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NCBRI

nice win........you said it all, my Canes suck in the shootout and Cullen was great for us last year. The home stretch is gonna be crazy this year. A lot of teams fighting for a couple of playoff spots.

Bathgate66

Hockey Rodent


Daylight Savings Points

Sun, Mar 11, 1:30 PM Pacific


It became evident in Period 3 at least 18,200 Ranger fans read Yours Truly. The chorus of "Shoot the puck!" resounded so potently during the final pair of power plays that Hurricane radio play-by-play voice Chuck Kaiton harkened to the days of Jim Gordon and former referee, turned colorman Bill Chadwick.

It was The Big Whistle himself who'd chastise hulking Blueshirt blueliner Berry Beck for playing patty-cake with the pill on the man advantage. Beck actually had a booming shot. But his point partner was one diminutive sniper from Finland named Reijo Ruotsalainen. He remains the only Gotham defenseman ever to score as many as 28 goals in a single season. So who was to blame Beck for wanting to lateral after being acquired from the Colorado Rockies (now the New Jersey Devils)?

But I digress.

Dis-ir-regardless their penchant for passing... head coach Tom Renney kept running his first power play unit out against John Grahame who had entered the contest when Cam Ward suffered an eleven-stitch laceration to the inside of his left knee.

Is that what you want to do against a team you not only want to beat... but one you desperately want to defeat in regulation so they don't emerge The World's Most Famous Arena with any standings points?

Answer: Yes!

And the reason goes all the way back to 2005 when Congress enacted legislation to advance the transition to Daylight Savings Time from the first Sunday in April to the second Sunday in March.

That was last night, folks.

Having played an exhausting overtime contest in Pittsburgh the previous day... the good guys were summarily handicapped with an hour of government-mandated sleep deprivation when the clocks rolled forward.

Couple that with an insane 12:30 PM Eastern start time and you begin to appreciate the fatigue wafting through New York's locker room during the second intermission, knotted 1-1

Doubtless the coach sized up the situation and elected to navigate conservatively with his minions running on empty. Try to ensure the point.
If avoiding the allowance of a Carolina short-handed goal was on Tom's mind, I'd not be surprised given how many of those New York has permitted of late.

Agree or disagree with Renney's strategy... it became clear to me that as much as Tom would have accepted a power play goal given the trio of man-advantages in Sunday's final frame... his commitment to the swirling Martin "Bum Shoulder" Straka, Michael "Pass First" Nylander, and Jaromir "Bum Shoulder, Cranky Hip" Jagr was as much a ploy to play keep-away from their playoff rivals as it was to generate offense.

Whereas I was hammering the computer screen with The World's Most Famous Vulcanized Masonry during those two-minute possession drills, the Ranger bench boss was ignoring my bonks to his head with the TV Brick in favor of ensuring his club earned something for their travails.

Was Renney smarter than The Ferocious Furrball?

He sure was yesterday.

Recall how I second-guessed Tom for having started Henrik Lundqvist on Saturday given the double-importance of today's game. I feared the Swede might not have enough gas in the tank to repel a Carolina club eager to vault their host in the standings.

Well, Renney's strategy worked.

There is no way I shall claim that a rested Henke would have shut out The Storm this afternoon had he enjoyed three days of R & R.

• • •

Our Queen says Brendan Shanahan was on the stationary bicycle.


our playoff appearances odds are going up. Just over a week ago, it was a low 15 % , we have now climbed back up to 43.6 % .





BERTH-O-METER
Sunday Afternoon

PLAYOFF CHANCES
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Through Sunday Afternoon
90.6% Tampa Bay Lightning
75.5% New York Islanders
43.6% New York Rangers
32.8% Toronto Maple Leafs
31.4% Carolina Hurricanes
14.2% Montreal Canadiens
5.9% Florida Panthers
5.9% Boston Bruins


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NY PJ1

BIG WIN BOYS ,,, it was great to get 2 points especially w/ this jerkoff sched... 3 GAMES IN4 DAYS and 2 games in 22 hours ?????? are u kidding


u could see we were abit fatigued at times



henry had some huge saves especially the 4 on 3 in OT

HOW BOUT MALIK? LOL

when he scores he makes moves and plays like gretzky




LET'S GO RANGERS'S!!!!!!

Bathgate66

ottawa next :eek:

a big test for our Blueshirts.

we could use a day or 2 off,...

Shanny riding the bicycle- I hope he's better soon- we could use him on that 2nd unit, for sure.



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NY PJ1

Bathgate66 wrote:

ottawa next :eek:

a big test for our Blueshirts.

we could use a day or 2 off,...

Shanny riding the bicycle- I hope he's better soon- we could use him on that 2nd unit, for sure.



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shanny ,,come back come back please

ottawa will be tough

i think the canes play jerkoff caps on tues

Bathgate66

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Bathgate66

how good , how comfortable, has Brandon Dubinsky looked out there ?

The futures so bright, I gotta wear shades.
:cool: :cool:


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Bathgate66

Coach With Class

todays NYDN quotes a Man and a Coach with alot of class

Tom Renney wrote:

Rangers coach Tom Renney reiterated his disappointment that Simon had tarnished a good reputation with many fellow players and opponents with the vicious swing of his stick with 6:31 left in that game.

"I don't know how much I should probably talk about that whole issue, but I will say one thing: I think Chris Simon is a good man," Renney said. "He's a decent guy. I had an opportunity to work with him here for a year and really enjoyed Chris a lot. He's a solid citizen.

"At the same time, he lost it and put another person's life really in jeopardy. Thank God Ryan was hit where he was and he's a tough kid.

as opposed to yesterdays quote from a man & a coach with little or no class ( no wonder why he was blackballed for nearly 10 years in the nhl ) :

Referring to the hit Brashear gave to Witt the other night :

Ted Nolan wrote:

"I thought it should have been a five-minute major," he said. Making an obvious reference to Hollweg, Nolan added, "The only saving grace is that [Brashear] hit a real tough guy who didn't whine and complain and lay there like he was dead."

assmunch- let see how you would react if some goon took a full swing 2 handed tomahawk chop at your throat with a stick. :rolleyes:

NY PJ1

Bathgate66 wrote:

Coach With Class

todays NYDN quotes a Man and a Coach with alot of class




as opposed to yesterdays quote from a man & a coach with little or no class ( no wonder why he was blackballed for nearly 10 years in the nhl ) :

Referring to the hit Brashear gave to Witt the other night :




assmunch- let see how you would react if some goon took a full swing 2 handed tomahawk chop at your throat with a stick. :rolleyes:

JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A NO-CLASS ORGANIZATION

WE KNOW THIS ALREADY,,ITS NO SUPRISE

not to mention he's an alcholic also

NY PJ1

Bathgate66 wrote:

how good , how comfortable, has Brandon Dubinsky looked out there ?

The futures so bright, I gotta wear shades.
:cool: :cool:


http://ordinaryleastsquare.typepad.com/blueshirtbulletin/images/dubinskyshot.jpg

he has looked very comfortable ,,so has giradi

Bathgate66

Pearl Jam Song for NYR

looking under the Sunday March 11th , 2007 Story

[size=+2]STILL ALIVE [/size]


Hello NY and everywhere else, it's me Bird. Yeppers....the Rangers grabbed the second point today during the shootout. The Blueshirts seem to be in each game these days with some like today, a winner and some like yesterday....not.

But they are still in the hunt and that's what counts these days. Jagr's Shootout goal sealed the win. It's nice to see the team pull off a win when they need it despite the injuries and the fact they they were playing back to back games in a 24 hour period.

It's also nice to see Henke and the D keep the games low scoring. A few more timely goals could help propel an actual playoff push. Let's hope it's going to happen.

I hope to return to writing here in the next little bit and there's a rumor that the Rodent and I will record another podcast tonight. Check back later to see if we can pull it off.

Here's the box.

Beer me.

----}- Bird

xavier mcdaniel

amazing how we've gone from rearviewmirror to alive in linking the rangers playoff chances to pearl jam songs..

Gary Carter

NY PJ1 wrote:

JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A NO-CLASS ORGANIZATION

WE KNOW THIS ALREADY,,ITS NO SUPRISE

not to mention he's an alcholic also

lmfao, u guys are so fucking funny with all this, thanks for making me laughing and proving my point that rangers fans have no class. not to mention and one point he was an alcholic, yeah real cool on your part ny pj1 to say that. alcholism isnt something u make of fun, u sir are the one who has no fucking class, not nolan. nolan was dicked over hasek cause hasek thought nolan was banging his wife, that why he got canned up in buffalo and that rumor by hasek wasnt later found out to be not true

NY PJ1

metsfan531941 wrote:

lmfao, u guys are so fucking funny with all this, thanks for making me laughing and proving my point that rangers fans have no class. not to mention and one point he was an alcholic, yeah real cool on your part ny pj1 to say that. alcholism isnt something u make of fun, u sir are the one who has no fucking class, not nolan. nolan was dicked over hasek cause hasek thought nolan was banging his wife, that why he got canned up in buffalo and that rumor by hasek wasnt later found out to be not true

dude he runs an AA group maybe he isn't still running it

simon was part of his group way back when??

im speaking the truth teddy looks wacked half the time??


dont make it like i pulled that from out of my ass

it was and can still be a problem IMO

Gary Carter

NY PJ1 wrote:

dude he runs an AA group maybe he isn't still running it

simon was part of his group way back when??

im speaking the truth teddy looks wacked half the time??


dont make it like i pulled that from out of my ass

it was and can still be a problem IMO

yeah i know u are telling the truth, u think i dont know bout it. if u know bout it, then why bring up his alcohol problem for in this case when its got nothing to do with what happened, its just low class on your part dude.maybe he looks wacked cause hes native, ever think of that.

NY PJ1

metsfan531941 wrote:

yeah i know u are telling the truth, u think i dont know bout it. if u know bout it, then why bring up his alcohol problem for in this case when its got nothing to do with what happened, its just low class on your part dude.maybe he looks wacked cause hes native, ever think of that.

how do u know it had nothing to do w/ it ,, are u buddies?? if not ya never no ..and im being serious ,,how do u really know??

and maybe he looks wacked cause hes native?? so native americans look whacked ?? im lost,, but high also ,,so maybe its me but i don't get that

as for the low class part ,, only with the fishsticks ,,because they're the same

how bout we stop talking about this incident,,,we completely disagree



p.s. i just saw nolan complaing on t.v. and his eyes weren't looking to good


back to the BLUESHIRTS what happened to the fishsticks thread??

haven't seen it since..... day 1

Gary Carter

NY PJ1 wrote:

and maybe he looks wacked cause hes native?? so native americans look whacked ?? im lost,, but high also ,,so maybe its me but i don't get that



how bout we stop talking about this incident,,,we completely disagree

i dont disagree with u at all bout this icident, i think it was totally wrong, but to go bout like how u are is just funny. myabe stop posting while high ny pj1. u fuck make me laugh, thanks jay

NY PJ1

metsfan531941 wrote:

i dont disagree with u at all bout this icident, i think it was totally wrong, but to go bout like how u are is just funny. myabe stop posting while high ny pj1. u fuck make me laugh, thanks jay

i know u realize thatwhen i talk like this,,,its to break all u isles fans balls

it seems to work on you


cmon mets lets talk playoof hockey with 13 games to go

enough nonsense ...... for now

Gary Carter

NY PJ1 wrote:

i know u realize thatwhen i talk like this,,,its to break all u isles fans balls

it seems to work on you


cmon mets lets talk playoof hockey with 13 games to go

enough nonsense ...... for now

haha, maybe i should have some of the pot your ummmmm smoking, might help me bust balls on yanks and phils fans on here.yes lets talk bout playoof hockey, i think both the isles and rangers will make it into the the playoofs.

FYI-its playoff not playoof

NY PJ1

metsfan531941 wrote:

haha, maybe i should have some of the pot your ummmmm smoking, might help me bust balls on yanks and phils fans on here.yes lets talk bout playoof hockey, i think both the isles and rangers will make it into the the playoofs.

FYI-its playoff not playoof

WELL , both teams are in the driver's seat albeit not by much

but whoever takes care of their own business ,,will get in including habs leafs yada yada

i figure 10-4 11-3 ,,whatever teams play that hockey will get in

we all need the caps and flyers and devs and sabres to beat the rest of the east ,,that will help us all