By BOBBY BISCUIT

The Rangers picked up their third win in a row on Monday, the second consecutive in a shootout victory. Henrik Lundqvist was AMAZING yet again. He has some obnoxious streak of allowing no more then 2 goals in all but 1 or 2 of his starts. All this amounts to……he is the best goalie in the league right now… period. That said with the Rangers current record I believe they should consider sitting him again sometime in the near future to avoid a Martin Brodeur situation. No, not a torn bicep, a case of the, wow I’ve played an extra 10-12 completely unecessary games every year of my career and with that long of a career….it really adds up and takes some mileage off the car. But I digress….

Speaking of sitting, Teflon Tom Renney had Nikolai Zherdev and Aaron Voros stapled to the bench for a majority of the 3rd period on Monday to send a message to each of them. Zherdev later returned to score the only goal in the shootout and when announced as the 2nd star of the game, stayed in the locker room as he did not feel he earned that merit in a game he was benched by his coach.

Look for a rebound from both of those players as the visiting Canucks come to the Garden tonight to face their former captain Markus Naslund. Vancouver is off to what I believe is a suprising start this year. I didn’t expect much from them, but they deploy an extreme defensive style built from the net out surrounding their captain and elite goaltender Roberto Luongo and it has worked to the tune of 22 points and the division lead in the Northwest.

RIDICULOUS STAT: The Canucks have allowed 4 regulation goals in 7 games.

EQUATION FOR IDIOTS: Luongo + above stat + Lundqvist + above Lundqvist stat / garden ice from last game = UNDER total is 5 but it shouldn’t matter….whoever scores first may win, the only variable will be special teams and discipline.

FEATURED YOUNGSTER: The Sedin TWINS Daniel and Henrik are a good young PAIR (settle down Dean) but they have established themselves in the league so I would like to feature a young talented American player named Ryan Kesler. He is more of a five tool player then the usual super skilled speedster featured in this section of the preview. He plays both ends well and even drops the mitts when needed. That does not mean his game lacks any offensive sizzle as he does have 12 points already this season.

GO RANGERS

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By BOBBY BISCUIT

The Rangers host the Senators tonight coming off a late resurgent come back versus the Boston Bruins in the closing moments of the 3rd period. They will do so without the services of Scott Gomez for a third straight game. This meeting will be the first of newly signed Rangers defenseman Wade Redden against his former team. Since Redden’s departure the Senators have been reeling and currently possess one of the worst records in the league. They are however not to be taken lightly as there first line and power play remains one of the most talented in the league featuring Jason Spezza, Dany Heatley and Daniel Alfreddsson. The total for tonight is an even 5 and I will take the over. The reason for this is I believe the Rangers can build on their exciting victory from Saturday and that as bad as the Sens are thus far, they should still be enough of threat to push a puck or two past the great Henrik Lundqvist.

 
FEATURED YOUNGSTERS: The Senators do not have anyone I personally would highlight as a dazzling young budding star, however Jesse Winchester is a formidable young winger to look out for. Let’s however take this time to highlight the Rangers 3rd line which I am going to refer to as the kid line. They had a goal and 5 assists between them against the Devils and notched the first goal of the comeback on Saturday against the Bruins.

 
This line feature Dan Fristche, Lauri Korpikosi and Nigel Dawes. Fristche and Korpikoski are former first round picks and Dawes was drafted in the second round. These 3 have begun developing some chemistry and it would be great for the Rangers if they could keep that going as the 3rd line has been subject to nightly scratches and swaps all season.

GO RANGERS

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There is no audio portion to today’s Rangers pregame, but I do have a report to file from Bobby Biscuit who is at Madison Square Garden for tonight’s game. Bobby likes the Under 5.5 in tonight’s game. Bobby’s featured youngster is Phil Kessel of the Boston Bruins. Kessel is a 6′ 0″ center who hails from Madison, Wisconsin. Kessel is in his third year and has 7 goals on the year. His career high was last year, with 19 goals.

With the Rangers win over the Devils on Wednesday night, they brought the return on investment to +9% on the year.

Tonight the Rangers visit the rival New Jersey Devils at PRUDENTIAL SQUARE GARDEN The Rock. The Rangers had a great October but have only notched 3 points in 5 games thus far in November. Lately they have been getting off to very slow starts, something that should not be a problem tonight as this is a rivalry game. They dug out of their 2 zip hole against the Oilers on Monday but were not able to win in the shootout.

Former Rangers goalie Kevin Weekes will be starting for a depleted Devils squad tonight.

The Rangers have literally owned the Devils since the start of last year losing only once in a shootout during the regular season and once in the playoffs last year. Tonight’s total is 5 and I will go against the Rangers formula and particularly the Rangers Devils games which always seem to be 2-1 and go with the over. Reason being the scoring troubled Rangers should be able to muster at least 3 goals against a wounded Devils team while Zach Parise will find a way to pot one against the Rangers. Parise is the featured opposing youngster for tonight. Even though he is a hated Devil, he is a young American hockey player who is doing his best to carry the Devils this season and has notched 16 points already.

The Rangers catch the Oilers on a second night of a back to back as they beat the depleted Devils at The ROCK Pebble last night. Lundqvist will be in the nets for the Rangers who have recalled forward Lauri Korpikoski from Hartford as well. Expect Tom Renney to do some line juggling tonight, although it is unclear what he will send out at this time.

I like the over tonight simply because the Oilers played last night and may leave themselves open to help the Rangers score more then usual due to their fatigue level. Furthermore they have a strong powerplay and weak penalty kill which could assist this wager. Lastly, they are a very fast team playing a more wide open West Coast style. The Rangers are a fast team as well, so I expect the game to open up tonight and goals to follow.

GO RANGERS!

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Listen to Bobby and Dean talk about tonight’s game between the New York Rangers and the Washington Capitals.

Bobby likes the Under 5.5 in tonight’s game, and of course he likes the Rangers to win. Bobby is 2-1 with his Total Goal predictions! Today we begin to Progressively Wager the Rangers. We have set our Per Game Return set at 3%.

Listen to Bobby and Dean talk about tonight’s game between the New York Rangers and the New York Islanders

Bobby likes the Under 5 in tonight’s game, and of course he likes the Rangers to win. Bobby is 2-0 with his Total Goal predictions!

Listen to Bobby and Dean talk about tonight’s game between the New York Rangers and the New York Islanders

Bobby likes the Under 5.5 in tonight’s game, and of course he likes the Rangers to win.

Dean Browski is proud to introduce Bobby Biscuit as the newest Scout on the Dean Browski team. Bobby will join Dean every day that his beloved New York Rangers take the ice. Bobby is qualified to be a scout because while he is passionate about the Rangers, he is also knowledgeable. Ignorance will not be tolerated. More truthfully, the only ignorance that will be tolerated at DeanBrowski.com is Dean Browski’s.

Listen to Bobby and Dean talk about tonight’s game between the New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs

I am not a regular hockey fan, meaning, I don’t watch much if any hockey during the regular season. I do however very much enjoy Playoff Hockey. I also loved Sega NHL ‘94, I played that and got inebriated entirely too much during my college and early post-college years. I will most likely not have much to say during the NHL playoffs, so I am really looking for you readers to pick up the slack.

Here is my one observation so far. The last time a New York team took a 3-0 lead in a 7 game series, with Game 3 being a blowout win was the Yankees in 2004. The Yankees put up 19 runs in Game 3, the Rangers put up 7 goals in Game 3. Rangers beware.