If last week you said a TB vs NYR series would be a mismatch in favor of the rangers you wouldve been laughed at, and I am one of the people that in the midst of the canes series thought NYR would give TB a harder series than the canes would. The rangers are proving to be a good team just like many of us said they were for months, but the chest thumping around here is getting out of hand.
I have a good feeling about tonight. I think we win.
Maybe so, but we have the great equalizer. Shesty. I am much more concerned with playing in the high altitude and they have home ice. Reason why I wanted Edmonton.
No one coasts better than the bread and butter boys
This is far from meaningless.
This isn't rolling dice when fatigue and injuries become a part of the equation. More games means more wear and more tear, and that is a factor in a playoff run. Only one team has ever played three game sevens in the first round and yes it was the 2014 kings, but that is a complete anomaly.
Are you guys serious? Because I toss out a completely subjective 10 percent number based on nothing but my opinion you're coming at me with a statistics lesson? Don't you have anything better to do than overreact to my subjective opinion?
Your gut is telling you the same thing mine is. This team is probably regretting that lost opportunity last game, and will do their best in making up for it. I forsee a very similar 5-2 Rangers win. Maybe tonight's the night Shesty gets his goal.
This team is a statistical anomaly.. I don't see why it stops now. There's a reason the analytic nerds and pundits 'dislike' us. We defy the 'unsustainable'. If anything, it'd be weird for it to stop now
what does that matter? We're still defying odds.
I can tell you the injury was significant and it did have a lasting impact into the summer that required a lot of "support" from the rangers org from what I was told . You can make of that what you want but I am not going to disclose more than that here. If I mod needs to verify the source of this they can pm me but I have already been vetted...
I understand that, I was one of the people advocating in season that this team could ride that combo to a deep run. All I am saying is the anomaly starts and ends with igor. Thankfully he is a part of this team.
go on....
thought the post was pretty clear regarding the fact I wont disclose more here. Just confirming there was a significant injury that impacted part of his summer. I'm not going to out more info and risk burning bridges or getting someone into shit, especially considering the nature of the person that info came from.
Seriously.
LOL! That's funny because that is exactly what I did. I made this prediction even before we finished off the Canes. I think it was Game 6. Under the caveat if we get past Carolina, we would end up in the Stanley Cup Finals. That Tampa was no match for us. Can't match our speed and tenacity. And that home ice cements our victory over them.
Out of the remaining 3 teams in the playoffs... Zibanejad is #1 in points and Fox is #2. Only MacKinnon has more goals (11) than Zibanejad (10) & Kreider (10).
