from Brett Cyrgalis of the New York Post,
Oh, those subtle subplots of the playoffs. This is part of what makes it fun, no?
Rangers coach Alain Vigneault spent part of Friday afternoon voicing his opinion about the Penguins crashing the crease and disturbing his goalie, Henrik Lundqvist, just to make sure it’s out there for the start of Game 2 on Saturday night at the Garden.
Vigneault made it clear he wants to see a little more diligence on the parts of the referees going forward in this first-round series — or at least more than they saw in Thursday’s 2-1 win in Game 1.
“Hank plays in the blue paint,” Vigneault said, referring to how Lundqvist plays deep in his net and almost always in the crease. “When he gets hit, the blue paint is the goaltender, because there’s a willingness [from the Penguins] to go there and disturb. There’s a lot of stuff from certain of their players that we knew was going to happen after the whistle. We hope that the referees are going to see it and call it, and we’re going to play whistle-to-whistle and be a very disciplined team.”
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