Tonight the Rangers face the Montreal Canadiens in a huge game at the Garden. After losing 5 in a row the Rangers NEED a victory.
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Steve Zipay Reports Grandpa Shanny is out tonight, Straka and Malik are both in the lineup. My take is this...
Shanny is obviously hurt and I have a hunch he goes on IR when Avery comes back.
If Martin Straka was born in raised in Western Canada he would be a legend in this league. I'm not sure I've seen a tougher Rangers player in my 20 years watching this team. He can take a pounding and as I liked to say in my former posting days, toughness in the NHL shouldn't be measured on how hard you hit a guy.
Strudwick sucks and Malik isn't going to make things better...If I'm the Rangers I give Ivan Baranka 5 to 10 games to recover from his latest injury then re-call him from Hartford. Marek Malik playing tonight is one of the many reasons I question whether Tom Renney is the right man for the job going forward. I understand Malik isn't as bad as the idiots that boo him at the Garden make him out to be....BUT.....the last thing this team needs right now is the distraction of Malik getting booed.
I'm sure I'll have more thoughts later..
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