from Damien Cox of The Spin,

The cavalry never did arrive.

A big part of the reason, of course, is that Buffalo, Carolina and the Rangers never opened the door quite enough to allow the Leafs to receive the help they would have required to get into the 2011 post-season tournament.

The Leafs at least made those teams make their putts. The Rangers, for example, had to go into a tough Philly rink yesterday and extract two points, which they did with a gritty, impressive performance.

Hard to blame the Leafs for that. They’d at least helped sound the the alarm in Ranger headquarters Saturday night with their sixth win in seven games, a 4-2 triumph in Ottawa.

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