You have 2 chances with 2 fairly wide open nets. 0 goals. That is why we are losing this game right now. Other than that, I truly feel we are playing a strong game, and there really isn’t much I can complain about. Then again I am watching it on Yahoo.com, and the video quality is pretty crappy, so I am not seeing all the minute things you guys are seeing.

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What do you define a captain as? Is it the guy who makes all the speeches? The guy who yells at other guys in the locker room? To me it’s the guy who gets his team playing hard, well, and personifies what the fans look for in a player that represents their respective city. For a while there it was Jaromir Jagr. We wanted to see some skill, we wanted to see some goal scoring, etc. Right now, that isn’t what we want to see. What is it we want?

Heart and Attitude.

AKA Sean Avery. You saw a team with a ton of heart, and a ton of attitude out there. And even though I personally feel they are playing the Sens in possibly the worst time you could play them (They are pretty hot, we are ice cold) you can see just what the attitude does to the team.

We may not win this game, but at least we will play the way we all want them to play.

Give Sean the C.

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Before you watch this video, please note that it is DEFINITELY not safe for work, nor is it appropriate for….well, for arguments sake, anybody. Don’t watch it.

Still though, its freaking hilarious.

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Sorry guys, had some car trouble here in L.A. and I missed todays game. We had 2 flat tires at the same time, so that took a long time to get resolved.

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I said this during my Post Game Thoughts from the game against the Penguins:

So, let us be happy they won, but hope that the Rangers don’t hit their overconfidence game so quickly after a long losing streak.

You may remember me mentioning the overconfidence games before, but if you haven’t a quick refresher. The Rangers season are pretty easy to get a handle on. They win a bunch of games, getting better and better, then they play a great great great game where they dominate a team from start to finish. After that they continue to win game, playing crappier and crappier as the games go on. They start to think they can win games with the bad habits they display, and then go on a prolonged losing streak. We are on the tail end of said losing streak (I hope), but sometimes those losing streaks have a game where the Rangers pull it all together for 1 night, and think they can go right back to their old bad habits again, and the losing streak goes on.

Now I’m not actually watching this game, though I am listening to it on the Radio, and when you give up 5 goals to 1 player with 7 minutes to go in the 3rd, you aren’t playing a great game, no matter how horrible the reffing is.

Avery can’t come back soon enough.

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I can’t find a working video stream for the game, and it doesn’t appear to be on Versus, so at the moment im listening to it via the radio stream online. If that ends up being the case, then I won’t do any thoughts on this game because you can’t comment on what you can’t see.

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I’m on a laptop right now, and trying to navigate through various statistics and record keeping sites isn’t easy, but according to my memory the last 2 or 3 wins by the Rangers have been shutouts or 1 goalers, and the games they have been losing they have given up 5+ goals. So it’s not really all that surprising that the Rangers picked up a win here in shutout manner. What is surprising is that they pretty much dominated the vast majority of this game, bad goaltending or not. Methinks the biggest reason is Scotty Gomez playing with Jaromir Jagr. The 2 of them looked great, and even though you can almost bet that Mr. Jagr will downplay the chemistry we all clearly saw, I still think this is the pairing we should be using.

You also do need to taper the enthusiasm that I know all of us are feeling. Because lets face it, Sid the kid didn’t have a Crosbyesque game, he had a pretty pedestrian game out there, not to mention the horrid goaltending they got from a goalie who, im not ashamed to admit, I have never heard of.

So, let us be happy they won, but hope that the Rangers don’t hit their overconfidence game so quickly after a long losing streak.

You may remember me mentioning the overconfidence games before, but if you haven’t a quick refresher. The Rangers season are pretty easy to get a handle on. They win a bunch of games, getting better and better, then they play a great great great game where they dominate a team from start to finish. After that they continue to win game, playing crappier and crappier as the games go on. They start to think they can win games with the bad habits they display, and then go on a prolonged losing streak. We are on the tail end of said losing streak (I hope), but sometimes those losing streaks have a game where the Rangers pull it all together for 1 night, and think they can go right back to their old bad habits again, and the losing streak goes on.

Let’s just hope this is the start of something good, rather than a blip on a very murky radar.

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See, the Rangers play their strongest hockey when I watch the game! That’s the formula! All we need now is to get the Rangers to hire me full time as a team correspondent…

Ok, maybe a little wishful thinking there, but I can tell you a large part of this is putting Gomez with Jagr. There is chemistry there, blame Renney for pulling the plug on that combination far too early into the season.

The power-play still seems quite crappy. No movement of the body, and lots of movement of the puck. Combine the 2, and you have a winning combination. Oh yeah, and SHOOT.

It also doesn’t hurt when the Penguins have a goalie playing who makes Marc-Andre Fleury look like Henrik Lundqvist…who by the way looks really great out there.

Sorry, gotta go, the nurse is coming to the house to take a quick look at my old man.

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Now, I have missed a game, and really 2 since I wasn’t watching the Washington game very closely. But, it looks to me like all it takes is a bit of puck control, and taking the puck to the net. Rangers did that with some regularity, although the quality of play did deteriorate as the game went on. I love the fact that Gomez and Jagr are playing together. I actually felt those 2 played very well together when just about everyone else felt their play together was poor. I like what they do with the puck control, and contrary to popular opinion, Jagr CAN play with a puck control player like Gomez, because he has played with a puck control player in the recent past in Michael Nylander, whom we can all agree was a glove to his hand type player.

Also im not too thrilled with the Dawes Shanny Drury line. Call me stupid but I just dont like the idea of Drury with Shanahan. Id actually rather see Shanahan play with Dubinsky because Dubinsky is the puck control guy that the line is missing.

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Hey there everyone. Thanks for all the well wishes I received over on the msg boards and such. My father is at home, and is getting better.

I hope to be able to watch todays game via the net and some not so kosher sources. I am suffering through extreme hockey withdrawal and am going to try to set some spare time aside to watch this game.

I hope everyone is having a happy and safe Holiday season!

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