Way to start this little endeavor -- Washington beats the Rangers
4-1 at the Garden. Richter gets the loss, his first since the Jan. 5 game
when Calgary rookie goalie Andrei Trefilov declared that the Rangers, to
paraphrase, weren't that good. Trefilov, incidentally, will spend parts of
four of the next five seasons in the minors. Messier gets the only Ranger goal.
