WELL HEATED

CARMELO ANTHONY

If you were wondering where this season is going for the Knicks, just look at what the Heat did to them in spite of Carmelo Anthony’s burst of 42 points of the 85 the Knicks scored against the Miami Heat Sunday.

Granted the team is suffering from the loss of Lin and Stoudemire, yet no one else stepped up to help Anthony. If they are to be serious contenders, especially if you don’t know when Stoudemire’s bulging disk will heal if ever in time for the playoffs! The Heat meanwhile clinched the Southeast division and now can play for the fine-tuning of it.

Mike Woodson has done an incredible job, and I wonder if we are expecting more of the Knicks than they can really deliver with the present active roster, but I hope they don’t waste the opportunity to give Woodson a shot at running this club.

WHOOPING THE PENGUINS

DANCE LESSONS?

The Flyers of Philadelphia took a 3-0 lead in their playoff series, and the only ones showing any interest in the results were the Flyers, scoring 8 goals, the both took interest in plummeting each other for a ten count.

Once again the Flyers came from behind and to win and take this improbable 3-0 lead and a chance for a sweep.

What’s at stake now for the Penguins, is pride. Their cross-state rivals hold all the cards now, and a loss would leave a long summer to contemplate the loss and feel the embarrassment.

IT’S 1997 AGAIN!

The Florida Panthers waited 15 years for this to happen! What you ask, a hat trick, some fan jumping onto the ice for the camera’s? No, they won a playoff game, in fact it was game 2 of their playoff series against the New Jersey Devils.

The Panthers were holding to a 3-2 lead, when the Devils won the faceoff with 7.6 seconds left, New Jersey's Ilya Kovalchuk with a chance to tie that was blocked, and Tomas Fleischmann scored an empty-net goal as time expired and Florida fans littered the ice with hundreds of toy rats - a tradition that dates to the Panthers' run to the 1996 Stanley Cup finals.

And so the series is tied at 1-1 and the two teams go at it in New Jersey tonight.

That’s all I wrote, folks!