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About the 9th shot from Trouba right in Sorokin's basket.

Better odds on a penalty shot than down a man 2 min.

Holy fuck. Whistling past the graveyard.

Man, ABC is really humping this Isles Cinderella thing.

What fucking lucky-assed bounce.

Alright. Take it and answer.

Prepping for the Playoffs.

YESSSS!

C'mon Igor. Shitshitshit. High glove. Fucking shocked.

Ya Schneids!

No goals yet, but keep the hammer down. They'll come.

Lock and load, boys.

There seems to have been a Johnny Cochran refresh this week.

Can they bring it when they need it?Definitely an identity game.

I feel like I just ate a load of bad Chinese food. I can forgive not quite having it on a given night. It's appearing not to care that I can't stomach. Hathaway should have left the ice missing a couple of limbs.

With 7 minutes to go, they have just given up. Unbelievable.

My feeling in January was that they had just seemed to have lost their nerve. Would be a bad time for that.

Just fucking godawful. They really want to back into the Playoffs. What a bunch of fucking turds.

Hathaway is due some settling up for his run at Igor last time around. That should be high on the to-do list.

Later on in the show, Vince explains in fairly simple terms why CSA evaluation is more likely to be accurate. To his telling, the public sites like NST and Evolving hockey assess the danger level of chances through an algorithm that is based on shot location. Vally's shop has people evaluating each chance through video analysis and, on that basis, are able to bring more situational nuance to what comes out the other end. I'm not the one to judge the differential impact, but it does appear to be a fundamentally different approach.

Valley just shit all over Wyshynsky's analysis on the VincePod, asking WTF he is talking about because NYR are 9th in the league in expected 5v5 goals, not 21st. So, for me, that's a pretty big discrepancy in the measurement of what is being used as THE definitive stat in the evaluation of a team's ability and potential. I come away thinking that advanced stats continue to be illustrative and useful at understanding some things, but require a lot of further development before we use them as the basis for sweeping pronouncements about the relative strength of teams - particularly in the Playoffs where will, emotion, cohesion, intimidation, momentum, and less quantifiable factors take on an oversized role. Valley also listed a set of qualities in which the Rangers excel - forechecking goals, face-off goals, rebound goals, goals off the rush, in addition to broadly strong defensive metrics - that describe a potent, opportunistic team that makes hay in areas that are not necessarily fleshed out in 5v5 expected goals. I think that his arguments lead me to the conclusion that if the Rangers happen to be successful, it might be due to factors other than luck.

The Gilbert jersey doesn't come out until a Game 7 - for obvious reasons.

You can't spell R-E-D-E-M-P-T-I-O-N without R-E-M-P-E.

My father's go-to phrase popped into my head: "a tie is like kissing your sister," which nobody wants. (Except, apparently, a large percentage of the porn consuming public.)

They were due for a stinker. At least they made it a game. Pack it up and forget about it.