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1 hour ago, Dem said:

I'm hitting the grolsch flip tops hard. May have a couple wild turkey 101s B4 the game. 

I used to keep those bottles and use them to ferment experimental alcohol in my 20's.  I finally food poisoned myself something terrible off of a raisin/date liqueur and thus ended the experimentation.  Took me years to get to that near fatal result (ok, I wasn't actually dying, just looking at it as a preferential outcome.)

McDavid is the best player in the NHL.

I would put Makar and McKinnon on the next rung.

31 minutes ago, 4EverRangerFrank said:

Grapefruit Secco with egg omlette. Metropolitan Fuego cigar and Beacon’s Liquid Fables cocktails in cans down by the Hudson. Smoked salmon grilling for dinner with a bourbon old fashion and some white wine too. Yeah, ready for the win. 

The best early drunks of my life were at Teacher's Two down on Broadway on 85th St.  Bloody Mary's, Eggs Benedict, hash browns to keep everything stable.

Then we had a blizzard in '93 or '94 that shut NYC down and Teacher's Two managed to have a fire that wiped the place out at exactly the time that the fire department could not respond.

So sad.

Edit: was 1996 and Teacher's Too.

Laf has always been physical.  He was grinding in the corners on the kid line for 2 seasons.

Now he's fast and physical and that's opened up a new perception of him.

Obviously winning a game and moving on to the next round is what we want.

That said one of the downsides of the President's Trophy is that if we sweep all 4 rounds we'll never have a celebration at home.

8pm start is nice.  I'll be able to watch most of the game instead of just the second half.

You can't win anything important with 5 stars and a roster full of whatever you can afford after you pay the 5 stars.

The Leafs are probably the worst *team* in the NHL.  Well, maybe not as bad as SJS and Arizona and Chicago but you don't become a cohesive force pretending that most of the roster doesn't matter.

3 goal lead.  24 seconds to play.

Can TB hold on?

Rempe just has to play under control. 

There are moments you pass up the big hit because the puck is already gone or the player is in a clearly vulnerable position where hitting him is going to turn into boarding or charging or something worse.

It's important to remember that Rempe is capable of really hurting somebody on a check.  To a certain extent he has to be responsible for not causing critical injuries on his hits because the NHL will run him out of the league if somebody breaks their neck or back on one of these hits.

The elbow to the head that got him suspended was likely accidental but clearly suspension worthy.

The hip check that caught TVR in the chest could easily have been a major injury.  Rempe can't catch people, make them airborne and throw them against the boards any more than he can elbow them in the head during a check.  the NHL will drive him out of the league if that's what is happening.

The Rangers need to give Rempe rules that lessen the chances that he seriously hurts somebody without taking away his ability to hit hard.

That's going to be a very tough task and it is key to having him stick around long-term.

51 minutes ago, Pete said:

Trouba is the Rempe of open ice hits. Half of them are illegal. 

One small difference in my opinion.

Trouba lines people up and mostly goes to the bleeding edge of the rules in the process.

Rempe lines people up but he does not have the experience yet to know where the bleeding edge is and the refs are much more frisky with his hits than with Trouba's.   Rempe accidentally wastes people because he hasn't figured out where he can go to without a penalty getting called yet.

The Rangers and Rempe should be working overtime on lining Rempe's perceptions of what will pass with his hits.

Maybe Laf should take Rempe back to Quebec this off-season and work out with him?

The program worked wonders for Laf last summer.

39 minutes ago, Sod16 said:

In Game 3 I came to see why the rest of the league is suffering from Rempe Derangement Syndrome and challenging him to fight on every shift.  It's because operating at one-third speed and gliding, he packs more wallop than most anyone else at full speed.  He unnerves them, probably with good reason.  I just want him to learn how to line someone up in open ice, like Trouba, because he's exponentially more likely to get called for penalties along the walls.

Open ice hits are dangerous for him.  If the guy he's hitting puts his head down - wham Rempe gets hit right in the balls.

I have to admit that I was shrugging off the penalties last night because the Rangers are really dangerous shorthanded.  

Ovechkin should shave his beard.  It makes him look older.

Laf too but that's because it makes him look like a rebellious teenager.

President's Trophy two years ago,  SCF last year.  You can make a pretty good argument the Panthers are the best team in the NHL over the last 3 seasons.

Why is it that I'm seeing every Ranger penalty as a great scoring chance?

2 minutes ago, Zuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc said:

It didn’t look bad live, but after watching the replay I agree it’s a penalty.

 

But honestly I don’t mind it. Their PP suck so keep fucking them up.

If Rempe learns to time things right and take the right angles he's going to be a top 9 player.  Maybe even a top 6.

2 minutes ago, Zuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc said:

WTF why is that a penalty???

That was a penalty because the NHL is firmly against the idea of somebody dying on the ice.

Seriously, if Rempe can't tone it down some he's going to have much less of a career than he looks to have at this point.

SH offense again.

I think I would decline penalties against the Rangers.

I think Laf is going to be one of the best players in the league by 25.

Just imagine what it's like to have Rempe dump it in behind you and have to track down the puck knowing he's right behind you.

Rangers need to take an absurd homer penalty at this point so Zibanejad and Kreider can go on offense.

7 hours ago, Keirik said:

Atlanta Falcons lol 

Yeah, it looks like an interesting pick to put it mildly.

The guy Penix really reminds me of is Dan Fouts.  Not adjusted for era or anything he just plays like Fouts did.

No idea if Fouts would be really good in today's NHL.  He was the next evolution of the Namath/Lamonica model and he did really well at the time, but no championships because Chargers.

6 hours ago, siddious said:

Presidents have baby-sitters.

Not so much the President of an NHL franchise.