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• Rangers 4 Los Angeles 2: The biggest difference between this year’s hot start and last year’s is scoring. In 2008, the Rangers got out to a 6-1 start, but only scored 17 goals. This year they have 28 and Marian Gaborik is a big part of that. Gaborik scored his sixth goal of the season on a beautiful play in the third period and Vinny Propsal added two goals of his own. Henrik Lundqvist did the rest, making 34 saves.

The 2009-2010 NHL season started last night, but our three local squads begin play tonight and tomorrow. How will the teams fare this season? Each team — the Devils, Rangers and Islanders — have very different expectations heading into the season.

Happy Anniversary Rangers’ fans! It was on this very day 15 years ago that 54 years of misery ended and the team captured its first Stanley Cup since 1940. As our spiritual leader, Sam Rosen, exclaimed that night, “This one will last a lifetime.” And it seems like it had better because the Rangers have spent these intervening 15 years never doing the serious work of rebuilding another championship contender.

• Indians 22, Yankees 4: That's the most runs allowed by the Yankees at home. Cleveland's MLB 14-run second was the biggest inning against the Yankees in terms of runs and hits (13). Chien-Ming Wang is starting to be a point of concern. He has an ERA of 34.50 through three starts and has gotten a combined seven outs in his last two outings. Mark Teixeira hit a two-run homer to give the Yankees an early lead, but things got ugly quickly. Carl Pavano faces his former team in Sunday's series finale.
• Mets 1, Brewers 0: The only runs Johan Santana has allowed in his last start resulted from an an error from Daniel Murphy. He is sporting a 0.46 ERA, or roughly 1/70 of Wang's. Jose Reyes' RBI on a fielder's choice in the 7th inning gave the Mets their only run.
• Rangers 1, Capitals 0: The Rangers won this game for one reason, and his name is Henrik Lunqvist. He made 35 saves to help make Ryan Callahan's goal stand up. The Rangers lead this series two games to none as they head back to New York. This is an upset brewing.
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On offense, Brandon Dubinsky got things started for New York and Dan Girardi and Ryan Callahan added the remaining goals. The win gives New York 89 points, good for seventh place, four ahead of ninth place Buffalo. It marked the fifth-straight loss for New Jersey and leaves the Devils six points ahead of Philadelphia for the Atlantic Division lead.

The Rangers moved into sixth place with a 2-1 win over Minnesota Tuesday night. Nikolai Zherdev had a goal and an assist while the New York defense kept Minnesota under wraps, allowing only 19 shots. Henrik Lundqvist stopped all but one of them, looking very strong in net. The Rangers now have a day off before facing Atlanta on Thursday.

• Rangers 5 Buffalo 3: The end of the season is in sight and the playoff push is in full swing, luckily the Rangers seem aware of that. New York put together another solid effort and gained two big points on a team behind them in the standings. Ryan Callahan scored twice and Henrik Lundqvist made 37 saves. New York now has a four-point lead on the last playoff spot with ten games left in the season.
• Orlando 110 Knicks 103: Time is running out on the Knicks’ season. After disappointing losses to New Jersey and Sacramento, New York did much better against a very good team, but they fell short again. They have 13 games left and would have to win them all to have a .500 record. Worse, making the playoffs, will probably require somewhere around ten more wins at minimum.
• Ottawa 5 Islanders 2: New York is getting closer to clinching the worst record in the NHL, an achievement which would give them the top selection in the next draft.
• Walt Poddubny passes away at the age of 49 of unknown causes. #8 had a great two-year run on Broadway and will be remembered by Rangers’ fans.

Everything is perfectly setup. Sean Avery is back on the ice in Hartford, mixing it up from the moment he stepped on the ice last night. It seems inevitable that he will be back on Broadway soon, trying to revive the Rangers’ season.

Both team failed to score on their first three attempts, but Richard Zednik broke through for Florida in the fourth round and that proved to be the difference.

The Rangers were lucky to even be in a position to tie the game because Atlanta had a shot to score on an empty net and missed. But, New York’s luck ran out in the shootout when Henrik Lundqvist looked very ordinary and let in two goals and the Rangers only scored one.

Pittsburgh 3 Rangers 0: Just about two weeks ago it was New York dominating Pittsburgh on its home ice. Sunday the Penguins returned the favor thanks to great goaltending from Marc Andre-Fleury. Fleury stopped all 33 shots he faced and was particularly impressive in the second period when he faced 16 shots.

• Rangers 4, Penguins 0: Most things that didn't work during a recent slump clicked Monday at the Garden. Henrik Lundqvist stopped 27 shots, got his first shutout of the season and became the fifth NHL goalie to start a career with four seasons of 20 or more wins. The Rangers converted on two power-play opportunities -- they went 1-for-17 during their 1-3-1 stretch entering this game -- and came up with a big win. Goals from Nigel Dawes, Paul Mara, Chris Drury and Scott Gomez helped the Rangers regain first place, but they have played more games than the Flyers and the Devils.
• Nets 98, Kings 90: Yep, that's what an 8-27 team looks like. The Nets have to be worried about Devin Harris, who sat out the second half after aggravating an injury. But at least they can smile at Vince Carter's 29 and Yi Jianlian's 22. The Kings led at the 5:21 mark of the fourth quarter, but the Nets woke up in time. Harris, who missed Saturday's game against Miami, will need to feel better if his team is going to be competitive against teams better than the Kings.
• Oilers 3, Islanders 2: This quote from Andrew Cogliano, who scored the go-ahead goal for the Oilers, sums up the Islanders' state of affairs. “We just couldn’t lose this game. When a team comes in the way they did, you have to win it.” The Islanders held a 2-0 lead at one point, but that vanished into the wind.
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• Devils 8 Rangers 5: Don’t let the score fool you, this game could have gone either way. New Jersey jumped out to a 5-1 lead and then saw it all disappear. New York tied it up at 5 thanks to a goal from Ryan Callahan, but they only enjoyed their comeback for 11 seconds. That’s all it took for Patrik Elias to convert off of a terrible defensive sequence and New Jersey was back in front. And, they added two more goals that capped a terrible night for the Rangers’ defense and Henrik Lundqvist. The game also included numerous fights and scraps, too bad both teams have to wait until December 27th before they face each other again.
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• Montreal 6 Rangers 2: It only took 24 hours for the Rangers to lose their momentum again. Then again, maybe they were a bit tired from Wednesday night’s win. Whatever the reason, they made far too many mistakes and gave up way too many chances in their own end. A lesser team might have been unable to capitalize on those mistakes, but Montreal is a good team and they pounced all over them. They jumped out to a 4-0 lead and they cruised home to an easy win, blitzing Henrik Lundqvist with 39 shots in the process.
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Photograph of Phoenix Coyotes forward Peter Mueller battling for the puck against Rangers forward Ryan Callahan (24), defenseman Dmitri Kalinin, center, and forward Chris Drury by Mary Altaffer/AP

Hopefully, Wednesday’s 6-3 loss will represent the worst effort the Rangers give all season. They came out flat, gave up three breakaways in the first ten minutes and committed atrocious turnovers in their own zone. Yet, somehow they only trailed 2-0 after one period.

• Edmonton 3 Rangers 2 (Shootout): Was it bad play or simply the great goaltending of Jeff Deslauriers? Deslauriers stymied the Rangers though the first two periods, turning away 26-of-27 shots, as the Oilers took a 2-1 lead into the third period.
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• Rangers 3 Pittsburgh 2 (Shootout): Those are two very-satisfying points the Rangers earned Saturday night. Trailing 2-0 entering the third, New York mounted a furious attack, outshooting Pittsburgh 18-2 in the final period and tying the game with only 8.1 seconds left in the period thanks to Nikolai Zherdev’s goal. After a scoreless overtime, the teams went to a shootout.
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Did Sean Avery win a Stanley Cup with the Rangers when we weren’t looking? Sorry for asking, but with all the ovations for Avery Sunday and Monday it seemed like we had forgotten something. Avery certainly meant a lot to the Rangers in his 18 months with the team, but he was hardly the second coming of Mark Messier.

But, Gary Roberts gave them another shot when he was whistled for a high stick and Brandon Dubinsky made it count with a wrist shot to give New York a 2-1 lead. Henrik Lundqvist made it stand up and New York got the season off on the right foot.