Late rally ties scrimmage

The White squad rallied for a 3-3 tie against the Red in this morning's scrimmage (no Marian Gaborik but the right wing is expected to be on the ice later today for practice) as Ryan Bourque sent home a shot in the waning seconds against Chad Johnson.

Red, which got two goals from Sean Avery off assists from Vinny Prospal (could definitely see those two on a line together if Brandon Dubinsky stays away and Prospal is moved to center), took a 3-0 lead on Henrik Lundqvist before White's second-period rally.

The scrimmage was not nearly as physical as the second one yesterday, though Avery joked as he left the ice that the referees were already screwing him by letting opponents get away with penalties against him.
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Here were the squads:
Red - Miika Wiikman, Chad Johnson, Wade Redden, Bobby Sanguinetti, David Urquhart, Tomas Kundratek, Brent Henley, Sean Avery, Vinny Prospal, Daniel Bartek, Devin Didiomete, Brodie Dupont, Corey Locke, Dan LaCouture
White - Henrik Lundqvist, Scott Stajcer, Jordan Owens, Ryan Bourque, Corey Potter, Nigel Williams, Paul Crowder, Ilkka Heikkinen, Michal Rozsival, Sam Klassen, Tyler Arnason, Patrick Rissmiller, Dale Weise, Jordan Soryal, Ethan Werek, Aaron Voros, , Trevor Glass.

Prospal first fed Avery with a crisp head-man pass from center ice, springing Avery for a first-period breakaway against Lundqvist. Later, Lundqvist sticked aside a shot by Avery after Avery skated around Klassen.

Also in the first period, Werek took a stick to the face on a faceoff, though he missed wide on his free shot from the slot, which substituted for power plays. Urquhart converted on his penalty shot to give Red a 2-0 lead heading into the break.

Lundqvist's scrimmage ended a few minutes into the second period after Prospal centered Avery from behind the net and Avery placed a wrist shot past the goalie for a 3-0 lead.

But White rallied as Bartek beat Johnson from the right, Corey Potter sent in a shot that might have been deflected past Johnson and Bourque completed the rally.

More later from Madison Square Garden.

Comments

[Jim]

Great stuff Andrew, thanks for keeping us all in the loop.

[JohnOC]

Any word on Dubi?

[Andrew Gross]

Re: Dubi

Status quo so far.

[Steph]

Andrew, when do you think we should start to worry about the dubi situation...or should we be worried already? i am a huge dubi fan and unfortunately him holding out for what seems like just cash....is making me dislike him...and more and more as more info comes out about this. brooks article today really put it into perspective.

thanks for all your updates! we appreciate it!

[CP (Chris)]

Andrew, I'm sure you're getting for the game tonight, but how do you think Potter has faired compared to the likes of the younger d-men?

[LI Joe]

the dubi holdout should end any talk about him being captain someday (even though somedsy is at least 3 yrs away)