if we were down in the series he’d say “the rangers have shown resiliency in the playoffs so far but this is tampa” people are giving tampa the respect they deserve after winning 2 cups in a row. we’re getting the respect we deserve for a young team that wasn’t expected to but at this point could win the cup this year. beat tampa tonight ending the 17-0 record and people will be less rigid with the “but tampa…”
The only point I'm trying to make is that according to the pundits the Rangers aren't even in this series. It's Tampa Bay playing against themselves. It's insanity listening to the crap that comes out of their mouths sometimes.
Who knows Woodcroft's plans? But they better come up with a solution because they're down 2-0. Whatever they've been doing hasn't worked, and what happened in Vegas stays in Vegas.
Ha! Yea, Cap-Circumventing Covid Cup Champs. 2-times.They are saving that one for Game 3 or 4
I couldn't have said this better. But I could add a little something to this excellent post. Carolina didn't have any game breakers like the Avs. They didn't have a MacKinnon or Makar to get them back in the game.
that’s not even true i listen to nhl radio everyday. we’ve gotten way more respect so far against tampa than we did in the carolina series. people have been impressed with our team and there’s been much raving about igor, fox, mika, and the kids but it’s normal as a neutral fan to temper expectations after 1 game since the opponent has proven multiple times they can bounce back.
It’s exceptionally difficult to dismiss all that Tampa Bay have accomplished, besides being 2x Stanley Cup champions, they’ve won 17 consecutive times after a loss. That is an astronomical and incredible number. Its hard to dismiss that sort of resilience.
We find it very hard to play in the thin air up in Colorado. I hope we make a series of it. But I don't like our chances coming out on top.
I know....one minute I want to step carefully and the next I am all in for the Finals . It is tough.....they showed great character coming back from 3-1 deficits not once but twice ! Anyways....like I tell my hockey friends and Leaf and Hab fans...it is all bonus play now for us and the Rangers have absolutely nothing to lose . We have some great vets and some kids looking to make their mark and a coach they obviously like and play for and last but not least a World class guy in the net ! I like our chances.... & I hope Oilers push that series to at LEAST 6-7 games and Kassian and Nurse start finding pieces of MacKinnon and Makar on every rush.I don’t know how to feel. I’ve become more comfortable being the underdog and trailing
people are changing their tune because the rangers have continually looked better as the playoffs have gone on.
I'm not sure if you are trying to be like EdJovo or what. Never look past your current opponent. This team is going to be taking a Doctorate class in competing in the playoffs against Tampa. Tampa learned the hard way through failure and turned into arguably a dynastic team. Speaking words of "this will be easy" is just asking for bad juju that I want no part of.
And Carolina hadn't lost a game 7 and also hadn't lost at home yet. We can break this streak too!
F that.....put Gauthier in for a game LOL.....no point in wasting Kreider.....
ALL the analyst got this series wrong. All picking Tampa, when we are clearly the better team. It matters diddlysquat Tampa has won 17 times off a loss, or that they are the 2x Stanley Cup champs. if we clearly are the better team. And beating the Canes like we did, shows we are the better team. We improved throughout that series to beat a much faster, much more aggressive team than Tampa. And that is huge, because now we will have all the time and space needed to execute at will. There is no way Tampa can smother our attack like the Canes did. We will have free reign to execute our game plan, leading to many more scoring chances than we had against the Canes.
