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Lindgren is like a chihuahua with a spiked collar.

Zibanejad should have shot behind his back just to totally mess up the Canes.

40 minutes ago, Karan said:

 

Boston has no offensive depth especially when you compare against a team like Florida. After Marchand and Pastrnak (and maybe Debrusk), the dropoff is massive. They're just lucky they didn't need to score a ton of goals to win this series thanks to the Leafs offense choking. Boston's inflated record thanks to all the loser points and elite goaltending is going to become glaringly obvious against Florida. I expect it to be a pretty short series, they might win one game at best.

Boston scored one less goal than Florida this season.  The Bruins got the better of them in the season series.

I'd be really surprised if the feeling in the Bruins locker room wasn't something along the lines of "we'll get them in 6, maybe 5."

38 minutes ago, siddious said:

Boston is going to get swept lol 

The animal spirits are going to be running high for the Bruins after the game 7 win and their success against the Panthers this season.

I think they are going to have to come out fast and score a couple of goals early in the first two games.  If they can do that this series is Boston's to win.

I'd have been ok with this ending either way.  I think Boston has better chances against Florida.

1 hour ago, Vodka Drunkenski said:

You put way too much thought and energy into a guy that plays 5 minutes a game

But Rempe bends space and time around him.  It's all that gravity he exerts on the ice...

It's been awhile since Zac Jones played.

Can't believe I'm saying this but he'd probably be a boost for the scoring chances against the 'Canes.  Nobody to sit for him though.

2 minutes ago, RangersIn7 said:

Lavy wasn’t the Caps coach when they won the Cup.

 Lavy won his Cup in 2005-2006 with Carolina. 
Tom Wilson was 12. 

But he was big even back then.

I rest my case. 

3 hours ago, Zuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc said:

I read somewhere that the only coach to win the President trophy and not be nominated for the Jack Adams since 2017 is Laviolette twice (2018 and 2024).

How do you get a Jack Adams when your team is 4 pts better than the two teams that preceded it?

Not a Tocchet fan but I think he gets the award because the Canucks are *much* better under him than they were under the last few guys and that change started last season when he took over.

43 minutes ago, BrooksBurner said:

https://theathletic.com/5467049/2024/05/03/2024-nhl-playoff-preview-new-york-rangers-vs-carolina-hurricanes

 

Dom’s model has it at 66-34 odds in favor of the Canes. That’s the biggest gap I’ve seen. I don’t think that’s crediting the goalie difference enough

I believe the media perception of the matchup is extremely flawed.

It does not give the Rangers any credit for the changes in the team over the last few months and frankly the Hurricanes are little bitches and likely to hate the Rempinator anyway.

My perception of the matchup is that it rides on the Bread Line and I think those guys are going to come out shooting this round.

Just adding: if these were the Rangers playing Wheeler, Bonino and Pitlick the perception would be accurate.  Those guys aren't around any more and the guys who replaced them matchup much better against the 'Canes speed and hustle.

1 hour ago, jsm7302 said:

Rempe gunna start this one? I feel like I'd let him have tonight off and bring him back when they return to MSG or need the spark to change the tide. Like anything else; overuse will cause the shininess to wear. Gotta conserve the spark for when needed.

I think Rempe is going to be in the lineup as long as he is available.

Laviolette is used to having a pounder in the playoffs.  Call it Tom Wilson Syndrome.   Laviolette won a cup with it a few years ago.

14 minutes ago, BrooksBurner said:

 

That was that person's first post. You're such a miserable person lmao

Red, White and Brew. 

1 hour ago, RJWantsTheCup said:

Capitals 2-2 against Rangers during the season swept in playoffs.  
Regular season records don’t mean shit. 

All I'm saying is that I am pretty sure that the Bruins view the Panthers as eminently beatable at this point.

Whether they view the Leafs as beatable is an open question.

5 minutes ago, Pete said:

A few weeks, in the middle of the season, that ultimately cost them nothing. Let's not act like you're pulling a lottery ticket every time they take the ice. 

They didn't show up twice at the end of the season and were still playing for the President's Trophy in game 81 as a result.

Panthers are 0-4 against the Bruins this season.  2-2 vs the Leafs.

2 of the losses to the Bruins and 1 to the Leafs happened after TDL.

1 hour ago, Kick save and a beauty said:

 

See the bolded text.   TBH I think there is more of an agenda going on here.  Analysts as a species missed out on the improvement and potential of this NY Rangers team and they have spent the entire year hunting desperately for reasons why they were not actually wrong in the first place.

 

As a result we have seen a year-long Kabuki theatre playing out while they twist themselves into logical pretzels in order come up with supporting arguments for just that position.  i.e. "Why I was not really wrong and why the NY Rangers really suck after all"

 

Carolina is the end of the road for all of that nonsense.  If we lose, well then they must have been right all along and if we win then the world is a different place and they will be left scrambling for reasons why.  After all they need to justify why they should even remain employed.  Laf made a huge improvement and so did Panarin.  Or maybe players like Cuylle and Schneider were able to contribute far more than expected or maybe even that Igor is back to being Igor.  The only problem is that all of these things have been visible for all or almost the entire season for anyone who cares to look with an open mind.

The difference between the last two seasons and this season is a transformed Artemi Panarin.  Off of that we got Star Vincent Trocheck and Star-in-waiting Alexis Lafreniere.

Obviously it's not all about that but it is mostly about that.

So basically the analysts are waiting to see the Breadman rise in the playoffs before they give the Rangers anything like full credit.

A Panarin hat trick early in the Hurricanes series would completely change the conversation.  A Lafreniere hat trick would also but Panarin is going to have deep fingerprints on that if it happens.

1 hour ago, Sod16 said:

It was really all a matter of sponsoring junior teams, and MSG ownership was too cheap to do that.  One problem was that during the 40s and 50s, the Norris family owned both the Red Wings and a major stake in MSG Corp., and they put all of their junior team apples in one basket (the Red Wings).  The Rangers were viewed as a filler of dates in an arena that was focused on boxing and the circus.  The Rangers did sponsor one great junior team in the 50s, the Guelph Biltmores, who produced Gilbert, Ratelle, Howell, Prentice and others.

 

The league as still skewed that even when the universal draft was begun in 1969, they let gave the CANADIENS the first pick so that they could take the top French Canadien player.  Give me a break!

The cross-ownership problems were symptomatic of what was in effect a racket.  That's why I said the 3 teams were in cahoots. 

3 minutes ago, Kick save and a beauty said:

A president's trophy heavy underdog coming off a first round sweep is kinda strange TBH

The Rangers are not getting credit for the changes this season because so many other things seem the same.

As soon as Panarin and Laf break out they'll start getting credit for that line + Igor + power play.  Right now it's just Igor and power play.  By breakout I mean score goals at 5v5 the way they were in the regular season.

The images I'm going to remember from this series are Mathews sweating like a pig when he got sick and Marchand folding like a paper doll when somebody (the linesman) came at him from his blind side.

Hard to be scared of those guys at this point.

3 hours ago, Sharpshooter said:

Imagine if Boston loses in the first round again after leading 3-1. I'll be interested to see what they'd do. It's a complete waste of some really damn good teams.

One of these teams is going to have some major movement this summer.

Leafs management has already said that they have "some good assets" and they will be restructuring to a more effective form if they lose this round.

They said this when they were down 3-1 and the Leafs have won the last two games, albeit scoring only 3 goals total in the two games in regulation.

3 hours ago, Sharpshooter said:

This is bang on. In those days Toronto and especially Montreal had rights to all of the best players, especially the Canadiens. A lot of the best players were French Canadian, so of course, they had dibs. The 'Original Six' era wasn't too kind to the Rangers for reasons. Also, they lost a lot of talent who had to serve in the World War II.

Detroit had access to a lot of good Canadian players also via proximity to Ontario.

2 hours ago, Pete said:

Nah. You know what team is going to show up. That inconsistent shit was a Hallmark of GG. Lavvy has them organized, prepared, and dialed in.

We still had weeks this last season where the Rangers no-showed.  No room for any of that in this run.  The first time the Rangers no-show we're probably well on the way to getting cooked.

The Bruins had 2 shots on goal last night through 28 minutes.  That no-show effort ultimately cost them game 6, which was a huge deal given the collapse last season and the two straight losses this season.

I bring the Bruins up because they are a disciplined, talented, well-coached team who sometimes get totally lost even when the stakes are the highest.

Just like the Rangers do now and then.

If we take care of business we're going to beat Carolina.

If we don't we won't.

You never know which Ranger team is going to show up on a given night.  I favor playing Rempe because he is a huge disruption in business as usual.

I can't imagine what CBS pregame and halftime NFL shows are going to be like without Boomer.

The Rangers are a bit different than the team that had trouble at 5v5 all season.  That's my take on the issue at this point.

I think all 4 lines can play and score at 5v5.  The question is "will they?"

We really need The Bread Line to break out in this series.