NEW YORK – With the Giants winning and the Mets getting Johan Santana, it’s easy to overlook what’s bad in the New York sports world. The Knicks and Nets have both been horrible with little end in sight. And the hockey teams haven’t been much better. Even the New York Rangers, who were coming on, but couldn’t follow though this week with two bad games at the Garden, including last night’s loss 4-1 to the Anaheim Ducks. “You are not going to win games by working hard,” said coach Tom Renney. “You are going to win games by having poise and composure, whether you are winning or losing.”

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It's not often that ice hockey is elevated to a Shakespearean stratum; the closest the NHL comes to that literally loftiness is the comedy of errors that are the Maple Leafs and the VERSUS studio show, which is typically much ado about nothing. But a few years ago - to the utter amazement and dismay of the dedicated puckheads within ear-shot - Rose Solari, senior editor emeritus of SportsFan Magazine, likened the lamentable Eric Lindros to Hamlet, the tragic prince in the Bard's most celebrated work. She later wrote about it in SFM:

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