two goals for mike rupp.ie: nice pass by brandon prust on the backhand. i thought mike rupp had a chance to shoot the puck right away. we have a perfect vantage point. good goal to give up by bobrovsky. mike rupp waited and the puck finds in between the arm and the hip of sergei bobrovsky. down, but not down early enough. not a good goal, but a good opportunity there for rupp to get the puck to the net. >> mike e.: dubinsky led it ahead. callahan popped it loose. off timonen. worked along by hartnell. hoping to get a three-on-two. van riemsdyk will face down. mcdonagh closed it off. over for hartnell. now giroux. giroux fed it back. fires and that one grabbed and held by lundquist. does he still have it? whistle is blown. doesn't matter. >> eddie: pushed behind by ryan mcdonagh. there is van riemsdyk in front of the net. a push-off. almost like in a game of basketball. subtle little push-off. shot goes up into the rim. nice job by van riemsdyk. good shop. >> pierre: van riemsdyk and giroux, we saw them in the

two goals for mike rupp.ie: nice pass by brandon prust on the backhand. i thought mike rupp had a chance to shoot the puck right away. we have a perfect vantage point. good goal to give up by bobrovsky. mike rupp waited and the puck finds in between the arm and the hip of sergei bobrovsky. down, but not down early enough. not a good goal, but a good opportunity there for rupp to get the puck to the net. >> mike e.: dubinsky led it ahead. callahan popped it loose. off timonen. worked along by hartnell. hoping to get a three-on-two. van riemsdyk will face down. mcdonagh closed it off. over for hartnell. now giroux. giroux fed it back. fires and that one grabbed and held by lundquist. does he still have it? whistle is blown. doesn't matter. >> eddie: pushed behind by ryan mcdonagh. there is van riemsdyk in front of the net. a push-off. almost like in a game of basketball. subtle little push-off. shot goes up into the rim. nice job by van riemsdyk. good shop. >> pierre: van riemsdyk and giroux, we saw them in the

mike rupp scores. mike rupp with a jagr-like salute has cut the lead in half!lay. this beautiful backhand pass deep to the left. that's what we talked about sergei bobrovsky. 2-1 lead for the flyers. >> pierre: i like the fact rupp doesn't stand still or jump into that dead spot. takes the pass and snaps it home. >> eddie: screen by andrei meszaros. >> mike e.: three goals on the last four shots. two goals in the last 1:55. mr. is mike rupp the goal storer. >> eddie: stop it right here. this is where meszaros is obviously shooting back through. look at the goaltender sergei bobrovsky. down, looking. what a perfect shot there by big mike rupp. darren pang! >> darren: edzo i'm behind sergei bobrovsky. it was a perfect screen. the goaltender bobrovsky, even though he's 6'1, he plays on a lower place. rangers were looking at their video saying how high they could go. could they beat him over the shoulder? that might have been intended there it was lower, handcuffed him and he was completely screened. >> eddie: almost in that situation, you like to see andrei meszar

mike rupp with a pair. check out the celebration. exactly what the flyers jagr does after his scores. rupp was having fun and so was henrik lundqvist, stopping brier late in the third. rangers win the classic 3-2. >>> that's your look at sports on "early today." i'm mario solis. >> announcer: "early today" sports is brought to you by touch of gray. get rid of some gray, never all. >>> who's getting married and who says they never will again. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, it is the national pastime, the stuff of legends, but for some it's even more than that. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today." focusing in on iowa where a lot of people will be doing caucusing during the day tonight. tonight a very cold start with the windchills but the forecast does not call for any rain or snow. as far as what we're dealing with in the eastern u.s., one of the coldest days of the season so far. there could be snow flurries out there near the great lakes, maybe even cold showers.

mike rupp with a pair. check out the celebration. exactly what the flyers jagr does after his scores. rupp was having fun and so was henrik lundqvist, stopping brier late in the third. rangers win the classic 3-2. >>> that's your look at sports on "early today." i'm mario solis. >> announcer: "early today" sports is brought to you by touch of gray. get rid of some gray, never all. >>> who's getting married and who says they never will again. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, it is the national pastime, the stuff of legends, but for some it's even more than that. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back. we look at the forecast today. we have rain go through last night. gusty winds early this evening in washington state that system gone. but more rain on the way. a damp forecast up until the weekend. we're okay. much of the other areas of the west mild. 50 degrees, phoenix, near 80 today. tomorrow, not a lot changes. wetter up in washington state a more significant slug of moisture. if you

mike rupp with a pair. check out the celebration. salute is exactly what the flyers jameer jagr does after he scores. rupp was having fun and so was henrik lundquist. rangers win the classic 3-2. and that's your first look at sports. i'm mario solis. >>> and now for another quick look at the weather, here is nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. i'm going to guess it's going to be really cold which means we should go ice skating. >> if it's really cold, you want to go ice skating? >> i've been bothering you to go ice skating with me for how long now? >> that's true. a little warmer day. i think when it's in the 40s. good morning, everyone. in case you're just joining us, we're watching very cold conditions in areas like iowa today. we're going to be focusing our attention on the caucuses. we are watching the wind chills in the single digits in most areas. iowa city the warmest at 9. it's a very cold start in iowa. voting is not going to be an issue. no rain, no snow whatsoever. we did see snow showers overn

distribution with guys like rupp, brandon prust, john mitchell and the game-winning goal by the big eight brad richards. >> mike e.: the winning goaltender henrik lundquist with pierre. >> pierre: all the things you've done with in your career, especially the winning goal in 2006, where does this measure up? >> this is amazing. from the get-go, yesterday coming in practice great atmosphere. going into this game and finding a good balance. you want to be focused and do your job. same time you want to be able to enjoy it. that's a tough thing, but it was great. >> pierre: it was never easy for your team. especially when you were down 2-0. did you thing, i better not let in another goal? >> yeah. they came hard five, ten minutes. when they scored the second one, you could feel the next one is going to be huge. rupp scored big goals for us there. we came back at it. just a great game fours. i hope the fans enjoyed it. >> pierre: thanks for your time and enjoy tonight. >> thanks very much. >> pierre: doc? >> mike e.: 35 shots by the flyers. 33 stops by henrik lundquist in the victory. there was a combined total of 6

distribution with guys like rupp, brandon prust, john mitchell and the game-winning goal by the big eight brad richards. >> mike e.: the winning goaltender henrik lundquist with pierre. >> pierre: all the things you've done with in your career, especially the winning goal in 2006, where does this measure up? >> this is amazing. from the get-go, yesterday coming in practice great atmosphere. going into this game and finding a good balance. you want to be focused and do your job. same time you want to be able to enjoy it. that's a tough thing, but it was great. >> pierre: it was never easy for your team. especially when you were down 2-0. did you thing, i better not let in another goal? >> yeah. they came hard five, ten minutes. when they scored the second one, you could feel the next one is going to be huge. rupp scored big goals for us there. we came back at it. just a great game fours. i hope the fans enjoyed it. >> pierre: thanks for your time and enjoy tonight. >> thanks very much. >> pierre: doc? >> mike e.: 35 shots by the flyers. 33 stops by henrik lundquist in the victory. there was a combined total of 6