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Playoffs — Who Do You Want/Don't You Want?
fletch replied to Kick save and a beauty's topic in New York Rangers
Selected quotes from Dan Rosen https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-fan-mailbag-april-3 '...If the Rangers play the Capitals, Red Wings or Flyers in the Eastern Conference First Round they'll be heavily favored. They're 2-0-0 against the Red Wings, 3-0-0 against the Flyers and 2-2-0 against the Capitals, with games left against Detroit and Philadelphia. It might be tighter if they play the Lightning because of impact star players like Andrei Vasilevskiy, Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point, Steven Stamkos and Victor Hedman, but the Rangers would be expected to win because of their depth. To that end, I'd be surprised if they didn't at least make it out of the first round and run into the Hurricanes in the second round. That's a too-soon-to-talk-about matchup.' (skipping team ranks, you can go to link if you're interested) '...When a team is top 10 in that many statistical categories it's not at all a surprise that it consistently finds ways to win games like the Rangers have this season. They're not better than their stats. They're as good as them.' -
Young players only develop with opportunities. Dumping a young player onto a fourth line and healthy scratches kill confidence. If you continually overpay with trade deadline rentals and free agent acquisitions you lose room to maneuver under the salary cap and don’t have the roster space for young players to get TOI. Playoff hockey is different than regular season hockey. We will need the boost from other players other than Panarin-Trocheck-Laf line.
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Playoffs — Who Do You Want/Don't You Want?
fletch replied to Kick save and a beauty's topic in New York Rangers
NHL has the player assistance program. Too bad Phil can't afford a parallel program for BSBH members. -
Playoffs — Who Do You Want/Don't You Want?
fletch replied to Kick save and a beauty's topic in New York Rangers
There's only two good teams in the Metro (Rangers and Canes), so the idea path would be playing the Atlantic division once in the ECF and then the Western Conference, with as much home ice as possible. In the Atlantic are the Bruins, Panthers, Leafs, and Lightning, so only having to play one of those teams is better than two of those teams. -
GDT [RS] (#75) Rangers vs. Pittsburgh Penguins — Trouba Is Risen
fletch replied to High and Wide's topic in New York Rangers
I’m hoping for a response from the team. I haven’t noticed the crowd either good or bad out of the ordinary -
GDT [RS] (#75) Rangers vs. Pittsburgh Penguins — Trouba Is Risen
fletch replied to High and Wide's topic in New York Rangers
If that Rakell hit doesn’t piss off the Rangers then nothing is going to fire them up tonight. Four -two Rangers win final prediction /hope because I’m pissed. Pit could have not poked the bear with a stick but did. -
GDT [RS] (#75) Rangers vs. Pittsburgh Penguins — Trouba Is Risen
fletch replied to High and Wide's topic in New York Rangers
Shesterkin fighting Crosby would instantly be a top ten Rangers moment for me. -
GDT [RS] (#75) Rangers vs. Pittsburgh Penguins — Trouba Is Risen
fletch replied to High and Wide's topic in New York Rangers
Somehow we are making the Penguins look like a good.hockey team, which should stop immediately. Let’s go back to making them look old and slow. -
GDT [RS] (#75) Rangers vs. Pittsburgh Penguins — Trouba Is Risen
fletch replied to High and Wide's topic in New York Rangers
Toronto just happened again