Pardon the lateness of this post, I had to go for a last minute dinner run, and have just now sat down to write this up. I was both happy, and incredibly disappointed in the team tonight. While I was ecstatic to see them stand up for once in their lives and say, enough is enough, and fight back, I was absolutely disgusted with Colton Orr’s charge on Ovechkin. Those are the kind of hits that can end guys careers due to head trauma (concussions). Not cool at all Colton, That was a dirty cheap shot and there is NO room in the game for that. At least be a man and try to catch the guy with an open ice, legal hit, dont cross check the guy in the face 15 feet from the puck.
Another thing that disgusted me was the stupid play immediately following Pruchas 2nd goal of the game (he could have had 3 pretty easily in this game). Fedor Tyutin was caught napping, and that led to the lone goal, the shutout breaking goal, which pisses me off because Henrik certainly earned a shutout. You have to give it up for our goalie, hes played very well the past 3 games, despite a suspect goal or 2, hes played well enough to win had the team showed up around him. Tonight though I got the scare of my life when Ovechkin rammed Henriks right leg into the post, and Henrik was writhing in pain. I thought his season was over, I thought the Rangers season was over, I thought i would vomit. Henrik gutted the rest of the game out, but im curious of there will be any lasting effect, he looked to take a pretty severe hit.
This game had the feel that the Rangers were tired of being punching bags and decided to throw a few punches themselves, which I am very happy to see, but what I dont want to see is Brendan Shanahan get a broken jaw because he drops the gloves with a big time heavyweight. Great heart, great leadership by Brendan, but I dont think it was the smart thing to do.
Im a fan of Colton Orrs (unlike most) and I still believe with all my heart that he can be a regular 4th liner in the NHL, but he should be benched for a few because of that hit to AO. Thats just not how I want the Rangers to play.
Still though, big night, and for once, I can sleep easy following a Rangers game.
See you next year!
DONT DRINK AND DRIVE!
-Inferno