"He's getting smaller as the playoffs are going along."
Just how every professional athlete wants to be talked about on national television following a loss, right? This, however, was the assessment of New York Rangers forward Rick Nash by NBC hockey analyst Keith Jones following Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final Monday night, a 6-2 victory for the Tampa Bay Lightning that evened the best-of-seven series at 1-1.
I covered Jones when he played for the Colorado Avalanche, and he was always the go-to guy when I needed a good quote. (My favorite Jones quote was when he told me how he called Chris Chelios "Fonzie" or "The Fonz" for always yelling "Aaaay" at a referee in an attempt to draw a call).
"Jonesie," which of course was his nickname as a player (98 percent of all hockey nicknames must end in "-ie" or "-er"), really let Nash have it after the Rangers' blowout loss. It almost got to the point where you wanted to say, "OK, enough already! It was just one game!"
So, while it was a little too soon to throw Nash under the bus like Jones did, I'll buy into this sentiment: Nash needs to, you know, do ...
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