actually your wrong bout that, the isles still have a shot at making the playoffs, fsny had there statsatican(sp) list the possible out comes and if the isles win on thrusday they still have a shot, cause the habs and leafs will play each other on saturday
Even if they tie Montreal or Tampa in the standings, Montreal and Tampa would both have the edge via whatever tie breakers they use. So stick a fork in them Sticks, they're done!
is that correct? because the islanders can get to 92 and if montreal loses both they'll have 88. toronto has to beat montreal and lose to the islanders, and they get 91. bottom line your islanders have to win out.
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whats ironic is the Isles can do the NYRs a major favor in their next game,....
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why the fuck didnt cullen go in the shootout ? I love shanny and all, but i think cullen should have shot instead of him.
i mean really, .....
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no what ironic is if the rags win on thrusday and the isles win out, the isles get in the playoffs
do you really think your isles will win out ?
seriously ?
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we don't have any tie breakers with tampa and the schabs have 1 more win
now we need help for 6th
dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
p.s. metsy ,, u gave up on ur team already so get to stepping
solidifying 6th was pretty much put to rest last night, IMO .
now we will need to claw back just to get in - this 1 point will be the biggest hurdle we have faced , considering we have had no walk in the park with either Montreal or the Penguins .
Thankfully we get 1 at MSG and 1 on the road.
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Damn Rangers costing me a winning ticket on the games I bet on last night. You were supposed to wrap it up, so the Isles could put Toronto out of their misery tomorrow.
solidifying 6th was pretty much put to rest last night, IMO .
now we will need to claw back just to get in - this 1 point will be the biggest hurdle we have faced , considering we have had no walk in the park with either Montreal or the Penguins .
Thankfully we get 1 at MSG and 1 on the road.
Damn Rangers costing me a winning ticket on the games I bet on last night. You were supposed to wrap it up, so the Isles could put Toronto out of their misery tomorrow.
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It should have been 3-0 before things got better last night in Uniondale. Marek Malik got stripped of the puck behind the Ranger net and only a stellar stop by Henrik Lundqvist kept the Blueshirts within reach.
Malik's clumsiness and sluggishness has been bared for all to see in recent weeks. As the referees swallow more and more whistle, his benign presence demonstrates how useless he will be in the playoffs.
With a skyskcraper frame and proportionate attraction to gravity, you'd think he'd keep enemy attackers on their toes... heads up, so to speak.
But that's not our pacifist... our pussyfist. I fail to see how he's any improvement over Tom Poti. What's worse... Marek averages a penalty ever other game. For what? Does the victim suffer for the privilege of obtaining the man advantage? Hardly.
Worse yet...he keeps chasing the puck behind the goal line, making mental mistakes. For someone as mobility-challenged as Malik, positioning is the maker/breaker. And that begins with his head. But the problem is that he's so tall, by the time the nerve impulses reach his feet, the puck... and the attacker... are behind him.
Perhaps his plus-minus speaks well during the regular season... until you scrutinize the digits with a magnifying glass. More than half those chits came against the five worst defenses in the universe... The Kings, Bruins, Yotes, Caps and Flyers. All of these clubs yield at least 3.5 goals per game. None of whom represent the type of challenge New York will face in the postseason. All (but one) of whom score fewer than 2.7 goals per game. And the lone exception is Washington which ranks 18th in team offense.
Look. I fully understand it was never his mission to dish out punishment on behalf of the Blueshirt rearguard. That was supposed to be the role of Darius Kasparaitis. But that ship has sailed and Malik should be the one to step up to the task.
Note please how Brendan Witt and Sean Hill routinely delivered extracirricular physicality after each whistled stoppage when they were on the ice Tuesday evening. None of those abrasions resulted in a trip to the sin bin. Why not? Because that's the nature of playoff hockey. Matt Cullen was speared twice by Witt after whistles with nary a call. How did he get away with it?
It's playoff hockey.
And playoff hockey is all about attrition... eroding your adversary at every opportunity.
Rock is harder than water, n' est-ce pas? Yet canyons are carved by the relentless antagony of tiny droplets which ultimately cause the mightiest stones to yield.
That's how the Devils won with Kevin Stevens during their heyday. It was those consistent cheap shots after the whistle... the face washes... the shoves...
But no. This is not for Marek Malik.
Six-foot six, ungainly and all about finesse in a postseason world of Hudson Bay officiating. Not to mention that finesse kind of implies you can skate. But heck. I'd be satisfied if Malik would merely clear the crease in front of Henrik.
I'm not holding by breath.
Now don't get me wrong(ly). I don't expect the man to be anything he isn't. I have no personal beef with Malik.
Frankly, the problem doesn't even lie with Malik. It lies with the guy who signed Malik, dis-ir-regardless whether that entity was pressured by a subordinate entity into doing so.
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It should have been 3-0 before things got better last night in Uniondale. Marek Malik got stripped of the puck behind the Ranger net and only a stellar stop by Henrik Lundqvist kept the Blueshirts within reach.
Malik's clumsiness and sluggishness has been bared for all to see in recent weeks. As the referees swallow more and more whistle, his benign presence demonstrates how useless he will be in the playoffs.
With a skyskcraper frame and proportionate attraction to gravity, you'd think he'd keep enemy attackers on their toes... heads up, so to speak.
But that's not our pacifist... our pussyfist. I fail to see how he's any improvement over Tom Poti. What's worse... Marek averages a penalty ever other game. For what? Does the victim suffer for the privilege of obtaining the man advantage? Hardly.
Worse yet...he keeps chasing the puck behind the goal line, making mental mistakes. For someone as mobility-challenged as Malik, positioning is the maker/breaker. And that begins with his head. But the problem is that he's so tall, by the time the nerve impulses reach his feet, the puck... and the attacker... are behind him.
Perhaps his plus-minus speaks well during the regular season... until you scrutinize the digits with a magnifying glass. More than half those chits came against the five worst defenses in the universe... The Kings, Bruins, Yotes, Caps and Flyers. All of these clubs yield at least 3.5 goals per game. None of whom represent the type of challenge New York will face in the postseason. All (but one) of whom score fewer than 2.7 goals per game. And the lone exception is Washington which ranks 18th in team offense.
Look. I fully understand it was never his mission to dish out punishment on behalf of the Blueshirt rearguard. That was supposed to be the role of Darius Kasparaitis. But that ship has sailed and Malik should be the one to step up to the task.
Note please how Brendan Witt and Sean Hill routinely delivered extracirricular physicality after each whistled stoppage when they were on the ice Tuesday evening. None of those abrasions resulted in a trip to the sin bin. Why not? Because that's the nature of playoff hockey. Matt Cullen was speared twice by Witt after whistles with nary a call. How did he get away with it?
It's playoff hockey.
And playoff hockey is all about attrition... eroding your adversary at every opportunity.
Rock is harder than water, n' est-ce pas? Yet canyons are carved by the relentless antagony of tiny droplets which ultimately cause the mightiest stones to yield.
That's how the Devils won with Kevin Stevens during their heyday. It was those consistent cheap shots after the whistle... the face washes... the shoves...
But no. This is not for Marek Malik.
Six-foot six, ungainly and all about finesse in a postseason world of Hudson Bay officiating. Not to mention that finesse kind of implies you can skate. But heck. I'd be satisfied if Malik would merely clear the crease in front of Henrik.
I'm not holding by breath.
Now don't get me wrong(ly). I don't expect the man to be anything he isn't. I have no personal beef with Malik.
Frankly, the problem doesn't even lie with Malik. It lies with the guy who signed Malik, dis-ir-regardless whether that entity was pressured by a subordinate entity into doing so.
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staahl , tyutin, giradi,pock,, mara (?) rozival(?). lifiton(?)
dont forget Leetch
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thats a good defensive corp - whats the status of malik tho- we all know Jagr loves him.
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According to wikipedia he signed a 3 year deal, so I'm guessing he's in the second year of it right now.
cant believe he actually has a wiki page.
we all know that if jagr wants him here and playing, he will be .
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Seems like everyone has a wiki page these days. Maybe they'll trade him. One can only hope.
if jagr wants him here and playing, he will be .
if he wants him here, there will be no trade.
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Last nights Ranger game being re-played on msg network .
i must say id rather watch mike and the maddog talk about the passing of NFL football / civil rights pioneer Eddie Robinson ( Grambling University & Green Bay Packers ) .
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Blueshirt Bulletin Henrik Lundqvist lamented the bad luck he endured in falling behind 2-0 to the Islanders. Another goal directly off a Ranger when Alexei Yashin's pass deflected in off the leg of Jason Strudwick, and a rebound banged in after a pass deflected on goal off the skate of Blair Betts. How his counterpart in the Isles' net, career minor leaguer Wade Dubielewicz, was able to withstand 38 Ranger shots and their potent shootout line-up can only be considered luck, even though he blew a two-goal lead. Having the net come off before the puck could go in -- bad luck. Catching a team in the last stages of desperation in its playoff run for the third time in the last four games, and losing in part because of that for the second time, is not a good stroke of fortune either. And having it all happen on a night when everyone else in the playoff race won adds potential injury to insult.
But while Lundqvist has earned every right to chalk up his performance to bad luck, head coach Tom Renney is guilty of making his own bad luck in this game. He miscalculated badly in believing that the Islanders were more interested in payback than in playoff qualification. He miscalculated badly in scratching Petr Prucha, who might have made a difference for a power play unit that went 0-for-5, in favor of dressing two enforcers who ended up spending almost the entire time on the bench when a hockey game broke out instead of a fight (and were not even sent out when things did get dicey here and there). Using Brad Isbister on Jaromir Jagr's line while relegating the energetic and dynamic Prucha first to the fourth line and then to the press box is just plain lunacy.
In chess it's called the initiative -- Renney handed the Isles the initiative in his roster choices. And the Isles took advantage to get off to a good start before the Rangers could get their game together. Who knows what one player could have done in this game -- maybe nothing. But you know Ted Nolan was thrilled to see the player who did most of the goal scoring in the two teams' recent home and home series in a suit instead of a sweater. His feint was swallowed hook, line and sinker by Renney, and now the Rangers face a possible doomsday scenario -- down to two games left to clinch a playoff berth, Montreal is next up, with no guarantee now that they are headed to the post-season berth they have worked so hard to get -- and if Montreal wins out, they're looking at a match-up against Buffalo.
It's impossible to prove a negative, to state with any certainty that this one decision would have made a difference had it gone the other way. But it says here that the Rangers made their own bad luck at a time when they could least afford it.
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Even if they tie Montreal or Tampa in the standings, Montreal and Tampa would both have the edge via whatever tie breakers they use. So stick a fork in them Sticks, they're done!
Damn you Sam Rosen for making me believe you!
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i mean really, .....
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Sammi: Wanna just break up?
do you really think your isles will win out ?
seriously ?
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we don't have any tie breakers with tampa and the schabs have 1 more win
now we need help for 6th
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p.s. metsy ,, u gave up on ur team already so get to stepping
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solidifying 6th was pretty much put to rest last night, IMO .
now we will need to claw back just to get in - this 1 point will be the biggest hurdle we have faced , considering we have had no walk in the park with either Montreal or the Penguins .
Thankfully we get 1 at MSG and 1 on the road.
heres hoping we can pull it off,..
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very true
blame it on that Dubiwitcz dude
and Renney not putting Cullen in the shootout. !
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Wed, Apr 4, 1:15 AM Pacific
It should have been 3-0 before things got better last night in Uniondale. Marek Malik got stripped of the puck behind the Ranger net and only a stellar stop by Henrik Lundqvist kept the Blueshirts within reach.
Malik's clumsiness and sluggishness has been bared for all to see in recent weeks. As the referees swallow more and more whistle, his benign presence demonstrates how useless he will be in the playoffs.
With a skyskcraper frame and proportionate attraction to gravity, you'd think he'd keep enemy attackers on their toes... heads up, so to speak.
But that's not our pacifist... our pussyfist. I fail to see how he's any improvement over Tom Poti. What's worse... Marek averages a penalty ever other game. For what? Does the victim suffer for the privilege of obtaining the man advantage? Hardly.
Worse yet...he keeps chasing the puck behind the goal line, making mental mistakes. For someone as mobility-challenged as Malik, positioning is the maker/breaker. And that begins with his head. But the problem is that he's so tall, by the time the nerve impulses reach his feet, the puck... and the attacker... are behind him.
Perhaps his plus-minus speaks well during the regular season... until you scrutinize the digits with a magnifying glass. More than half those chits came against the five worst defenses in the universe... The Kings, Bruins, Yotes, Caps and Flyers. All of these clubs yield at least 3.5 goals per game. None of whom represent the type of challenge New York will face in the postseason. All (but one) of whom score fewer than 2.7 goals per game. And the lone exception is Washington which ranks 18th in team offense.
Look. I fully understand it was never his mission to dish out punishment on behalf of the Blueshirt rearguard. That was supposed to be the role of Darius Kasparaitis. But that ship has sailed and Malik should be the one to step up to the task.
Note please how Brendan Witt and Sean Hill routinely delivered extracirricular physicality after each whistled stoppage when they were on the ice Tuesday evening. None of those abrasions resulted in a trip to the sin bin. Why not? Because that's the nature of playoff hockey. Matt Cullen was speared twice by Witt after whistles with nary a call. How did he get away with it?
It's playoff hockey.
And playoff hockey is all about attrition... eroding your adversary at every opportunity.
Rock is harder than water, n' est-ce pas? Yet canyons are carved by the relentless antagony of tiny droplets which ultimately cause the mightiest stones to yield.
That's how the Devils won with Kevin Stevens during their heyday. It was those consistent cheap shots after the whistle... the face washes... the shoves...
But no. This is not for Marek Malik.
Six-foot six, ungainly and all about finesse in a postseason world of Hudson Bay officiating. Not to mention that finesse kind of implies you can skate. But heck. I'd be satisfied if Malik would merely clear the crease in front of Henrik.
I'm not holding by breath.
Now don't get me wrong(ly). I don't expect the man to be anything he isn't. I have no personal beef with Malik.
Frankly, the problem doesn't even lie with Malik. It lies with the guy who signed Malik, dis-ir-regardless whether that entity was pressured by a subordinate entity into doing so.
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Eastern Conference
6th 7th 8th P/O
59.7% 32.6% 6.9% 99.3% TAM
35.4% 43.0% 19.1% 97.6% NYR
4.3% 19.9% 53.4% 77.6% MON
0.6% 4.4% 18.3% 23.3% TOR
0.0% 0.0% 2.3% 2.3% NYI
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does he mean scott stevens??
anyway yes he sucks
haha
good catch .
i suspect you are correct there friend.
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defense next year
staahl , tyutin, giradi,pock,, mara (?) rozival(?). lifiton(?)
dont forget Leetch
:eek:
lol
jk
thats a good defensive corp - whats the status of malik tho- we all know Jagr loves him.
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the status is he better be gone
but i don't know his contract status
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Malik
According to wikipedia he signed a 3 year deal, so I'm guessing he's in the second year of it right now.
cant believe he actually has a wiki page.
we all know that if jagr wants him here and playing, he will be .
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Seems like everyone has a wiki page these days. Maybe they'll trade him. One can only hope.
if jagr wants him here and playing, he will be .
if he wants him here, there will be no trade.
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True.
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i must say id rather watch mike and the maddog talk about the passing of NFL football / civil rights pioneer Eddie Robinson ( Grambling University & Green Bay Packers ) .
:rolleyes:
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Henrik Lundqvist lamented the bad luck he endured in falling behind 2-0 to the Islanders. Another goal directly off a Ranger when Alexei Yashin's pass deflected in off the leg of Jason Strudwick, and a rebound banged in after a pass deflected on goal off the skate of Blair Betts. How his counterpart in the Isles' net, career minor leaguer Wade Dubielewicz, was able to withstand 38 Ranger shots and their potent shootout line-up can only be considered luck, even though he blew a two-goal lead. Having the net come off before the puck could go in -- bad luck. Catching a team in the last stages of desperation in its playoff run for the third time in the last four games, and losing in part because of that for the second time, is not a good stroke of fortune either. And having it all happen on a night when everyone else in the playoff race won adds potential injury to insult.
But while Lundqvist has earned every right to chalk up his performance to bad luck, head coach Tom Renney is guilty of making his own bad luck in this game. He miscalculated badly in believing that the Islanders were more interested in payback than in playoff qualification. He miscalculated badly in scratching Petr Prucha, who might have made a difference for a power play unit that went 0-for-5, in favor of dressing two enforcers who ended up spending almost the entire time on the bench when a hockey game broke out instead of a fight (and were not even sent out when things did get dicey here and there). Using Brad Isbister on Jaromir Jagr's line while relegating the energetic and dynamic Prucha first to the fourth line and then to the press box is just plain lunacy.
In chess it's called the initiative -- Renney handed the Isles the initiative in his roster choices. And the Isles took advantage to get off to a good start before the Rangers could get their game together. Who knows what one player could have done in this game -- maybe nothing. But you know Ted Nolan was thrilled to see the player who did most of the goal scoring in the two teams' recent home and home series in a suit instead of a sweater. His feint was swallowed hook, line and sinker by Renney, and now the Rangers face a possible doomsday scenario -- down to two games left to clinch a playoff berth, Montreal is next up, with no guarantee now that they are headed to the post-season berth they have worked so hard to get -- and if Montreal wins out, they're looking at a match-up against Buffalo.
It's impossible to prove a negative, to state with any certainty that this one decision would have made a difference had it gone the other way. But it says here that the Rangers made their own bad luck at a time when they could least afford it.
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