FREDDY'S DEAD (1 and 2/3rds)

Freddy Garcia (aka The 5-Out Man) hasn't made it through the second unless you count Friday afternoon
at Belmont Racetrack when he made it through the 5th race (and he had 5 outs there, too —5 horses out of the money). Thank you, New York Rangers for rising to a new level with an unrelenting forecheck at the start of Game 1 at the Garden Saturday while Freddy Garcia was stinking up the field. But listening to those NBC announcers was just as bad as the jerks on Fox; like a Hate Crime against anything New York. Didn't matter to the Black and Blue Boys of Broadway. Their game is coming and Lundqvist seems to be grasping the level he must rise and all roads lead to The King being up to the challenge.

Go Rangers!!!