Tonight, when the Islanders enter Madison Square Garden, I will mutter a phrase that has never escaped my mouth in the last twenty years of my existence.
"Let's go Islanders."
Now, Rangers fans, before you go out and get lighter fluid and matches and all other kinds of things to inflict physical harm on me, hear me out. I want the Rangers to lose tonight. And next Tuesday. And, well, every game for the rest of the season.
The Blueshirts sit seven points out of the eighth and final playoff spot, currently held by the Boston Bruins. Everyone from Larry Brooks to the worst Bleacher Report contributor has said their playoff hopes are "on life support."
Even then, should the Rangers win out—which is essentially almost what they need to do—and miraculous sneak into the playoffs, they'd be looking at a first round matchup with either the Penguins or Capitals, two teams that would easily dispatch them en route to what Gary Bettman hopes is a playoff grudge match in the Eastern Conference finals.
Is it really worth getting the uneducated mass of Rangers fans all hot and bothered for four—okay, maybe five—mea ...
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