7:40 p.m.<\/p>\n
It took a little longer than expected, 90 minutes from parking lot to parking garage thanks to horrendous crosstown traffic, but I made it to Madison Square Garden just in time to see the opening face-off between Nick Suzuki<\/a> and Vincent Trocheck<\/a>.<\/p>\n Trocheck won it, by the way.<\/p>\n I didn’t think I was going to make it inside in time to see my third opening face-off of the day, but I had two things going for me:<\/p>\n 1) The Rangers had a pregame ceremony as part of their ongoing centennial celebration with Hall of Fame former broadcaster Sam Rosen. So that bought me some time.<\/p>\n 2) It’s Montreal in town, so it’s a double anthem night at MSG, and that bought me some more time.<\/p>\n I got up to the 9th floor, press box level on the bridge, just in time to see Trocheck and Suzuki coming together for the face-off.<\/p>\n So now it’s officially seven teams in one day.<\/p>\n On my way from UBS Arena to Madison Square Garden, I was able to listen to Alan Fuehring on Islanders radio calling the third period with guest analyst Mick Vukota, who was in town as part of the Islanders’ alumni weekend.<\/p>\n I did miss a goal, as J.J. Moser<\/a> scored at 3:20 of the third period to tie the game 2-2. And I heard Fuehring call the shootout, won on Emil Heineman<\/a>‘s goal to give the Islanders a 3-2 win.<\/p>\n So, not counting the shootout, I have seen six out of a possible nine goals in person in the first two games.<\/p>\n The Rangers and Canadiens are scoreless through 10 minutes with Igor Shesterkin<\/a> and Jacob Fowler<\/a> in the nets. New York, by the way, is wearing its Centennial jerseys and hoping not to fall to 0-6 in those threads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"7:40 p.m. It took a little longer than expected, 90 minutes from parking lot to parking garage thanks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-348310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}