Sunday, December 07, 2008

What Is It With The Rangers And Canadian Teams?

With their loss to the Flames tonight, the Rangers have now posted the following results in their games against Canadian NHL team thus far this season:

Toronto: 1-0 W in SO, 5-2 L
Edmonton: 3-2 L in SO
Ottawa: 2-1 W in SO, 4-1 L
Vancouver: 6-3 L
Montreal: 6-2 L
Calgary: 3-0 L

All of which means that they're 2-5-1 in those 8 games (with both wins requiring a shootout to pick up the extra point), despite being 18-10-2 overall! (Looking on the bright side: they're currently 16-5-1 against the American part of the league!) Worse still is the fact that they've been outscored 28-13 over that portion of their schedule, which is absolutely disgusting for a team that's supposed to be (according to the standings) near the top of the league.

Enough with the Canadian teams, already! I can't take much more of this!! Although the timing is perfect (considering that they've now lost 2 games in a row, getting outscored 9-2 in the process) for the traditional slump-leading-up-to-Christmas that always marks the start of the holiday season...

1 comment:

Boneman8 said...

I guess it's a blessing that there are only 6 Canadian NHL Teams.