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Gaborik Not Benched Monday; Why Tortorella Made Right Call On Ice-Time In Third Period

Found October 26, 2011 on Bleeding All Blue: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Marian Gaborik,  John Tortorella
TEAMS: New York Rangers
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marian Gaborik has been the New York Rangers best forward thus far this season.  Gaborik has returned to the form of his first season in New York with four goals already and showing the burst he never really had last season.  With as well as Gaborik has been playing the fact he was not playing for much of the third period against Winnipeg caused concern for possible injury and/or anger at coach John Tortorella for possibly benching the star winger.  Luckily it appears that neither of those was the case.  <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to Larry Brooks at The New York Post the reason that Gaborik only got four shifts and 3:03 of ice time in the third period was because of the amount of time the team spent pinned in their own end. <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman&q...
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