1. This, of course, may be regarded as not fair but I believe that the Rangers are better off without Adam Fox than the Fox we saw before he got hurt. Call it addition by subtraction.
2. The ex-Norris Trophy-winner was slow with the puck and even slower when he got it on his stick. Put it this way; he had not been playing like the Foxy we knew and loved when he won the Norris.
3. I'm assuming that – by now – Peter Laviolette has pulled Matt Rempe aside for a chat. Topic: how close The Skating Giraffe came to getting suspended in the Nashville game for his whack job on Nick Blackenburg.
4. Another inch with The Remper's elbow in that hit on and he'd be gone for another 20 games. And, let's face it, that was an unnecessary case of "finishing a check." I'll go another inch: STUPID!
5. Don't arrest me for this, please, but The Maven can't resist it, so here goes: On the Rangers, "where there's a Will there are two ways: Will Cuylle and Will Borgen!"
6. Not So Wee Willie Cuylle is The New Lamplighter while Willie Borgon's new nickname is "The Moose From Moorhead, Minnesota." (Take it or leave it; I say take it!)
7. Borgy's shorthander – his first – is Exhibit A, B and C on why Kaapo Kakko's image is fading fast from our rear view mirrors.
8. My theme for the upcoming Caps game: "Rampage Or Redundant." If the Blueshirts prevail, we have to say they'll have won five of their last six games=rampage.
9. Should they lose, they'll be back to blowing another chance to put three W's in row=redundant.
10. The high command will never find a better backup than Jonathan (Very) Quick, therefore Doc Drury should sign him for next year RIGHT NOW – if not sooner! (Chris: You can consider that an order!)