--C Chris Drury was gashed under the left eye by an un-penalized Ryan Malone high stick early in the second period. When Drury clipped Malone on the nose late in regulation, he was assessed a double-minor.
--The Rangers failed on four power play attempts Sunday and wound up 3-for-25 in the series, with one coming into an empty net. In contrast, Pittsburgh scored its first three game-winners on the power play and went 5-for-24 in the series.
--Rangers coach Tom Renney revealed afterward that centers Scott Gomez and Chris Drury played with torn rib cage cartilage. Gomez suffered his injury late in the regular season. Drury suffered his in Game 3.
--The Rangers' goals in Game 5 were both scored by two rookies. C Lauri Korpikoski was making his NHL playoffs debut. LW Nigel Dawes, who scored the other goal, had made his playoffs debut a year ago in the game that eliminated the Rangers from the 2007 playoffs.
--"It's hard to swallow," Rangers coach Tom Renney said. "It's as simple as that. We wanted to keep playing and we thought we were starting to play our best hockey, at least in the playoffs."
QUOTE TO NOTE "It's just empty. Your head is just empty. You've been working so hard all year -- starting in May of last year -- to prepare for this year. And then everything is over." -- G Henrik Lundqvist, on being eliminated.
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Dawes:
New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that the club has agreed to terms with restricted free agent forward Nigel Dawes
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I live in MN but will be moving to southwest Florida for school this summer.... I am going to both the late November games in Tampa and Miami (Panthers)... We had a rough trip down to Florida last year so I hope its different and I cannot wait to show of the new Zherdev jersey!!!
Dolan, wake up and fire this bum. He basically chased Sean Avery out of town, and signs Redden to that ridiculous contract which leaves them very little room to make a play for Jaromir Jagr. All those Sundin rumors also look dead now that he's been offered $10 million a year from Vancouver.
