Rangers-Devils in review

Thoughts: 1) Another staged fight to start the game. Whatever floats your boat, I guess. Maybe it’s hypocritical, but to me they don’t seem as senseless when it’s archrivals playing. I did think Rupp had some good, solid hits, though he wasn’t credited with any, officially. 2) I liked the Brandon Dubinsky-Kelly Clarkson bout better because it was an actual hockey fight between two hockey players, because of what happened in the hockey game. And I thought Dubinsky handled himself very well in that event. And though Dubinsky missed the a few more times and got himself removed from the Brad Richards-Ryan Callahan line, and was partly responsible on the Devils goal, and had one bad turnover at the red line, he played pretty well. (Boy that sounds like a mountain of contradictions). He had a big block and clear moments before Carl Hagelin’s short-handed goal, when it was still 2-1, and he has been good on the PK all year. 3) I thought the refs were calling some ticky-tack stuff ...