Good, Bad, Ugly: Rangers take the Winter Classic, down Flyers 3-2

The Good: With the Rangers down two goals, Mike Rupp finally got the Rangers on the board at 14:51 of the second period. Rupp found Prust at the Flyer blueline who got it back to Rupp on a nice little give and go and fired a shot past Bobrovsky's glove hand. Rupper tied the game at 2:41 of the third period. John Mitchell picked up the puck in the Rangers end, carried it through the neutral zone, found Prust, who quickly found Rupp again and beat Bobrovsky short side. Less than 3 minutes later, with the Rangers buzzing around the Flyer end, Girardi shot the puck around the boards to find Cally behind the net. Cally got the puck to Dubinsky in front of the net, who shot the puck into Bobrovsky's pads but the rebound came right back to him and found Brad Richards just above the crease and roofed the puck over a down and out Bobrovsky to take a 3-2 lead that wouldn't be relinquished.

The Bad: Brayden Schenn opened the scoring with his first career NHL goal off of a rebound from a shot at the point by Matt Carle and a bad rebound bounced off Lundqvist right to Schenn at 12:26 of the second period. The Flyers kept up the pressure on the Rangers and cashed in again just under 2 minutes later during an odd man rush up ice. Max Talbot somehow got the puck under the stick of a sprawling Stralman and Giroux beat Lundqvist on the backband for a 2-0 lead at 14:21.

The Ugly: Boy did this turn ugly in the last 5 minutes of the third period. As fortunate as the Rangers were to win this game, the refs were obviously out to get this game into overtime any way possible. Starting with McDonagh's phantom delay of game penalty when he was pushed by van Riemsdyk into the net and called for what I thought was the worst call I've ever seen but it would only get worse. After the Rangers killed the penalty, with 1:06 left in the game. Flyer defenseman Kimmo Timonen took down Callahan at center ice and somehow managed to hold Timonen's stick on the way down and the refs called them both for penalties, much to the chagrin of Callahan, Torts and everyone else with eyes. It got even worse with 19.6 seconds left during a scramble in front of the net and with the puck about to squeak over the goal-line, McDonagh came swooping in to keep the puck out of the net and the refs decided it would be a good idea to call McDonagh for closing his hand on the puck in the crease, a horrific call no one can make unless they have x-ray vision. The Rangers get a well deserved day off tomorrow before preparing for another war on Thursday against Florida.