Update: 10:30PM: The following quotes are from the Rangers:
John Tortorella on tonight’s game…
“I thought we played better defensively, first of all.  I thought we had the puck more.  We generated some offense.  It is discouraging.  I thought there were a lot of good things for a lot of minutes of that game.  Right now we [...]

The Game:
The Rangers (13-12-1) try to erase the weekend and exact revenge on the Pittsburgh Penguins (18-9-1)
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The Goalies:
Marc-Andre Fleury (15-7-0) vs Henrik Lundqvist (11-9-1)

Pittsburgh’s Key Players:

Notes:
Enver Lisin will be a scratch tonight after playing 0:00 against Pittsburgh on Saturday night.
Brian Boyle will return to the lineup and play with Ales [...]

Update: Joe Delessio of New York Magazine wonders if the Rangers will be out for blood tonight because of Cooke’s hit.
Original Post: Courtesy of Stu Hackel’s daily must read post on Slap Shots, here is video of the hit that got Matt Cooke suspended for two games:

Arthur Staple of Newsday spoke to Cooke and some [...]

Sean Avery, who played with Marian Gaborik and Sean Avery for parts of Saturday’s game, again skated with Gaborik and Vinny Prospal on the top line.
…Avery has had more jump to his game recently, and has been rewarded by getting to play with the top unit. He has these moments where he can play on [...]

Larry Brooks, in the New York Post, writes today about John Tortorella and what the Rangers need to do to improve.
Tortorella joined the Rangers preaching, “It’s not about defense, it’s not about the defensive zone,” before amending his mantra. The problem is, his team has apparently taken him at his original word, for the Blueshirts [...]

In a post to her blog at Hockey’s Future, Leslie Treff spoke to Ranger Director of layer Personnel Gordie Clark about some of the Rangers prospects who are playing in Europe.
They talk about David Kveton, Tomas Zaborsky, and Treff notes that the Rangers expect former second round pick Ivan Baranka to return to North America, [...]

In his “Slap Shots” column on Sunday, Larry Brooks writes that the NHL should abandon the shootout.
It is time for hockey games to be decided by hockey players and by hockey plays. It is time for the shootout to be replaced by a five-minute, three-on-three overtime period that, when necessary, would follow a scoreless five-minute [...]

Yesterday, the New York Post had a nice article about Matthew Von Dollen and his Make A Wish dream to meet the Rangers and especially The Captain, Mark Messier.
Click here to read the whole story.
…Its a very nice story and one that was documented by MSG and shown plenty of times last season on the [...]

The NHL has announced that Pittsburgh Penguins forward Matt Cooke has been suspended for two games for his hit on Artem Anisimov last night.
This means that Cooke will miss tomorrow night’s re-match against the Rangers.
Cooke, 31, has five goals and seven assists for the Penguins this season.
…Good

Near the middle of the third period in last night’s drubbing, Matt Cooke of the Penguins blindsided Rangers rookie Artem Anisimov with an elbow to the head.
Anisimov was shaken up and didn’t return to the game.
Following the game, John Tortorella gave his feeling on the hit:
“There’s a big thing this year with these headshots and [...]