Speaking of three stars...

DiPietro only gets the third star? After 56 saves? Hmm.

That shift about five minutes into the third period may have been the greatest shift I have ever seen. Isles keep pounding the Rangers... and the Rangers keep winning the puck back. Couple of posts, couple of unconscious saves. Unreal.

Edit: Journal News writer Sam Weinman includes this line from his editor, Joe Erwin, in his blog postmortem: "After a performance like that, Rick DiPietro should demand a contract extension." (Inside baseball: Joe used to work for us. Great guy, great editor, and great wit.)

Edit2, this from John Dellapina in his blog for the Daily News: "If you saw what transpired at the Garden tonight and still don't get it about hockey, you never will. There is no other sport that can even approach the relentless excitement that the Rangers and Rick DiPietro provided last night. And no other sound like the one that comes down from the Garden stands when the ice is down and the Rangers are up."

Well, though I had planned to save some of this for a tomorrow post, here we are:
-At the end of practice, Regier and Magowan were heading pucks into the net off of each other's feeds. Like soccer players. Seriously.
-Matt Reid went back to South Carolina over the weekend, and Hershey just called him up.
-Here's more on the Glass-Daigneault fight from Michael Sharp in Bingo.
-The Pittsburgh Penguins mean it, they may actually move this time.
-Philly (seven points back) plays Tuesday at home against Binghamton.