"With all due respect to the rest of the East, we might as well skip the final three months of the regular season and first two rounds of the playoffs, cutting directly to the conference finals.

A Bruins-Rangers matchup for the Eastern Conference title seems inevitable.

As mad as he was after New York eked out a victory in a major showdown game at the Garden yesterday — 3-2 decision on Marian Gaborik's goal with a heartbreaking 3.6 seconds left in overtime — B's goalie Tuukka Rask lavished the Rangers with praise."