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I feel like this trivia has to be something not Leetch and utterly ridiculous. Like...Michael Del Zotto or something. 

Lindgren testing that new cybernetic leg.

When did Georgiev get Trevor Lawrence hair?

54 minutes ago, Abe Froman said:

If they play the Capitals, Sam can talk about the Lindgren brothers.

I got 5-1 odds that at some point he calls Charlie Lindgren Charles Lindbergh

1 hour ago, Kick save and a beauty said:

 

Yeah but she comes in handy in the cinema so there is that.

Not to be overly technical, but you'd be coming in the handy at the cinema. 

I don't fear any other EC team. I don't really care who's on the other side - we're favored no matter what and it's well deserved. Even against those Carolina Candycanes.

The only team that would be, let's say less than ideal in round 1. is Tampa. To me, that's not because we should fear them excessively, but more that they're far more battle-tested and likely to get us into a series.

I don't see Washington, Philly, Detroit. or even Toronto dragging us into a hard-fought series. Tampa has that self-discipline and wildcard in goal that they could drag us to 6 or 7, and I want the rest.

Last time we faced the Avs in Colorado in March, the league shut down the next day.

Can we avoid that this time, please?

29 minutes ago, Pete said:

Boston doesn't have anywhere near the supporting cast that the Rangers do.

 

Their top scoring D is McAvoy with 44 pts. Fox has 63 in 62. Pasta center is Zacha with 50 pts. Trocheck is P/G. And those are just boxcars. 

 

We can agree with the case, or disagree with it, but there's certainly is a case for Pasta over Panarin. 

 

I don't think many teams have the supporting cast the Rangers do. We're a deep, diverse team that finds ways to win when it shouldn't happen. We can out-skill teams, we can out-work teams, we can out-defend teams, Igor can steal games, we can grind teams down, we can surprise them with transition play.

We're not a one-trick pony anymore.

41 minutes ago, RichieNextel305 said:

Mission is clear:

 

First ones in. Last ones out.

 

To win a Cup, often times you need to learn how to walk before you can run. We went on a deep run 2 years ago. Expectations went sky high the following year and we got humbled in the worst way possible against a bitter rival. We know the highs and lows. And we’re ready to run.

 

History lessons are over.

 

Because it’s time to make history.

LFGGG

First ones in!

Miller looks like he spent the days off hanging out with Aaron Rodgers in a yurt.

This is by far the most stressful anything "gone wild" I've ever seen, Sam. 

LAFFF

ITS FOR THE SHORTIESSSSS

That sequence was like....you're at the bar, you bring home the hottie, you get busy, and then one of you passes out on the couch before anything good happens.

Oh, I know that look, Torts. You found Erik Christensen again!

This team man, this team.

48 minutes ago, BrooksBurner said:

 

I agree. I don't think they should care about the President's Trophy, EC 1 seed, or even the division that much. Home ice has shown to be a slight advantage, but just ask the Bruins why it's not the end all be all, or worth going balls to the wall chasing those kinds of things. A team can do more damage to their odds of winning by exhausting themselves down the stretch, then they would gain with home ice.

 

They at least have home ice locked up in R1. The irony is a Rangers/Caps matchup is looking like a 50/50 proposition right now. Lavi's former team.

Winning the Presidents Trophy is meaningless in the grand scheme of things, especially when the "home ice advantage" we'd cede is to a team like Carolina. We know we can take over that barn. I'd like them to rest players that need it, maybe the ones nursing minor injuries. I do not want to see the Rangers try to galaxy-brain a matchup, though. I do not care if the first round opponents is the Flyers, the Caps, the Lightning, whomever else. I just want us to fuckin' truck that first round opponent and keep it moving. 

12 games, 9 goals?

Fuck it. Let's bake bread. Time for a classic Panarin heater - he's gonna get 10 in 12 here, and another 10 apples.

Yeah.

In the playoffs.

Just now, RangersIn7 said:

Yeah.

Good team.

Elite goalie.

 

It happens.

 

Also…. Teams play up so much when they come to The Garden.

I don't even think they played up. They played a really good 20 minutes in the middle frame where they kept us at bay and put pucks behind Igor on some very high danger chances. They defended that lead reasonably well.

In the end, the difference in this game was Hellebuyck. And that's why he's Conor Hellebuyck. 

Vally's data says we got both well-defended (look at all those low danger chances) and goalied (nearly 4xG, 2G).

Both goalies excellent here 

22 minutes ago, Scott said:

They've strung a lot of wins together recently with Igor playing at a level we hadn't seen much earlier this season. The win in Carolina was huge. They've also  played some middle to bottom feeders and have struggled against some of the better teams. Most nights still searching for a 60 minute or close to it. They're once again being carried by primarily Igors hot hand and Quick. Along with a small handful of guys on offense who are much less consistent as a whole especially at even strength. Minus one line who's carried them for most of the season. Stinks that we still see some games when they look to have less interest than whoever they are playing. It's not the end of the world and I hope they can find the killer instinct of keeping their foot on the other teams throat rather than mailing games in or playing down to the level of the other team. The jets were good, have great goaltending so I'm not specifically talking about the opponent last night. I think IF the Rangers can bring it every game come playoff time they may just control their own destiny. If some of their top players decide they're going to have ugly games then they may find themselves at the mercy of other teams. 

I mean this with all due respect - this feels dramatic, given the play of the team post-deadline.

Over the last few games, we've seen the depth scoring activate in huge ways. Kakko looks, dare I say, excellent? He's been potting goals. Vesey's gotten a few. Cuylle's been well involved. Wennberg's been getting apples. Our third line looks like a matchup nightmare for most teams. Brodzinski got on the board. Hell, the only depth player not actively involved in the offense right now is Goodrow, and that poor bastard couldn't score in a whorehouse with a fistful of hundreds these days. Also, it ain't what we're paying for there. 

We give up rush chances. It's the risk we take, in part because we have guys like Panarin and Fox who can win that gamble more often than not, in part because guys like K'Andre Miller can skate well enough to mitigate that risk, and in part because we have two goalies who really know how to defend the rush. But none of this means that we're taking the night off or something. It's a feature, not a bug, and it's likely that against high-point forechecking teams, we'll need to mitigate the east-west play at the blue line. edit - I'll note that our second period was a little too passive for my liking. I wish they worked harder, but I'm also going to give the Jets a lot of credit for their defending in that time.

At the end of the day? Winnipeg played well. They converted chances where they got them. Maybe they got lucky that their highest danger chances landed on Schiefele and Connor whereas ours landed on Cuylle and Vesey. Play that game again, and I bet we'd get at least a point. Sometimes, you gotta give the opponent some credit too.