GDT [RS] (#75) Rangers vs. Pittsburgh Penguins — Trouba Is Risen

[High and Wide]

 

REGULAR SEASON GAME #75 — 4/1/24

 vs 

Location: Madison Square Garden — New York, NY
Time: 7:00 PM
TV: MSG, SN-PIT
Radio: 98.7 FM, 107.1 FM, 710 AM, Sirius XM

USEFUL LINKS:

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

Team Official: @NYRangers • NYR on Instagram

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

GameCenter - here

 

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Standings:

RECORD:

POSITION:

ROW:

P%:

HOME:

AWAY:

S/O:

LAST 10:

STREAK:

50-20-4 (104 Points)

1st — Metropolitan

47

.703

26-9-0

24-11-4

3-3

8-2-0

W5

Team Statistics:

DIFF:

GF/GP:

GA/GP:

PP%:

PK%:

Corsi For (CF)%:

+51 (7th)

3.43 (7th)

2.74 (7th)

26.0% (4th)

83.3% (4th)

49.3% (20th)

Team Leaders:

Goals:

Assists:

Points:

+/-:

PIM:

TOI/G (D):

TOI/G (F):

Artemi Panarin (44)

Artemi Panarin (63)

Artemi Panarin (107)

Ryan Lindgren (+23)

Matt Rempe (54)

Adam Fox (23:18)

Vincent Trocheck (21:21)

Starting Lineup:^

Chris Kreider A / Mika Zibanejad A / Jack Roslovic

Artemi Panarin A  / Vincent Trocheck / Alexis Lafreniere

Johnny the Brodzinski / Alex Wennberg  / Kaapo Kakko

Will Cuylle / Barclay Goodrow A / Jimmy Vesey

 

Ryan Lindgren / Adam Fox A

K'Andre Miller / Jacob Trouba C 
Braden Schneider / Zac Jones

^Subject to change

Starting Goaltender:

Igor Shesterkin

 

GS:

REC:

SV%:

GAA:

SO:

49

31-15-2

.910

2.69

2

Healthy Scratches:

Chad Ruhwedel, Matt Rempe, Brandon Scanlin

Injuries, Suspensions, Misc:

Filip Chytil [LTIR] — Died again; Out for season

Blake Wheeler [LTIR] — Leg snapped like a twig; Out for season

 

Erik Gustafsson [DTD] — Upper-body Injury

 

 

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Standings:

RECORD:

POSITION:

ROW:

P%:

HOME:

AWAY:

S/O:

LAST 10:

STREAK:

32-30-11 (75 Points)

7th — Metropolitan

30

.514

20-13-4

12-17-7

2-3

4-3-3

OT1

Team Statistics:

DIFF:

GF/GP:

GA/GP:

PP%:

PK%:

Corsi For (CF)%:

-5 (17th)

2.92 (23rd)

2.97 (13th)

14.8% (30th)

81.5% (11th)

51.1% (10th)

Team Leaders:

Goals:

Assists:

Points:

+/-:

PIM:

TOI/G (D):

TOI/G (F):

Sidney Crosby (35)

Sidney Crosby (44)

Sidney Crosby (79)

Marcus Pettersson (+17)

Kris Letang (68)

Kris Letang (24:44)

Sidney Crosby (20:10)

Starting Lineup:^

Drew O'Connor / Sidney Crosby / Bryan Rust
Michael Bunting / Evgeni Malkin / Rickard Rakell
Reilly Smith / Lars Eller / Valtteri Puustinen
Jeff Carter / Samuel Poulin / Jesse Puljujarvi

 

Pierre-Oliver Joseph / Kris Letang
Marcus Pettersson / Erik Karlsson
John Ludvig / Jack St. Ivany

^Subject to change

Starting Goaltender:

Tristan Jarry
 

GS:

REC:

SV%:

GAA:

SO:

48

19-24-5

.903

2.90

6

Healthy Scratches:

Emil Bemstrom

Injuries, Suspensions, Misc:

Noel Acciari [IR] — Lower-body injury

Jansen Harkins [IR] — Fractured hand

Matt Nieto [IR] — Lower-body injury

 

Ryan Graves [DTD] — Upper-body injury

 

 

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QUOTE(S) TO NOTE:

“We’ve been doing this all year. It’s a fun team to be a part of. These guys work hard every day. They push each other. That’s what you need. You need that. Every great team has that.” 

 

- Jonathan Quick, on locker room shenanigans

GIF TO NOTE:

[LindG1000]

Whatever happens tonight, win, loss, blowout, catastrophe, injury, shenanigans, skulduggery, theatrics, meteor impacts the Penguins bench....it's Trouba's fault per Penguins fans.

[Sharpshooter]

4 minutes ago, LindG1000 said:

Whatever happens tonight, win, loss, blowout, catastrophe, injury, shenanigans, skulduggery, theatrics, meteor impacts the Penguins bench....it's Trouba's fault per Penguins fans.

The NHL sub Reddit also blames Trouba for creating cancer and AIDS (probably).

[Ozzy]

Tonight is a good night to work on some lockdown defense.  Also like to see some Rempe.

 

Trivia is JT Miller!

[LindG1000]

1 minute ago, Sharpshooter said:

The NHL sub Reddit also blames Trouba for creating cancer and AIDS (probably).

 

Jacob Trouba knows where Elvis, Tupac, and JFK have been hanging out, too.

[Sharpshooter]

I would also like to see Rempe back in there. I know Brodz has been pretty solid, so maybe they really didn't want to sit him. But I don't know, I think it's time to get him back in there.

[Sharpshooter]

Just now, LindG1000 said:

 

Jacob Trouba knows where Elvis, Tupac, and JFK have been hanging out, too.

Also assisted Princess Diana in creating 'Q'.

[Abe Froman]

Let's go Rangers, and stuff

 

Trivia is Carl Hagelin

[RangerDanger]

Jack St. Ivany.........who the hell is Jack St Ivany?? I'll never complain about our lack of D depth again lol

Trivia is Domingue

[RangersLEETCH]

Time to give Pittsburgh a nice big New York shit burger to eat! Crosby take a bite please… 
LGR!!!

Ed 

[Kick save and a beauty]

1 hour ago, Ozzy said:

Tonight is a good night to work on some lockdown defense.  Also like to see some Rempe.

 

Trivia is JT Miller!

 

Should be fun to see Pens fans conflicted about which Rangers player, Trouba or Rempe to hate more.  I know it will take a while for Rempe to get up inside their heads but let's face it we are talking about the heads of Pens fans.  How steep of a climb could that really be?

[RangerDanger]

10 minutes ago, Kick save and a beauty said:

 

Should be fun to see Pens fans conflicted about which Rangers player, Trouba or Rempe to hate more.  I know it will take a while for Rempe to get up inside their heads but let's face it we are talking about the heads of Pens fans.  How steep of a climb could that really be?

As a Rangers fan surrounded by Pens fans - not very lol

[RangersIn7]

Very winnable game!

 

LGR!

[BlairBettsBlocksEverything]

Going with Marty Straka for Trivia

 

 

Wanna crush these fuckers tonight. If those PItt players feel like they have even an outside chance of pulling off something crazy and making the playoffs, I want them leaving the rink tonight feeling hopeless and beat down.

 

Carolina not in action tonight, big opportunity to put some space here. I want that 1 seed in the East. 

[Valriera]

The pens are already out basically, so it will be nice when trouba officially eliminates them 

[Sharpshooter]

Arizona was a trap game, and thankfully they won, albeit rather ugly. Hopefully they don't fuck around tonight and just take it to these guys.

Edited April 1 by Sharpshooter

[Kick save and a beauty]

22 minutes ago, Sharpshooter said:

Arizona was a trap game, and thankfully they won, albeit rather ugly. Hopefully they don't fuck around tonight and just take it to these guys.

We have had problems with teams who can score in  bunches and who rarely play any defense.  Arizona was one of those but there are several others which fit the bill.  For some reason we play like we are fine with the whole track meet concept and feel like we should be able to beat those teams while playing in that style.

 

Tonight is Crosby, Malkin and Letang.  The best way to fuck them up is to suffocate them in a defensive sleeper hold.

[Sharpshooter]

1 minute ago, Kick save and a beauty said:

We have had problems with teams who can score in  bunches and who rarely play any defense.  Arizona was one of those but there are several others which fit the bill.  For some reason we play like we are fine with the whole track meet concept and feel like we should be able to beat those teams while playing in that style.

 

Tonight is Crosby, Malkin and Letang.  The best way to fuck them up is to suffocate them in a defensive sleeper hold.

Arizona also has a lot of speed, and they were basically allowed to skate circle around everybody at will. Hopefully they'll be more focused there come playoff time.

[Sod16]

Trivia: "Confluence of Monongehela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers." (Per Ralph Kiner).

 

After Schneider takes over the second unit position and Trouba is traded with significant retention, what are folks on the board going to be saying after the first time Trouba lays out one of our guys?

[Pete]

37 minutes ago, Sod16 said:

Trivia: "Confluence of Monongehela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers." (Per Ralph Kiner).

 

After Schneider takes over the second unit position and Trouba is traded with significant retention, what are folks on the board going to be saying after the first time Trouba lays out one of our guys?

Same thing I say now. "Trouba hovers between dirty and reckless." 

[Costa]

7 hours ago, LindG1000 said:

Whatever happens tonight, win, loss, blowout, catastrophe, injury, shenanigans, skulduggery, theatrics, meteor impacts the Penguins bench....it's Trouba's fault per Penguins fans.

 

They'll blame Trouba for their fuckin hemorroids. 

[LindG1000]

14 minutes ago, Costa said:

 

They'll blame Trouba for their fuckin hemorroids. 

Trouba's fault. Also, Trouba has the 19,000 Jagr Bobbleheads and was the reason Jagr left Pittsburgh in the first place.

[Abe Froman]

I blame Trouba for sucking.

Edited April 1 by Abe Froman

[skunkman]

So Rempe is playing?

[Br4d]

Anybody else think Sam has had lip transplants?