"It was a 2-on-0 and it would have been kind of selfish if I didn't pass the puck. It is good for everybody. I would have compared it to when a big fat guy scores a touchdown in football. Everybody loves it, they love the celebration. I want to see it too. I want to see a big guy dancing.
hahahaha
awesome !
hey now- all we need is 30 more of these this season,.... :rolleyes: :eek:
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...oh yeah and could it be that Marcel Hossa is about to bust out ?
shoot the puck Marcel !
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At that time, the St. Paul Star-Tribune said: "After scoring 20 goals in 2002-03, Dupuis held out for a better contract and hasn't scored more than 11 since. While he's fast and full of energy, Dupuis often finds himself in coach Jacques Lemaire's doghouse for ineffective or inconsistent play. Lemaire was blown away December 19 when he yelled at his players during a morning skate, 'If you don't feel like practicing, you can get off,' and Dupuis took him up on it." Hmm, we wonder -- will Dupuis play on a line with Sean Avery?
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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."
game time and avery's already agitating. now matt cullen appears to have gotten hurt with a slash across the hands.
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."
it's go time, sutherby and hollweg. i score no contest.
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."
hey, look what happens when you shoot on the power play. the goalie is down and rosey gets the rebound - 1-0 rangers..
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."
it's go time again - orr vs. brasher, brasher gets in a few lefts at the end after orr gets some early punches in. Judges score it 10-9 brashear. But it's 2-1 Rangers.
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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."
jagr gets his 1,500th career point and is the 12th in NHL history to do so. Nice job by MSG, almost missed the finish of an ovechin breakaway attempt because they were trying to figure out if Jagr touched the puck.
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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."
jagr gets his 1,500th career point and is the 12th in NHL history to do so. Nice job by MSG, almost missed the finish of an ovechin breakaway attempt because they were trying to figure out if Jagr touched the puck.
HAHA I SAID THE SAME who cares ,, the game is more important
anyway another solid effort ,, maybe hossa is a star??? lol
its nice standing up for each other ,its about frickin time we fought
but i've been saying that Hossas about to break out anyday now.
I guess the more games that are played, the law of probabilities are increased, so no big out on a limb predictions there. Plus, he's been out there with Jagr, so that has to be the reason that he is now flourishing, cuz everytime Jags is on the puck , the opposition has 2 or 3 guys on him instantly.
Wow- 2 in a row .
I guess its a start .
the hard part is waiting 5 days till the next game to give way to the canines down at the Garden . :eek:
this is bad because the increased time interupts the momentum that theyve built up the last 2 days/games,...
.......the waiting drove me mad,...."
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The Rangers have inquired about Bruins defenseman Paul Mara and forward Brad Boyes, a well-placed source reports. No offers have been extended.
even if this turns out to be true,
what we need to hear is who the Rs are offering in such deals,....
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well the bruins will be dealing, they just gave up brad stuart last night.
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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."
TAKES SHOT WITH NEW ADS
By DENIS GORMAN
Click to enlargeFebruary 11, 2007 -- Nearly two years after a season-long work stoppage nearly killed the sport and 12 months after a spike in interest greeted hockey's return, the National Hockey League is battling to turn around tepid interest at the turnstile and unimpressive TV ratings.
Two week's after the NHL drew an anemic 0.7 rating for its All-Star game, the country's No. 4 sports league is amping up a marketing campaign that attempts not to explain the game or showcase the talents of its players, but rather to show its highest-wattage stars as normal people - who happen to be good, very good, at playing hockey.
The league kicks its campaign up a notch this week with two new spots - just as NBC's coverage settles into the playoff push.
The spots show the players in some hotel high jinks - calling in a bogus room service order for a rival player in a room down the hall, engaging in hallway luggage cart races, pillow fights and dropping water balloons out a window.
Earlier campaigns - some of which didn't even feature players - failed to attract the casual fan to the tube or the rink. The Devils, among the NHL's elite teams, draw just 14,230 fans a game, off 3 percent from last season. The Islanders, in contention for a playoff berth, skate in front of an average 12,609 fans, down 4 percent from a year ago.
The Rangers are the exception, selling out their games as they do most years.
Credit Brendan Shanahan of the Rangers for coming up with the idea for showing the players as real people - and the NHL for running with it.
"This year is all about the players," Bernadette Mansur, an NHL executive, told The Post, adding that people, specifically young urban professionals, weigh heavily in the NHL's marketing plans.
To be sure, the NHL's channel on YouTube has been a hit. But for Mansur and the rest of the NHL, selling more tickets and getting higher ratings have so far proven elusive.
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TAKES SHOT WITH NEW ADS
By DENIS GORMAN
Click to enlargeFebruary 11, 2007 -- Nearly two years after a season-long work stoppage nearly killed the sport and 12 months after a spike in interest greeted hockey's return, the National Hockey League is battling to turn around tepid interest at the turnstile and unimpressive TV ratings.
Two week's after the NHL drew an anemic 0.7 rating for its All-Star game, the country's No. 4 sports league is amping up a marketing campaign that attempts not to explain the game or showcase the talents of its players, but rather to show its highest-wattage stars as normal people - who happen to be good, very good, at playing hockey.
The league kicks its campaign up a notch this week with two new spots - just as NBC's coverage settles into the playoff push.
The spots show the players in some hotel high jinks - calling in a bogus room service order for a rival player in a room down the hall, engaging in hallway luggage cart races, pillow fights and dropping water balloons out a window.
Earlier campaigns - some of which didn't even feature players - failed to attract the casual fan to the tube or the rink. The Devils, among the NHL's elite teams, draw just 14,230 fans a game, off 3 percent from last season. The Islanders, in contention for a playoff berth, skate in front of an average 12,609 fans, down 4 percent from a year ago.
The Rangers are the exception, selling out their games as they do most years.
Credit Brendan Shanahan of the Rangers for coming up with the idea for showing the players as real people - and the NHL for running with it.
"This year is all about the players," Bernadette Mansur, an NHL executive, told The Post, adding that people, specifically young urban professionals, weigh heavily in the NHL's marketing plans.
To be sure, the NHL's channel on YouTube has been a hit. But for Mansur and the rest of the NHL, selling more tickets and getting higher ratings have so far proven elusive.
hey, i know the guy that wrote the article...
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."
hey , if you havent seen this commercial with the Sedin Twins of Vancuver, check it out.
I hope some NYR did some of these spots.
too f'n funny.
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HOLDING ON: The Caps might have found a way to slow down Sean Avery Saturday, but the acquisition of the gritty winger allows the Rangers to put together more potent line combinations.February 12, 2007 -- When the Islanders acquired Butch Goring from the Kings with a dozen games to go in the 1979-80 sea son, that allowed Al Arbour to diversify a lineup that had been too top-heavy and thus too easy to shut down the previ ous two playoff seasons.
With Goring slotted in the middle behind Bryan Trottier, Arbour shifted Clark Gillies off the first line onto a second unit with No. 91 and Duane Sutter. Bobby Bourne moved up to the first line with Trottier and Mike Bossy.
Opposing coaches had to pick their poison. Four years later, the Islanders had won four straight Stanley Cups.
No one should get the idea that Sean Avery, whom the Rangers obtained from the Kings last Monday, is another Goring. No one should reserve the Canyon of Heroes for the next four Junes.
But the acquisition of Avery, who, come to think of it, does have the same kind of scruffy, dead-end kid look Goring brought to the Island, has allowed Tom Renney to diversify a lineup that had been way too top-heavy. And at the same time, it has given Jaromir Jagr the kind of peace of mind Goring's acquisition gave Trottier.
"I think Tommy was waiting for someone with Avery's skill to switch things around," Jagr said in the aftermath of Saturday's 5-2 victory in Washington. "Not to say anything bad about anyone on the team, but until now it was one line plus Shanny [Brendan Shanahan].
"Now, our line has been split up, younger guys are getting more of a chance and we're harder to play against. We were all waiting for something. That trade was a signal."
The "one line plus Shanny" to which Jagr referred was the first line of himself, Michael Nylander in the middle and Martin Straka on the left, with Shanahan all but adrift on the second line.
But now Jagr skates with Martin Straka in the middle and Marcel Hossa. Shanahan plays with Nylander and Avery. Matt Cullen, who played the point last season for the Cup champion Hurricanes, has now been given that assignment on a second PP unit Renney only formed upon the acquisition of Avery.
Again, no one should anticipate Avery hoisting the Conn Smythe the way Goring did in 1981, but two-thirds of the way into the season, roles are better defined and responsibilities are dispersed.
"I know I have to play very [well] for us to win, but now I don't feel that I have to do everything all the time," Jagr said. "Playing with Marcel is great; I love it.
"He is so strong on the boards, I don't have to help there. I can do other things when he's controlling the puck."
Jagr does not have a braggart's bone in his body. His words should never be translated to be read as selfish. He is, however, realistic regarding expectations. And he knows in this NHL, no one individual can do it all.
"When I stay on the ice for two minutes on a power play, it's because I think the team needs me to do it," said Jagr, who has recorded 69 points (21-48) in 56 games. "But now, switching to two units on the PP where Shanny and Sean are on the other one, I know I don't have to stay out for two minutes, and that helps everyone.
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Dupuis wants to get his story straight
BY STEVE ZIPAY
Newsday Staff Writer
February 12, 2007
According to Pascal Dupuis, the reports that his falling-out with the Wild began when he left a mid-December practice - and that he's primarily a defensive player - are greatly exaggerated.
"I know what you're going to ask. Let me put that straight," Dupuis, a left wing acquired by the Rangers for Adam Hall on Thursday, said after his first skate with the team yesterday.
"We came back from the road from a seven-day road trip and I was sick on the road, getting IVs before the games and stuff. I lost seven pounds on the trip," said Dupuis, 27. "We flew in at night and played home the next day [Dec. 19], and 10 minutes into the morning skate, Jacques [Lemaire, the coach] said, 'The guys that's had enough right now, you can take off, or just stay and we'll have a good practice and leave at the end.' So I was sick and figured I'd keep my energy for that night, so I left. Obviously, the media didn't take it like that. But it was no big deal in the room. Jacques didn't mention anything about that. Three guys left: me, Wes Walz and Brian Rolston."
Nonetheless, the reports were that Lemaire was annoyed, and on Jan. 14, sources told the Minnesota papers that the Wild was shopping Dupuis to all 29 other teams. Dupuis, an unrestricted free agent this summer, acknowledged that part yesterday. "It's a shock, but in the last month or so, there were rumors of me moving," he said.
Hall, meanwhile, hadn't lived up to expectations with the Rangers, and the deal was cut.
Dupuis, a native of Laval, Quebec, doesn't want to be labeled as strictly a defensive player and took a swipe at his former coach. "I can score, too. I scored 20 goals two years ago," said Dupuis, who had 67 goals and 74 assists in 323 games with the Wild. "Came back after the lockout and they tried to change me a little, to more of a defensive player. I was still playing a lot, just a different role, playing every PK, five-on-four, five-on-three ... I was out there sometimes on the power play, too, just when the other guys weren't going, kind of like punishment for the other guys and something to me. But [Lemaire] made sure he told me, 'Go stand in front of the net,' and I didn't understand why."
Asked if the role was an outgrowth of Lemaire's defense-first mindset, Dupuis smiled and said: "But as a player, he was a one-way offensive player ... before he got too slow to play the game."
Essentially, speed is what Rangers coach Tom Renney is looking for from the 6-foot, 200-pound Dupuis, whom he envisions as a third-liner and penalty-killer. "Speed's the name of the game now. I'm not judge and jury for whatever happened back then," Renney said. "We expect that coming from the system he has, he'll be a real sound defensive player, and that's always, for me, a real good foundation. If he's able to create some offense for us, bring some speed to our game and help us in our attack ... I don't want to say that's a bonus, because some of that is an expectation."
Thursday
Rangers at Carolina
7 p.m.
TV: MSG
Radio: WEPN (1050)
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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."
X Man, were these during pre- pregame skates ?
there are no people there yet !
I like all the menus visible in the club-seat-drink-holders .
nothing like the garden .
thanks for sharing, you need to tone your photographing skills dude- if you want to bring me to a game with you i can help you out with that !
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yep, they were during the pregame warmups. there are people there, but not any right behind the boards. the coolest thing is going by where the visiting team comes out under the stands and watching them all interact with each other before getting ready to come out.
I'm still working on that tone thing, but I think for an amateur, they're somewhat decent..
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."
yep, they were during the pregame warmups. there are people there, but not any right behind the boards. the coolest thing is going by where the visiting team comes out under the stands and watching them all interact with each other before getting ready to come out.
I'm still working on that tone thing, but I think for an amateur, they're somewhat decent..
are these on your cell phone , or a digi- cam ?
i was on joking- the photos are super- especially from your unique vantage point.
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digital camara, you should check the ones from yosemite on that page. i'm very proud of those ones.
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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."
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Rangers' practice facility smells like team spirit
By JOSH THOMSON
THE JOURNAL NEWS
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GREENBURGH - Stand at the finish line of a marathon and grab a pair of socks from one of the runners. Roll them in mud and douse them with water. Hang the two sweaty, soiled, damp pieces of fabric somewhere with absolutely no ventilation until they turn stiff as a board.
Then, and perhaps only then, can you begin to duplicate the one-of-a-kind smell that hangs in the stale air of a hockey dressing room, the most rank place in all of sports. Gloves, shoulder pads, helmets - it doesn't matter - each piece of equipment grows equally foul during the course of a long season and conspires in creating the oppressive stink.
Somehow, Acacio "Cass" Marques has gotten used to the smell. Of course, how else could someone work 14-, 15-, 16-hour days, seven days a week, surrounded by it unless the smell has ceased to register with his senses?
"I don't even notice it," Marques said, and then he smiled.
For Marques and James "Beets" Johnson, a hockey dressing room is hardly something to turn their noses up at. As the Rangers' head and assistant equipment managers, both said the positives far outweigh the negatives in what might be the downright smelliest job in sports.
"When you really love what you do, it doesn't matter," Marques, a Mount Vernon native and Harrison resident, said last week from inside his office at the Madison Square Garden Training Center. "We really have fun here."
Marques, who ran the equipment shop at the Playland Ice Casino before joining the Rangers, and Johnson, a native of northern Minnesota who played college hockey, have work space that extends beyond the team's dressing rooms at the training center and inside the bowels of the Garden.
In fact, their territory in Greenburgh amounts to your average garage workshop loaded with toys, crossed with what must be the most well-stocked hockey store this side of the Bauer factory. Behind the various doors and fenced-in lockers lies a fascinating look inside a professional hockey team.
Before one practice last week, Marques - who relishes finding new ways to fix equipment - sharpened skate blades at one end of the room (the "skate shop") as bleary-eyed players trickled by on their way for some pre-skate breakfast. At the other end, Johnson - a meticulous packer of uniforms and rapid consumer of coffee - was on the sewing machine. He had to repair the torn belt loops inside the shorts of recently traded forward Adam Hall.
Tasks such as these are among the reasons why the men work four or five hours before practice starts and leave long after players have finished their day's work.
"You want them to walk in the room and just have to worry about hockey," Johnson said.
Beyond the daily repairs, Marques, Johnson and members of the team's training staff must pack and unpack, order and reorder, and juggle all that with the immediate needs of their players, which invariably come first.
Some, like fourth-line center Blair Betts, will grab a tool or a fresh pair of shoelaces and do their own repairs, while others need constant attention to fix minute details. Jaromir Jagr, for instance, takes great care in learning the nuances of his equipment. He'll linger as Marques sharpens his skates, asking questions like a surgical intern.
"Some guys want to know everything you're doing to their equipment," Marques said.
Left wing Sean Avery - one of the newest Rangers - remembered former Detroit teammate Brett Hull, considered one of the more laid-back players in the league during his playing days, constantly tweaking his equipment until it fit his body and his game perfectly.
"You get a little spoiled as you get older with all the gear," Avery said. "When you're young, you'd use somebody else's gloves to play."
Avery should know. Even though the equipment room stores hundreds upon hundreds of backup gloves, sticks, helmets, jerseys, socks - even jocks - in its space at the training center, Avery began his Rangers career using misfit gloves. He must wear a custom-fit glove because he has unusually short fingers, and the Rangers' equipment team didn't have the perfect pair in its supply.
Consider that an anomaly. The stash must have a dozen of everything - probably enough to outfit 100 or more extra players - and gets more deliveries every day. As he spoke, Marques fiddled with a BlackBerry and his e-mail on a laptop, knowing constant adjustments are made with his inventory.
"And I still have to catch up on expenses from our last road trip," he said.
But despite all the gear, the very back of the equipment room holds the secret to why the Rangers' dressing room is palatable to the untrained nose.
Behind an otherwise nondescript door labeled "Equipment Drying Room" lies a place that acts as a hair dryer the size of a two-story-high dining room. In it, staff members can hang and dry the Rangers' game-worn gear, which, in addition to their tireless efforts, is why the distinct "hockey smell" isn't so dominant in Rangerland.
It is among their many tricks.
"You have to give credit to those guys," Betts said. "Sometimes I think they sleep here at night after games if we have practice the next day. They're definitely a big part of this team."
"Most teams have great guys who are real committed to it," said Brendan Shanahan, a 20-year veteran, "but these guys are the best."
The 38-year-old left wing experienced the equipment team's expertise just last week when a bolt holding his skate blade in place snapped during a game in New Jersey. The blade detached from the boot, and Shanahan was forced from the ice during overtime.
Marques took him to the locker room and changed his skates, returning Shanahan to the ice after missing only 57 seconds of game action - just in time for a Rangers power play.
The staff's efforts were all the talk on MSG and impressed Shanahan, who'd never seen an equipment malfunction like that in his career.
"Incredible," Shanahan said. "When I got back there, there were three guys running around getting me stuff just so I could get back on the ice."
And in those moments, an equipment manager's job does not stink.
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the guy that made the schedule should be hung somewhere amongst the # 1 , # 11 , and # 35 banners :rolleyes:
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hahahaha
awesome !
hey now- all we need is 30 more of these this season,.... :rolleyes: :eek:
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shoot the puck Marcel !
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can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
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Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
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Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
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Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
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can do. I don't go and say,
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Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
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Fenway 2, 2018
MSG 2022
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Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
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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
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
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can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
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Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
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Fenway 2, 2018
MSG 2022
St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
MSG 2024, MSG 2024
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"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
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can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
HAHA I SAID THE SAME who cares ,, the game is more important
anyway another solid effort ,, maybe hossa is a star??? lol
its nice standing up for each other ,its about frickin time we fought
CONGRATS TO JAGR
and the fuckin boards?? wtf?
but i've been saying that Hossas about to break out anyday now.
I guess the more games that are played, the law of probabilities are increased, so no big out on a limb predictions there. Plus, he's been out there with Jagr, so that has to be the reason that he is now flourishing, cuz everytime Jags is on the puck , the opposition has 2 or 3 guys on him instantly.
Wow- 2 in a row .
I guess its a start .
the hard part is waiting 5 days till the next game to give way to the canines down at the Garden . :eek:
this is bad because the increased time interupts the momentum that theyve built up the last 2 days/games,...
.......the waiting drove me mad,...."
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even if this turns out to be true,
what we need to hear is who the Rs are offering in such deals,....
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can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
TAKES SHOT WITH NEW ADS
By DENIS GORMAN
Click to enlargeFebruary 11, 2007 -- Nearly two years after a season-long work stoppage nearly killed the sport and 12 months after a spike in interest greeted hockey's return, the National Hockey League is battling to turn around tepid interest at the turnstile and unimpressive TV ratings.
Two week's after the NHL drew an anemic 0.7 rating for its All-Star game, the country's No. 4 sports league is amping up a marketing campaign that attempts not to explain the game or showcase the talents of its players, but rather to show its highest-wattage stars as normal people - who happen to be good, very good, at playing hockey.
The league kicks its campaign up a notch this week with two new spots - just as NBC's coverage settles into the playoff push.
The spots show the players in some hotel high jinks - calling in a bogus room service order for a rival player in a room down the hall, engaging in hallway luggage cart races, pillow fights and dropping water balloons out a window.
Earlier campaigns - some of which didn't even feature players - failed to attract the casual fan to the tube or the rink. The Devils, among the NHL's elite teams, draw just 14,230 fans a game, off 3 percent from last season. The Islanders, in contention for a playoff berth, skate in front of an average 12,609 fans, down 4 percent from a year ago.
The Rangers are the exception, selling out their games as they do most years.
Credit Brendan Shanahan of the Rangers for coming up with the idea for showing the players as real people - and the NHL for running with it.
"This year is all about the players," Bernadette Mansur, an NHL executive, told The Post, adding that people, specifically young urban professionals, weigh heavily in the NHL's marketing plans.
To be sure, the NHL's channel on YouTube has been a hit. But for Mansur and the rest of the NHL, selling more tickets and getting higher ratings have so far proven elusive.
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LOL
hope some of the NYR are in on this too.
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hey, i know the guy that wrote the article...
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great piece !
hey , if you havent seen this commercial with the Sedin Twins of Vancuver, check it out.
I hope some NYR did some of these spots.
too f'n funny.
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AVERY GIVES BLUESHIRTS FLEXIBILITY
By LARRY BROOKS
HOLDING ON: The Caps might have found a way to slow down Sean Avery Saturday, but the acquisition of the gritty winger allows the Rangers to put together more potent line combinations.February 12, 2007 -- When the Islanders acquired Butch Goring from the Kings with a dozen games to go in the 1979-80 sea son, that allowed Al Arbour to diversify a lineup that had been too top-heavy and thus too easy to shut down the previ ous two playoff seasons.
With Goring slotted in the middle behind Bryan Trottier, Arbour shifted Clark Gillies off the first line onto a second unit with No. 91 and Duane Sutter. Bobby Bourne moved up to the first line with Trottier and Mike Bossy.
Opposing coaches had to pick their poison. Four years later, the Islanders had won four straight Stanley Cups.
No one should get the idea that Sean Avery, whom the Rangers obtained from the Kings last Monday, is another Goring. No one should reserve the Canyon of Heroes for the next four Junes.
But the acquisition of Avery, who, come to think of it, does have the same kind of scruffy, dead-end kid look Goring brought to the Island, has allowed Tom Renney to diversify a lineup that had been way too top-heavy. And at the same time, it has given Jaromir Jagr the kind of peace of mind Goring's acquisition gave Trottier.
"I think Tommy was waiting for someone with Avery's skill to switch things around," Jagr said in the aftermath of Saturday's 5-2 victory in Washington. "Not to say anything bad about anyone on the team, but until now it was one line plus Shanny [Brendan Shanahan].
"Now, our line has been split up, younger guys are getting more of a chance and we're harder to play against. We were all waiting for something. That trade was a signal."
The "one line plus Shanny" to which Jagr referred was the first line of himself, Michael Nylander in the middle and Martin Straka on the left, with Shanahan all but adrift on the second line.
But now Jagr skates with Martin Straka in the middle and Marcel Hossa. Shanahan plays with Nylander and Avery. Matt Cullen, who played the point last season for the Cup champion Hurricanes, has now been given that assignment on a second PP unit Renney only formed upon the acquisition of Avery.
Again, no one should anticipate Avery hoisting the Conn Smythe the way Goring did in 1981, but two-thirds of the way into the season, roles are better defined and responsibilities are dispersed.
"I know I have to play very [well] for us to win, but now I don't feel that I have to do everything all the time," Jagr said. "Playing with Marcel is great; I love it.
"He is so strong on the boards, I don't have to help there. I can do other things when he's controlling the puck."
Jagr does not have a braggart's bone in his body. His words should never be translated to be read as selfish. He is, however, realistic regarding expectations. And he knows in this NHL, no one individual can do it all.
"When I stay on the ice for two minutes on a power play, it's because I think the team needs me to do it," said Jagr, who has recorded 69 points (21-48) in 56 games. "But now, switching to two units on the PP where Shanny and Sean are on the other one, I know I don't have to stay out for two minutes, and that helps everyone.
"Now I don't have to worry."
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still 3 days to go,....
the waiting drove me mad
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BY STEVE ZIPAY
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February 12, 2007
According to Pascal Dupuis, the reports that his falling-out with the Wild began when he left a mid-December practice - and that he's primarily a defensive player - are greatly exaggerated.
"I know what you're going to ask. Let me put that straight," Dupuis, a left wing acquired by the Rangers for Adam Hall on Thursday, said after his first skate with the team yesterday.
"We came back from the road from a seven-day road trip and I was sick on the road, getting IVs before the games and stuff. I lost seven pounds on the trip," said Dupuis, 27. "We flew in at night and played home the next day [Dec. 19], and 10 minutes into the morning skate, Jacques [Lemaire, the coach] said, 'The guys that's had enough right now, you can take off, or just stay and we'll have a good practice and leave at the end.' So I was sick and figured I'd keep my energy for that night, so I left. Obviously, the media didn't take it like that. But it was no big deal in the room. Jacques didn't mention anything about that. Three guys left: me, Wes Walz and Brian Rolston."
Nonetheless, the reports were that Lemaire was annoyed, and on Jan. 14, sources told the Minnesota papers that the Wild was shopping Dupuis to all 29 other teams. Dupuis, an unrestricted free agent this summer, acknowledged that part yesterday. "It's a shock, but in the last month or so, there were rumors of me moving," he said.
Hall, meanwhile, hadn't lived up to expectations with the Rangers, and the deal was cut.
Dupuis, a native of Laval, Quebec, doesn't want to be labeled as strictly a defensive player and took a swipe at his former coach. "I can score, too. I scored 20 goals two years ago," said Dupuis, who had 67 goals and 74 assists in 323 games with the Wild. "Came back after the lockout and they tried to change me a little, to more of a defensive player. I was still playing a lot, just a different role, playing every PK, five-on-four, five-on-three ... I was out there sometimes on the power play, too, just when the other guys weren't going, kind of like punishment for the other guys and something to me. But [Lemaire] made sure he told me, 'Go stand in front of the net,' and I didn't understand why."
Asked if the role was an outgrowth of Lemaire's defense-first mindset, Dupuis smiled and said: "But as a player, he was a one-way offensive player ... before he got too slow to play the game."
Essentially, speed is what Rangers coach Tom Renney is looking for from the 6-foot, 200-pound Dupuis, whom he envisions as a third-liner and penalty-killer. "Speed's the name of the game now. I'm not judge and jury for whatever happened back then," Renney said. "We expect that coming from the system he has, he'll be a real sound defensive player, and that's always, for me, a real good foundation. If he's able to create some offense for us, bring some speed to our game and help us in our attack ... I don't want to say that's a bonus, because some of that is an expectation."
Thursday
Rangers at Carolina
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Let's just hope that when they finally get there, they're not a mess!
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X Man, were these during pre- pregame skates ?
there are no people there yet !
I like all the menus visible in the club-seat-drink-holders .
nothing like the garden .
thanks for sharing, you need to tone your photographing skills dude- if you want to bring me to a game with you i can help you out with that !
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I'm still working on that tone thing, but I think for an amateur, they're somewhat decent..
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Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
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are these on your cell phone , or a digi- cam ?
i was on joking- the photos are super- especially from your unique vantage point.
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Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
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Rangers' practice facility smells like team spirit
By JOSH THOMSON
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GREENBURGH - Stand at the finish line of a marathon and grab a pair of socks from one of the runners. Roll them in mud and douse them with water. Hang the two sweaty, soiled, damp pieces of fabric somewhere with absolutely no ventilation until they turn stiff as a board.
Then, and perhaps only then, can you begin to duplicate the one-of-a-kind smell that hangs in the stale air of a hockey dressing room, the most rank place in all of sports. Gloves, shoulder pads, helmets - it doesn't matter - each piece of equipment grows equally foul during the course of a long season and conspires in creating the oppressive stink.
Somehow, Acacio "Cass" Marques has gotten used to the smell. Of course, how else could someone work 14-, 15-, 16-hour days, seven days a week, surrounded by it unless the smell has ceased to register with his senses?
"I don't even notice it," Marques said, and then he smiled.
For Marques and James "Beets" Johnson, a hockey dressing room is hardly something to turn their noses up at. As the Rangers' head and assistant equipment managers, both said the positives far outweigh the negatives in what might be the downright smelliest job in sports.
"When you really love what you do, it doesn't matter," Marques, a Mount Vernon native and Harrison resident, said last week from inside his office at the Madison Square Garden Training Center. "We really have fun here."
Marques, who ran the equipment shop at the Playland Ice Casino before joining the Rangers, and Johnson, a native of northern Minnesota who played college hockey, have work space that extends beyond the team's dressing rooms at the training center and inside the bowels of the Garden.
In fact, their territory in Greenburgh amounts to your average garage workshop loaded with toys, crossed with what must be the most well-stocked hockey store this side of the Bauer factory. Behind the various doors and fenced-in lockers lies a fascinating look inside a professional hockey team.
Before one practice last week, Marques - who relishes finding new ways to fix equipment - sharpened skate blades at one end of the room (the "skate shop") as bleary-eyed players trickled by on their way for some pre-skate breakfast. At the other end, Johnson - a meticulous packer of uniforms and rapid consumer of coffee - was on the sewing machine. He had to repair the torn belt loops inside the shorts of recently traded forward Adam Hall.
Tasks such as these are among the reasons why the men work four or five hours before practice starts and leave long after players have finished their day's work.
"You want them to walk in the room and just have to worry about hockey," Johnson said.
Beyond the daily repairs, Marques, Johnson and members of the team's training staff must pack and unpack, order and reorder, and juggle all that with the immediate needs of their players, which invariably come first.
Some, like fourth-line center Blair Betts, will grab a tool or a fresh pair of shoelaces and do their own repairs, while others need constant attention to fix minute details. Jaromir Jagr, for instance, takes great care in learning the nuances of his equipment. He'll linger as Marques sharpens his skates, asking questions like a surgical intern.
"Some guys want to know everything you're doing to their equipment," Marques said.
Left wing Sean Avery - one of the newest Rangers - remembered former Detroit teammate Brett Hull, considered one of the more laid-back players in the league during his playing days, constantly tweaking his equipment until it fit his body and his game perfectly.
"You get a little spoiled as you get older with all the gear," Avery said. "When you're young, you'd use somebody else's gloves to play."
Avery should know. Even though the equipment room stores hundreds upon hundreds of backup gloves, sticks, helmets, jerseys, socks - even jocks - in its space at the training center, Avery began his Rangers career using misfit gloves. He must wear a custom-fit glove because he has unusually short fingers, and the Rangers' equipment team didn't have the perfect pair in its supply.
Consider that an anomaly. The stash must have a dozen of everything - probably enough to outfit 100 or more extra players - and gets more deliveries every day. As he spoke, Marques fiddled with a BlackBerry and his e-mail on a laptop, knowing constant adjustments are made with his inventory.
"And I still have to catch up on expenses from our last road trip," he said.
But despite all the gear, the very back of the equipment room holds the secret to why the Rangers' dressing room is palatable to the untrained nose.
Behind an otherwise nondescript door labeled "Equipment Drying Room" lies a place that acts as a hair dryer the size of a two-story-high dining room. In it, staff members can hang and dry the Rangers' game-worn gear, which, in addition to their tireless efforts, is why the distinct "hockey smell" isn't so dominant in Rangerland.
It is among their many tricks.
"You have to give credit to those guys," Betts said. "Sometimes I think they sleep here at night after games if we have practice the next day. They're definitely a big part of this team."
"Most teams have great guys who are real committed to it," said Brendan Shanahan, a 20-year veteran, "but these guys are the best."
The 38-year-old left wing experienced the equipment team's expertise just last week when a bolt holding his skate blade in place snapped during a game in New Jersey. The blade detached from the boot, and Shanahan was forced from the ice during overtime.
Marques took him to the locker room and changed his skates, returning Shanahan to the ice after missing only 57 seconds of game action - just in time for a Rangers power play.
The staff's efforts were all the talk on MSG and impressed Shanahan, who'd never seen an equipment malfunction like that in his career.
"Incredible," Shanahan said. "When I got back there, there were three guys running around getting me stuff just so I could get back on the ice."
And in those moments, an equipment manager's job does not stink.
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five day break bath ,, like the team lol
this blows
the guy that made the schedule should be hung somewhere amongst the # 1 , # 11 , and # 35 banners :rolleyes:
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