I was just about to turn it off since they spotted Columbus two goals, but then they scored three. That Del Zotto goal was very Brian Leetch-esque.
This guy has turned out to be the callup of the year .
No doubt- that was totally reminiscent of Leetchie back in the day ,... and how about the irony MSG showed Leetchie down near the Zamboni corner right after Del Zotto did that wonderful play ,...
awesome .
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wow. first game i've watched in 2 weeks because cable was finally installed in my new apartment in today. maybe i'll call optimum and have them unplug this shit.
wow. first game i've watched in 2 weeks because cable was finally installed in my new apartment in today. maybe i'll call optimum and have them unplug this shit.
this is a L-I-M-P ranger team.
They're the definition of mediocre, seven goals against a semi-decent team from the West, squeak out a road win and two blowouts on consecutive nights. Also, what's this hit they're talking about, I just got home and put on the postgame show.
Reading 2004
Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016 Fenway 2, 2018 MSG 2022 St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023 MSG 2024, MSG 2024 Philadelphia 2024
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Cooke suspended 2 games for that hit on Anisimov/
should be a good rematch .
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i'm reading that Pitts hasnt won at the Garden since March of 2007 .
Lundqvist plays tonight, He is 12-1-1 against Pens at home .
The defense scored all 3 of the NYR goals in Pittsburgh ,
but theyve been allowing a crazy high amount of gaols .
( allowed 13 goals in the last 2 games-- both defeats )
could the abscence of Wade Redden be that drastic ? { thats sacrcasm } :roll:
The Rangers have lost 33 manpower games due to injury or illness this season.
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Hey Rangers fans! Want to get your Holiday shopping finished early this year and support a good cause?
Tune in to MSG on Monday, November 30th beginning at 6:30 p.m. for the “Garden of Dreams Telethon,” all net proceeds will benefit the Garden of Dreams Foundation, which helps kids in crisis in the tri-state area. Fans can purchase a $100 raffle ticket which enters them to win some great memorabilia and experiences with the Rangers.
To donate dial 212-465-3900, below is a full list of great items you have a chance to win!
Autographed stick by NY Ranger Goalie Henrik Lundqvist
Autographed jersey by NY Ranger Chris Drury
Autographed jersey by NY Ranger Marian Gaborik
Personalized Adam Graves retirement photo collage
Team signed jersey
Puck Package – one puck signed by each player on team
Personalized, signed Mark Messier jersey
Personalized signed photos of Dave Maloney and Ron Duguay
2 club level tickets to Rangers game & Booth Visit with Sam Rosen and Joe Micheletti
2 club level tickets to Rangers game & dinner with Rod Gilbert at the Club Bar & Grill
2 club level tickets to Rangers game & visit to studio set during intermission
Watch Rangers Practice & MSG broadcaster meet and greet
Lines open at the beginning of the pre-game show at 6:30 p.m. and close with the conclusion of “Hockey Night Live” at 10:00 p.m.
**You must be 18 years old to enter and cannot be an employee of any Cablevision owned property, including Madison Square Garden.
A copy of the Foundation’s Annual Report may be obtained upon request, from the Garden of Dreams Foundation, 2 Penn Plaza, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10121 or from the Office of the Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271
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Messier and Leetch are in waiting to run this team!
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wow this team can still win one every now and then .
And, there are goals being scored by guys without the name Marian .
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original 6 matchup tonight with a rare Redwings MSG visit.
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I remember the last one in 2007, they blew a two-goal lead on the day they acquired Sean Avery from Los Angeles.
Reading 2004
Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016 Fenway 2, 2018 MSG 2022 St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023 MSG 2024, MSG 2024 Philadelphia 2024
"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
but wait
dont you see that 1 guy
( with the entire franchise on his shoulders)
i think he';s leading the league
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but wait
dont you see that 1 guy
( with the entire franchise on his shoulders)
i think he';s leading the league
He was rendered invisible on the one night I decide to use a friend's ticket.
Reading 2004
Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016 Fenway 2, 2018 MSG 2022 St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023 MSG 2024, MSG 2024 Philadelphia 2024
"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
but wait
dont you see that 1 guy
( with the entire franchise on his shoulders)
i think he';s leading the league
He was rendered invisible on the one night I decide to use a friend's ticket.
thats cuz the opposition suffocates him,
sometimes putting 2 guys on him.
They shut him down, and our offense.
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buff again
before our home and home with the Islanders .
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Gaborik scores goals ( still leading the league )
but they cant win,
cant get steady heroic goaltending from Henrik right now ,
cant seem to get any bounces and or calls either.
disturbing.
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I guess it's not surprising that they gave up a shorthanded breakaway to a fourth-line slug..
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Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016 Fenway 2, 2018 MSG 2022 St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023 MSG 2024, MSG 2024 Philadelphia 2024
"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
i just hope they dont get smacked around by the isles in this home and home.
THN.com Blog: Sather the architect of Broadway's blues
Adam Proteau
2009-12-14 13:45:00
Before Michael Jackson’s death, master comedian Lewis Black told a great joke about the singer; essentially, Black said, Jackson had become such a joke, for all the wrong reasons, that you could simply state his name as the punch line to any setup – e.g., why did the chicken cross the road? Michael Jackson – and you’d still make people laugh.
I don’t know if Black is still telling the joke (knowing what I think I know about him, I’m sure he is), but if he needs a replacement subject for it, I have the perfect candidate:
The New York Rangers, a.k.a. the NHL’s answer to what happens when an unstoppable force (Henrik Lundqvist) meets an immovable object (the contracts of Wade Redden and Michal Rozsival).
To be fair, neither Redden nor Rozsival is the chief culprit behind the Blueshirts’ current skid (1-5-1 in their past seven games; 7-14-2 since mid-October). John Tortorella isn’t to blame, either.
Nope, this mess is on the man at the top – president/GM Glen Sather – and the owner (James Dolan) who continues to support him.
Let me dust off and update the rap sheet on Sather: Since he took over as GM in June of 2000, the Rangers have won 14 playoff games – and no more than six in a single post-season.
But here’s the biggest indictment of his tenure: As a result of summer after summer of spending by Sather, the team’s prospects for future improvement have been severely hampered.
Redden’s $6.5 million salary and Rozsival’s $5 million annual stipend are painful enough, but Rangers fans are well aware their favorite franchise has roughly $10 million in cap space (and 16 players signed) entering next season and roughly $19 million in cap space (and eight players signed) for the 2011-12 campaign.
Sather won’t be able to foist one of his numerous overpayments on another GM in the next off-season the way he did with Bob Gainey last summer. He has damaged the Rangers short-term and long-term, nearly to the same degree Isiah Thomas did with the NBA’s Knicks.
How is it, then, Dolan fired Thomas nearly two years ago? Obviously, past successes as a basketball player carry less cache around Dolan’s office than past successes as an NHL GM and coach.
Say what you will about former Blueshirts GM Neil Smith, but the fact remains, the latter has won a championship in New York and the former has not. That Smith hasn’t found extended employment since then, while Sather keeps swinging and missing like a blindfolded kid at a piñata party in a wind tunnel, speaks to the inherent cruelties of life.
And that’s perhaps the biggest insult here: Rangers fans have had to endure the Sather era for more than a decade. Even in Toronto, where not winning NHL championships has become the team’s predominant tradition, Sather’s output in Manhattan would have had him on the breadlines in five years, tops.
It might be different were he proficient at drafting and developing young NHLers, but players such as Michael Del Zotto have been the exception and Hugh Jessiman-types the rule.
To summarize: Sather no longer can draft, spends free-agent dollars as if he were paid an agent’s commission and hasn’t seen the third round of the playoffs in 10 years. He has become a hidden husk of a fading legend, with a stick of dynamite where a cigar used to be.
With every passing day, the shine on his story dims. However, the more important defacing has happened to the Rangers, who have become the most directionless of the Original Six franchises – and the go-to punch line for forgetful jokesters.
Blueshirts diehards deserve far better than that. But nothing short of the current GM’s removal will reverse their malaise and stop them from believing Dolan wants 10 more years under Sather before giving up on this ghastly vision.
this blog post is dead on and i agree with it. i feel bad for rangers fan in that they have to put with a poor product year after year. sather is making mad mike look like a smart guy.
Ron: I just don't feel like going out tonight
Sammi: Wanna just break up?
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This guy has turned out to be the callup of the year .
No doubt- that was totally reminiscent of Leetchie back in the day ,... and how about the irony MSG showed Leetchie down near the Zamboni corner right after Del Zotto did that wonderful play ,...
awesome .
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wow. first game i've watched in 2 weeks because cable was finally installed in my new apartment in today. maybe i'll call optimum and have them unplug this shit.
this is a L-I-M-P ranger team.
They're the definition of mediocre, seven goals against a semi-decent team from the West, squeak out a road win and two blowouts on consecutive nights. Also, what's this hit they're talking about, I just got home and put on the postgame show.
Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
Fenway 2, 2018
MSG 2022
St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
MSG 2024, MSG 2024
Philadelphia 2024
"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
this is unbearable.
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Cooke suspended 2 games for that hit on Anisimov/
should be a good rematch .
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callahan dropping the gloves with cooke after. definitely earing that A on the front of his sweater.
Lundqvist plays tonight, He is 12-1-1 against Pens at home .
The defense scored all 3 of the NYR goals in Pittsburgh ,
but theyve been allowing a crazy high amount of gaols .
( allowed 13 goals in the last 2 games-- both defeats )
could the abscence of Wade Redden be that drastic ? { thats sacrcasm } :roll:
The Rangers have lost 33 manpower games due to injury or illness this season.
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to try and help a good cause at this time of year .
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Hey Rangers fans! Want to get your Holiday shopping finished early this year and support a good cause?
Tune in to MSG on Monday, November 30th beginning at 6:30 p.m. for the “Garden of Dreams Telethon,” all net proceeds will benefit the Garden of Dreams Foundation, which helps kids in crisis in the tri-state area. Fans can purchase a $100 raffle ticket which enters them to win some great memorabilia and experiences with the Rangers.
To donate dial 212-465-3900, below is a full list of great items you have a chance to win!
Autographed stick by NY Ranger Goalie Henrik Lundqvist
Autographed jersey by NY Ranger Chris Drury
Autographed jersey by NY Ranger Marian Gaborik
Personalized Adam Graves retirement photo collage
Team signed jersey
Puck Package – one puck signed by each player on team
Personalized, signed Mark Messier jersey
Personalized signed photos of Dave Maloney and Ron Duguay
2 club level tickets to Rangers game & Booth Visit with Sam Rosen and Joe Micheletti
2 club level tickets to Rangers game & dinner with Rod Gilbert at the Club Bar & Grill
2 club level tickets to Rangers game & visit to studio set during intermission
Watch Rangers Practice & MSG broadcaster meet and greet
Lines open at the beginning of the pre-game show at 6:30 p.m. and close with the conclusion of “Hockey Night Live” at 10:00 p.m.
For more information on the Garden of Dreams Foundation, log on to http://www.gardenofdreamsfoundation.org.
**You must be 18 years old to enter and cannot be an employee of any Cablevision owned property, including Madison Square Garden.
A copy of the Foundation’s Annual Report may be obtained upon request, from the Garden of Dreams Foundation, 2 Penn Plaza, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10121 or from the Office of the Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271
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And, there are goals being scored by guys without the name Marian .
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haha, yup. and hank still has to steal the show. no wins come easy for this team.
side note.. DP back in action in the AHL. allowed 3 goals on 13 shots. sounds like he is back!
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Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
Fenway 2, 2018
MSG 2022
St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
MSG 2024, MSG 2024
Philadelphia 2024
"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
but wait
dont you see that 1 guy
( with the entire franchise on his shoulders)
i think he';s leading the league
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He was rendered invisible on the one night I decide to use a friend's ticket.
Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
Fenway 2, 2018
MSG 2022
St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
MSG 2024, MSG 2024
Philadelphia 2024
"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
:shock:
and i feel very confident that we will score more than 2 goals in one of them.
thats cuz the opposition suffocates him,
sometimes putting 2 guys on him.
They shut him down, and our offense.
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thats cuz the opposition suffocates him,
sometimes putting 2 guys on him.
They shut him down, and our offense.[/quote]
just as they did with Jagr
buff again
before our home and home with the Islanders .
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terrible.
this same train keeps a rolling,
Gaborik scores goals ( still leading the league )
but they cant win,
cant get steady heroic goaltending from Henrik right now ,
cant seem to get any bounces and or calls either.
disturbing.
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I guess it's not surprising that they gave up a shorthanded breakaway to a fourth-line slug..
Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
Fenway 2, 2018
MSG 2022
St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
MSG 2024, MSG 2024
Philadelphia 2024
"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
i just hope they dont get smacked around by the isles in this home and home.
THN.com Blog: Sather the architect of Broadway's blues
Adam Proteau
2009-12-14 13:45:00
Before Michael Jackson’s death, master comedian Lewis Black told a great joke about the singer; essentially, Black said, Jackson had become such a joke, for all the wrong reasons, that you could simply state his name as the punch line to any setup – e.g., why did the chicken cross the road? Michael Jackson – and you’d still make people laugh.
I don’t know if Black is still telling the joke (knowing what I think I know about him, I’m sure he is), but if he needs a replacement subject for it, I have the perfect candidate:
The New York Rangers, a.k.a. the NHL’s answer to what happens when an unstoppable force (Henrik Lundqvist) meets an immovable object (the contracts of Wade Redden and Michal Rozsival).
To be fair, neither Redden nor Rozsival is the chief culprit behind the Blueshirts’ current skid (1-5-1 in their past seven games; 7-14-2 since mid-October). John Tortorella isn’t to blame, either.
Nope, this mess is on the man at the top – president/GM Glen Sather – and the owner (James Dolan) who continues to support him.
Let me dust off and update the rap sheet on Sather: Since he took over as GM in June of 2000, the Rangers have won 14 playoff games – and no more than six in a single post-season.
But here’s the biggest indictment of his tenure: As a result of summer after summer of spending by Sather, the team’s prospects for future improvement have been severely hampered.
Redden’s $6.5 million salary and Rozsival’s $5 million annual stipend are painful enough, but Rangers fans are well aware their favorite franchise has roughly $10 million in cap space (and 16 players signed) entering next season and roughly $19 million in cap space (and eight players signed) for the 2011-12 campaign.
Sather won’t be able to foist one of his numerous overpayments on another GM in the next off-season the way he did with Bob Gainey last summer. He has damaged the Rangers short-term and long-term, nearly to the same degree Isiah Thomas did with the NBA’s Knicks.
How is it, then, Dolan fired Thomas nearly two years ago? Obviously, past successes as a basketball player carry less cache around Dolan’s office than past successes as an NHL GM and coach.
Say what you will about former Blueshirts GM Neil Smith, but the fact remains, the latter has won a championship in New York and the former has not. That Smith hasn’t found extended employment since then, while Sather keeps swinging and missing like a blindfolded kid at a piñata party in a wind tunnel, speaks to the inherent cruelties of life.
And that’s perhaps the biggest insult here: Rangers fans have had to endure the Sather era for more than a decade. Even in Toronto, where not winning NHL championships has become the team’s predominant tradition, Sather’s output in Manhattan would have had him on the breadlines in five years, tops.
It might be different were he proficient at drafting and developing young NHLers, but players such as Michael Del Zotto have been the exception and Hugh Jessiman-types the rule.
To summarize: Sather no longer can draft, spends free-agent dollars as if he were paid an agent’s commission and hasn’t seen the third round of the playoffs in 10 years. He has become a hidden husk of a fading legend, with a stick of dynamite where a cigar used to be.
With every passing day, the shine on his story dims. However, the more important defacing has happened to the Rangers, who have become the most directionless of the Original Six franchises – and the go-to punch line for forgetful jokesters.
Blueshirts diehards deserve far better than that. But nothing short of the current GM’s removal will reverse their malaise and stop them from believing Dolan wants 10 more years under Sather before giving up on this ghastly vision.
this blog post is dead on and i agree with it. i feel bad for rangers fan in that they have to put with a poor product year after year. sather is making mad mike look like a smart guy.
Sammi: Wanna just break up?
perfect line to summarize this clown.