GDT: NYR vs CAR - There's always money in the BBQ stand

[Svechhammer]

Welp, here we go. Our last road game of the year, and only a week until the playoffs!

So up today we have the Rangers, the big blue of the division, desperate for a win to keep alive their Metro title chances.

Hope we win and crush their hopes and dreams. Home ice for the first two rounds certainly would nice.

So how did the weekend go? No major injuries right before the playoffs, right? That would suck, right?

Good news is that it sounds like Raanta will be dressing tonight, and very well could actually start. His issues in the last game were all cramping related. Which is good, because if I tried to bend like he did on that save, I would have blown out every tendon in my groin, so good on him.

And Freddie is expected back for Game 1?

So who knows who starts tonight. With Tro, it certainly looked like we were already starting to rest some players up for the playoffs, so who knows what the lineup will look like. All we know is, a win tonight would really be good. Never too early to have that first drink to calm the nerves, right?

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[Unsustainable]

Just win

 

[HisIceness]

Please cruise to a nice easy injury-free victory for Koch. Thank you and God bless.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Pyotr 30+ save shutout or we riot

 

[raynman]

 

[tarheelhockey]

Biggest game of the season, starting a rookie goalie at MSG. What could go wrong?

 

[Daeavorn]

Kick they yankee ass!

 

[AD Skinner]

Let's win a banner tonight!

 

[LostInaLostWorld]

2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+0+2+0+2+2+2+2+1+0+2+0+0+0+2+2+2+2+0+2+2+2+2+2+1+0+2+2+2+0+2+2+2+2+1+0+2+0+1+2+2+2+2+2+1+0+2+2+2+2+0+0+1+0+2+1+2+2+1+2+0+0+2+0+2+2+0+0+2+2+2+2+2=114

Win pls.

Thx in advance.

 

[djboos22]

Aho and Svech. They need to dominate and get the offense going. That's the key IMO.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Aho and Svech. They need to dominate and get the offense going. That's the key IMO.

good bet Svech will. Aho has been MIA for a while and likely will be until hopefully a switch turns on in the playoffs.

 

[djboos22]

good bet Svech will. Aho has been MIA for a while and likely will be until hopefully a switch turns on in the playoffs.

It sounds like the easy way out response (from me), but you're right on Aho. This would be the perfect game for him to turn that switch.

 

[Tryamw]

This game may be important...
get ready for the playoffs lads.. win this and then you can F around with the Devils.. cause it won't matter.

 

[Tryamw]

Biggest game of the season, starting a rookie goalie at MSG. What could go wrong?

Do I need to count the ways? Seems like something you know the answer to..
Like going against a Sicilian with death on the line...

 

[Svechhammer]

Do I need to count the ways? Seems like something you know the answer to..
Like going against a Sicilian with death on the line...

 

[Chrispy]

Hoping a late-arriving Russian can impact the selection of the all-American Metropolitan division leader.

 

[Svechhammer]

Hoping a late-arriving Russian can impact the selection of the all-American Metropolitan division leader.

Our Russian fled the motherland right around the time of the invation. Ergo, we have the upperhand, morally

 

[Tryamw]

Hey now... I'm so slobbering drunk I can't buy Brandy!...

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

WE ARE NOT TRYING TO WIN THE DIVISION.
IT’S A… SPECIAL METROPOLITAN SUPREMACY OPERATION.

 

[Chrispy]

2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+0+2+0+2+2+2+2+1+0+2+0+0+0+2+2+2+2+0+2+2+2+2+2+1+0+2+2+2+0+2+2+2+2+1+0+2+0+1+2+2+2+2+2+1+0+2+2+2+2+0+0+1+0+2+1+2+2+1+2+0+0+2+0+2+2+0+0+2+2+2+2+2

These Omicron Covid variant codes are getting out of hand.

 

[Svechhammer]

Pee Odor gets the start

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Pee Odor gets the start

Pee odor Koochie? Gross

 

[The Faulker 27]

How about Pyhodor

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Maybe a dumb question, but given it was just a "cramping issue" with Raanta, I wonder why he's not starting this game? Probably "keep him in bubble wrap until the playoffs" is the answer.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Maybe a dumb question, but given it was just a "cramping issue" with Raanta, I wonder why he's not starting this game? Probably "keep him in bubble wrap until the playoffs" is the answer.

It makes Tripp's comment this morning that his bet is that Pyotr starts game 1 in the playoffs all the more interesting... I gotta think Raanta is more hurt than we've let on, fine to be the backup but not to start for some reason.