As usual, the Ranger captain was right, perhaps more than even he realized.

Not to shadow the Ranger captain, but to keep him away from the net.

Is the Ranger captain frustrated with his lack of personal production?

"The trade is irrelevant to this series," the Ranger captain said.

"I'm just trying to keep busy," the Ranger captain said by telephone last night.

"I don't think we played that great, no," the Ranger captain said.

It brushed the Ranger captain, who went down quite heavily.

This is not the case with the Ranger captain.

Rodriguez, who was captain of the Rangers for three weeks before the trade, said repeatedly that he just wanted to blend in.

The Ranger captain skated with the rest of his teammates this morning, the first time he had been on the ice in five days.