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Bathgate66

Anisimov has been called up.

Take that, Ovie.

rival.

hank needs to come up big tonight. without him, a lot of people will be switching over to the devil game come the 3rd period.

Bathgate66

singularity wrote:

hank needs to come up big tonight. without him, a lot of people will be switching over to the devil game come the 3rd period.

never
i'll be watching intensely no matter what.

One thing we havent done yet is test the new goalie on their end.
no rebounds, no traffic standing in front ( hello avery and antropov )
and as a result very few goals.
pepper this fucking kid already.

rival.

Bathgate66 wrote:

singularity wrote:

hank needs to come up big tonight. without him, a lot of people will be switching over to the devil game come the 3rd period.

never
i'll be watching intensely no matter what.

One thing we havent done yet is test the new goalie on their end.
no rebounds, no traffic standing in front ( hello avery and antropov )
and as a result very few goals.
pepper this fucking kid already.

seriously. what's with that? from the first minute of game 2 we should have been in his crease on top of him, brushing him when needed, and just getting in his face. the rangers made him way too comfortable off the bat. awful.

if the score is 4-0 again in the 3rd, i will have to change it. i'm not sitting there listening to their crowd go nuts mocking us.

antropov reminds me of that really tall player from mystery alaska. a guy big as shit, afraid to use his body. and get physical.

Bathgate66

singularity wrote:

Bathgate66 wrote:

singularity wrote:

hank needs to come up big tonight. without him, a lot of people will be switching over to the devil game come the 3rd period.

never
i'll be watching intensely no matter what.

One thing we havent done yet is test the new goalie on their end.
no rebounds, no traffic standing in front ( hello avery and antropov )
and as a result very few goals.
pepper this fucking kid already.

seriously. what's with that? from the first minute of game 2 we should have been in his crease on top of him, brushing him when needed, and just getting in his face. the rangers made him way too comfortable off the bat. awful.

if the score is 4-0 again in the 3rd, i will have to change it. i'm not sitting there listening to their crowd go nuts mocking us.

antropov reminds me of that really tall player from mystery alaska. a guy big as shit, afraid to use his body. and get physical.

before games 5 / 6 ,

he was playing well, making his prescence known , hell i even remarked how he was even backchecking regularly on every shift!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av1cTYQN0f0

Bathgate66

Oh well, hats off to the Caps.

we still didnt test their goalie-

did they actually think they could win the game without shooting the puck on net in the entire 3rd period ?

Boston will easily handle these guys, at least they shoot the puck onto the net.

Wade Redden?
what happened up there on the wing, you fucking traffic cone.
not even a stick waved at the old man Federov, wtf ?

Jwmcc

So much for the 2008-2009 season. That's about as bad an ending as you can get. Hopefully the players and front office take a long look in the mirror and figure out what went wrong especially on offense.
Jw

Bathgate66

Jwmcc wrote:

So much for the 2008-2009 season. That's about as bad an ending as you can get. Hopefully the players and front office take a long look in the mirror and figure out what went wrong especially on offense.
Jw

wish theyd fire sather
for that matter i wish theyd fire the dolans, but thats just not gonna happen .

Songburst

Bathgate66 wrote:

Jwmcc wrote:

So much for the 2008-2009 season. That's about as bad an ending as you can get. Hopefully the players and front office take a long look in the mirror and figure out what went wrong especially on offense.
Jw

wish theyd fire sather
for that matter i wish theyd fire the dolans, but thats just not gonna happen .

Think you can get Brian Burke out of Toronto?

Was Drury hurt? I don't think that I saw him on the ice tonight. I never liked him and it always got on my nerves that the media crowned him as a proven winner. Ship that bum to the Wolfpack.

PatrickBateman

wow, that sucked...one shot in the 3rd (even though I dont think the caps had a SOG until 15 minutes into the game. Cant blame it on Avery tonight....Way to go Redden leaving everything up to Henrik. Callahan ws probably screaming "block! you friggin pylon" Still feels like the New York Strangers....congrats to the caps for sticking it to them.

Bathgate66

1 thing is for certain
colton orr earned a spot in that game 7,
we missed his physicality,
aaron voros should NOT have been in this game.

PatrickBateman

Vince will slap my troubles away haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRyj5cHIQA

rival.

suprise suprise, redden defending the man that scores the goal that sends the rangers packing for the season.

here it is:

keep:
betts
dubinsky
callahan
avery
orr
sjostrom
antropov
girardi
mara
staal

good bye:
drury
gomez
zherdev
redden
rozsival
voros

maybe:
naslund
morris
korpikoski

i'm sorry, i like gomez and drury as people, but they have done dick for us since they arrived aside from taking up 90% of our cap space. about 60 games this season, i had to be reminded that drury was even dressed for a game. what did he do to deserve the 'C'???? still trying to figure that one out.

i am sick of sam and joe saying, "ohhh tie game, 6 minutes to go... this is drury time!" please. the guy won't score a big goal as long as he wears a blueshirt.





oh... fire sather.

PatrickBateman

singularity: I agree completely...and I liked Voros when he first played with us

rival.

PatrickBateman wrote:

singularity: I agree completely...and I liked Voros when he first played with us

me too. the first dozen games into the season, he was scoring, passing, skating, fighting. the scoring, passing, skating was a nice suprise, but when he stopped doing all of that he stopped dropping the gloves and stopped becoming a physical force. don't know where he lost his mojo.

but to be fair, i thought he played a good game tonight. had a few good looks at net, more than orr would have contributed offensively.

PatrickBateman

yup not a bad game for him tonight, but pretty disposable overall. I hardly realize when Drury is playing, Gomez has been been meh, I am big fans of Callahan and Duby right now...they have heart and even Avery who almost made me toss a beer at my tv a couple games ago with his over the line antics, has shown that he can play with passion and not screw it all up (when he wants to).....Zherdev...pffft Henrick made some pretty spectacular saves and also got lucky....we should have been crashing the net more....oh well shouldve couldve wouldve

HailHailVitalogy

I was one of VERY few Ranger fans there. And I gotta say, that was one of the loudest eruptions I have ever heard, the loudness lasted for a really long time.

But hold the fuck on...

WADE REDDEN

Let me see, we have Fedorov, who is one of the greatest wrist shot shooters of all time...hes skating up, 2 on 2. Wade Redden decides let me keep backing off and give this guy 6-8 feet of room, but wait...let me deflect it for him!

I knew we all got on him in the season, but of all times to really fuck up its late in the 3rd period of game 7



Lundqvist was PHENOMENAL, end of story. His kick save out of no where while leaning the other way was absolutely unbelievable. Then his blocker save off of Ovie's rebound shot while on the ground was insane too. Let's not forget the save he made with 2 minutes left in the game when Ovie tried to make it 3-1

I can't believe the Rangers lost this game. The first 2 periods, I was in SHOCK that we were just damn right out playing them. If the Rangers were a scoring team the game would have been easily 3-1, or 4-1 after 2. ANTROPOV...LIFT THE PUCK!!!

But 3rd period man, Capitals just came out shooting and Lundqvist was there for each one of them and the defense was great. But WADE FUCKIN REDDEN....oh and what about Paul Mara's passes? He had two passes that I just flat out cursed up a storm about. Some of Gomez's passes were off too, but I thought he and Dubinsky played great games. Avery got a lot of chances bringing the puck up the middle, especially in the 3rd.

The first Caps goal pissed me off too, Henrik had NO chance.

And I'm starting to realize that Caps fans are like Redskin fans (obviously I know) and its fuckin annoying. Now all the sudden 30 seconds after the final buzzer, there going to beat the Wings

I gotta tell you guys tho, I get so nervous every time Ovi has the puck. The way he handles the puck is so intimidating, you have no idea what he's going to do. Then you got Mr. Jizz and the mighty passer Backstrom to account for too. Mike Green played an awful game, this whole series he's been off. The man doesn't shoot when he should shoot like he did in the season, or get rid of the puck when Korpikovski and Dubinsky.

Caps/Pens
GO CAPS. After last years series of watching Cry Baby and Malkin I hate that team with a passion. I have never seen two players on the same team that I can't stand. Cry Baby speaks for himself. Malkin is just a dirty player, and he just has that face I wanna punch.

I see the Pens in 6. Varlamov will finally be tested against a fast offensive team like his own. He will face 30 shots on average a game, and a bunch more chances will come up. Plus the Penns have the experience level.

CANES!!!
SO GREAT TO SEE MARTY GO DOWN...what a LOSER

Dude...the Canes could make a run. I don't think Boston is that good, I really don't. They probably thought Montreal was easy but with that mind set, I can see them going down 2-0 in the series.

That said, Boston in 7

Ducks/Wings is a great match-up too, probably the best series besides caps/pens. The goal-tending is going to be great. Wings in 7

Hawks/Canucks
Hawks in 5 (Hawks are my sleeper for the cup finals


Back the Rangers...

Bye to Naslund, he won't be able to last with Tort's style...plus he doesn't skate
Bye to Zherdev, how much are we paying him? What has he done since game 20? Why doesn't he clear the puck, or shoot the puck, or tip the fuckin puck in the wide open net to make it 3-2 instead of 4-1 in game 6.

Redden, I'm giving you one more year just because of the investment
Gomez, I liked the way he played this series, some dumb mistakes but he hustled and hit Ovie a lot...but use him as trade bait, see what we can get

igotid88

I guess we all saw this coming. They couldn't score all season. Wish we had Jagr there.

HailHailVitalogy

igotid88 wrote:

I guess we all saw this coming. They couldn't score all season. Wish we had Jagr there.

No.

Bathgate66

Sathers Mess


Pos / Player/ 2008-09 / 2009-10 / 2010-11 / 2011-12 / 2012-13 / 2013-14 / 2014-15


1 C Scott Gomez 7.357 7.357 7.357 7.357 7.357 7.357 UFA
2 C Chris Drury 7.050 7.050 7.050 7.050 UFA
3 G Henrik Lundqvist 6.875 6.875 6.875 6.875 6.875 6.875 UFA
4 D Wade Redden 6.500 6.500 6.500 6.500 6.500 6.500 UFA
5 D Michal Rozsival 5.000 5.000 5.000 5.000 UFA
6 LW Markus Naslund 4.000 4.000 UFA
7 D Derek Morris 3.917 UFA
8 RW Nikolai Zherdev 2.500 RFA
9 RW Nik Antropov 2.050 UFA
10 D Paul Mara 1.950 UFA
11 C Sean Avery 1.900 1.900 1.900 1.900 UFA
12 D Dan Girardi 1.550 1.550 RFA
13 LW Lauri Korpikoski 1.018 RFA
14 RW Aaron Voros 1.000 1.000 1.000 UFA
15 C Artem Anisimov 0.850 0.850 RFA
16 LW Fredrik Sjostrom 0.840 RFA
17 D Marc Staal 0.827 0.827 RFA
18 G Stephen Valiquette 0.750 UFA
19 C Brandon Dubinsky 0.633 RFA
20 C Blair Betts 0.615 UFA
21 RW Ryan Callahan 0.575 RFA
22 RW Colton Orr 0.538 UFA
Total 58.295 42.909 35.682 34.682 20.732 20.732 0