The Rangers defeated the New Jersey Devils, 3-1, tonight at Madison Square Garden, to improve to 26-26-7 (59 pts.) overall, including a 13-14-4 (30 pts.) mark at home this season.
Trainor Communications has provided us with this sound from the game.
Henrik Lundqvist
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Marian Gaborik
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Ryan Callahan
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UNIONDALE, NY— Less than 10 points separates the fifth place team from the Eastern Conference’s 13th spot.
The Islanders won’t know until season’s end if the Atlanta Thrashers’ comeback on Saturday night will be the difference in qualifying for the playoffs.
But the Isles still earned the victory despite blowing two separate three-goal leads in a [...]

New York – The Rangers were defeated tonight by the Atlanta Thrashers, 5-3, in front of another sold-out Garden crowd of 18,300. You have to give the Ranger faithful their due, they are a loyal bunch to their team which is now 3-7-1 in their last ten games and fell to a 10-8-1 overall record.
Ilya [...]

NEWARK, NJ – The New Jersey Devils have not been playing like themselves recently. After a short string of close games, in which the Devils won three out of five, one could say all Hell broke loose for New Jersey Thursday night against the Atlanta Thrashers.
Coach Brent Sutter said after the game he felt bad [...]

Scott Gomez needed something. He’d been a big part of the problem having gone minus-seven in two consecutive defeats with talk something could happen if the losing continued.
In a more feisty kinda game in which he even traded punches with Atlanta superstar Ilya Kovalchuk even getting the better of it, a hungrier Gomez got the [...]

UNIONDALE, NY — In April 2007, an Islanders matchup with the Atlanta Thrashers might have been a possible playoff preview. Just 18 months later, the only thing both clubs could look forward to is the chance to avoid last place in the Eastern Conference.
Things were looking up for the Isles, which carried a two-goal lead [...]