Urgent meaning; urgent care!
That's how tonight's Rangers-Islanders game stacks up at UBS Arena for both teams.
A win for the Home Team means that the Isles fast-fading playoff hopes will remain a flicker rather than evaporate like yesterday's breath.
Should the in-again-out-again Blueshirts prevail, the MSG marketeers will dust off the "No Quit" banners and find silver linings all over Manhattan's clouds.
Not that the Rangers Sunday victory in Pittsburgh was anything more than proof that the Penguins goaltending has more holes than a moth-eaten T-Shirt.
Mark Linde, The Maven's Vice-President-In-Charge-Of-TV-Watching, considered the two points gained in Steeltown an insult to the definition of victory.
"Watching the Rangers these days is a torture," Linde stated in his communique. "There was no energy, no desperation and no commitment.
"They were lucky enough to face a third string goalie and their king – with a king's ransom – had a good game in net."
Igor Shesterkin will come back against his Comrade Ilya Sorokin tonight and an Islanders team permanently without their galvanic right wing, the injured Mathew Barzal.
"This is definitely the make or break game for the Islanders," says The Old Scout. "They can forget about the playoffs if they lose tonight,"
Not that the Blueshirts can afford a loss either, but at least they've been winning sporadically while wondering whether GM Chris Drury plans to buy or sell by the March 7th Trade Deadline.
The question that no "insider" – nor outsider, for that matter – can answer is whether MSG owner Jim Dolan is willing to change the high command or let the franchise go on drifting and dreaming.
It's quite possible that all the fuss that has surrounded The Garden for the past month has tied Dolan's hands; at least for the moment.
Reader Harvey (Hutch) Cohen, noted New Jersey high school hockey coach, has been lobbying for John Davidson to return and find the right coach whose name is not Peter Laviolette.
"That coach would be an enthusiastic one," Hutch explains, "who would not only motivate and strategize with the team but relate to the players.
"Today's Rangers are making errors that shouldn't be made. They screen their goalie; they don't tie up sticks in front of the net and they don't move people out from in front of the net."
Not that it would make a major difference but Drury recalled left wing Brennan Othmann and ostracized defenseman Zac Jones from Hartford. Othmann is a poster boy for a build-up to a letdown.
Jones is a solid defenseman mis-managed by an un-solid front office! Fasten your seatbelts, this should be fun.