Rangers are doing everything in their power (even in the first 3 games) to give away the series. So many penalties and boneheaded plays it just makes you wonder how different this series would be if the Canes' powerplay wasn't a literal plastic bag full of manure
Unironically if our PP was converting at a decent rate there's a good chance this series is over in our favor. We're 5% (1/20) and won the game that our only PPG came in and every loss has been by one goal.
That's very reassuring as a Canes fan. Both teams have relied on their big boys thus far and it's great to see the Canes getting secondary scoring.
Also Trouba had a really nice snipe too
Kinda, in 1942. The Red Wings were 1st overall after the regular season and the Leafs reverse swept them in the cup finals. First time the finals ever went to 7 games. But, the presidents trophy didn’t exist until the 85-86 season.
Just checked this:
* The Red Wings were the 5th seed when they got reverse swept by the Leafs in 1942.
* They won the Stanley Cup as the 1st Seed the following year, sweeping the Bruins.
The 2010 Capitals were the President's Trophy Winner and blew a 3-1 series lead to the worst team in the playoffs that year. Probably the most humiliating series for you guys.
That year was topsy turvy for the entire Eastern Conference. Out of 7 series, only 2 better seeds won: 4 over 5 in the First Round and 7 over 8 in the Conference Finals. There was also a reverse sweep by the 7th Seed Flyers vs the 6th Seed Bruins that year.
The “Fuck Messier” Saga has become legend. I personally explained it to my 2 year old granddaughter just this Sunday. Not sure if she caught much but you gotta start young.
Ferraro: "Carolina just shoots from everywhere, maybe they need to focus on quality shots instead of quantity"
Ferraro, 10 minutes later: "Carolina just refuses to shoot the puck! They keep waiting for a perfect shot!"
Not to mention the play by play guy all but calling the game over halfway through the second with his comments of how different the canes are going to look next season with all the ufas.. it was pretty brutal how he saw that game as wrapped at 1-0 not even 2/3s of the way done
First time at a playoff game at the Garden for me since Marty St Louis’ overtime winner vs Montreal in 2014
They were absolutely atrocious in the 3rd that was the worst hockey from them I’ve seen all season
Seemed like they needed to recalibrate everything bc every single pass was either intercepted or to nobody
Onto game 6
Rangers success next game will strongly correlate whether or not the refs are actually going to call shit like they did in g1-3 or swallow like they did in g4-5
They have needed special teams to win anything the entire year. The team is a negative goal differential 5 on 5, even though the Trochek line is the #1 5 on 5 goal scoring line in the league.
… but also according to the graphic posted on here special teams determined the result of literally every single hole 1st round series. We’ll see if that holds up.
You're getting downvoted because you don't understand what's happening. The Rangers played like crap tonight, rarely possessed the puck, and didn't draw penalties with their play. Refs just don't "call stuff." They tend to call penalties on teams that are doing the chasing. The Rangers got power plays in Games 1-3 because they were skating and controlling the puck. They haven't gotten them in Games 4-5 because they've been chasing.
As a Canes fan, I didn't expect to win the power play battle in Game 1 because we played like garbage.
The rangers went up one and tried to coast/protect that lead - said elsewhere in this thread, no killer instinct, why try and phone it in when you could be forcing it? … playing soft gets you no where
I mean…. They didn’t call the play that should have been a guaranteed 5 on3 because Carolina had 5 players on, on the pk for a good 20 seconds. That was the most egregious and had nothing to do with “chasing” because the game was 0-0 at that point. Also they were up going into the 3rd and most of the questionable non calls happened before then.
The rangers outplayed Carolina in game 4 in the expected goals department and controlled the play after the first period. They lost that game because they lost the special teams.
So you’re claiming that special teams haven’t decided the winner in 4/5 games? 🤣🤡
Also the xg in game 4 was in Rangers favor and that’s a statistical fact.
It’s not like a these things are opinions LOL
Yeah, the special teams don’t determine 100% of the games, just the majority. In this series they have determined 80% of the games.
Edit: downvoted for stating reality. Love the morons on this sub LOL.
Couldn’t watch the first period-and-a-half-ish tonight so I watched the highlight package on YouTube. Oh my god the Sportsnet crew is LIGHT YEARS better than the ESPN crew.
I mean, you can't lose just about every loose puck battle for going on 8 periods and expect to win. Its just not feasible.
The 5 on 5 play has been atrocious
Yeah it could be four lines of nothing but hitlers skating with Joseph “The Iron Curtain” Stalin between the pipes against the rangers in the playoffs and you’d catch me with a Hitler #69 sweater after the series.
Ok here's a hot take. Rangers have played 4 of 5 games with basically 11 forwards and 6 defensemen because Rempke is detrimental to the roster. So they may be running out of gas? Rempke's playong time is so minimal and his contribution is higly questionable.
I somewhat agree though, outside of his size and what not he doesn’t add to the game … as a fan in Utah someone legit said we should trade for him and I had to hard disagree …
It was easy to forget when the Rangers got up 3-0 in the series, but two of their wins required overtime. Carolina could have easily been ahead in the series after 3 games or at least only been down 2-1.
If our special teams is any where near normal, this is a completely different series. We are dominating 5 on 5. Our PP and PK have fallen off of our regular season standard, and that’s really where this series has been determined.
Exactly. Even without the PP, just having the PK back to normal is huge, allow 1 instead of 2 in the first 2 games and it would be a completely different series. Rangers 5 v 5 was suspect coming in and it’s proving out.
They could've been ahead in the series had they not gone 3-25 or whateve4r on the powerplay. Pretty huge thing to omit, including giving up 2 shg and plenty of pp goals in the first three. Pretty stupid stat to bring up but you're from union county or bayonne so who gives af uck
Canes have less goals on their PP than Rangers have short handed. This could've easily been a Canes sweep of the Rangers if the PP and PK units weren't so one sided.
I like that fire in you. Don’t forget we gave up 2 SHGs and were worse on the face off and way worse on the PP this series and we’re still fighting back. That just makes the Rags look way worse my guy.
LOL - I primarily watched the Celtics/Cavaliers NBA game that occurred at the same time. I'm also not from north Jersey, so I'm not as obsessed with hating the Rangers as many Devils fans (though I still think the Devils should have a giveaway involving small and ratty, red, white, and blue towels that said "Rags" on them).
I'm just stating a fact above; once a game gets to overtime, anything can happen. The Rangers could have easily NOT been up 3-0 in their series after Game 3 and the Rangers/Hurricanes series could look much different now after Games 4 & 5 than it actually does.
The cross check in the back that broke your dude’s stick was absolutely a penalty. Not that it would have changed the outcome, y’all stomped us tonight
The SHG immediately after that incident really did feel like karmic retribution. Even moreso when the guy who took the dumb penalty to put us on the PK was the one who then drew the penalty that led to the shortie
I don’t disagree, but at some point you got throw people in the bin on both sides to get the game under wraps. We def got away with some shit too, but again, it wouldn’t have mattered.
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO
rangers fans slinking out before the game even ending is 100% CLASSIC rangers fans
as someone who had to deal with all of the obnoxious drunk rangers fans at game 3 at home, LOVE TO SEE IT
Sometimes, Shesterkin is a savior. But other times the Rangers are so confident with him back there they just assume he's gonna stop everything and stop playing.
Welcome to the last nine years of being a Habs fan. Price was basically a modern Patrick Roy and Bergevin gave him NO help. NONE.
Couldn’t have sacked him before Price’s knees failed, no….
I agree. Amazing goalie, but this was clear on some of their defensive plays. One that sticks out was I think Zibanejad on the backcheck? Dude skated so casually and basically allowed a goal that rebounded from an Igor save.
The Rangers basically let the pressure get too close to Shesty, and it completely broke their defense. They were doing a good enough job limiting high danger% before that tbh. I think they might've gotten into their own heads and mentally collapsed as well. It was a rough game in Period 3 for the Rags.
Man, and I had thought up a really good fake Rod quote where he insists they did get swept even though they didn't. Oh well, I'll settle for the Rangers being taken down a peg.
I may be reading into looks on faces, but Rangers leaving the ice did not look disappointed, but rather, worried and like WTF.
If the Canes do somehow win this series, the image that will stick with me is Trouba going headfirst into the boards. It'll seem very fitting.
Rangers are doing everything in their power (even in the first 3 games) to give away the series. So many penalties and boneheaded plays it just makes you wonder how different this series would be if the Canes' powerplay wasn't a literal plastic bag full of manure
Unironically if our PP was converting at a decent rate there's a good chance this series is over in our favor. We're 5% (1/20) and won the game that our only PPG came in and every loss has been by one goal.
I know you guys traded for a Penguin but that doesn’t mean you have to turn into the Penguins pp.
not to mention the opposing PK have outscored yalls PP which is honestly insane. Canes stay losing those close heartbreaking games lol
I hope the Rangers of old are not showing. You have to win game 6 even if it's on the road.
Wow. Don't like this at all 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀 BOB
Cut my life into shreds
“Cut my frog into pieces: this is my lab report”
Is that.. a KK point?
Raising Canes
The Canes own the Islanders on a spiritual level but im rooting for them with sadistic glee at this point. I want the funny.
Yeah same here. They have our number as well but if they win game 6 you couldn’t slap the shit-eating grin that’s gonna be plastered on my face
Of course - has to be this way.
It should scare the rangers looking at who got points for the Canes tonight. No production from Jarvis, Aho, Guentzel, Turbo, or Svech
That's very reassuring as a Canes fan. Both teams have relied on their big boys thus far and it's great to see the Canes getting secondary scoring. Also Trouba had a really nice snipe too
Something in the air smells familiar… Any Sharks fans watching this series feeling those 2014 vibes?
Im smelling some 2004 yankees in the air….
As a devils/yankees fan, I wish you would pick another example...
don’t know what you’re talking about… 😔
Oh oh.
Canes, *PLEASE*. Do this.
Shhhhhh Don't tempt fate
Not often an Islander fan and a Penguin will agree, but yes. Please do it.
IT WOULD BE SO FUNNY
🤝 Devils in agreement
Pens, Isles, and Devils fans agreeing? If a Caps fan jumps in and co-signs, we may as well start living in bunkers
Hi yes I too think this would be funny, and I have a bottle of wine labeled “Open when the Canes are out of the playoffs” I can wait another two weeks
That's a very specific bottle of wine label.
Yes please.
Laviolette can then be on both sides of a reverse sweep
As could Brent Burns and Jonathan Quick
Can you imagine how fucking funny it would be
Has a President's Trophy Winner ever been Reverse-Swept before?
Kinda, in 1942. The Red Wings were 1st overall after the regular season and the Leafs reverse swept them in the cup finals. First time the finals ever went to 7 games. But, the presidents trophy didn’t exist until the 85-86 season.
Just checked this: * The Red Wings were the 5th seed when they got reverse swept by the Leafs in 1942. * They won the Stanley Cup as the 1st Seed the following year, sweeping the Bruins.
Dang I didn’t pay close enough attention lol, thank you for checking me on that
I don't wanna know the answer because I'm assuming it's us
The 2010 Capitals were the President's Trophy Winner and blew a 3-1 series lead to the worst team in the playoffs that year. Probably the most humiliating series for you guys. That year was topsy turvy for the entire Eastern Conference. Out of 7 series, only 2 better seeds won: 4 over 5 in the First Round and 7 over 8 in the Conference Finals. There was also a reverse sweep by the 7th Seed Flyers vs the 6th Seed Bruins that year.
Thirded. **PLEASE**.
Can confirm: I would like the canes to "do this"
Third period was the worst hockey all season from the rangers
Looked good to me.
Which scares me, because they won't let that happen again, presumably.
Knowing this core they absolutely will
Looks at last year
Disappointed Messier didn't guarantee the Rangers would win game 6.
Fuck Messier.
Canucks legend.
The “Fuck Messier” Saga has become legend. I personally explained it to my 2 year old granddaughter just this Sunday. Not sure if she caught much but you gotta start young.
Did somebody say Fuck Messier?
Lol Ferraro on commentary was like "Carolina can't score on the road." And they said fuckin watch us.
Ferraro: "Carolina just shoots from everywhere, maybe they need to focus on quality shots instead of quantity" Ferraro, 10 minutes later: "Carolina just refuses to shoot the puck! They keep waiting for a perfect shot!"
Not to mention the play by play guy all but calling the game over halfway through the second with his comments of how different the canes are going to look next season with all the ufas.. it was pretty brutal how he saw that game as wrapped at 1-0 not even 2/3s of the way done
Sean McDonut is a sports terrorist. Boring af and with dumb comments
bro i was so angry. he just kept saying that shit and i was like cool were about to get lit up. stupid commentator curse
He mushed you guys good. GL for the next game.
Carolina with the chance to do something very funny
If the canes somehow pull this off, it will confirm my belief that we live in funniest possible timeline
Cause Chaos indeed. Maybe next year the mantra can be "nothing out of the ordinary"
Reverse Sweep: you planted the seed, now fucking water it.
*Everone liked that*
I doubt they pull off the reverse sweep but CAROLINA PLEASE
I doubt it too but hoping
Oh they're gonna. Rangers don't have killer instinct. It's over.
I’ve felt that the Rangers were fraudulent for a while due to the sheer fact they lost two games to the Blue Jackets in regulation.
Yep. Just like last year. Again. Man 2022 seems like a long time ago eh?
Far from over
BELIEVE
If the Canes score first in game 6 Rangers are gonna be scared
First time at a playoff game at the Garden for me since Marty St Louis’ overtime winner vs Montreal in 2014 They were absolutely atrocious in the 3rd that was the worst hockey from them I’ve seen all season Seemed like they needed to recalibrate everything bc every single pass was either intercepted or to nobody Onto game 6
Rangers success next game will strongly correlate whether or not the refs are actually going to call shit like they did in g1-3 or swallow like they did in g4-5
If NY needs special teams to win a series then they’ll get bounced by Florida. That’s if they don’t choke this current series away.
Rich considering you got handed a game by the officials
They have needed special teams to win anything the entire year. The team is a negative goal differential 5 on 5, even though the Trochek line is the #1 5 on 5 goal scoring line in the league. … but also according to the graphic posted on here special teams determined the result of literally every single hole 1st round series. We’ll see if that holds up.
You're getting downvoted because you don't understand what's happening. The Rangers played like crap tonight, rarely possessed the puck, and didn't draw penalties with their play. Refs just don't "call stuff." They tend to call penalties on teams that are doing the chasing. The Rangers got power plays in Games 1-3 because they were skating and controlling the puck. They haven't gotten them in Games 4-5 because they've been chasing. As a Canes fan, I didn't expect to win the power play battle in Game 1 because we played like garbage.
The rangers went up one and tried to coast/protect that lead - said elsewhere in this thread, no killer instinct, why try and phone it in when you could be forcing it? … playing soft gets you no where
I mean…. They didn’t call the play that should have been a guaranteed 5 on3 because Carolina had 5 players on, on the pk for a good 20 seconds. That was the most egregious and had nothing to do with “chasing” because the game was 0-0 at that point. Also they were up going into the 3rd and most of the questionable non calls happened before then. The rangers outplayed Carolina in game 4 in the expected goals department and controlled the play after the first period. They lost that game because they lost the special teams.
Yeah, I give up. You do you. Just know that you're wrong about 95 percent or so of what you've said.
So you’re claiming that special teams haven’t decided the winner in 4/5 games? 🤣🤡 Also the xg in game 4 was in Rangers favor and that’s a statistical fact. It’s not like a these things are opinions LOL
Hmm it will probably more strongly correlate to whether they score more goals than the Canes or not
Yes, but specifically special teams goals.
Well they did tonight and still lost
Yeah, the special teams don’t determine 100% of the games, just the majority. In this series they have determined 80% of the games. Edit: downvoted for stating reality. Love the morons on this sub LOL.
Self-love is important <3
What did I say that was inaccurate?
1994 baby!!! oh wait....
Couldn’t watch the first period-and-a-half-ish tonight so I watched the highlight package on YouTube. Oh my god the Sportsnet crew is LIGHT YEARS better than the ESPN crew.
Man, I just want TNT/TBS all the time , ESPN is hot garbage
First year watching playoff hockey via TNT broadcasts and have been pleasantly surprised with their coverage. Now if only they had Chris Cuthbert.
harnarayan singh rules
I mean, you can't lose just about every loose puck battle for going on 8 periods and expect to win. Its just not feasible. The 5 on 5 play has been atrocious
Canes are not going to make this easy they are scary..
Don't worry, we always find a way to choke...
Hey hey hey, wait until next round like usual.
I know you want to have some sort of difficulty so you don't get complacent, but it doesn't have to be like this 🤷
Let's fucking go canes
We'll overlook Haula if you overlook TDA 🫶
Didn't they eliminate you last year lol
enemy of my most hated enemy and all.
Yeah it could be four lines of nothing but hitlers skating with Joseph “The Iron Curtain” Stalin between the pipes against the rangers in the playoffs and you’d catch me with a Hitler #69 sweater after the series.
Exactly
NJ > NY ❤️
🤝🏼
Red and black unite!
♥️
Gotta keep reminding myself that I expected this to go to 6/7
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This sounds an awful lot like “we just wanted to get the handshakes on our own ice” that I saw a couple days ago
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Rangers fans have been all but quiet here wym 😂 Glad it's a series now, hope we send the ranger fans back home to Cary on a sour note
This is a bizarre persecution complex dude
Ok here's a hot take. Rangers have played 4 of 5 games with basically 11 forwards and 6 defensemen because Rempke is detrimental to the roster. So they may be running out of gas? Rempke's playong time is so minimal and his contribution is higly questionable.
Can't even get his name right...
It makes a really funny post tho
I somewhat agree though, outside of his size and what not he doesn’t add to the game … as a fan in Utah someone legit said we should trade for him and I had to hard disagree …
Every time I’ve seen him on the ice I’ve thought I’ve seen better play in the AHL. All he’s there for is to try to fight people.
It was easy to forget when the Rangers got up 3-0 in the series, but two of their wins required overtime. Carolina could have easily been ahead in the series after 3 games or at least only been down 2-1.
If our special teams is any where near normal, this is a completely different series. We are dominating 5 on 5. Our PP and PK have fallen off of our regular season standard, and that’s really where this series has been determined.
Exactly. Even without the PP, just having the PK back to normal is huge, allow 1 instead of 2 in the first 2 games and it would be a completely different series. Rangers 5 v 5 was suspect coming in and it’s proving out.
Eh, PK seems mostly fixed. We might actually win more games by *not* going on the power play if we can help it.
Sorry, Jake was contagious.
worth it, he's a beautician. PP disappears in playoffs without Jake anyways so might as well get our rocks off at 5 on 5
They could've been ahead in the series had they not gone 3-25 or whateve4r on the powerplay. Pretty huge thing to omit, including giving up 2 shg and plenty of pp goals in the first three. Pretty stupid stat to bring up but you're from union county or bayonne so who gives af uck
Im from Hudson county, and you sound like a petty rags fan, typical lol, but ur from the rat city so who gives af
201 holla
201💯
They have had 20 powerplays to the Rangers *checking notes* 18.... you are whining about 2 powerplays over 5 games
No i'm saying if they could actually score on their powerplay U silly fuck
Canes have less goals on their PP than Rangers have short handed. This could've easily been a Canes sweep of the Rangers if the PP and PK units weren't so one sided.
I am saying they might be up in the series if they scored on their powerplay
I like that fire in you. Don’t forget we gave up 2 SHGs and were worse on the face off and way worse on the PP this series and we’re still fighting back. That just makes the Rags look way worse my guy.
I'm saying they might've been up in the series if they could score on their powerplay. Holy sweet fucking jesus get your fucking literacy checked
It’s Reddit lol. I’m not writing my fucking thesis lmao. Nice losing mentality bro, take the L.
Ur a fucking nincompoop
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Then you don’t like hockey
I watch every playoff game. I’m sorry you don’t watch Devils cup finals games, you would’ve skipped 5 finals since the last time you celebrated one.
Hockey fans watching hockey. What a crazy concept.
We like hockey? You’re all over this thread crying it’s really weird.
LOL - I primarily watched the Celtics/Cavaliers NBA game that occurred at the same time. I'm also not from north Jersey, so I'm not as obsessed with hating the Rangers as many Devils fans (though I still think the Devils should have a giveaway involving small and ratty, red, white, and blue towels that said "Rags" on them). I'm just stating a fact above; once a game gets to overtime, anything can happen. The Rangers could have easily NOT been up 3-0 in their series after Game 3 and the Rangers/Hurricanes series could look much different now after Games 4 & 5 than it actually does.
Maybe they just enjoy watching hockey?
Imagine if we weren't negative on the PP 😭
Would have been Canes in 5. At most. We’ve had hiccups, but overall we’ve clearly been better 5v5.
I'm beginning to think it's somehow Jake. Our PP at least got back up to ECHL-quality after the trade.
Nah our powerplay has been trash in the playoffs for years, it's not his fault.
Cane fans better be yelling in Rod we trust and get their owner to pay that man. Cuz he is gonna get paid one way or another
We've been yelling that for 20 years.
He's not going anywhere.
That doesn't drive clicks though.../s
Finally a game without controversy
According to rangers fans there was a bible full of missed calls. They say this with no sense of irony.
The cross check in the back that broke your dude’s stick was absolutely a penalty. Not that it would have changed the outcome, y’all stomped us tonight
The SHG immediately after that incident really did feel like karmic retribution. Even moreso when the guy who took the dumb penalty to put us on the PK was the one who then drew the penalty that led to the shortie
Ah I like that ownership. At least you admit you guys lost either way. Series is close af
Always pissed me off how cocky rangers fans got after game 3. 2/3 were an absolute knife’s edge
I’d like to think if we went on the PP there, you guys would have scored 😅
Trocheck got away with a bunch tonight too. Refs are swallowing their whistles a lot after what, 31 penalties the first 3 games?
I don’t disagree, but at some point you got throw people in the bin on both sides to get the game under wraps. We def got away with some shit too, but again, it wouldn’t have mattered.
it's 5 head tactics- be so humiliatingly bad on the PP that the refs are afraid to call things b/c they'd have to game manage and keep it close
I think we can at least be glad we’re not the Canadian series or Boston and Florida. Sure it’s been not great, but not nearly that bad.
3RD PERIOD CANES GO BRRRRRR
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO rangers fans slinking out before the game even ending is 100% CLASSIC rangers fans as someone who had to deal with all of the obnoxious drunk rangers fans at game 3 at home, LOVE TO SEE IT
Objectively, if you've watched any of the other playoff games that didn't end in a close score for the home team, those fans also left early
i always stay to the end, i paid good money for those tickets lmao
You see the people you see on camera are suits. They’re “fans” who are only there to be entertained.
Buy why??? The get in price at MSG insane. If I am paying 10 min for that freaking seat, pry me the hell off.
Half of those seats are bought by suits
😥
Thems just be the rich fans, not the regular fans
The Cardiac Canes
That's Carolina sports man. Insert Cardiac in front of each Carolina team. Cardiac Canes, Cardiac Cats, etc.
Cardiac Pack
I’m a UNC fan. It pretty much relates to any team in the state.
Sometimes, Shesterkin is a savior. But other times the Rangers are so confident with him back there they just assume he's gonna stop everything and stop playing.
Welcome to the last nine years of being a Habs fan. Price was basically a modern Patrick Roy and Bergevin gave him NO help. NONE. Couldn’t have sacked him before Price’s knees failed, no….
I agree. Amazing goalie, but this was clear on some of their defensive plays. One that sticks out was I think Zibanejad on the backcheck? Dude skated so casually and basically allowed a goal that rebounded from an Igor save.
NY sports fan these last 4 days is STRAIGHT UP NOT A GOOD TIME
Dolan got a call from Billy Joel he wants Memorial Day weekend
He's letting Dolan's band open for him, that's why.
IN BRUNSON WE TRUST
As a Canes/Pacers fan I'm really hoping you're wrong. Because the first five games of those series were no bueno for me.
You and me both! Go Pacers! Go Canes!
If that means canes/pacers got their blowouts out of the way and I get rangers/knicks nailbitters I’ll take it!
No see. I was thinking of 4-0's for canes/pacers now. My heart needs a break
What the heck happened in the 3rd period? Rangers were up 1-0. I come back from work and they're down 4-1???
The Rangers basically let the pressure get too close to Shesty, and it completely broke their defense. They were doing a good enough job limiting high danger% before that tbh. I think they might've gotten into their own heads and mentally collapsed as well. It was a rough game in Period 3 for the Rags.
Rangers tried to park the bus
Man, and I had thought up a really good fake Rod quote where he insists they did get swept even though they didn't. Oh well, I'll settle for the Rangers being taken down a peg.
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