Bloody Sunday

A lot similarities between this game 6 and Friday night's game 5. The only difference was the Rangers actually tied the game in the first period. Same sad story, however. Donald Brashear recklessly elbows Blair Betts in the head, knocks him out and gets only two minutes because he was roughing with Paul Mara. The Rangers absolutely roll over the rest of the game. Only Callahan and Dubinsky put out some effort.

When the game is pretty much out of reach, you want to at least send a message the next game. There was none of that. Lob a soft shot on Varlamov and no one follows up with a few hacks at the smothered puck. No one challenged Brashear like Shanny did a couple of years ago. Did the Rangers not watch or see highlights of yesterday's Pitt-Philly game? Down 3-0, Maxime Talbot gets into a fight, gets his ass kicked, but sparks his team to a comeback and eventual win. No one on the Rangers had any guts today. Scratching Colton Orr today backfired. Scratching Sean Avery on Friday backfired today, as he did not look like himself at all.

With an average Henrik Lundqvist, this series is now 6 games to 0 for Washington. Oh wait, they only need four to win. The Rangers have three wins in this series??



Being at the Garden this afternoon I had the pleasure of missing the Met game, the other half of the Washington massacre. I see David Wright struck out three times and was booed. As for Oliver Perez, the score says it all.

Let's see, Nelson Figueroa throws a quality start last week and gets DFA'd. His replacement, Casey Fossum, gets DFA'd after his second appearance today, throwing some gasoline on the fire in the 5th inning. Who's next?