Well my friends, I won't be watching Wednesday's game live, so my posts may be a bit more sporadic until September or so. I'll be checking in regularly, but will probably have less to say for a bit.

With the loss, the #NYR cannot finish higher than 29th in the league, and will remain in third if they get the same or fewer points than Calgary (who have 2 games to go). Only one game remaining.

Quick loses his last NHL game

The Skoog misses the empty net, in what would've been his first NHL goal

Quick to the bench...we all know how this goes

Reinhardt (the other one) gets his second goal of the game, and the #NYR trail again with just 1:50 remaining

Skoog is such a cool name. Hockey has some great names.

Adam Fox with your US Post shot of the game

Someone get Brian Boyle a lozenge...

This PP has started pretty enthusiastically

Oh, a covering the puck with the hand penalty on great Skoogly Moogly

Got distracted for the last 15 minutes or so, looks like I missed nothing

249 points for Alexis Lafreniere, which ties Wayne Gretzky for 62nd as a #NYR 133rd assist, which ties Darren Turcotte for 67th

350th career assist by Adam Fox, he's just the 11th #NYR to reach that mark. Gives him 422 points for his career, which ties Dean Prentice for 17th all time Only Brian Leetch (981), Ron Greschner (610) and James Patrick (467) have more as a D

Well, game is tied...Perreault deflects in the Fox shot

Fox trying to do a Schneider there and shoot the puck through Samoskevich....he just shot so hard that Samoskevich didn't have the chance to catch up to the puck this time

Rangers 0 for 2 on the PP, not much happening on that one except for some missed passes

Cuylle gets tripped, Panthers offensive zone penalty, so #NYR to 2nd PP. Wilmer Skoog is the baddie

Braden Schneider on for both goals against, starring role in the Samoskevich one

485th game as a #NYR for Adam Fox which ties Carol Vadnais for 46th all time

I'm running about 10 minutes of game time behind on the #NYR

The "worst" they can finish now is 6th, so it'll be 3rd-6th going into the lottery with 2 games left to play (tonight and Wednesday

A 3rd worst spot would give them an 11.5% chance of 1st overall pick, though they have around a 50% chance of moving down too

The Flames moved past the #NYR into 4th worst team in the league, and the Rangers can all but cement 3rd worst tonight if they lose against FLA

With two games remaining, the #NYR will finish somewhere between 3rd and 7th going into the draft lottery. Most likely 3rd or 4th.

Two games to go...

Robertson with the empty net goal...after they missed twice, and it's 2-0 with 57.8 remaining

Shesterkin to the bench...we know how this ends

Dallas finally score a goal, on the PP...so we have that going for us

Robertson called for "holding", so Dallas going to their 4th PP of the 2-3 hour span we're calling a "game"

Teams are a combined 0 for 8 on the PP ( #NYR 0 for 5)

Less than 4 minutes into the 3rd and we've already had 9 combined shots, albeit all with guys in the box(es). We had 22 through the first 40

End of 2nd, and we still have a score of *checks notes* * yawns* 0-0

Now Trocheck with the ol' dumb penalty, that's a high stick that he put on Tyler Myers who goes off with blood, so that'll be a double minor

Now Vinny gets a close look at Blackwell (remember him?)'s stick, and #NYR get a 1:24 5 on 3

Stays a minor, probably because Gavrikov didn't get hurt

Been has a minor, they're reviewing it according to Dave...and now confirmed by the announcer

Benn boards Bavrikov JT comes in to battle Benn

Chmelar leading all #NYR with 2 shots on goal, in fact he's tied with Johnston, Harley, Duchene and Cuylle for the game lead

Defended by Erne...

#NYR 100% on the PK today, 1 for 1

On Review, Rantanen may have clamped the ol' arm down on Cuylle's stick, so ref perhaps didn't feel like calling them both

Wyatt with a good chance, Igor says something in Russian that might have been нет

Cuylle gets a free get out jail card on that um, hold, interference...whatever you want to call it as he makes Rantanen turn it over. Refs, like the Stars, just want to get through this game and go to bed

Vincent Trocheck always looks so nonplussed when he takes a penalty, anyway he's going to the box for putting his stick under the Stars player's skate

4th line out against Robertson, Johnson et all...but they also say нет. Probably learned that from Igor

Duchesne in all alone...think that was Schneider that missed him...anyway, Shesterkin said нет So yeah

The PP today has not been especially dangerous against these "big" green guys

Fox is pretty damned good at keeping the puck in at the blueline

Zibanejad gets "hauled down" by Bourque (of the Mavrik kind), in the #NYR end, so that's probably not a good penalty, but hey, I'm just a figment of your imagination, so what do I know