New York's Stanley Cup dream is dying by the hands of Lady Luck - Polidicks

[QUOTE]It has been a series of bounces, and the New York Rangers have been on the wrong side of just about every one of them. The city's Stanley Cup dream is wilting away as a result. There were Kings fans and Rangers fans gathering in front of the building and inside Penn Station underneath it, ribbing one another and hoisting fake aluminum foil Stanley Cups. There were little kids in their youth-sized Rick Nash jerseys walking hand in hand with their moms and dads. Maybe they weren't even going to the game, but when your team is playing in its home rink in the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in 20 years, you bring your kids down just to see the pre-game spectacle. Unfortunately for these Rangers fans, and for the sporting hopes of the largest city in North America, that was the only time they'd hear that goal song Monday. *** Fast forward to Tuesday morning, hours after Game 3. Here are the Rangers-related headlines in the New York Post: QUICK AND THE DEAD: Kings' goalie puts Rangers on the brink of extinction THREE FALLING: Rangers blanked, shoved to brink by Kings & Quick NO QUICK FIX: Rangers can't solve L.A. goalie ZERO FOR ZUCC: Nothing doing for Mats as hole deepens NASH AND BURN: Goal-less forward symbol of Rangers' frustration IT'S IDIOT TIME: Rangers must channel '04 Sox More than any other Stanley Cup Final in recent memory, this series has been one of bounces. It has been much closer than the 3-0 series lead the Kings currently hold indicates. The Rangers probably played their best game in Game 3, yet they never held a lead and their arena felt like a mausoleum by the third period. "At some point, you are going to need some puck luck and we don’t have any right now," Lundqvist said after Game 3. "It feels like they have all of it. We always talk about how you have to earn that puck luck, but I think we are working really hard and doing a lot of good things but when they score goals like that when it feels like we are right there and doing the right things, obviously it’s mentally challenging to try to overcome that first goal." Everything is very, very close -- except for the shots that are actually going in the dang net. That's the type of thing that happens in a short playoff series, and it doesn't matter if the Rangers objectively have a better offensive team, or if they objectively have the better goaltender. The Kings are getting the bounces, as evidenced by two OT winners in Games 1 and 2. That, and one dominant performance out of their goaltender in Game 3, are the differences in the series. As Quick proved in Game 3, a dominant goaltending performance can counter anything. It's pretty much the only thing the Rangers can lean on, and the only real thing that can stem the flow of Kings bounce after Kings bounce that has thus far decided this series. [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2014/6/10/5796448/rangers-kings-luck-bounces-stanley-cup-final-2014[/url]

Good. Everyone's been asking me since the conference finals, "but why aren't you rooting for the Rangers, they're a New York team" I fucking hate the Rangers.

Black hawks should have been in it

[QUOTE=redBadger;45072412]Black hawks should have been in it[/QUOTE] Half the western conference should have been in it before the rangers.

The wild could beat the rangers

Blueshirts are the worst.

Get fucked Kings. I want some new blood to win the Cup dammit!

This year sucked awfully for Hockey, at least for me (as a Canucks fan you can probably guess why).

[QUOTE=Duck M.;45073719]This year sucked awfully for Hockey, at least for me (as a Canucks fan you can probably guess why).[/QUOTE] every year sucks for you. I really wanted the Rangers to win this cup too... My eastern bracket is perfect until this fisaco... I'm holding on for the 2.1% chance of a comeback

Well at least in the past few years we did really well in the regular season, but we can't even do that right anymore ; ; I'm surprised that NYR is about to get swept. Why does LA do this shit so much. I was looking forward to AV getting a cup but it looks like he's going to get snubbed again just like in 2011.

NYR won 2-1. Its time for game 5.