April 4, 2008
Last Night's Action: Playoff bound
- Rangers 3, Islanders 0: They don't know where they'll be seeded, but the Rangers are going back to the playoffs. Jaromir Jagr scored the first two goals in the first period, and the team never looked back. Even though many fans saw this as a foregone conclusion for the last several weeks, the Rangers weren't taking any chances. “It’s never been like that before,” Jagr said. “You don’t realize when the coach is telling you early in the season every game is so important. Now you can see that. You can make it by one point or two points. That’s huge.” They still have an outside chance of catching the Devils and obtaining home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs, but don't count on it.
- Yankees 3, Blue Jays 2: Phil Hughes threw six innings and allowed two runs. He left trailing, but Bobby Abreu's go-ahead single knocked in the last of the Yankees' three runs as they took the rubber game of a season-opening three-game series. The Yankees have scored only eight runs in three games, but they've won two of them. Hughes looked sharp. Both the runs were soft, and he struck out four and walked one. The
DevilRays come to town for a four-game set starting Friday.
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Three years of playoffs in a row for this team that was thankful to end its previous record-setting futility streak with a lockout.
Congratulations to Tom Renney. He may be laid back and severely Canadian, but he's done a great job coaching.
It's Rob Davison, not Davidson.
Now off to the playoffs so that you can lose in the first round. Jagr can only help a team when there is a true superstar on it for him to support and the Rangers have no Mario.
Considering that the Rangers have beaten the Devils every game so far this season (and will finish them off on Sunday) - and that they will probably meet each other in the first round of the playoffs - home ice means nothing since we own them in NY and NJ.
What happened to the Sabres? I feel like a Cubs fan...