Series Talk: Rangers vs. Carolina (Game 1, Sunday May 5th @ 4pm ET, ESPN)

[bhamill]

The Trophy has been awarded 36 times, but only eight of the winners have gone on to win the Stanley Cup in their respective years, leading to a popular superstition that the Trophy may be cursed.

Yes, but the trophy winner wins the cup more often than #2 or #3 or any other place finisher. That's the point. 16 teams get in. The finish spot that wins most often is #1... but the odds of the other 15 spots added up of course exceed the odds of the #1 finisher.

 

[TominNC]

I appreciate your commitment to being a member of the tone police.

You're welcome. I appreciate you being the keeper of how we should react to nonsense.

 

[bhamill]

8/36 isn’t bad numbers for a particular spot.

exactly. that's 22.2% of the time. If it was a straight up crapshoot where every team has an even shot, then all 16 teams would have a 6.25% chance.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Rod will be in Toronto next year if they don't get a deal done.

I enjoy daggering era's (Crosby Era in 2022, Ovechkin Era this year) so might as well do the same to the Rod the Bod Era.

 

[Rangerfan4life90]

Someone else said it, but this could be the Hurricanes last stand. They have a lot of free agents upcoming, including their coach. Could potentially see them take a step back next season and beyond.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Someone else said it, but this could be the Hurricanes last stand. They have a lot of free agents upcoming, including their coach. Could potentially see them take a step back next season and beyond.

It’ll be a re-tool for them. Most of their really important piece will still be here.

That KHL defenseman better be as good as they think he is though.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

 

[will1066]

What a Rod wants, what a Rod needs?

 

[Clark Kellogg]

Welcome Back Mr. Andersen:

 

[Leonardo87]

What a Rod wants, what a Rod needs?

@Machinehead

Please ban.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

@Machinehead

Please ban.

Ooo…what’s a ban?
I want one.

 

[Machinehead]

@Machinehead

Please ban.

*whips out calendar*

It's Killem's turn!

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

I love how right off the bat they just break into an answer from Lavy and you need to find clues over the first 20-30 seconds to figure out who the f*** hes talking about

 

[CLW]

And I only did "I told you so" with Tampa going out early because people were being massive bitches about playing them.

People who have confidence in the team should agree with me on that one.

The only reason, I for one, didn't want to play Tampa (out of the options) was not that I feared their hockey, it's that I thought the Rangers would limp out of that series with injuries due to Tampa thuggery. But Tampa were tame compared to previous seasons and let Florida through in a most gentlemanly manner, which Florida greatly appreciated.

 

[will1066]

@Machinehead

Please ban.

I hope we get a preposterous amount of power plays.

 

[CLW]

If it is, they reverted to default mode against the Islanders.

It makes me question just how good of a coach Rod the Bod is. He's obviously a great motivator and leader but it seems like he puts one thing in place and his team is going to live or die by it. The PK system has been undeniably very successful for his entire tenure there but it also gets roasted at some point during the playoffs (which has resulted in them being eliminated along with not being able to score.) Nothing has changed on the PK, it's nuts to bolts the exact same thing they've been running for years.

His flaw is lack of creativity. I'm confident the Rangers can exploit the Canes energizer style and find the holes in their game. NYR in 6.

 

[80shockeywasbuns]

nobody is even being negative lol

Anything that isn’t “rangers in 3” = whining/complaining

 

[Clark Kellogg]

I love how right off the bat they just break into an answer from Lavy and you need to find clues over the first 20-30 seconds to figure out who the f*** hes talking about

Dolan sued the NHL to keep control of NY Ranger content and lost.
This is what we get when the people running this have no vested interest.
Most U.S. teams have less.

 

[GAGLine]

https://x.com/DarrenDreger/status/[B]1785731186884575469[/B]

Idk how to properly post tweets but this is always a positive sign for a team that advanced less than 24 hours ago.

The important part is the number at the end, which I have bolded.

You can change X to twitter, but if there is anything in the URL after the bolded number, you have to remove it. Like so:

Alternately, you can just stick the number between media tags and it will work. That is what the site resolves it to when you use the above URL. If you quote someone who has done it correctly you will see this:

The website doesn't understand what X.com is, so it doesn't convert it to the proper media tags. I would have thought they would have updated the site by now to fix it, but then again, I'm not really surprised that they haven't.

 

[will1066]

Anything that isn’t “rangers in 3” = whining/complaining

It was the fans' ire to "Rangers in 60" that forced MSG to offer full game replays. Now they're known as "Game Rewind."

 

[Guyute]

 

[Filip Chytil]

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

Man, there are so many reasons why I want to dust the Canes

 

[HolyHagelin]

The whole Hurricanes are the favorite/President's Trophy curse is just a little bit too perfect. Hockey and life are messy with events such as greasy goals. I don't think it's going to work out for them.

Well only one team has Greasy Vesey, sooooo….

 

[will1066]

New York Rangers rookie Matt Rempe doesn't mind playing the villain role in the NHL playoffs | TSN

Matt Rempe stretched on the bench several minutes before warmups when the chants started.

www.tsn.ca