Rangers Travel to Stay Alive

I was only scoreboard watching last night from the ballpark, so I can only give the feeling of what it looked like coming in and checking the phone and that was seemingly like every time I picked up my mobile, someone had scored and more often than not, it was the Rangers.  I was already preparing to use the stayin' alive graphic again, just for them.

The Rangers beat the Lightning, 2-1 in the 1st, were held to a 0-0 tie in the 2nd and then exploded for a 5-2 win in the 3rd period, finishing off a 7-3 game in their favour and forcing a Game 7 for Thursday night.

Derick Brassard was the star of this one, picking up a hat-trick and a pair of assists for a 5-point night, while Rick Nash had a goal and 3 assists for a 4-point night and Keith Yandle was the only other pool skater with a multiple-point night.

Henrik Lundqvist made 36 saves, standing tall for his 11th win of these playoffs, earning another 2 points on his total for the Spring Dance.

On the Tampa side, Nikita Kucherov and Tyler Johnson picked up a pair of points each, which looked good for a number of poolies, but seemed rather futile in the boxscore of the hockey game.

That result was probably one of the best results for Fontanna, who run away with the Conference Finals race, sitting atop of the round's scoring with 63 points, while Thor and Wes are hanging around with 59 points each.

With Thor dropping off a little, this opened the door for Jesse to retake 2nd place, making up the small-ish gap that opened up after Monday night's games and putting a point in between the two sides.

Sean L. also jumped back into 4th place with the big Rangers win, but still sits 8 points back of the money, as he's hoping that New York is able to make it through to the next round, just so he has six players in the pool for the Stanley Cup Finals.

Game 7 of this series will go on Thursday night, now will we have another Game 7 to go with it?