A: Nedved
A-: Dunham, Holik, Lindros, Cross
B+: Almost everyone else, including... hang on to yer hats... Dave Karpa! Uncharacteristically strong game from Davey boy. And Cory Cross was flat-out excellent. His size and strength in keeping forwards away from the net and winning battles behind the net was crucial. He deserves a regular spot when the wounded come back.

For one of the few times this season the Rangers played good defense between the red line and the top of the circles, not just in deep. Standing up at the blueline and playing as a unit of five in their own zone.

Isn't it nice seeing squirrely-looking, long-time hated Flyer Keith Acton behind someone else's bench as an assistant coach instead of behind the Rangers bench?

Anyone know when and why Dwyer and Tibbetts played themselves out of the lineup? Tripp has so far earned a spot and deserves to be there, but come on, Ted Donato? The same Ted Donato who lost the faceoff and got spun off his goal-scoring checking assingment on the Rangers only goal against, I might add. The same Donato who was 3 for 12 on faceoffs overall.

Did you see the hit Mogilny laid into (I think) Malakhov in the first period? If you have it on tape it comes with 6:20 left in the 1st. Crushed him. Now, how come other team's "Euro softies" can do that once in a while but ours never, EVER do? In those rare times Dvorak does throw a hit, he looks like he's trying to check a plank of rusty nails.

It's always fun to play the Maple Leafs, but if there's one thing that REALLY makes it fun it's when some bad calls go against them and Pat Quinn starts flipping out. But, as seen tonight, it's just not as fun with the slimmed down Quinn. When he got really worked up in the past he turned all red and juicy looking like he was going to pop, like five pounds of ground beef in a two pound Ziplock. Tonight he just looked... angry. What a rip off. Someone send him a case of pork roll, please.

So Trottier decides to use Holik as a matchup on Sundin tonight, and how did that work out? Sundin: 24:48, -2, 1 shot. Hey, whaddya know, Bry? Imagine that.

Bobo is +3 for the Rangers in 4 games. Cross is +1 in 11 games.

Dunham tonight: .958, which will put him over .920 for the season as a Ranger.

If you didn't see the fights, Domi killed Barnaby, McCarthy vs. Belak was pretty even.

I hate to be so cynical but I don't expect this recent good play to continue. There's no reason why anyone think it should. The Rangers have put together a week or two of mostly good hockey before, and it didn't stick around any of those times. Especially with their upcoming opponents: @ Washington, vs. Flyers and @ Islanders... well, it'll be interesting. Hopefully.