European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 19 2007 stars and stripes Page s3 rangers whip Thrashers close in on second round the associated press new York Kari Lehtonen didst have the game to Stop the new York rangers the rest of the Atlanta Thrashers failed to even slow them Down Michael Nylander scored three times Lin mate Jaromir jagr set up four goals and Henrik Lundqvist stopped all21 shots he faced As the rangers routed the Thrashers 70 tuesday night and moved to the Brink of the second round of the playoffs new York followed up a pair of on goal victories Over the Thrashers in Atlanta with a Thor Ough dismantling of Lehtonen and the Southeast division Cham pions to take a 30 series Lead the rangers can become the first nil team to Advance in this years playoffs on wednesday night at Madison Square Garden Atlanta is reeling and will go Back to goalie Johan Hedberg in game 4 in a desperate attempt to extend its season we understand this is far from Over rangers coach Tom Ren Ney said As much As the record might suggest otherwise its not Over at All Only twice in nil history has a team recovered from an 03 Hole to Advance but the thrash ers showed Little sign they have near what it takes to even get the series Back Home for a game 5 there is not a single individual play moment or part of the game that mattered Forward Bobby Holik said it was about a Lack of passion it had nothing to do with skill or Talent it was about heart and desire Lehtonen got the curious Start Over Hedberg and then endured a beating As the rangers scored three times in the first period and kept going Over the final 40 min utes Nylander scored the first of his three goals 32 seconds after the opening face off and paved the Way for the rangers Blowout that put them within a Victory of the second round for the first time in a decade nobody on this team played 10 years ago jagr said we just want to win the game and play the same Way Nylander had his first playoff hat trick and Lundqvist got his first playoff shutout Rookie Ryan Callahan scored twice and Marek Malik and Brendan Shana Han added goals it Felt like everything was working for us Lundqvist said of the rangers 3for9 on the Power play its not every night especially not in the playoffs when everything just seems to work for you Tell that to his Young counter part Lehtonen was touched for seven goals on 35 shots that was enough for the rangers Victory theme Sweet Caroline to play with remaining Over chants of sweep sweep senators 2 penguins 1 at Pittsburgh defense Manaton Volchenko sent a slap shot from the Slot for a goal Midway through the third period and Ottawa moved within one Victory of eliminating the penguins Volchenko scored Only once in 78 games during the season and had one previous playoff goal canucks 2 stars 1 Trevor Linden shovelled a rebound past Marty Turco with left and defens Eman Willie Mitchell pre vented a tie by sweeping a trick Ling puck off the goal line for visit ing Vancouver wild 4 ducks 1 Marian Gaborik scored a rare Power play goal and Niklas Backstrom made 28 saves to help Host Minnesota avoid a sweep Pierremarc Bouchard Brian Rolston and Mark Parrish also scored for the wild flames 3 red wings 2 Jarome Iginia scored the godhead goal at of the third period leading Host Calgary mat thew Lombardi and defens Eman Mark Giordano scored Power play goals for the flames Kris Draper scored twice for Detroit Ausa raffle this 2007 Caliper other prizes include 1st 2nd prizes 2 tickets to continent i us 3rd 5th prizes european Tours 6th 8th prizes Cotor tvs 9th Lith prizes did players car donated by Exchange new car sales raffle ends june 15 2007 drawing held on june 19 for ail prizes except the Dodge Caliper and the roundtrip tickets grand prize drawing for the Dodge Caliper and the roundtrip tickets held july 20 All tickets Are each representative at or june the new York rangers Sean Avery right is held Back by the referee after fighting with Atlanta Keith Tkachuk during tuesdays game nil scoreboard Eastern conference Buffalo is by islanders thursday april 12 Buffalo 4 by islanders saturday april 14 by islanders 3 Buffalo monday Buffalo 3 by islanders 2 Buffalo leads series 21 wednesday Buffalo at by islanders Friday by islanders at Buffalo sunday Buffalo at by islanders if Neces sary tuesday april 24 by islanders at Buffalo if necessary new Jersey is Tampa Bay thursday april 12 new Jersey 5 Tampa Bay 3 saturday april 14 Tampa Bay 3 new Jer sey 2 monday Tampa Bay 3 new Jersey 2 Tampa Bay leads series 21 wednesday new Jersey at Tampa Bay Friday Tampa Bay at new Jersey sunday new Jersey at Tampa Bay if Nec Essary tuesday april 24 Tampa Bay at new Jer sey if necessary Atlanta is by rangers thursday april 12 by rangers 4 Atlanta saturday april 14 by rangers 2 Atlanta tuesday by rangers 7 Atlanta 0 by rangers Lead series 30 wednesday Atlanta at by rangers Friday by rangers at 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