Mack and Jake caught up with WFUV Sports' own Hockey Expert, Michael Watts. The guys talked about the recent NHL off season moves, including the Rangers' recent acquisition of Rick Nash from the Blue Jackets.
Jesse Spector of Sporting News joined Alex Smith and Amit Badlani on One on One to talk about Game 6 between the Devils and Rangers and the finals between the Kings and Devils.
It wasn’t easy in the first two rounds. Only the No. 8 seed next to the Ottawa Senators’ name in the playoff bracket would make you think they weren’t capable of giving the Rangers a series. The Sens came hard, and the Rangers skated away with a gritty seventh game win at the Garden. The second round was a matchup with the seventh-seeded Washington Capitals, a new look team with a defensive mindset that didn’t exactly match up with their personnel. Still, the Capitals brought the Rangers to another decisive seventh game, which the Blueshirts would skate away with on their home ice. No, it certainly wasn’t a breeze getting through the first two rounds.
I planned on writing a Devils-Flyers preview, but final papers/examinations got in the way. The past two weeks I have spent every waking minute of free time with my face in a book. A word to the wise: DO NOT put off research papers to the last night. But perhaps it was a blessing in disguise, I was planning on picking the Flyers in 5 or 6 games. Wait, why did I just admit that?
The Rangers emerged victorious in a hard fought 7 games series with Ottawa, and now find themselves moving on to round 2 to face the Washington Capitals.
Alex Smith and Mack Rosenberg were joined by Doc Emrick, play by play man for NHL on NBC and Versus, to talk about the 2nd round of the playoffs.
Kevin Price and Mike Giandomenico were joined by Jesse Spector of the Sporting News to talk about the NHL Playoffs, focusing on the matchup between Penguins and Flyers, Kings and Canucks, and other playoff series.
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On Thursday, the top seed in the east, the New York Rangers, open up their 1st round playoff series against the 8th seeded Ottawa Senators. For the Rangers, it was a banner season, as they finished with 109 points and won their division for the first time since 1993-94, which is plenty memorable for Rangers fans. Join me as I take a deeper look at this first round matchup and breakdown whether the Rangers can avoid the upset and move on to the 2nd round.
The race for the first seed in the Eastern Conference was initially a runaway for the New York Rangers. Enter an 11-game winning streak for Pittsburgh and suddenly there was a one point difference between the East’s top two teams with fewer than ten games to go. Though the Rangers pulled away in the season’s final weeks, the value of the first seed has an interesting past.
Sam Rosen, the voice of the Rangers on MSG, joined Colin and me for a spell on St. Patty’s day to discuss the state of the NHL playoff chase. Delighted that he was mentioned in the same sentence as Peyton Manning, Sam was more than happy to share his insight into the NHL season as it approaches the final stretch heading towards the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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