Game Thread: Rangers @ Penguins

[Johnnydollaz89]

Of course Pyatt almost creates a scoring chance for his new line mates lol

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

Kreider with an awesome defensive stop there!!

And now we're going to the PK, Nash going off.

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

Hank with two saves, big one on Crosby!

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

Very aggressive on the PK, I like it.

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

And there we go, basically down 2 men because Dorsett was injured by a shot from Maata, after 2 redirections, Kunitz makes it 1-0

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

Alright boys, our time to score on the PP!

 

[Pastafazul]

rangers look like amatures early on, both teams playin well mid period,, thought fleury could have been called for outside trapzoid, but of course no call, then the quick raise of arm on numnutnash and sure enough a goal..... nothin new here... ref help rangers can't score, playin from behind

 

[Pastafazul]

staal girardi please get rid of these guys

 

[Pastafazul]

rangers have no presense whatsoever

 

[stealth]

I said Hank shouldnt start against the tougher teams.....he cant see the puck because the opposition creates too much traffic and he loses sight of the puck. 2 goals on 8 shots, this game is over. AV better do what is necessary and not what is political.

HANK is unacceptable, he cant do the job

 

[Pastafazul]

trade staal girardi and delzotto for some dman on his last leg who has been good in the nhl, who is out there?

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

Well that was a disgusting first period, gonna need a miracle to come back from this.

 

[Pastafazul]

lundy aged 10 years this offseason

 

[Pastafazul]

goodnite

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

Fucking disgusting loss

 

[Brahmsian]

Sorry Johnny, I guess this is my way of trolling you guys on game day (by doing the GDT). JK, feel free to make your own GDT or make this GDT your GDT, I just wanted to make this one special/different somehow. Also wanted to let people know that the Doobster has got a mean streak!

New York Rangers
Overall record: 20-19-2 (42 points, 0.512ptpct)
Road record: 12-9-0
Last 10: 5-4-1
Streak: +2
GFA: 2.27
GAA: 2.63
PP%: 20.3%
PK%: 85.0%
Projected roster:
L1: Chris Kreider - Derek Stepan - Rick Nash
L2: Brad Richards - Derick Brassard - Mats Zuccarello
L3: Carl Hagelin - JT Miller - Benoit Pouliot
L4: Brian Boyle - Dominic Moore - Derek Dorsett
D1: Ryan McDonagh - Dan Girardi
D2: John Moore - Anton Stralman
D3: Conor Allen - Marc Staal
G: Henrik Lundqvist

Pittsburgh Penguins
Overall record: 29-12-1 (59 points, 0.702ptpct)
Home record: 17-3-0
Last 10: 8-2-0
Streak: -1
GFA: 3.05
GAA:2.29
PP%: 25.5%
PK%: 88.1%
Projected roster:
L1: Chris Kunitz - Sidney Crosby - Joe Vitale
L2: Chuck Kobasew - Jussi Jokinen - James Neal
L3: Brian Gibbons - Brandon Sutter - Taylor Pyatt
L4: Tanner Glass - Zach Sill - Craig Adams
D1: Brooks Orpik - Deryk Engelland
D2: Matt Niskanen - Rob Scuderi
D3: Robert Bortuzzo - Simon Despres
G: Marc-Andre Fleury

Series notes
All-time: Rangers lead series: 119-104-10
This season: Rangers lead 1-0-1
Last meeting: 12/18/2013 @ Madison Square Garden, Pens won 4-3 in SO

Doob's take: both teams are playing real well as of late. Rangers seemed to have found scoring production from their back lines while the Pens are getting quality play from their call ups. I think both teams have enough star power up front as well as the prominent role players to make this a very exciting game. At the end of the day, the Doobster picks the Pens to win 3-2 in OT.

FYI, Doobee, the New Dork Wooden Knickles lost their game in Houston tonight.

An 0-2 night for New Dork is some consolation for my Celtics having lost a close one.

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

Good game Ranger fans. I know tonight wasn't the Rangers' best performance, but they've been playing a lot better as of late. I don't think we saw the real Rangers tonight. Wouldn't been a much closer game if the Rangers that played against the Lightning had showed up for this one.

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

FYI, Doobee, the New Dork Wooden Knickles lost their game in Houston tonight.

An 0-2 night for New Dork is some consolation for my Celtics having lost a close one.

I have nothing against New York. It's a great city and the people are always wonderful to me whenever I visit. Ditto for Boston.

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

It was a good game, just not for us. It's sad and pathetic when only 4-5 players a night show up. Not gonna win games like that, especially against one of the best in the East, and NHL overall.

 

[DoobeeDoobeeDoo]

It was a good game, just not for us. It's sad and pathetic when only 4-5 players a night show up. Not gonna win games like that, especially against one of the best in the East, and NHL overall.

Good news tho is that the players doing well are players you wouldn't expect to do well, or at least not as well as they have done (e.g., Zuccarello & Benoit). If the guys they expect to do well can play to expectations (e.g. Lundqvist & Nash) then the Rangers have the potential to be very dangerous.