Regarding the Rangers, victimized on Monday by Ryan Ellis, Juusi Saros, Jean Hebert and Kelly Sutherland and on Tuesday by George Parros and the ironically named department of player safety:
1. Let’s just hope the Blueshirts do not respond to the flying elbow Ellis landed against Pavel Buchnevich’s head during the second period of Monday’s 5-2 double-empty-net-abetted loss to the Predators by inserting Micheal Haley into the lineup.
Because, as was proven time and again when David Quinn (and Alain Vigneault before him) dressed Cody McLeod the previous two seasons, a fourth-line sluggo is hardly a deterrent when the opposition decides to target the vulnerable.