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NHL Playoffs ECF - NJ "Do we send a card to the ex-sister-in-law?" vs THE NEW YORK RANGERS

View Poll Results: It's the Eastern Conference Finals; Do you know where your sister-in-law is?

MARRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

19 41.30%

Yes

5 10.87%

4 8.70%

lol canada

15 32.61%

Most un-biased OP ever

4 8.70%

How many cups could a Kovalchuk win if a Kovalchuk could Kovalcup?

9 19.57%

lol flyers

18 39.13%

bastard

3 6.52%

THE New York Rangers

13 28.26%

Bible lied. There's more than one devil

8 17.39%

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05-17-2012 , 10:34 PM

#326

Rubeskies

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Originally Posted by Triumph36

anyway, the point i was trying to make is that the devils have largely been able to set up shop in the rangers' end. just like they did with the flyers. rangers fans should be concerned and the media should be talking about it more.

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Originally Posted by Triumph36

doing his job? Why do people think this? The players aren't reading the papers or watching NBCSN, why does it matter what the media are saying about the games?

LOL Nice. That's nice.

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05-17-2012 , 10:40 PM

#327

Triumph36

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Originally Posted by Rubeskies

LOL Nice. That's nice.

in one post, i am talking about the rangers' players. in another, i'm just talking about the media in general being lazy and making the story of this series tortorella. good try though!

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05-17-2012 , 10:44 PM

#328

Xander

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I can't believe how good the Bernier-Carter-Gionta line has been.

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05-17-2012 , 11:05 PM

#329

Triumph36

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Originally Posted by Xander

I can't believe how good the Bernier-Carter-Gionta line has been.

run hot is fun. took until around game 77 for the 4th line to score its first goal.

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05-17-2012 , 11:16 PM

#330

ShimmyBasis

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Man, I'm excited for tomorrow's game. It's gonna be a doozy

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05-17-2012 , 11:21 PM

#331

cwicemvp12

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Originally Posted by ShimmyBasis

Man, I'm excited for tomorrow's game. It's gonna be a doozy

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05-18-2012 , 12:16 AM

#332

Hammerhands

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Tortorrella is annoying because he is a cocksure idiot and you can reach into the TV.

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05-18-2012 , 01:08 AM

#333

Geddy Lee

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Originally Posted by WhiteGoose

Triumph - not sure if you were aware but each 1 game is 3 periods and it doesn't matter how many goals per period you score, but how many total goals you score in the duration of those 3 periods total

I just get the impression you never played hockey and therefore missed out on your hockey school lessons when you were 4 years old

but ya that's how hockey is played

Stop listening to the Canadian hockey media.

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05-18-2012 , 01:17 AM

#334

Henrik Sedin

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05-18-2012 , 01:22 AM

#335

Geddy Lee

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That's fantastic

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05-18-2012 , 03:35 AM

#336

sylar

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You guys think torts will spill the beans when he is swept in the cup final by la?

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05-18-2012 , 03:37 AM

#337

hotwings18

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bet the rangers -130

lose

why you let me down lundqvist?

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05-18-2012 , 07:08 AM

#338

master3004

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This LA team has to be the best worst regular season team ever, right?

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05-18-2012 , 09:11 AM

#339

Khaos4k

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Originally Posted by master3004

This LA team has to be the best worst regular season team ever, right?

To win a cup? Ya, probably.

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05-18-2012 , 09:52 AM

#340

DcifrThs

Chip Spewer

Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 15,812

def some "obscure record first" gunna be made this postseason in some way:

- no team ranked 6 or 8 i dont think has ever won the cup (definitely not 8, not sure about 6)
- no team that won the cup had to play 2 7 game series in the first two rounds.
- no rookie has scored more than 4 goals before playing in a regular season game (kreider needs 1 more goal to break this record. kid is looking like a brilliant pickup for the rangers)

so the only way none of those are broken is if coyotes win and it's pretty clear they ain't gonna win.

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05-18-2012 , 09:58 AM

#341

DcifrThs

Chip Spewer

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Originally Posted by hotwings18

bet the rangers -130

lose

why you let me down lundqvist?

the degree to which the loss is lundqvist's fault is pretty small. look at what they had to do to get pucks past him (2/3 were deflections in midair with large trajectory changes in high traffic and the other was a sick sick sniper shot from kovalchuk). we simply can't let people get sticks on pucks coming at the net, which means we have to *really* up the defensive pressure on red shirts in front of the net.

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05-18-2012 , 10:02 AM

#342

Nootka

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Originally Posted by Khaos4k

The other portion of PDO is S%. That is much harder to be elite at, when looking at a team level. Going off memory I think that only Vancouver has been able to have an above average S% each and every year for the past 4 years.

i think coppernblue or somebody tried to recreate some 80's oilers possession stats and concluded that they didn't out-corswick everyone, but instead relied on their dominant s%.

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05-18-2012 , 10:03 AM

#343

Triumph36

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i think coppernblue or somebody tried to recreate sole 80's oilers possession stats and concluded that they didn't out-corswick everyone, but instead relied on their dominant s%.

this is true. but we've seen that it's not really possible to do this now.

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05-18-2012 , 10:07 AM

#344

nyc999

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Originally Posted by DcifrThs

Last 3 teams to begin the playoffs 11-1 or better didn't win the cup.

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05-18-2012 , 10:13 AM

#345

Nootka

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Originally Posted by Triumph36

this is true. but we've seen that it's not really possible to do this now.

yeah, for sure. nobody's playing goal like mike vernon now.

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05-18-2012 , 10:47 AM

#346

JaredL

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Geddy,

I certainly will give you credit for predicting the Rangers to be good. Early in the year I didn't see it at all. They played the Pens and in standard form for the time won despite getting dominated. You didn't need fancy stats, it was very obvious from watching the damn game. I had also seen parts of a couple of their other early games and, as I'm wont to do, looked at their stats and they were a mess going by the eye test or stats. As was noted, I predicted they'd struggle to make the playoffs.

They obviously turned it around from there and, while they certainly have run hot, it's pretty clear that you were far more accurate than I was.

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05-18-2012 , 11:58 AM

#347

Khaos4k

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Around December both NYR and the Wild were at or near the top of the standings in the NHL and near the bottom of the Fenwick standings. The Rangers did something to improve their possession. Minnesota did not.

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05-18-2012 , 12:09 PM

#348

ShimmyBasis

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The Rangers' corsi struggles at the beginning of the year can be partially attributed to the fact that they spent the first 13 games or whatever on the road (including europe)