"The word for last night's final game before the All-Star break is the same as the one that defines the Rangers through this superlative first half of their season.

That word is, "workmanlike."

"We could have approached this either of two ways, one being that we knew he had 64 points already and just see what would happen or we could have worked our [butts] off and make certain that we closed this out the right way with 66 points," Brandon Dubinsky said after the Rangers chose the latter path and defeated the Jets 3-0 at the Garden."