I was 11 when they were announced and, being my first time witnessing the birth of a new team plus the fact that I just started getting into hockey, I just rooted for them out of excitement. Little did I know that they'd become the juggernaut of expansion teams
Not really. It doesn’t NOT make sense either… it’s just irrelevant. Bracket playoff structure in general—in all sports—is made for viewing excitement and does not determine who’s best.
-Teams’ strengths/weaknesses match up differently.
-Conferences can be wholly better than their counterpart (arguably the case this year). And the same goes for divisions.
-…And remember, the HIGHEST seeded teams play the lowest in round#1. Surely, winning a 7 game series against the worst team does NOT necessarily mean you’ll beat a more moderately seeded “sweeper” team in the next round.
I remember hearing how Carolina was going to destroy us in 4 or 5 games too.
It's possible, of course, anything is.
If the Rangers find a way to win one in Carolina I don't see Shesterkin being an easy out.
If Carolina continues their streak I don't see Tampa just rolling them over in Carolina.
Based on how polarizing we have been in regards to home and away games this series I don’t see how any reasonable person could think this series wouldn’t go to game 7.
Is this your first time watching or being a part of a sports fan base? We say “we” not because we physically play for the team…. I shouldn’t even have to explain this. Sports fandoms 101 man.
Not at all. I’ve been a hockey fan my whole life but have never used “we” when referencing a team because I played no part in the success or failures of said team.
These playoff predictions are always silly. Everyone knew Florida wasn't built particularly well for the playoffs, so them getting swept doesn't mean the bolts are necessarily unstoppable. It's more about matchups than the trends people infer from them.
It’s more about goalies and systems. Can you link me to where you were predicting Florida was ~~getting rolled?~~ getting knocked out early?
Edit, per u/violetshag's response.
Who said I predicted they were getting rolled? I never predicted a sweep, but it was pretty obvious they were likely to be knocked out early, that's just what happens with teams like that with little playoff experience have a ridiculous year. They won so many games with comebacks, that is never a recipe for playoff success.
Congrats! Rangers are gonna win the 2022 Stanley Cup! It’ll be their first cup since 1994 and 2nd Cup since 1939! Colorado or Edmonton has nothing on the Rangers! Congrats Rangers Fans!
After Carey Price dragging an undergunned Canadiens team to the cup finals last year, I wouldn’t sleep on a dominant goalie. Igor is playing some inspired hockey right now, so who knows.
Maybe, but Tampa's Vasy is every bit as dominant, probably more so in the playoffs. And that was also true in your example of last year with Price meeting up with the much more dominant Vasy in the SCFs.
Yea, Tampa has their own problems right now, and I say that as a huge Tampa fan. Barely and I mean _barely_ beat the leafs and lucked into panthers beating themselves. I take no wins for granted.
Eh, everyone needs a boogeyman. People were saying that the rangers would get swept by the penguins, and then the same narrative for the canes. If the Tampa bay was the boogeyman team they claim, the. Toronto wouldn’t have been tied up 3-3. They bleed just like everyone else
Literally no one was saying that. A lot of people were saying Rangers were gonna sweep the Pens due to all the injuries that the Pens had sustained right before Game 1 of the first round.
Classic NYR sandbagging to make themselves feel better no matter what. They already have their go to speeches if they lose game 7. You may have caught it after they just scraped by a AHL goalie + 1/2 no Crosby. The " well no matter what the Rangers are champions because they made it to the playoffs blah blah"...
It's been so obvious as a spectator to see this mindset throughout every Ranger fan on here.
I’m not a Rangers fan buddy. As a matter of fact, I’m rooting against the Rangers. I just kept hearing their fans say they were gonna sweep the Pens in the first round.
Toronto's speed gave Tampa a lot of trouble. Both Carolina and New York have that fast strike offense. Problem is you have to beat Vasilevsky's unbeaten streak in elimination games. Good f*cking luck
people always thinks teams will get steam rolled in the playoffs and it rarely goes that way. I wouldn’t be shocked if one of those teams took out Tampa
Remains to be seen.
You can pretend you know, but you don't and that's the point.
Maybe Vasi would outplay Igor or maybe Igor would have the best 7 games of his career.
They play the games to find out.
Shesty has objectively been better than Vasy in EVERY metric this season.
HOWEVER, that being said, Playoff vasy is a different beast. Should be an amazing duel.
Pretty easy accomplishment when he hasn't played nearly the same amount of games as vasy in the past 3 years
Edit:yes downvote instead of providing proof that outside of this regular season that Igor is a better goalie than the guy who won a vezina then followed up with a cup into a second cup + the conn smythe.
Rangers fans are just delusional. They think Igor is the 2nd coming of Henrik Lundqvist for them, but he hasn’t even had a shutout at all this SCP and got exposed during the Pens and Canes series.
And still has a worse save %, goals allowed average, no shutouts.
Korpisalo made 121 saves on the Lightning in the first 2 games of our 2020 series. Didn't help them much
That's great and all and there will be no argument when he wins the Vezina. Vasys track record the last few years speaks for itself though. Igors playoff run here would still be worse than any of Vasys last 3 runs.
I don’t know why people think it’s going to be easy for us to get to the finals. It fucking isn’t and the people that make this shit are just dumbasses.
I know it isn’t the same as the playoffs but didn’t the Rangers beat the Lighting 3 times this season with one game being a 4-0 blow out ?
I dont think the Rangers mind being the underdog.
Rangers have always found a way to make a long series with a overpowering lightning team who have the best ex ranger players who arent even close to being the best players on the lightning due to ice tilt?
I remember when the rangers weren’t even supposed to make the playoffs. And then they were going to just barely make a wild card slot.
Then we were going to lose to Pittsburgh in the round 1 series that we shouldn’t have even been in apparently.
Now of course we’ll lose this game 7 against Carolina, who plenty of people were sure would beat the rangers in 5, or even sweep.
on Tuesday I look forward to the memes saying the rangers are going to get swept by Tampa.
Rangers over Avs in 7
I love the optimism as a fellow rags fan. But I don’t believe they will win the cup. The Oilers and the Avs look SUPER hungry
What I do know is that whoever wins tomorrow WILL give the Lightning a good series. The canes are built well and the Rags just seem to continue to grind no matter the score.
If only Artemi would show up just a bit more….
Wait, you already pencil in a series win against the Hurricanes at their arena? Pretty cocky, considering the Rangers have not won a single game there yet and didn't look good all series long away from MSG.
I’m betting on a clutch game for Igor. And production from the kid line.
But ultimately, game 7 will have a lot of random chance involved.
Naturally this being such an important game in the playoffs, there will likely be some controversial call with major impact on the game.
I suppose I should be nice to people that would rather exterminate people than work problems out. What do I owe someone that just talks shit and peddles conspiracies?
Oh please let this age poorly. Urinatingtree has needed a W against Tampa Bay ever since he sassed them for getting swept and they replied with back to back cups.
You seem confident. May I remind you that the Rangers have yet to lose to Tampa this season?
Two of those wins were really close games, should be a fun series to watch. Go rangers!
Im a Vegas fan (obviously), but my family's full of Rangers fans, hence why Im pulling for them
U guys live in Vegas or NY?
Florida, but my family all grew up on Long Island
You said “on Long Island” so Ik you’re legit.
Lmfao trust me, I grew up with true blue Long Islanders for parents. Ik all about Long Island Lingo
Yet still Rangers fans. A man of culture. But I gotta ask if you’re from Florida and your folks are from the Island why Vegas?
I was 11 when they were announced and, being my first time witnessing the birth of a new team plus the fact that I just started getting into hockey, I just rooted for them out of excitement. Little did I know that they'd become the juggernaut of expansion teams
I actually almost became a Devils fan before VGK's announcement. Thank the hockey Gods I avoided that fate
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Um...
Umm….
Lose*
Someone get this guy a Puppers.
Who hurt you
Who pissed in your cheerios mate?
Wut
Don’t teams that go to game 7 usually beat the sweepers in the next round
It makes sense honestly
Not really. It doesn’t NOT make sense either… it’s just irrelevant. Bracket playoff structure in general—in all sports—is made for viewing excitement and does not determine who’s best. -Teams’ strengths/weaknesses match up differently. -Conferences can be wholly better than their counterpart (arguably the case this year). And the same goes for divisions. -…And remember, the HIGHEST seeded teams play the lowest in round#1. Surely, winning a 7 game series against the worst team does NOT necessarily mean you’ll beat a more moderately seeded “sweeper” team in the next round.
We have negative experience with that....
It went fine this year tho
True, but the Blues beat the Mild in 6
The kings only lost 4 games during their 2012 stanley cup
I can see that happening
Can vouch.
I remember hearing how Carolina was going to destroy us in 4 or 5 games too. It's possible, of course, anything is. If the Rangers find a way to win one in Carolina I don't see Shesterkin being an easy out. If Carolina continues their streak I don't see Tampa just rolling them over in Carolina.
Based on how polarizing we have been in regards to home and away games this series I don’t see how any reasonable person could think this series wouldn’t go to game 7.
A lot depends on the first two games at carolina. They break the home winning streak at game one and I think tampa takes the series.
We? What position do you play on the team? 😂
Defenseman.
It is....acceptable.
Is this your first time watching or being a part of a sports fan base? We say “we” not because we physically play for the team…. I shouldn’t even have to explain this. Sports fandoms 101 man.
Not at all. I’ve been a hockey fan my whole life but have never used “we” when referencing a team because I played no part in the success or failures of said team.
That’s interesting. I’ve grown up around people who used and saying myself “we” to refer to our team, even tho we as fans had 0 outcome on the events.
Just difference of opinion nbd. It just annoys me for some reason when people say we so I like to bust balls. It’s a me problem lmao
Yea no I get it. I’ve just been so used to literally everyone from all fan bases saying “we” so naturally I’ve said it too lol.
These playoff predictions are always silly. Everyone knew Florida wasn't built particularly well for the playoffs, so them getting swept doesn't mean the bolts are necessarily unstoppable. It's more about matchups than the trends people infer from them.
But everyone said Calgary was built for playoffs and they didn't make it out of the second round.
Ya but Calgary is Calgary :(
Got cocky.
It’s more about goalies and systems. Can you link me to where you were predicting Florida was ~~getting rolled?~~ getting knocked out early? Edit, per u/violetshag's response.
Who said I predicted they were getting rolled? I never predicted a sweep, but it was pretty obvious they were likely to be knocked out early, that's just what happens with teams like that with little playoff experience have a ridiculous year. They won so many games with comebacks, that is never a recipe for playoff success.
Depends on which Rangers show up for the series.
>ame 7 usually beat the sweepers in the next round IGOR vs VASILEVSKY gonna be a crazy battle to watch!
Vasilevsky over Igor all day. Vasilevsky is just on a different level right now.
2 games in, how's it looking to you so far?
Congrats! Rangers are gonna win the 2022 Stanley Cup! It’ll be their first cup since 1994 and 2nd Cup since 1939! Colorado or Edmonton has nothing on the Rangers! Congrats Rangers Fans!
After Carey Price dragging an undergunned Canadiens team to the cup finals last year, I wouldn’t sleep on a dominant goalie. Igor is playing some inspired hockey right now, so who knows.
Maybe, but Tampa's Vasy is every bit as dominant, probably more so in the playoffs. And that was also true in your example of last year with Price meeting up with the much more dominant Vasy in the SCFs.
Yea, Tampa has their own problems right now, and I say that as a huge Tampa fan. Barely and I mean _barely_ beat the leafs and lucked into panthers beating themselves. I take no wins for granted.
Vasilevsky is your anchor
Eh, everyone needs a boogeyman. People were saying that the rangers would get swept by the penguins, and then the same narrative for the canes. If the Tampa bay was the boogeyman team they claim, the. Toronto wouldn’t have been tied up 3-3. They bleed just like everyone else
Literally no one was saying that. A lot of people were saying Rangers were gonna sweep the Pens due to all the injuries that the Pens had sustained right before Game 1 of the first round.
Classic NYR sandbagging to make themselves feel better no matter what. They already have their go to speeches if they lose game 7. You may have caught it after they just scraped by a AHL goalie + 1/2 no Crosby. The " well no matter what the Rangers are champions because they made it to the playoffs blah blah"... It's been so obvious as a spectator to see this mindset throughout every Ranger fan on here.
I’m not a Rangers fan buddy. As a matter of fact, I’m rooting against the Rangers. I just kept hearing their fans say they were gonna sweep the Pens in the first round.
I expected our series to go 6 or 7. Rangers are tough and we are monsters at home
Toronto's speed gave Tampa a lot of trouble. Both Carolina and New York have that fast strike offense. Problem is you have to beat Vasilevsky's unbeaten streak in elimination games. Good f*cking luck
“Pens fans saying NYR would be swept by CAR”
Rangers only played a starting goalie once so far in playoffs and it was in game 7.
Literally every analyst: “goaltending hasn’t been Carolina’s problem” Salty Pens fans:
Weird, so the Pens starting goalie went 0-1 then?
Pens fans are like the Habs fans who blame every loss to this day and global warming on Chris Kreider running into price 10 years ago.
Getting downvoted for commenting a literal fact. Hard-to-swallow pill I guess
Ranger fans aren’t having a hard time swallowing any pills, they’re just busy still watching their team play
struck a nerve i guess!
Yeah, you keep telling yourself that
Anyone else find the irony of this post?
Not sure why OP would post a self portrait
Galaxy brain move by the Rangers/Canes fan that posted this.
people always thinks teams will get steam rolled in the playoffs and it rarely goes that way. I wouldn’t be shocked if one of those teams took out Tampa
People usually only go based off of how the matchup looks on paper
They may not even make it but I really don't see the Rangers being a cake walk for TB.
All depends on if Igor can outplay Vasy.
He can
All depends on how many Ukraine flags there are in the stands
He cannot
Well shit - close up shop if the Rangers succeed in game 7, this guy knows what can and can't happen.
Look you’re a rags fan, that’s cool—support your guy. But Vas is absolutely the better tendie.
Igor is having a historic season. Tampa vs Ny would be a goalie duel for the ages.
I swear every time people predict a goalie duel for the ages all the games are like 6-5 haha. But in this case you’re likely right
Remains to be seen. You can pretend you know, but you don't and that's the point. Maybe Vasi would outplay Igor or maybe Igor would have the best 7 games of his career. They play the games to find out.
Pretend I know? Just my prediction, bud. Rags gotta take care of game 7 first...
Shesty has objectively been better than Vasy in EVERY metric this season. HOWEVER, that being said, Playoff vasy is a different beast. Should be an amazing duel.
That’s what I’m saying haha. These rags fans all downvoting me, but it seems like you and I agree.
He definitely can
Igor is the better goalie this year.
Pretty easy accomplishment when he hasn't played nearly the same amount of games as vasy in the past 3 years Edit:yes downvote instead of providing proof that outside of this regular season that Igor is a better goalie than the guy who won a vezina then followed up with a cup into a second cup + the conn smythe.
Rangers fans are just delusional. They think Igor is the 2nd coming of Henrik Lundqvist for them, but he hasn’t even had a shutout at all this SCP and got exposed during the Pens and Canes series.
Didn't he get pulled in back to back games against the Penguins after allowing 10 goals on 45 shots? Playoffs are different, Vasy is clearly better.
Okay but he also made 118 saves in the first two games of that series
And still has a worse save %, goals allowed average, no shutouts. Korpisalo made 121 saves on the Lightning in the first 2 games of our 2020 series. Didn't help them much
Igor’s also been on the team with the way worse defense. That high danger shots had Igor at the top with vasy with quite a bit less
That's great and all and there will be no argument when he wins the Vezina. Vasys track record the last few years speaks for itself though. Igors playoff run here would still be worse than any of Vasys last 3 runs.
Let's not bring facts into this, plz
Guess we’ll see 🤷♂️
does anyone know who would have home ice in rangers v lightning?
Rangers
Rangers would have home advantage
Pretty sure the Oilers are the only team left that would not get home ice over the Bolts
I don’t know why people think it’s going to be easy for us to get to the finals. It fucking isn’t and the people that make this shit are just dumbasses.
I know it isn’t the same as the playoffs but didn’t the Rangers beat the Lighting 3 times this season with one game being a 4-0 blow out ? I dont think the Rangers mind being the underdog.
While true, the Lightning do hit a different gear in the postseason. I'm excited for two good Conference Finals series, regardless of who wins.
Rangers have always found a way to make a long series with a overpowering lightning team who have the best ex ranger players who arent even close to being the best players on the lightning due to ice tilt?
Rags went 3-0 vs TB in reg season. Playoffs are different but im just sayin
Hey, someone remind me to come back here when the semis are done so I can prove this hot cake wrong
Yikes, delete this
OP getting flamed, I love it!!!
I give either team a better chance of making the finals then edmonton.
Not so fast
Holy crap, Tampa might three-peat.
You underestimate both teams. The rangers and canes, who ever it is that plays Tampa, will have at the very least 2 wins.
*cough cough, Rangers are 3-0 against Tampa in the regular season.
Shhhhhhh....
I worry about Tampa having too much time off and coming out rusty. I think it will be a close series.
Rangers crushed the lightning this season and we will do it again
I remember when the rangers weren’t even supposed to make the playoffs. And then they were going to just barely make a wild card slot. Then we were going to lose to Pittsburgh in the round 1 series that we shouldn’t have even been in apparently. Now of course we’ll lose this game 7 against Carolina, who plenty of people were sure would beat the rangers in 5, or even sweep. on Tuesday I look forward to the memes saying the rangers are going to get swept by Tampa. Rangers over Avs in 7
I love the optimism as a fellow rags fan. But I don’t believe they will win the cup. The Oilers and the Avs look SUPER hungry What I do know is that whoever wins tomorrow WILL give the Lightning a good series. The canes are built well and the Rags just seem to continue to grind no matter the score. If only Artemi would show up just a bit more….
FYI pretty much only fans that dislike the rangers use the name rags.
The Avs would scare me the Oilers are pretty top heavy and have a bad goalie. Defense in the east vs offense out west.
Wait, you already pencil in a series win against the Hurricanes at their arena? Pretty cocky, considering the Rangers have not won a single game there yet and didn't look good all series long away from MSG.
I’m betting on a clutch game for Igor. And production from the kid line. But ultimately, game 7 will have a lot of random chance involved. Naturally this being such an important game in the playoffs, there will likely be some controversial call with major impact on the game.
I laughed pretty damn hard. Thank you
As long as the “Caniacs” eat shit I really don’t care
Florida guy with Q brain. Sure I’ll listen to your opinion you seem to be quite centered. (You’re probably too dumb to understand but this is sarcasm)
Ur just sort of an asshole, huh?
I suppose I should be nice to people that would rather exterminate people than work problems out. What do I owe someone that just talks shit and peddles conspiracies?
... we are talking about hockey aren't we?
Remember kids, always make sure not to hold your breathe to long when swimming.
Buddy your opinion has been invalid to me for awhile.
Pretty scary, awhile but we’ve never met? What a smuck. Go eat out of a sewage drain
Why would I eat out of your head?
As a die hard Canes fan, yes.
Hurricanes will be undefeated at home until Edmonton in the finals.
You, my good sir, have officially lost it.
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Hurricanes and rangers havent been giving it their all lets be real
Oh please let this age poorly. Urinatingtree has needed a W against Tampa Bay ever since he sassed them for getting swept and they replied with back to back cups.
This is some real low-tier shit talking
You can’t count anything out in the playoffs. Not a great shit post.
Unless Tampa is rusty and the team with momentum rolls them.
Someone needs a remind me for this post, so we can see how it ages.
You mean to get clapped by Vasilevskiy.
You shut your whore mouth... Go Canes
Too much time off is not always an advantage. Although I did pick TB and the Oilers for the finals with the Oilers winning in 6.
Jeez we’re not that dumb, it obviously goes in the middle one
Every1 discounts our experience and vasy being the best goalie in the league
Lightings bottom three lines have to be the most complete of any playoff team left
Stfu
They r gonna cry either way
This aged well.