Toggle sidebar

GDT: Sabres @ Rangers | 7:00 PM ET | MSG

  • Xenforo Cloud will be upgrading us to version 2.3.5 on March 3rd at 12 AM GMT. This version has increased stability and fixes several bugs. We expect downtime for the duration of the update. The admin team will continue to work on existing issues, templates and upgrade all necessary available addons to minimize impact of this new version. Click Here for Updates
Status
Not open for further replies.
aufheben

aufheben

#Norris4Fox
Jan 31, 2013
53,870
27,724
New Jersey
Sabres @ Rangers
7:00 PM ET
MSG


tumblr_mithd4319m1qd1by5o1_500.jpg


13894323-standard.jpg

Streams​

[fieldset="Quotes From Prior Game"]
Alain Vigneault​
We talked about, before the game, that we have been playing good hockey for a long time and we want to go into the playoffs feeling good about our game. For the most part tonight, that’s what we did. Offensively we had one of our best scoring chance night for the year. We are going to be over 20 and that’s a lot of scoring chances in a game. We kept them close to 10 I think, so it’s a good night. The power play scored a couple tonight and we had the Zuccy (Mats Zuccarello) wave before the game.
Click to expand...


Henrik Lundqvist​
You want to get good habits and you want to try to play the game you want to play next week. You don’t want to change anything, your approach or your focus on the details, it needs to be here now and it needs to be there next week. You can’t take any shortcuts. You just need to focus the same way and take every game as an important game. Who knows, it can play a huge part in the end if we get the extra points here down the stretch and it put us in a better position.
Click to expand...


Mats Zuccarello​
I don’t think you can describe it in words. It’s surprising and I am really humbled. I have to thank everyone; it’s really big for me. I would probably put it as one of the highs in my career, so it’s really huge just to be a part of this team. There are so many guys here that deserve this prize and for me to get it, it’s pretty humbling.
Click to expand...
[/fieldset]

Tonight's Lines​

5763465_600x338.jpg

[fieldset="NYR Lines"]
Nash - Stepan - St. Louis
Pouliot - Brassard - Zuccarello
Hagelin - Richards - Fast
Boyle - D. Moore - Dorsett

J. Moore - Girardi
Staal - Stralman
Diaz - Klein

Lundqvist
Talbot
​
[/fieldset]

BuffaloSabres1980s.png

​
[fieldset="BUF Lines"]
Foligno – Ennis – Stewart
Hodgson – Girgensons – Mitchell
Deslauriers – Larsson – D’Agostini
Conacher – Ellis – Flynn

Ehrhoff – Ristolainen
Weber – McBain
McCabe – Pysyk

Hackett
Makarov​
[/fieldset]

LGR!​
Click to read more...
 
Last edited by a moderator:
A win tonight clinches a metro spot......An ROW with a regulation loss for Philly clinches seed 2, if I"m correct.
 
AHB said:
A win tonight clinches a metro spot......An ROW with a regulation loss for Philly clinches seed 2, if I"m correct.
Click to expand...

A ROW would mean they couldn't be a wildcard, but if Philly lost tonight and then won their next two, and the Rangers lost against Montreal they'd be tied in points and ROW and the season series was also tied, so I think it's down to goal differential in the head to head, which the Rangers with with a +2 I think.

Philly could still fall into the wildcard though and Columbus jump into the 3rd spot depending on how their last bunch of games go
 
This should be a really easy win.... and that's when you start to worry.

The Sabres - the worst team in the league, in disarray, missing players and with nothing significant to play for this season.

The Rangers - with great results in recent games, on home ice, playing for home ice advantage in the playoffs.

The absence of McDonagh and Kreider is not anywhere near a sufficient excuse for performing badly tonight.

The biggest risk that I see is the possibility of the players not going out with 100% intensity. Either because they are underestimating the opponent, thinking the game will win itself and/or because individual players don't want to get injured just as we're entering the playoffs.
 
The Sabres even without Miller seem to do a better than expected job of preventing goals. I worry about a 2-1 loss where we outshoot them 45-15. The Rangers have done a great job of losing those types of games this year.
 
From my porch the interesting thing will be to see how well the Rangers can off set the physical play and crease crashing by their opponents.

The best way to do that from a skill position is to have a PP firing on all cylinders.

The whole team will have to have everyone giving strong performances. Four players will have to prove/reaffirm that they belong in the Elite category:

Hank
MSL
McD
Zuuc

Underscore the above with the fact that Hank has to be flat out brilliant in these playoffs. He will need to steal at least a few games. Hopefully one or better two come in a final round.

Richards has to prove he's still relevant. Nash and Step need to have their first strong playoff performances. All that happens and the Rangers could go deep. If they do, they will need Kreider's big game abilities back in the lineup. This team is all but certain to be pretty banged up by the later rounds. Kreider could help to off set that.

But for the Rangers, it begins and ends with Hank.
 
Levitate said:
A ROW would mean they couldn't be a wildcard, but if Philly lost tonight and then won their next two, and the Rangers lost against Montreal they'd be tied in points and ROW and the season series was also tied, so I think it's down to goal differential in the head to head, which the Rangers with with a +2 I think.

Philly could still fall into the wildcard though and Columbus jump into the 3rd spot depending on how their last bunch of games go
Click to expand...

Pretty sure that's incorrect. If Philly loses tonight and we win then we have 41 ROW and there's no way that Philly can catch us since they only have 38.

So if we win tonight with an ROW, and they lose in any way we own any tiebreak. But technically they would still be able to pass us with an OT/Shootout Loss.
 
Yep, confirmed, if we win tonight with an ROW and Philly loses in regulation, we clinch home ice.
 
This has all the makings of a typical Rangers let down game.

1. Home ice
2. Vastly inferior team in the standings with nothing to play for
3. Rangers need this game to help secure home ice
4. Not a doubt in my mind the Flyers will beat the Lightning ESPECIALLY if the Rangers lose tonight.

Let's hope these aren't your typical Rangers.
 
A real chance to make up for Saturday. This "clinch" should be just as important as it was Saturday to clinch the playoffs. Need that Metro slot. Win this game, no excuses. Hopefully get some help and clinch home ice as well, or wait till Saturday and hope the Pens have some gumption to want to not get embarassed by Philly again.
 
7 goals scored, Zucc reaches the 60p barrier, St Louis scores 4, Stepan passes Zucc for point lead.

Boyle with the coast to coast.

Loffen appears and makes the GDT.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Latest posts

Ad

Upcoming events

Ad

Top Bottom