Alexander Ovechkin

NHL.com’s top headline on Monday said it all.   Rather than being a story about the impending 2009—10 regular season, the first link on the site read “Email DirecTV about missing NHL games on VS.”

Between Super Bowl XIX and XXXI, the NFC won 13-straight Vince Lombardi trophies. The AFC had no chance.

Amid the chaos surrounding the Rangers over the past 48 hours, a former defenseman of theirs, Tom Poti, came back to bite them in the rear on Sunday afternoon at MSG, as the Washington Capitals handily beat the Blueshirts 5—3 to force Game 7 on Tuesday night in Washington.