The team everyone loves to hate lost last night to the Pens and will now face the Rangers at MSG. I expect a real line up and hope for a real effort.

Have you had your Rodent today ???

Here are the locals.......

The Post - "It's nobody's fault," Holik said. "It's a process. It won't stop when we win one game. Maybe we took things for granted after the [season-opening] Carolina game."

Newsday - "You can find a concern with everything," Bure said. "I'm just going to go out there and do the best I can . . . I'll play the game and we'll see how I react."

Daily News - "For a decade, Holik never had any question. At first the center of the Crash Line that was supposed to create energy by being physical, Holik morphed into the guy assigned to shut down and wear down the top opposing center with his power and nastiness."

Star-Ledger - "I have no doubts about how the team will react," Trottier said. "You don't want to be fooled by (the practice), but at the same time, the guys have responded right from the word go. The preparation and all that stuff? Yeah, there's a reflection (on me)."

Doug reminded us to check out CTnow - "Defenseman Tomas Kloucek, an untouchable two years ago, is being shopped around by the Rangers. But it might be hard for the team to trade him with Kinch out and injuries to the Rangers' Dave Karpa (lacerated elbow) and Richard Lintner (knee)."

This makes no sense to me......trading Kloucek ???? Ahhhhhhhg.

North Jersey.com - "We're not panicking," forward Petr Nedved said. "Obviously, it's early in the season. Last year, we lost games early in the season that we should've had. We have to make sure we don't let points slip away early in the season that we'll need late in the season."

Slam looks at tonight's game from a 'what could have been' point of view.

ESPN's John Buccigross has a new article up. John has been kind enough to exchange e-mail with me for the last two years and has always been good to us. So after your visit there.....please clean up after yourself. It's the right thing to do.

NHL 2003 from EA Sports......a review.

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