Penguin game wrap

Penguin game wrap

The Rangers weren’t quite themselves in last night’s 3-1 Garden defeat to the Penguins in which they seemed caught halfway much of the night, reacting rather than initiating, matching assiduously — or perhaps a-Sid-uously is more like it — rather than attacking relentlessly.
“When you play a team…

Thoughts as we approach the crack of noon:

1) Way, way too much is being made of Sausage Lips’ slew foots. Yes, he should have gotten a penalty vs. Callahan. No doubt. And I imagine that if Callahan hadn’t been called for interference he …

It will take some time longer than Chris Drury had hoped before the Rangers captain will be able to return to the lineup in the aftermath of a CT-scan yesterday on his broken left index finger, The Post has learned.
“It was not good,” a disappointed Drury said on his…

The Garden, charged as were Marc Staal and Dan Girardi last night with the responsibility of stuffing the genie-with-the-12-game point streak back into the bottle, was ready early, booing Sidney Crosby as he delayed the opening face-off for ice cleanup.
“There was confetti, white and all over the zone, and…

Finally, the hockey world has Cindy Crosby dead to rights and on videotape. He slewfooted Callahan. He can’t deny what he did. Joe Micheletti called him out immediately during the game. Dubinsky called him out during the intermission. All of the commentators on MSG Hockey Night Live called him out during the post game show. [...]

Slew-footing is a serious offense in the NHL, one of the few penalties that earns a player an automatic early trip to the showers. Tonight at the Garden, the Rangers…