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In round one of the series the New York Rangers have been playing against the Washington Capitals. In the series they both have lost three games away and won three games at home.

The rangers literally had their backs against the wall last night in Madison Square Garden. If they didn’t pull off a victory their season would have been over. Thank the lord the Rangers pulled off the victory with only one goal being scored the whole game. In the ending moments of the game i was getting pretty nervous when watching the capitals shoot like maniacs at net. In the end they didn’t score and the rangers pulled off another win at home to tie the series up 3-3. At the end of the game there was a fight between four Rangers and five Capitals. It left the crowd with wanting more, Madison Square Garden was electric.

Now for the Capitals they could have put the series to an end and send the rangers home defeated. But as it has been the whole series, neither team loses at home. The rangers came out real aggressive, and the Capitals held their composure and withstood New York’s fore check.

Game seven is tonight in Washington, its going to be one of the greatest game to watch out of the whole series. The rangers have to come up big and end Washington’s season at home.

Last night the New York Rangers win big at the Madison Square Garden (MSG) over the Washington Capitals. Rangers started up big with scoring a goal in the first to put them a head. The crowd at the stadium was electric. We started the second up by one, and than buried another to put us up by two. Sadly the capitals started to pick it up, and they scored two in the second to tie it up. While they scored their last goal with seconds remaining the capitals made the mistake by ending with a penalty. Giving the rangers the advantage in the third. Instantly beginning the third the Rangers go on attack and score a third goal to go up by one. This goal took the rangers like seconds to execute. Later in the period the Rangers scored another to end their scoring at four. The Capitals at the end scored another goal but weren’t able to score another before the time ran out. The Rangers will be heading to Washington to play game five.

Last night April 19th 2013 the Rangers won a huge game against the Panthers. This was a huge win for the Rangers, after losing to the flyers playoffs weren’t looking to promising to them.

The rangers started of by scoring 2 goals in the first, while holding the Panthers to only one. In the second period rangers were able to burry one while holding the Panthers to one. In the third the rangers came out with some energy and scored three goals.

Mats Zuccarello and Derick Brassard each scored twice to provide rare scoring depth, Rick Nash tallied on the power play, and Brad Richards scored his first goal in seven games.

It was either an itchy trigger finger or some newly discovered Canadian mean streak that caused highlights of Canada’s Olympic glory – culminating, of course, in Sidney Crosby’s overtime goal against the United States – to be displayed during “The Star-Spangled Banner” in this rink Tuesday night.

Something less than a gracious welcome. But then, Ryan Callahan wasn’t the most polite guest, either.

Fresh off his first Olympic Games and the stinging loss to Canada that he called “the best game I’ve ever played in,” Callahan played one of his finest games this season, scoring twice in a four-goal second period that carried the Blueshirts to a 4-1 season-reopening victory over the Senators. The game was the Rangers’ first in 16 days, but technically it was their third straight win and fourth in five games – a mini-surge that, who knows, might tempt cap-strapped Glen Sather into purchase mode ahead of today’s 3 p.m. trade deadline.

If things are going to break right for the Rangers in the final six weeks of the regular season, there were omens good and bad last night. The good was their 60-minute effort following the long layoff, and their second-period outburst that started with Callahan’s highlight-reel tally 22 seconds in and including scores from Brandon Dubinsky and Sean Avery.

Click here to read the full article – By New York Daily News

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If you’re looking for that glimmer of playoff hope, beyond two wins in a row, as the Rangers’ players and coaches go their separate ways for the two-week Olympic break, it is this:

One of their chief rivals in the race — the Tampa Bay Lightning — shared the Garden ice with the Rangers on Sunday, and let’s just say that both teams showed how typical they are of the bottom two-thirds of the East. Inconsistent. At times lousy. Sometimes putrid.

The Rangers got down by two goals, skating at about three-quarters speed and were booed off the ice after the first period of a game that the NHL should be thankful wasn’t on network TV.

“We stunk,” coach John Tortorella said. “We got booed off the ice, and we deserved to be booed off the ice.”

The Rangers then scored four in a row in the second, including a highlight Sean Avery penalty shot, for a 5-2 victory, their third in four games.

Click here to read the full article – By Rick Carpinello of The Journal News

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Marian Gaborik missed his third game of the season when the Rangers hosted the Predators on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden.

“He’s day to day,” coach John Tortorella said. “In talking to Rammer [trainer Jim Ramsey] last night, it wasn’t a good chance because it just swelled up. It’s a pretty nasty gash. We’re fortunate it wasn’t more serious than it was. I think, after a couple of days, it’ll calm down, the swelling. So, hopefully, he’ll be ready to play in Pittsburgh.”

The Rangers face the Penguins on Friday night as two games remain before the Olympic break.

Tortorella said deciding to rest Gaborik – a key player for Slovakia in the Olympics – for these last two games is not a consideration.

“Not a chance,” Tortorella said. “If he can play, he’ll play. He’s our best player.”

Gaborik has 35 goals and 34 assists and is on a five-game point streak with six goals and two assists in that span.

He was injured during a shootout drill when Lundqvist came out of the crease to poke the puck. Gaborik attempted to jump over the sliding goalie but Lundqvist’s skate caught Gaborik’s right leg. Gaborik lay on the ice for about a half a minute before skating gingerly to the bench.

“We didn’t know if he was joking with Hank or not,” said center Erik Christensen, who had Chris Drury on his right wing instead of Gaborik against the Predators.

Click here to read the full article – By Bergen Record

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It’s done. For better or worse, Olli Jokinen is a Ranger.

The deal, announced in the wee hours Eastern time, had had been held up for a couple of days while Kotalik played Hamlet, pondering whether to waive his three-team no-trade clause that included the Flames.

Jokinen and Prust, who both played in the Flames’ 3-0 loss to the Flyers in Calgary last night before the transaction was announced — how bizarre is that? — are expected to join the Blueshirts for tonight’s game against the Kings.

The key player in the deal for the offense-challenged Blueshirts is Jokinen, the very talented 31-year-old center who has scored 34 goals or more in four seasons, but who also has a terrible reputation around the league as a selfish player who also is a bad teammate.

GM Glen Sather did well to move Kotalik, whom he signed to a three-year, $9 million free-agent contract over the summer who but fell quickly out of favor with head coach John Tortorella and became a shell of himself over the last month.

Click here to read the full article – By New York Post

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The team that was going to dominate third periods because of the rigid summer conditioning regimen instituted by head coach John Tortorella somehow can’t find a way to get through the final 20 minutes of games.

No wonder the Rangers can’t win very many of them, either.

Last night’s first 50 minutes were far better than the twin disasters of Friday’s 5-1 loss in Tampa and Saturday’s 8-3 defeat in Pittsburgh, but that hardly provided solace to the Blueshirts when the Penguins scored three times, including an empty-netter, in the final 8:46 to send the freefalling Rangers to a 5-2 defeat at the Garden.

“It’s discouraging because we did a lot of good things and had a lot of good minutes, but we’re making big mistakes at key times and we’re not getting the big play we need to win games,” said Tortorella, whose team has been outscored by an aggregate 14-5 in the last nine third periods.

Click here to read the full article – By Larry Brooks of New York Post

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After the Rangers were routed in Tampa on Friday but before they were routed in Pittsburgh on Saturday, John Tortorella suggested that it was past time for the locker room to “take ownership” of the inconsistency that has marked the past six weeks.

Fair enough. But when is the head coach going to take similar ownership of a team that is adrift without an identity, attack or defensive posture?

When is Tortorella, whose club gets back on the horse tonight when the Penguins come to the Garden 48 hours after inflicting an 8-3 punishment on the Blueshirts, going to imprint some sort of a stamp on this collection of players he had influence in selecting?

First things first, though: The Rangers need better from Henrik Lundqvist, who presumably will not be bumped from his start tonight by Steve Valiquette, Chad Johnson, Jussi Markkanen, Vitali Yeremeyev or Doug Soetaert, though following this weekend’s goaltending rotation, one never quite knows.

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“As Donald Brashear and the rest of the Rangers wrestle with their pasts Thursday night at Verizon Center, Matt Gilroy will be about the only Ranger savoring his memories of the place.

The Rangers Thursday night make their first meaningful trip to Washington since their Game 7 loss back on April 28 capped a playoff collapse, reacquainting themselves with Alex Ovechkin, who has five goals in three games this season.

Brashear, a Capital at the time, was suspended for that series-deciding game and left for New York as a free agent over the summer. Rebuffed in his request for Washington to add a second year to its offer, the veteran enforcer found the deal he was looking for on Broadway – two years, $2.8 million – ending his three-year run in D.C. After the signing, Caps GM George McPhee suggested Brashear had become obsolete in Washington and that “you don’t really need” enforcers such as Brashear.

“I’m a role player, I try to get body checks and play physical,” said Brashear, 37. Obviously (tonight) I’m gonna try to give it a little extra,” the 6-3, 237-pound winger said. “You always want to show, sometimes they traded you because they think you don’t belong there anymore, that you don’t belong in the league anymore, and you want to show them that you can play and you still belong in the league.”"

Click here to read the full article – By Michael Obernauer of New York Daily News

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