Post-Series Talk: New York Rangers defeat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-2, advance to ECF

[Gardner McKay]

Congrats Rangers fans! Wasn’t much of a series… then became one. Hell of a team you’ve got. Go win it all.

Pleasure competing with you. Good group of fans you’ve got here. (Except a few of you, you know who you are lol.)

Best of luck my friend. This series may have a different outcome if Pesce isn't injured. It was that close.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Never in doubt tbh

 

[PanniniClaus]

Carolina living the Freddie experience.. in full.

 

[GAGLine]

Still don't think it was a penalty on Staal

Maybe not, but the call on Kreider was equally weak.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Said three years ago Canes are not going anywhere with Freddy choke Anderson.
Their other goalie is better.
Rod wtf were you thinking?? Freddy wasn't even very good in the games he won.

Freddy's only had 3 bad playoffs in 9 years, this was one of them. He's not a choker but for some reason he's in the Mike Smith mold where he gives up the most mind numbing goals possible that derail momentum

 

[Profet]

Maybe not, but the call on Kreider was equally weak.

Or the missed delay of game on Skjei.

 

[goflyakite]

Rangers fans, you’re welcome.

Canes fans, I’m sorry.

After the second period (as a Bruins and Sharks fan) I was explaining to my partner how only my two teams had blown a 3-0 lead for like the last 10000 years in sports.

I said I don’t really care about either of these teams (except I forgot Burns was still on Carolina) but it would be nice for another team to join the club.

The hockey gods usually don’t listen to me.

 

[Hunter Gathers]

Hey, does anyone have that awesome dude for SportsNet doing the call? I forget his name but someone posted one of his calls from our games before.

 

[dukedukowski]

The current Blueshirts forward joined Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier as the only Rangers to notch three goals in a period during a playoff game.

Kreider and Messier both did it in the third period, and Messier accomplished it in the "Guarantee Game" when he insisted they'd win Game 6 of the 1993-94 Eastern Conference Final against the New Jersey Devils.

 

[PaulD]

Freddy's only had 3 bad playoffs in 9 years, this was one of them. He's not a choker but for some reason he's in the Mike Smith mold where he gives up the most mind numbing goals possible that derail momentum

yea he sucks when it matters most.

 

[trilobyte]

Hey, does anyone have that awesome dude for SportsNet doing the call? I forget his name but someone posted one of his calls from our games before.

He is Harnarayan Singh, pretty good I agree.

 

[Oak]

Great win by the Rangers. I thought they were done tonight by the way they were moving in the second period.

 

[HolyHagelin]

Rangers really need COL/BOS to advance, if that happens I think they go 8-1 or 8-2 rest of way. Its a way different story if they have to go through FLA and DAL though. I'd still lean towards them winning it all but it might be more like an 8-6 or 8-7 type thing

8-7 is not a possible outcome

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

yea he sucks when it matters most.

Eh, I wouldn't say that. Again, he's a lot like Mike Smith where you remember the bad. He just didn't have it this year in the playoffs. The warning signs were there v the Islanders, the Rags were always gonna be way threatening obviously, Rod overplayed his hand in this series with the Andersen starts. Not sure why he didn't go to him after game 1 and that Panarin GWG that was absurdly soft

 

[BlueDream]

Still don't think it was a penalty on Staal

Completely irrelevant considering Carolina got away with delay of game a minute before that.

 

[UnSandvich]

 

[PaulD]

Eh, I wouldn't say that. Again, he's a lot like Mike Smith where you remember the bad. He just didn't have it this year in the playoffs. The warning signs were there v the Islanders, the Rags were always gonna be way threatening obviously, Rod overplayed his hand in this series with the Andersen starts. Not sure why he didn't go to him after game 1 and that Panarin GWG that was absurdly soft

Bang on.

 

[haveandare]

Pains me to say it but it was a hell of a fight from the Canes. I was mentally prepared for a game 7 after that second period. They have some weird lineup choices that maybe don’t seem big in a vacuum but add up to maybe tip the scales against them. Also Martinook is a menace. Would love him on the rangers

 

[BMOK33]

Could you imagine he did that after an SCF vs the Hawks? If it was a Cubs fan they'd have thrown it back on the ice probably.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Probably made a Rangers fan for life right there, lol

 

[Cuckoo4Kakko]

Special teams and Shesterkin.
Otherwise Canes were as good or even better.

If you ignore a lot of important parts of hockey, the Canes won. You steal this post from the Devils board?

 

[Rangerfan4life90]

This was also exhibit A as to why it's hard to win while down in a series 0-3 like Carolina was. There's basically 0 margin for error. They had a crappy 3rd period this game and that was the series essentially.

 

[34]

You were correct on that. Not to go too too off-topic but Leafs are still looking for the answer between the pipes.

The Leafs goaltending is trash, everyone knows this.

I don’t want to throw this thread off topic, awesome win by the Rangers. I was cheering for them.

 

[Lights911]

When does Carolina finally address this average at best goaltending?

 

[NotCommitted]

Great series, would have loved to see game 7 but I guess not.