Big Five Hole
In previous years, the arrival of March signaled any number of sad events: the end of the youth hockey season, the end of a proper winter, and usually the mathematical elimination of the Rangers from post-season hockey. The blue shirts are managing to hold on this season, though, with thoughts of last year’s series win versus the Thrashers precipitating their Gomez and Drury-laced dreams of hockey in May.
However, the hockey gods are tempted by superstitious belief and karma. Logic, payroll and math need not apply. How else do you explain that the Rangers blew a five goal lead against Montreal tonight, squeezing out only one point via the shootout? There were three pairs of goals scored within a minute of each other, two of them by the Rags, but even that double extreme momentum-shifter didn’t accelerate the Broadway payload through the third period. Oh yeah, Straka and Gomez were -1 in a game in which their team scored five goals. Talk about a five hole.
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