Lost in all the hoopla surrounding the worst NCAA championship game in history, the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins played a pivotal late-season match up in the Garden last night. The Bruins have already locked up the Northeast division and are therefore assured no worse than the 3 seed but in an Eastern Conference where the top 5 teams are within 4 points of each other, every additional point is crucial. At the other end of the playoff spectrum, the bottom 3 teams are all within a point of each other and an uncomfortably close 3 points ahead of 9th place Carolina. When the Bruins jumped out to a 3-0 lead pretty early in this one, fans were reasonably panicky in Manhattan considering the team preceded their shootout win over first place Philly on Sunday with consecutive losses to playoff contending Buffalo and the also-ran Islanders. Boston had to be eagerly looking forward to the 2 points that would get them within 2 of conference leaders Philly and Washington. They were SO eager in fact that they seemingly forgot to play the second half of the game.
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