And the other thing, today's goalie equipment is water and sweat resistant. Pads back in the day would get waterlogged and as the game went on got heavier and heavier. _
me as well, even if the it wasn't the rangers playing. I'm not psyched about a yankee team that isn't going to go too far, and football being so far away. oh wait, I live on the beach, everything is just fuckin' fine!
I had pro style Cooper GP 95 leg pads. They were faced with leather, stuffed with horsehair (yeah, real horsehair) and backed with thick cotton felt. Very heavy and prone to getting waterlogged. Today's pads are faced with synthetic lightweight water resistant leather, stuffed with lightweight water resistant plastic and foam and backed with lightweight water resistant nylon. And they are made differently so that the upper or lower portions can be stiffer or more flexible to fit the goalies style. _
You learn something new every day. Good stuff JS. Horse hair? When you see these goalies nowadays drenched..soaking wet...the water resistant part must be huge. Just read an article about how Richards is down in the dumps and how A.V. is slumped over and not the same and you wonder what kind of mindset this team has going into tonite. Reading all that, would be shocked at the Rangers showing much tonight. Now if for some reason something clicks..some kind of emotional break...you never know for the rest of this series..just didn't like what I read. Will post it. Staal, give him credit, basically said not in our house will you celebrate: There were no Mark Messier-like guarantees flying out of a despondent Rangers locker room Tuesday afternoon, but at least one voice tried to make a stand for the team’s collective pride. “You don’t want to end your season losing a game at home and giving the Stanley Cup to their team. It’s not going to happen that way,” defenseman Marc Staal said. “We want to come out and get one game.” It was quite difficult to find a Ranger who matched Staal’s optimism. The Blueshirts’ room, one that was so boisterous after a Game 6 victory in the Eastern Conference final, has now grown dejected after the team dropped the first three games of the Stanley Cup Final to the L.A. Kings. Not that a perturbed Alain Vigneault expected anything less. “We’re down 3-0. We’re all lacking sleep. . . . I didn’t expect my players today to be cheery and upbeat,” Vigneault said. “You don’t get a lot of these opportunities. Excuse us if today we’re not real cheery. But tomorrow I can tell you we’re going to show up.” They’ll have to bring their best in Wednesday night’s Game 4 if they want to avoid a repeat of 1972, when the Boston Bruins hoisted the Cup on the Madison Square Garden ice — the only road team to do so in the Rangers’ storied history. The Rangers are well-aware of the task ahead of them, knowing that only four teams the 1942 Maple Leafs, the 1975 Islanders, the 2010 Flyers and this year’s Kings have ever won a series after trailing 3-0, with the Leafs being the only team to do so in the Stanley Cup Final. There have been 20 sweeps in Final history since the league went to a seven-game format in the 1938-39 season, the last one coming in 1998 when the Red Wings rolled over the Capitals. The Rangers would love to avoid being the 21st. De facto captain Brad Richards, who has struggled mightily in the series, tried his best to stay positive while describing why the Ranger’s psyche and their season — have suddenly taken a nose-dive on hockey’s biggest stage. “(The Kings) are a good team that three years in a row now made a run, and with that confidence grows, and when you have a majority of a team with a Stanley Cup ring on their finger, they don’t get rattled. But that doesn’t mean they’re unbeatable,” Richards said. “They don’t win every year, but they’re a good team, we know that, but we have to still believe we’re a good team and stay with the process.” At this point, perhaps the only way that the Cup will seem less like a mirage and more like a reality for the Rangers is if the man who got them to this point begins to stand on his head. Though he’s suffered some bad bounces and had at least one blown call go against him, Henrik Lundqvist has not been at his best against the Kings. After surrendering just 12 goals in a six-game series against Montreal including a shutout in Game 6 Lundqvist has allowed 11 goals in three games against L.A. Though the two goalies have the same amount of saves thus far in the series (91), the Kings’ Jonathan Quick has outplayed Lundqvist, allowing just six goals and shutting out the Blueshirts at the Garden in Game 3. If there is hope for the Blueshirts to return to Los Angeles and avoid watching Kings captain Dustin Brown plant a kiss on the Cup at the World’s Most Famous Arena, Lundqvist will have to assert himself as a King amongst Kings. No one seemed to believe that more than Lundqvist himself.Sipkin/New York Daily NewsHenrik Lundqvist and the Rangers are trying to avoid becoming the 21st team to be swept in the Stanley Cup Final. “I don’t feel like (I need to have a shutout), but I know I have to play really well for us to win,” Lundqvist said. “I do believe we can turn this around. I do, because we’ve been that close in every game. They’re a really good team and they’re not going to hand us anything. We have to go out and earn it.” On a mobile device? Click here to watch video. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/hockey/rangers/marc-kings-house-staal-defiant-rest-rangers-despondent-article-1.1824834#ixzz34LhTPwiN
Do the Rangers send this series back to LA or does the NHL Offseason begin tonight? It is a tough call. I don't think it will be close though. Either the Rangers will come out and dominate to force Game 5 or they will roll over and the Kings will win by multiple goals.
Seems unlikely, but I definitely hope they can at least send it back to LA for Game 5. Then who knows what could happen?
Kings came back from 3-0 and almost lost being up 3-1. You just want to get back to L.A. Then that game gets a bit of pressure on them..and some how pull that game out and its a series. Got to get it to 3-2..then anything is possible. But does it end 4-0? That would be a tough pill to swallow.
If he is not producing on that line he is worthless. He brings nothing to a lesser line..not a thing. Because Torts benched him, doubt A.V. would go down that road. The thing is..does Richard do the unthinkable tonight and pull of a 3 point night to save his ass?
