Live Blog – Rangers @ Devils Game 2

Eric! You’re out of the cold, dark basement! Good to hear from you again.

I like the effort so far, a second straight high-intensity start from NYR. This game, though, we can’t be as sloppy in the first period as we were on Wednesday.

Ryan Hollweg with the terrible turnover? OK, how about your boy Nigel Dawes with a bad turnover in the neutral zone that led to a good rush for NJD?

Better life in the arena tonight, Wednesday’s game didn’t really have a playoff atmosphere/environment as far as the crowd was concerned for much of the game.

Yeah, but at least Nigel Dawes pots more than one goal per season….just sayin

How bout Dawes with the put back that almost got by Marty. Let’s not talk about who brings more to this team, Hollweg or Dawes.

I’m not comparing who brings more to the team, of course it’s Dawes. Just pointing out that Dawes had a bad giveaway also, but of course Hollweg gets singled out individually for his.

Absolutely he get’s singled out because he shouldn’t be on the ice to make he mistake in the first place

Who are the alternatives? Orr is hurt, I know you don’t want Strudwick, and if you bring Prucha in on that line, we’d be the least physical team in the playoffs. Prucha not getting any PP time makes him a waste on that fourth line, because his offensive ability isn’t harnessed on a checking unit.

Terrific period for the King, he’s on top of his game.

Hey Eric good to see you doing the blog again. Great Period for King Henrik. We need to find a way to make the Devils pay for being aggresive and need to get more physical. I can’t wait for the 2nd period. Hopefully, it will turn out like Wednesday.

I like Prucha on the fourth line over Hollweg, I’ve made that point on the show before. I think Hollweg’s physicality is an illusion. His inability to do anything overshadows any physicality that he may have. Put Prucha in.

You sound a lot like Steve now, Eric, I’m pretty sure you’ve advocated Hollweg/Orr over Prucha on the fourth line for a while now..

I can go back and listen to the podcasts, but I’m fairly confident about this one.

Have you not seen Hollweg’s hits in this game? He bangs bodies and is quicker than Prucha, in my opinion.

Oh well, either way, the fourth line isn’t what will win or lose this series, or this game. Let’s see if Gomez can get on the board this period.

so much for a hi tech arena…they cant get anything right in NJ

Hahaha what do you mean, everyone loves the armpit of America!

Michael I have definitely advocated Orr, not Hollweg. I think Orr is a more all around player than Hollweg, he adds more on the defensive end.

OK, Orr, my apologies. I would definitely agree with that and your assessment of him over Hollweg.

Again, he’s not an option at the moment, as you know, and I don’t think we’ll see him in the next round either if we make it that far. If we play Montreal, which is likely, Orr’s lack of speed would definitely be exploited.

HUGE kill right now, especially if it’s 4 minutes.

He’s lucky he didn’t get another two for cross-checking, to be honest.

Still doesn’t make sense how we look more comfortable on the kill than we do on the man-up.

guys what a pk…….amazing the guys are hot tonight…..lets score lets score guys

Hell of a kill.

4-2 Flyers right now, Verizon Center is rocking for their home Caps though.

we got a pp…lets hope they dont score……little scare eheheheheheh

haha even Joe is commenting on Tyutin…Hes gotta pick it up.

Coincidence that ever since Tyutin got a new, longer-term contract, his play has tailed off? I don’t think so..

wake up folks they start fight…….its all about winning…..

Damn right Shanny… Gomez is the new Avery! hahaha

What was that, Dainius??

His mother didn’t teach him to talk like that..

2 vs 1 what a hell …….i was shaking…..

As long as we don’t score, we’re giving the Devils more and more hope that they can win this game. So much for taking more shots, Renney, we’re not generating much on net so far.

im agreee 1000% michael!

shanny…..you got to stay on the ice……it is the second penalty for fighting in 10 minutessss stay calm……use the brain…

Love the intensity, this is playoff hockey at its best.

Jags got away with a hook, so much for saying the Rangers don’t get any calls, whatever, don’t want to hear it.

Everyone’s going to get two each for roughing.

Duby woulda kicked Zubrus’ ass.

Bit of a soft interference call, I don’t think that gets made at MSG, but Avery did take an extra whack at Brodeur and fell on top of him. The NHL is big on protecting the goalies, so not too surprised with the penalty.

Michael you can’t agree with that call. Avery fell on him and if anything Marty instigated after that. I understand the goalies are protected but that shouldn’t make it right for guys like Marty to be the aggressor and still draw the penalty.

I want to see Marty the BORE Broduer get his teeth knocked out, Parise didnt deserve it, that moronic fool does. MARTY, MARTY, MARTY.

You’re 100% right eric, it’s almost like they look the other way with guys like Broduer.

I don’t agree with it personally, I just said it was pretty soft! I understand why it was made, that’s all I was saying, the referee had justification if he interprets the rules strictly enough.

It wouldn’t have been called at MSG.

As for Marty instigating it, yeah, maybe, by trash-talking with Avery, but he never made physical contact.

Like I said, for me, it’s not a penalty, but I can see why it was called.

They do give him the benefit of the doubt, and he’s earned that over the years. It’s the same with other star players in other sports though, so let’s not act too surprised.

Jim Hughson has the Penguins-Sens call on CBC, check it out during the intermission. GREAT play-by-play guy, best in North America as far as I’m concerned. 3-2 Pens.

Joe Micheletti is going to do it, he’s got trivia wrapped up. The fans..well..we’re not doing so well

YES. Jagr is cookin.

YES!!! In business now, 2-0!!!!!

SEANNY BOY! I LOVE IT.

Thanks, Sam, for telling us that it’s Rangers fans chanting “Maaarrty!”..if you ever want to hear the obvious, listen to Sam Rosen.

3-3 in Pittsburgh.

a fortuitous attempt that was successful

Michael he’s there to tell the viewer what’s going on. If you think about it all a broadcaster does is state the obvious, hell your watching the game as he is telling you what’s going on. No need to hate on Sam.

Not only are they chanting Marty but I now hear obvious “lets go rangers” chants from the crowd. We’ve taken over “the rock”. It belongs to us.

Eric, there’s such a thing as oversaturation from a broadcaster, I can hear what’s going on for myself without him telling me. I can also understand for myself that it’s Rangers fans chanting that sarcastically, it wouldn’t make sense for Devils fans to say it.

Sam does a good job, he just needs to let the game breathe a little bit, particularly when the atmosphere is great like it is tonight.

Then put it on mute.

As we’ve talked about, and this is for another time, but that’s why I put other broadcasters around the league ahead of Sam. There are guys who let the game tell the story for itself without filling every moment with talk. Sam is not one of them. Sure, he’s fine, although he’s better doing NFL games.

How could I put it on mute, did you not read my comment???? The atmosphere tells the story, I don’t need Sam to do it for me. You have to be kidding me.

Cally almost surprised Marty again, that would’ve been great.

Why is this even being reviewed???? Waste of time.

Beautiful deflection by the Brett Favre lover..oh wait, that’s a different John Madden

Did we pay off these officials tonight???

3rd star-Gomez
2nd star-Avery
1st star-Lundqvist

Michael… Are you a Ranger fan or a Devil fan? Also, if you don’t like Sammy’s announcing watch it on MSG plus, Emerick and Chico seem to be more your style.

No, although Doc calls games beautifully, he suffocates the game more than Sam and is always talking…

Dumb question, of course I’m a Rangers fan, I just am more objective than many Rangers fans and don’t see things from a purely Rangers point of view all the time.

I see things from the objective perspective too… That shouldn’t have been a call on Langenbrunner and Betts should have been called. But understand that Sam is a renowned announcer and even more importantly he’s half of the announcing team that was there in ‘94. He could be talking through a voice box and I’d still love him, just for being Sam Rosen. Loyalty before honesty.

Also, I don’t know if you were trying to be sarcastic or not but that was not a beautiful defelection by any means. Even if you still think it is, the most boring team in the NHL was trying to deflect it past Hank ALL game, literally. It was bound to work at least once.

Hey, don’t be dissin’ my man Sam.

I do understand that, I know that Sam has a lot of history with this team. All I’m saying is he’s not exactly my number one personal preference, his style doesn’t really attract me but again, just an opinion. I know that there are others who love the way he calls games and I respect that.

But no, I wasn’t being sarcastic, I thought that was a great deflection by Madden. He redirected a slap pass from a relatively long distance (as far as redirections and deflections go) and it beat Hank. Whether or not they were going to do it all game, which they were, and so were we, doesn’t matter. You can’t say it was ugly just because they hadn’t been working all game, you have to look at it individually.

Going back to Sam, understand, I think he’s a great guy and he and Joe have good chemistry in the booth. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of announcers I find far more irritating (Nashville’s, NYI’s, PIT’s, Colorado’s, etc.). Obviously I don’t think as highly of him as you all seem to do, but as I said, just an opinion.

Understandable, definatly understandable. I just don’t know how you can’t include the Devil’s announcers in your irritating list haha. They just make my ears bleed. I mean come on “He stops it with his paraphanalia”? WTF is that?

All aside though, awesome win.

Definitely, have to love being 2-0 up..even a split at MSG and this series is over, they’d have to win three in a row and that’s not gonna happen.

Wow Michael, stating the obvious! just as bad as Sam! Once again, get over yourself!

Hahahah Richard, you always know how to make me laugh; I’m sorry, I find you to be a funny, funny guy.

Not the same, what I said and what Sam does. Sam does it in the course of a game, and, to be honest, what I said isn’t even the obvious. The Devils could win three games in a row, I just don’t think they will.

Rangers fans chanting Marty’s name, though, is obvious, considering the fact that as the game was only on MSG, you would say that only Devils fans (likely watching the Devils telecasts) and Rangers fans were actually watching. As such, they all know who’s chanting Marty, we don’t need to be told!!!

Send me an e-mail, Richard, we’ll have a bit of a chat. Unitl then, YOU get over yourself.

really? was the center ice feed by TSN? They don’t know who is watching or where they are watching from, if it is telecast all over the world or a feed picked up by chech tv or some south africa watching it 3 days later, they don’t know, so they call the game as if every person watching is a first timer. That is their job. you wanna talk send me an email richardstalker@hotmail.com

http://www.rangersreview.com/2008/04/12/i-beg-to-differ/