Hockey
Final Get-Together?
The Rangers have been eliminated by the Flyers. The off-season priorities will be to get younger and bigger.
There will be some changes in the off-season because Mark Messick is an unrestricted free-agent. I expect him to resign but you may never know what will happen. The situation is the same for Esa Tikkanen, Russ Courtwall, Doug Lidster, Glenn Healy, and Patrick Flatley, who are all free-agents. I don't expect Glenn Healy to come back. He can start on some teams and may get a very good offer,
Do not laugh at the rumor that Neil Smith night go to the Maple Leaves now that Cliff Flatcher has been fired. There is an instability in the Garden. Garden's CEO Rand Araskog has already been replaced. There is a report that the Garden's President Dave Checketts might also leave. Smith might find himself without his main front office ally. Therefore the interest in the Maple Leaves job is perfectly understandable.
Baseball
Yankees
Expect Wade Boggs who has been benched by Joe Torre to want out of the Bronx. Boggs needs about 280 hits to get to 3000 and he will not get them on the bench... Tino Martinez has returned to the line-up after missing one game with an inflated toe. Dwight Gooden did something on Saturday what he should have done on Thursday. He kept quiet about the fight which occured between him and the cab driver with whom he had a fight after refusing to pay a fare.