I am sure the last thing that Cindy Crosby and his girls thought (with 9 seconds left in the game) is that they would lose to The Rangers in a shoot out. Me too, Cindy. Me too. It just goes to show you that the Penguins shouldn’t have counted their (Ice) Chickens before they hatched.
I have swollen glands and a sore throat and after watching the Rangers play the equivalent of Men’s Midnight League hockey for two periods, I was tempted to cut my loses and go home to my antibiotics and bed. But, my better half convinced me to soldier on and stay for the third period. Sometimes it’s good to be an obedient wife.
At the start of the third period I thought that, after playing last night in Columbus, the Rangers would be out of gas. They would not have the legs to mount a comeback in the third period. I forgot that we now have younger, faster players this season who are in peak condition. Henrik Lundqvist was able to keep the goals against to two. He needed the players in front of him to score a couple of goals and they did.
Overall, the defense tonight was better then in recent games. Michael Roszival made an exceptional defensive play on Malkin at 14:33 of the second Period. Roszival stood him up and surely saved a goal. Even though Roszival was a -2 on the night, he showed me more than Redden, who was even. Girardi has really turned his game around and was a +2. Mara and Staal played their usual solid games. Kalinin was a -2. When are Kalinin and Redden going to show up?
I would like to have seen the Rangers hit a little more but I suppose the plan was for them to conserve their strength. And, nothing warms the cockles of my old heart better then seeing the mid-ice collision between Cindy and Genie half way through the third period. I thought the hitting was subdued on the part of both teams.
We had a young English fellow in our section at his first NHL game. Boy did he luck out. This game had everything. A sure fire loss was turned into a point. The nail biting overtime ended in a shoot out. Henrik Lundqvist stopped all three Pittsburgh shooters. Fredrik Sjostrom is proving to be the new Matt Cullen. And finally, ”Cindy Sucks” may really have a shot a replacing the 30 year old “Potvin Sucks” chant.
Let’s give credit where it is really due. I chalk this win up to Dancing Larry. Larry never loses faith.
Posted under New York Rangers
This post was written by m hurley on October 26, 2008
I’m sorry that I couldn’t make it to the game. I was watching at work and thinking of the section. You guys must have been going nuts.
I think the English fellow had one of your seats. Kevin wasn’t there either. The guys on the left side of the Section were going absolutely crazy! The Garden was full until the Stick Raising. It was better then our one playoff win against the Pens last season.
During the warm up, there was a wacky Ranger fan behind the Pens goal in a white tee shirt saying “87 Diver” and waving a huge Red Flag that said No Diving.
Only in the Garden.