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The New York Rangers freefall has been pretty well documented over the last few weeks, and for good reason. I’m not sure whats dropping quicker, the New York Stock Exchange or the Rangers. Oooh, how witty, I know. Either way, sucks to be in New York. And the Knicks still suck. And A-roid, errr A-Fraud, errr Alex Rodriguez is still a steroid user once used steroids. According to Fox Sports, A-Rod’s trainer is banned from Major League Baseball for life or something. I guess thats slightly harsher than Montreal Canadiens GM Bob Gainey’s “grounding” of Alex Kovalev this week. Anyways, why did the trainer get banned from the MLB, but A-Rod got nothing? I don’t get it – the MLB keeps screwing up this situation. My take: list off all 103 steroid users, and move forward. Back to the Rangers. Some say coach Tom Reeney is on the hot seat, some say GM Glen Sather is on the hot seat. The debate over who should get the axe is alive and well, but I have a better solution: FIRE BOTH OF THEM!

The Rangers are a storied franchise with some serious history. Renney and Sather are doing a great job of erasing that with a consistent series of bad decision making – Scott Gomez’ long term deal, Wade Redden’s ridiculous contract (every Ottawa Senators fan out there is yelling a collective “told ya so”), letting Jaromir Jagr/Martin Straka leave via free agency and the abysmal handling of Petr Prucha. Prucha is capable of scoring more than Ron Burgundy, okay, maybe not as much, but close. Prucha scored 30 goals in the 2005-2006 season with the Rangers and 22 goals the next year. Why? Because he played with quality players like Jagr and Straka. Take away his ice time and quality talent around him and see what he can do. If the Rangers decided they wanted to trade him, they should have. The rumors have been circulating for years, yet all they’ve done is the healthy scratch/grounding thing (the “Kovalev”) and Prucha’s lost a significant amount of value in the trade market. This is going to hurt the Rangers more than Prucha. Whenever Prucha lands elsewhere, I’m confident he’ll get back to scoring. And the Rangers will have got very little for him, if anything.

The Montreal Canadiens. Wow. Another team in freefall mode. Though they looked better Saturday against the Senators and they hung around in that Washington Capitals game last week (the game that Alex Ovechkin scored on his ass), they’ve got to get things together and quickly. I’m not a Canadiens fan, but this team is far too good to be on the brink of missing the playoffs – especially with teams like the Florida Panthers coming up behind them. I won’t comment on the recent off-ice news, but now’s time for Gainey and co. to reel this in. I know injuries to Carey Price, Alex Tanguay, Robert Lang, Mike Komisarek and others haven’t helped, but Gainey’s got to make a big trade to shake this up. Easier said than done, absolutely, but the Mathieu Schneider trade was a good start. Nicely done Mr. Gainey.

Finally, Mats Sundin. I think I hate typing his name. I’ve been extremely critical of him all season, as my classy readers know, but he’s starting to regain his form. Good for him, I guess. Leading up to Saturday’s return to Toronto, the buzz was huge. Worst part of all, Sundin was loving it. He plays coy in the interviews, but I’m not buying it. Since this ego-maniac loves the attention, he deserves the nickname The Ego. When the ACC crowd gave The Ego his 1st period ovation, Mats did the “Who, little ‘ol me? Shucks…”. You could see his ego growing. Fast-forward to the shootout. I wondered why Vancouver Canucks coach Alain Vigneault had Sundin shooting 3rd. Obviously, there are no guarantee’s the 3rd shooter will shoot and being The Ego’s return, you’d think Vigneault would give in to the cherry-on-top ending (Sundin deserves the right to shoot and is among the more skilled Canuck shooters). Leaf’s disappointment, Mikhail Grabovski needs to score for Sundin to shoot, errr, to keep the shootout going. He fakes a slapshot and Roberto Luongo, the best goalie in the world drops to his stomach? Nice move, but that makes the top story on “Things to make you go Hmmmmm”. So that sets up the perfect ending for The Ego himself. Vesa Toskala’s shootout struggles are well known, so I’m not surprised Sundin scores. But Sundin does the same backend move he always does. Toskala should know it better than most. I’ll give benefit of doubt to Sundin’s skill. The Ego comes down slower than usual, does the move we all know and expect, yet gets half the net to shoot at on his backhand. What was Toskala doing? I’m not suggesting the entire game was thrown for a feel-good story, but I’m saying … uhh … well actually thats exactly what I’m saying. I think Toskala gave way more of the net to Sundin that he normally would. The ACC went crazy with more cheering then if the Leaf’s actually won it, but to me, the whole thing reeked of set up. Maybe I’m wrong on this, but think about it. It all lined up a little too nicely.

Thanks for stopping by, Mats. But to everyone else, stay classy.

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