It is a truism of hockey journalism that the only time you ever will read the word “gaffe” in connection with the outcome of a game is when a goaltender commits, “an egregious puck-handling gaffe.”
Which is exactly why you are now reading about a gaffe — make that, an egregious puck-handling gaffe — committed by Henrik Lundqvist that proved decisive in the Rangers’ 2-1 defeat to the Red Wings at the Garden on Wednesday night.
The Blueshirts were somehow locked in a 1-1 tie early in the third period despite having dominated the first 40 minutes.