If you win this series it will not be very short, you will have to work your ***** off to win and take this to a game 6 or 7 in order to win.
That comment wasn't meant as a slight to the Sens. Frankly, my biggest worry from a Rangers fan POV is the lack of playoff experience through the Rangers' roster. Aside from Gaborik, Richards, Rupp and Fedotenko, none of the Rangers really have much postseason experience (Dubinsky, Lundqvist, Girardi and Staal have done well, but none of those four have been past round 2).
Generally, a 1 seed should go through an 8 seed fairly quickly, regardless of the regular season series. When an 8 seed makes a 6 or 7 game fight of it, that's not generally a good sign for the 1 seed's chances (whether they make it out of the 1st round or not--Look at the Caps a couple years ago, when they had to go deep to beat the Rangers--they DID beat them, but it highlighted some key problems with that team).
I don't think the Rangers scare anyone in the east except for maybe Florida. They look like one of those teams that do everything right until they get to the playoffs.
I don't think the Rangers scare anyone in the east except for maybe Florida. They look like one of those teams that do everything right until they get to the playoffs.
I don't think the Rangers scare anyone in the east except for maybe Florida. They look like one of those teams that do everything right until they get to the playoffs.
Or Philly, 6-0 in the season series, jesus at least we got 1 vs. Boston.
I love the overwhelming dismissal of the Senators in this series. It reminds me 2001-02 series against the Flyers when the Sens were 7th and most articles had the Flyers winning in 4 or 5. Ottawa finished the regular season 4-4-1-1 that year. Outstanding bulletin board material that year as well.
Way to much is being read into the last 3 losses. MacLean will have the team very well prepared, roles will be very well defined, and the focus will be on executing the Senators game plan. IMHO if the Sens are to win, Anderson is the wildcard and the key. Everyone just ticks the goaltender box is favour of the Rangers, which is fair, but the important thing is for the goalie to make the saves and give your team a chance to win. Anderson can do that, and he is an important part of the team chemistry. The team feeds on that and gets confidence from it.
Could be an interesting series if Anderson has his Avs playoff form going, and no reason to think it won't be, just like in the last game against the Bruins with Thomas, when the game had meaning.
I like how over on the main board thread, we apparently have no idea what playoff intensity is.
You'd think this wasn't the same franchise that has missed the playoffs only six of the twenty years they've been in the league. Despite the fact that four of those years were right after the team was formed, and they've never missed consecutively since then, we just have to admit that Ottawa sucks and has no chance to even win a game.
Chris Lee
Tim Peel
AND
Dan "I think Erik Karlsson is a diver" O'Rourke
made the playoffs. If any of those three are reffing our games, we are screwed.
And when I said that the refs should be publicly punished (like players) when they screw up, like say, annoucing their fine total or whatever, people told me "no, that's wrong, the refs who are bad at reffing wont get to ref in the playoffs, that's their punishment." I call ********.
Being originally from England, I an considered weird to say I hate soccer. But there is one thing I would like to see carried over from soccer into hockey: if you derp around as a ref and screw a team over, the field gets swamped by fans who will ****ing maul you, or the media will tear you a new ******* so big, it makes the grand canyon look like an ant hill. That should happen to Dan O'Rourke. The fact that he somehow is considered good enough to ref in the playoffs is a disgrace to the entire hockey world.
I like how over on the main board thread, we apparently have no idea what playoff intensity is.
Teams like Detroit, Vancouver, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia pace themselves into the playoffs and get the points they do as a consequence of just how good they are. The Rangers are not one of those teams who think they are elite. They worked there butts off and deserve every point they got, but I think the effort they used to get there is what will come back to hurt them.
I think there are at least 5 teams that would beat the Rangers in a 7 game series. Pitt, Phi, Det, Van, and Bos. The Rangers are just not scary.
Karlsson played very well in his first appearance as a small rookie vs the Pens. Very excited to see what he can do. It would have been criminal for us to miss the playoffs and him not being able showcase what he's got this year with the year he had.
Lundqvist is trouble, it will be hard to solve him.
Just wanted to pop on by to wish Sens Nation good luck this spring. I know lots of you aren't too fond of Vancouver for whatever reason, but you've got a lot of support out here on the west coast. Here's to a deep run
Just wanted to pop on by to wish Sens Nation good luck this spring. I know lots of you aren't too fond of Vancouver for whatever reason, but you've got a lot of support out here on the west coast. Here's to a deep run
The Rangers top 4 D play basically the entire game, and with our forward banging them and a few long overtimes and these guys will wilt as the series goes into game 5-6-7.
Torterella coached teams always face this at playoff time, in TB Lecavalier, Richards, Boyle and St Louis would play 30 minutes a night and come playoff time after 82 games and the emotion and physicality of the playoffs his top players just wear out as the series get long.
I expect Girardi, Staal and Del Zotto to be limping by Game 5 - Rangers fans are doubting Ottawa has the heart to battle like they do. Z. Smith, Neil, Daug, Winny - out bottom 6 guys have 1 agenda and that is to wear out the Rangers top 4 D and I think the Rangers fans are in for a surprise about how much passion our guys play with. We'll be battling for every puck and every inch of ice and I think i will wear out the Rangers D - they'll never quit but as they get more tired our forwards will get more energized with the scent of blood.
