2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs: We're In!!! Let's talk (Clinched 2nd Place)

[GAGLine]

If Nash, St. Louis and Stepan show up and produce, rangers win. Simple as that. The rangers have more than enough secondary scoring and their defense and goaltending is the best in the east IMO.

I'm confident in Brassard and Zuccs ability to repeat last year.

Other teams are going to be doing everything they can to make sure those players don't score. But we've got balanced scoring throughout the lineup. It will be hard for other teams to shut us down completely.

 

[SingnBluesOnBroadway]

Even though the Rangers would never do this because one guy can't skate and the other is more than likely nothing more than an AHLer, id bring up Bickel or McIlrath as a 7th defenseman just to patrol the ice should things start to get out of hand.

And sit who?

 

[aufheben]

Yeah, Bickel can patrol the Chase Bridges.

 

[Bleed Ranger Blue]

Even though the Rangers would never do this because one guy can't skate and the other is more than likely nothing more than an AHLer, id bring up Bickel or McIlrath as a 7th defenseman just to patrol the ice should things start to get out of hand.

Last thing in the world the Rangers should be doing is bring up 2 guys that can't play NHL hockey in the name of toughness.

This team is not tough. They need to play their game and not **** with things trying to fix the shortcoming.

 

[Fitzy]

I worry about Diaz in the face of a strong Philadelphia bottom 6, but calling up a fighter is not the solution to that problem.

 

[MGF0723]

And sit who?

Send down Fast if he's not proving his worth. I know he has only 2 more games to get ready for the big playoffs and he's definitely not taking Kreiders place. Look, it's a **** idea, I know this, we all know this but who's standing up for a McDonagh or a Nash when the Schenn's, Hartnells and Simmonds' are taking liberties with our players?

 

[MGF0723]

Btw, I wouldn't bring any one of these guys up. Just a BS idea on how to handle the Flyers.

 

[Bleed Ranger Blue]

Send down Fast if he's not proving his worth. I know he has only 2 more games to get ready for the big playoffs and he's definitely not taking Kreiders place. Look, it's a **** idea, I know this, we all know this but who's standing up for a McDonagh or a Nash when the Schenn's, Hartnells and Simmonds' are taking liberties with our players?

Im not going to let this type of argument serve as a distraction, and I sure hope the team doesn't. They are not a tough, physical team. They're just not.

McDonagh is going to get hit by Hartnell and Simmonds - why let it throw the Rangers off their game and try to be something they aren't?

 

[SingnBluesOnBroadway]

Im not going to let this type of argument serve as a distraction, and I sure hope the team doesn't. They are not a tough, physical team. They're just not.

McDonagh is going to get hit by Hartnell and Simmonds - why let it throw the Rangers off their game and try to be something they aren't?

Talk about playing right into the Flyers hands.

 

[Giacomin]

Can Avery still play?

 

[Infinitum Vitae*]

Than cant hit what they can't catch

 

[Infinitum Vitae*]

I haven't seen the flyers push us around at all this entire season... HF out of control again with the toffness

 

[Holocene]

I haven't seen the flyers push us around at all this entire season... HF out of control again with the toffness

Besides, the book is out on how to deal with the Flyers. Ignore their crap. We've been doing exactly that for the last 3 seasons and have been successful against them. Pittsburgh on the other hand gets too emotionally involved in the physical crap, tries to match it, and ultimately loses out.

 

[Jersey Girl]

Ya the way to make the Flyers pay is by scoring on the power play.

 

[Infinitum Vitae*]

Some of flyers fans said they didn't want to play us in the POs.. the reason.. McD

 

[Metrangerfan711]

Made this NYR Playoff Vid! Hope it gets you guys pumped! Check it out and let me know what you guys think!

 

[AHB*]

Lol Bickel? What did i just read.

 

[BarbaraAlphanse]

No reason to call up toughness now. That's no this team's identity. The way we will be successful in the playoffs is adhering to our game plan and not letting someone else's game plan dictate how we play or who we field on the ice.

 

[True Blue]

Talk about playing right into the Flyers hands.

The Rangers WILL get hit anyway. Often. But the Flyers are smart enough not to drop the gloves in the playoffs.

 

[Haanz]

Some of flyers fans said they didn't want to play us in the POs.. the reason.. McD

I'm friends with one of the Flyers' beat writers and he had a discussion with Voracek last week about the possibility of facing the Rangers in the playoffs. Voracek's exact quote on McDonagh - "He owns us."

 

[True Blue]

Than cant hit what they can't catch

There, you are mistaken. The Rangers will be hit often.

 

[haveandare]

Ya the way to make the Flyers pay is by scoring on the power play.

Absolutely. When they can't win on the ice, they try to goon it up. Let them take penalties and then bury them when they do. That's how you combat their style. Pitt has shown everyone exactly what happens when a team that isn't very tough let's a team like the Flyers goad them into being something they're not. They run around like idiots and have a pond-hockey series.

 

[n8]

Ben Bishop injured? the Lightning suddenly look like very appealing opponents even though we have a history of struggling against backups.

 

[Wolfy*]

No reason to call up toughness now.

Agreed. Fighting is almost non-existent in playoff games. One reason is that teams top their lineups, goons are out.

 

[Thirty One]

There, you are mistaken. The Rangers will be hit often.

Yeah, if the regular season is any indication, the Rangers should have the puck for the majority of the game, meaning the Flyers will have a lot more opportunities to make hits.