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Rangers top Tampa as NHL opens in Prague (AP)
Rangers top Tampa as NHL opens in Prague (AP)
Markus Naslund and Brandon Dubinsky scored to lift the New York Rangers to a 2-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday in the NHL's second straight year of opening its regular season in Europe. Naslund scored with 1:52 remaining in the second period on a wrist shot after being fed by Scott Gomez.
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Hockey Night(s) In Europe [NHL]
Deadspin — ... but the Tampa Bay Lightning already have two losses. That's the same number of losses my rec league hockey team has and we didn't even have to go to the Czech Republic to earn them. (Heck, we don't even have uniforms.) The New York Rangers are the beneficiaries of this comeuppance, taking the early two game series in front of two Ranger-friendly sold out Prague crowds. Of course, they were Ranger-friendly and sold out partly because no bothered to tell the Czechs that Jaromir Jagr doesn't play for that team anymore. ...

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