Found January 03, 2009 on The Rivalry:
Finally, a Ranger game!
It feels like a week ago that Versus treated us to the analytical stylings of Joe Beninati and Billy Jaffe during the Islander-Ranger game at MSG (that I sold my tickets to).
In reality, it was something like 4 and a half days ago, and by chance, Joe Beninati will be at Saturday night's game also, as he is the play-by-play voice of the Washington Capitals.
I truly hope Sam Rosen will be doing the game, but something tells me we'll have to suffer through John Giannone. It's not that I don't like Giannone, it's that a) he is better served as an in-studio analyst and b) Sam Rosen is one of the best in the NHL.
Let's also hope they have an answer for the Capitals and Ovechkin. As we all know, last time they played, they predictably blew a 4-0 lead and lost in overtime. They were lucky to even hold off for that point, as they got up 4-0 then completely stopped playing.
Ryan Callahan and Nigel Dawes have been playing solid lately. Petr Prucha's re-return has proved fruitful, as well. I don't have concrete evidence on what they did over their break, but let's hope it involved champagne, cocktail wieners (you know, pigs-in-the-blankets), and a week-long search for Brandon Dubinsky's Game that he apparently lost on or about Halloween Night and hasn't found since.
Scott Gomez, Wade Redden, and Michal Rozsival playing for their combined $18.5M (this season alone!) would also be nice.
And I hope Glen Sather's New Year's Resolution was to read this here blog in the weeks leading up to July 1 (the start of free agency in the NHL) so he can read our insight. Either that, or he'll be paying Erik Cole $7M next year and Marion Gaborik $9M and we'll group them with that free agent disaster named Redden (whom we predicted would be awful not only this year but 6 years down the line).
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