Regarding the Rangers, the most pleasantly surprising pro sports team in the area:
1. Tuesday it was Neal Pionk riding to the rescue of Filip Chytil, a couple of weeks ago it was Jesper Fast intervening on behalf of Pavel Buchnevich and in between those episodes there was Brady Skjei attempting to avenge a wrong done Mats Zuccarello.
You probably have noticed that none of the respondents is exactly Nick Fotiu.
A pack mentality has developed under David Quinn and it has been in force since the coach reprimanded his team in the wake of the same-old, same-old in the exhibition opener at New Jersey, in which no one answered Eric Gryba’s concussion-inducing headshot against Boo Nieves.