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Bathgate66

so gomez facing his old team tonight, for the first time.

Los Diablos coach stirring up the pot, and trying to motivate his team :


from todays NY Post

Bulls - Eye On Gomez

BULL'S-EYE ON SCOTT GOMEZ
By MARK EVERSON
October 25, 2007 -- Heads up, Fester.

Brent Sutter sounds as if he thinks the left-behind should resent Scott Gomez's defection, and that he wouldn't mind someone smearing him tonight, even if just for appearances sake.

"I guess it doesn't matter that they were a rival. That's what's different. That's the business part," Sutter said, getting ready for his first visit to the Garden as Devils coach tonight. "I could care less. It was his choice to decide where to play. It was his choice not to want to play for New Jersey any more."

Gomez was a popular irritant during his seven seasons with New Jersey, winning the 2000 Calder Trophy as rookie of the year and two Stanley Cups while becoming perhaps the best puck-carrier in the NHL. After making $5 million in an arbitration award from the Devils last season, he signed a seven-year, $51.5 million deal July 1 to join the Rangers, making $10 million this season.

Sutter seems concerned that his friends among the Devils might play a friendly game with Gomez.

"To think we should be easy on him is dead wrong," Sutter said. "It's his choice to cross the river. That's up to him. Our job is to win the hockey game. I know Gomez was a big part of this organization and won Stanley Cups here. But he's no longer here. He's a New York Ranger now. He plays for a team that's our No. 1 rival now.

"I would certainly hope when they step on the ice that there's no such thing as friends," Sutter said.

The game matters so much, so early, that it magnifies Gomez's first clash with the Devils.

The Rangers have only one point more than the Thrashers team that has already fired its coach. Tom Renney's expensive lineup has scored the fewest goals in the NHL - 13 in eight games - yet they trail the Devils by only two points.

Shut out in their last two games, the Rangers were expected to score at will. Instead, Gomez shares the team lead with two goals, along with Michal Rozsival and injured Martin Straka.

New Jersey completes its nine-game, season-opening road schedule tonight before playing host to Ottawa Saturday in their Newark debut. They'd love to bring a 4-4-1 road record to their new home, especially fresh from victory over Gomez and the Rangers.

"For confidence and the atmosphere for our fans, it would be huge. And for what happened during the summer," Martin Brodeur said.

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Rangers suffered another blow when Ryan Callahan was diagnosed with a knee sprain yesterday. He's out indefinitely.

Straka ( broken finger) and Sean Avery (shoulder) are also out for Rangers. Avery is skating on his own, perhaps a week from returning.

Sheldon Brookbank is expected to make his Devils debut on defense tonight, replacing Mike Mottau . . . Devils' penalty-killing is tied for worst in NHL at 68.6 percent, 24-for-35. Rangers are sixth at 86.4 percent.

mark.everson@nypost.com


DEVILS at RANGERS Tonight: 7:00 MSG - FSN

WFAN (660) WABC (770)

Bathgate66

marty looking mortal after all these years

dawes baby- absolutely flying and zipping around all over the place.

gotta love it.

igotid88

Dawes

igotid88

Lundqvist is on a roll.

Jwmcc

A brace for Dawes and a clean sheet for Henrik.

Good work lads.

xavier mcdaniel

Bathgate66 wrote:

marty looking mortal after all these years

dawes baby- absolutely flying and zipping around all over the place.

gotta love it.

when karel rachunek is one of the six defensemen that's asking for trouble, kind of like bringing in kyle farnsworth into the eighth inning of a close game...

Bathgate66

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

when karel rachunek is one of the six defensemen that's asking for trouble, kind of like bringing in kyle farnsworth into the eighth inning of a close game...

hahaha

i was happy to see him wearing ( anything other then red white and blue really ) but even more glad to see him in the devils white and red.

so we get gomez, they get karel.

fair trade , eh ?

kenshunt

Leafs tomorrow...geting excited for this one:)

even flow?

Big match up this Saturday. I thought I would poke my head in and say hello to ya all. Ten games in and I already want the playoffs to be here. Good luck to all this Saturday. I am predicting the Laughs to get bitch slapped by a score of 5 to 2.

I see Kenny is already in here trying to stir up the poop. Tell him to take it back to the Laughs thread.

Good to see hockey is back!!!!!

Bathgate66

how many times did brodeur stop Drury yesterday ?

this guy, along with half the lineup, is past overdue.

it will be fantasticif they all get off the nut at the same time, with a few flurry of goals all happening at once.

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

Hawkshore

Bathgate66 wrote:

how many times did brodeur stop Drury yesterday ?

this guy, along with half the lineup, is past overdue.

it will be fantasticif they all get off the nut at the same time, with a few flurry of goals all happening at once.

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

Andy you guys better hope so ...............otherwise this signing is looking like a vintage Neil Smith signing

kenshunt

Hawkshore wrote:

Andy you guys better hope so ...............otherwise this signing is looking like a vintage Neil Smith signing

Neil wasn't the problem it's always been Sather

Hawkshore

kenshunt wrote:

Neil wasn't the problem it's always been Sather

Ken I think if you need to look back and have a closer look at the plethora of boneheaded moves Neil made for many years while gm coinciding with many years of missed playoff performances before his termination!!!

Bathgate66

double whammy
sorry

Bathgate66

Hawkshore wrote:

Andy you guys better hope so ...............otherwise this signing is looking like a vintage Neil Smith signing

hey neil brought us the cup, ended our unimaginable drought.
it spanned generations man.



i will repeat my sentiments from yesterday
i seem to remeber sean avery arriving last season and breathing life back into the entire, talent rich roster.

i suspect the same this season when that madman returns.

regardless of how you feel about the guy, he does something to those around him, he did it last year, im sure he'll be doing it again.

he looks goofy as hell in the eye glasses on the little MSG graphics.

this guy is too much.

Bathgate66

Bathgate66 wrote:

streaming audio of Jungleland from MSG Night 2 .
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The Rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night
And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine over the Jersey state line
Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
The Rat pulls into town rolls up his pants
Together they take a stab at romance and disappear down Flamingo Lane


Well the Maximum Lawman run down Flamingo chasing the Rat and the barefoot girl
And the kids round here look just live like shadows always quiet, holding hands
From the churches to the jails tonight all is silence in the world
As we take our stand down in Jungleland


The midnight gang's assembled and picked a rendezvous for the night
They'll meet `neath that giant Exxon sign that brings this fair city light
Man there's an opera out on the Turnpike
There's a ballet being fought out in the alley
Until the local cops, Cherry Tops, rips this holy night
The street's alive as secret debts are paid
Contacts made, they vanished unseen
Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades hustling for the record machine
The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands
That face off against each other out in the street down in Jungleland


In the parking lot the visionaries dress in the latest rage
Inside the backstreet girls are dancing to the records that the D.J. plays
Lonely-hearted lovers struggle in dark corners
Desperate as the night moves on,
Just a look and a whisper, and they're gone


Beneath the city two hearts beat
Soul engines running through a night so tender
In a bedroom locked
In whispers of soft refusal and then surrender
In the tunnels uptown the Rat's own dream guns him down
As shots echo down them hallways in the night
No one watches when the ambulance pulls away
Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light


Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between flesh and what's fantasy
And the poets down here don't write nothing at all,
They just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of a knife
They reach for their moment and try to make an honest stand
But they wind up wounded, not even dead
Tonight in Jungleland

NCBRI

I was flipping around on the NHL package last night while watching the Canes. Looked like a bad night for the greater NY/NJ area hockey teams. The best thing I saw from any of them was the Christie Brinkley commercial for the Isles. Wow, she still looks awesome.

I'm surprised at the Rangers start. They are stingy on D, but can't seem to put the puck in the net. What do you guys think about the rumors of trading Jagr? I'm sure they are only rumors, but would you trade him?

Bathgate66

i had to work this weekend-
guess i've been falling out of tyhe loop- as this is the very first time reading / hearing / seeing about this .

So it looks like another pitiful showing last night.

To Torontos 2nd worst defense in the league ?


i did read todays papers,
& in the
Post it
appears that L Brooks echoed my sentiments from earlier in the week:

Absent Sean Avery, the Rangers lack a forechecker with speed to arrive at the puck with malice aforethought. They lack an agitating force. They lack a line that can stir up energy and create a roll from one shift to the next. They lack a complete game, is what the Rangers lack. They scored one goal against a Toronto team that had surrendered four or more in six of their first 11.

maybe they should bring up a newbie or semi newbie to play on the line with Jagr. Pick any forward and just shift them over to the pivot position - there are plenty to choose from : Dubinsky , Callahan, Dawes , hell even Prucha .
Maybe Betts ?


i hear that avery is chomping at the bit to return,

let the guy loose and lettem loose quick , before its too late.

xavier mcdaniel

and that's their reasoning for not doing so as said during practice today:

"If someone were really prolific down there...but we're not sure that anyone who can come up right now would make that difference for us," Renney said. "We need to generate some offense; the sort of player who would join us would be a third- or fourth-line guy."

kenshunt

I hope the Rangers can turn it around, i don't understand why they can't score goals, but hey i was happy with there 1 goal last night