NYR/OTT 4/9 Review: “ACKNOWLEDGE THEM!” Superior Rangers Smash Senators; Officially Clinch Playoff Berth, Gallant’s Gang Continues to Flirt with History; “CK49” Closing in on Jagr; No Weak Links, Complete Team Win, Lundqvist, Standings, “The Letter” & More!

While us Ranger fans are already aware of the team’s success; it’s now time for the rest of the league to take notice of the Blueshirts and “ACKNOWLEDGE THEM.” (Yep, this is a corny WWE reference, but just go with it! And yep – I just recently watched “Wrestlemania 38,” so this WWE stuff is on my brain!) Also of note? I posted this picture on my social media accounts – an hour prior to this game. That’s how confident I was in the Rangers getting the job done tonight! They didn’t let me down – in fact, they did the complete opposite of that!

Greetings and salutations everyone and welcome to another blog here on BlueCollarBlueShirts.com. The magical season continues – and it will officially continue into the month of May too!

And maybe this is an exaggeration in my moment of elation – but to me, this was an unforgettable night in Rangers’ history. I’ll soon explain why.


On Saturday night, at the “World’s Most Expensive Arena,” we saw a good team play a bad team. Rather than seeing another “Any Given Sunday” type of a game and/or another “David vs Goliath” affair; instead, we saw the dominating New York Rangers knocking the snot out of the Ottawa Senators by a final score of 5-1.

If there was any word that sums up this game, and a word that will continue to appear throughout this report, it’s that “d-word” itself – DOMINATING.

While the scoreboard after the first period reflected a tied score (1-1), make no bones about it – the Rangers were the far superior team of the first twenty minutes of play.

Twenty minutes of action later, the powerhouse Rangers hung a field goal on their inferior opponents. They could’ve had a touchdown – that’s how locked in they were.

Once we saw triple zeroes on the scoreboard after the third period, we saw another triple digit number – 100, as in how many points the Rangers have now accrued this season.

Here are the updated standings after this sixty minute affair of pure domination, domination that felt like a stereotypical bully from a 1980s movie kicking sand in the face of some skin-and-bones weakling:

Since the Hurricanes have played in one less game than the Rangers, they currently remain in first place. That will change on Tuesday night – or so I say! Photo Credit: ESPN

I can do the Barry Horowitz “pat on the back” stuff here, and tell you how I’ve been predicting that these Rangers would be great ever since day one of the Chris Drury era. However, I’m sure you’re bored with that act by now. I don’t need to play my “Greatest Hits” for you again – unless you’re a new reader, and if you are – just check the archives of this site for all of that.

I will say, I had some regular readers (long-time readers of this site at that), around December, who told me to “pump the brakes” about the Rangers being in first place.

At the time, the Rangers were in first place – but they had played in four more games than Carolina. Once Carolina caught up to the amount of games that the Rangers had played, they overtook first place from the Blueshirts. The team from Raleigh, NC have maintained first place ever since catching up in the games played category.

Fast-forward four months later, and here we are – the Rangers are pretty much in a virtual tie for first place and still control their own destiny for the top spot in the Metro.

As mentioned before – two regular season games with Carolina remain. These two games (both at M$G) will most likely decide who wins the Metropolitan Division.

And the Pittsburgh Penguins, who the Rangers were once neck-and-neck with for second place? The third-place team from Shitsburgh are now eight points back of both the Canes and Rangers.

In other words, unless something catastrophic happens – the Rangers will open up the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs on home ice. Print the tickets! (Or put them online, whatever!)


Oh yeah – did I mention that the Rangers officially clinched a playoff berth yet? Photo Credit: NYR

Where were you on February 8th, 2018, when the Rangers announced the following:

It’s my belief that “The Letter” will soon be known as the catalyst for the 2022 Stanley Cup Champions – the New York Rangers! Photo Credit: NYR

I don’t think I have to give you a recent history lesson here, as I’m pretty sure everyone is aware of what the old regime did on February 8th, 2018, when then Team President Senile Sather, and then General Manager Jeff Gorton, released what will forever be known as “The Letter.”

“The Letter” (which announced the brain-trust’s intention to rebuild), ended an era – an era where the Rangers were perennial playoff competitors.

Following the release of “The Letter;” within a span of the next two-and-a-half years, the only two stars (NHL All-Stars too) from a now bygone era that remained with the club turned out to be Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider – two players who later signed big contracts to remain with the franchise, deals that prevented both players from entering free agency.

Soon to be gone were long-time Ranger stalwarts and fan favorites, players such as Ryan McDonagh, Dan Girardi, Marc Staal, Mats Zuccarello, JT Miller, Kevin Hayes and others. The last pillar to go, and a player who put the Rangers above “Cup Chasing,” was #30 himself – Henrik Lundqvist.

Rebuilds can be tricky. For every Chicago, Los Angeles and Tampa – there are also your Edmonton’s, Arizona’s, Buffalo’s, and other teams that can’t get over the hump.

Sometimes you need luck. And the old front office, without a shadow of a doubt, received a bunch of good luck along the way.

Steve McDonald’s badge brought Jeff Gorton a ton of good luck during his tenure as general manager of the Rangers. Photo Credit: NYR

Due to location, location, location, and the fact that the Rangers provide the best amenities in all of the league (travel, doctors, staff, etc) – the Rangers easily attracted big-time free agents in Jacob Trouba (the Rangers got him via a trade, but they soon gave him a huge deal after trading for him, as he was a pending free agent at the time) and Artemi Panarin. These two players accelerated the rebuild process.

Perhaps even better than those two, was the fact that Adam Fox, from Jericho, NY, and who grew up as a Blueshirt backer (you may have heard about this once or 7867896896789 times before), didn’t want to play for any other team.

The Calgary Flames, who originally held the rights of Fox, soon traded him to the Carolina Hurricanes. Fox wanted no part of Raleigh, and after Gorton traded away two second round draft picks for him – Fox became a Ranger.

(And yep – while some may argue in favor of the Brassard for Zibanejad trade – it’s my belief that this trade for Fox was Gorton’s best. Either way – these were the two best trades of the “Gorton Era.”)

In just his second season in New York, #23 went on to win the Norris Trophy and was easily the best defenseman of the league. He remains as one of the best d-men in all of the NHL today.

In addition, that Steven McDonald badge, that former general manager Jeff Gorton once held ever so tightly, would continue to bring the Rangers luck.

The Rangers would win back-to-back NHL Entry Draft Lotteries, where they drafted Kaapo Kakko second overall during the 2019 NHL Entry Draft and Alexis Lafreniere first overall during the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. While these two haven’t hit their potential just yet; being in the position to draft these two was most certainly positive.

(And for what it’s worth – these draft picks were the consensus/slam-dunk selections too.)

Along the way, Jeff Gorton was also able to bring in other young stars, including K’Andre Miller and Ryan Lindgren – two players who are now regulars of the Rangers’ top four of defensemen.

And did I mention yet, that Jeff Gorton was also able to bring in CZAR IGOR, formerly of the Russian KHL (SKA) to New York too? Where would the Rangers be without #31?

After a brief flirtation with the beloved John Davidson at the helm; team owner James Dolan grew impatient. However, in hindsight, his hastiness paid off.

Once firing both John Davidson and Jeff Gorton (how Sather still collects a paycheck as an advisor I’ll never know), Dolan then hired/promoted the team’s then assistant general manager, Chris Drury, to run everything.

Prior to installing Drury into the big chair at M$G, where like former legendary Ranger general managers, including Lester Patrick, Frank Boucher and Emile Francis, Drury holds a dual-role as team president and general manager – the former team captain had been coveted league-wide.

Drury, rather than accepting numerous offers to serve teams as their general manager; bid his time and waited for his number to be called by Dolan.

In his first move as general manager, Drury fired former head coach David Quinn – a DQ who had been a close confidant of the former #23 in blue. Drury would soon hire a former Jack Adams’ Award Winner, and a 2018 Stanley Cup Finalist head coach too, in a one Gerard Gallant. The rest, as they would say – is now history. Great history at that!

Also history as a result of this win over Ottawa, and this season in general? The Rangers five-year playoff drought.

Fast-forward to today, just four years and two months after “The Letter,” Drury and Gallant have assembled a true Stanley Cup contender. They have as good of a shot as any team of winning the Stanley Cup in 2022.

Enjoy this Ranger fans. I know I am!


Artemi Panarin was awarded “The Broadway Hat” tonight, but really, multiple Rangers could’ve won it after this game. That’s a good problem to have! Photo Credit: NYR

Last night, I covered all of the news, where I closed last night’s blog with the following, in regards to the standings and Friday night’s important tilt between the Hurricanes and Islanders:

On Friday night, the Carolina Hurricanes host the New York Islanders. Should the Canes defeat the Islanders in regulation, the Rangers will officially clinch a playoff berth.

Should the Islanders win or lose in overtime, the Rangers can clinch a playoff spot with any type of win over the Senators tomorrow. (The magic number right now is two points.)

For me, and for as blasphemous as this may sound – I’m rooting for the Islanders to win. After all, I’m rooting for the Rangers to catch the Canes for first place in the division. An Islander win will increase the Rangers’ chances for first place.

Plus – wouldn’t you rather see the Rangers clinch a playoff berth on home ice anyway? I rather see the Garden rockin’, rather than celebrating a Canes victory over the Belmont Bozos.


Following these comments, I received some feedback, where many people were pissed about me wanting the Islanders to win.

Now, on April 9th, 2022 – aren’t you glad it all worked out that way?

Rather than securing a playoff berth, their first in five years, via an opponent’s victory; instead, the Rangers clinched a playoff berth on their own, and put that “x” next to their name in the standings, by doing what they’ve done all season – coming back to win a game.

While the Rangers impeached the Senators right on their asses on Saturday night; at one point, this game was 1-0 and in favor of the road team. The Rangers then scored five unanswered goals for their league-leading 26th comeback win of the season, which is also a franchise record.

And I know what you might say – “the Senators suck.” That is true, but in their first crack at securing a playoff spot, the Rangers excelled and played one of their best games of the season. Even the biggest pessimist has to be happy after this win.

Better than that – the Rangers did exactly what they were supposed to do – they destroyed a bad team behind a complete team-wide sixty minute effort.

There was no dicking around tonight, as the Rangers never let off of the gas just once, including during the waning minutes of the contest with the game’s result having been long decided. As a result, with just 2:29 remaining, Chris Kreider scored his 49th goal of the season.

As mentioned repeatedly on this site, Jaromir Jagr holds the franchise record for most goals scored during a regular season with 54. Whether Kreider can surpass him or not remains to be seen. (I truly hope he does and in the worst way.) However, what seems to be automatic is this – “CK50.”


Bad joke/pun incoming: it didn’t “Motte-r” that #64 missed this game. The Rangers continued to employ their “NEXT MAN UP” strategy, and once again, it paid off. Let’s hope that Motte can return soon. The Rangers can only get better with him. Photo Credit: NYR

I know I might be all over the place tonight, but I have my reasons. In fact I have three:

— I’m extremely giddy.

— I may have been nipping at the bottle. (Bulleit Bourbon!)

— I’m watching a UFC PPV as I type these words!


There’s just so much overwhelming positivity throughout the streets of Rangerstown, USA after this win.

There are also many stories that I could’ve led with tonight. I feel that a lot of stuff will be lost in all of the celebration – just because there’s a lot to be proud of and to be ecstatic about.

I mean, who else is mentioning the following right now:

The 2014-15 New York Rangers hold the franchise records in wins (53) and points (113). Gallant’s Gang has nine games remaining to break these records, as they currently have 47 wins and 100 points. Would you doubt these 2021-22 Rangers to break these records? I know I wouldn’t!

In my opinion, this isn’t too bad for a team that NEEDS Buchnevich, and for a head coach who HATES Lafreniere!

Man, oh man, I always get a kick out of seeing the analytical losers bomb with all of their stupid and erroneous predictions! I’ll put my track record and predictions against any of these people!

And speaking of predictions, how about another one of mine, where once again, the EYE TEST NEVER FAILS:

I only had $3.02 left in my account after putting the rest of my money on the Rangers to win this game and on the puck line. But hey, a $25 profit isn’t too shabby – I can buy half a beer at M$G!

Let’s have a field day reliving this game during the GAME REVIEW.

I’m not even joking – this is the happiest I’ve been with this team, ever since the 2014-15 season. (“IN CAM WE TRUST!”)

However, before getting there, the usual – the line-up, news, and everything else under the sun!


If you haven’t read last night’s blog (plugged at the end of this one), check it out, as I recapped a newsworthy Friday.

Come 5PM Saturday evening, Gallant once again stuck to his guns and wouldn’t reveal his line-up, nor his goaltender.

I understand why Gallant does this, as he perceives this as giving himself an edge/advantage; but for a league that has 786786867896796868769 gambling ads per broadcast, the NHL will soon make their coaches transparent – just like the king of sports, the NFL, does.

In fact, I’m sure that the NHL’s gambling partners are already pressuring Gary Bettman and company into doing so – especially with the playoffs ahead. Money is lost when information isn’t readily available.

As far as what information Gallant disclosed, he confirmed what he said on Saturday – if the medical staff cleared Kevin Rooney and Kaapo Kakko, then they’d play. The medical staff cleared both men, and in turn, they were both inserted into the line-up, a line-up that sure needed them – especially following the injuries received by both Tyler Motte and Filip Chytil.


Here’s what “The Turk” went with for this “Derick Brassard Tribute” game:

FIRST LINE: Kreider/Zibanejad/Vatrano

SECOND LINE: Panarin/Strome/Copp

THIRD LINE: Lafreniere/Goodrow/Kakko

FOURTH LINE: Hunt/Rooney/Reaves

Defensively, we had this:

FIRST D-PAIR: Lindgren/Fox

SECOND D-PAIR: Miller/Trouba

THIRD D-PAIR: Braun/Schneider

And in net, CZAR IGOR


BOX SCORE time.

The following information and graphics come from the new world-wide leader in NHL coverage, ESPN.com:

SCORING:

PENALTIES:

TEAM STATS:

GOALIES:

OTT
SA
GA
SV
SV%
ESSV
PPSV
SHSV
SOSA
SOS
TOI
PIM
33 5 28 .848 26 2 0 0 0 60:00 0

 

NYR
SA
GA
SV
SV%
ESSV
PPSV
SHSV
SOSA
SOS
TOI
PIM
22 1 21 .955 21 0 0 0 0 60:00 0

As usual, while the “Three Stars of the Game” is meaningless in the grand scheme of things; I would’ve given Kreider the first star. However, Panarin deserved it too. Also deserving acknowledgment was Ryan Lindgren, who received the third star of the contest. Photo Credit: ESPN

Normally, at this part of the blog, I’d write 9786787986 paragraphs about how bad Sieve Vagistat was. As usual, Vagistat was completely unbearable tonight, where he was perhaps at his most irritating – and that says a lot!

However, I’m on such a Rangers’ high right now, that I don’t want to spend anymore time on this loser – an analytical freak who bombarded us with his worthless charts, talked about his “tingles,” and then flip-flopped on remarks that he had previously made regarding this team.

I watched tonight’s game with my good buddy, my fellow road-tripper, and my neighbor too – the infamous “TEN O’CLOCK TOMMY.”

At one point during this broadcast, he said, “I can’t wait to see what you write about Vagistat tonight.” Instead, I’ll keep my comments between Tommy and your’s truly private – as there is no point in giving this seven foot goof anymore of my time! I won’t let him bring me down!

Thankfully, Henrik Lundqvist was back tonight.

Lundqvist, who has been phenomenal in his new job all season (I may have mentioned this 8678678967896796 times before), was perhaps at his best tonight.

Between his career, his stuff with the guitar, and now as an analyst – he does everything extremely well. (Did you ever imagine me saying this several years ago? Again – it was always about the salary cap hit with me.)

Furthermore, as a Rangers’ historian (Stan Fischler considers me as one, and that’s good enough for me) – I now look at Lundqvist historically; rather than analyzing the worst years of his career in the moment – which the final years of his career were. I choose to remember him for his prime; rather than looking at his cap hit. I feel cleansed!

And admittedly – as someone who felt negative about this team in seasons’ past (and my thoughts were proven true during that time) – it’s so much better to be “glass half full.” It’s like a weight has been lifted – just not a beer gut weight!

I think the pandemic has changed me a bit – as I truly approach life with a prism of optimism. It’s a better way to live.

Then again, I turn forty years old in two months – maybe I’m just getting wiser and more appreciative of things as my peak years are now behind me! It’s all downhill for me now – except when it comes to rooting for my favorite team!

What was so spectacular about #30 tonight, was that he was brutally honest throughout the entire broadcast.

Unlike Gallant, who has to praise the bad teams of the league (no coach wants to give the other team bulletin board material); Lundqvist not only buried the Senators throughout the broadcast – he pretty much lifted his leg and pissed on them too.

(I know, it sounds like I’m going back on my “glass half-full”/optimism stuff – but Lundqvist just stated the facts. I was right with him on all of this!)

Lundqvist’s honesty and candidness were both appreciated and refreshing. You didn’t feel lied to. Lundqvist said what it was – the Rangers are great and they smacked around a shit team. (He didn’t say these words verbatim – but you get the point!)

Also back for this broadcast, after missing the last two broadcasts, was John Giannone, who must’ve been overcoming something, as he did sound under the weather tonight. What a trooper!

As far as anything else worth noting (as there was way too much Vagistat on this broadcast, where I can’t be bothered to recap how bad he truly was tonight); Dave Maloney, during his segment, said that Jacob Trouba drove the bus of the Rangers defense.

As a fan of puns (Hi Mike!), I thought that the former captain missed out on an opportunity. He should’ve said that Trouba conducts the “TROO TROO TRAIN!”

Once we went to Sam and Joe, M$GN should’ve played Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight,” because all they talked about were playoff implications and the stakes that were involved – and as they should’ve. I was fist-pumping along with them.

And once tonight’s tilt concluded, the Rangers had smashed the Senators – just like the drum solo during that famous song.

In addition – the Blueshirts rejected the Senators like Lisa Ann shutting down Michael Del Zaster!


I must confess the following. While I do watch a ton of hockey, I admit that the Senators aren’t a team that I seek out to watch. In turn, I completely forgot that “OLD FRIENDS JOE” Michael Del Zotto and Nick Holden play for Canada’s capital team. Neither one of them did anything positive for the Senators tonight. Photo Credit: Getty Images

A few general comments before fully diving into the GAME REVIEW:

— Artemi Panarin, the game’s number one star, absolutely put forth a masterpiece. Aside from his one goal and two assists (another three-pointer baked by “The Breadman”); there were many times throughout the game where he just danced around and made the Senators look foolish. It was like a never-ending game of “duck, duck, goose,” where the Senators could never touch him.

— The Rangers, who have that “all for one and one for all” mentality; once again played unselfish hockey. While they scored five goals; they could’ve had ten. There were many times during the game (including during a penalty kill, where they had four different chances to score), where rather than shooting the puck – they went for the extra pass instead, a pass that became a turnover.

— Watching Mika and Kreider smile and celebrate after the game put a grin on my face too. There’s so much positive team chemistry right now, which is why these guys give up GOOD LOOKS in order to set their teammates up. There is no puck hog on this team. Everyone revels in each other’s success.

— CZAR IGOR, for what I think is now the fourteenth time this season, only gave up one goal. As is always the case, the one goal allowed wasn’t on him. It’s always a fluky play, or a lone brain-fart by the defense. Without them, Igor would easily have ten or more shutouts. Instead, the likely 2022 Vezina winner (I think Auston Matthews now has the Hart Trophy locked down, especially with a pro-Canadian panel voting on it), remains as the league-leader in save percentage. He’s also .03% away from tops in the league in goals allowed average too. And now, with 34 wins, he’s now one win away from having the most wins in the league. VEZINA!

— Just like last game, there was no weak link on the Rangers’ roster. The Rangers had one bad play, one they got burnt on, but after it – that was the end of that. And yep – the other team is paid to play hockey too.


After being scratched by Gallant during the past two games; “The Grim Reaver” returned to the line-up tonight. He played like a man who never wants to see the press box ever again.

In a game featuring rising goalie Anton Forsberg, and the best goalie in the game today, CZAR IGOR; Josh Norris took the opening draw from Mika. By the end of the game, #93 in blue would win eight of thirteen draws.

More impressive than that? Barclay Goodrow, arguably the team’s best penalty killer and a Steve McDonald Extra Effort Award candidate too; won a whopping thirteen of seventeen draws.

Tasked to center a young line with Kakko and Lafreniere flanking him, the two wonder-kids themselves; I thought Goodrow was the best player of his line – and as he ought to be. He’s the veteran. He’s the one with two Stanley Cups. Lafreniere and Kakko will only get better by playing with him.

(And if it was up to me, and by now you know it’s not – I rather see this trio than ever see Filip Chytil again – despite how well #72 has been playing lately, which is also due to Goodrow on his line.)

The crowd at M$G tonight, who were most certainly aware of what a win would’ve meant, cheered loudly and proudly early. When the returning Kakko took his first shift at the two minute mark, the crowd gave him a rousing applause.

However, Kakko was also on the ice at the 2:22 mark, when noted slugger Austin Watson scored. 1-0, bad guys.

On this goal, the forwards got trapped, and Mark Kastelic, who was behind CZAR IGOR’s net, found Watson wide open for an easy goal. Justin Braun, who played for the second time at LD with Schneider as his partner, could only watch.

This goal was the only negative thing of this game. The next 57:36 were all Rangers.

Thirty seconds after Watson’s lucky goal, the returning Kevin Rooney took the ice, where he forced Forsberg to make a tough stop. As mentioned earlier, Rooney, and as I expected, was much better than Kakko tonight. And who could argue otherwise – as Rooney finished with two SOG and with a rating of a +1. Kakko didn’t register a shot on goal and finished -1.

However, I thought this was all predictable and expected.

Rooney is a veteran, and because of his role on the fourth line, it’s easy for him to plug right back in. For a skill guy like Kakko, a young player, I think it’s going to take some time for him to find his stride. He has nine games to do so, should Gallant continue to play him.


A healthy Kakko at his best can only help the Rangers. Photo Credit: Getty Images

Following Watson’s goal, the Rangers, and as they always do, forgot about it.

In turn, they quickly raced out to a 7-1 SOG advantage, where Forsberg stopped Fox, Mika, Miller and others.

In our first sign of unselfishness, at around the five minute mark, Trouba was left wide-open. Rather than slamming the puck towards the net, he forced a pass to Miller. A turnover. Again, this isn’t a criticism – this is just me pointing out that I think these guys are such great teammates, that they rather see someone else score than themselves.

The latest Rangers’ fourth line put forth an excellent showing tonight.

In fact, because of their forechecking, and some monster hits out of Reaves too; this line drew the only Senator penalty of the game.

At the 5:55 mark, Josh Norris was boxed for tripping Dryden Hunt.

The best scoring chance for the Rangers’ man-up attack was with the second power-play unit on the ice.

With just a few seconds remaining on the power-play, and with 11:58 to go; Trouba blasted a puck at Forsberg. Lafreniere got the rebound and was all alone. Rather than shooting, he tried to set-up Kakko. No SOG and another turnover, where yep, you guessed it – this was being unselfish, rather than anything truly negative.

Of course, you want to see them shoot the puck – but maybe they were toying around with a crap opponent. (And I’m sure they wanted to get the returning Kakko going too.)

After Kreider was denied of goal #48 (he’d soon get that goal, and one more to boot), following a Lindgren smash that went wide; we saw a camera shot of Mike Richter, who was in the building. Too bad he didn’t boot Vally from the chair.

If you’re going to have two goalies on the panel, you may as well have the two best living ones of franchise history, rather than the worst back-up of the Lundqvist era, in-studio.

The Rangers, who just kept firing away at Forsberg; finally had their high-octane offense rewarded with 7:28 to go, when this happened:


1-1!!!

On this goal, following a Sens’ icing; Strome won a faceoff, Copp cleared the ice, and after a Senator briefly touched the puck, Artemi Panarin pounded the puck past Forsberg.

And the analytical losers say that faceoffs don’t matter. (I’m not making this up.) But their EXPECTED stats do. Those people are a shit show.

If there was anything “bad” about this goal, it was that Strome and Copp didn’t get assists here. This was a pure second line goal – something that won’t show up in the box score and/or on any analytical chart.

Since a Senator touched the puck before Panarin scored, #10’s linemates don’t get the apple – but make no mistake about it, this goal doesn’t happen without them.

Two minutes after Panarin’s tally, Forsberg stopped Goodrow, where #21 was just a hair away from scoring.

Following the save, Del Zaster was able to fight off Kakko and Lafreniere, as the duo were trying to get a puck deep.

As Forsberg continued to rack up the saves, where during the final minutes of the period he stopped Trouba, Miller, Fox and Panarin; we finally hit the end of the final frame tied at 1-1.

While of course, the only thing that matters is goals for and goals against; the Rangers out-shot the Senators 13-3. During the intermission, Giannone said that the shot attempts were 30-5. (I think the real number was 20-5, but I’m just telling you what Johnny Boy said.)


CZAR IGOR didn’t have to do too much tonight – a good thing. While he made two or three tough saves, it was nice to see his team limit his workload. Team effort!

Following Mika’s faceoff victory; the top two lines strung two amazing shifts together. However, at the end of the second line’s shift, Joseph, on a two-on-one, hit the post. Then, at the 2:56 mark, Fox tripped Mark Kastelic.

Up next was perhaps the Rangers’ best penalty kill of the season – even if they didn’t score a goal as they have done in the past.

Kreider made two remarkable plays, where Forsberg was forced to make a denial. Right after, Mika and Kreider had a two on one odd-man rush, but Mika turned over the puck on the pass.

It’s obvious, and the two somewhat admitted as much after the game – Mika wants to get Kreider to fifty. I can appreciate this, even if this should’ve been a SOG for #93 here.

That said, you can do this against Ottawa. I don’t think they’ll do this in the playoffs, where nobody gives a damn about individual stats. Come May, it’s only about winning games – and not chasing records.

If that wasn’t enough for you, with just sixteen seconds left on the PK, Strome had a breakaway, where the Senators may as well have been sitting in the press box.

Despite being wide-open, and without a Senator in sight, rather than going straight to the net, Strome looked behind him, as he was in disbelief that he was so wide-open. Once he realized that he had to go to the net, and there wasn’t anyone to pass off too – Forsberg stopped #16 on this breakaway opportunity afforded.

Once getting their kill, with 13:26 to go, Igor came up with a huge robbery save on Norris. This was also a turning point save.

22 seconds after the save, this happened:


2-1, GOOD GUYS – and a rare cross ice pass that actually connected too!

After Igor committed a robbery; it was Copp who arrested Forsberg after Panarin’s pass. What a sweet looking goal.

This was also the first goal of three from the period.

Just a shade over two minutes later, this happened:


3-1, GOOD GUYS. Goal #48 for Chris Kreider.

This was a rip-job, as CK20, soon-to-be “CK49” after this game; streaked to the net, and then just lasered a puck past Forsberg.

Forsberg, who seemed to be on his way to having another one of those opponent’s “I turn into Dominik Hasek in his prime whenever at M$G” type of a game; was now broken.

Following the goal, Dryden Hunt hit a post. With 7:03 remaining, Mika tried to set-up Kreider again, but just missed.

However, with 2:33 to go, the Rangers struck again:


4-1, GOOD GUYS, as Panarin executed a perfect pass to his favorite centerman. This is the Ryan Strome I know!

As the horn went off to signal the end of the period, the Garden was electric.

For your consideration, not only was the score 4-1, but the Rangers were also out-shooting the Sens’ 25-9.

As Lundqvist would say during the intermission segment – the Senators had no response for these focused Rangers.


I know I’ve said it before, but what’s one more time? Everyone loves Jaromir Jagr, but I’d rather see a career-long Ranger, Chris Kreider, hold the franchise record for most goals in a season. Photo Credit: Getty Images

It was clear as day that this game was over once the third period commenced.

Just thirty seconds in, Frank Vatrano hit a post.

Earlier, I said that the Rangers could’ve had ten goals tonight. Check that. They could’ve had a dozen, as a result of the iron they hit!

The Rangers, despite the three-goal lead, didn’t sit back. They were ruthless. They were relentless. They were determined to clinch a playoff spot on home ice.

The bulk of the first ten minutes of the period saw the Rangers shut the Senators down and then Forsberg would come up with save.

The Rangers got fancy too, as Panarin made the Senators dizzy as they watched the Russian fly around the ice, including a Harlem Globetrotter play when Panarin fed Fox.

With 8:02 remaining, Igor made a thunderous save. Right after, the cameras flashed to Dancin’ Larry. Soon, the rest of Rangerstown, USA would be dancing right along with him after the win.

Do you remember that light “four-goal win” bet that I showed you earlier? Who else but Chris Kreider to give the Rangers a four-goal lead with just 2:29 remaining:


5-1, GOOD GUYS. Goal number 49 for Christopher James Kreider!

Oh yeah – Vatrano picked up an assist on this goal. What have I been saying for a while now – Vatrano and Copp are good for a point-per-game!

And for shits and kicks, with just 26.4 seconds left, Igor made a save on a Senators’ breakaway. This save reminded everyone of who was the best Father Finkin’ goalie of the league.

As triple zeroes flashed across the scoreboard, the Garden erupted.

And as fans, a derivation of the word “fanatic,” it was a heart-warming moment watching Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad, the two longest tenured Rangers on this team, go into pure celebration mode. Their passion, emotion, and embracing really connected with any fan who saw all of this.

Yea, Filip Chytil (third longest tenured Ranger, and who didn’t play tonight) and Alexandar Georgiev (fourth longest tenured Ranger, who sat on the bench tonight) were there for the entire rebuild too. However, we all know how much Kreider and Mika mean to this team. They both want to be here. They got their huge moment after this game.

Also worth mentioning, since I haven’t mentioned it yet? This:

I really liked that CZAR IGOR got this start, even if you could’ve rested him in preparation for Carolina. He deserved to be there – as the Rangers clinched a playoff spot in his first full 82-game season in the NHL.

Plus, the Rangers now have 48 hours to get ready for Carolina. Igor didn’t need the rest tonight. I liked that Gallant didn’t fool around and dressed his best line-up possible.


I posted this picture in January, and once again I ask – “WHY NOT THE RANGERS?”

There’s no way that I can call this the “best win of the season.” After all, consider the competition.

Was it perhaps the most dominating win of the season? Sure, but it should’ve been.

However, what I can say with 100% certainty is that this was the most emotional win of the season.

If you don’t count that 2020 bubble debacle – the last time the Rangers were in the playoffs was in 2017 – when Jean-Gabriel Pageau owned Henrik Lundqvist, and where these Senators eliminated the Rangers during the second round, in a series where everyone and their mother had the Rangers winning it.

It’s been five long years. The wait was real. So are these Rangers.


Here’s the head coach after the monumental win:


While he didn’t say it – I’d imagine the Rangers will have off on Sunday. They’ve earned it.

PLUGS time!


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Here are my last few blogs, in case you missed them:

A Whirlwind Wash Friday in Rangerstown, USA: Kakko and Rooney Return, Motte Most Likely Done For Season; Chytil Hurt Again Too, Gallant’s New Line-Up Teased; Major “Turk Talk” Interview, Playoffs & More


NYR/PIT 4/7 Review: CZAR IGOR Shuts Out Penguins; Rangers Dominate Season Series, “Trouba’z Treehouse” Continues Point-Per-Game Pace; Firm Grasp of Second Place, ESPN + Officials = Horrible, Kakko v Goodrow, Gallant, Panarin & More


NYR/NJD 4/5 Review: “Mess with the Bull, You Get the Horns!” Schneider Trucks Devils; Braun Chews Daws; Strome’s FABULOUS Return; Amazing Kreider-Man Sets Franchise Record, Special Teams, Gallant & Georgiev Stand Tall, Standings, NYR Pods & More


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Tony DeAngelo and the Carolina Rangercanes make their 2021-22 debut at M$G on Tuesday night. Think DeAngelo will get a video tribute package? Photo Credit: NHL

Up next: Rangers vs Hurricanes this Tuesday night. This is a big one. I don’t think I have to explain why!

As always here, thanks for reading and…

LET’S GO RANGERS!

Sean McCaffrey

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  1. Sean
    I see Bill is filing a formal complaint against me!

    Hey it is your blog and I will shut up about important but non hockey related issues but not for Bill but I will probably have to stop commenting to do that especially after a little garlic juice

  2. Sean
    Bill is the perfect example of the current climate

    Bill does not want hear what I am saying but he also does not want anyone else to hear what I am saying either.

    You are a capable researcher, if you research anything that I have said and except for my opinions, analysis or speculations about there meaning or importance and find that they are completely false and concocted then ok let me know and I will check to see if I was wrong, because I know all of this is public record and would take 5 minutes to prove

    If Bill does not think Epstein being connected to all these people who are directly connected to the Wuhan lab is not relevant or suspicious in any way then I cant help Bill with that…………and I believe most people would find those connections fantastically relevant and suspicious if people only knew about them

    I don’t care about Bill’s political party………..and I don’t care about the political party of his opponents, they do

    I should get a tee shirt that says this

    Your Party Sucks!………….with Uncle Sam as a backdrop pointing at the reader……..not that Bill would get the joke

  3. Bill
    Come on Bill, you don’t have to leave and you also don’t have to read my comments.

    When I write a comment on this blog I am writing to Sean, not to you

    What are you saying, are you saying that Sean should cancel me?

    Why?

    I would never even suggest anyone be canceled on any forum, social media site or blog……..not even you.

    Bill other people actually have different perspectives on life, politics and everything else in general but for people like you if those opinions deviate in even the slightest way from your own, you are screaming cancel, cancel cancel…..edit…..censor…cancel………you and people like you would be perfectly content if there were actual laws against people like me and we were all locked up on frigging Rikers Island……….or at Attica!……Attica!……Attica!…….heh…..am I right?

    Grow a pair and rationally and calmly debate anything I have said or shut the fuck up and go away on your own initiative and leave me out of it………….there are numerous echo chambers online were you could contently pass your time…..go to BSBS

    I recall trying to rationally debate you about C19 and you freaked out and I decided not to talk to you to keep things civil so that is on you not me

    1. I don’t want you canceled Zap, but I would appreciate if you would stop with these 3984383483834834 rants about COVID after every blog. No one gives you more free Rangers content than me, and I came to the site today to find nothing about hockey. I think it’s time to go elsewhere with your COVID rants as they pertain nothing to my articles.

  4. Sean
    It is comical but I decided to refrain from talking to Bill……..and I do not do flame wars……..because he got so upset last time around he accused me of taking money from Vlad Putin!!

    Yea because that is what Putin did, he said…….psst Zap…….go to Sean’s NYR Ranger hockey blog where the only person likely to even read your comments is Sean himself and run a Russophile propaganda operation on him……..and maybe we get a Republican win in the next election!…………the next election like the Cup is ours!…………Putin only has like a $1 million ruble budget for this chicanery but it sure worked wonders in the election when Hillary “it’s her turn now” was cheated, no?

    Pay is thus very small

    It is sad to to think that there are actually large numbers of people believe bogshite like that

    I am over………well old enough to have seen Peter and Frank Mahovolich play when I first started watching hockey when I was like 5 which was in 19 tickety tick as Abe Simpson would say…….heh……. but in all that time I have never seen so many people who are so credulous that they will believe anything……..literally anything if that anything pushes the right emotional or political buttons………no research, no thought, no debate needed……..it is there problem and they are dangerous to everyone, including themselves and their own, whether they know that or not

  5. Bill
    I noticed immediately after you commented on the previous thread, calling for my banishment, that all of my comments were deleted to the point of merely being place holders with no content……..I was actually writing a comment and posted it which also mostly vanished when I saw your comment there.

    Uh, did you do that?

    Have you unilaterally decided that you are now the blogs self appointed hall monitor and content nanny?…………do you work for the Atlantic Council, Bill, because I think they are the only ones that have the self anointed non governmental quasi authority to do that?

    Did Sean get to vote on this!?

    heh

      1. You did not delete anything yet posts from the previous thread were truncated to placeholders?

        At least last time I looked they were and the thread was several thousand words long, you did not notice that?

  6. Sean
    This goes for Bill and you both and I mean this in a friendly way to you Sean if not so much with Bill……heh…. if you find any examples where I made connections between certain groups and people that are false point them out to me and I will attempt to prove that they are indeed not only factual but easily proven

    If you think they are irrelevant after I prove them true I cannot help with that………..because it means you are both making something that is a deal so humongous that it is certainly a big deal to anyone who is carefully considering what is actually going on a non starter……..IOW………Nobigdeal because it happened

    This shit is as serious as a pericarditis or myocardis induced heart attack in an under 18 and if I prove my point to either of you, your next question should be………yea but why aren’t the media, the politicians, the scientists, the researchers or anyone telling any of us this???………ayyyyyy and you would be right about that and there is the rub…………why aren’t they reporting any of it?

    I am stating this as a intellectual challenge……..do you wanna go Bill!?……..huh do ya!….you wanna go with me, eh!!?….do you wanna go!!???

    Well go then, what’s stopping you?

    🙂

    2 minute penalty to Bill for dropping the gloves…….I am just kidding because I know Bill will never drop the gloves or go……..he would rather go to the ref or the league and suggest I be kicked out of the game for “bothering him” and be banished from hockey.

  7. Sean

    As Eddie Van Halen has not written anything as good as “Right Now”…….especially lately…….;)……. besides it only almost worked the last time around yet not quite……. for this years playoffs I am going to go with Satch and “Unstoppable Momentum” this although there is the slight chance he could be an Islander porta potty baby…..blech!……he is from Long Island after all, him and Steve Vai,…….but the Isles wont be in it so I would trust Joe to root for the NY team

  8. Bill
    You do realize that when you became so irrationally incensed by my comments that you hacked Sean’s blog and deleted all of them except for a few words you left as placeholders……….that you were committing a felony?……….now someone like Sean or myself are not the kind of guys that would rat you out for it figuring you got angry and temporarily spazzed a bit no harm done….after all we are Irish…..and I certainly didn’t or would never do something like editing someone elses blog to blame someone else……….but why the hell do you think you have the right to do something like that?……………and why the hell do you think other people automatically would go along with your political opinions when for all you know Sean may as well be a Patriotic, Maga hat wearing, right wing, white supremacist, homophobe, Islamophobe, transphobe, misogynistic, White nationalist, insurrectionist and a phobe, ism or ist to be named later as necessary and a terrorist Rethuglican!!?

    You know like that WEF “Young Global Leader” sock puppet Trudeau up in Canada……just like his daddy Pierre before him by the way….Canadian middle class truck drivers are all those things yet ex Isis genocidal maniacs, ethnic cleansers and sex slavers who have vowed to destroy the West, just back from Syria for a little R and R after getting their ass kicked there are the good guys?…………that is you dumb dumb

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/justin-trudeau-returning-isis-fighters-theyll-be-emily-zanotti

    You don’t know yet you are so self righteously indignant that you feel you have a clear right to hack Sean’s server provider and delete content?……..and content that is not even from Sean himself

    It is a felony jackass, not that Sean would be likely to squeal on you but I don’t think it would be a good idea to do that again do you?

      1. Really??
        Then you deleted those posts, which I have no problem with?

        I mean that happened literally when I made my last post and his post appeared at the exact same time…..and that seemed like too much of a coincidence to my mind.

        And you are not exactly an IT guy by your own many admissions about not being computer savvy.

  9. Sean

    Isa’s latest diary entry

    😉

    Sean

    This is how I research…I dont trust any media whatsoever and have not for a very long time…..this came from my experience studying finance and markets as an uncredentialed amateur hapless hopeful investor over many years.

    Ok when I see a story about anything…..I avoid all opinions in the story and if there is evidence presented….I seek to verify that evidence myself

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10542309/Fresh-lab-leak-fears-study-finds-genetic-code-Covids-spike-protein-linked-Moderna-patent.html

    Ok here is one about Moderna’s 19 string sequence that IS in the C19 virus and that is factual…..odds placed at 3 trillion to 1 by an algorithm used in the field

    Here is the BLAST site

    https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi

    I saw this story and the string and the database these scientists were using to write that academic paper……the BLAST system……so I copied the string and went to the BLAST site myself…..and realized that I could not search because I did not know where to input or what database to search because it is a complex site and I don’t have that experience in the discipline to know which data base to search….then further researching I saw a Twitter feed that was obviously full of post docs, undergrads and some PHD’sm in the field discussing this paper saying…..”look at this bullshit, anyone can go to the BLAST site, input the string and get a multitude of Natural occurrences in Nature!!”…..in other words it was as I expected a trivial database search that this peer reviewed academic paper was based on

    So I thought ok…..this study claiming there is proof this string that Moderna manufactured the C19 is bullshit……then later I realized…..then why didn’t these other PHD’s and academics that wrote the paper see all these other results when all they had to do was as simple as inputting a string of numbers and get a result……why did dozens of scientists from a half dozen US universities writing a paper based on just this simple search not see all these other examples that the BLAST system spit out when anyone should be able to find it?…….there are only 2 answers to this, they were either committing academic fraud for unknown reasons or financial fraud to try and attack Moderna for short sellers and neither reason works for me

    The first group of scientist’s only saw exactly 3 matches because there were only 3……the second group saw many more legitimately and I did not feel they were lying…….but that was only because those entries had to be added later……do you see what I am getting at?

    The firs group of PHD’s could not possibly miss all these other examples……therefore those entries were not there….I feel this is strong evidence that database was tampered with after those 2 papers were published and added after it was published

    It is not plausible that all of these other scientist would miss that……when their entire academic paper which was reviewed was based on that simple search that anyone could do if they knew which parameter to search in the database

    The other scientist later were not lying but they were not thinking……..well shit these guys over at U of Missouri U of Pittsburg etc etc could not have missed this?….they were not thinking intuitively and realizing if these other academics did not see those entries it was because they were not there when they did their search and wrote their paper

    So my opinion that Moderna actually created both the virus and the cure has risen substantially considering this 19 code sequence

    I was tempted to join Twitter just so I could query these guys and say…..so what you are saying this study is an academic fraud?….that anybody even a layman would find those other entries from nature just by inputting the data but your PHD colleagues in the field ignored those entries and claimed there were only 3 and all based on Moderna patents?….you think that is plausible?

    and maybe I should do that………because this shit and all the chicanery involved is getting old

  10. Sean
    In my day way back when…….Bill is the kind of guy that believed professional wrestling matches were legitimate…….and if they were just slightly more savvy, they claimed……OK, I know most of the matches are scripted but NOT THE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES!!!!……..and there was no talking to them either

    Bill doesn’t know what Kayfabe is but I do and that goes for wrestling and certainly for political and financial kayfabe

    Bill is like a “hooker” that thinks I am not “selling moves”……………..that STILL doesn’t know what kayfabe is!

    🙂

    Haystacks Callhoun!

  11. Ok here is one about Moderna’s 19 string sequence that IS in the C19 virus, that has been verified….odds placed at 3 trillion to 1 by an algorithm used in the field

    Here is the BLAST site

    https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi

    I saw this story and the string and the database these scientists were using to write this academic paper……the BLAST system……so I copied the string and went to the BLAST site…..and realized that I could not search because I did not know where to input or what database to search because it is a complex site and I don’t have that experience in the discipline….then further researching I saw a Twitter feed that was obviously full of post docs, undergrads and some PHD’s in the field saying…..”.look at this bullshit, anyone can go to the BLAST site, input the string and get a multitude of Natural occurrences in Nature!…..these morons!”…..in other words it was as I expected a trivial database search that this peer reviewed academic paper was based on

    So I thought ok…..this study claiming there is proof in this string that Moderna manufactured the C19 is bullshit……then later I realized…..then why didn’t these other PHD’s and academics see all these other results when they did something as simple as input a string of numbers and get a result……why did dozens of scientists from a half dozen US universities writing a paper based on a simple search not see all these other examples that tha BLAST system spit out when anyone should be able to find it?…….there are only 2 answers to this, they were either committing academic fraud for unknown reasons or financial fraud to try and attack Moderna and neither reason works for me

    The first group of scientist’s only saw exactly 3 matches because there were only 3……the second group saw many more legitimately and I did not feel they were lying…….but that was only because those entries had to be added later……do you see what I am getting at?

    The first group of PHD’s could not possibly miss all these other examples……therefore those entries were not there….I feel this is strong evidence that database was tampered with after those 2 papers were published

    It is not plausible that all of these other scientist would miss that……when their entire academic paper which was reviewed was based on a simple search that anyone could do if they knew which parameter to search in the database

    The other scientist later were not lying but they were not thinking……..well shit these guys over at U of Missouri U of Pittsburgh etc etc could not have missed this?….they were just not thinking intuitively……and realizing if these other academics did not see those entries it was because they were not there when they searched

    So my opinion that Moderna actually created both the virus and the cure has risen substantially considering this 19 code sequence

    I was tempted to join Twitter just so I could query these guys and say…..so what you are saying this study is an academic fraud?….anybody even a layman would find those other entries from nature but these guys ignored those entries…..you think that is plausible?

    and maybe I should do that…..because this shit and all the chicanery involved is getting old

    Ok the only thing we cant do now is search BLAST’s archived databases and see if we only get a 3 example match that traces to the Moderna or search those databases for the occurrences from nature they say match and look at them because we don’t have access to those archived databases and you can rest assured they do exist because databases like this are constantly backed up and archived and likely too randomly to ever be effectively shoved down Winston Smith’s memory hole…….it would be provable one way or the other though

    anyway the garlic juice has me prattling!

    heh

  12. Sean
    My last comment before Bill came along and it vanished was about Black Rock…….Mt Olympus in NYC members financial firm…..you know as guys like us have Fidelity, Merril Lynch, Vanguard……they have Blackstone and Black rock

    Black Rock bought a substantial reportable position (an over 4% ownership stake under SEC 13g and form 4 rules)…..in Feb 2 2021……..before anything about this virus and Wuhan was known…..or that there would be vaccines coming or that Moderna would be involved……….this as I am sure you recall was the bat soup stage…..

    OK go to Yahoo finance and input Moderna…… highlight the mouse pointer on the chart at Feb 2……….Black Rock and the members of Mt Olympus mad an 18x times gain in what a year……..BILLIONS of dollars……..Jesus Mary and Joseph, Lord God Love Us and Save Us!…………I don’t know if you know that Irish saying………but it was what older Irish ladies used to say when something was so fantastically outrageous they had to curse but did not want to take the Lord’s name in vain……and God help you if you did!!!…….of course the guys always would anyway…….like this……these crooked bogshite bastards!!!……heh

    If you want to know exactly how much they made……..well I could get their total share holdings from the SEC’s Edgar and we could multiply but it is bad enough already………Black Rock’s investment in Moderna was a little too timely and for a person like myself way too predictable

    Sean, I like to keep things lighthearted and I joke but I am a very serious person about things like this………none of this shite is a joke and I am not a person that does not know what they are talking about whether I have a credentialed academic background or not……..yea I don’t have a frigging PHD but that does not mean I am an imbecile

    The Rangers will win the Cup this, that I can 100% personally guarantee!!!

    Ok but if not…..next year for sure!!

    Ok but maybe………3 year from now

    Ok but maybe……..ok we will will eventually win……..I will leave it at that

    Cheers!

    LGR!

    1. I understand you feel passionately about this topic but you can go to sites that talk about this stuff all day and debate it, rather than doing so here.

  13. Sean
    Did you ever see this or know of the story?

    I mean it is lunatic fringe but you gotta admire this gal for her spunk if not her brains…….yea when the cops came to arrest her she dropped the gloves and decided to go with them

    I know a little Green Day and they were OK but its maybe more from your era………but I do like this song and this video

    It is self explanatory…….and it did actually happen

  14. Sean
    You would not believe how much I wanted Marty St Louis to win that year………because I always had a soft spot for little guys that play a big game starting with Henri Richard…….Theo Fluery……Mats Zuccarello……Nathan Gerbe and hell I dont even know who Nate Gerbe is as a player but he has 435 games in at 5’4 as an NHL player so he has my vote…..but you get the idea……..ok so lets do it again

    One more time before…….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,,,,,,time

  15. Sean

    Ok on a Bill Murray hockey approved subject……..in that last game……when Scramblehead got that puck and started running straight at the net…….I was like…..Ryan Lindgren like number 4 Bobby Orr leading the rush!!!……and when he made that perfect dish to Kreider for the goal……….that was frigging AWESOME!!

    heh

      1. Sean
        Ok I will try and cease and desist on the C19 stuff.

        I agree I am overdoing it but Bill riled me up and a little garlic juice got me type type typing.

        Remember that 19 string sequence is liable to come back and haunt them

          1. Did you delete those previous posts?

            Did you ever notice me throwing ad homs like lunatic and Putin operative at this guy except in retaliation for what he started?

            When I first tried to have a dialogue with him after he wrote a very smug and smarmy criticism of vaccine skeptics, who flew off the handle first, me or him?

            I shrugged off that and decided to try and have a dialogue with both him and yourself because I wanted to see what he thought of my concerns over these vaccines, extremely legitimate concerns but that guy is not up for a calm rationale debate?

            Sean don’t accuse me of starting shit with this guy when it was completely the other way around

            If you had a search feature I would find both his and my posts and you could go over them chronologically to prove my point but why bother.

            Bill’s only problem with me is that his political candidates son is involved in all this and if he was not involved as was the case previously he would not be even getting a mention but he is involved and in a big way.

            This guy rubbed the gloves in my face first and I only minimally gave him it back because I did not want to get in a pissing contest with a guy who I would consider FOB…….in other words Friend of the Blog…..in other words YOUR friend……whether I like the guy or not

            What you think I am so bog raised Irish that I would come over your house and start a fight with one of your friends?……..maybe break the TV while I am at it, right?

            I’d leave before that ever happened

            anyway I don’t want to make this a manifesto

  16. Sean
    You can delete my posts from the blog if you want, no problem

    Hey and if you don’t know how I am sure Bill could give you a hand and keep his deleting – canceling skills sharp

    Just remember I did not pull these names and connections out of a hat and you can deem them irrelevant or not important but you can not deny them as factual.

    This is the way these things always work, one side of the aisle gets in a ringer and the other side deliberately drops the ball and then vice versa…….over and over again

  17. Sean
    This time around I got a little angry at Bill because not only did he object to my comments, it also looked like he decided he had the right to delete all but the first sentence of them

    And they were fairly lengthy at that`

    I would never do something like that, it would be the height of self righteous, self indulgent, arrogant presumption as if I had the right to be content nanny and hall monitor on someone else s blog.

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