Steve

Rangers lapses are costing them dearly tonight. They are still the better team.

Kreider????? on the back non-check

The Rangers are hands down the better team if and when they want to be because of their depth.

I've been saying this all season - the Rangers need to protect Fox and Igor. In this game both got run and the Rangers still have not responded.

How many people saw that goal coming? The Rangers really have a problem in the last minute of periods. They go to sleep waiting for the buzzer. Canes game is to crash the net. Rempe just needs to jump someone and put the Canes on their heels.

Holy shit. Bad omen for game 2. The Rangers need to keep the foot on the gas all game. The Canes are not going to let them coast to the horn

Jeez! Let's end this game. I already ate a whole bag of hot honey chips

We're still winning folks! We're still winning

I hate these 2 minute drills. WTF has this team been doing all game?

The Canes do not quit. They just don't

Jason Bateman is the Geico caveman!

PANARIN!!!

They are clock watching. They need to play the game to the end and forget the clock

Canes goal is the wake up call. LGR!!!

LET ME SEE YOUR WAR FACE!!!

time in the offensive zone has no meaning if you don't get any shots on goal, or goals. Canes had 6 shots in 1st, 6 shots in 2nd. Ranger defense is smothering them all over the ice. Kreider must have been saving his energy over 82 games for the playoffs! He's playing solid and fast hockey in my opinion. Waiting for Panarin to kick it in. Four lines rolling! Let's see how hard the Canes come out. Remember they beat the Islanders in the last 3 minutes of a playoff game with 3 goals in 80 seconds. My glass is half full though - the sooner they dispatch the Canes the better. Nothing beats rest in the middle of the playoffs...

Canes don't quit. I hope the Rangers stay focused and don't take the foot off the gas. They just need to keep rolling.

I think Messier is losing his patience with PK Suban

If the Rangers play a full 60 minutes in each game they should win in 6. Hard to forget that the Canes scored 3 goals in 80 seconds at the end of a game against the Islanders, 2 of them in 8 seconds. And, they outscored the Islanders 10-1 in the third period during the five game series. They are relentless and they do not quit. This series is the beginning of the hard road to the cup.

sometimes you just got to know when it is time to hang it up. He looked like Fat Elvis all series long

Cap coach screwed up bad. Rangers were trying to wait out the clock on the PP and the Caps had them on their heels. They could have gotten a shorty the way the Rangers were playing. GAME OVER! Sweep...

again with the sloppy defensive zone play leads to a cap opportunity. They just need to hard around and clear the puck instead of passing behind the goal or into a corner. You'd think they'd know better by now. The puck just needs to be moved out.

Christ! thoughs stupid defnsive zone passes are killing this celebration

Okay. Now they need to step on the gas and end this thing

Washington goal was due to Rangers sloppy defensive play and inability - again - to get too cute with the passing while in their own zone. They just need to get the puck out of their zone first and then move into a play