Nice deflection from about 10-15 feet out for a PP goal in the 2nd. Just got enough of a low Leetch shot to change it's direction. Moved to the RW of Nedved's line in the 3rd once Carter went out and played strong there with a few good chances. Second on the team with 4 shots.

A frustrating tie, but not because the Rangers sloppily left a point sitting out there but because they did nearly everything they could in the final two periods and the ONLY thing that kept them from that second point was Roberto Luongo and him alone. Of the final 40 minutes, it seemed like 35 of them were played in the Panthers zone. All of a sudden the Rangers started winning every puck battle, every pass clicked and the Rangers looked like they were playing a minor league team with an all-star goalie.

If you want to look for negatives, of course, it was the late 1st period and early 2nd. At times recently they're playing as well as they have in years except they always seem to have 10-20 minutes of sloppiness every game, which is why they continue to hover around .500. This team is still impossible to get a read on, but you can see some confidence building and line combinations clicking, and at a game over .500, that's not a terrible place to be right now.