I liked that play where Crosby scored in the shootout.
it was luck
1 point better then no points.
still 3 more with this team , who we match up with pretty good last night .
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TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE and all shorthanded goals again
fuckin joke,, FIRE SATHER NOW and start over
not only that , but we have been matching up with Pitts very good- i think ALL 1 goal decisions- no " ass-kicking " there,... .
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Fleury was well out and beyond his goalcrease, if anything, he interfered with Betts . Of course, the NYR get called for the penalty, and that leads to a goal for the Penguins . wtf ? simply horrible call .
I think someone needs to sit down with henrik and have a serious serious conversation about STAYING PUT IN THE BLUE OF YOUR CREASE . :cool: :cool:
History tells us , something bad always happens when he goes out and tries playing the puck . Henrk we love you and all , but we love you inside the net . :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
the shootout was horrible. Nylander didnt even get his shot off , so right off the bat Pitts gets 3 shots, we are only looking at 2 . :eek: , Jagr decides " I have to..." ( instead of I want to ) - and to take the cake , we shot first ?!?!?!?!?!? . Am I alone here ? , when youre the home team , and you're in a shootout , let the other team go first please , what the fuck ?
yet another 2 goal lead blown, yet another 1 goal loss, another home loss to add to an already attrocious ( and quite embarrasing ) home record .
the mathematics will only be on our side for so long,.......
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Fleury was well out and beyond his goalcrease, if anything, he interfered with Betts . Of course, the NYR get called for the penalty, and that leads to a goal for the Penguins . wtf ? simply horrible call .
I think someone needs to sit down with henrik and have a serious serious conversation about STAYING PUT IN THE BLUE OF YOUR CREASE . :cool: :cool:
History tells us , something bad always happens when he goes out and tries playing the puck . Henrk we love you and all , but we love you inside the net . :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
the shootout was horrible. Nylander didnt even get his shot off , so right off the bat Pitts gets 3 shots, we are only looking at 2 . :eek: , Jagr decides " I have to..." ( instead of I want to ) - and to take the cake , we shot first ?!?!?!?!?!? . Am I alone here ? , when youre the home team , and you're in a shootout , let the other team go first please , what the fuck ?
yet another 2 goal lead blown, yet another 1 goal loss, another home loss to add to an already attrocious ( and quite embarrasing ) home record .
the mathematics will only be on our side for so long,.......
i turned on the B's
was like "oh wow... overtime... this will be cool to see the shootout"
was like "oh wow... overtime... this will be cool to see the shootout"
literally 7 seconds later
uh oh... that long rebound could be trouble
GOAL!!!!
oops
dude ;
thats the flyers.
your Bruins should have wiped the ice up with them :eek:
shootouts are exciting
theyre really good ( when your team wins the extra point )
you feel really empty when you lose. :( :( :(
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RETURN OF J.D. FULL OF INTRIGUE
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March 2, 2007 -- AS POLITICAL intrigues go, it ain't the Pentagon Papers. But nothing that happens at Cablevision Square Garden should or can be taken at face value.
The St. Louis Blues, under the presidency of John Davidson, are in to play the Rangers tomorrow afternoon, and The Garden is expected to do something to salute Davidson's return. One can expect a pre-game, on-ice ceremony.
And why not? Davidson was a Rangers goalie for eight years, then spent 20 years working Rangers games on MSG Network. And his departure from The Garden last year was amicable. Unlike Marv Albert, he was not fired. He left to become president of the Blues.
But that's where it gets sticky; that's where Davidson has sinned. The Blues are owned by SCP Worldwide, co-founded and headed by Dave Checketts, a former Garden president under Jim Dolan. Checketts was yet another Garden exec who no longer could indulge, let alone figure out, the Cablevision way.
Checketts was not amicably cast from the Garden of Dolan.
And so, for what it's worth, yet another weird, Dolan-ized dynamic will be at work tomorrow in the Garden. On one hand, Davidson is likely to be graciously welcomed - on the surface. On the other hand, the one that likely will be held out of sight, Davidson, as a Checketts hire, is considered an enemy agent.
It's the kind of intrigue that grows like crabgrass in The Garden of Dolan. And tracking it helps kill time as the Rangers and Knicks again are counted out.
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Analytical Debate
I spend a considerable amount of time browsing the various Ranger messageboards, blogs, and webites, and as you would imagine there has been much debate on whether or not the Rangers can make the postseason. The arguments range from severe pessimism to ridiculous optimism.
For me, it's hard to engage in any real debate about the Rangers making the playoffs when the team blows third period leads, gives up multiple short handed goals during games, and loses to weaker opposition such as the Flyers and Blue Jackets. I just can't have any hope when the team is unable to win on a consistent basis on Madison Square Garden ice.
It is unimgainable to me how the Blueshirts will be able to compete with teams like the Penguins and Islanders when players like Brendan Shanahan, Martin Straka, Fedor Tyutin, and yes even Kevin Weekes are hurting and unavailable to perform.
Next you have the Blues, who are 7-2-1 in their last 10, 21-8-3 in their last 32, and who are coming off of a nice win over the Isles. Will it be another Saturday meltdown for the Rangers?
NY Post: The Rangers - down two of their four best players, Brendan Shanahan and Martin Straka - are digging down, actually playing some of their most determined hockey of the season. Despite their spirited play, they are still continuing to dig their own grave.
NY Daily News: The point the Rangers earned for getting into overtime pulled them within five of idle Montreal, which has played two more games. But after blowing a two-goal third-period lead for the fourth time this season - and losing key defenseman Fedor Tyutin to a knee injury in the process - the Rangers were more absorbed with the point lost.
The Journal News: It's a sad reality when the Rangers cough up a two-goal third- period lead and the first reaction is it could have been worse. And yet that's the case for a team that has squandered similar leads of late and not even managed a single point.
NY Newsday: With 67 points, the Rangers inched within five of the last playoff spot, but they needed two and got only one. "It depends on the way you look at it," Jagr said. "Every point is important and can be huge at the end of the season. On the other hand, when you have a 2-0 lead after the second period, we just didn't finish. We just have to learn."
Newsday again: Paul Mara received two important phone calls in Boston on Tuesday morning. One was from his older brother Rob, telling him that he would be an uncle again because his wife had twin daughters. The second was a jolt, too; he had been shipped from the Bruins to the Rangers. "It was a bigger shock for him," Mara said. "They had twins and I got traded."
Coverage from NY Sports Day.
The Rodent shows his slightly more optimistic side.
Al Montoya was named AHL goaltender of the month. I don't want to hurt the Pack here in their stretch run, but does anyone else feel Montoya might be able to help Henrik out a bit here?
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wow- i knew they would talk to henrik , but at this point benching him ?
thats pretty shocking.
these saturday afternoon / weekend matinees are just horrible.
Right smack in the middle of my towns St Paddys Day parade.
oh well.
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still feel differently? guy played good and lundqvist needed a break, especially with the islanders coming in Monday.
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still feel differently? guy played good and lundqvist needed a break, especially with the islanders coming in Monday.
didnt say i disagreed / agreed- just that it was shocking .
i was shocked to see him get the start , and then after St Louis scored within the first few minutes, i was like , " oh no " ....
definitely agree that henrik needed a break - ( is weekes ever coming back ? theres NO talk of him, anywhere , anytime )
we all know we need 2 good goalies to go deep into the playoffs.
how about jagr shooting / scoring in the shootout. sounded like the Garden erupted at that point.
is it a pre-requisite to be an NHL GM to let your hair go gray ? JD looks like he's aged 10-=15 years since becoming GM.
and who knew Sam Rosens wife could carry a tune like that ! fuckin' a !
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The Rangers thus go miraculously from a near-death experience to suddenly having a reason to head into their upcoming home and home series against the Islanders with renewed hope and momentum. Just as today's crowd went from disgust to delight in a matter of minutes, the Rangers have one last chance, one last gasp, to turn their disappointing season around, and with so many teams stumbling through their playoff pushes*, hope remains real. All that really stands in the Rangers' way are the Rangers themselves. They have reached this juncture too often and have stumbled each time -- there is no reason to believe that this time will be any different.
But then, reason has had little to do with the Rangers' season thus far.
* Since February 8th, the Rangers are, surprisingly, 6-3-2, compared to Atlanta's 3-5-1, Carolina's 5-5-0, Montreal's 4-9-0, and Toronto's 4-5-3 in that same time. Even the hot teams -- Islanders at 7-2-2, Tampa at 7-3-2, and Pittsburgh at 7-4-0 during that span -- have gained no more than two points or fewer on the Rangers.
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the NYR facing NYI in a very important home and home.
these games are ginormous.
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Anybody read todays NY Daily News story, about Dolan and Checketts? Maybe I'll get back into hockey when Dolan gets tired of his toy, the NY Rangers, and sells them
Anybody read todays NY Daily News story, about Dolan and Checketts? Maybe I'll get back into hockey when Dolan gets tired of his toy, the NY Rangers, and sells them
Anybody read todays NY Daily News story, about Dolan and Checketts? Maybe I'll get back into hockey when Dolan gets tired of his toy, the NY Rangers, and sells them
He sits on a bench outside a Starbucks near 49th and Park, maybe 45 minutes after his new team, the St. Louis Blues, has blown a two-goal lead in the third period against the Rangers and finally loses, 3-2, in a shootout, handing the Rangers a huge and dramatic win. Dave Checketts, who owns the Blues now, still considers the day a partial victory. He has managed to get through an entire afternoon at the Garden, which he ran once, ran in much better times than these, without being thrown out of the place.
His team is struggling the way the Rangers are, just with about half the payroll. Still: You take points where you get them, even if you had to buy seats for your people off the Internet because the Garden refused to sell them any.
Checketts is here at the Starbucks with his wife and his son Andrew, his son in a Blues jersey. Checketts had been asked where his partner, Mike McCarthy, who worked 23 years at the Garden and finally ran the network there, sat for yesterday's game.
"Right behind the glass," Checketts said, then brightened and said, "StubHub.com!"
The Blues were not just in for a hockey game yesterday. It was more of an event than that, because the Garden did find it in its corporate heart to honor another former Cablevision employee, John Davidson. They brought J.D. out on the ice yesterday and he was cheered by the crowd, even if there was no speech. Maybe they were afraid he was going to say something nice about Checketts, who hired him to run the Blues.
See, here is what James Dolan told a representative of Checketts' not long ago, when the Blues were trying to get tickets for yesterday's game, and the ceremony honoring Davidson.
Dolan told the guy: "I may have (Checketts) escorted out of the building."
Dolan doesn't talk to Checketts anymore. But Dolan said what he said and he knows he did. Maybe he will try to say it was a joke now, but that would involve something resembling a sense of humor, about himself or anything else.
You want to know the difference between the Garden that Checketts ran and the one Dolan runs? It is this. It is silliness and pettiness like this.
The people running the place now are as small as the puck on the ice, worried as much about the media and settling scores as they are about real scores.
"I suppose it would be easier for (Dolan) to be gracious," Checketts said, "if he were having more success."
Believe me: You don't have to think Checketts was the best sports executive in history, and you can talk about the salary cap problems for the Knicks he left behind when Dolan got rid of him, thinking it was ordained by family and the stars that it was his time to run the Garden. You bet Checketts is the one who hired Glen Sather and traded Patrick Ewing at the end.
But in the 11 years that he ran the Knicks, during years when a Knicks ticket once again became as hot a ticket as there was in town, they played 135 playoff games and won 72 of them and went to the NBA Finals twice and had 460 straight sellouts. And I can assure you that no Knicks season-ticket holder in those years got the kind of E-mail that some got this past week, telling them that there were $10 tickets available for select games coming up in March. Checketts had an understanding of the place, why it is supposed to matter, more than Dolan has or will ever have, and a waiting list for Knicks season tickets with 10,000 names on it.
Even when the Rangers started to fade on Checketts' watch, they could do something that the team has not done since Dolan became the official big boss of the place: That means win a single playoff game. Despite having the largest payroll in the sport over the past six seasons. You think Dolan isn't rooting for his man Isiah Thomas to get the Knicks into the playoffs and at least get him on the board? Or for the Rangers to build on the kind of win they got off Checketts' team yesterday?
Dolan needs some points on the board. If he doesn't get any, this continues to be an almost epic period of postseason failure at Madison Square Garden, six seasons, two famous teams, not a single playoff victory between them. That we are even talking this way shows you how low the bar is set there now.
So, anyway, Checketts' people went to StubHub to get tickets yesterday and to the Rangers' own Web site, and got more help from Anheuser-Busch, which is of course a St. Louis company, the company in a company town. Checketts' family sat in those seats. He got no help from the Garden, where they are sure that Checketts was the source of so many mean things said about Dolan in a recent Sports Illustrated profile done by S.L. Price.
So the cost of doing business with Dolan now is StubHub.com.
Dolan runs the place the way he does and then there is the way it was run in the '90s. After Checketts became president of the Garden, he wasn't just running the Knicks. The Rangers' playoff record was 18-18 and that doesn't seem like much, unless you measure it against what Rangers fans have seen lately, which is one four-game sweep by the Devils in the first round of the playoffs last year. "(Dolan) insists on keeping the bad blood alive," Checketts said.
The place runs on it now.
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Madison Square Garden rolled out the red carpet yesterday for John Davidson. A suite was set aside for his family, gifts were bestowed and a pregame ceremony was held to honor the former Rangers goaltender and broadcaster's return to the building for the first time since leaving last summer to become president of the St. Louis Blues.
Dave Checketts wasn't welcomed back quite as warmly.
Checketts, the former Garden president who is now owner and chairman of the Blues, former Garden general counsel Kenneth Munoz and former MSG Network president Mike McCarthy said they were told they weren't welcome in the building, would not be permitted to enter the Davidson suite and could not buy extra tickets to yesterday's Rangers-Blues game.
"For some reason, we're not welcome,"McCarthy said, making his way to his seats with his teenage son. The reason, according to sources on both sides, was that the long-strained relationship between Checketts and Garden chairman James Dolan has become downright hostile since last summer. That was when Checketts and the Blues attempted to hire one or more Garden employees, angering Dolan.
According to one source, Dolan told one of Checketts' associates that he would consider escorting him out of the building if he attempted to attend the game.
A Garden spokesman agreed that no special consideration was given to Checketts and his group but denied that the Blues' ownership was denied standard treatment. Davidson was feted on the ice and provided with the suite for friends and family because of his connection to Rangers fans and because he left the Garden amicably.
"We gave Dave and the Blues owners the same treatment any other owners would receive,"Garden VP Barry Watkins said. "We didn't revoke anything. As far as anything above and beyond that, they were able to purchase tickets just like anyone else."
That left Checketts, the owner and chairman of the Blues, who lost to the Rangers, 3-2, in a shootout, grabbing a couple of seats owned by St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch - five rows behind the Rangers' bench, right where then-Rangers GM Neil Smith was sitting the night the Rangers won the Stanley Cup in 1994.
McCarthy, a partner in the Blues' ownership group, was left to go on StubHub.com and the Rangers' Web site to purchase tickets from season subscribers who were selling them for the sold-out game.
Checketts just smiled when asked why he, McCarthy and Munoz were banned from Suite 200 and then not permitted to buy tickets from the Rangers. Having clashed with Dolan, Checketts was forced out of the Garden in 2001 and started his own sports ownership/management group. Cablevision took total control of the building, its teams and network in 1999.
McCarthy, who left the Garden in 2005 after 23 years - the last six as MSG Network president - after also clashing with Dolan, tried to explain.
"It's not a surprise - more oddball thinking,"McCarthy said. "We've done nothing but take the high road. It's unfortunate because we have so many friends here and we've obviously been received well. To be called unwelcomed is disappointing."
McCarthy was asked if he had contacted the Garden for tickets.
"Yeah,"he said. "No go. It was a no-go. So, we had to get creative. Dave went through A-B (Anheuser-Busch). And the Rangers have a site ... on their Web site ... season-ticket holders who turn their tickets back in for resale. You can get tickets that way.
"So, I was up on the glass, right next to the penalty box. I felt very welcomed and unwelcomed at the same time."
Checketts said he enjoyed the 10-minute pregame ceremony honoring Davidson.
"It was terrific and well-deserved,"he said. "I think that's the least they could do ... because this was a guy who gave his heart and soul here for many years."
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throw a water balloon at him, but fill it with nair , makem shave his hair off. :eek: :eek:
no but seriously, youre moving to brooklyn, J ?
closer to the Garden , heh ?
tonight is huge.
we need all 4 of the remaining games against the Islanders.
thats a whole lotta points , and a huge leap frog against teams ahead of us in the standings .
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throw a water balloon at him, but fill it with nair , makem shave his hair off. :eek: :eek:
no but seriously, youre moving to brooklyn, J ?
closer to the Garden , heh ?
tonight is huge.
we need all 4 of the remaining games against the Islanders.
thats a whole lotta points , and a huge leap frog against teams ahead of us in the standings .
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haha mullet head,, well we know their gonna run jagr
larry brooks article was good about calling up our 6'6 goon for the game
187 pm in 37 games lol
we need to beat these clowns ,, plus we have games in hand on the canes and leafs
not to get ahead here,,but i would love to get into 8th and take a shot at buffalo,, as u know we matched up well all year and with their injuries they are beatable
as for my move,, yes i got a place in bay ridge ,,how youuuu doing?? lol
i got the keys sat , hoping to be in by beginning of april
their are a few fans in my building,,i saw them coming back from the game sat
* Since February 8th, the Rangers are, surprisingly, 6-3-2, compared to Atlanta's 3-5-1, Carolina's 5-5-0, Montreal's 4-9-0, and Toronto's 4-5-3 in that same time. Even the hot teams -- Islanders at 7-2-2, Tampa at 7-3-2, and Pittsburgh at 7-4-0 during that span -- have gained no more than two points or fewer on the Rangers.
if we make it in, we'd be in slot 7 or 8, so that means Buffalo or Devils.
I personally would feel more copmfortable facing Devils ( we really looked good the last game aside from the dreadful outcome- we really held our own with them )
if youre going to be successful, it doesnt matter who you face, just when. Timing is everything.
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it was luck
1 point better then no points.
still 3 more with this team , who we match up with pretty good last night .
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TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE and all shorthanded goals again
fuckin joke,, FIRE SATHER NOW and start over
not only that , but we have been matching up with Pitts very good- i think ALL 1 goal decisions- no " ass-kicking " there,... .
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what was the goalie interference about ?
Fleury was well out and beyond his goalcrease, if anything, he interfered with Betts . Of course, the NYR get called for the penalty, and that leads to a goal for the Penguins . wtf ? simply horrible call .
I think someone needs to sit down with henrik and have a serious serious conversation about STAYING PUT IN THE BLUE OF YOUR CREASE . :cool: :cool:
History tells us , something bad always happens when he goes out and tries playing the puck . Henrk we love you and all , but we love you inside the net . :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
the shootout was horrible. Nylander didnt even get his shot off , so right off the bat Pitts gets 3 shots, we are only looking at 2 . :eek: , Jagr decides " I have to..." ( instead of I want to
yet another 2 goal lead blown, yet another 1 goal loss, another home loss to add to an already attrocious ( and quite embarrasing ) home record .
the mathematics will only be on our side for so long,.......
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i turned on the B's
was like "oh wow... overtime... this will be cool to see the shootout"
literally 7 seconds later
uh oh... that long rebound could be trouble
GOAL!!!!
oops
dude ;
thats the flyers.
your Bruins should have wiped the ice up with them :eek:
shootouts are exciting
theyre really good ( when your team wins the extra point )
you feel really empty when you lose. :( :( :(
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i heard in the post game how heartbreaking it supposedly was
i just thought it sucked
but i guess it was the equivalent of the knicks losing to the celtics
Al & JD
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smyth talks about his first NYI game also talks of NYI - NYR rivalry- comparing it to Cal - Edm
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The Return Of JD
RETURN OF J.D. FULL OF INTRIGUE
WELCOME BACK:
March 2, 2007 -- AS POLITICAL intrigues go, it ain't the Pentagon Papers. But nothing that happens at Cablevision Square Garden should or can be taken at face value.
The St. Louis Blues, under the presidency of John Davidson, are in to play the Rangers tomorrow afternoon, and The Garden is expected to do something to salute Davidson's return. One can expect a pre-game, on-ice ceremony.
And why not? Davidson was a Rangers goalie for eight years, then spent 20 years working Rangers games on MSG Network. And his departure from The Garden last year was amicable. Unlike Marv Albert, he was not fired. He left to become president of the Blues.
But that's where it gets sticky; that's where Davidson has sinned. The Blues are owned by SCP Worldwide, co-founded and headed by Dave Checketts, a former Garden president under Jim Dolan. Checketts was yet another Garden exec who no longer could indulge, let alone figure out, the Cablevision way.
Checketts was not amicably cast from the Garden of Dolan.
And so, for what it's worth, yet another weird, Dolan-ized dynamic will be at work tomorrow in the Garden. On one hand, Davidson is likely to be graciously welcomed - on the surface. On the other hand, the one that likely will be held out of sight, Davidson, as a Checketts hire, is considered an enemy agent.
It's the kind of intrigue that grows like crabgrass in The Garden of Dolan. And tracking it helps kill time as the Rangers and Knicks again are counted out.
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Analytical Debate
I spend a considerable amount of time browsing the various Ranger messageboards, blogs, and webites, and as you would imagine there has been much debate on whether or not the Rangers can make the postseason. The arguments range from severe pessimism to ridiculous optimism.
For me, it's hard to engage in any real debate about the Rangers making the playoffs when the team blows third period leads, gives up multiple short handed goals during games, and loses to weaker opposition such as the Flyers and Blue Jackets. I just can't have any hope when the team is unable to win on a consistent basis on Madison Square Garden ice.
It is unimgainable to me how the Blueshirts will be able to compete with teams like the Penguins and Islanders when players like Brendan Shanahan, Martin Straka, Fedor Tyutin, and yes even Kevin Weekes are hurting and unavailable to perform.
Next you have the Blues, who are 7-2-1 in their last 10, 21-8-3 in their last 32, and who are coming off of a nice win over the Isles. Will it be another Saturday meltdown for the Rangers?
NY Post: The Rangers - down two of their four best players, Brendan Shanahan and Martin Straka - are digging down, actually playing some of their most determined hockey of the season. Despite their spirited play, they are still continuing to dig their own grave.
NY Daily News: The point the Rangers earned for getting into overtime pulled them within five of idle Montreal, which has played two more games. But after blowing a two-goal third-period lead for the fourth time this season - and losing key defenseman Fedor Tyutin to a knee injury in the process - the Rangers were more absorbed with the point lost.
The Journal News: It's a sad reality when the Rangers cough up a two-goal third- period lead and the first reaction is it could have been worse. And yet that's the case for a team that has squandered similar leads of late and not even managed a single point.
NY Newsday: With 67 points, the Rangers inched within five of the last playoff spot, but they needed two and got only one. "It depends on the way you look at it," Jagr said. "Every point is important and can be huge at the end of the season. On the other hand, when you have a 2-0 lead after the second period, we just didn't finish. We just have to learn."
Newsday again: Paul Mara received two important phone calls in Boston on Tuesday morning. One was from his older brother Rob, telling him that he would be an uncle again because his wife had twin daughters. The second was a jolt, too; he had been shipped from the Bruins to the Rangers. "It was a bigger shock for him," Mara said. "They had twins and I got traded."
Coverage from NY Sports Day.
The Rodent shows his slightly more optimistic side.
Al Montoya was named AHL goaltender of the month. I don't want to hurt the Pack here in their stretch run, but does anyone else feel Montoya might be able to help Henrik out a bit here?
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wow- i knew they would talk to henrik , but at this point benching him ?
thats pretty shocking.
these saturday afternoon / weekend matinees are just horrible.
Right smack in the middle of my towns St Paddys Day parade.
oh well.
Erin Go Brah
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didnt say i disagreed / agreed- just that it was shocking .
i was shocked to see him get the start , and then after St Louis scored within the first few minutes, i was like , " oh no " ....
definitely agree that henrik needed a break - ( is weekes ever coming back ? theres NO talk of him, anywhere , anytime )
we all know we need 2 good goalies to go deep into the playoffs.
how about jagr shooting / scoring in the shootout. sounded like the Garden erupted at that point.
is it a pre-requisite to be an NHL GM to let your hair go gray ? JD looks like he's aged 10-=15 years since becoming GM.
and who knew Sam Rosens wife could carry a tune like that ! fuckin' a !
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But then, reason has had little to do with the Rangers' season thus far.
* Since February 8th, the Rangers are, surprisingly, 6-3-2, compared to Atlanta's 3-5-1, Carolina's 5-5-0, Montreal's 4-9-0, and Toronto's 4-5-3 in that same time. Even the hot teams -- Islanders at 7-2-2, Tampa at 7-3-2, and Pittsburgh at 7-4-0 during that span -- have gained no more than two points or fewer on the Rangers.
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games in hand on everybody ,, could get real interesting !!
the NYR facing NYI in a very important home and home.
these games are ginormous.
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u aint shitting bath
i hate him
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Sammi: Wanna just break up?
Dolan Grudge
To Dolan, grudge is the ticket
He sits on a bench outside a Starbucks near 49th and Park, maybe 45 minutes after his new team, the St. Louis Blues, has blown a two-goal lead in the third period against the Rangers and finally loses, 3-2, in a shootout, handing the Rangers a huge and dramatic win. Dave Checketts, who owns the Blues now, still considers the day a partial victory. He has managed to get through an entire afternoon at the Garden, which he ran once, ran in much better times than these, without being thrown out of the place.
His team is struggling the way the Rangers are, just with about half the payroll. Still: You take points where you get them, even if you had to buy seats for your people off the Internet because the Garden refused to sell them any.
Checketts is here at the Starbucks with his wife and his son Andrew, his son in a Blues jersey. Checketts had been asked where his partner, Mike McCarthy, who worked 23 years at the Garden and finally ran the network there, sat for yesterday's game.
"Right behind the glass," Checketts said, then brightened and said, "StubHub.com!"
The Blues were not just in for a hockey game yesterday. It was more of an event than that, because the Garden did find it in its corporate heart to honor another former Cablevision employee, John Davidson. They brought J.D. out on the ice yesterday and he was cheered by the crowd, even if there was no speech. Maybe they were afraid he was going to say something nice about Checketts, who hired him to run the Blues.
See, here is what James Dolan told a representative of Checketts' not long ago, when the Blues were trying to get tickets for yesterday's game, and the ceremony honoring Davidson.
Dolan told the guy: "I may have (Checketts) escorted out of the building."
Dolan doesn't talk to Checketts anymore. But Dolan said what he said and he knows he did. Maybe he will try to say it was a joke now, but that would involve something resembling a sense of humor, about himself or anything else.
You want to know the difference between the Garden that Checketts ran and the one Dolan runs? It is this. It is silliness and pettiness like this.
The people running the place now are as small as the puck on the ice, worried as much about the media and settling scores as they are about real scores.
"I suppose it would be easier for (Dolan) to be gracious," Checketts said, "if he were having more success."
Believe me: You don't have to think Checketts was the best sports executive in history, and you can talk about the salary cap problems for the Knicks he left behind when Dolan got rid of him, thinking it was ordained by family and the stars that it was his time to run the Garden. You bet Checketts is the one who hired Glen Sather and traded Patrick Ewing at the end.
But in the 11 years that he ran the Knicks, during years when a Knicks ticket once again became as hot a ticket as there was in town, they played 135 playoff games and won 72 of them and went to the NBA Finals twice and had 460 straight sellouts. And I can assure you that no Knicks season-ticket holder in those years got the kind of E-mail that some got this past week, telling them that there were $10 tickets available for select games coming up in March. Checketts had an understanding of the place, why it is supposed to matter, more than Dolan has or will ever have, and a waiting list for Knicks season tickets with 10,000 names on it.
Even when the Rangers started to fade on Checketts' watch, they could do something that the team has not done since Dolan became the official big boss of the place: That means win a single playoff game. Despite having the largest payroll in the sport over the past six seasons. You think Dolan isn't rooting for his man Isiah Thomas to get the Knicks into the playoffs and at least get him on the board? Or for the Rangers to build on the kind of win they got off Checketts' team yesterday?
Dolan needs some points on the board. If he doesn't get any, this continues to be an almost epic period of postseason failure at Madison Square Garden, six seasons, two famous teams, not a single playoff victory between them. That we are even talking this way shows you how low the bar is set there now.
So, anyway, Checketts' people went to StubHub to get tickets yesterday and to the Rangers' own Web site, and got more help from Anheuser-Busch, which is of course a St. Louis company, the company in a company town. Checketts' family sat in those seats. He got no help from the Garden, where they are sure that Checketts was the source of so many mean things said about Dolan in a recent Sports Illustrated profile done by S.L. Price.
So the cost of doing business with Dolan now is StubHub.com.
Dolan runs the place the way he does and then there is the way it was run in the '90s. After Checketts became president of the Garden, he wasn't just running the Knicks. The Rangers' playoff record was 18-18 and that doesn't seem like much, unless you measure it against what Rangers fans have seen lately, which is one four-game sweep by the Devils in the first round of the playoffs last year. "(Dolan) insists on keeping the bad blood alive," Checketts said.
The place runs on it now.
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Icy reception for Checketts
'Not welcome' to see Blueshirts at Garden
BY JOHN DELLAPINA
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Madison Square Garden rolled out the red carpet yesterday for John Davidson. A suite was set aside for his family, gifts were bestowed and a pregame ceremony was held to honor the former Rangers goaltender and broadcaster's return to the building for the first time since leaving last summer to become president of the St. Louis Blues.
Dave Checketts wasn't welcomed back quite as warmly.
Checketts, the former Garden president who is now owner and chairman of the Blues, former Garden general counsel Kenneth Munoz and former MSG Network president Mike McCarthy said they were told they weren't welcome in the building, would not be permitted to enter the Davidson suite and could not buy extra tickets to yesterday's Rangers-Blues game.
"For some reason, we're not welcome,"McCarthy said, making his way to his seats with his teenage son. The reason, according to sources on both sides, was that the long-strained relationship between Checketts and Garden chairman James Dolan has become downright hostile since last summer. That was when Checketts and the Blues attempted to hire one or more Garden employees, angering Dolan.
According to one source, Dolan told one of Checketts' associates that he would consider escorting him out of the building if he attempted to attend the game.
A Garden spokesman agreed that no special consideration was given to Checketts and his group but denied that the Blues' ownership was denied standard treatment. Davidson was feted on the ice and provided with the suite for friends and family because of his connection to Rangers fans and because he left the Garden amicably.
"We gave Dave and the Blues owners the same treatment any other owners would receive,"Garden VP Barry Watkins said. "We didn't revoke anything. As far as anything above and beyond that, they were able to purchase tickets just like anyone else."
That left Checketts, the owner and chairman of the Blues, who lost to the Rangers, 3-2, in a shootout, grabbing a couple of seats owned by St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch - five rows behind the Rangers' bench, right where then-Rangers GM Neil Smith was sitting the night the Rangers won the Stanley Cup in 1994.
McCarthy, a partner in the Blues' ownership group, was left to go on StubHub.com and the Rangers' Web site to purchase tickets from season subscribers who were selling them for the sold-out game.
Checketts just smiled when asked why he, McCarthy and Munoz were banned from Suite 200 and then not permitted to buy tickets from the Rangers. Having clashed with Dolan, Checketts was forced out of the Garden in 2001 and started his own sports ownership/management group. Cablevision took total control of the building, its teams and network in 1999.
McCarthy, who left the Garden in 2005 after 23 years - the last six as MSG Network president - after also clashing with Dolan, tried to explain.
"It's not a surprise - more oddball thinking,"McCarthy said. "We've done nothing but take the high road. It's unfortunate because we have so many friends here and we've obviously been received well. To be called unwelcomed is disappointing."
McCarthy was asked if he had contacted the Garden for tickets.
"Yeah,"he said. "No go. It was a no-go. So, we had to get creative. Dave went through A-B (Anheuser-Busch). And the Rangers have a site ... on their Web site ... season-ticket holders who turn their tickets back in for resale. You can get tickets that way.
"So, I was up on the glass, right next to the penalty box. I felt very welcomed and unwelcomed at the same time."
Checketts said he enjoyed the 10-minute pregame ceremony honoring Davidson.
"It was terrific and well-deserved,"he said. "I think that's the least they could do ... because this was a guy who gave his heart and soul here for many years."
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throw a water balloon at him, but fill it with nair , makem shave his hair off. :eek: :eek:
no but seriously, youre moving to brooklyn, J ?
closer to the Garden , heh ?
tonight is huge.
we need all 4 of the remaining games against the Islanders.
thats a whole lotta points , and a huge leap frog against teams ahead of us in the standings .
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haha mullet head,, well we know their gonna run jagr
larry brooks article was good about calling up our 6'6 goon for the game
187 pm in 37 games lol
we need to beat these clowns ,, plus we have games in hand on the canes and leafs
not to get ahead here,,but i would love to get into 8th and take a shot at buffalo,, as u know we matched up well all year and with their injuries they are beatable
as for my move,, yes i got a place in bay ridge ,,how youuuu doing?? lol
i got the keys sat , hoping to be in by beginning of april
their are a few fans in my building,,i saw them coming back from the game sat
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if we make it in, we'd be in slot 7 or 8, so that means Buffalo or Devils.
I personally would feel more copmfortable facing Devils ( we really looked good the last game aside from the dreadful outcome- we really held our own with them )
if youre going to be successful, it doesnt matter who you face, just when. Timing is everything.
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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
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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."
yes xavier,, 4 games left in my plan including tonight
trying to get better ticks from work
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."