The New York Rangers begin their quest for the franchise's fifth Stanley Cup when they open the 2008-2009 season against the re-tooled Tampa Bay Lightning in Prague starting at 12:00 p.m. For a preview go to Newyorkrangers.com.
Possible Lines:
Naslund-Gomez-Drury
Dawes-Dubinsky-Zherdev
Prucha-Korpikoski-Callahan
Voros-Betts-Orr
Redden-Rozsival
Staal-Mara
Kalinin-Girardi
Goaltenders:
Henrik Lundqvist - 37-24-10, 2.23 gaa, .910 sv%, 10 so last year.
Mike Smith - 15-19-0, 2.59 gaa, .901 sv%, 3 so in 34 games with Tampa last year.
Notes:
The Rangers and Lighning split the season series last year 2-2.
Among the new faces in Tampa are Adam Hall, Ryan Malone, Mark Recchi, Gary Roberts, 1st overall pick Steve Stamkos, Radim Vrbata, Matthew Carle, Andrej Meszaros and Olaf Kolzig. As well as new Head Coach Barry Melrose.
Tampa ended last year with the fewest wins (31) of any team in the NHL.
The Rangers won their season opener at home against Florida 5-2 last year.
...i'm so fired up for the game i decided to do my game preview tonight.
...last year i tried a couple of different game preview formats, but I'm going to go with this one probably all year.
1 comment:
It seems pretty classless to not have Prucha in the lineup, considering this is his native country. Renney seems like a legit dude, so I'm assuming there's a trade in the works involving Prucha. Also Renney talked about how Prucha was in the best shape out of any Ranger player since he's been the coach. From all accounts Sjostrom had a bad camp and Dawes has been invisible in every pre-season game. So either they're showcasing someone, Prucha will be traded as soon as they return to the U.S., or the coach is a douche bag. And i don't wanna hear about the back to back games as an excuse. I apologize for the long post but if the blogmaster would've brought up these points I wouldn't have to.
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