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Wow! What a round! Of hockey! Here's what happened! And gifs! Rangers - Pittsburgh:  Montreal - Boston:  Los Angeles - Anaheim:  Chicago - Minnesota:  (I suppose the latter two don't really summarize their respective series because LA and Chicago won but gently caress it) Who is good at hockey? These guys!  Expect that to change since everyone knows Crawford isn't actually good When are teams playing this round?? Soon! How soon? Well here's the schedule!  Here's this thing that I copied from the last OP because people like these! I think they're alright sometimes! HNIC INTROS COURTESY OF FITS: pre:2012 HNIC INTROS ROUND 1 Nashville/Detroit Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 Boston/Washington Game 2 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 -- Game 6 -- Game 7 New York/Ottawa Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 -- Game 6 -- Game 7 Vancouver/Los Angeles Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 ROUND 2 New York/Washington Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 -- Game 6 -- Game 7 Philadelphia/New Jersey Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 ROUND 3 New York/New Jersey Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 Phoenix/Los Angeles Game 4 -- Game 5 STANLEY CUP FINAL New Jersey/Los Angeles Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 -- Game 6 2013 HNIC INTROS ROUND 1 Chicago/Minnesota Game 1 -- Game 3 Boston/Toronto Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 -- Game 6 -- Game 7 Montreal/Ottawa Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 St Louis/Los Angeles Game 4 -- Game 6 ROUND 2 Pittsburgh/Ottawa Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 Chicago/Detroit Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 -- Game 6 -- Game 7 ROUND 3 Pittsburgh/Boston Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 Chicago/Los Angeles Game 4 -- Game 5 STANLEY CUP FINAL Chicago/Boston Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 -- Game 6 THIS YEAR ROUND 1 St Louis/Chicago Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 5 -- Game 6 Tampa Bay/Montreal Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 Pittsburgh/Columbus Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 -- Game 6 San Jose/Los Angeles Game 3 -- Game 5 -- Game 6 -- Game 7 ROUND 2 Boston/Montreal Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 Pittsburgh/New York Game 1 -- Game 2 -- Game 3 -- Game 4 -- Game 5 Has your bad team already been eliminated? Haha that sucks! You can talk about them here though: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3624060 HOCKEY
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May 17, 2014 07:33
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that opinion would be correct if the habs were not playing the rangers, who are much cooler
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May 17, 2014 08:45
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Tailored Sauce posted:I'm really curious to see how the Rangers will ride this emotion-streak they're on right now. It certainly won't last forever, but I'm hoping they will evolve into a better team than we saw in the Philly and Pens series. Better transitions, more forechecking, and cleaner passes I think could all be important factors in beating the Habs, and hopefully the Rangers will stay consistent with those throughout all the games. i can't verify this because i don't know where to look this poo poo up but i would imagine that the rangers' team PDO, and especially the individual PDO of guys like nash and stepan and st. louis, has to be incredibly low right now. regression to the mean will mean they actually start scoring some goals occasionally. i am hoping this happens
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May 17, 2014 17:25
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Duro posted:That being said, if Price is injured because of that cheap shot by the Rangers, I'll be asking for loving blood could you please define "cheap shot" as you understand it
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May 17, 2014 21:50
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Duro posted:Yeah, it would have been SOOO hard to pivot even slightly so his sides/rear end hit the post instead of pointing sharp blades into the goalie's legs. yes, that's correct. that would have been hard.
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May 19, 2014 02:22
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bewbies posted:Is there a reason why Tokarski isn't getting discussed much? He is really drat good. it's because he actually isn't.
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May 19, 2014 21:17
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Furnaceface posted:Price would have helped that game, but they still werent scoring on Lundqvist. Dude was loving dialed in. him bad him pads big him Roller Hockey Goalie
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May 20, 2014 04:04
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Parker Lewis posted:And Rick Nash scored a game winning goal! he's almost as good as stephane matteau
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May 20, 2014 04:48
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BrokenCycle posted:I'm really curious as to what the Rangers fans think about this series now that Price is out? They dominated the Habs in game one, obviously, but does it seem cheap that they're going to the SCF because some dork is in net now? How do you guys feel about it? it sucks for montreal for sure but if we advance to the finals as a direct or indirect result of it i really don't care how it happened. if anything it makes me a little more nervous because if the rangers manage to blow it it's going to feel that much worse, that we couldn't seal the deal even with price out.
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May 20, 2014 05:28
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oh grapes you silly senile man https://vine.co/v/MHvmVwPl3ZM
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May 20, 2014 05:37
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Anders posted:I wouldn't be surprised if he got a few games for it. Sucks for Zuccarello if he does, with Brassard already out. he won't. i don't buy the "emelin playing it up" thing because he looks like his face may have hit the dasher on his way down, but it's not a suspendible hit based on what has and hasn't merited suspensions this year. also brassard is probably back in next game
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May 20, 2014 11:48
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xzzy posted:Yep that's certainly a winning move, leave one of the top scorers in the league all alone in the slot. but didn't you hear he sucks and is ruined now
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May 20, 2014 15:08
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Pleads posted:Holy boats you Rangers fans are fragile and let burrs stay under your skin way, way too long. i suppose that's one way to read the thing that i posted
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May 20, 2014 19:10
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Xtanstic posted:Him and McCarron are nowhere near the NHL squad and they're already disappointments. Save us Jacob De La Rose and Andrighetto. but zach fucale Just Wins Games™
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May 21, 2014 07:29
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LumpyGumby posted:Draw me like one of your French Canadian girls. lol
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May 21, 2014 17:17
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my av is still garth snow.
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May 21, 2014 23:31
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Aurora posted:I don't think anyone wishes they lived in LA or New York this makes like some of the least sense of any joke i've ever read
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May 27, 2014 07:13
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Aurora posted:Maybe a nice distant suburb of either city but never really close yeah the two cities in the country that the most people move to from both other parts of the country and other countries. nobody wants to live in those places. maybe a long way away from them.
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May 27, 2014 07:18
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Ginette Reno posted:It's true though. it's not
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May 28, 2014 00:26
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anyone who thinks a hot goalie dominating a game is boring hockey is bad and understands/enjoys hockey in a bad and wrong way
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May 28, 2014 00:33
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i am not sure what i watched tonight but it was maybe kabbadi or jai alai, or maybe that southeast asian sport where people are only allowed to use their feet. possibly pesäpallo? i don't know but it was not a hockey game and that was a big bummer because what i really wanted to watch was a game of hockey
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May 28, 2014 07:04
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ZeeBoi posted:One of the best photos of tonight  oh kovy i still love you even though you were always maddeningly inconsistent as a ranger
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May 30, 2014 05:10
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Overwined posted:The entire playoffs the guy has been totally dominant. How quickly we forget...
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May 30, 2014 05:41
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VJeff posted:@NotDeadRyanDunn: Carcillo finals appearances: 3 don cherry nods sagely
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May 30, 2014 05:44
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Levitate posted:Apparently the latter the 94 championship gear was great and i own all of it 
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May 30, 2014 16:57
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Austrian mook posted:So why did St. Louis go from "player SAS really likes who is cool" to "whiny baby we all hate". He got traded to NY? because everyone who thinks that is dumb
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May 31, 2014 05:13
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canuckanese posted:gently caress the Rangers (not that they have much of a chance anyway). watching tonight's game i am as convinced as ever that the west really is not that much better and whichever team the rangers play they will at the very least make a series of it. except for in games where they totally forget how to play (and they do sometimes, ala game 5 vs. montreal, but more often than not they don't) the rangers slow down the tempo of play and play to their strengths and do a lot to prevent teams busting through the neutral zone unopposed. they can do that to either of these teams, neither of them are facing the type of neutral zone opposition the rangers can provide right now. i'd rather get chicago because LA generates more from the back end, which the rangers sometimes have a problem with (although they didn't really against subban), but i'm pretty confident it won't be a massacre either way. especially not if lundqvist continues to be lundqvist, which is to say a significantly better goaltender than either quick or crawford.
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May 31, 2014 05:22
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Furnaceface posted:This series is such good hockey but holy hell I feel like Im always on the verge of throwing up Im so tense. yeah it's pretty good hockey..... for a filthy casual no but seriously the games have been fun to watch especially if you don't have a vested rooting interest but (maybe as a product of watching more of the east for most of my life) i personally enjoy more deliberate, calculated hockey that occasionally erupts into drama instead of END TO END RUSH FOLLOWED BY END TO END RUSH FOLLOWED BY END TO END RUSH because i think the latter feels almost like a basketball game and basketball bores me to death
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May 31, 2014 05:28
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fwiw i didn't say montreal-new york was a better series and i also didn't say that i expect everyone to agree with me v v
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May 31, 2014 05:34
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Emetic Hustler posted:Except, the West also offers tight checking and defensively sound hockey on top of exciting end to end plays and spectacular saves. It offers everything a hockey game can offer at a high pace and skill level. You east coast rubes can enjoy your rec league. i dunno about your definition of tight checking and defensively sound hockey but tonight's game and the previous game (and don't get me wrong they were both exciting) were riddled with defensive fuckups and just plain lethargic d-zone play, particularly by chicago (note their passivity on LA's power plays and seabrook's unwillingness to even attempt to make a play on LA's first goal). i'll give you spectacular saves but you'll also find that the east has had just as many of those.
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May 31, 2014 05:42
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Furnaceface posted:Rags D hasnt exactly been the poster child for effective defense. no, not always, but at their best (see: game 6) it has. even when not at their best they've done a good job mitigating the effectiveness of very good players.
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May 31, 2014 05:57
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:are you saying that the rags-habs series has been more deliberate, calculated hockey than kings-hawks? to me the rags-habs series has felt much more chaotic and end-to-end. i also don't agree that the rags slow down tempo when they're playing well -- imo, they look the best when it's just the opposite, a fast paced style that's heavy on the forecheck. at least against the Pens, i thought the rags looked lost when they were trying to play a slow tempo game. maybe that's a bit different now that mcdonagh is back in form, but i didn't see much slow tempo hockey in the habs series at all, so no, because that series wasn't, for the most part, an example of what i was talking about. and by slowing down the pace i mean slowing down the pace of an opposing offense while counterattacking with their own speed. and yes i agree that the rangers are an underdog against whoever they face for a number of reasons (immaculate possession numbers and offensive weapons that actually produce chiefly among them) but i can also see just about everything that the kings are getting over on chicago (and vice versa) being tempered by the rangers' style of defensive play at least to a certain degree (to say nothing of goaltending), so, as i said before, i think it's going to be a series no matter what happens. i think that the superiority of the west has been drastically hyperbolized and overstated. also re: price and montreal - losing price was NOT the reason that series went the way it did and i can (in a very low risk fashion because it obviously can not be proven) guarantee you that that series would have had the exact same outcome if price had remained healthy. pretty much the only unequivocally soft goals tokarski allowed were in game 5, when soft goals were the order of the night for everyone, and he made some miraculous saves throughout the rest of the series. game 6 could have easily been 4-0. oh and another note on a line i missed before - i can't say that either chicago or LA have looked "dominant in a series" (unless you're talking about individual games) since all of their respective series' have been very long. unless your contention has been that they've been playing against other dominant teams which SJ, ANH, STL, and MIN hardly were (note: i think that SJ were, at least for the first 3 games of that series, better than any team in the east... but only for those 3 games).
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May 31, 2014 07:07
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Wippersnapper posted:Apparently Rangers home jerseys are $64 right now on the NHL store (in the U.S). Didn't see it posted. Oh and it's customized for that price. Just ordered a zucc 
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May 31, 2014 21:15
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LumpyGumby posted:Do they have that price for the thirds? I couldn't find the same price but for the always. No they do not  juche mane posted:Actually, yeah, did this. Probably but I have no idea what they'd charge you for that
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May 31, 2014 21:28
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ZeeBoi posted:I'm 5'11" what size should I order. I think M fits me. It's been a while since I last bought a jersey. Generally buy your tshirt size, maybe size down by one if you don't want it to be that roomy. I'm usually a medium but sometimes a large in certain brands of tshirt and I always go medium on a jersey
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May 31, 2014 21:30
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Fat Lowtax posted:
you've made a wise decision.
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May 31, 2014 22:22
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i didn't ever get an email but maybe it's because i used paypal hell i don't know
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Jun 2, 2014 00:11
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Hand Knit posted:The Rangers are a good hockey team. They control the puck well, are good defensively, and have the equal best goaltender on the planet. That's pretty good. ♫heeeere's the guy that's riiiiight♪
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Jun 2, 2014 04:54
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Hand Knit posted:I don't think anybody is claiming that the finals will come down to goaltending, but rather that Lundqvist closes the gap between the two teams quite a bit (given that the teams are somewhat similar and the Rangers' skaters are pretty good themselves). Given that short series allow a few bounces to determine an awful lot, I just don't think that the Kings are very big favourites, let alone prohibitive ones. that's what i've been saying to people but at this point i have realized that people on the internet love to think they are prescient and know exactly what is going to happen all the time (remember The Bruins Will Win The East In a Cakewalk) and people already have their excuses prepared for the eventuality that the kings to not win ("they were worn down by playing actual good teams") and there is no sense trying to fight that. if the rangers win the series, which i think they definitely can whether or not anyone believes it right now, i won't care how much "worst team ever to win a cup" rhetoric there is, they will still have won the cup (and the 06 canes were worse anyway)
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Jun 2, 2014 05:23
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:the thing i can't get out of my head is that the rangers looked like they were struggling just as hard against the canadiens-sans-price (arguably the weakest team in the entire playoffs) i don't really think they did struggle that badly in the series. the only bad game they played was game 5 which was a mess on all fronts. i also strongly dispute the canadiens-sans-price being the worst team in the playoffs thing, tokarski was plenty good and the absence of price didn't somehow make their forwards and D worse. that was still the same team that beat boston.
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Jun 2, 2014 06:20
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