Apparently it’s open season on Henrik Lundqvist. If I were Benoit Allaire I’d be searching for old videos of Billy Smith. Henrik needs  to school up on the fine art of lumberjack goaltending. If Henrik sees an oppostion player taking a run at him, he should make horizontal with his stick. Let the player trying to run him  take a spear to his midsection or better yet, his wedding tackle.

During the intermission Al Trautwig asked Chris Drury if he thinks other teams are deliberately trying to run Henrik Lundqvist. In his usually mealy mouth fashion, Captain Milquetoast said “ah, I don’t know if  it’s on purpose. In this day and age, it’s hard to believe that other guys are trying to hit our goalie but we don’t like guys coming that close to him”. Oh really, Captain? You wouldn’t call what Jason Blake did on Monday and what Harrold did tonight an accident? Please. For Chrissake they took Henrik down like he was a bowling pin.

The problem with the Rangers is that they need a leader that will man up and say that the next team who tries to run Henrik Lundqvist will pay. Would Mark Messier have ever let other teams run Mike Richter like that? You’re damn skippy he wouldn’t have. It reminds me of the Bobby Granger/Darius Kasparaitis commercial where Darius puts Bobby on his ass for even mentioning running into Henrik in the corridor of the Garden. Maybe Sather should hire Darius as a special “toughness” coach. Is Joey Kocur available?  

The Rangers need to up their ”mean quotient” and it needs start from the “leadership” down. Maybe Ryan Callahan should wear the C instead of the A. They need to hit other teams until they hurt where it hurts. You don’t see any Rangers face washing other players. You don’t see any pushing and shoving. You don’t see any mean.

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