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NY PJ1

$38 a ticket for my blues,,, not a bad deal

they sent us tickets for the 1st 3 rounds in the mail what a jinx

moster78

NY PJ1 wrote:

$38 a ticket for my blues,,, not a bad deal

they sent us tickets for the 1st 3 rounds in the mail what a jinx

I'm jealous. Of course I got shut out of getting tickets. And the cheapest I've seen on StubHub or Craigslist is 150 - 175 a ticket.

xavier mcdaniel

from newsday:

Rangers pumped for Garden party
BY STEVE ZIPAY
steve.zipay@newsday.com

Rewind to April 29, 2006.

The crestfallen Rangers are skating off the ice at Madison Square Garden after a 4-2 loss and a bitter first-round series sweep by the Devils.

Jaromir Jagr was done, Henrik Lundqvist was aching. The Devils had won 15 straight games.

Forget the Thrashers calling their Atlanta arena Blueland: The Garden was about as blue as you can get.

That won't be the case tomorrow night, as the Rangers, who are healthier and on a roll this April, welcome an ecstatic crowd hoping to revel not only in the team's first postseason win at home in almost a decade, but a 3-0 series lead over the Atlanta Thrashers.

"You win two on the road, I don't think it matters what organization it is - it's big," said Sean Avery, who scored the fluke first-period goal Saturday and passed the puck to Brendan Shanahan for the game-winner. "Now, we just have to keep the momentum. And our building is going to be ... I'm getting goose bumps just thinking about how loud it's going to be.

"Now, we have to just go in and not let our fans down and win two games."

It's been even longer -- 1994 -- since the Rangers had a 2-0 series lead, and they haven't opened a playoff series with two wins on the road since defeating the Flyers twice in 1983.

Because the next two games are on Madison Square Garden ice, Rangers coach Tom Renney will have the matchups on his side.

He can try to free Jaromir Jagr from former Rangers center Bobby Holik, who blanketed him in Game 2 and use his most effective checkers on Marian Hossa and Slava Kozlov, who are pointless in the first two games. The Thrashers have mustered just 52 shots (to the Rangers' 77), so expect the Thrashers to try to cycle more and crash the net to rattle and screen Lundqvist.

"I think they'll be really good in New York. I have no doubt in my mind about that," Renney said.

Atlanta coach Bob Hartley hadn't officially named his starting goaltender, but likely will stick with Johan Hedberg, who played very well, with 37 saves Saturday.

What might change is Hartley's strategy. The Thrashers failed to lure Avery and the Rangers into retaliation penalties and half their defensemen (Shane Hnidy, Andy Sutton, Niclas Havelid) were caught out of position several times for breakaways and odd-man rushes that the Rangers couldn't convert.

The Rangers had yesterday off and for Renney, only two personnel decisions await:

Does he replace tough guy Colton Orr (played only 3:43 on six shifts Saturday) with Ryan Hollweg, who was scratched for the first two playoff games, and defenseman Thomas Pock, who has looked overmatched at times, with Karel Rachunek? Rachunek missed the final 12 games of the regular season with a sprained left MCL.

Rachunek, who has playoff experience (with the Senators in 2001 and 2003), has been practicing and Renney said he is a possibility for Game 3. If Rachunek is ready to go, Pock, who played just 8:31 on Saturday, probably will be a healthy scratch.

Rangers' playoff moment

April 20, 1950: In the Finals against Detroit, Don Raleigh scored his second consecutive overtime goal against Harry Lumley to win Game 5, 2-1. The Red Wings won the Cup in seven games.

RANGERS VS. THRASHERS

Rangers lead 2-0

Game 1: Rangers 4, Thrashers 3

Game 2: Rangers 2, Thrashers 1

Game 3: Tomorrow, at Rangers, 7 p.m. (MSG)

Game 4: Wednesday, at Rangers, 7 p.m. (MSG)

*Game 5: April 20, at Atlanta, TBA (MSG)

*Game 6: April 22, at Rangers, 1 p.m. (Ch. 4)

*Game 7: April 23, at Atlanta, 7 p.m. (Versus, MSG)

*If necessary

NY PJ1

moster78 wrote:

I'm jealous. Of course I got shut out of getting tickets. And the cheapest I've seen on StubHub or Craigslist is 150 - 175 a ticket.

the perks of 1/2 season ticks my friend

moster78

NY PJ1 wrote:

the perks of 1/2 season ticks my friend

I know! I wanted to get them at the end of last season and my brother punked out on me!

xavier mcdaniel

looking like kari lehtonen is back in net tommorow night for atlanta..

moster78

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

looking like kari lehtonen is back in net tommorow night for atlanta..

Interesting.

NY PJ1

moster78 wrote:

Interesting.

hmnnnnnnnnnnnn,,that would surprise me

hedberg was awesome sat

xavier mcdaniel

from what i read in the atlanta papers, it's more due to lehtonen's 3-0 record at MSG even if it is regular season game.

moster78

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

from what i read in the atlanta papers, it's more due to lehtonen's 3-0 record at MSG even if it is regular season game.

Its gotta be a little disjointing to a team to keep having a flip-flop in goalies in the playoffs. Lehtonen gets the first start, doesn't play so well so they start Hedberg who has more experience in the playoffs, he plays well, but they lose, so go back to Lehtonen because he's done better at MSG? Very odd. Then again, its the Thrashers who would rather hit than play hockey.

Bathgate66

hey boys.

got the phonecall today- and my girlfriend comes thru with a pair of tickets for weds nights game. ( game 4 ) i will have videos and photographs like the X man but i am certain from a vastly different vantage point .

so now its imperative that we win tomorrow night ( game 3 ) so that i can bare witness to a game 4 clincher at MSG.


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YieldInHiding

Just a couple of pics I took at the game. Nothing tremendous.

Philips Arena Scoreboard
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b38/cjwalterbach/Misc/DSCF1760.jpg

Faceoff early in the game (as you can see, we had pretty great seats)
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b38/cjwalterbach/Misc/DSCF1767.jpg

Pregame fire
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b38/cjwalterbach/Misc/DSCF1765.jpg

I love NHL Playoff Hockey!

xavier mcdaniel

nypj11 and bathgate, make sure you stop by the upper press box on the 33rd street side overlooking section 335. just ask sal the security guard for me (larry). after being at the final knick game of the year, i can't wait for these games..

Bathgate66

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

nypj11 and bathgate, make sure you stop by the upper press box on the 33rd street side overlooking section 335. just ask sal the security guard for me (larry). after being at the final knick game of the year, i can't wait for these games..

i dunno where im seated yet, but ill try and stop by, or post my locatin when i find out ( hopefully today )

i was so fucking pumped when i got the call about these tickets yesterday ! I am PUMPED !




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NY PJ1

Gamedayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!


12 Hours Baby









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

NY PJ1

Bathgate66 wrote:

hey boys.

got the phonecall today- and my girlfriend comes thru with a pair of tickets for weds nights game. ( game 4 ) i will have videos and photographs like the X man but i am certain from a vastly different vantage point .

so now its imperative that we win tomorrow night ( game 3 ) so that i can bare witness to a game 4 clincher at MSG.


[size=+3] - _/ _/ _/ Lets Go Rangers \_ \_ \_ - [/size]

AWESOME !!!!!!!!!

orig_long red

NY PJ1 wrote:

AWESOME !!!!!!!!!

hey dude i hope u appreciate the Isles wearing down Buffalo for you and everyone else in the east. we're showing that the Sabres are super beatable. now, if only the refs would cooperate, we might have a chance of winning this series.

even flow?

NY PJ1 wrote:

$38 a ticket for my blues,,, not a bad deal

they sent us tickets for the 1st 3 rounds in the mail what a jinx

Well now you can see why I/we would travel to Pitt to watch playoff games. That wouldn't even get you parking to see the Laughs better yet into the building. And that is in the regular season. :eek:

NY PJ1

even flow? wrote:

Well now you can see why I/we would travel to Pitt to watch playoff games. That wouldn't even get you parking to see the Laughs better yet into the building. And that is in the regular season. :eek:

dont forget i stand in the last row ,,,but thats where i like it

and yes i would travel also











LET'S GO RANGER'S!!!

xavier mcdaniel

From the Post..

A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY AT GARDEN

LARRY BROOKS

April 16, 2007 -- TOUGHNESS is measured as surely by a player's and a team's willingness to take a hit to make a play and to absorb punishment without retaliating just as surely as it is by the ability to initiate physical play.

To that end, the Rangers were as tough as they come in earning the double-breaker in Atlanta that sends the Blueshirts into the Garden for tomorrow night's Game 3 against the Thrashers with a 2-0 lead in their first-round series and the potential to end it on Broadway 24 hours later.

The Rangers were tough, they were disciplined and they were poised, and Tom Renney surely deserves as much of the credit for the way his team carried itself in Games 1 and 2 as do the athletes. Renney's class has come to permeate the club; his dignity a welcome counterpoint to others around the NHL or in pro sports, for that matter, who feel the need to denigrate the opposition, debase the game, or make themselves the focus of attention.

Objective No. 1 in the playoffs is, of course, to advance, but Objective No. 1A is to advance as quickly and as unscathed as possible. Absorbing punishment takes its cumulative toll over the course of the tournament, let alone the length of a series. There was, in other words, a method to the madness far beyond the calling-card cliche in the Thrashers' coming high and hard after the Blueshirts in the final minute and final seconds of Game 2.

There is never the slightest benefit to playing even a single game more than necessary in any playoff series. No Cup champion since the 1992 Penguins has played a seven-game, first-round series. No Cup champion since the 1998 Red Wings has needed more than 11 games to advance to the conference finals.

This isn't going to be easy for the Rangers. Invisible Brother Marian Hossa might actually announce his presence in the playoffs. So might the boorish Keith Tkachuk. Bob Hartley might recognize that Bobby Holik needs to be on the power play, though assigning No. 16 to the man-up unit would pile on additional minutes his best player might be unable to handle in concert with his checking assignment.

Renney has managed his players' ice-time well, even as you wish he could find more time for Ryan Callahan. He's coached around Thomas Pock, limiting the jittery defenseman to only 8:31 of ice in Game 2. The moment Karel Rachunek is ready to go, he will, though he might not be able to go back-to-back right out of the chute. The moment Marc Staal is finished making the OHL playoffs his valedictory junior coming-out and going-away party, he is likely to join the Rangers and give the head coach options he requires if the Blueshirts go deep into the tournament.

The Rangers have earned themselves a golden opportunity here. But the task does not become simpler simply because they're home. Indeed, it will be incumbent upon the Blueshirts to resist the urge to put on a show for the ravenous Garden fans. It will be imperative for individuals to continue to take one for the team even if emotions are sure to be stoked even higher at the Garden.

Tomorrow and Wednesday will be a time for poise and composure. If the Rangers require a role model to remind them of those virtues, they need only take a glance behind their bench.