GDT: #3 - 01/23/2013 | Boston Bruins @ New York Rangers | 7:30 PM - NBC SPORTS

[Loffen]

THE MATCHUP 2013 REGULAR SEASON GAME #3 - 1/23/2013 @ (2-0-0) ____________ (0-2-0) TIME 7:30 PM ET ARENA MADISON SQUARE GARDEN - NYC, NY TV NBC SPORTS

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NEWS & NOTES GAME LINKS: Game Preview - Last Matchup; NYR@BOS 1/19/13 - NHL.com - Rangers.com - Bruins.com NY Post - NYDN - Andrew Gross - MSG.com - Yahoo Sports - ESPN.com - TSN.ca AROUND THE LEAGUE: JANUARY SCHEDULE:

QUOTES TO NOTE Personally, it was a tough night. I really don’t have an explanation other than we just have to work harder and keep getting better. - Henrik Lundqvist I don’t think we’re pushing the panic button but it’s not the start we wanted to have. We have to get back to work. There are a lot of mistakes out there we have to correct and it’s a short season so we’ve got to correct them fast and make sure we come back better. - Rick Nash The only thing we should focus on is our mindset. Somewhere along the way, the mindset, if there is even one there, is the wrong one. That’s what needs to be corrected right now so hopefully we touched upon the right things today and we have an understanding of where we need to be mentally. - John Tortorella

BOSTON BRUINS TEAM STATS / STANDINGS: GP 2 GF 5 W 2 GA 2 L 0 GF/G 2.00 OTL 0 GA/G 1.00 Pts 4 PIM/G 19.0 HOME 2-0-0 PP% 00.0 AWAY 0-0-0 PK% 100.0 STREAK W2 FO% 57.6 Division 3rd Conference 6th League 8th TEAM LEADERS: Goals Brad Marchand 1 Assists Andrew Ference 1 Points Johnny Boychuk 1 + / - Tyler Seguin +3 Shots Patrice Bergeron 10 Hits Milan Lucic 14 Blocks Boychuk, Ference 5 PIM Milan Lucic 12 FO% Rich Peverley 68.4 TOI/G F: Patrice Bergeron 18:31 TOI/G D: Zdeno Chara 25:59 PROJECTED LINES: LW C RW Brad Marchand Patrice Bergeron (A) Tyler Seguin Milan Lucic David Krejci Nathan Horton Chris Bourque Chris Kelly Rich Peverley Dan Paille Gregory Campbell Shawn Thornton LD RD Zdeno Chara (C) Johnny Boychuk Aaron Johnson Dougie Hamilton Andrew Ference Adam McQuaid Scratched Lane MacDermid Dennis Seidenberg STARTING GOALIE: Tuukka Rask GPI: 2 W: 2 L: 0 OT: 0 SV% .958 GAA: 0.96 SO: 0 Pts: 0 INJURIES / SUSPENSIONS / MISC: Jordan Caron Shoulder (IR) Marc Savard Concussion (IR)

NEW YORK RANGERS TEAM STATS / STANDINGS: GP 2 GF 4 W 0 GA 9 L 2 GF/G 2.00 OTL 0 GA/G 4.50 Pts 0 PIM/G 20.5 HOME 0-1-0 PP% 11.1 AWAY 0-1-0 PK% 83.3 STREAK L2 FO% 48.8 Division 4th Conference 12th League 27th TEAM LEADERS: Goals Brad Richards 1 Assists Derek Stepan 2 Points Brad Richards 3 + / - Richards, Hagelin +1 Shots Nash, Gaborik 7 Hits Boyle, Pyatt 7 Blocks Girardi, McD 5 PIM Stu Bickel 7 FO% Brad Richards 51.2 TOI/G F: Brad Richards 21:44 TOI/G D: Dan Girardi 22:55 PROJECTED LINES: LW C RW Marian Gaborik Brad Richards (A) Rick Nash Chris Kreider Derek Stepan Ryan Callahan (C) Carl Hagelin Brian Boyle Taylor Pyatt Mike Rupp Jeff Halpern Stu Bickel LD RD Ryan McDonagh Dan Girardi Marc Staal (A) Michael Del Zotto Anton Stralman Steve Eminger Scratched Matt Gilroy STARTING GOALIE: Henrik Lundqvist GPI: 2 W: 0 L: 2 OT: 0 SV% .865 GAA: 4.77 SO: 0 Pts: 0 INJURIES / SUSPENSIONS / MISC: Arron Asham Lower body (DTD-GTD?) Mike Sauer Concussion (IR)

Heads Up: The GDT is work in progress.

[AJBergy86]

Time to get a W, lets get at it boys

[RGY]

Time to get this thing on the right track. They will be better prepared tonight after two days off with Torts.

[tomcatNYR]

Not yet a must-win, but it's getting close to it. LGR!

[Killem Dafoe]

Let's just get this ****ing done.

[Bob Richards]

Time to right the ship.

[Khris Creider]

We need to win this..

Loffen I hope you don't mind if I steal that picture for my sig. If you do let me know and I will take it off.

[Loffen]

We need better flow to our game tonight. Boston has really dialed in their game already.

Originally Posted by Khris Creider

We need to win this..

Loffen I hope you don't mind if I steal that picture for my sig. If you do let me know and I will take it off.

Lulz, go ahead. You can find better pics at NHL.com:

http://www.nhl.com/ice/gallerylanding.htm?id=32550

[BlueshirtBlitz]

Hoping for a good W.

Also hoping Doc doesn't make me rip off my ears.

[JCresty]

I'll be missing the game due to school so this should be a Rangers 10-0 Victory

[JCresty]

Originally Posted by BlueshirtBlitz

Hoping for a good W.

Also hoping Doc doesn't make me rip off my ears.

Make Doc announce Rangers goals. THat's how it's to be done.

[Stasis]

Not calling this a "must-win" yet, but it'd be damn good for the morale and identity of the team.

[JCresty]

Originally Posted by Stasis

Not calling this a "must-win" yet, but it'd be damn good for the morale and identity of the team.

or we could fall to despair and rebuild ourselves as the ultimate morale monster that has seen rock bottom.


?

[Khris Creider]

We need to make better passes and the defense has got to step up. If we do that we will succeed.

[Stasis]

Sounds like a plan! If we lose to Boston AND Philly, we implement The JCresty Solution™

[JCresty]

Originally Posted by Stasis

Sounds like a plan! If we lose to Boston AND Philly, we implement The JCresty Solution™

Lose one lose all and then we come back and win the way LA did last year.

[JCresty]

Originally Posted by Khris Creider

We need to make better passes and the defense has got to step up. If we do that we will succeed.

If fairy tales have taught humanity something, it's that the team must come out of the gate playing to the best of every player's ability and as a team in unison, reaching their full potential and finally being in touch with their true strength from within and all the magical qualities that makes a team successful and consistent like hard work and some other magical things.

I'd like that a lot. A win that erases the foul memories of the first two and not just a win because we escaped with it.

[Sm0otHocKeySPeeD]

I'll be at work for this one so obviously they get the W.

Hopefully things start turning around.

LGR

[CaptainCally24]

revenge time LGR!

[FromTheSide]

Dubinsky needs to break out of his scoring slump already....oh wait

Stepan/Kreider go into beast mode this game, calling it.

[Callagraves]

If this game is a track meet, we'll lose.

Keep their chances down, keep the game tight and counterattack.


Sustained offensive zone pressure. We need it.

Richie has scored. Nasher has scored. Cally has scored. Hell, Pyatt has scored.

Gabby, it's time.

[Captain Cally NYR]

Would be really nice if Kreider or Gaborik score in this game

[SRTtoZ]

The night we turn it around fellas. LGR!!!!!

Win or be killed.

[mooskating]

really happy to see the new lines and hope that something similar at least goes through. i think the way they were in games 1 and 2 were just asking for failure. gaborik needs somebody taking attention away from him to play his game. nash does not. richards warrants way more attention from the defense than stepan.

personally in an ideal scenario i'd want to see:
kreider/stepan/nash
hagelin(in puck chase form)/richards/gaborik
pyatt/halpern/callahan
rupp/boyle/asham

hagelin and richards just take so much more attention from gabby and allow him the space to do what he does best. i think stepan will accent nash's play style in all the best ways while still freeing richards up to peel attention off of gaborik. i don't see kreider reaching his potential playing with boyle. throw him down there once he's confident defensively. we don't need the kid playing against #1 lines. as opposed to the current projected lineup --- you don't load the talent into one line and you add a little bit of defense w/ the all-star forwards.

for now torts has a great lineup set. if the lines go into the game like this we're going to have a good time.

[darko]

Lgr.