Carolina comes into the garden tonight for the 2nd game in a 7 game home stand for the rangers. The Rangers come into this contest riding somewhat high off a come from behind victory over the islanders in OT on Sunday evening and the canes come in off a 2-0 loss at the hands of the Florida Panthers. With Carolina all but eliminated from playoff contention, they will relish playing the role of spoilers for sure and will come out playing hard. The Rangers need to continue their fine play of the PP, coming off three PP goals including the game winner on Sunday night. They must continue to be physical, but also know when to pick their spots and play a skill game as well...
Keys to the game:
1. Contain Stall and Skinner. Don't let Marc Stall get to many shots off and keep him out of the dirty areas with physical play. Do not let Jeff Skinner get his wheels going, the figure skater turned hockey star will embarrass people with his dazzling moves on the ice..
2. Need to continue the great performance on the PP. Keep MZA out there as he adds another dimension that teams have to think about. Get someone in front of the goalie and let BR control the play in the Zone..
3. Continued solid play defensively and solid goal-tending. Even though the Isles got 3 goals, two of them were fluke goals off strange bounces and the one was off a bad pass that was deflected... D played well, Hank played well and they need to continue that trend..
Here is to a victory tonight, staying focused and not looking past Carolina to Pittsburgh. Thursday nights game is arguably the biggest of the season to set a tone and let the rest of the league know whether or not we are contenders or pretenders. This team always talks about staying focused on the present and not getting to far ahead of themselves and tonight is the perfect test for that with a tough game lingering a few days down the road... Let's see what our boys are made of... Go out and get the two points and send a message tonight.....
E-NO Out...
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