GDT [RS] (#51) Rangers vs Washington Capitals — Red Bread Redemption

[Drew a Penalty]

REGULAR SEASON GAME #51 — 2/24/22

vs 

Location: Madison Square Garden — New York, NY
Time: 7:00 PM
TV: ESPN, TVAS
Radio: 98.7 FM, 107.1 FM, 710 AM, Sirius XM

USEFUL LINKS:

Coverage: @NYP_Brooksie • @StapeAthletic • @ColinSNewsday • @vzmercogliano

Team Official: @NYRangers • NYR on Instagram

Official Team Websites: nhl.com/rangers • nhl.com/capitals

 

GameCenter - here

 

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Standings:

RECORD:

POSITION:

ROW:

P%:

HOME:

AWAY:

S/O:

LAST 10:

STREAK:

32-13-5 (69 Points)

3rd — Metropolitan

28

.690

16-4-3

16-9-2

4-2

6-3-1

W1

Team Statistics:

DIFF:

GF/GP:

GA/GP:

PP%:

PK%:

Corsi For (CF)%:

+24 (11th)

2.94 (16th)

2.50 (3rd)

26.6% (4th)

83.2% (8th)

44.8% (32nd)

Team Leaders:

Goals:

Assists:

Points:

+/-:

PIM:

TOI/G (D):

TOI/G (F):

Chris Kreider (33)

Adam Fox, Artemi Panarin (41)

Artemi Panarin (55)

Ryan Lindgren (+16)

Jacob Trouba (71) 

Adam Fox (24:28)

Mika Zibanejad (20:00)

Starting Lineup:^

Chris Kreider A / Mika Zibanejad A / Alexis Lafrenière
Artemi Panarin A / Ryan Strome A / Dryden Hunt
Greg McKegg / Morgan Barron / Julien Gauthier
Barclay Goodrow A / Kevin Rooney / Ryan Reaves

Ryan Lindgren / Adam Fox
K'Andre Miller / Jacob Trouba A
Patrik Nemeth / Braden Schneider

^Subject to change

Starting Goaltender:

Igor Shesterkin
 

GS:

REC:

SV%:

GAA:

SO:

31

24-5-3

.939

2.01

3

Healthy Scratches:

Libor Hajek

Injuries, Suspensions, Misc:

Sammy Blais [IR] — Knee surgery; Out for season

Kaapo Kakko [IR] — Upper-body injury; "Weak, too weak"

Patrik Nemeth [OUT] — Pregnancy

Filip Chytil [DTD] — Coloring books

 

 

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Standings:

RECORD:

POSITION:

ROW:

P%:

HOME:

AWAY:

S/O:

LAST 10:

STREAK:

28-15-9 (65 Points)

4th — Metropolitan

26

.625

12-10-5

16-5-4

2-2

5-5-0

W2

Team Statistics:

DIFF:

GF/GP:

GA/GP:

PP%:

PK%:

Corsi For (CF)%:

+26 (10th)

3.25 (12th)

2.75 (8th)

16.1% (28th)

79.0% (17th)

51.1% (12th)

Team Leaders:

Goals:

Assists:

Points:

+/-:

PIM:

TOI/G (D):

TOI/G (F):

Alex Ovechkin (31)

Evgeny Kuznetsov (33)

Alex Ovechkin (62)

Nick Jensen (+24)

Tom Wilson (65)

John Carlson (23:49)

Alex Ovechkin (21:41)

Starting Lineup:^

Alex Ovechkin / Evgeny Kuznetsov / Conor Sheary
Joe Snively / Nicklas Backstrom / Tom Wilson
Connor McMichael / Lars Eller / TJ Oshie
Carl Hagelin / Nic Dowd / Garnet Hathaway

 

Martin Fehervary / John Carlson
Dmitri Orlov / Nick Jensen
Trevor van Riemsdyk / Justin Schultz

^Subject to change

Starting Goaltender:

Ilya Samsonov

 

GS:

REC:

SV%:

GAA:

SO:

25

17-7-3

.906

2.84

3

Healthy Scratches:

Daniel Sprong, Matt Irwin

Injuries, Suspensions, Misc:

Vitek Vanecek [COVID-19] 

Michal Kempny [COVID-19]
Anthony Mantha [IR] — Upper body

 

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QUOTE(S) TO NOTE:

“I was just saying on the ice: I think we have the most dynamic power play. I don't know what the statistics are, but it's the hardest to kill against – especially in practice because of all the threats they have. You have Foxy up at the top, who’s the best defenseman in the league. You have the best net-front guy (Kreider), one of the best one-timer guys inside (Zibanejad), and then Panarin passing and Stromer in the middle. You can't take away every option.”

— Kevin Rooney on the Rangers power play

GIF to HYPE:

[Phil]

Trivia is George McPhee.

[Sharpshooter]

[RJWantsTheCup]

Kelly Miller for trivia

[Ozzy]

I got Mike Ridley for Trivia!!!

[Blue Heaven]

Bobby Carpenter for trivia

[Valriera]

thread title 10/10 there is a new york rangers hockey game tonight

[Kevin]

Kreider back on track tonight with 2. Mike Gartner for trivia.

[jsm7302]

Big measuring stick tonight. This could be a playoff match up. We have always matched up well post season with these guys but I am looking forward to hopefully seeing some inspired play.

[Ozzy]

I want Sid in the first round....it's time to pass the torch!  The new path to the finals has to go through MSG! 

 

...now I have to stand behind that!!  ...Shit!!  LOL

[Zuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc]

16 minutes ago, Valriera said:

thread title 10/10

 

Zibby with 3 points tonight in a 4-3 OT win.

[Ozzy]

@Drew a Penalty breaking out the use of assonance for a GDT!!! 

 

I like it!!  This thread is headed for a "win" already! 

 

[Cr00zng]

Both teams have good records vs. Met Division opponents:

 

Capitals: 9-3-1

Rangers: 9-3-0

 

Capitals have a good on the road record 16-5-3, Rangers home record is 16-4-3. This going to be a tough game for the... Capitals.

 

Rangers win 5-1...

[RichieNextel305]

This should be a good one. I’d really like to see us come out flying for a change. And I’d really like to pay them back for that opening night ass beating they laid on us. But, I’ll take 2 points anyway they come tonight.

[mRanger48]

I wonder if anyone behind the controls at msg has the balls to put ovechkins Instagram profile pic up on the video board tonight…

 

[Blue Heaven]

10 minutes ago, mRanger48 said:

I wonder if anyone behind the controls at msg has the balls to put ovechkins Instagram profile pic up on the video board tonight…

 

and what good would that do?  so you would want to make the game a politicized event?  Sure lets do that and have fans start arguing about politics instead of arguing about how much of a scumbag Tom Wilson is.  

 

Usually attending sporting events is used to escape from reality for a few hours and have a good time.  

Edited February 24, 2022 by Blue Heaven

[RichieNextel305]

I saw some tweets about how the situation should be handled with Ovechkin with the media regarding what’s happening. Personally, if I’m the Caps, I’m asking him nicely to just “no comment” it and move on. No need to bring politics into this; this is supposed to be an escape from all of that. Let it be that. 

[BrooksBurner]

Do we need to be concerned about xenophobic attacks against Russian players?

[Vodka Drunkenski]

@Drew a Penalty Why wasn’t this thread put up at midnight?  Slacker

[LindG1000]

14 minutes ago, rmc51 said:

Do we need to be concerned about xenophobic attacks against Russian players?

 

I don't know, but there's certainly an interesting dynamic with Panarin and Ovechkin facing each other tonight. 

[BrooksBurner]

Just now, G1000 said:

 

I don't know, but there's certainly an interesting dynamic with Panarin and Ovechkin facing each other tonight. 

Yeah. Ovi seems to be openly pro-Putin. Not sure where our star goalie lands. I don’t really care, to be honest, but that’s not how the media operates. This will be a thing.

[Phil]

1 minute ago, rmc51 said:

Yeah. Ovi seems to be openly pro-Putin. Not sure where our star goalie lands. I don’t really care, to be honest, but that’s not how the media operates. This will be a thing.

Not seems to be. Is. Received a wedding gift from him personally. Campaigned a few years ago on Putin's behalf.

[BrooksBurner]

4 minutes ago, Phil said:

Not seems to be. Is. Received a wedding gift from him personally. Campaigned a few years ago on Putin's behalf.

You know more than I. I think we can expect any prominent Russian athlete to have their social media accounts scraped for anything related to Putin.

[LindG1000]

2 minutes ago, Phil said:

Not seems to be. Is. Received a wedding gift from him personally. Campaigned a few years ago on Putin's behalf.

 

I realize this may be some cynical spy v spy bullshit and perhaps tainted by that I fucking love watching Ovechkin, but I'm careful to note that there's a long and sordid history of Soviet athletics being heavily political and largely manipulated. I do not doubt that Putin learned that art from his predecessors as well, and I do not doubt that Ovechkin - noting that his family is all in Russia and that he is the most important Russian athlete on the planet right now - is likely not immune from that. 

 

Ovechkin's been removed from the Caps media availability today. That's probably for the better. 

[Valriera]

Yeah just let these guys play some hockey tonight