Driving to the airport on the QEW this morning, I thought: "I've seen plenty of goals in my last two trips north"----Marian Gaborik's five in St. Paul and the five PPGs last night, one goal away from tying the franchise record.
First an apology: I didn't have it easy in Air Canada Centre with blog malfunctions.
Somehow, my entries wouldn't publish, so after the fifth goal, I threw in the towel. Hey, the Leafs gave up after three.
At least I managed to file a game story and notebook for the paper and online, mostly about the power play, Valiquette and Avery, which you can read on newsday.com if you can't get the print version.
Because I was away, no Sunday column this week; we'll pick up with a first-half look back and second-half look ahead for players and teams next Sunday.
Erik Boland will be pinch-hitting tonight. I'll be monitoring the hunt for three in a row from Chez Zipay, where Blue Notes was born and thrives....
Henrik Lundqvist will be back in goal at the Gahden and will need an A-game, because the Rangers are tired and bruised (Prucha and Drury's hands from slashes, etc.)
Speaking of Prucha, I had to dash away to write after gathering a bunch of post-game quotes, but Ira Podell of AP waited for him to leave the locker room and when asked about his two goals, Petr laughed. "It's a miracle. It's been such a long time."
It won't be that long until game time, so please swing by later...
Comments (7)
Let's go Rangers!
I know the refs called lots of penalties against the leafs last night, but they missed those two slashes to Prucha and Drury.
Kaberle got away with a lot of that garbage last night. That's one of the problems I have seen with the Rangers throughout the season. That crap is let go. Sean, Holly or Colton should have been all over Kaberle. He proved by continuing to do it that he had intent to injur. At least if one of our guys weren't going to go after him, Renny should have at least left the tapes with the leagued to review the plays to get Kaberle off the ice. They happened in Toronto for Pete's sake! All they had to do was send an intern with the tapes across the freakin street! Come on Tom! Wake up!
He did it three times for crying out loud! If that isn't intent to injure I don't know what is! If someone whacked him across the hands and took two minutes it wouldn't have happened again. Pretty soon teams are going to see this crap and start taking liberties because they know eventually guys like Drury, willing to pay the price to get goals will end up with broken wrists and not scoring goals. WAKE UP!!! Don't let that $#!^ go on Colton! That's your job!
I really like Prucha, it will be a damn shame if he gets traded.
i need to vent, why does the 4th line play so much. I cant take it any more some please explain this to me.
More to it than goals and assists Matt. There's a whole lot more to think about...and the puck is going in a whole lot less than more when the 4th line is on the ice.