Another Game 7 is upon us, as the Rangers and Hurricanes settle things tonight. This isn’t our first foray into a winner takes all game, as both teams had Game 7’s in the first round. The Canes dispatched of Boston, and the Rangers took care of the Penguins in overtime. If this one goes like the last one, then you’ll need a Rangers Game 7 checklist to get through this game.
1. Your good luck spot to watch the game. Mine is on the chaise lounge on my sectional.
2. Your stress relief mechanism. Whatever it may be, find it. Use it. You’ll need it.
3. Remember when your pregame ritual was for the games they’ve won, and repeat it. Do it twice if you need to. Don’t change anything. Invite others to join you. Good karma all around.
4. Have the same clothes from Game 6? Wear them. Washing them is optional.
5. Whomever you were watching Game 6, find them, and get watch with them. Not available? Kidnap them. Not in the country? Alert the CIA. In prison? Break them out. Find them. Duct tape them to somewhere in your good luck spot (see #1) to watch the game.
6. Whatever you were drinking during Game 6, go get more. Water, coffee, iced tea, beer, scotch, vodka, it doesn’t matter. Not drinking anything during the game? Then go get what you were eating. Mimic what you did for Game 6.
7. Do you remember what volume setting you were listening at? Set it there. Do not deviate from it.
8. If you need to make a sacrifice to have Sammy Blais in the lineup tonight over potentially Ryan Reaves, do it. Gerard Gallant is being coy, per usual, and while we love Reaves, Blais is a huge upgrade.
9. Do something good for someone else today. We need the good karma. Let the Canes and their full heel turn into a true bunch of jerks keep the bad juju.
10. Yell SHOOT at the TV. It worked in Game 6. Seriously, they heard you. Continue to do it. Or just hope Filip Chytil takes more ridiculous backhand shots.
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