2021-22 NHL Season Thread

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I'm happy with the 1-1 split in the Garden.  Now if we can at least get DeSmith back that would be nice.

Rangers 1
Refs 1
Pengus - ZEROOOOO!!!!! 

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I'm happy with the 1-1 split in the Garden.  Now if we can at least get DeSmith back that would be nice.

Rangers 1
Refs 1
Pengus - ZEROOOOO!!!!! 

Lovely... now with Domingue in net for the duration, Bettman's star-addled league sweethearts are going to be a "feel-good story" if they have more success in the series.  It's like calling the Yankees the Little Engine That Could. 



I thought once we'd removed Pierre McGuire from the broadcasts that we'd have no more of this;

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Wanna share some butthurt Rangers fans with y'all...

I don't even know what the f*** this means. Is that some sort of slur because he's Russian?

Your team needed a f***ing three bounces in the first and a softy in the third and won the game by 1 not counting empty net goals. I wouldn't be bragging about your scrub ass team. Your superstar Hall of Famers also couldn't score on even 5% of their shots in the first two games on a goalie you said is crap in the playoffs. Your team is trash and will f***ing move to Kansas City after Crosby and Malkin retire like they should have until uncle Bettman gave them Crosby.

Did your goalie who will be working at Arby's in three years not allow four goals on less than 30 shots

Your team was gifted a goal that never occurred. Got two penalties in quick succession after, one of which was about as soft of a call as you will see and the other took our best PK'er off the ice because the referee couldn't correctly assess who committed a penalty. Goals were scored on both PP's. Then later your team scores a goal after one of our defenseman was hounded with no call about as much as the penalty we committed that led to that first penalty. Just no consistency. It's all to favor Bettman's favorite team.

If only Crosby could play in goal. The position would come naturally to him seeing how he has already made a career of diving and flopping around the ice.

No, actually I don't know who Don Koharski is. Had to look him up. He retired 13 years ago. Why would I know a referee from 13 years ago who has so little knowledge about the league that he can't even name the main players in a series? He's been gone so long that he hasn't even refereed a game with any player on our team, so that should tell you how relevant he is.

Your fan base is whining. You guys are so worried about a supposed flop by our goalie, who once again you guys can't score against. Thats 10 goals in more than 20 periods of hockey this season. I can't even search his name on twitter without seeing the incessant whining from Penguins fans and alleged Penguins journalists. It just proves my point. I think it's clear as day that Carter hit him, but regardless, why don't you worry about why you lost instead of whining about the Rangers?

Is it "butthurt" if it's all true?  Real hockey fans should be appalled at this travesty as the league has decided before the fact to give the Crosby-Malkin-Letang trio one last ride at the Rangers' expense.  It's really sad!  

I didn't expect to win it all in the first year back, so the learning process is what it is.  Hopefully these literal baby-eating demons from Pittsburgh get a good thwack in the next round from a team a bit more Cup-ready.  

Fact is, the Penguins are a disgrace and continuously ruin the legitimacy of the league.  Hopefully the next commissioner folds the franchise for these crimes against the sport.  

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I still think the Rangers will win the series, but Honkey Dude is a typical whiny bitch Rangers fan who hates greatness.

Unclr Gramps you guys need to be sending the “war room” in Toronto a big ol’ fruit basket at the end of this series considering the nonstop gifts they keep bestowing upon you.

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I still think the Rangers will win the series, but Honkey Dude is a typical whiny bitch Rangers fan who hates greatness.

Unclr Gramps you guys need to be sending the “war room” in Toronto a big ol’ fruit basket at the end of this series considering the nonstop gifts they keep bestowing upon you.

Good Morning, Nephew.  How was your evening? 

I was fine after Game 4 because I called it!  My score prediction was 6-1. 

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I have no sympathy for that detestable little sh**t.  The hockey equivalent of a spoiled little brat.  I can't ******* wait for this little asshole to be out of the league. 

https://twitter.com/Fox13Foxy/status/1524827801303584768?s=20&t=-7Ca_wLNneQM...

https://twitter.com/Barstooldmv/status/1475874236447264769?s=20&t=-7Ca_wLNne...

https://twitter.com/RangersCity10/status/1521902601570295810?s=20&t=-7Ca_wLN...

https://twitter.com/pepepavelski/status/872981914096947200?s=20&t=-7Ca_wLNne...

https://twitter.com/MikeByrne95/status/844356769786859520?s=20&t=-7Ca_wLNneQ...

https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/claude-giroux-on-surgery-scars-those-are-from-crosby/

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No matter what the subject, badger from Ohio interprets my justified grievances for "whining".  I guess that's just the scars I live with as a member of the greatest generation (Millennials) and hockey's finest fanbase (NY Rangers). 

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I genuinely feel awful for Toronto.

I can't even fathom what it must be like to be a Toronto Maple Leafs fan.  I mean... Again?  AGAIN?! 

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I'm disgusted with the Rangers' effort last night and will not be watching Game 3.  How dare they. 

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I'm disgusted with the Rangers' effort last night and will not be watching Game 3.  How dare they. 

Update: I watched it and they won.  Probably because I wore my Brassard jersey. 

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I have very little confidence the Rangers can win tomorrow''s Game 7 in Raleigh.  For whatever reason, that Canes team does a complete 180 at home and become one of the most defensively stout teams I've ever seen.  Barclay Goodrow being back in the lineup and slightly changing the line matchups is the one thing that gives me a sliver of hope.  Game 7s are exactly why he was brought in on a 6-year deal.

A remarkably successful season for the Rangers no matter the outcome.  They are a very young team with little playoff experience to speak of, yet here they are as one of the five teams left standing.  Love it!  They have shown me that they are a group with some stones.  "Dawg in them" as one might say.

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We're gonna win, don't hedge your bets yet, boys.

A friend of mine messaged me.

"We will crack the home/road code Monday night. We have Igor and they don’t."

It's a good point!

On we go, Kaiser Dave.  My dad and I have tickets to Game 2 Friday. 

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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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They deserved to lose, you can't just cease to exist in the third period. Onto Game 4, nobody said this would be easy.

Tampa in 6.