Last night the New York Rangers (39-26-10) lost to the Philadelphia Flyers (37-28-10) by a score of 4-3 in a shootout. For a full recap go to Yahoo! Sports.
- With the shootout win the Flyers improved to 2-5 in shootouts this year.
- The Rangers have now participated in a shootout in 6 of their last 10 games, going 4-2.
- Marek Malik scored his second goal of the season.
- Christian Backman had three assists in the third period. He hadn't registered a single assist in his previous 10 games and two periods with the Rangers.
- Jaromir Jagr's two points (1g, 1a) tied him with Phil Esposito for ninth place on the career points list at 1,590.
- The Rangers went 0-3 on the power play and are now 1 for their last 27.
...now to the good and bad of last night:
...Good: despite losing two of our four centers we were able to comeback from third period deficits of 2-0 and 3-2. Bad: Couldn't beat a Flyer team in the shootout that was 1-5 on the season.
...Good: Valiquette played another solid game against the Flyers, making numerous saves to keep us in the game. Bad: He looked like a complete sieve in the shootout.
...Good: despite all the misfortune (including another horrific night of officiating) we were able to pick up a point. Bad: We gave an extra point to the Flyers moving them within four points of us.
...OK, I'm out of good. Now just bad. The Gomez injury doesn't sound good right now as John Dellapina of The Daily News reports in his story today that the preliminarily diagnosed is two broken ribs. That's got to be 3-4 weeks minimum. Might not see him back until second round of the playoffs.
....with Gomez and Betts injured, I'd still like to see Renney stick with what he's got. For now, keep Hollweg at center on the fourth line and move either Straka or Callahan up to center the 2nd line and insert Prucha on the third. Easy right.
...the Rangers are supposed to announce more on Gomez' injury later today. I'll have more as soon as its available.
...oh, I almost forgot. Did Brian Leetch steal Backman's uniform between the second and third period last night? The guy actually looked like a playmaker. We need more of that from him especially on the power play. Speaking of the power play...you know what, its not even worth criticizing at this point.
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