutal performance. After a really strong effort Saturday. This group just doesn't make sense sometimes.

there are so few Ranger threads and posts this season

Even though their goalie was well outside the blue paint.

I won't hold my breath but the league really needs to refine this rule. If the goalie needs more space then expand the blue paint area but as far as I'm concerned if he's outside the blue paint it's not the forwards problem if he's jnterfered with unless it's a 'holding' or 'roughing' call or whatever

Still don't understand how Nash interfered with floridas goalie a few weeks back

It looked to me like the goalie avoided Nash and there was no contact? I agree, the rules are bad.

Pavelec should start Wednesday - give him a few games, let Lundqvist rest.