GDT: #77 - 04/01/14 | New York Rangers @ Vancouver Canucks | 10:00 - MSG

[aufheben]

Watch Carcillo and MSL have crazy chemistry.

That would literally be the coolest thing ever.

Carcillo 4 Conn Smythe

 

[LORENZO]

3am

Gutted I won't be watching, still hoping for the Carcillo goal.

 

[Lime]

That 11PM start

 

[NYRFANMANI]

4 AM, no way on earth can I watch this one.

LGR !!!!

 

[NYRFAN218]

Yesterday at the Rangers practice in Vancouver, Carl Hagelin was skating on a line with Derek Stepan and Rick Nash. (Steve Zipay)

Alain Vigneault said that he was about 80% sure that that trio would start the game together against the Canucks and that putting Hagelin with Stepan and Nash allows them to replicate the speed they lost with Chris Kreider’s injury. (NY Post)

With Hagelin moving up, Dominic Moore took some rushes with Brad Richards and Marty St. Louis as did Derek Dorsett. (NY Post)

Moore, who was a teammate of St. Louis’ in Tampa Bay, said that he knows how St. Louis wants to play and that because of their past as teammates he may be able to help St. Louis break out a bit. (Daily News)

http://snyrangersblog.com/2013-14/2...ht/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Looks like we'll wind up getting something like...

Hagelin - Stepan - Nash
Moore - Richards - MSL
Pouliot - Brass - Zucc
Carcillo - Boyle - Dorsett

The Moore with Richards line is intriguing but I'd rather just slot Miller into that spot and leave the 4th line alone since it's been our best line.

 

[nevesis]

Its only fitting that St. Louis will score tonight because Torts.

 

[Idlerlee]

I predict that St Louis will score 0 goals tonight. Someone else will score 1 each, and it wont be a frequent goalscorer

 

[GoAwayGiannone]

He's 80% sure? He's not 85% or perhaps even 86% sure?

 

[Pizza]

I maintain that MSL will earn the Bway hat b4 this trip ends. Hope it's tonight.

 

[aufheben]

Letttt's goooooo

 

[surf]

Is Boyle playing or does he have the Bieksa flu?

 

[KreiMeARiver*]

I remember in the old days, 10:30 west coast starts. Brutal

 

[gary laser eyes]

I maintain that MSL will earn the Bway hat b4 this trip ends. Hope it's tonight.

If he ever scores a goal he's sure to get the hat in that game.

 

[*Bob Richards*]

No, Dominic. Not, "forget aboot it. Forget about it".

 

[Crazed Beaver]

Tort to his guys: Ok boys run em early and run em often. He then takes sewer sp? and kassian aside and ensures they give this game the proper "focus".

Torts wont be shown up twice, especially given the circumstances. The league allows it as evidenced in the Philly fiasco so get the ambulance ready because torts has to manifest his ego through his players tonight.

 

[Riverdale]

I maintain that MSL will earn the Bway hat b4 this trip ends. Hope it's tonight.

Maybe out of pity...

 

[aufheben]

Maybe out of pity...

Here's a hat for St. Louis:

 

[silverfish]

Really hope someone in the media asks Torts to respond to Brooksies article that was published today

 

[gary laser eyes]

Really hope someone in the media asks Torts to respond to Brooksies article that was published today

Wow you weren't kidding. Brooksie laying it on thick.

This has been a season of fresh air for the Rangers. There has been an absence of drama. Tortorella believes conflict is good. If he said it once, he said it 100 times. But conflict ultimately beat down the Blueshirts, one by one.

It seems as if the same song is playing across the continent almost 2,500 miles away. Except where it took five years in New York, it took five months in Vancouver.

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Smart guys learn. Idiots don’t.

http://nypost.com/2014/03/31/good-chance-tortorella-gets-fired-after-this-season/

 

[highandwide]

Cool video from the first meeting. Cally and Kreider will be missed.

Btw, I didn't know AV can yell. Always so quiet on the bench, maybe not. He sounds like a foghorn, good lord...

so it's okay when he shouts "shoot" and "pass" but now me? OKAY.

 

[aufheben]

Brooks annoys me.

 

[Crease]

Brooks has zero tact. He and The Post are perfect for each other.

 

[Don Chytil]

Brooks has zero tact. He and The Post are perfect for each other.

Agreed for the most part, but that quote is kind of out of context without reading the article. Torts himself said that he looks like an idiot this year and AV looks like a smart guy. The quote in RangerBlue's post doesn't look as bad in that context.

 

[BlueshirtBlitz]

Torts is also infinitely better at his job than Brooks has ever been.

Brooks is awful.

 

[Garden Mystique]

I'm feeling a MSL goal will finally come tonight! LGR!