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Bathgate66 · May 2013

take some more penalties why dontchas?
oh and thanks for the mercy goal Rask.

igotid88 · May 2013

So far only 3 good minutes of play by us.

Bathgate66 · May 2013

how does Mike Sullivan still have a job ?

Bathgate66 · May 2013

rival. · May 2013

"i apologize for any language our microphones picked up by the benches. john tortorella is very upset with the linesman".

igotid88 · May 2013

I don't want to get swept.

rival. · May 2013

so with this game going to OT, we are looking at three of the four games decided by one goal. it's obvious the rangers have been outplayed this entire series, but it's crazy to think that they could have been a couple of lucky playoff bounces away from having a possible 3-1 lead in this series.

rival. · May 2013

live to see another day.

kreider/nash/brassard. woot.

norm · May 2013

beaut of a goal

xavier mcdaniel · May 2013

Team Notes:
- The Rangers defeated the Boston Bruins, 4-3, in overtime tonight at Madison Square Garden, in Game 4 of their Eastern Conference Semifinal series. The Blueshirts now trail in the series, 3-1.

- New York has posted a record of 213-232-8 overall in postseason action, including a 120-89-2 mark at home.

- The Rangers improved to 5-6 all-time in Game 4 when trailing 3-0 in the series.

- The Rangers tallied one goal in four power play opportunities (7:05), to improve to 3-0 in games when registering a goal on the man advantage in the playoffs.

- The Blueshirts out-hit the Bruins, 40-24, in the contest, led by Ryan Callahan’s game-high, seven hits.

- With the win, Head Coach John Tortorella passed Colin Campbell for third on the Rangers’ all-time playoff coaching wins list, recording his 19th postseason victory behind the Blueshirts’ bench.

Player Notes:
- Chris Kreider notched the game-winning goal at 7:03 of the overtime period, and registered three shots and a plus-two rating in 13:50 of ice time. The goal was his first of this postseason.

- Derek Stepan registered an unassisted goal at 1:15 of the third period, and added a power play assist in 24:00 of ice time. He has now recorded three points (two goals, one assist) in the last four games, and leads the Rangers with four goals in the playoffs.

- Derick Brassard tallied two assists, including one on the power play, and won a team-high, 11-17 faceoffs (65%) in 25:29 of ice time. He leads the team and ranks fourth in the league in assists (10), and is tied for fifth in the NHL in scoring with 12 points in 11 playoff games.

- Henrik Lundqvist made 37 saves to post his 30th career playoff victory, and improved to 30-36 in 66 career postseason contests. He improved to 5-0 with a 0.98 goals against average, .966 save percentage, and two shutouts in the last five playoff games at MSG in which the Rangers faced elimination.

- Lundqvist has posted 30 or more saves in the playoffs 21 times, posting a 10-11 record with a 1.61 GAA, .951 Sv% and four shutouts in those games.

- Brian Boyle tied the score at three goals apiece with a power play goal at 10:00 of the third period, and registered two shots and two hits in 16:25 of ice time. He is now tied for second on the team with three goals in the playoffs.

- Rick Nash recorded the primary assist on the overtime, game-winning goal, a team-high, five shots, was credited with three hits, and posted a plus-two rating in 22:59 of ice time. He has registered a point in four of the last five games (one goal, three assists over the span).

- Ryan McDonagh tallied an assist on the overtime, game-winning goal, was credited with three blocked shots, and logged a team-high, 29:43 of ice time. He has now registered three points (one goal, two assists) in the last four games, and leads all team defensemen in playoff scoring with four points (one goal, three assists).

- Carl Hagelin notched a goal and registered three shots in 20:24 of ice time. He is now tied for second on the team with three goals and six points in the playoffs.

- Roman Hamrlik recorded his first point as a Ranger with an assist, and logged 10:55 of ice time while making his playoff debut as a Blueshirt. He has now registered 10 points (one goal, nine assists) in 26 career playoff games against Boston.

- Micheal Haley was credited with two hits and logged 7:56 of ice time, while making his NHL playoff debut.

Post-Game Quotes:
- John Tortorella on tonight’s game…
“I still think we need to keep on getting to another level. We certainly did in the third period. Step made a huge play for us early on and I thought it gave us some life. They are a tough team and are defending pretty hard. We stuck with it and found a way to win a game. Hank (Henrik Lundqvist) was tremendous and I thought their goalie played really well, too.”

- Henrik Lundqvist on tonight’s game…
“We did show some character. It was tough though, probably the ugliest goal I have ever seen turned it around for us, and that’s hockey. A save or a goal or one shift can change everything. Tonight, it was an ugly goal. Sometimes that’s all you need to get us going, to get the building going. We kind of lowered our shoulders a little bit and started playing our game. It’s a lot of pressure, these games, and it’s tough when things aren’t going your way. We’re playing a really good team, but sometimes you just need to feel like maybe you can get one good bounce, and then it just turned around for us. I thought we played really well the second half of this game.”

- Derick Brassard on tonight’s game…
“I think the atmosphere of the game was totally different because we had nothing to lose. We just played tonight, and all four lines and all the defensemen played solid. Hank was Hank again, and gave us the chance to win. We just need to play that way all of the time.”

igotid88 · May 2013

- Lundqvist has posted 30 or more saves in the playoffs 21 times, posting a 10-11 record with a 1.61 GAA, .951 Sv% and four shutouts in those games.

10-11 is not good with those numbers. Should be at least 15-6 or 14-7

rival. · May 2013

81 · May 2013

igotid88 wrote:

- Lundqvist has posted 30 or more saves in the playoffs 21 times, posting a 10-11 record with a 1.61 GAA, .951 Sv% and four shutouts in those games.

10-11 is not good with those numbers. Should be at least 15-6 or 14-7

or better

Bathgate66 · May 2013

Torts dropped the F Bomb multiple times on CNBC

http://www.sportingnews.com/nhl/story/2 ... mb-live-tv

Bathgate66 · May 2013

who the fuck schedules a game on memorial day weekend
at 530pm on Saturday?

what the deuce ?
:wtf:

Bathgate66 · May 2013

Brassard calls out Marchand

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/rangers/ ... G64TF9QyvL

There he was, a Ranger not only standing his ground, but standing up for his teammates.

There was Derick Brassard, of all people, dropping his stick and gloves with about four minutes remaining in the second period of Thursday night’s live-or-die Game 4 at the Garden after dueling with the Boston agitator in front of Henrik Lundqvist’s net.

And there was Marchand skating away from the challenge as play continued, leaving the Blueshirts center to gather his equipment and scramble back into the action.

Let’s just say that four games of familiarity has bred a bit of contempt for Marchand.

“Sometimes he doesn’t show any respect for his opponents,” Brassard told The Post following yesterday’s prep work for tonight’s Game 5. “He’s been asking everybody on our team to fight all series, so I thought it was time to take him up on it, but then I guess he didn’t have any interest.”

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Marchand once got away with popping Daniel Sedin in the face with a half-dozen gloved lefts in the final minutes of the Bruins’ Game 6 victory over Vancouver in the 2011 finals without a Canuck so much as raising a finger in protest. He’s one of those guys who constantly agitates and apparently claims he’s ready to fight, but won’t.

Fact is, Brassard and Marchand each have four career fighting majors. The dastardly Marchand has fought Mike Ribeiro, P.K. Subban, Matt Niskanen and Andrew Cogliano while the gentlemanly Brassard’s fight card features bouts against Dan Boyle, Lubomir Visnovsky, Matt Cooke and James Neal, according to hockeyfights.com.

“[Marchand] can be effective at what he does, but sometimes he pushes it too far,” said Brassard, who had his best game of the conference semis in the Rangers’ 4-3 overtime victory. “He can get on your nerves if you don’t handle it the right way.

“Like I said, he’s been asking everyone on our team to fight. So at that point I thought enough was enough. I thought that was the time to deal with it,” No. 16 said. “Either he didn’t want to [fight] or his coach didn’t want him to.

“You have to make sure you don’t allow him to get you off your game. That’s what he always tries to do. So you deal with it and you move on.”

So a Ranger dealt with Marchand. And the Rangers moved on to fight — or, not — another day.

➤The uproar and outrage around the NHL over John Tortorella’s decision to designate Brad Richards as a healthy scratch for Game 4 (and until further notice) is not borne out of any type of objective hockey-based analysis.

Rather, it is a reflection of the enormous amount of goodwill that good guy Richards has cultivated throughout his career and the amount of antipathy that his black hat-wearing coach (and not the Broadway Hat, either) has invited throughout his tour of duty.

Honestly, if there’s one thing this was not, this was not Mike Keenan benching Brian Leetch against the Devils during Game 4 of the epochal 1994 conference finals.

Hey, there’s a subject for the next coach’s show on MSG.

➤ When Tortorella moved Brassard between Carl Hagelin and Ryan Callahan while shifting Derek Stepan between Chris Kreider and Rick Nash for Thursday’s third period and OT, that effectively switched the match against Zdeno Chara.

Stepan thereafter drew most of the time against the Big Z, while Brassard was freed for the majority of his shifts. Tortorella said he made the switch “because I didn’t think we were generating enough offense,” and not to change the match, but the move worked.

It was Stepan who stripped Chara behind the net before his continued motion wraparound goal to tie the match at 1:15 of the third period. And Brassard operated with more time and space.

“I got more confident against him after the first couple of games,” Brassard said. “You have to deal with his reach and how he likes to grab behind the net and in the corners.

“You want to make him skate and play facing his own net. He’s probably one of the top three defensemen in the league, but if you can do that, sometimes he makes poor decisions.”

badbrains · May 2013

Marchand is a total pussy! He's the asshole who talks a lot of shit then runs behind Horton for protection. Annoys the shit out of me whenever I see his dumb ass face on the screen.

Bathgate66 · May 2013

badbrains wrote:

Marchand is a total pussy! He's the asshole who talks a lot of shit then runs behind Horton for protection. Annoys the shit out of me whenever I see his dumb ass face on the screen.

I think Brassard feels the same way and has had enough of him

Bathgate66 · May 2013

Dorsett got the game going.
Despite being half Thorntons size

Bathgate66 · May 2013

Roman Hamrlik mightve just blew the season

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