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The Mouth provides a classic weekend Treasure Trove showing of the Rangers/Flyers Semifinal Game three held at Madison Square Garden on April 25th 1974. The game is significant on several levels. The game captures the Flyers Broadstreet Bullies days in full throttle and it also conveys how intense this rivalry so much so that extra NYC policeman were added especially for this game.This particular contest and series was an incredibly physical series. Historically Ranger fans think that the... Rangers got pushed around but after actually watching the games The Rangers gave it back to the Flyers physically pretty well. It really was the lack of production of the Blue Shirts GAG line that did them in. But with that said two incidents stand out from this series. The first came in the deciding Game Seven when Dave Schultz used Dale Rolfe’s face as a punching bag and no Ranger on the ice came to his aide. The second is an incident that happened in this game we see here when Dave Schultz went after and fought Rangers All-Star Defenseman Brad Park. The Mouth provides 10 minute of game footage direct from his archives for the Ranger Crisis Fans to enjoy. The historical significance in Range history of this heated Game seven series is a great facet of the video. more>>

The Mouth is feeling a little under whelmed by the Rangers Draft selections this past weekend and decides to turn his focus to an absolute gem of a pick the Blue Shirts made in last years 2008 entry draft by choosing Russian Rifleman Evgeny Grachev. The Big man thinks his Rangers should be charged with highway robbery after stealing this 6’3 211 lb 18yr old stud from the Third Round of last year draft with the 75th pick overall. Grachev is a pure speed demon who also has elite scoring and... playmaking ability. A combination that should have even the most pessimistic Ranger fan anticipating his arrival to the big club.The Mouth provides hi-lites of Grachev’s initial year in juniors with the Brampton Batallion, a year in which Evengy was named OHL rookie of the year, The Mouth as usual provides the commentary.more>>

The Mouth invaded the Islanders drafting party that was held on June 26th, 2009. The Big man decided to conduct a mock draft of his own by basically mocking the Islanders building, its fans and their ex players live and in person.Now, you might say that is an awful lot of trouble to go to through just to bust chops of the Islander collective. Actually for the Mouth it was no trouble at all. His unique brand of Hockey humor is fueled by contempt for 95% of Islander fans, who for some reason need... to focus on the Rangers shortcomings rather then concentrating on their own annual absurd NHL futility.Perhaps the Fish Stick fans should be spotlighting on setting the bar a whole lot higher for their own team.The Mouth thought this the perfect opportunity to flip the tables and turn his full comedic attention to the tragic state of the Islanders and their fourth rate Organization, giving them a dose of their own medicine but a much more potent and higher quality comedic dose. more>>

In this Episode, Orr throws down with Eric Godard for the second time in the 2008-2009 season on January 5th, 2009 at The Garden. GigantOrr threw a whopping Thirty-Three punches to Godard’s Fourteen jabs and The Sheriff definitely had the eye of the tiger in this bout as he was looking to pound the Pittsburgh enforcer deep into and under MSG’s ice. Unfortunately for Colton the only thing he did do with propensity is pound his right hand into chop meat as most of his shots caught the helmet... of Godard which protected him from the majority of Orr’s Force 10 blows. However, the punches that did find Godard’s mush were some big powerful looping bombs. Orr threw nothing but hay in this hook up. The Mouth also gives his boisterous opinion of GigantORR’s tenuous future with the Rangers. At the time of this posts entry Colton is a UFA. The Big man announces that a non-signing of this valuable Rangers pugilistic policemen would be an utter disgrace by Ranger Mismanagement and also a very costly one at that, especially with so many throwers in the rough and tumble Atlantic Division.more>>

As you know here a the Crisis The Mouth likes to keep things pretty much PG-13 but away from the show the big man has a tremendous grasp of colorful language, especially during the throws of a heated Ranger game.The Mouth implores any Ranger fans that may be offended or not mature enough to handle the F Bombs and other vulgar words Ferrall spews forth to simply skip this post in good faith.The only reason I’m showing this is The Mouth thinks it’s absolutely over the top hysterical. The... following clip also does not involve Ranger Hockey which is another departure.Ranger Crisis ensures you this will be a rare instance we step away from Ranger hockey, we make this clip the exception, after all this was the Stanley Cup.That’s why The Mouth thinks the following clip is tremendous fun, because it is exactly how he would react if the Rangers had defeated the Detroit Redwings in last weeks Stanley Cup rather than the Pittsburgh Penguins. In his stead for this vulgar frantic celebration call is sports commentator Scott Ferrall.We join Ferrall as he counts down the last seconds of the Final Game 7 with the face off deep in the Penguins zone. His final countdown was recapped on the Howard Stern show. more>>

The Mouth once again presents his Ranger Crisis.com only feature GigantORR Episode #8. The feature continues in time line the pugilistic trials and tribulations of the Broadway Bruiser Colton Orr's fight card in the 2008-2009 season.In this Episode, Colton Orr takes on the fish stick colossus they call Mitch Fritz. Fritz is an unworldly 6’8 258 towering over NYR's GigantORR who is 6’3 222. This makes GigantORR seems like Atom AnTORR in comparison. The tussle between these two combatants... took place on December 29th 2008 at MSG.The fight itself is relatively short, as both Orr and Fritz lock horns and totally forget totally about defense and trade bombs. It is a perfect example of what The Mouth likes to call “eat and throw” a scrap tactic which was much more prevalent in the 1970’s and 1980’s before everyone did the “spin and throw“. Because of the sub-par bass fishing camera work by the Versus TV crew we don’t get to see most of the final punches thrown in the contest.However, when the camera finally zooms in on the two, low and behold Icelander Mitch Fritz is gushing hemoglobin like a stuck pig out of his right eye. It is only after the crack video staff at Ranger Crisis.com with it’s two dollar budget actually slows the fight action down, do we see the punch by punch trade off that these two adversary’s unloaded on each other.A very impressive win for the Sherriff especially against this mountain of a man playing for a mouse of team that once was a bitter rival.more>>

This Episode of GigantORR deals with two fights Colton Orr had with Mike Rupp of the Devils. The first one took place on December 12th, 2008 in Newark as these two tussled and Orr found himself at the receiving end of some bombs thrown by Rupp. But with a chin probably made of steel or perhaps even some titanium alloy, Sheriff Colton Orr does not go down. But however credit must be given where credit is due and Mike Rupp got the best of Orr that night in Jersey.The Mouth critiques that the few... times Colton has lost a battle is when he tries to be too tricky by switching from righty to lefty during a scrap, The Big man also suggests that when you have a jack hammer of a right like Colton does it should be bombs away from begging to end until the other guy is seeing the bright white light.The next time these two behemoths locked up it was once again at the Rock on February 9th, 2009. The outcome would be much different this time as Orr bested Rupp via a right hand that forced the Devil tough guy to take a knee and ask the officials what planet he was on.more>>

The Broadway Bad boy Sean Avery makes an appearance on The Jimmy Fallon show and does not disappoint. He does so by taking a verbal jab at Flyer Scott Hartnell by calling him " a bit of a clown." Sean also talks about his charity work and work with vogue. Towards the end of the segment participates in a predictable yet kitchy shooting contest with Fallon. if Sean loses the shooting contest to Fallon, Avery must wear a Philadelphia Flyer jersey. a sight which The Mouth thinks would make... fans of both teams feel nauseated.more>>

The Mouth shows us some very rare regular season footage of John Davidson between the pipes for the New York Rangers. The footage is rare for two reasons, one being that video from that era is rare just by itself and the second reason being, because of Davidson’s injuries after the 1978-1979 season J.D. simply didn’t play much. It was at this time some old skool Ranger fans may remember that J.D switched masks from his most recognizable tri-colored striped mask to his “Lone Ranger”... mask. The Lone Ranger mask was only worn by J.D in TEN National Hockey League games. This making the video shown here at Ranger Crisis even rarer.The Big man as any Ranger fan worth his medal, considers J.D a Ranger legend. However, some of his performances on the ice were comically horrible. Examples of this are shown in two games from this Treasure Trove archive. The first game shown took place on March 30th 1980 against the Red Wings and the second game is an October 9th 1980 opening night debacle against the Bruins at Boston Garden.Be warned most of these goals that J.D. gives up are absolutely brutal.more>>

The Mouth embracing the newness of two consecutive days of actual sunshine shows us two videos both involving new beginnings. The Big man first introduces us to a new sponsor for his Ranger Crisis program which bizarrely is located in our nations Capital where he also states that he has begun a search for Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin during the spot.The Mouth also uncovers some very interesting New Rule changes are coming to the NHL for the 2009-2010 season according to Onion... Sports. The new rules included will help enhance the games scoring and help with elevating NHL hockey to mass appeal for people not endeared to the sport of Hockey as of yet. more>>

The Mouth once again presents his Ranger Crisis.com only feature GigantORR Episode #7. The feature continues in timeline the pugilistic trials and tribulations of the Broadway Bruiser Colton Orrs fight card in the 2008-2009 season. A battle of the heavyweights takes place as Colton Orr faces Penguin enforcer Eric Godard at the Garden on December 3rd 2008. These two are no strangers to each other and as a matter of fact this fight was the first of FOUR that they would have during the 2008-2009... season.The fight is a direct result of a love tap that Colton gives Sidney Crosby after a whistle. Godard like all good team Policeman should do responds appropriately and instigates the rough stuff with Orr. What ensues once they finally pop the ejectors on their gloves is a full out blitzkrieg of Bombs by both combatants . The amazing thing is that none of them staggered at all as they both traded dukes in this 40 punch battle.The Mouth of course amped up on Hagen Daz and Red Bull as always gives us the blow by blow fight call. more>>

The Mouth once again presents his Ranger Crisis.com only feature GigantORR Episode #6. The feature continues in time line the pugilistic trials and tribulations of the Broadway Bruiser Colton Orr’s fight card in the 2008-2009 season.It all starts off with a clip from a Ranger/Ottawa game on November 22nd 2008 where the Blue Shirts trailed badly late in the Third Period and Colton Orr took exception to a check that NHL weasel extraordinaire Jarkko Ruutu put on teammate Freddy Sjostrom. It was... at that point, Orr decided to try and rearrange Ruutu’s proboscis.Following the Ruutu clip, next shown is Colton Orr’s SIXTH fight of the season on November 26th 2008. A ROUND TWO battle against Tampa’s David Koci. The Mouth finds himself eating some rare crow as the “Czechoslovakian Tomato Can” Koci scores a surprising win against Colton this time around. However, as we know GigantORR’s chin is made of steel and Koci wound up paying the price for his rare win by breaking his hand in the tussle and missing a month of playing time. more>>

This episode of Ranger Crisis starts off with a somber tone as The Mouth pays tribute a beloved New York Ranger Walt Poddubny. Walt died of a heart attack back on March 22, 2009. Poddubny was only 49 at the time of his passing.Although he spent only Two years in the Big Apple his one ice persona was one of hustle and exuberance. A skilled play maker and goal scorer for the Blue Shirts, Walt immediately became a favorite of the Garden faithful. He banged home 40 goals in his first season and 38... in his second and final with the Broadway Blues.The Mouth searched his archives to find some Poddubny footage and came up with a gem from New Years Eve 1986. Walter was instrumental in leading the Rangers to an Overtime victory against the rival Islanders that night by assisting on two of the three goals that line mate Thomas Sandstrom scored on, including the crucial overtime winner.The Mouth recalls from his memory banks that Walt Poddubny was a big fan of the Three Stooges. In tribute the always demented Mouth treats us to one of the most violent scenes in Stooges History in honor of Walt’s fun loving spirit.more>>

The Mouth once again presents his Ranger Crisis.com only feature GigantORR Episode #5. The feature continues in time line the pugilistic trials and tribulations of the Broadway Bruiser Colton Orr’s fight card in the 2008-2009 season. Orr’s FIFTH fight of the season took place against Edmonton Oilers Zack “The Hack” Stortini at MSG on November 10th 2008.Stortini holds on for dear life and prudently stays in tight with what at first seems is a strategy that will lead to him eventually... standing toe to toe with GigantORR. Instead Stortini decides to go yella and basically turn tail along with cranium and resorts to a cowardly retreat mode. If it weren’t for the mercy of the benevolent Orr, the Broadway Bruiser could have waylaid some real damage to the back Of Stortini’s dome while “The Hack” cowered like a big time Nancy.Following the fight The Mouth make his cable Network debut on MSG’s program “Fans Most Wanted” commenting on Wayne Gretzky’s tenure as a Ranger. The Mouth comments come directly after the conclusion of a rare clip of Gretzky giving engraved sticks out to his teammates in the Locker room shortly before his final game in the NHL. more>>

The Mouth treats us to one of the rarest and funniest of Ranger clips he has obtained throughout the years, A game in which an actual Ranger FAN scored a goal at MSG on Kirk McLean of the Vancouver Canucks. It happened on January 11th 1993. When a Ranger fan tossed a puck from the crowd during play and put it directly into the opposition’s net.The amazing thing is that this Ranger fan hurled the puck into the net exactly as Mark Messier had an excellent and quality scoring chance ! The... confusion on the ice actually led to a goal review which eventually led to a NO goal decision.After this on ice oddity John Davidson the Rangers announcer at the time went into a hilarious and wacky tirade in which he called for the fan who had hurled the puck to be thrown into the slammer.I know for sure had The Mouth been there he would have bought the guy a beer and a dog for his antics.more>>