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Do The Rangers Have A Chance To Win Game 7?
by Paul on 04/26/09 at 06:16 PM ET
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from Artur Staple of Newsday,
There’s a Game 7 coming on Tuesday in Washington. The Rangers may want to skip the trip.
It was clear from the start of this series with the Caps that the Rangers needed most, if not all, of the breaks to win each game. They needed Henrik Lundqvist to stand on his head, they needed Alex Ovechkin to hit a post or two and they needed a couple lucky bounces to produce more than a goal.
The breaks are gone now, washed away with a squirt from a water bottle on Friday night. John Tortorella watched from a suite in Madison Square Garden today, with Jim Schoenfeld behind the bench for the 5-3 Caps win that forced Tuesday’s Game 7.
Schoenfeld, Tortorella, Mike Keenan, Toe Blake… Wouldn’t have mattered who was coaching today, really. The Rangers are overmatched in this series, they have been since it began and the only way they can win is for Lundqvist to work his magic.
added 6:27pm, from Dan Steinberg of D.C. Sports Bog,
Rangers fans were howling about the injury suffered by ace penalty killer Blair Betts, who was hit in the head by Caps forward Donald Brashear midway through the first period. Betts was left sprawled on the ice, had to be helped to the dressing room and didn’t return. Brashear and Rangers defenseman Paul Mara both got roughing penalties after some post-hit grappling, but Brashear wasn’t nicked for the initial contact.
Rangers stand-in coach Jim Schoenfeld said Betts was hurt “significantly,” and then also said that center Brandon Dubinsky was bit on the arm by Caps defenseman Shaone Morrisonn during a different scrum.
“We’re gonna have to do without Betts most likely,” Schoenfeld said. “Dubinsky had to get a tetanus shot because he was bit on the arm in a scrum, I don’t know what effect that will have on him, so his status remains in question.
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