BrooksBurner

It’s amazing the focus was not on the Rempe “penalty”. Only focusing on the calls against the Canes because the Rangers were good enough to capitalize on it yesterday. Subban immediately crying in the intermission about the DeAngelo call. I don’t see how any objective hockey fan can focus on that call as a soft call before Rempe’s. By the way, I also would have been totally ok if they didn’t call DeAngelo on that play if they let that shit run both ways. That would not benefit Carolina. They should be careful what they wish for.

Yeah, I mean sure, anything can happen over a 7 game series. However, I recall the Rangers’ PP being dominant and scoring 4x in the first 2 games against NJ last year, and proceeding to get 1 in the next 5. NJ was a top 5 PK unit. The point being here is things can change quick in a series, especially if the other team is well rated. If the tables were flipped yesterday and the Canes were 2/2 on the PP and the Rangers were 0/5 on the PK, I think we’d all be writing it off as an anomaly because of how good the Rangers’ special teams performance was all year, and I think we’d be right to do that.

Yup, looks like that's going to require surgery 3 days before next season and will require 6 1/2 months of recovery time

Dallas survived. Vegas was not a true 8 seed. They were probably a top 4 team in the West. This was a tough draw in round 1 for Dallas, and the fact they pulled it out especially going down 2-0 at home to start the series....look out.

Yup, I don't really care if they were atrocious Canes' mistakes if it gets Zibanejad's confidence up and on a heater. He was also physical on a couple of occasions today. He's not going to get pushed around...real good sign

I hope so. A hot Zib is good enough to be the difference in a series. Once he got hot against Pitts 2 years ago, even if it was aided by the Crosby injury, there was no stopping him. Realistically though, that 1st goal was very uncharacteristic for Carolina. He was all alone in the slot and nobody was within 10 feet of him. I'm also shocked that Kreider to Zib play worked on the PP. The Rangers try that play all of the time. Carolina had 5 days to prepare for this series, they're rivals and have seen that set play before, and you'd think the #1 rated PK unit this year would know what's going on and what to expect. Pretty rough look for Brindamour today if you ask me.

No I wouldn't, and it has almost nothing to do with Rempe. It's clear the NHL has mandated the referees call anything on him that's even vaguely resembling a penalty, and in some cases like today just completely made up stuff. Today also showed you just how important special teams will likely be in this series, and the wild disparity of 2/2 for the Rangers and 0/5 for the Canes is not something likely to be repeated. Can't risk giving them free PPs over a 6-7 minute a game player.

When is the bruins panthers thread going up so i can put cats in 5

11 more for my 16-0 ballsy prediction to hit

Canes 0/5 on PP, Rangers 2/2 Battle of special teams titans and only one team showed up for it today

Ferraro that asshole is way too excited this might be a penalty

Settle down frank

Rangers have been better than the Canes in all phases of the game through 2 periods