Shaun Morash was roasted a year ago after breaking out the brooms once the Rangers took a 2-0 series lead on the Devils, only for New Jersey to roar back and take the first-round series in seven.
That hasn’t stopped Morash from declaring a playoff series to be over, as he is already announcing that his Blueshirts have advanced to the second round.
“This series is already over. It’s already over,” Morash said. “We’re gonna get this out of the way right now…there are no such things as mushes. I used to believe in superstitions. We have nothing to do with what’s going on on the ice.”
Some fans would disagree, particularly the ones who were incensed at Morash’s broom video after New York beat the Devils in game two last season, but Morash believes the Blueshirts are that much better than the Capitals, a team that enters the playoffs with the lowest goal differential since the playoffs expanded over 30 years ago.
“It’s time to strap on the big boy pants and get confident,” Morash said. “If the Rangers lose to the Crapitals, it will be the biggest postseason loss of the Shesterkin into Lundqvist era. They are not, they will not. They may as well not even play this series. It is over already. It is just a matter of when, not if.”