I know little to nothing about Hockey, last time i watch a full game was in 1994 when both knicks and rangers made it to the finals.
The question I have is, where the Rangers consider a championship team from the jump, or at best, a playoff contender base on their roster?
Middle of the pack playoff team. Maybe even 3rd in he East behind Boston and Pittsburg. Trading for St. Louis elevated their ceiling IMO. But they are still looked at as underdogs. Them winning it all would not be a surprise. It's not like they are the hawks, bobcats
They have a lot of depth and scoring. Great goalie and excellent coach and system. The parts are there
That is the outside perspective. Rangers fans thought they could make a Stanley cup run
Hockey is wide open like the other sports. Basketball you have the best player you get to the finals
Going to be Rangers/Kings
Go Rangers!!
Rangers would've matched up better against the Blackhawks. They would be able to scheme to stop the Blackhawks high powered attack.
The Kings are bigger and better defensively. They can take the rangers out of their game offensively. And they have Quick behind the net.
Comparable matchup a:
Ryan McDonough vs Drew Doughty
Henrik Lundqvist vs Jon Quick
Rangers have more depth. More in game line changes. Fresher legs
Should be an evenly matched series. Rangers in 7!
Check that Rangers in 6! Do not want to fly cross country for game 7. Not much time in between games
saw the loss coming, and i could practically care less about the sport nowadays, and i used to love the old 90's teams. was fun to watch here and there, although i sometimes hate aspects of hockey with all the dumping of the puck, error-ish play often due to play so fast you can't tell wtf is going on. it's fluid but too much so and probably too crowded, if you ask me.
either way this game seemed very intense from when i decided to catch a bit of the 3rd and some of the first ot before i went out.
rangers were being dominated though, and only saved, pun intended, by lundqvist's amazing performance. the kings had the puck on the rangers' side or threatening their side from at least that point on it seemed.
they had one great chance that i saw with the power play in the first ot, but other than that they never looked like they would win late (i missed the rest of the first ot and the 2nd).
sorry to hate, but since hockey is mostly a cold climate/north american working class/rural/suburban white people's sport, with sprinkles of europeans it's audience has shrunk and why the rangers are not as popular in the city as they used to be with the changes to demographics to nyc over the years. they did really well and i am glad for them to make it this far. but...the knicks are much more important to the city...although that is potentially challenged by the nets long term...
So I tried to watch hockey this post season, and I admit, it was exciting at times, but I couldn't get over how much luck is involved in scoring.
Smack, smack, smack, smack....defender is looking the other way...smack...hits him in the leg and puck goes in..GOAL!
It's really hard to play organized and in control with guys sliding around the ice and trying to hit a donut...not really fun to me.
Hockey fans tell me what they love most about the sport is the parity. Uh, yeahhh...there's gonna be parity when most of the time the guy hitting the puck doesn't even know if it's going to go in....that's luck in my book.
It was frustrating to watch because I spent almost 3 hours watching, only to see the team I was rooting for lose because some guy smacked the puck and it ricocheted off of two guys and went in. In a game where they only score a couple or more times, that sucks.
I've never seen edge of your seat action like I did last night. I don't think what I felt is possible in any other sport not even soccer. I usually don't go for moral victories but the rangers played their asses off. A few picks off the post. Both goalies were unbelievable. It was a great run. Rangers should hold their heads high and tween things and come back next year. They still have more young talent coming up in the pipeline. They are not going anywhere. Felt bad for Hank. This is starting to be Ewing like
Interesting, it could have went either way. I mean the Rangers did have 3 3rd period leads they ended up losing in OT (I believe).
Lots of Young guys on the team and hopefully St. Louise still has more in the tank.
They will be back...
Yea 3 of the games went to OT. 2 of them to double OT. The series was much closer than the 5 games would suggest
