The Dark Ranger: The Dark Ranger Predicts

Bio of TDR

TDR is a working professional in entertainment and is obsessed with the game of hockey. More four years ago, this site emerged as a means (or an outlet) to tell some truth'isms about the game post-lockout, rather than the crud fed to us through knuckleheads like Jimmy Dolan and his lemmings universe. Today, there are a hundred Rangers sites and is thankful and grateful to all those that have come after him, but honorable thanks go to his fellow Dark-writers, Graying Mantis and J_Undisputed. And "Let's Go Rangers!"

Bio of Graying Mantis

Graying Mantis is in fact a graying legal practitioner by day (and sometimes, alas, by night). In the cobwebs of his memory, he recalls starting to follow the Blueshirts in 1970 and remembers watching pivotal playoff games against the Blackhawks on a snow-covered Hartford t.v. channel in their 1972 march to the Finals. Giacomin, Gilbert, Ratelle, and Hadfield seen skating on a small B&W TV screens always will be among his first Ranger memories. He is grateful beyond words for the opportunity to work with his colleagues here in their never ending battle to inform and entertain. Most of all, he appreciates the chance to engage with fellow hockey fans.

Bio of J_Undisputed

"J_Undisputed is an Information Tech Professional; a student, and on and off in his dreams, Mike Richter. He caught his first glimpse of Rangers Hockey when an overtime preempted his favorite pro wrestling broadcast on WWOR-9 one late saturday night when he was 5 and he's been hooked ever since. He's been watching the Rangers for 30 years despite family attempts to make him an Islander Fan (Rest easy...they're out of the will). What started as a minor annoyance has become a life long passion (and at times, a frustration...But he wouldn't trade it for anything). Lets Go Rangers!"

Bio of General Ganz

General Ganz is a cynical yet well-informed student of the human spirit. He's a professional of sorts, with a post-graduate education, some experience working in real companies, and some limited athletic ability. The total small package. He got picked on a fair bit as a kid, and he experienced his first human-non-relation kiss in his teens. He also grew up on the other side of the tracks, thereby helping to cultivate a healthy contempt for dreamers and optimists whose rosy upbringing gave them something to smile about, even when "life produced lemons." Like it or not, his only mission is to point out the potholes you're lucky enough to miss on your drive to work. To find the blemish on your daughter's carefully-stitched (and not-yet-paid-for) wedding dress. To take that little smidgen of hope that your favorite hockey teams fill you with, and pour orange paint on it. Oh, and he is a Blueshirts fan, and takes most of his fashion direction from Ron Duguay (whose name he dropped as a way to close the deal on that first kiss).

Friday, April 25, 2008

The Dark Ranger Predicts

Because everyone else is going on the line, here are my solid predictions for the second round:
Rangers in 6
Red Wings in 6
Flyers in 7
Sharks in 7
Discuss.
(sorry Jibbles)

tdr

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FAUX RUMORSApr 25, 2008 10:45 AM
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FAUX RUMORSApr 25, 2008 10:47 AM
1) If your predictions come true we'd have no choice but to them make the rangers our Cup favourites!
2) The Blueshirts would dispatch the Flyers, easily (Perhaps Valiquette could play all the games in Philly? LOL)
3) Detroit is VERY beatable, while we think the Sharks woukd make for the more interesting series but also give the rangers the bigger problem
4) All that said, thats not how we have/see it playing out. Sorry guys. Of course anything can happen and thats why they play the games!
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The Dark RangerApr 25, 2008 11:02 AM
Can't an Indie Blogger Dream, Faux?
Everything in our series will be determined by tonight's game -- it's how the Rangers have played the last three games - THEY determine the tone. They have it in them to contain, Sid and Malk....Hossa is still getting his feet wet.

I'd like to see Philly in the Eastern finals...Valley would be awesome and full of hearty laughs...the backup goalie starts in the third round...hilarious.

I'll go further down the line...
Final Stanley Cup Game:
Rangers vs. Sharks

Dreamin'...

tdr
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