Rangers goalies can’t camouflage team’s defensive recklessness forever
NY Post
The Rangers’ carelessness on the ice in Washington on Tuesday was matched by the Yankees’ negligence on the field in The Bronx the following night.
That and $2.90 apiece will get the Blueshirts a subway ride to the Garden for Friday’s match against a young and hungry squad from Ottawa.
The misadventure in D.C. that resulted in a cosmetically close 5-3, empty-net abetted defeat — the award-winning cosmetician went by the name of Igor Shesterkin — seems to have caught everyone’s attention after head coach Peter Laviolette made an unsolicited reference to the club’s (lack of) attitude immediately following the match.
“We have addressed it,” Braden Schneider told The Post following Thursday’s on-point practice. “We know what our standard is. You want to work at the level to compete for the Stanley Cup.
“If you’re not coming to the rink prepared to work, if you just think you’re going to just walk in and score six goals off your talent, you’re not going to have a chance to win. And I think we have addressed that.
“Everyone in here knows what needs to be done and we know we need to be better,” said No. 4. That wasn’t us the other night.”
I decided if I wrote about Rickey Henderson I would not use a statistic. We are assaulted with stats and metrics now, and while baseball is our most numbers-oriented sport, I do sense the analytics revolution has chilled too many fans and reporters from just talking about how certain players made you feel while watching them.
It should come as no surprise by now that the Knicks lead the NBA in minutes played by their dynamic starting five by a considerable margin.
WASHINGTON — Before Jonas Valanciunas signed his three-year, $32 million deal with the Wizards — a free agent contract that felt almost immediately like a future trade piece — the bruising center heard a little bit about the Knicks’ interest.
The 49ers and Lions sure know how to put on an entertaining show for a game that meant nothing to either team.