Rangers tonight

I really don't have much to say here today. Tonight is the Rangers at MSG and I know that we are looking forward to hearing (Turncoat) Joe and Sam do the game because Center Ice will block out Billy and Howie...and we'll still have to deal with The Maven (who is okay) and that dirty stinking rotten Al Trautwig. Oh, Al. I keed. You don't stink. Not out loud, anyway!

Speaking of Rangers, did you get a load of Ranger Apologist (TM) Larry Brooks in yesterday's Post? Wow. I'd hate to be his wife and pick out the wrong dress for dancing. Somebody crack a window in the press box because ol' Larry really, really hates the RBK uniforms. I mean, he takes these things so personally. And I am starting to believe that any time he feeds the readers a blind item that it has come right from Sean Avery. The way he sticks up for Avery in print makes me wonder if Brooks got to hide in the closet JJ Dillon-style when Avery was with that chick from 24. Somebody needs to sit Larry down and lecture him about the dangers of having a big-boy crush on the Rangers' super-pest.

Regarding Avery--and I guess that I just did--I didn't ever comment on what he may or may have not said to Jason Blake regarding cancer a few weeks ago because I just couldn't wrap my head around the reason anyone would do that kind of thing. Sure, Blake is pesty in his own right and didn't have a lot of fans in his own locker room or around the league but to use something like that is way beyond immature, even in the so-called heat of battle.

Lastly, I hope everyone got to read Greg Logan's inspiring column about Bill Guerin over the weekend. For every guy like Avery that exudes nothing but ignorance, there really are guys out there like Bill Guerin who are nothing but class. It's time to say that the Islanders got lucky when Ryan Smyth turned them down to go play in Colorado. We got a guy who gets "it" at a time where the media is filled with stories about guys who don't get "it".

Here's the link if you missed it. Thanks, Greg.
http://www.newsday.com/sports/hockey/islanders/ny-spguerin185466383nov18,0,4348558.story