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Not sure where Strome was skating to there. I mean he put himself out of position.

Unbelievable save by Vasy

You know Tampa’s game plan will continue to be to turtle and collapse around net. They are comfortable playing that game. The Rangers need to be careful not to force anything offensively. Take what’s given and do it with conviction, but don’t go balls to the wall on 50/50 pucks that give them numbers the other way…

McDonagh turned into a bit of a cunt since leaving here didn’t he

Rooney is such a useless player.

The defensemen need to stop fucking pinching so much right now. Can’t give up those odd man rushes in a muddy game like this.

They might start opening up, and that’s when the Rangers can strike.

Well done sir

Panarin looked way, way better to start this game.

Tampa only has like 3 shots on goal, but they were pretty much grade A chances. Plus 2 posts. The Rangers have left themselves a bit exposed to giving up odd man breaks as a result of an aggressive forecheck, which by the way was quite good. Rangers just have to be careful not to be lulled into a false sense of security that things are going their way just to give up an odd man break goal. Tampa has done that countless times. Turtle and wait for the mistake.

Chytil and Lafreniere are buzzing.

I would have to guess Rooney for the extra center in case something happens to Strome or Chytil.

I’m going 3-1 Rangers tonight. Lafreniere Zibanejad Goodrow (empty net)

Work is dragging today

He has a similar background as Zibanejad in terms of games missed, no? Not that it isn’t potentially an issue.

Umm sign me up for some Seinfeld mojo up in here! The Rangers on home ice:

It's fair to say Panarin's play drops off in the playoffs in general. The guy is an assist machine in the regular season at ES, and he's done that his whole career, but his playmaking ability at ES during the playoffs takes a big hit and it shows in his stats. Career regular season assists/game at ES (508 games): .53 ~= 1 ES assist every other game. Career playoff assists/game at ES (48 games): .25 = 1 ES assist every 4 games. Half of his regular season production. This year's per game rates are very similar regular season vs playoffs: .56 vs .22 Contrast with PP assist production, where there's no dip in production: Career regular season assists/game on PP (508 games): .22 Career playoff assists/game on PP (48 games): .31 I think the sample sizes are large enough to dictate that this is a trend. You can expect his ES playmaking ability to only be about half as effective/productive in the playoffs as it is in the regular season. It would seem to me that the most logical theory from all of this is that roughly half of his regular season production are the result of the kinds of passes (cross ice seam) that work with some regularity against most teams, and maybe even good teams in one-off games, but not against good teams in the playoffs who he has to play in consecutive games. With all of that said, I believe he's top 10 or so in the league at "getting you here". If come playoff time he produces like a mid-6er at ES, but remains a dynamite PP player, that is what it is and others with a more straight N/S game need to rise to the occasion. Does it make Panarin overpaid? Probably a little, but is it worth squabbling about being overpaid by, what, $2M? That's the premium you pay for not drafting talent like that yourself and locking them in before UFA status. Signing him was a no-brainer the day he inked the contract. It's a no-brainer today. Playoff warts and all.

There was an awesome Carolina series recap video. Can’t remember if it was posted on here or elsewhere, but it’s on YouTube: I watched that a couple times after the series. Pretty amazing the turnaround time on stuff like this.

The 4th line put us behind the 8 ball very quickly last night. They gave up the goal from poor back checking and took a penalty all within the first 7 minutes of the game. They were like two shifts in. In the regular season it’s not a huge deal. In the playoffs where everything is magnified it’s an important 8-10 minutes they play. Really, you just want nothing to happen when they are out there. More or less to give everyone else a breather. Anything positive they do outside of that is gravy, but it’s an absolute back breaker if they are giving up goals or taking penalties.

I think it's correctable though. For a goalie as talented as Igor is with handling the puck with his stick, it's a bit baffling he has not been more in control of the stick covering up the old 5 hole.

Well said. I'm personally enjoying every second. It's been magical looking forward to watching each and every game. I woke up this morning not feeling bitter about the game last night. I woke up believing the team will set things straight tomorrow on home ice. I've never seen such a large advantage to playing matchups on home ice as I have witnessed this year. It is truly incredible. We also might be pretty unlikely to get this deep into the playoffs next year due to cap and some expected roster turnover, so it will probably be a couple of years before they can load back up like they did this season. So again...enjoy and savor every last game this deep in the playoffs this year. 29 other teams in the league wish they just watched a 4-1 clunker in the Conference Finals to make it a 2-2 series and a best of 3 with home ice. Fans acting like we've lost the series is fucking .

1. Igor Shesterkin 2. Mika Zibanejad 3. K'Andre Miller 4. Adam Fox 5. Chris Kreider 6. Ryan Lindgren 7. Alexis Lafrenière 8. Filip Chytil 9. Andrew Copp 10. Artemi Panarin 11. Jacob Trouba 12. Barclay Goodrow 13. Frank Vatrano 14. Kaapo Kakko 15. Tyler Motte 16. Ryan Strome 17. Braden Schneider 18. Justin Braun 19. Ryan Reaves 20. Kevin Rooney 21. Alexander Georgiev 22. Dryden Hunt 23. Jonny Brodzinski 24. Gregg McKegg 25. Julien Gauthier 26. Libor Hajek 27. Patrik Nemeth -2 Because fuck him, and he's obviously the worst. Would have been out in round 1 if he stayed in.

I'm sure Valley's Twitter post later will show that the Rangers had maybe 1 or 2 medium danger and possibly 0 high danger changes tonight. All low %.

Why are the following still in the game: Shesterkin Goodrow Lindgren No reason for Igor to be out there. The other two are held together by duct tape. Let them go ice up.