Series Talk: ECF : New York Rangers vs Florida Panthers | Panthers lead 3-2

[Leonardo87]

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New York Rangers (1M) vs. Florida Panthers (1A)​

Eastern Conference Finals

Game 1: Panthers at Rangers -- May 22, 8 p.m. ET (ESPN, ESPN+, SN, CBC, TVAS)
Game 2: Panthers at Rangers -- May 24, 8 p.m. ET (ESPN, ESPN+, SN, CBC, TVAS)
Game 3: Rangers at Panthers -- May 26, 3 p.m. ET (ABC, ESPN+, SN, CBC, TVAS)
Game 4: Rangers at Panthers -- May 28, 8 p.m. ET (ESPN, ESPN+, SN, CBC, TVAS)
+ Game 5: Panthers at Rangers -- May 30, 8 p.m. ET (ESPN, ESPN+, SN, CBC, TVAS)
+ Game 6: Rangers at Panthers -- June 1, 8 p.m. ET (ABC, ESPN+, SN, CBC, TVAS)
+ Game 7: Panthers at Rangers -- June 3, 8 p.m. ET (ESPN, ESPN+, SN, CBC, TVAS)
+ If Necessary
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[DelZottoHitTheNetJK]

Panarin didn’t do squat against Andersen who is a pewee goalie compared to Bobrovsky lol

FLA in 5

Post the bet slip or you're full of shit. FLA in 5 is currently +500, easiest money you could ever make. Nothing to lose for you right!

 

[The S5]

Anyone coming on here and making proclamations as if they know what will happen in this series is showing their ass.

 

[Irishguy42]

Hate having to wait until Wednesday for this series to start.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Hate having to wait until Wednesday for this series to start.

Not me. My heart is enjoying these stress free days.

 

[irishlaxburger2]

I dunno man. Every time I've watched Barkov against the Rangers, it's obvious he's a really good player but he doesn't have the foot speed to scare me. He doesn't push back defenses, he doesn't command respect off the rush as a puck carrier. That's the Rangers biggest weakness and in no way does he exploit that. He likes to set up in the zone and the Rangers will gladly defend that all day long.

Defensively, I don't doubt he's legit. But we also have a couple elite defensive centermen.

I expect a lot of the top talent in this series to negate each other and to see the majority of whatever scoring we get to be from both teams bottom 6.

Also, for everyone (or probably just that one guy because it's a trash take) that thinks the Rangers haven't beaten strong competition yet..Carolina would have curb stomped Boston. Every single day and twice on Sunday. That is an excellent team and the Rangers started playing with their food after going up 3-0. To the victor goes the spoils, the Rangers handled business in the regular season to draw Washington. They earned a tune-up round, this core has proven itself in the playoffs in 22' as well

He scored one of the prettiest rush goals of the entire season against the Rangers this year

 

[CanePanther]

Tbf he had 109 pts last year on a team that barely made it to the playoffs, and this year he was fighting off a broken sternum from the finals and really only starting producing points in January.

Rheinhart enough said……..

 

[Cats2TheCup]

The Panthers swept Carolina in the playoffs last season. Rags fans thinking that playoff Canes are better than playoff Panthers are deluding themselves. This series is gonna be a total banger.

 

[BS45]

Rangers have 1 Cup in the last 84 years.
Messier aided.

Messier screwed up the greatest hockey chant of all time.

1940….1940….1940.

Funny but the Panthers have NEVER won the Cup, as in zero, zippo, nada!!. Since the Panthers entered the NHL its Rangers 1 Cup to Panthers 0 Cups!! Don't worry we will start a new chant for the Panthers this year- NEVER... NEVER... NEVER

 

[CanePanther]

Money line:

New York Rangers -102

Florida Panthers -118

 

[BS45]

Barkov>Zibenejad
Tkachuk>Panarin
Reinhart>Kreider


Carolina is not a great team, not in the playoffs. You can think that all you'd like but nothing over the last half decade indicates they're a "good" team in the playoffs. They're regular season, paper tigers.

Bruins and Lightning beat both the Capitals and Canes if they were to face them in the playoffs this year. Rangers have cruised all season. Florida will be a wake up call.

Look, everyone wanted Carolina to win and pumped them as cup favorites with the fancy stats. But since they are out now we can stop pretending and recognize they were never good. Panthers in 3 with a forfeit in game 4 as NYR can't handle the real contender. But if the Panthers do wind up losing then they weren't any good in the first place.

What I'm trying to say is, rangers are like Columbus tier.

LOL!! How did Columbus get to the Presidents Trophy Tier!!

 

[RiverbottomChuck]

I think the cats tune the rags up game one and it gets really chippy and nasty from there. Could go either way in the end I think, the coach battle will be interesting too. The cup will be won by the Eastern team this year though.

 

[TGWL]

I get some fans are down on Florida after their last series, but come on, they're a great team. As a NYR fan, this was the potential matchup many predicted. To get through the East you'll need to get past Florida, and that's going to be extremely difficult.

 

[CanePanther]

I get some fans are down on Florida after their last series, but come on, they're a great team. As a NYR fan, this was the potential matchup many predicted. To get through the East you'll need to get past Florida, and that's going to be extremely difficult.

Words of wisdom from a smart and educated Ranger fan. I fear the Rangers but they still need to go through us to get to the mountain top. The Cats have a better team than last year they are a confident bunch and favored on the money line. It’s not surprising that the Rangers got here they are a great team but this ain’t the regular season they will see a very determined bunch of Cats.

 

[Ratsreign]

It was more of a slog to get past Boston that I predicted. The Panthers are not playing that well tbh. Certainly, they are capable of more. Tkachuk is having nowhere near the same impact as last year. Luckily Barkov looks better this year.

I think Rangers take this in 6.



If it is going to 7 surely it will be quite close...

Broons and the Panthers were definitely a slog, as they were both playing big boy hockey. There wasn’t much room out there for pretty plays.
FL focusing on trying to stay out of the box, seems to have dialed back the pot-stirring aggression a little. “Certainly, they are capable of more.” Yep, we’ve only seen flashes of them when they really got it rolling. Something has seemed a bit off, in several of their games.

Funny but the Panthers have NEVER won the Cup, as in zero, zippo, nada!!. Since the Panthers entered the NHL its Rangers 1 Cup to Panthers 0 Cups!! Don't worry we will start a new chant for the Panthers this year- NEVER... NEVER... NEVER

Can you do it right after you do the one about Potvin?

 

[Chaos2k7]

Rangers fans are really loving pumping up their own tires, you should be happy you have such a great team, but let's not pretend that this is some huge mismatch of a ECFs. Lol

Gonna be a long and physical series, you can count on that.

 

[Ratsreign]

I think the cats tune the rags up game one and it gets really chippy and nasty from there. Could go either way in the end I think, the coach battle will be interesting too. The cup will be won by the Eastern team this year though.

Buy one-get one free special offer on the tune up, this week only!

Cats bite the Big Apple, return to Sunrise up 2-0


This series is going to be close, and I expect it to be fun to watch.

 

[Zbynek]

Great matchup.

 

[DialUp]

LOL!! How did Columbus get to the Presidents Trophy Tier!!

Luck, refs, bettman, the United states power play mercantile system, goaltending, lucked out on panarin, Fox only wanting to go to the rangers, the senators blowing the Mika trade, Carolina letting trocheck leave. Cheating to get Laf who turned out good after all.

Get the picture? They are Columbus without all of that

 

[RiverbottomChuck]

Buy one-get one free special offer on the tune up, this week only!

Cats bite the Big Apple, return to Sunrise up 2-0


This series is going to be close, and I expect it to be fun to watch.

I just want to see a giant subway godzilla rat get tossed on the ice in NY.

 

[DelZottoHitTheNetJK]

He scored one of the prettiest rush goals of the entire season against the Rangers this year

Pretty sure Reinhart scored that goal if we're talking about the puck bobbling thing

I refuse to believe that the Rangers are going to allow him to bobble the puck with his head down for 7 seconds in the middle of the ice during the ECF without putting him into the 5th row

 

[Ratsreign]

I just want to see a giant subway godzilla rat get tossed on the ice in NY.

If it’ll get me a spot in an nhl promo commercial, I’ll do it.
It could be my big break

“someone threw a live one! Well, it wasn’t ‘live’....but it was real!!”
-Jaromir Jagr 1996

Pretty sure Reinhart scored that goal if we're talking about the puck bobbling thing

I refuse to believe that the Rangers are going to allow him to bobble the puck with his head down for 7 seconds in the middle of the ice during the ECF without putting him into the 5th row

Lolollololol “7 seconds”.
They would’ve hit him on that play if they weren’t either mesmerized or already twisted into a knot.

 

[GG96]

Post the bet slip or you're full of shit. FLA in 5 is currently +500, easiest money you could ever make. Nothing to lose for you right!

Don’t you know Panarin has to face Bobrovsky and not Andersen? Bobrovsky is basically Ken Dryden with his .902

 

[DelZottoHitTheNetJK]

Rangers fans are really loving pumping up their own tires, you should be happy you have such a great team, but let's not pretend that this is some huge mismatch of a ECFs. Lol

Gonna be a long and physical series, you can count on that.

Uh..Legitimate Rangers fans aren't pumping our own tires. To be fair they won the president's trophy and won their first 7 playoff games. They made relatively easy work of a Carolina team that was considered to be a cup favorite. Had they not taken their foot off the gas being up 3-0 that series would have been over in 5. Your fans are the ones that think you're winning both games at MSG and "Panthers in 5."

Whatever hype they've generated is legit. They've done this with Adam Fox playing obviously injured and a shell of his former self.

That being said, the Panthers were always the team I wanted to face the least. Them and the Rangers are very obviously the 2 best teams in the East regardless of who made it to the ECF; I think they're both better than anything still standing in the West

 

[Profet]

Panarin didn’t do squat against Andersen who is a pewee goalie compared to Bobrovsky lol

FLA in 5

Panarin had 8 pts in 6 games against Carolina...

 

[GG96]

Rangers fans are really loving pumping up their own tires, you should be happy you have such a great team, but let's not pretend that this is some huge mismatch of a ECFs. Lol

Gonna be a long and physical series, you can count on that.

Are you participating in the same thread as everyone else?