Stanley Cup Playoffs Random Thoughts

[wr50l]

No denying the Rangers were the better team from start to finish with game 5 being the only exception. Habs were completely done in for the final period tonight and it wouldn't have been a 1 goal game more often than not. But the Rangers don't have the firepower to make it easy on themselves. Playing the West is going to be clearly the toughest challenge and I'm a bit worried it will turn into a Jersey style curb stomping to be honest.

[dave]

Lol terrible showing from Montreal again. I'll probably be labeled a hater again because my team didn't make the playoffs blah blah blah. When the numbers from this game get uploaded later on tonight I'll be interested to see just how dominated Montreal was that series. Complete opposite from what we seen with them vs boston but their weaknesses I brought up before were exposed heavily.

You are a hater.

This team got to the conference final, never quit and made it an interesting series with an AHL goalie. I give the Rangers full credit for the series win - they earned it, no question. Their ability to constantly roll out four lines simply was too much for Montreal. It didn't help that every friggin one of our scorers suddenly couldn't score.
Losing Emelin hurt because we simply didn't have enough depth on D and had to way overplay Subban and Markov. Honestly, I thought Therrien should have limited their minutes early in games, so he could push them later in the game, but he's the one paid to coach.

Overall, I am happy with how our season played out. Clearly, there is work to be done in the off-season ... and so long, Thomas Vanek, we hardly knew ya. What a colossal bust in the playoffs. I get that his heart is in Minnesota, but if you're the Wild do you pay this guy $6-7M a year after these playoffs?
Habs need to find a way to roll out four lines and six D next year. Gionta the next midget to go, hopefully Habs find someone bigger and worth that $5M cap hit. Not questioning Gionta's effort or character, but he was never worth $25M over five years and was the main reason Montreal traded Ryan McDonagh and others to the Rangers for Scott Freakin' Gomez!!!

[jeffx]

wr501 - I hope you Rangers fans realise how fortunate you are. If Dolan handled the hockey team like he does the basketball team, you'd be as frustrated as us Knick fans. Hope the Rangers can get it done.

[dave]

wr501 - I hope you Rangers fans realise how fortunate you are. If Dolan handled the hockey team like he does the basketball team, you'd be as frustrated as us Knick fans. Hope the Rangers can get it done.

I don't think Dolan does anything to the hockey team. He just lets Glen Sather make all the decisions. Frankly, I wonder if Dolan even watches Rangers' games.

[wr50l]

wr501 - I hope you Rangers fans realise how fortunate you are. If Dolan handled the hockey team like he does the basketball team, you'd be as frustrated as us Knick fans. Hope the Rangers can get it done.

No way man. This team frustrates every year. Trades potential for former stars, every year the power play is garbage, hands out the worst player contracts in sports for that long-term feeling of fan haplessness. For all the money spent on the team the product has been garbage; it's twenty years since our last Cup Final appearance. Hopefully we win it all this year because it will probably back to shit again in October.

[dave]

No way man. This team frustrates every year. Trades potential for former stars, every year the power play is garbage, hands out the worst player contracts in sports for that long-term feeling of fan haplessness. For all the money spent on the team the product has been garbage; it's twenty years since our last Cup Final appearance. Hopefully we win it all this year because it will probably back to shit again in October.

I don't wanna sound like a sore loser, admittedly unhappy my team lost, but the Rangers need Lundqvist to play better than he ever has to even remotely have a chance against the Kings. The best case scenario for the Rangers is Chicago coming back to win, IMO.

[EmpireWF]

Taking 4 from LA would be extremely tough but this is Lundqvist's first shot at the cup. Can't believe he won't rise to the occasion.

wr501 - I hope you Rangers fans realise how fortunate you are. If Dolan handled the hockey team like he does the basketball team, you'd be as frustrated as us Knick fans. Hope the Rangers can get it done.

I don't think Dolan does anything to the hockey team. He just lets Glen Sather make all the decisions. Frankly, I wonder if Dolan even watches Rangers' games.

This cannot be understated re: Dolan. A few months back he did some interviews after the Phil Jackson deal and on WFAN, I remember him talking about the Rangers & Sather. He essentially said he knew little when he took over the reigns for the Rangers and brought in Sather to essentially run the organization. He's learned a lot but clearly this is Sather's party and Dolan signs the checks....while the Knicks are Dolan's party to a fault.

[wr50l]

I fear it will be finished after 5 close games, probably with some overtime. They will probably keep us at arm's length but with Hank playing better than I've ever seen him I don't think we'll get swept. I'll hold out hope that we can pull it off but really we only have about a 40% chance of winning. I'm assuming LA will be the opponent but if it's Chicago it will be more believable because we can outright win a goalie duel with them.

[Guest]

Taking 4 from LA would be extremely tough but this is Lundqvist's first shot at the cup. Can't believe he won't rise to the occasion.






This cannot be understated re: Dolan. A few months back he did some interviews after the Phil Jackson deal and on WFAN, I remember him talking about the Rangers & Sather. He essentially said he knew little when he took over the reigns for the Rangers and brought in Sather to essentially run the organization. He's learned a lot but clearly this is Sather's party and Dolan signs the checks....while the Knicks are Dolan's party to a fault.

This explains why Sather has kept his job over the past few seasons, I was always wondering about that.

[leaffan]

Your welcome dave. Next time you copy what I have been saying all along you mind giving me credit for it.

[EmpireWF]

Goalies are barking at each other tonight.

[Price]

Good luck in the finals, hawks

[dave]

Your welcome dave. Next time you copy what I have been saying all along you mind giving me credit for it.

I'm not saying you were 100% wrong, but it was always obvious you hated the Habs and always saw the cup as half empty, rather than half full. And it was obvious you were bitter about what happened to your team this year. I can't remember ever begrudging your team's playoff success last year.

[EmpireWF]

[leaffan]

I'm not saying you were 100% wrong, but it was always obvious you hated the Habs and always saw the cup as half empty, rather than half full. And it was obvious you were bitter about what happened to your team this year. I can't remember ever begrudging your team's playoff success last year.

I can hate the habs all I want (for that matter I hate every other team in the league) but when I watch games and look up the stats after I feel like my opinions are fairly valid. If someone wants to argue them and/or point out where I'm wrong somewhere all I ever ask is to point to it and tell me. Hell Thomas and I all year have had some good hockey talk and I never get the same sort of stupid responses back from him.