Gotham Gameboard: December 17th, 2011

Knickerbockers:

Nice way to start preseason against those New Jersey hooligans.  Stat got into a little bit of foul trouble, but Melo looked amazing and I really enjoyed the way a lot of the secondary players performed.  Iman Shumpert was lighting it up and had a couple of cuts to the basket that were just beautiful, Jefferies was getting it down defensively, Jorts looked like he could contribute off the bench this year, and I don't think I have ever seen Balkman play a better game.

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Isles:

Leave it to the Al 'Freakin' Montoya led Isles to take it to the best team in the best team in the league. It was actually a good game for the Isles who outshot the Wild 15 shots! But no worries they'll go out and lose to a bottom 5 team in the league soon enough.

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Blueshirts:

Brad Richards Tebowed the Coyotes tonight. Possibly the finish of the year. :00.01 left on the clock. Not even :00.1, :00.01 just think about that for a second.  I am sure Olivia Munn will give him a warm welcome home for that when the Rangers return from their road trip. The Rangers were simply the better team all night and deserved the win despite a couple of letups at the end of the 1st and 2nd.  What revenge to get a goal with .01 seconds on the clock after the Coyotes had scored their goals with :09 and :52 seconds respectively. Crazy game.

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