Here are nine Rangers points from The Maven.
* He has made himself scarce to the media but the most important player in Igor Shesterkin's life right now is his agent.
* The man who'll make the Rangers goalie a very rich man is Max Moliver. As far as I can determine, his only other NHL client is Evgenii Dadonov.
* Here's how former Rangers coach Mike Keenan opens his new autobiography: "I really am a bastard. There, I said it."
* Sharp-minded Alan Greenberg was the first to point out that two Connecticut-trained NHL goalies won on the same night: Jonathan Quick in New York and Spencer Knight of the Panthers.
* The Maven's campaign to stifle criticism of Mika Zibanejad will have to be stifled if Magical Z doesn't wake up and start playing up to his high salary scale.
* The highest-salaried NHLer these days is Arizona-born and bred Auston Matthews of the Maple Leafs at $13.2 million.
* I wonder whether Max Moliver will try to top that for client Shesterkin.
* Before Tuesday night's game in Washington, you had to figure that Iggy Piggy would out-goal – and defeat – Washington's Logan Thompson but it obviously didn't happen.
* You also had to figure that The Breadman would outshine aging Alex Ovechkin. But The Big 8 won the game for the Caps with his pair of goals.