from Phil Mushnick of the New Yorik Post,

But for sweaty night tremors, there is nothing more terrifying than ESPN. Doesn’t matter the sport, ESPN, from its laboratories deep in the foreboding forests of Bristol, Conn., will perform its gory disembowelments.

Did anyone at ESPN in a position higher than assistant vending machine room attendant consider that the moment the puck was dropped to start Rangers-Lightning Game 6 on Saturday, we’d have liked to focus on the game?

But when that moment arrived, ESPN posted a long scroll of distracting photos, names and positions across the top of the screen identifying every player dressed for the Rangers....

Ah, but soon there was a whistle, thus ESPN would present Tampa Bay’s dance teams during dead time. OK, half bad isn’t bad for ESPN.

But ESPN waited until play resumed before resuming its discriminately indiscriminate graphic intrusions! Madness! They’re out to get us! All of us!

We were haunted, beginning to end. And if there’s one thing ESPN learns from its most neglectful mistakes, it’s to repeat them.

Having blown the handshake line shot of former punches-thrown teammates Tony DeAngelo and Alexandar Georgiev just as they reached each other after the Hurricanes-Rangers series, ESPN could not possibly miss the greeting exchanged between starring goalies Igor Shesterkin and Andrei Vasilevskiy at the close of Saturday’s series.

But ESPN did just that!

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