2017/2018 Playoffs
Hopefully can have a perfect season, but we had several shoot/out ot wins this year. McDavid's Colorado made the playoffs, as did Crosby's BJ's and Ovechkin's Carolina. Phildelphia as always next best, with Winnipeg Arizona and Buffalo the division champs. Devils finised 30th, which is good as i have their draft pick not this draft but next.
Rnd1: Go back to my best lines, as face the panarian-stamkos-geaudreau-hedman Islanders. Win first two by a score of 20-6 and then combined 12-3 at theirs for the sweep. Winnipeg are out, in 6 to the very average Blues, that is a shock! Colorado through in a sweep, Buffalo knock out Carolina, and in 7 Crosby is out to Philadelphia.
Very likely Crosby and Ovechekin will never get a sc in this playthrough.
Rnd2: Philadelphia, and they've been tough, 2 1 goal games in our favour in the regular season, with 3 thumpings. So they could spoil my perfect season! First game is a 4-3 win thanks to a late winner in the 3rd from Connor.[B]Perfect season is gone/[B] Phil wins 5-4 GUTTED! We were 4-1 up. 6-1, 9-3 and 11-3 victories follow for a 4-1 series win, but perfection has eluded us. McDavid makes the conference final with a 4-3 series win over the gritty Blues. They'll face Arizona who beat San Jose in 6. Boston suprisingly beat Buffalo!
Rnd3: Boston-Carey Price Mark Stone and Nazim Kadri. Lets see how much of a fighbt they can put up. we won 3 games in the regular seaons by 2, 3 and a 4 goal margin! 9-2 home win to start, thena 4-2 tense win. Were 2-0 down after 2, only to get a sput of 4 goals before the 15th min of the 3rd! 7-2 for us in Bos, and 7-3 for the sweep. Arizona 3-1 up after we go through, and they knock out McDavid's Avalanche for i think their first appearance in the Finals
Rnd4: Its not a Rangers-Jets final, but technically, its a Rangers verses the Original Winipeg Jets final with the Arizona Coyotes. Arizona is lead by a fearsome topline, Pettersson, Matthews and Rantanen. Finished 2nd overall in the league with 118 pts, 425 goals and 297 conceded. We beat them 6-3,6-2 and 8-1 in the regular season, so aiming for a sweep here.
Game 1: 6-3 win,Out top 3 lines all score, we are ahead 2-1 after the first, But the second auston Matthews goal makes it 2-2 after 2. Score is then tied at 3 with 7 mins left, but we score after 13, 15 and 17 mins to win it.
Game2: 9-5 win! 3-0 to us after win 3-3 after 2! But then 6 goals in the third by us win it, after Matheson had putr them ahead! Again everyone contributes for us.
Connor is actually top of the points in the playoffs. But 10 rangers all have 20+ points. Draistail next best non Ranger with 25, and Matthews had 24 for Arizona
Game3: This game was topsy turvy, we go 2-1 up after the 1st. and then two goals inside a minute to begin the 2nd, looks like we have iced it. But sensationally, Arizona score two goals in the next minute!
McCann equalises after 8 minutes for 4-4. Kessel and fox make it 6-4 before the period is up! Matthews scores early in the 3rd to reduce the deficit to 1, before Kopitar adds insurance with 7 to go. Its neede as Matthews scores again, but we hold out! Shots and play fairly even. we actually outshot them 41-35, but that was mostly the first period. Next two periods Coyotes probably edged it. 7-6 win for us
Game4: Can we finish 100-1 for the season? NO. Arizona with a 4-3 tight win. Matthews gets the equalising goal in the 1st, before Shinnimin Moore and Mahew make it 3 goals in a row to make Kessel opener in the sedcond irrelevant. Tavares gets one more in third but not enough.
Game5: Surley a procession, in front of our home fans Its a win, but Arizona stuck around in that game, going 2-1 up and wasn't till late in the 3rd did we put it away. Kessel anjd Kopitar with the points.
We fnish the season with a few
records,
100-2 overall record
84-0 in the season and a 16-2 record in the playoffs. i think best playffs of 4 series was a 16-1. Goals scored of
683 most certainly is as is differential of
456. Kopitar lead plyoff performers with 33, Kessel and Connor had 32. Anze Kopitar joins the 200 club, and beats Kessel record of 212 points as most for a Ranger. Kessel also beats his previous record but has 220 points to 226 for Kopitar.
Hart: Anze Kopitar
Conn Smyth: Anze Kopitar
Calder: Mikhail Sergahev (Col)
Norris: John Klingberg
Vezina: Henrik Lundqvist (WPG)
Kopitar first person to get Hart, Conn Smytthe, Maurice Richard Art Ross, and Selke. He is also the only person to get the Hart, Conn Smytthe, Maurice Richard & Art Ross since Bobby HBull who did it 3 times. in the 60's