Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted in 2005.
It arguably is the greatest playoff rivalry in hockey, one that never has failed to produce a dramatic, decisive game — on every occasion contested at the World’s Most Famous Arena, and always with the home team winning.
Rangers-Senators playoff fever: Catch it!!!
Hey, we’re trying here. It’s a long way to Thursday.
But once the Senators filibustered the Bruins out of the postseason in overtime on Sunday, we were deprived of a second-round, Original Six, old-school battle between New York and Boston and left with .