NYR, let's acknowledge, they are the better of the 2 teams, and if they were good enough to beat Vos Canadiens, should beat Ott.  Not easily, but they can take them.  The Sens win only if Lundqvist hits the skids, and he's been pretty good.

As for the value of home ice, well, each team has held serve so far.  A long series, of 6/7 games, hey, yeah, was expected.

Generally speaking, reporters and anybody else with sense of class, should hardly be citing what fans, especially those who call into radio post-game shows, say.

Such fans, their IQ falls somewhere in the range of room temperature, but before anybody gets all upset, referring to the Fahrenheit scale, not Celsius, OK?