B R O A D W A Y***B L U E S H I R T S

Bathgate66

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

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

haha !

excellent !


theyve been able to come back real strong now, we've almost experienced a severed head , clashes with our crosstown rival
out on long island,. boy its nothing as it seems , see all you suckas at the garden , dont it make you smile, the mere thoughts arrive like butterflies,...spill a little blood , the garden faithful will be celebrating again just like all those yesterdays( 94 ) but 10x better.





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Bathgate66

King Henrik



[size=+2]NHL HONORS LUNDQVIST WITH FIRST-STAR SELECTION [/size]

3/12/2007

NHL press release

New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, Chicago Blackhawks left wing Jeff Hamilton and San Jose Sharks goaltender Evgeni Nabokov have been named the NHL's 'Three Stars' for the week ending March 11.

Each Monday, the NHL recognizes three players who delivered the League's top performances over the past week.

NHL FIRST STAR (MAR. 5-11)
HENRIK LUNDQVIST, G, NEW YORK RANGERS

Lundqvist posted a 3-0-1 record in four games with a 1.43 goals-against average and .948 save percentage as the Rangers (34-27-8, 76 points) moved into the eighth playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Lundqvist posted consecutive victories over the New York Islanders, making 29 saves in a 2-1 home shootout victory March 5 and 30 stops in a 2-1 win at Long Island March 8. He made 20 saves in a 3-2 overtime loss at Pittsburgh March 10 and finished the week by stopping 30 of 31 shots and both shootout attempts in a 2-1 decision over Carolina March 11. Lundqvist is 8-2-4 in his past 14 games, recording a 1.65 GAA and a .935 save percentage in that span.













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bostonlou

first the yankees... up next the rangers

the dominance continues


*clap* *clap* *clap**clap**clap*

year two thousand!!!!!

*clap* *clap* *clap**clap**clap*


year two thousand!!!!!

*clap* *clap* *clap**clap**clap*

Bathgate66

bostonlou wrote:

first the yankees... up next the rangers

the dominance continues


*clap* *clap* *clap**clap**clap*

year two thousand!!!!!

*clap* *clap* *clap**clap**clap*


year two thousand!!!!!

*clap* *clap* *clap**clap**clap*

we play ottawa tonight.

im not sure what the 2000 reference is, but thats okay.

thanks for stopping by.

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bostonlou

Bathgate66 wrote:

we play ottawa tonight.

im not sure what the 2000 reference is, but thats okay.

thanks for stopping by.

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we both know that you know what it is. if you don't then you're a yankee fan in denial

Bathgate66

bostonlou wrote:

we both know that you know what it is. if you don't then you're a yankee fan in denial

just so you know

not all NYR fans are NYY fans.

There are an equal ammount of Mets Fans who also love the NYR .

Then, there is an even smaller segment that ( for whatever reason ) likes the Isles.


anywhooo,..

back to the coolest game on earth:

Preview

Tonight, the reborn Rangers will get what could be their toughest test over the regular season's final 13 games. The Ottawa team visiting The Garden has more points than any other remaining opponent. The Senators' 85 points are the conference's third-highest total behind the Sabres and Devils, which are shaping up as teams the Rangers might have to face in the opening round of the playoffs. Beating the conference's third elite team tonight would send a big pre-playoff message to this season's other Eastern powerhouses.

A game against Ottawa is also a welcome challenge for the Rangers, since it gives them a chance to finally pay back the Senators for their last visit to MSG. On Jan. 11, the Sens built up a commanding 5-0 lead in the third period, only to see the Rangers storm back for four goals in only 7:10. The amazing comeback attempt fell just short, but time around, the Rangers get a chance to finally put the Senators away at home.

The Senators come into this game having lost four of their last five, including three in overtime or shootouts. This slide has followed a phenomenal February in which Ottawa posted an 8-1-2 record.

In three earlier meetings, the Rangers are 1-2-0 against Ottawa. In addition to the 6-4 loss on Jan. 11, the Blueshirts fell 1-0 in Ottawa on Dec. 29 after having beaten the Senators 3-1 on Dec. 9. The matchups have all been close, with the both two-goal games ending on empty-netters. Ottawa's shutout win was also a game that could have gone the Rangers' way were it not for a superb 27-save performance by Ottawa goalie Ray Emery.

The Rangers' recent success on defense – allowing only 11 goals during the seven-game point streak – will need to continue against Ottawa, because the Senators are truly loaded on offense. They rank second in the NHL in goals per game, thanks to the high-scoring efforts of Heatley, Daniel Alfredsson and Jason Spezza. Recently, the hottest Senator has been Mike Fisher, the team's fourth-leading scorer. Fisher has four goals in his last three games.

Ottawa's defense is also impressive, led by veterans Wade Redden and Chris Phillips. The Sens rank 11th in goals-against, only 0.01 goals-per-game behind the Blueshirts. With Emery and Martin Gerber in net, the Sens have performed very well at The Garden. Both goalies are 4-1-0 lifetime against the Rangers. Emery is 2-0-0 at MSG, while Gerber is 2-1-0 there.

The Rangers, however, come into this game with the hottest goalie in the conference. Henrik Lundqvist, named the NHL's First Star for his performance last week, had 34 saves in the 3-1 win over the Senators at Ottawa last December and has stopped 65 of 68 shots this season. During the seven-game streak since Feb. 24, Lundqvist has shown his ability to win games for the Rangers, and given the Senators' scoring potential, he might be called on to fulfill that role once again today.

With his next victory, Lundqvist will become the second Rangers goaltender to win 30 or more games in back-to-back seasons, joining Hall of Famer Eddie Giacomin, who had a four-season run from 1966 to 1970. Lundqvist would also join Giacomin and Mike Richter as the only Rangers goaltenders to win 30 or more games in more than one season.

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Bathgate66

did anyone see bobby holiks goal in the game last night ?


belly down and he shoots, he scores ! ( while he slides across the ice )

amazing goal !

NY PJ1

BIG GAME TONIGHT ,,,ONCE AGAIN


i didn't even realize i had tickets till 20 mins ago

i forget what games are in the my package :rolleyes:

bostonlou

Bathgate66 wrote:

just so you know

not all NYR fans are NYY fans.

There are an equal ammount of Mets Fans who also love the NYR .

Then, there is an even smaller segment that ( for whatever reason ) likes the Isles.

you are a yankee and nyr fan correct?

as is NYPJ1?

it's those 4 balls that i look to bust

xavier mcdaniel

from the journal news:



For the first time since his concussion Feb.17, Brendan Shanahan skated with his teammates today at the MSG Training Center.

After 20 minutes skating with the rest of the team, Shanahan skated alone in a series of conditioning drills with assistant coaches Perry Pearn and Mike Pelino. Though there’s still no word on when Shanahan can subject himself to contact, this was still a significant step for a player who had been completely inactive until recently.

More later..

Bathgate66

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

from the journal news:



For the first time since his concussion Feb.17, Brendan Shanahan skated with his teammates today at the MSG Training Center.

After 20 minutes skating with the rest of the team, Shanahan skated alone in a series of conditioning drills with assistant coaches Perry Pearn and Mike Pelino. Though there’s still no word on when Shanahan can subject himself to contact, this was still a significant step for a player who had been completely inactive until recently.

More later..

now this is good ,

no- its great -

fucking news .

maybe he'llbe around sooner then we ever anticipated.

wonder what knubles progress is

thanks X , are you going to the usual pre- pregame skates ?

xavier mcdaniel

you mean the warmups at 6:30? yes. i'll be at the remaining ranger home games.

Bathgate66

bostonlou wrote:

you are a yankee and nyr fan correct?

as is NYPJ1?

it's those 4 balls that i look to bust

d ' oh !

chromiam

Bathgate66 wrote:

now this is good ,

no- its great -

fucking news .

maybe he'llbe around sooner then we ever anticipated.

wonder what knubles progress is

thanks X , are you going to the usual pre- pregame skates ?

Knuble has been skating.. scheduled to play on the 15th.

Bathgate66

chromiam wrote:

Knuble has been skating.. scheduled to play on the 15th.

awersome news there on that front also

he's got a plate in his face

ouch.

knuble, great hockey player, and a good guy all around.





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xavier mcdaniel

most hockey players are good guys, they're the nicest out of all the sports.

Bathgate66

best guy i ever met, got to chat with :

Adam Graves

& then a very close 2nd :

Brian Leetch

Bathgate66

Class Is Out On Long Island


March 13, 2007

[size=+2]Class is Out on Long Island[/size]

"I'll tell you what, this is the last we're talking about it," Islander coach Ted Nolan said yesterday about Chris Simon's hatchet job on Ryan Hollweg. We highly doubt it, though. Not because the media will continue to pursue it, as Nolan went on to say, but because he was already talking about it two days too long himself, unwilling to accept what the rest of the hockey world has already decided, that Simon's action was despicable and that his sentence was at the very least appropriate. Instead, Nolan continued to pretend that Simon was loopy from Hollweg's hit, even though replays show Simon embellishing the hit trying to draw a penalty -- respondents to a NY1 poll showed what people think of this pretense.

Nolan should have shut his mouth a day earlier, when he, like Simon, took some cheap shots at Hollweg. First, in Simon's hearing with Colin Campbell, the Isles tried to justify Simon's action based on Hollweg's reputation as a hitter. At least, so said Pierre Lebrun of the Canadian Press in this CBC TV clip -- "Part of that Islander argument was to bring out the victim in this case, Ryan Hollweg, who has a reputation of questionable hits." Nolan then took a shot at Hollweg after the Isles' game against Washington. Talking about Brendan Witt taking a dive to try to draw a penalty against Donald Brashear, he said, in what Greg Logan of Newsday called "an obvious reference to Hollweg," that "the only saving grace is that hit a real tough guy who didn't whine and complain and lay there like he was dead." In the classless world of the Islanders, guys who dive are lauded as tough, while opponents who take two-handers on the chin are not allowed to go down at all.

Contrast Nolan's statements to what Tom Renney said about Simon even after Simon nearly killed Hollweg, calling him a "good man" who made a mistake. Now that's class.

How tough is Witt? Not tough enough to take it on the chin even when he asks for it. Complaining about the lack of penalty to Brashear, he said, "The league won't do anything about that, when you get coldcocked like that." In fact, the league suspended Brashear for doing the same to Aaron Ward earlier this season. But there was a difference -- Brashear hit Ward on his way to the penalty box because of something Ward said, while Witt and Brashear got into it just after Brashear scored a goal, with Witt faking a punch to try to draw Brashear into hitting him and taking a penalty, which he did. "He mouthed off to me," Witt told Newsday. "So I faked to go at him and he suckered me."

Campbell got this one right. In response to Witt's public complaints, he told Newsday, "I saw the incident. Brendan Witt plays a role on the team where he’s assigned to various players on certain teams. He gets into a number of situations. Last night, that was a fairly robust shift, and just before Brashear gave him the straight arm, Witt feigned at Brashear. So, what does he expect Brashear to do but lash out? It wasn’t a sucker shot. I think a two-minute penalty was applicable in this case and was fine."

Witt got away with his role in the tussle, as well as his dive, just as he did vs. Brendan Shanahan in a similar incident earlier this season. If he wants to play in a way that is deemed "unsportsmanlike conduct" when it is properly penalized, he should at least have the decency to keep his trap shut. Instead, he says stupid stuff like, "If we're going to get penalized for saying what we think, I mean, we're in America. Freedom of speech." Mr. Witt, in America, freedom of speech protects you against prosecution by the government, not sanctions from your employer that you agreed to when you signed your contract. And as far as I can tell, no one has penalized you for what you've said, or for your unsportsmanlike conduct.

For more, see the News, Newsday, Times, Sporting News, NHL.com. One writer at SportsNet.ca doesn't see this incident as an aberration, but rather a long standing tradition in NHL hockey.

But back to the only New York City area hockey team that matters -- the Rangers, who return to the ice to face Ottawa tonight in their continued pursuit of a playoff spot. The Senators, like the Rangers, are battling injuries and third period meltdowns. The Rangers, meanwhile, will likely hear it from the fans again when they take to the power play -- see the Post for Larry Brooks's take and see NY Sports Day for a report from Sunday on shooting the puck. For more, see the News, Newsday, and USA Today. On the prospect front, a couple of quotes from Tommy Pyatt and his coach in Saginaw on his signing a pro contract with the Rangers, and an item we missed on Brandon Dubinsky's NHL debut from his hometown paper. Jess Rubenstein reports:

A rare day off for all of the prospects, but that does not stop the news from making the rounds. MTU (Jordan Foote) will face defending NCAA champion Wisconsin in the WCHA Final Five. To win the WCHA championship, the Huskies will have to win three games in three nights. They currently rank 16th in the weekly college poll, up two places from last week -- Maine (Billy Ryan) took a huge dive to 17 while BU (Kenny Roche) remained at #8. Brad Curle of the Calgary Hitmen sent us this news: "For the third time in playoff history, the Hitmen and Kootenay Ice will meet. In 1999 Calgary eliminated Kootenay in seven games in the first round. In 2000 the Ice ousted the Hitmen in five games. On both occasions the series winner went on to win the WHL Championship." The Hartford Wolf Pack could wind up with a solid forward -- Calgary's Brodie Dupont or Kootenay's Ryan Russell -- once this series is over.





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chromiam

Bathgate66 wrote:

awersome news there on that front also

he's got a plate in his face

ouch.

knuble, great hockey player, and a good guy all around.





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Yeah that was a nasty collision. Just glad that both players got away with injuries which weren't too serious, if you can call a concussion and facial surgery not that serious.
Two classly and hard nosed players.

NY PJ1

Let's Go Ranger's!!!!!!!