ECSF: Game 1 - New York Rangers vs Carolina Hurricanes, 4pm ET, ESPN

[Richter915]

Wayyyy too close. Rangers need to learn to put their foot down with a lead.

 

[ORRFForever]

TBH I do not even think it was deliberate, he was going for the puck and his stick happened to trip the player

I hope so because, otherwise, it'll be hard to look your teammates in the eyes.

 

[paragon]

Exciting ending. Carolina is crazy good on 6-5.

 

[PlushMinus]

Stall.... No, Svetsnikov.

It's Staal and Svechnikov. Come on guy get the spelling right

 

[Kcb12345]

Lmao Kreider taking his glove off and holding it up on his stick for the Rempe high five is hilarious

 

[Banjo Cat]

Well, Carolina has to be a bit better next game to get the split.

 

[Ugene Magic]

Good goin' Rangers....

Definitely Chaos abound...

 

[NYI365]

Canes dominated o zone possession as expected but even though they won Round 1, there were times they looked to make one too many passes instead of shooting. Few cases today I counted the same thing. Their agenda for Game 2 should be to simply simplify.

NYR did what they had to do and when you score 4 with Igor in net that should (and was proven to be) be all you need.

 

[Dirty Dan]

How do you take that penalty 200 feet from your own net?

Because they're scrambling to score as fast as possible, its not a normal scenario

 

[LionsHeart]

This series is gonna take years off my life.

 

[Jussi]

It's Staal and Svechnikov. Come on guy get the spelling right

Svetsnikov is how we spell it in Europe. And Stall was stalling!

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

How do you take that penalty 200 feet from your own net?

He was going for the puck but also very obviously tripped the guy. Bad luck, but the right call.

 

[DieSendungmitderMaus]

Obvious trip at the end buy looked like the ref standing right next to it didn't call it? Or maybe the slowmo ended too quickly

 

[mm11]

Canes brought their C game a couple of posts too. Rangers did what they had to do

 

[Kocur Dill]

Svechnikov (37) is Staal (11) penalty

4v4 under 1m to go, "if they get Andersson on the ice" announcer says, yet puck drops and Andersson is there.

Earlier in the game Kuznetsov gets a penalty but announcers said Kotkaniemi.

Sweet baby Jebus.

Can we please get Gary Thorne, Doc Emerick, John Davidson back in the booth? Hell, what's Sam Rosen doing with the game on ESPN not MSG? Give the guy a go will ya?

 

[ORRFForever]

Because they're scrambling to score as fast as possible, its not a normal scenario

Let me rephrasse, DD. You can NOT take that penalty 200 feet from your own net with the game on the line and a 2 man advantage in the Ranger's Zone.

 

[Mobiandi]

Rangers had MSG jumping tonight and home ice advantage was a big factor. That said, I thought the Canes had the same deer-in-headlights vibe they usually have in a playoff series where they aren't runaway favourites. This could be yet another quick elimination for Carolina

 

[NorthStar4Canes]

Oh well, not worried. Not going to take 2 on the road and saw no sign of the massive, imposing Ranger-beasts that were supposedly going to physically crush the Canes into submission leaving them wrecked on the ice and gun-shy.

What I did see was great Ranger PP execution on blown Canes coverage plus Andersen with a couple slumpy ones.

If Canes stay out of the box and plug the leaks, they'll be fine.

 

[Leonardo87]

Rangers looked very good. Felt Shesty gave up one goal more than he should have. Mika was excellent tonight. More of that and the Rangers got this.

 

[BB79]

Still thinking Rags-Cats ECF

 

[DelZottoHitTheNetJK]

Who else with the U7.5 did Brent Burns just absolutely bail out

Way too much chaos at the end; Rangers have to clean that up. They weren't their normal 1-3-1 selves in the third period; they need to go back to that.

Carolina was absolutely pounding pucks into the low slot and the Rangers simply refused to let them get a shot off. Expect Carolina to flex their offense a little bit next game for more point/tip shots. The Rangers simply don't allow a lot of slot looks

 

[clmetsfan]

Obvious trip at the end buy looked like the ref standing right next to it didn't call it? Or maybe the slowmo ended too quickly

That was a linesman, not a ref.

Oh well, not worried. Not going to take 2 on the road and saw no sign of the massive, imposing Ranger-beasts that were supposedly going to physically crush the Canes into submission leaving them wrecked on the ice and gun-shy.

What I did see was great Ranger PP execution on blown Canes coverage plus Anderson with a couple slumpy ones.

If Canes stay out of the box and plug the leaks, they'll be fine.

What? Who on earth said this would be the case?

 

[kickback256]

That was a linesman, not a ref.


What? Who on earth said this would be the case?

The entire Rangers board…

 

[newsportsfan123]

Rangers had MSG jumping tonight and home ice advantage was a big factor. That said, I thought the Canes had the same deer-in-headlights vibe they usually have in a playoff series where they aren't runaway favourites. This could be yet another quick elimination for Carolina

The Canes are rarely quickly eliminated in the 2nd round.

 

[BurnabyJoe7]

Saw the highlights. Thought I was watching an outdoor pickup game with all the defensive breakdowns. Carolina needs to be better on the pk.