GDT: Game # 68 - New York Rangers @ Detroit Red Wings - 7:30pm EST - TNT (Pirates of the Caribbean edition)

[Boris Zubov]

Expect big time games from Yves Racine and Gerard Gallant.

Racine was the first D off the bench when Coffey or Lidstrom got hurt in NHL '94.

 

[OTGHockey]

I have to say it is fascinating this team has 43 wins after 67 games played. It was drilled into our minds all year that this was a bad hockey team and it was completely unsustainable. How could this be possible? They should make a documentary on this miracle team.

As you can see from various posts, there's a lot of caution with the Rangers, because of how many letdowns they've had in their long history. Many are just waiting for the other shoe to drop per se.

That said, the Rangers were very reliant on Shesterkin in the first month, and then they got their power play going, which meant now you were relying on two different things, while the rest of the team was figuring it out.

There was a period in February/March too where they were being severely outplayed in the first (which then shifted to the second period), but managed to find ways to win.

Prior to the deadline, you could also point to how heavily reliant on Zibanejad, Kreider, Panarin, Fox and Strome to generate almost all their offense.

I posted the following last night on Twitter:
If you figure that the additions of Vatrano, Motte and Copp pushed Gauthier, McKegg and Reaves out of the line-up...you'd have to like the early returns on offense:

15GP 6G 5A 11Pts
Guys they pushed out
141GP 7G 15A 22Pts

The emergence of offense from Lafreniere hasn't hurt, and neither has Schneider's addition, which has somewhat stabilized the third pair defense after pretty much having to rely on the top four. You can also point to the improvement of K'Andre Miller through the year (although Fox-Lindgren have also regressed)

We're still in the regular season, and it remains to be seen how they do in a 7 game series in the playoffs, but I think there are signs here that with certain players stepping up, along with the integration of the three new forwards, that the Rangers have managed to fix a few things that were brokne

 

[Circus86]

LGR!

 

[SA16]

The Rangers have the 11th most even strength goals in the league since March 29th.

 

[THE BIG WHISTLE]

History suggests a close game tonight.

8 of the last 12 between these two teams in Detroit have gone to OT (including shootout)
13 of the last 14 have been decided by one goa

Unless Chris Osgood comes out of retirement we should be okay

 

[OrlandK]

Small sample size stats can be very misleading. Rangers probably not on par with East top tier: Panthers, Hurricanes &r Tampa. That said there is finally one observation that Valliquette made that I can endorse: will be very difficult for a team to beat Igor four times in a seven game series.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Nikita Filatov

 

[Hire Sather]

It feels like we beat them 1-0 multiple times with Zuccarello scoring the winner

 

[Brother Mouzone]

Has already been said , but this has the classic makings of a trap game ...Hope Turk gets this point across and the team comes out ready, the race for PO positioning is tight .Detroit is 2-6-2 in their last 10 and have lost 3 str8 , 2nd night of a back2back but still ..................

 

[LORDE]

 

[Circus86]

 

[New York RKY]

One of the best rides at Disney

Literally nothing is better than Big Thunder and Space Mountain. Don’t @ me.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Literally nothing is better than Big Thunder and Space Mountain. Don’t @ me.

Lol when I was 6 years old my mom took me on Thunder Mountain saying it’s a little choo choo train and I was terrified I haven’t been on Space Mountain yet but I’ll go on it next time (I’m a little scared of rollercoasters). Radiator Springs Racers is another excellent ride

 

[duhmetreE]

I feel a blowout coming.....







I just don't know for what team...

 

[Chytilmania]

Do we have enough POTC gifs for tonight?

 

[Kodiak]

He’s still been the worst goalie in the league in all but 1 of his last 5 games

EdJovo: You're the worst goalie I've heard of

Georgiev:

 

[KOVALEV022473]

Small sample size stats can be very misleading. Rangers probably not on par with East top tier: Panthers, Hurricanes &r Tampa. That said there is finally one observation that Valliquette made that I can endorse: will be very difficult for a team to beat Igor four times in a seven game series.

Sorry, this is just bullshit. We beat the Lightning three times this year, once back to back. We beat the panthers twice lost once and we beat Carolina once and lost once. I don’t know where this ridiculous narrative comes from at this point in the season.

 

[GG96]

Play Shesty. He didn’t have that much of a workload last night

 

[Holocene]

Literally nothing is better than Big Thunder and Space Mountain. Don’t @ me.

what about the only reason to go to animal kingdom: everest expedition! it’s basically those two rides smashed together.

 

[Fitzy]

The Matrix and Pirates are two trilogies where the first movie was legendary and the following two were garbage.

Still trying to figure out why each franchise was extended further after said poor performances.

 

[GAGLine]

The Matrix and Pirates are two trilogies where the first movie was legendary and the following two were garbage.

Still trying to figure out why each franchise was extended further after said poor performances.

 

[Cmox]

Lol when I was 6 years old my mom took me on Thunder Mountain saying it’s a little choo choo train and I was terrified I haven’t been on Space Mountain yet but I’ll go on it next time (I’m a little scared of rollercoasters). Radiator Springs Racers is another excellent ride

Thats too bad because Expedition Everest is a great ride.

 

[Unpredictable1]

Is that Kate Upton?

 

[Machinehead]

We're playing again?

Doesn't this league care that I watch wrestling on Wednesdays?

 

[EdJovanovski]

We're playing again?

Doesn't this league care that I watch wrestling on Wednesdays?

Why you watch that