The Rangers just announced that Jed Ortmeyer and Bryce Lampman were recalled from Hartford and that Brad Isbister was re-assigned. "Ortmeyer will remain a non-roster injured player pending medical examination for clearance to play," according to the announcement. The Ortmeyer and Isbister moves have been on the Wolf Pack transaction list since Saturday, along with the recall to Hartford from Charlotte of Mark Lee, Ryan Constant, and Zdenek Bahensky (possibly a series of temporary moves until Charlotte returns to action later this week).
As the Rangers prepare to face the Islanders tonight on Long Island, hoping to end their awful five-game skid, the focus in the the papers today is mostly on the resurgent Isles -- see the Post, Newsday, and Journal News. NYR.com has a game preview as well. In the Courant, Bruce Berlet has stories from overseas from Wolf Pack players. At FoxSports.com, another preview of the WJC, which begins today.
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Damn Izzy was sent down,Just lukin foward to say "Hey Dust Buster hitem with your purse!"
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some numbers to consider - jagr - two goals in his last 10 and shanahan one in his last nine..
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Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
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Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
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"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 went last night. I'm not going to lie...the crowd was a lot more routier than any of the games at MSG. Mostly because 40% of the fans were Ranger fans. It was a great game though.
Henrik played an A-M-A-Z-I-N-G GAME!!! Stopped 36 shots...and did anyone see that save he had when it was like 5 Isles within 3 feet of him trying to tap it in and then someone slapped it, and Henrik gloved that shit. Every Ranger fan started chanting HENRIK!! He played amazing though. The first goal, he probably should have had even though it was deflected. But the 2nd...fuckin we killed off a 4 minute power play, and then 5 seconds later there are 4 Isles and 1 Ranger defensemen. Bates shoots it as hard as he can from 3 feet away. Now you cannot blame Henrik on that.
I honestly think we have the worst defense in the league.
Cullen played his heart out last night. Hollweg is fuckin nuts. Henrik is a god.
I'm sick of Jagr. I never liked him...I was at the game where he broke Graves' record, and I'm a HUGE Graves fan. I did not stand up and cheer him. He's such a waste, he will either turn it on one night, or the next night do nothing. Last night he just played footsies with all the Isles and got beat, or he would lose control of the puck in their offensive zone. Idiot.
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well, at least there are 5 more meetings between these 2 rivals.
i thought benching nylander wasnt too smart either, even tho it was his penalty that resulted in the scoring of the goal. ( or just as his high stick penalty double minor ended ) Especially considering that he was one of the only players who could carry the puck into the isles zone .
lets face it, their defense was outstanding , and they stifled us . The disparity on shots on goal alone was embarassing .
everytime Jagr came remotely close to the puck, there were 2 Isles all overr him like white on rice. Wouldnt that mean there was another Ranger open, somewhere on the ice ? It just seems like their trying to win games by " wnging " it- no set plan B or plan C for that matter .
the final kicker is that most of the teams we are battling with in our Division have like 2 or 3 games in hand on us - this happens every season . :mad: WTF ?
wouldnt it be more balanced to have us have some games in hand sometime ?
Its looking more & more futile for our Blueshirts - its only December and i'm already looking for Yankee Baseball. :rolleyes:
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awwww whats the matter is the ranger fan all mad cause his team got there ass's kicked.face it after the 1st 5 minutes of the game, the isles set the tone for the game. u cant beat us
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Dubi is on vacation boys and girls and I was honored that he asked me to give you the recap. Unfortunately it's not a Bob Murphy "Happy recap" but more of a disgusted one. Tonight was one MAJOR puzzling game. If you watched this contest, or worse yet actually were in the Coliseum, you realized that it really wasn't much of a contest. After seeing how Coach Renney decided to shake up the lines, my first thought was, man, I haven't heard from Jess in a while. My second thought was, hey, throwing Jason Ward on the first line is sure going to shake things up. I'm sure Blake, Yashin, and Satan were quaking in their boots at the prospect of that.
From the first drop of the puck you could see how intimidated they weren't as they immediately went on the attack and did not let up one iota for 60 minutes. The Rangers seemed to have no motivation whatsoever. They couldn't get anything started, they couldn’t seem to make a pass or have a halfway decent rush. The only decent chance they had was by Adam Hall, who's playing more like Monty Hall and can't make a deal for a goal, but he missed a wide open net with DiPietro down and out. Jagr did not even have a shot on goal until the third period. The Rangers never really threatened in this contest. They were fortunate that the Islanders were shooting everything wide and high, otherwise it could have been much worse. Henrik was stellar in net. I don't fault him on either goal as he was screened by Rachunek on Asham’s, and just a great shot by Blake.
Here are some random thoughts I had while watching the game:
1) I didn't like in the pre-game when Coach Renney said "we should be motivated for this game..." Should be? Isn't that his job, to make sure they "ARE motivated for the game"? I want to hear more definitive statements by the coach.
2) I really did not like the way the lines were made up. Jagr, Nylander, and Straka have been the only functional and productive line all year. Why break them up? Jason Ward to the first line makes no sense whatsoever.
3) Could they bury Petr Prucha any deeper? Going into the second period, Petr only had a little over two, that's right two minutes of ice time.
4) Why is Matt Cullen continuing to play out of position? He's a third line checking center. He knows it, we know it, why doesn't the team know it?
5) I think Brendan Shanahan needs a game off. He looks totally spent out there. He is being WAY overused.
6) Why was Bryce Lampman called up if he isn't going to play, especially when Baranka and Girardi have been playing better and Baranka played with Pock those few games he was in back in Hartford?
7) Someone tell me why Michael Nylander is benched for the third period when Karl Rachunek (who is what, -15 by now?) continues to get uninterrupted ice time. Prucha, who does nothing but throw himself around out there like a ping pong ball on steroids and gets so little time, and Immonen were the beneficiaries as Nylander, Jason Ward, and Hossa sat out just about all of the period.
8) Chris Simon said something interesting. He said, and I'm paraphrasing here, that the Rangers are a very fast team and that you have to slow them down by being physical against them. A very fast team? Is he playing against the same team that we're all watching? Which brings me to the last point…
9) The Rangers have got to be the softest team in the entire NHL. Jagr is getting slammed around. Rangers are getting pushed off of pucks and are putting up as much resistance at the blue line as you get going through the EZ Pass lane at the GWB at 2 AM.
So, it's easy to offer up all of what's wrong. What can be done REALISTICALLY to fix all of it? Well, truth be told, not a whole lot. The Rangers don't have a lot of players that anyone else really covets. There aren't a lot of players in Hartford ready to take the step up. And they are restricted by the cap. That only leaves one potential solution -- a change behind the bench. And I don't really think that's coming any time soon either. Folks, it's going to be a long season. There's a lot of stuff to chew on, but basically, a bad performance that has followed five other bad performances in a row. What's going to turn this around? Well, the staff has until Friday to figure it out...
-- Mitch Beck
Either space aliens or Mitch Beck’s relatives have kidnapped Dubi, as he is claiming to be in Pennsylvania on vacation. C’mon, no Ranger fan goes to Pennsylvania of his own free will. Even worse, he claims he can’t watch the game because they don’t have MSG. Yeah right, interrupting my vacation so you can goof off with ET and Darth Vader. Therefore, he wants me to recap the game for you folks and perhaps provide a logical version in case Mitch has not sobered up enough to do his. In that case, are you guys in trouble, as I am so ticked off by the current nonsense being sold to Ranger fans as to why things are in the toilet. So here goes.
The telecast opens up with our pals Sam and Joey explaining why Tom Renney has changed the lines once again. Blah blah blah, yada yada yada -- the talking heads are just doing their job, but you wonder if even they believe what they are telling us. If you watched the telecast then I will not bore you with those phony details as Renney has changed his lines more times this season than McDonald’s has sold burgers. The truth is when you have lost five games in a row you are either in a state of panic or just right on the edge of it.
OK, why not? If I have to suffer, so will you. Jason Ward who has next to no offense is with Nylander and Jagr; Shanny with Straka and Cullen; Hollweg, Betts, and Hall; and last and really the least, Hossa playing with Immonen and Prucha. Here is why I dislike those lines: You take the best possible counterattackers against the speed of the Islanders (Immonen and Prucha) and bury them on the fourth line. Ward is a checker not an offensive threat -- I would have used Immonen or Prucha there. Hollweg, Hall, and Betts is great if you want a grind it out game, but against the Islanders it will be hard if they dictate the pace with their team speed.
The good news is the Rangers made it a whole minute and half into the game before Ward was blasted from behind by Sean Hill to create a scoring chance for the Islanders. Heck, the first five minutes is “Blast’em Rangers,” the Islanders hitting Rangers every chance they had, that physical play setting the tempo of the period. The Rangers really were not all that outplayed in the scoreless first except when it came to shots on goal and hits. Still, the Isles’ hitting paid dividends later in the game -- they had set both pace and tone for this game and the Rangers simply were no match for it.
The Rangers despite all the physical play had the better offensive chances in the period but one could see the differences in how the teams approach defensive responsibilities. The Islanders use the body to clear out the sight lines for DiPietro. Come close to their crease and expect to be hit hard. The Rangers’ finesse style allows people to skate in with little fear of being hit, to set screens and attack the net. Later, this will cost them this game.
Jason Ward earned the Rangers’ first penalty by not trying to avoid DiPietro (who was playing the puck way too far from the crease). Chris Simon negated the power play by going after Ward, which to be honest I respect because one day I pray a Ranger will defend one of his teammates like Simon did.
Jason Ward got the first scoring chance in the second, but DiPietro was able to see it and gloved it. Shanny takes a hooking call a few moments later and Kaspar then takes a bad penalty in his defensive zone while playing four on four. If not for Lundqvist, the Islanders would have taken the lead as he stopped three straight shots with Blake sitting on his lap. Of course, Hossa, that defensive specialist, fails to clear the puck and helps the Islanders generate a scoring chance.
The Rangers actually went on a power play of their own when Cullen drew one but they did nothing with it. No sooner do I type that out than Asham picks up a loose puck, skates in, and using Rachunek for a screen beats Lundqvist to give the Fish a 1-0 lead. This finesse defense does so much damage -- but not as much as brain dead plays like Nylander taking a double minor for cutting Martinek with his stick. I am sorry, but that kind of play is pure laziness and there is no reason for this constantly happening.
As the second period is winding down, Robatille found Gervais wide open sneaking in from the point with Lundqvist off guard and the Rangers napping on the PK. But he not shot wide. The third period started with Lundqvist making four solid saves, but his teammates never could get control of the puck and Jason Blake finally got one past him. This goal you could see coming -- despite all that Lundqvist was doing, his teammates’ failures to get the puck away from the Isles made the second goal strictly a matter of time.
Down 2-0, it is time to play with some urgency. Now the Rangers start doing what the Islanders have been doing all game long. Sorry folks, but the game is over at this point as the Islanders have dictated the pace and tempo for way too long while hitting the Rangers at every possible moment. They have been swarming, and if not for Lundqvist I would be writing about a bloodbath. Ted Nolan has the Islanders playing at both ends of the ice. This is going to be a team to fear come crunch time. They attack the net and everyone comes back to play defense.
Of course, as I dream about the Rangers playing defense, Dubi’s role model Rachunek takes a penalty to help further send the Rangers on their way to their sixth straight loss, allowing the Islanders to pass them in the standings and take a 3-0 season series lead. As we watch the Rangers drop number six in a row what have we learned girls and boys? That Ted Nolan has enough faith in Tom Poti to play him on defense late in the game says a ton about how much the Rangers blew it by not hiring him when they had the chance. This is not that laughingstock of a franchise we all loved to abuse.
-- Jess Rubenstein
Game reports in the Post, Times, Journal News, Daily News, Newsday, SNY, and NYR.com, with additional game notes from Newsday and Rangers Report. Nice article by Emma Span in the Village Voice, unfortunately rendered somewhat obsolete by the ongoing losing streak. Hartford shut out Worcester with a lot of new faces in the line-up. At NYR.com, a brief prospect update and a Ranger-centric report on yesterday's WJC action. Jess's take on the WJC: "The World Juniors opened today and like the Rangers, Team USA was a huge disappointment, upset 2-1 by Germany. Tom Pyatt, Marc Staal, and Marc-Andre Cliche contributed to Canada's 2-0 shutout of host Sweden. Russia, with Artem Anismov, edged the Czech Republic, with David Kvelton, 3-2. Action continues Wednesday."
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awwww whats the matter is the ranger fan all mad cause his team got there ass's kicked.face it after the 1st 5 minutes of the game, the isles set the tone for the game. u cant beat us
im past mad,, i have come to terms w/ the fact that we're an average team
however, that chant is gay and i believe it was chanted at msg last year
so its gay and un-original
there are only 3 done out of 8 , lotsa hockey to be played.
Allbeit hats off to the Isles in the 1st 3, its not over yet .
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The Blueshirts' six straight losses marks their longest regulation slide since midway through the 2001-02 season. They haven't gone more than six straight without picking up a point since late 1994-95.
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Everyone also is apparently going to keep pounding Jagr without fear of reprisal. Last night, 7:00 into the first, Ryan Hollweg crunched Alexei Yashin into the boards. Before the shift had ended, Chris Simon sent Hollweg spinning to the ice with an open-ice hit. But there was no response whatsoever when Chris Campoli rocked Jagr early in the first; nor when Brendan Witt got away with a high stick late in the period.
And this really is all anyone needs to know about the opposition's respect for the Rangers: early in the third, even Tom Poti sent Jagr flying to the ice.
The Islanders got the only goal they needed when Karel Rachunek unaccountably went down to try and block Aaron Asham's 45-foot slap from the top with 3:17 left in the second. His vision obscured, Henrik Lundqvist had no chance to make what would have been a routine save.
There is, however, nothing routine these days for the free-falling Rangers. Nothing except losing.
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how many Ranger fans were there in the stands out in Uniondale ?
at least we sell out our arena and support our team- every night- without half the crowd being Islander fans ,.
The first sellout in 19 home dates this season
all the bandwagon - Long Island fans will be working their way out of the woodwork now . ( or will they ? )
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how many Ranger fans were there in the stands out in Uniondale ?
at least we sell out our arena and support our team- every night- without half the crowd being Islander fans ,.
The first sellout in 19 home dates this season
all the bandwagon - Long Island fans will be working their way out of the woodwork now . ( or will they ? )
i love the isles...always have...what keeps me away from the coliseum?...I'm fucking poor. also, how do the rangers sell out every game? Its simple: Corporate help. If it wasnt for NYC Corporations giving tickets to clients, MSG would be just as empty as the coliseum.
Someone wrote in an online forum somewhere that we'd better hope that the team isn't reacting as badly to the current losing streak as fans are, or else most of them would just quit. The Rangers have a lot of work to do to turn their season back around, but everyone is still trying, no one has quit. We're not even halfway through the season, we're still over .500, we're still in playoff position. Everyone is talking about how good the Isles have become, yet they only just caught us in the standings. The Rangers are not going to lose all their remaining games -- things will turn around.
The dose of accountability handed out in the third period last game should help -- it was no coincidence that the Rangers' play picked up once a couple of sets of fresh hungry young legs (Immonen and Prucha) got a chance to skate regularly, and it's no coincidence that Pock elevated his game after a couple of rusty starts. The message about taking bad penalties has at long last been sent -- and FOJs (friends of Jags) are not immune, with JWard and Nylander given seats on the bench, along with Hossa and Kaspar.
The big issue is whether coach Tom Renney will be allowed to do what he feels he needs to do to get things going again. Renney has had free reign to run his team since taking over the head coaching position, and assistant GM Don Maloney has been willing and able to help him. But a recent entry in Steve Zipay's Blue Notes blog about GM Glen Sather interrupting a "What moves can we make to fix this team" meeting between Renney and Maloney suggests that Sather may be backing off his most successful management strategy since taking over the Rangers -- backing off and letting others run the hockey operation.
But Jagr is still here, as are Shanahan and Lundqvist. These guys are not going anywhere anytime soon. These are the guys who have to carry this team over the top, and they have all stumbled during this streak. Jagr has only one assist and is -2 in the past three games, all of them bad games for him. Shanahan has only one goal in his last nine games and has scored goals in only four of the last sixteen games. Lundqvist continues to look for consistency, although he played well against the Isles. Jagr and Lundqvist stayed out after everyone else left the ice at practice yesterday working with each other, according to Rangers Report -- Shanahan didn't practice at all, he and Cullen given an extra day off to rest.
The Rangers return to action tomorrow night, trying to break the schneid in a tough place, Ottawa. Renney is uncertain about his lines, but he needs to practice what he preaches and return to the simplicity of the units he used to start the season -- Nylander centering Jagr and Straka, Cullen centering Prucha and Shanahan, Betts and Ward along with a real plugger like Hollweg rather than the ineffective Hossa or Hall, and those last two on a fourth line centered by Immonen with enough minutes to fulfill a mandate to hit everything that moves. The slumping power play needs to be given orders to shoot the puck or else face further benching. It would help to have Cullen and Rachunek on the points to further that cause. Hall has no business being on a power play that doesn't take point shots, so either they start firing artillery shots with him in front or else get him out of there altogether. Prucha needs power play time with Jagr.
In the papers, the Post and Newsday write about Nylander's benching. Hartford failed again to reach the .500 mark -- Wolf Pack weekly update at their web site. Charlotte gets ready to return to action tonight. NYR.com has their daily prospect update. WJC reports on Canada's win over Team USA as well as other action from NYR.com, Slam! Sports, TSN.ca, and the Globe and Mail -- think the 0-2 Amerks could have used some help from Bobby Sanguinetti? And the return of Prospect Park by Jess Rubenstein:
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New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced Thursday that forward Jed Ortmeyer has been medically cleared to play and will report to the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League (AHL) on a conditioning assignment.
Ortmeyer is now officially back on the Rangers active roster for the first time since being diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism on Aug. 13. Although he will begin his final conditioning assignment in Hartford, he is now eligible to return to the NHL and play for the Rangers at any time.
The 6-0, 197-pound forward's return to active status has been more than a month in the making. He was cleared for contact in practice on Nov. 24 after medical testing showed he was ready to take the next step in his recovery from the pulmonary embolism.
Ortmeyer, 28, has already registered one goal and two assists, along with a plus-two rating in five games with Hartford (AHL) this season after being sent to the Wolf Pack on Dec. 12 on a conditioning loan, allowed for players who have had long-term illnesses. He gained final clearance to resume his NHL career following a recall to the Rangers on Tuesday.
Also on Thursday, Sather announced that defenseman Sandis Ozolinsh has not reported to Hartford due to symptoms from a knee condition. He will continue to be reviewed and treated under the direction of the Rangers' medical staff, and has been placed on Injured Reserve while his treatment continues.
Ozolinsh, 34, has registered three assists and eight penalty minutes in 21 games with the Rangers this season.
Maybe Ortmeyer can instill some tenacity and hard work ethics,...
how is it that Ozolinsh gets this elite treatment?
He was unheard from for like a week , now all of a sudden he appears and is mysteriously injured ? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
something smells fishy
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some important games coming up- we need wins and we need them quick. Especially with the next few- all games with teams crawling up our asses in the standings.
Now that the Ottawa Senators beat the Islanders last night, there are FOUR teams trailing the Rangers by a single point, two of which the Blueshirts will face this weekend. Both the Sens and the Capitals, along with the Bruins and Maple Leafs, currently have 39 points to the Rangers' 40. Boston has four games-at-hand on the Rangers.
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December 26, 2006
"Minor" Roster Shuffle
The Rangers just announced that Jed Ortmeyer and Bryce Lampman were recalled from Hartford and that Brad Isbister was re-assigned. "Ortmeyer will remain a non-roster injured player pending medical examination for clearance to play," according to the announcement. The Ortmeyer and Isbister moves have been on the Wolf Pack transaction list since Saturday, along with the recall to Hartford from Charlotte of Mark Lee, Ryan Constant, and Zdenek Bahensky (possibly a series of temporary moves until Charlotte returns to action later this week).
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See You suckas tonite,And Jay how about a nice Rag$ suck ass effort for Ur B-day?
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Let's Go Ranger's!!
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"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."
so gay and un-original
so so gay and un-original
YCBU, baby!
you know whats gay?....Potvin Sucks...thats fucking gay.
Henrik played an A-M-A-Z-I-N-G GAME!!! Stopped 36 shots...and did anyone see that save he had when it was like 5 Isles within 3 feet of him trying to tap it in and then someone slapped it, and Henrik gloved that shit. Every Ranger fan started chanting HENRIK!! He played amazing though. The first goal, he probably should have had even though it was deflected. But the 2nd...fuckin we killed off a 4 minute power play, and then 5 seconds later there are 4 Isles and 1 Ranger defensemen. Bates shoots it as hard as he can from 3 feet away. Now you cannot blame Henrik on that.
I honestly think we have the worst defense in the league.
Cullen played his heart out last night. Hollweg is fuckin nuts. Henrik is a god.
I'm sick of Jagr. I never liked him...I was at the game where he broke Graves' record, and I'm a HUGE Graves fan. I did not stand up and cheer him. He's such a waste, he will either turn it on one night, or the next night do nothing. Last night he just played footsies with all the Isles and got beat, or he would lose control of the puck in their offensive zone. Idiot.
i thought benching nylander wasnt too smart either, even tho it was his penalty that resulted in the scoring of the goal. ( or just as his high stick penalty double minor ended ) Especially considering that he was one of the only players who could carry the puck into the isles zone .
lets face it, their defense was outstanding , and they stifled us . The disparity on shots on goal alone was embarassing .
everytime Jagr came remotely close to the puck, there were 2 Isles all overr him like white on rice. Wouldnt that mean there was another Ranger open, somewhere on the ice ? It just seems like their trying to win games by " wnging " it- no set plan B or plan C for that matter .
the final kicker is that most of the teams we are battling with in our Division have like 2 or 3 games in hand on us - this happens every season . :mad: WTF ?
wouldnt it be more balanced to have us have some games in hand sometime ?
Its looking more & more futile for our Blueshirts - its only December and i'm already looking for Yankee Baseball. :rolleyes:
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i agree ,,thats getting old
HE IS AND WILL FOREVER BE A PIECE OF SHIT.. THIS WE ALREADY KNOW
thats too old school for me....i'm only interested in the here and now. fuck the cup years...i dont care...i'm not a nostalgia freak.
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Point-Counterpoint With Mitch & Jess
Dubi is on vacation boys and girls and I was honored that he asked me to give you the recap. Unfortunately it's not a Bob Murphy "Happy recap" but more of a disgusted one. Tonight was one MAJOR puzzling game. If you watched this contest, or worse yet actually were in the Coliseum, you realized that it really wasn't much of a contest. After seeing how Coach Renney decided to shake up the lines, my first thought was, man, I haven't heard from Jess in a while. My second thought was, hey, throwing Jason Ward on the first line is sure going to shake things up. I'm sure Blake, Yashin, and Satan were quaking in their boots at the prospect of that.
From the first drop of the puck you could see how intimidated they weren't as they immediately went on the attack and did not let up one iota for 60 minutes. The Rangers seemed to have no motivation whatsoever. They couldn't get anything started, they couldn’t seem to make a pass or have a halfway decent rush. The only decent chance they had was by Adam Hall, who's playing more like Monty Hall and can't make a deal for a goal, but he missed a wide open net with DiPietro down and out. Jagr did not even have a shot on goal until the third period. The Rangers never really threatened in this contest. They were fortunate that the Islanders were shooting everything wide and high, otherwise it could have been much worse. Henrik was stellar in net. I don't fault him on either goal as he was screened by Rachunek on Asham’s, and just a great shot by Blake.
Here are some random thoughts I had while watching the game:
1) I didn't like in the pre-game when Coach Renney said "we should be motivated for this game..." Should be? Isn't that his job, to make sure they "ARE motivated for the game"? I want to hear more definitive statements by the coach.
2) I really did not like the way the lines were made up. Jagr, Nylander, and Straka have been the only functional and productive line all year. Why break them up? Jason Ward to the first line makes no sense whatsoever.
3) Could they bury Petr Prucha any deeper? Going into the second period, Petr only had a little over two, that's right two minutes of ice time.
4) Why is Matt Cullen continuing to play out of position? He's a third line checking center. He knows it, we know it, why doesn't the team know it?
5) I think Brendan Shanahan needs a game off. He looks totally spent out there. He is being WAY overused.
6) Why was Bryce Lampman called up if he isn't going to play, especially when Baranka and Girardi have been playing better and Baranka played with Pock those few games he was in back in Hartford?
7) Someone tell me why Michael Nylander is benched for the third period when Karl Rachunek (who is what, -15 by now?) continues to get uninterrupted ice time. Prucha, who does nothing but throw himself around out there like a ping pong ball on steroids and gets so little time, and Immonen were the beneficiaries as Nylander, Jason Ward, and Hossa sat out just about all of the period.
8) Chris Simon said something interesting. He said, and I'm paraphrasing here, that the Rangers are a very fast team and that you have to slow them down by being physical against them. A very fast team? Is he playing against the same team that we're all watching? Which brings me to the last point…
9) The Rangers have got to be the softest team in the entire NHL. Jagr is getting slammed around. Rangers are getting pushed off of pucks and are putting up as much resistance at the blue line as you get going through the EZ Pass lane at the GWB at 2 AM.
So, it's easy to offer up all of what's wrong. What can be done REALISTICALLY to fix all of it? Well, truth be told, not a whole lot. The Rangers don't have a lot of players that anyone else really covets. There aren't a lot of players in Hartford ready to take the step up. And they are restricted by the cap. That only leaves one potential solution -- a change behind the bench. And I don't really think that's coming any time soon either. Folks, it's going to be a long season. There's a lot of stuff to chew on, but basically, a bad performance that has followed five other bad performances in a row. What's going to turn this around? Well, the staff has until Friday to figure it out...
-- Mitch Beck
Either space aliens or Mitch Beck’s relatives have kidnapped Dubi, as he is claiming to be in Pennsylvania on vacation. C’mon, no Ranger fan goes to Pennsylvania of his own free will. Even worse, he claims he can’t watch the game because they don’t have MSG. Yeah right, interrupting my vacation so you can goof off with ET and Darth Vader. Therefore, he wants me to recap the game for you folks and perhaps provide a logical version in case Mitch has not sobered up enough to do his. In that case, are you guys in trouble, as I am so ticked off by the current nonsense being sold to Ranger fans as to why things are in the toilet. So here goes.
The telecast opens up with our pals Sam and Joey explaining why Tom Renney has changed the lines once again. Blah blah blah, yada yada yada -- the talking heads are just doing their job, but you wonder if even they believe what they are telling us. If you watched the telecast then I will not bore you with those phony details as Renney has changed his lines more times this season than McDonald’s has sold burgers. The truth is when you have lost five games in a row you are either in a state of panic or just right on the edge of it.
OK, why not? If I have to suffer, so will you. Jason Ward who has next to no offense is with Nylander and Jagr; Shanny with Straka and Cullen; Hollweg, Betts, and Hall; and last and really the least, Hossa playing with Immonen and Prucha. Here is why I dislike those lines: You take the best possible counterattackers against the speed of the Islanders (Immonen and Prucha) and bury them on the fourth line. Ward is a checker not an offensive threat -- I would have used Immonen or Prucha there. Hollweg, Hall, and Betts is great if you want a grind it out game, but against the Islanders it will be hard if they dictate the pace with their team speed.
The good news is the Rangers made it a whole minute and half into the game before Ward was blasted from behind by Sean Hill to create a scoring chance for the Islanders. Heck, the first five minutes is “Blast’em Rangers,” the Islanders hitting Rangers every chance they had, that physical play setting the tempo of the period. The Rangers really were not all that outplayed in the scoreless first except when it came to shots on goal and hits. Still, the Isles’ hitting paid dividends later in the game -- they had set both pace and tone for this game and the Rangers simply were no match for it.
The Rangers despite all the physical play had the better offensive chances in the period but one could see the differences in how the teams approach defensive responsibilities. The Islanders use the body to clear out the sight lines for DiPietro. Come close to their crease and expect to be hit hard. The Rangers’ finesse style allows people to skate in with little fear of being hit, to set screens and attack the net. Later, this will cost them this game.
Jason Ward earned the Rangers’ first penalty by not trying to avoid DiPietro (who was playing the puck way too far from the crease). Chris Simon negated the power play by going after Ward, which to be honest I respect because one day I pray a Ranger will defend one of his teammates like Simon did.
Jason Ward got the first scoring chance in the second, but DiPietro was able to see it and gloved it. Shanny takes a hooking call a few moments later and Kaspar then takes a bad penalty in his defensive zone while playing four on four. If not for Lundqvist, the Islanders would have taken the lead as he stopped three straight shots with Blake sitting on his lap. Of course, Hossa, that defensive specialist, fails to clear the puck and helps the Islanders generate a scoring chance.
The Rangers actually went on a power play of their own when Cullen drew one but they did nothing with it. No sooner do I type that out than Asham picks up a loose puck, skates in, and using Rachunek for a screen beats Lundqvist to give the Fish a 1-0 lead. This finesse defense does so much damage -- but not as much as brain dead plays like Nylander taking a double minor for cutting Martinek with his stick. I am sorry, but that kind of play is pure laziness and there is no reason for this constantly happening.
As the second period is winding down, Robatille found Gervais wide open sneaking in from the point with Lundqvist off guard and the Rangers napping on the PK. But he not shot wide. The third period started with Lundqvist making four solid saves, but his teammates never could get control of the puck and Jason Blake finally got one past him. This goal you could see coming -- despite all that Lundqvist was doing, his teammates’ failures to get the puck away from the Isles made the second goal strictly a matter of time.
Down 2-0, it is time to play with some urgency. Now the Rangers start doing what the Islanders have been doing all game long. Sorry folks, but the game is over at this point as the Islanders have dictated the pace and tempo for way too long while hitting the Rangers at every possible moment. They have been swarming, and if not for Lundqvist I would be writing about a bloodbath. Ted Nolan has the Islanders playing at both ends of the ice. This is going to be a team to fear come crunch time. They attack the net and everyone comes back to play defense.
Of course, as I dream about the Rangers playing defense, Dubi’s role model Rachunek takes a penalty to help further send the Rangers on their way to their sixth straight loss, allowing the Islanders to pass them in the standings and take a 3-0 season series lead. As we watch the Rangers drop number six in a row what have we learned girls and boys? That Ted Nolan has enough faith in Tom Poti to play him on defense late in the game says a ton about how much the Rangers blew it by not hiring him when they had the chance. This is not that laughingstock of a franchise we all loved to abuse.
-- Jess Rubenstein
Game reports in the Post, Times, Journal News, Daily News, Newsday, SNY, and NYR.com, with additional game notes from Newsday and Rangers Report. Nice article by Emma Span in the Village Voice, unfortunately rendered somewhat obsolete by the ongoing losing streak. Hartford shut out Worcester with a lot of new faces in the line-up. At NYR.com, a brief prospect update and a Ranger-centric report on yesterday's WJC action. Jess's take on the WJC: "The World Juniors opened today and like the Rangers, Team USA was a huge disappointment, upset 2-1 by Germany. Tom Pyatt, Marc Staal, and Marc-Andre Cliche contributed to Canada's 2-0 shutout of host Sweden. Russia, with Artem Anismov, edged the Czech Republic, with David Kvelton, 3-2. Action continues Wednesday."
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im past mad,, i have come to terms w/ the fact that we're an average team
however, that chant is gay and i believe it was chanted at msg last year
so its gay and un-original
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there are only 3 done out of 8 , lotsa hockey to be played.
Allbeit hats off to the Isles in the 1st 3, its not over yet .
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fuck them ,, long island losers
3 wins and they think they're a super team
let's see buffalo tear them a new ass
congrats on your reg season victory let's move on
yeah you're right...you guys have a lot of other things to worry about....like where the hell your next win is going to come from.
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Everyone also is apparently going to keep pounding Jagr without fear of reprisal. Last night, 7:00 into the first, Ryan Hollweg crunched Alexei Yashin into the boards. Before the shift had ended, Chris Simon sent Hollweg spinning to the ice with an open-ice hit. But there was no response whatsoever when Chris Campoli rocked Jagr early in the first; nor when Brendan Witt got away with a high stick late in the period.
And this really is all anyone needs to know about the opposition's respect for the Rangers: early in the third, even Tom Poti sent Jagr flying to the ice.
The Islanders got the only goal they needed when Karel Rachunek unaccountably went down to try and block Aaron Asham's 45-foot slap from the top with 3:17 left in the second. His vision obscured, Henrik Lundqvist had no chance to make what would have been a routine save.
There is, however, nothing routine these days for the free-falling Rangers. Nothing except losing.
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at least we sell out our arena and support our team- every night- without half the crowd being Islander fans ,.
The first sellout in 19 home dates this season
all the bandwagon - Long Island fans will be working their way out of the woodwork now . ( or will they ? )
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i love the isles...always have...what keeps me away from the coliseum?...I'm fucking poor. also, how do the rangers sell out every game? Its simple: Corporate help. If it wasnt for NYC Corporations giving tickets to clients, MSG would be just as empty as the coliseum.
December 28, 2006
No Need to Panic or Meddle Yet
Someone wrote in an online forum somewhere that we'd better hope that the team isn't reacting as badly to the current losing streak as fans are, or else most of them would just quit. The Rangers have a lot of work to do to turn their season back around, but everyone is still trying, no one has quit. We're not even halfway through the season, we're still over .500, we're still in playoff position. Everyone is talking about how good the Isles have become, yet they only just caught us in the standings. The Rangers are not going to lose all their remaining games -- things will turn around.
The dose of accountability handed out in the third period last game should help -- it was no coincidence that the Rangers' play picked up once a couple of sets of fresh hungry young legs (Immonen and Prucha) got a chance to skate regularly, and it's no coincidence that Pock elevated his game after a couple of rusty starts. The message about taking bad penalties has at long last been sent -- and FOJs (friends of Jags) are not immune, with JWard and Nylander given seats on the bench, along with Hossa and Kaspar.
The big issue is whether coach Tom Renney will be allowed to do what he feels he needs to do to get things going again. Renney has had free reign to run his team since taking over the head coaching position, and assistant GM Don Maloney has been willing and able to help him. But a recent entry in Steve Zipay's Blue Notes blog about GM Glen Sather interrupting a "What moves can we make to fix this team" meeting between Renney and Maloney suggests that Sather may be backing off his most successful management strategy since taking over the Rangers -- backing off and letting others run the hockey operation.
But Jagr is still here, as are Shanahan and Lundqvist. These guys are not going anywhere anytime soon. These are the guys who have to carry this team over the top, and they have all stumbled during this streak. Jagr has only one assist and is -2 in the past three games, all of them bad games for him. Shanahan has only one goal in his last nine games and has scored goals in only four of the last sixteen games. Lundqvist continues to look for consistency, although he played well against the Isles. Jagr and Lundqvist stayed out after everyone else left the ice at practice yesterday working with each other, according to Rangers Report -- Shanahan didn't practice at all, he and Cullen given an extra day off to rest.
The Rangers return to action tomorrow night, trying to break the schneid in a tough place, Ottawa. Renney is uncertain about his lines, but he needs to practice what he preaches and return to the simplicity of the units he used to start the season -- Nylander centering Jagr and Straka, Cullen centering Prucha and Shanahan, Betts and Ward along with a real plugger like Hollweg rather than the ineffective Hossa or Hall, and those last two on a fourth line centered by Immonen with enough minutes to fulfill a mandate to hit everything that moves. The slumping power play needs to be given orders to shoot the puck or else face further benching. It would help to have Cullen and Rachunek on the points to further that cause. Hall has no business being on a power play that doesn't take point shots, so either they start firing artillery shots with him in front or else get him out of there altogether. Prucha needs power play time with Jagr.
In the papers, the Post and Newsday write about Nylander's benching. Hartford failed again to reach the .500 mark -- Wolf Pack weekly update at their web site. Charlotte gets ready to return to action tonight. NYR.com has their daily prospect update. WJC reports on Canada's win over Team USA as well as other action from NYR.com, Slam! Sports, TSN.ca, and the Globe and Mail -- think the 0-2 Amerks could have used some help from Bobby Sanguinetti? And the return of Prospect Park by Jess Rubenstein:
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ORTMEYER ASSIGNED TO HARTFORD FOR CONDITIONING
12/28/2006
New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced Thursday that forward Jed Ortmeyer has been medically cleared to play and will report to the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League (AHL) on a conditioning assignment.
Ortmeyer is now officially back on the Rangers active roster for the first time since being diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism on Aug. 13. Although he will begin his final conditioning assignment in Hartford, he is now eligible to return to the NHL and play for the Rangers at any time.
The 6-0, 197-pound forward's return to active status has been more than a month in the making. He was cleared for contact in practice on Nov. 24 after medical testing showed he was ready to take the next step in his recovery from the pulmonary embolism.
Ortmeyer, 28, has already registered one goal and two assists, along with a plus-two rating in five games with Hartford (AHL) this season after being sent to the Wolf Pack on Dec. 12 on a conditioning loan, allowed for players who have had long-term illnesses. He gained final clearance to resume his NHL career following a recall to the Rangers on Tuesday.
Also on Thursday, Sather announced that defenseman Sandis Ozolinsh has not reported to Hartford due to symptoms from a knee condition. He will continue to be reviewed and treated under the direction of the Rangers' medical staff, and has been placed on Injured Reserve while his treatment continues.
Ozolinsh, 34, has registered three assists and eight penalty minutes in 21 games with the Rangers this season.
Maybe Ortmeyer can instill some tenacity and hard work ethics,...
how is it that Ozolinsh gets this elite treatment?
He was unheard from for like a week , now all of a sudden he appears and is mysteriously injured ? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
something smells fishy
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from http://mt.hockeybird.com/ :
Now that the Ottawa Senators beat the Islanders last night, there are FOUR teams trailing the Rangers by a single point, two of which the Blueshirts will face this weekend. Both the Sens and the Capitals, along with the Bruins and Maple Leafs, currently have 39 points to the Rangers' 40. Boston has four games-at-hand on the Rangers.
[size=+3] - _/ Lets Go Rangers \_ - [/size]
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