from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

Ferris Bueller said that life comes at you fast in the playoffs and even faster when Sidney Crosby is on the other side playing some of the most compelling hockey of his fabled career. Yogi Berra said that it gets late early in the playoffs and especially so when down 2-1 and on the road for Game 4 in a best-of-seven.

These truths are self-evident, presumably even to the Supreme Court, as the Blueshirts await Monday’s Game 4 against a Penguins team that has dismantled their structure for large swatches of each of the first three contests of this first-round series. The games are being played at a million miles an hour. The Rangers just can’t seem to calm things down for more than a shift or two at a time.

The Blueshirts are in a tight spot but not an impossible one. Just over 37 percent of teams trailing 2-1 in a best-of-seven with the next one on the road have prevailed. The lowercase cup is either one-third full or two-thirds empty.

That is all that counts now. It is a fine thing for the organization that the team’s high-end youngsters have competed without an ounce of fear and have stood toe-to-toe with their more experienced opponents.

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