Series Talk: Rangers/Craps (Game 1 is Sunday 4/21 @ 3pm ET)

[LaffyTaffy13]

Here. We. Go.

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[Rangerboy030]

Anything less than a comfortable series win would be a disappointment.

 

[pld459666]

If the Rangers use their speed advantage to force the Caps in to taking penalties, this should be 5-6 game series.

Also, these 6 days off will allow the Rangers to get refamiliar with Lavy's defensive scheme.

Play the Caps tight defensively, they do not have much firepower.

Winnable series, but we need to cut them deep early and step on them until they bleed out

 

[Gardner McKay]

You spelled Craps wrong in the thread title.

Fixed.

 

[egelband]

Rempe vs Wilson will be fun to watch. Rempe has to play now in game 1 over Brodzinski right. Does Chytil return this series?

Lindgren brothers facing each other.

Yes they are related Sam. They are brothers not cousins.- Joe Micheletti

No Chytil. Caps Wilson is to vulnerable heads as flies are to shit. And the league will do everything to provoke it.

 

[Ratelleitlikeitis]

I have faith that Lavi knows what makes the opponent tick and how to jam them up.

 

[egelband]

I'm sure Bruins fans felt very confident last season.


Don't. Get. Cocky. Don't take any team lightly.

How we fans feel really doesn’t matter though. Let’s not take ourselves too seriously.

 

[Ail]

Anything less than a sweep is a disappointment, but lets be real this will go 7.

 

[aufheben]

Yeah why was he in the lineup tonight?

Washington has some injuries.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Also this kind of reminds me of the 2009 series flip flopped

And we were up 3-1 lol

Yeah, I asked who was the bigger favorite us or the Caps that year but no one answered, lol.

 

[Machinehead]

Nice to see an opponent we haven't played before.

 

[gump116]

Caps -37 goal differential is by far the worst of the salary cap era for playoff teams. Excluding the Canadiens from the Covid playoffs, the other 10 playoff teams with the lowest goal differential all lost in the first round and this Caps team is worse than all of them.

https://x.com/hayyyshayyy/status/1780428512555336029

 

[noncents]

just win game 1 and take her from there

 

[mas0764]

if we are trying to live to our seeding…

The last rangers were the first team to make the finals playing all 21. The Kings that year were the first team to make the finals playing 20.

Need a 5 gamer or better in round 1. Gotta have it.

Let’s get it.

You mean playing 21 games before the Finals?

That's not true. We beat Montreal in 6.

 

[eco's bones]

With Leonard the jump from the NCAA into the NHL playoffs is a large one. More often the guys who go from college to the NHL at end of season like Gauthier and Hutson jump to non playoff teams (or at least it seems to me). In any case there is much more at stake to jump onto an NHL playoff team. A mistake or two by the player for one could lead to his team's exit. When Kreider jumped on to the Rangers I think he got like 5 goals and 7 points in 17/18 (?) games. I think part of what led the Rangers to put him in were injury issues that cropped up right away. There were also games where he seemed completely lost. For instance which man to take on the back check and it might have cost us a game or two. Sometimes he'd be skating around 100 mph not understanding how the play was developing. Kind of showing off his speed without a purpose thing. The next season or two he was back and forth to the minors (and sometimes struggling in the AHL too) and it seemed that Torts had some issues with him. Well he had issues with Zucc too.

 

[Machinehead]

Crazy how the East lined up 1-8 anyway

 

[eco's bones]

With Leonard the jump from the NCAA into the NHL playoffs is a large one. More often the guys who go from college to the NHL at end of season like Gauthier and Hutson jump to non playoff teams (or at least it seems to me). In any case there is much more at stake to jump onto an NHL playoff team. A mistake or two by the player for one could lead to his team's exit. When Kreider jumped on to the Rangers I think he got like 5 goals and 7 points in 17/18 (?) games. I think part of what led the Rangers to put him in were injury issues that cropped up right away. There were also games where he seemed completely lost. For instance which man to take on the back check and it might have cost us a game or two. Sometimes he'd be skating around 100 mph not understanding how the play was developing. Kind of showing off his speed without a purpose thing. The next season or two he was back and forth to the minors (and sometimes struggling in the AHL too) and it seemed that Torts had some issues with him. Well he had issues with Zucc too.

Okay looking back at it---Hagelin got suspended for a hit on Alfredsson and then I think it was Chris Neil looking for revenge for that knocked Brian Boyle out (concussion (?) for a couple/three games). Neil would do shit like that. I think the Rangers almost signed him that year too. Ottawa had Matt Carkner (another piece of work) running around too. It turned into a nasty series but that's how the opening for Kreider came about.

 

[chosen]

Win this in 5 or fewer or start drafting a new letter

So, if the Rangers win the Cup playing 28 games, you'll be disappointed?

I'd sign up for that.

 

[chosen]

Put Rempe in the lineup if for no other reason than to deter Wilson

There is no such thing as deterrence and Wilson will be Wilson. The best we could hope for if Rempe plays is if they go off the ice together.

 

[KevinFinnerty]

4-5 game series

 

[chosen]

that would be completely unacceptable

It would be great.

 

[Machinehead]

The Caps are a low-scoring team with a hot goalie. Low-scoring hockey dictates dice roll results. It won't be a cake walk.

 

[chosen]

Rangers in 5. The Rempe factor will be huge in keeping Wilson in check. Ovi has never been hit by a moving wall in his career, well brother meet the Rempire State Building!

I'm gonna try to get tickets for game 3 or 4
Who's going!?

If Rempe and Ovechkin collide, Ovechkin will not go backwards.

Do some people think playing Rempe will stop Wilson from Wilsoning?

Only those who are unfamilar with reality.

 

[Machinehead]

This matchup reminds me of 2014 and thinking we'd destroy philly.. but it went 7 anyway.

Don't let that happen again

We kinda did and Hank had the worst series of his career. Series length is heavily dictated by goaltending.

 

[chosen]

Anything less than a comfortable series win would be a disappointment.

Anything less than a Cup victory will be a disappointment.

However, winning in any manner would be just perfect.

No Chytil. Caps Wilson is to vulnerable heads as flies are to shit. And the league will do everything to provoke it.

The league wants Wilson to injure Chytil, or did I misread that?

 

[Anthony5967]

Will this team practice today?