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The heart still beats on the 2009 2010 New York Rangers season with
a dominating win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Rangers won period
one 3-0, took the same lead into period three and won the third 2-1
adding up to a 5-1 win.
The win sets up a home and home series with the Philadelphia Flyers
who the Rangers trail by two points. The Rangers will need to take both
games from the Flyers with at least one in regulation to move onto the
second season. They can also get in if the Bruins lose their last three
games of the regular season and they split with the Flyers.
Bottom line Rangers take care of business against the Flyers and they
get into the playoffs and could finish off as high as sixth place. But
yet again, take care of your own business.
Round one of the playoffs begins at the garden on Friday night, a must
win!
The Rangers wasted no time to let the hockey world know the last two
games of the season will count as Erik Christensen scored just 21 seconds
into play to pump the team and the garden faithful.
Vinny Prospal would follow up a Olli Jokinen partial breakaway to make
it a 2-0 game and then Marian Gaborik would dish off a beauty to Christensen
as he would soon have his second of the night for a commanding 3-0 Rangers
lead as they took the lead into the first intermission.
Jokinen and Voros would add goals in the final session as Dion Phaneuf
would do the same for Toronto breaking Lundqvist's bid for the shutout,
but the king was on his game in this one stopping 26 of 27 shots earning
himself third star of the game.
Well here we are! After 80 games of play and two more wins away from
getting into the playoffs. Will getting into the playoffs salvage a
season with many downs? I can tell you this, with two more wins it will
add a lot more excitement, hope and a sigh of relief. A loss and not
making the Stanley Cup Playoffs as they did the previous four seasons
will be a stamp of failure and add misery and pain to the long 82 game
season.
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