awesome game tonight ,really hope they win tomorrow in regulation and decisively as well so that way I'm not forced into cursing through 2 and a half periods and pissing off my suitemates who are trying to study heh.
Everytime I see your avatar I die laughing. I wish that commercial was on Youtube.
I was watching the game at a bar after school and I could tell right at the start of the third Gaborik was going to score. I love that Torts played him a ton when he saw he was flying. I told people it was coming, Gabby will get one, and while it may have been his ugliest ever it was a huge one.
That was a great win and Staal is unreal. Just an amazing job by one of the most underrated players in the league.
Ahh, the main board. Where Dan Girardi is a #4 defenseman and Steve Eminger is still considered garbage.
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Originally Posted by kaneone
I'm starting to get annoyed by this. It seems like the trap system is now when a teams top defensive pair shuts down the other team and/or is when a team wins in a very low scoring game.
But seriously what a great EFFING game!! That shootout was disgusting! Zuke doin' work!
POTG: Marc Staal
The Good: Our young d-men, Biron, shootout specialists
The Bad: Our pathetic powerplay
The Redden: Drury and his waste of space
anyone else kinda feel bad for Byers? He wasnt bad last year with the team when he got called up and this is the year he could have played alot of nhl games with us. poor guy
anyone else kinda feel bad for Byers? He wasnt bad last year with the team when he got called up and this is the year he could have played alot of nhl games with us. poor guy
yeah, edge and i had this conversation...i dont feel bad for him as much as i feel:
for him, he requested a trade. i liked the way he played, and it annoyed me that he wanted to leave.
yeah, edge and i had this conversation...i dont feel bad for him as much as i feel:
for him, he requested a trade. i liked the way he played, and it annoyed me that he wanted to leave.
ya but you can see why the guy wanted to leave. you know he is just kicking himself after seeing all the injuries were having.
i hope MZA has another shootout move, because goalies are going to start to figure him out real quick if he doesnt show them another look.
Kinda surprised they haven't figured it out by now. Before tonight's attempt I was telling myself that he'll probably try the same move and he did. Guess he should just roll with it until they stop him and then go with something else.
Same here. While he is quite abit negative that isn't neccesarily a bad thing. Different people have different opinions and views.
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Originally Posted by Pizza
Pretty much my philosophy regarding these boards to tee.
Staal, Girardi, Sauer and McD, it's hard to believe they are all ours.
Used to be not so long ago, that watching the Rangers in their own zone put my heart in my throat. No longer. I now just calmly sit back and watch them Shut Teams Down.
It's awesome. It really is.
Yeah it's good on nerves. Plus I've probably cut down on beer and ciggaretes.
i hope MZA has another shootout move, because goalies are going to start to figure him out real quick if he doesnt show them another look.
I do not think we should count on him being Mr. 100% forever, but I do think MZA is a state of the art SO player so to speak.
He can close in a on goalie with three alternatives in his pocket. Basically:
1. Shoot low left,
2. Deke right and go high on the backhand, or
3. Deke left and go around the keeper.
And the key for MZA is the ability he have to have all three options available untill he executes.
A goalie can not figure out those moves. A shot is always a shot, and if you stand deep in the net the shooter always gets his fair share of per cents. A goalie can not go far out on MZA because then he will deke them. If a goalie goes deep on MZA to take away the net low, he can go over them on the backhand.
It is not rocket-science, but it is very hard to execute. And its especially hard to keep all options available the closer you get to the goalie. To break it down, if you have the puck infront of you, you can not shoot with any velocity. In order to do that, you need to bring the puck back some towards your side. When you have the puck at your left side as a left shooter, you will loose your option to deek and go to the right since the goalie gets time to poke the puck when you move it over. What guys like MZA and Christensen can do -- thats really hard to execute -- thats the ability to fire the puck with velocity without pulling it back too far. Look at how deliberate they are when it comes to placing the puck a tad to the left infront of them, and how they -- in relation to their body's -- always keeps the puck in that position. They are just very good at not allowing the goalie to cut down their options. As loong as they can do that -- they will score on a big % of all attempts.
Great win, and the fact that I got to see it in person makes it even better. When the 3rd period started, I looked at my wife and told her we were going to tie it, then right after the caps unleash the fury bs we tie it, couldn't have been better timing. Then when the shootout started I said we were going to win it. Great win.
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Ranger.com have Gabs as 1st star, so fail!!!
Gabs was actually the #1 star of the game, with Biron 2nd and Ovechkin with his 0 pts third. That one I don't get, probably should have been Hendricks or Holtby, but I guess starpower gets you stars of the game even if you are shutdown....again.
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Originally Posted by Mint Berry Crunch
According to the Caps' GDT, we were playing the trap.
Let me put this in perspective with some things I heard from caps fans at the game last night:
"That's a crosscheck!!!" (after the ranger player drops his stick, making a crosscheck impossible)
"Nein (sp?) means no in Russian"
And the disrespecting of the National Anthem.
There was another jewel but unfortunately I was so excited with the win I forgot it.
i hope MZA has another shootout move, because goalies are going to start to figure him out real quick if he doesnt show them another look.
It's not that cut and dry, if the goalie doesn't stay with him he can fire off a shot at any time instead of continuing to deke. So far every goalie has reacted the same to his move, so his execution is the same. We won't know how his execution changes when the goalie reacts differently until someone does it.
Like if holtby didn't leave the crease to the right like he did, instead of dekeing back left like he did he could fire it into the upper right part of the net. But so far every goalie he's faced fell for his deke every time.
As far the trapping crap goes.. I honestly think the majority of fans don't even know what the terms and rules of the game are. And there really isn't much trapping going on now anyway, most of that happened in the trap, clutch & grab era. It's much harder to pull off a successful trap now that you can't freely interfere and you can make 2 line passes now
My player of the game is Marc Staal. Wish I could give trophies to Sauer, Gilroy, and McDonagh too.
Man I agree about Sauer, what a steady welcome surprise this kid has become. Top pair last night with Staal, and if they didn't have numbers I would have thought that was Girardi back there with Staal all game
Was very hard to avoid checking scores while at work today but I'm glad I did. Huge effort by every single Ranger 
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