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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.

2 hours ago, LindG1000 said:

 

I think context matters so much with this, though. The Rangers will celebrate the 100th anniversary in 2026-2027 and had a stellar team to begin with, but with the rights and sponsorship situation carving up territory, the Rangers had no access to youth. Montreal and Toronto (and Detroit) had a decent monopoly on Junior team sponsorship, and would repeatedly sign players to so-called "A" forms (an annual "tryout rights renewal") - so a player brought up through a Montreal-sponsored team would sign this form every year as a rights retention mechanism for the Canadiens - or "C" forms (professional rights forms). It froze out Chicago, New York, and Boston for a while as they'd only really get the late bloomers, so from 1940 to the 1967 expansion, the Rangers, Bruins, and Blackhawks made a combined 12 finals APPEARANCES - and that gets worse when you balance out that 4 of those appearances were in the WW2 years, where Canada was involved in the war earlier (as it was British Canada at the time). A lot of the "breakthroughs" were dumb luck - Stan Mikita fleeing Slovakia with his family and just luckily landing in territory in Ontario that had a Blackhawks sponsorship team, or the Wings giving up too early on Bucyk and dealing him (though to be fair, they got Sawchuk in that trade).

 

The Rangers weren't on "even footing" until the late 1960s, when the modern draft was conceptualized. Then, these endless rights renewals and sponsorship deals started falling under intense legal scrutiny, and the monopoly broke. And pretty quickly, they competed.

 

So...yeah, I mean...Kreider's probably not yet a top 5 Ranger; for many, he may never be. But he's a few seasons away from being one of the most prevalent names in the franchise record books if he isn't already, and it's at least somewhat understandable why that is.

3 of the 6 original teams were on a different plane than the other 3.  This is because the owners of those groups were in cahoots to keep the other 3 down.

Just now, BrooksBurner said:

 

 

3-1-1 against playoff teams not named the Islanders. 0 games for reference against the Canes.

 

13 of those wins were against non playoff teams. The fact Rempe is super fun to watch against the Devils of the world doesn’t mean he’s the reason for the wins in that stretch. There should be legitimate concern he’s not a good enough skater against the Canes, and that Lavi didn’t trust him in the 3rd periods against a bad team like the Caps will leave the bench short. Especially if we start getting into OT games. Part of that isn’t Rempe’s fault. I think Lavi is scared the refs have targeted him and doesn’t want penalties at critical times.

So Rempe doesn't start and the Rangers lose game one and Laviolette has to deal with that pressure now also.

The easy answer is start Rempe and then if he creates conditions where you want Chytil instead you dress Chytil instead.

This team looks different when Rempe is playing.

22 minutes ago, BrooksBurner said:

Have to see if Rempe even plays…this is kind of an anti-Rempe matchup here.

18-2-1.

Even Laviolette is going to have to look at that set of numbers and wonder if he can bench Rempe and still win.

3 hours ago, BrooksBurner said:

Just running down the list:

 

Special Teams: Even (2 years ago: Rangers, modest edge)

Depth: Even (2 years ago: Canes, big edge)

Faceoffs: Even (2 years ago: Canes, big edge)

Physicality: Even (2 years ago: Canes, modest edge)

5v5: Canes, big edge (unchanged)

Goaltending: Rangers, big edge (unchanged)

Scoring Talent: Rangers, slight edge (2 years ago: Rangers, big edge)

Coaching: Even (2 years ago: Canes, slight edge)

 

I think the Rangers completely closed the gaps on depth/faceoffs/physicality/coaching, and the Canes closed the gap on special teams and narrowed the gap on scoring talent w/ the Guentzel add and progression of Jarvis/Necas. The Rangers were sizable underdogs two years ago and Igor stole it. This time around is a closer matchup in every department except two, and those two haven't changed at all from 2 years ago: 5v5 and goaltending. We talk all of the time about how the Rangers shouldn't pay Shesterkin his next contract because it's not how you build a Cup winner, and that teams should spend the money on the rest of the team because if the team is playing the right way at 5v5, then the goalie matters less. The reason for that is that, more often than not, great 5v5 play matters more than paying a great goalie. The Canes have that edge. They will have the puck in the Rangers' end of the ice more in this series. They will generate more chances, and they have a more cohesive forecheck. This is all pretty guaranteed to happen. This is why the betting odds will favor the Canes, and it should, but it's not a lock. The Rangers will need Shesterkin to be the difference again, and he's capable.

The Rangers are going to have to spend whatever they need to spend to keep Igor.

He's the reason they can play half-assed at 5v5 and still win.

The Rangers are going to win as long as they win the battle at 5v5.  We'll see if they are capable of that.

The Rangers are deep right now and relatively healthy.  I think Carolina is going to have some problems trying to maintain their pace.

Kreider is a very unusual player.  The other guys on the list above were headed to the Hall of Fame before they hit 30.  Kreider was headed to running a string of muffler shops after retirement.

Cooper looked constipated all series.

8 hours ago, RangersLEETCH said:

I have to admit when I saw Foxy laid out on the ice and holding his leg and not really moving I screamed at the TV set “ohhh FUCK!!!” “What the fuck is going on?” I’m yelling with my family watching then I see the replay and I said “that’s it you mother fuckers want a fight , fuck em, send out Rempe next shift to fuck somebody up! “I don’t care who it is!” I was steaming. As I am sure many if you were too. We cannot allow the Hurricanes to do that! Somebody said to me in a previous post the Rangers never respond when teams take cheap shots at our top players. Anyways (as Andy sipowicz would say NYPD BLUE) Rangers win we move on! 
LGR!! 

Sipowicz was such a great character.  Dennis Franz also played two similar characters on Hill Street Blues before NYPD Blue was created.  They killed off his first character and then wrote him in on another one.

3 hours ago, Jdog99 said:

 

The fix was in

The tweet is at 8:06pm.  Feels like a few minutes after Kakko actually scored the 1st goal :57 seconds into the game.

2 hours ago, Zuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc said:

Can't really ask for more from a 3rd line.

 

Will be interesting to see what changes, if any, Lavvy makes for the 2nd round. Carolina are much faster than Caps and there might not be much reason to have Rempe in the lineup. I still want Cuylle - Chyts - Kakko with Wennberg on the 4th line with Vesey and Goodrow, but it's also dumb to mess with what's working.

 

I'm sure he'll roll the same lineup in game 1, but if they were to lose it will be interesting to see what changes he'll make.

Rangers are 18-2-1 with Rempe in the lineup.

It would take enormous sandstone balls to sit him right now.

The truth is that Ovechkin just looked old for most of the series, maybe all of it.

He was a glimpse into the problems we might have had if Wheeler and Bonino were sill around, albeit obviously a much better player.

1 minute ago, Ozzy said:

I got the Isles taking this to 7 games....who's with me?

Who wins?

Just now, Valriera said:

he's already a handful

He doesn't use that very well.

1 minute ago, Keirik said:

We all know the real reason Laf got in shape was because Kak has been stealing some of his donuts. 

 Kakko seems to be bulking up and not in a bad way.  Dude is 6'2'-ish and 210 already.  If had adds 15 pounds of muscle he is going to be a handful.

On 4/25/2024 at 7:22 AM, RodrigueGabriel said:

I think Vegas may ultimately be tougher for NYR than Dallas. Just a little heavier and meaner with plenty of firepower. DAL losing in the 1st round would send the analytics orthodoxy into a little bit of a crisis, and that can't be all bad. The swooning over them this season has been annoying.

I'm worried about somebody becoming a team of destiny over the next two rounds and the Rangers having to deal with that after it happens.

Florida, VGK, Vancouver, Edmonton.  That's kind of my hierarchy of teams that could go to destined status and force us to fight through that one grind at a time.

7 minutes ago, Keirik said:

We fight with each other for a week about petty stuff lol 

Halo or CoD???  I demand an answer! 

Now Rempe has to whoop Kreider at Halo.  That's what the break is for.

Just now, Dem said:

I'll bet that got scary w the pressure.

Much less scary when I was pulling the cap to the side as I opened the bottle.  The problem with unscrewing a highly pressurized cap is that it can blow at any moment.

5 minutes ago, Dem said:

Not me of course....just everyone else

1974 to 1979 or so you were weird if you didn't smoke weed.  

3 minutes ago, Dem said:

When I was young the caps were ceramic....commonly used as roach clips

Yes, I remember doing that too.  It's the locking aspect of the caps and the ease of removal that made the bottles good as fermentation containers.

I also tried using glass bottles with screw caps and those had a tendency for the cap to become a projectile as I opened them.

1 hour ago, Keirik said:

That wasn't the initial conversation. Was just a normal that his gap is closing It was whether he will be in 3 years. I'm not sure how anyone can know that given he will be 30 

I very much doubt that McDavid will still be McJesus at 30 years of age.  Physiology is mostly fixed over time and 1/10 of your lifespan to date is a large interval for negative physiological factors to set in.

12 minutes ago, Slobberknocker said:

I’d be worried if I was the Craps.  Rempe getting wasted 60 times in Halo by Kreiter means he’s going to take it out on somebody.

 

RUROH, Rempe needs some Scooby snacks 

Rempe let Kreider win.  There are precious few 21 year olds on earth who will lose to an old man at Halo.