Game Thread Rangers vs Flyers - 1/24/13

[doom88]

2-1 win! Post game on NHLN, Kathryn Tappen smokin hot, super douche man to her left mocks Philly fans and repeats the Santa note. Again. Dead horse, meet another beating.

[pilldoc]

glad i was wrong...excellant job killing off the 5 on 3 midway through the 3rd

[brelic]

glad i was wrong...excellant job killing off the 5 on 3 midway through the 3rd

That was a HUGE kill. Bryz made a few key saves, including one on Nash (or was that a different PK?). ANd our PK guys did a heckuva job!

[brelic]

Just looked at the boxscore. Grossman had 5 blocked shots, and Read was next with 4. Both had really solid games last night.

And Laughton can stay with the big boys. He had 2 hits, 3 shots, 50% FO, and his line was putting good pressure on the Rags.

[Poulin20]

Yeah I am not too confident for tonight. Nothing changed in our play vs the Debbies since last year's playoffs why should anything change vs the Rags? Combine that with the fact that we are down 2 men, our player's confidence is shot alreadt and they have a world class goalie and we have someone who is paid like a world class goalie but doesnt play like one....I would say we are in for a rough night. I would say our only hope is if Biron is given the start to give Lunkhead a rest. I am thinking though since the Rags got off to a slow start that they dont want to risk giving away 2 points vs the Flyers and they will not do this. Right now I think that Marty is our best hope.

Here's hoping I am totally off in my prediction that I have to come on here tomorrw and explain what I fool I was to think that. I dunno when the Rags wanted to turn it on last night vs the Bruins they did so and that scared me a bit watching it.

I was a fool to think the above. There was never a doubt that we would win last night! :-)

[TedZep]

No love for Jody Shelley? His line kept the Rangers bottlenecked in their own end many, many times. A very pleasant surprise!

That 5-on-3 kill was amazing, really exhilarating work.

[Podein25]

@TedZep

I'm not sure Shelley had much to do with it though. Out of the three (Wellwood, Sestito, Shelley) he did the least IMO. Still, I guess the credit goes to the whole line and they did an admirable job.

[TedZep]

@Podein25

Shelley had a pretty good sequence all by himself, the announcers even said "how many Shelley's are out there?" or some such. You don't hear THAT very often.

[Podein25]

Shelley had a pretty good sequence all by himself, the announcers even said "how many Shelley's are out there?" or some such. You don't hear THAT very often.

I guess that was when I headed for a refill. I want to like the guy, I do ("he's great in the lockerroom" after all), but he's too much of a liability. I'd rather have speed (with some grit obviously) on the 4th line...