Gaborik Looks Good

It was a pretty eventful night at the Garden as the Rangers beat the Caps 3-2 in their second to last pre-season game. First, Marian Gaborik looked awesome as he scored the first two goals and took a hit to set the third goal in motion by sending the puck where Brandon Dubinsky in his first game action could pick it up. Second, Dubinsky looked good in all situations, especially setting up the game winning goal with a looping rush toward the goal where he got creamed and had Chris Higgins swat his errant shot in for the winner. In general, the Rangers have better hands and speed up and down the roster this year. Hank looked great. Gilroy and Del Zotto looked like keepers and threats, though Gilroy and Anisimov did have a communication breakdown that lead to one of the Cap goals. Grachev continued to look good without scoring. And Callahan was his usual fearless, threatening self. Some of the young guys are gonna score more under Torts and Cally and Dubi are prime candidates. Staal was still out. Rozy played like he's been playing, while Redden actually looked like he cared.

Sam Rosen explained how the Caps are letting Nylander negotiate with European teams, and I think the Rangers are either gonna try that with Rozsival or Sam wants them to.

Sanguinetti got sent down earlier in the day, so it looks like Del Zotto will at least get ten games to show what he can do.

Go Rangers!