Yes, put the hammer down for sure. Brooks' article today tells the tale perfectly. Get this win. This first round against the Caps in which the Rangers got the jump with Sunday's 4-1 game 1 victory represents the 10th series since 2012 in which the Blueshirts had home ice advantage. Somewhat incredibly, they have taken a 2-0 series lead only once, two years ago in the 2022 conference final that lost in six games to the Lightning. Only one time in 9 series with home ice since 2012 did the Rangers go up 2-0. Game 2 at home has been a weird issue for the Rangers. Handle your business tonight.
Let's hope the Rangers have correctly anticipated the adjustments the Caps are sure to make. Stay out of the penalty box, no bad penalties or EARLY penalties.
This is no must win game, or the sky is falling if they lose, far from it, but this is another small indicator to me. The Rangers are far and away the better team, this is a game they should win to take control of the series. If they fail to do so, while I'll have zero doubt they'll still win the series, it will show again they still cannot deal with any prosperity or make things a little easier on themselves in the playoffs. You want to be in the best position possible when you play a very good Canes team, and that means ending this series sooner than 7 games for sure.
That’s TWO fucking obvious penalties these refs have missed. They missed a high stick on Kakko and now a trip. Unreal. Terrible fucking refs already.
LMFAO….thats a penalty but they can clip our guys in the head with a stick, trip our guy in front of goal, interfere when the puck isn’t there. This is gonna be a game where it’s us vs them and the refs. Fuck Gary. Hope he chokes on a corn dog that stupid bitch. This has his finger prints all over it wanting it to be as long of a series as possible.
lol now they call a penalty on the rangers. If this is not a biased officiating I don't know what it is. Little crying babies craps cried last game
Probably figured based on the officiating against the Rangers the refs were gonna swallow the whistle and let them play.