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HELLS YES!!! LETS F'N GO!!!! LETS GO RANGERS!!!

I am so PUMPED UP!!! I cannot wait. We get a kick at this can and we may have not had the chance if the season progressed as normal. Consider us lucky, but hell....LETS GO RANGERS!!!!!!

HENRIK!!

If they don't sign DeAngelo then I don't know what they are looking to develop on the back line for an offensive defenseman.... Top 4 in the league for points. Pay the man and transition Lundkvist to the left side.

Want Hank to have his swan song but more importantly, I want the COVID CUP!! It's the name on the front of the sweater that matters. Give Shesterkin game 1. If he is lights out, keep him in. If he sucks, Hank gets a shot. The man thrives on competition. Could be a great scenario either way if Shesty gets game 1.

He was fun on TV in the same way Avery was fun as a Blueshirt. You never knew what was going to happen; sometimes entertaining, other times annoying. These types have shelf lives. JR's expired. Move along.

Qualifying round are technically not playoff games.

BRING US THE COVID CUP!!!

So the players gave up their last check and didnt play the final 12ish games? Now they get the same opportunity they get at the end of every season, to play for a championship and they are complaining that the escrow got skimmed off like it does every other year. Not seeing the complaint. You played less, got paid less and still have a shot at a championship. Attack the CBA Escrow rules during negotiations not when a tourney is about to start. C'mon breadman. You got paid. Save this for the off season. Call your union rep. PLAY SOME DAMN HOCKEY ALREADY! EDIT: I just reread his comment. It's not that bad, minus the report to camp part. Otherwise it was a well thought out post.

The fact that the salary cap is 15% higher than the 50% share they are projecting to receive is the problem. The cap should be set at the projected 50% mark, period. Itll equate to lower salaries but we are talking a couple mil off a 12 mil salary. The only reason they set the cap 15% higher is to accommodate higher salaries and to me, that is dumb. Go with the more or less guaranteed monies. Projections have sucked and haven't been true anyways.

+1 agree

Shesty will be the #1. That's been obvious through out the season since his call up. Personally, I'd give Henrik his chance to steal back the reigns for this historic opportunity. The team has nothing to lose, being they were out of a playoff spot when the season halted. I give it to Henrik with the understanding that ...."Listen man, this is your last shot here. We are moving on next season. Go out and bring the cup back here!" The competitive nature in Henrik could be the extra push this team may need to really progress through this tournament. Hell, I'll one up that and give him the C to carry this team over the mountain. If he does it, EPIC story in Ranger history. If he doesn't, we lose out on the asterisk Cup. Go get em Henke! Bring the cup back to NY!! ^Will never happen but one can wish.

I was a cord cutter but am re upping for cable tv. This years playoffs are going to be epic, simply because it seems like more of a hockey tournament than an actual cup run. Looking forward to this! (Even with the asterisk) I forsee Panarin and Zib picking up where they left off. Let's hope the club can follow suit. When you think of the timing, we really got lucky because Shesty and Kreider are both back with immense rest to heal their injuries.

Good chance of it.

Panarin was on par for a career year with Strome. The fact that he made ADA better too is the key to a great team, no? If everyone is having career years together then I'd say that's a pretty solid base for a team. Especially one looking to grab its footing on the tail end of a rebuild.

Agreed. Retain both. I stand by DeAngelo is a commodity all seek and few find. RFA at the end of this season? 3 years/5 mil. Send him to UFA if he regresses. Pay him his due as a UFA in 3 years if it seems fit. Give Strome 3 years/ 5 mil also. That seals up some pretty good pieces in this rebuild for the tail end of it. Remember when Jagr and Nylander were broken up? Jagr wasnt as effective or productive (still Jagr though) Cant break up chemistry and that is exactly what Panarin and Stromer have.

The future on D looks bright. How far in the future? We have a top tier offensive D man NOW. We have 2 potential MVP candidates in Zib and Bread. We have a stud for a goalie coming in now. I'm not gambling on future Hope's when we have something tangible now. No way. This team is on the fringe of being something special. Losing pieces that we have developed isnt the answer. The answer lies within keeping the flow of middling forwards and d men moving instead of paying big money to them. Buch is a great example.

ADA was the biggest piece of the Stepan trade considering our pick with that #7 pick. He is everything we would want in a developed offensive D man. I dont understand this mentality of giving up our developed pieces to go develop another and hope they turn out as well as the piece we give up. ADA's numbers are elite numbers this year. We developed that talent and this break out season. IMO he would be a piece we build around, not send off and hope for something as valuable. ADA, Zib and Panarin are the drivers of this offense. Shesty is the future in net. Trouba had been chosen as the main defensive piece to build around; if we send anyone away in order to keep Fox, I say, let it be Trouba.

That's a helluva start for sure. History is on our side. I'll be happy to see them play even though the best case would be the draft pick for us. Hell, a championship would be nice even with the asterisk.

https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/1974885 Rangers in, in newest proposal.... And we get the.....Hurricanes!

That was a very simplistic way of explaining. Nice.

Hands down. This team with Panarin sits just outside the playoffs. This team without him dwells in the bottom few teams in the standings. Love Zib but he was not the game breaker that Panarin was and I dont know if you can pin any teams success on one player as much as you can on Panarin for the Rangers. MVP all day.

4 all the way. Brent Burns on Chiclets seemed like a real cool dude to hang out with. Not so bro'y.

Has anything like that ever happened before? That's something I never thought about. Wierd.

1. Going out to Restaurants 2. Hockey- my league and NHL 3. Not having to wear an N95 at work and worrying about bringing this shit home to my kids and wife Things that I have enjoyed: 1. More family time at home without having plans 2. My free time to go fish and spend time outside.