While injured Bruins defensemen Dennis Seidenberg and Wade Redden continue to practice and move closer to returning, the Rangers are dealing with the loss of defenseman Anton Stralman, who got hurt when he was checked hard Tuesday night by Milan Lucic and left the game in the second period.
The dot faded to transparent over time, and would redden again only when the other half of the couple clicked on his or her own dot displayed on a computer screen hundreds of miles away.
Once Jagr's contract expired, the Rangers elected to spend money elsewhere, signing forwards Scott Gomez and Chris Drury in 2007 and defenseman Wade Redden a year later.