from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,
You know the old, “It isn’t you, it’s me?”
Monday night, in Game 2 of the conference semis at the Garden, it wasn’t the Lightning. It was the Rangers.
It wasn’t as much Tampa Bay’s talent, though it was abundantly clear just how plentiful it is, as it was the Rangers’ outright carelessness and lack of discipline that was infectious throughout the lineup and infected the performance pretty much from start to finish.
One after another the Blueshirts went to the box, one after another on needless, senseless penalties on a night officials Chris Rooney and Kelly Sutherland actually made use of the rule book. What a concept.
And one after another, the Lightning accepted the Rangers’ generosity, scoring three times on the power play while getting another one just seconds after a miscreant had been released from the box and hadn’t been able to get into the play.
“It’s embarrassing,” a furious Ryan McDonagh said in the wake of the 6-2 spanking the Blueshirts bent over and took from the Lightning that squared the series at one-all. “There are a lot of things you want to say right now but talking doesn’t do much.
“Our guys better figure it out quickly here and realize that stupid, selfish penalties are going to cost us against this team.”
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