Whether it was Boston or Ottawa, it didn't matter to me who we played as both teams were simply not as good as us in any way shape or form
Now that it's Ottawa, here are a couple of items I'm thinking about as we head into the series with them:
1. Craig Anderson is typically an absolute WALL when he plays us especially at MSG. I don't recall in the past 3-4 years if we've ever scored more than 3 goals on him in a game but if we have, it hasn't been many.
2. We are likely looking at alot of 1-0,2-1,3-2 type of games, similar to the Habs series.
3. We just sent Jesus Price to the golf links and despite how good Anderson plays vs us, he's still beatable as we proved in the 2013 playoffs when we beat him 4 times despite him playing very well. We've won some regular season affairs with Anderson in net, so he can play good and we'll still win.
4. If Hank plays like he has been, we'll be fine.
5. We need guys like JT, Hayes, Stepan, Kreider, all 4 who finally showed a pulse in Game 6, to step up and join Nash, Zucc,Vesey, Fast and give us consistant performances. Even still tho Ottawa has some nice fwds, our fwd group is better with much more depth
6. My mancrush on Brendan Smith has grown out of control. We have to re sign him Jeff...I know you read our board...lol
7. This won't be an easy series whatsoever. None are. But beating the Habs showed the kind of fortitude resiliance and skill we have. It also showed we can score some of those "greasy" goals that you need to get in the playoffs.
8. I'm thinking we should win this in 6 but it wouldn't totally shock me if we won the first two up in Ottawa, that we couldn't put this away in 5. I know that's not the Ranger way but now that it looks like we've figured out how to win important games again at MSG, considering how great we are on the road, maybe just maybe we can make this a hard fought but possibly short series.
Let's do this boys!
