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The Rangers with a repeat performance of game one. A very poor first period, a poor start to the second period, a timeout called by the coach….three goals in the third period. Boy it’s Deja Vu all over again as Jersey’s Yogi Berra might suggest
Dave Maloney on 1050 ESPN Radio yesterday
As Scott Cullen notes at TSN, more similarities are that Dan Girardi scored the first goal, Chris Kreider scored the second and it was followed by am empty netter.
Once again, all three goals were scored by home grown players an Henrik Lundqvist shut out the Devils.
#SNPlayoffs Confirmed #Rangers Brandon Prust will be have a hearing tomorrow morning with #NHL regarding his elbow on #Devils Volchenkov
— Nick Kypreos (@RealKyper) May 19, 2012
CLICK HERE to see what Prust did.
From the Rangers Game notes:
Henrik Lundqvist turned aside all 36 shots faced to post his league-leading, third shutout of the playoffs, and second shutout in the series. He improved to 25-27 overall in the playoffs, including an 11-15 mark on the road. Lundqvist became the first Rangers goaltender to post multiple shutouts in a single playoff series since Mike Richter registered two shutouts against New Jersey in their 1997 Conference Semifinals series. The shutout was the sixth of his career, moving him past Ed Giacomin and John Ross Roach into third on the Rangers’ all-time list, and he is now tied for third on the Rangers’ single season shutouts list.
- CLICK HERE for Brandon Prust elbowed Anton Volchenkov and could be suspended.
- CLICK HERE for John Tortorella and Ryan Callahan‘s epic fist bump
- CLICK HERE for the Rangers Radio call/video of Dan Girardi‘s goal
- CLICK HERE for the Rangers Radio call/video of Chris Kreider’s goal. (Also salary info)
- CLICK HERE for the Rangers Radio call/video of Ryan Callahan’s empty netter.
- CLICK HERE to see CBC’s awesome game intro.
Scoring:
Stats: 
Adam’s Thoughts:
- Full marks to Henrik Lundqvist as seemed to be the only Ranger who was ready to play and was the only reason they weren’t losing heading into the third period.
- It was strange to see how much this game mimicked game one with Dan Girardi and Chris Kreider scoring to get the Rangers on the board in the third period. It was a better third period, but the Rangers were not very good in the first 40 minutes. The Devils capitalized on that in game two and didn’t today.
- That was one great deflection by Chris Kreider on the Rangers second goal. It seems like he adds another element to his game every night.
- I can’t shake this feeling that the series will be tied at two heading back to Madison Square Garden.
Keith Jones said on NBC that “it’s an easy one” and that he thinks Prust will be suspended for one game.
3:52PM: Darren Dreger tweets, “Wonder if Prust will be in NYR‘s lineup for game 4. Elbow to the head of Volchenkov was nasty.”
4:24PM: Pete DeBoer said on MSG that the elbow from Prust was “headhunting….plain and simple.”
From Tom Gulitti, Anton Volchenkov said, “It was pretty dirty, actually. It was an elbow in the head. We’ll see what it’s going to amount to.”
Andrew Gross tweets, “Prust said “no intent” on hit to Volchenkov. Said he didn’t think he hit him that hard. Admits play will probably be reviewed.”
Elliotte Friedman notes that Stu Bickel is scratched today and that Steve Eminger is in the lineup.
Eminger last played on April 28th against Washington
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