March 27, 2008

Rangers go for lucky #7

I think I have finally gotten over that miserable lose against the Flyers in OT. One last note from that game. I don't remember the exact stat mentioned but I think it was something like 7 out of the Rangers last 11 games have gone to overtime or a shootout. This shows we are having some trouble closing teams out when we need to. And that was obvious against the Flyers Tuesday. We had them in a hole from a minute into the game. Yet we couldn't put that second goal home and finish off the Flyers. We let them hang around and if we continue that for the rest of the season and into the playoffs we could be in trouble. With 7 minutes left we were about to be 4 points up on the Flyers and in 5th place in the Conference. They scored and we ended up still being in 6th and only 1 point ahead of them. It's dangerous, very dangerous.

Now as for the Devils. The fact that we are 6-0 against them is crazy. Now the question is can we continue that dominance and actually finish a team off. We are within 2 point of the Devils and Ottawa, so a win tonight could cover a lot of ground. The team needs to absolutely step it up at home. We need a big win.

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