(Philly’s Simon Gagne makes Verne proud, putting one past New York’s Kevin Weekes during Wednesday night’s first period).
Sports Illustated’s pre-season rankings of the NHL’s 30 clubs saw the New York Rangers ensconsed at no. 30, the Forsberg fortified Flyers at no. 2.
Or perhaps they have, and just possess a thick enough skin to ignore such gloomy predictions and render my flimsy point irrelevent.
Eric Lindros scored a goal in Toronto’s 3-2 opening night shootout loss to Ottawa, but more importantly, suffered no concussions. It’s early, give him time.
it was the most fun start-to-finish Rangers game I have seen in 5 years or something. the new rules do open the game up quite a bit. now if they only could euro-fy the size of the rink…. taking 10 penalties a game will not do, however.
I saw a bit of the Canadians/Bruins opener…not a points-fest, obviously, but still exciting enough to distract from the LDS games…
I don’t know if it is a hi def/low def thing, but OLN’s feed from Philly looked like shit. No such problems with the regional cable games via DirectTV’s Center Ice.
Feed was terrible, could barely make out the Thank You Fans inscribed under the blue lines. Somehow I felt underappreciated. Forsberg’s linemates look like they’re being groomed to become the new Tanguy/Hejduk.
another 5 penalties tonight, and that’s after only 1 period…
3rd line doesn’t seem as piss-poor as previously thought, well this judgement is after 4 periods of hockey… OLN feed did really suck, MSG better tonight.
9 penalties and counting…. 3 mins in to the third period, this is insane
well, thank god there was no shoot-out at least. so, 11 penalties in this one for the strangers….
y’know, I was gonna “live blog” the Canadians/Rangers game, but I had an 8pm appointment at an art opening, following by a wine tasting, poetry reading, a glory hole insertion, a protest rally, and then of course, the most important way to end the night : quiet meditation.