It was just a couple of minutes after the halfway mark at the Garden and Tom Wilson was a very angry man and he was angry at none other than Matt Rempe after the Blueshirts’ folk hero had treated Alex Ovechkin badly, at least to his Washington teammate’s taste.
“He was yelling at me, ‘Don’t hit Ovie! Don’t do that to Ovie! Don’t hit Ovie!’ ” Rempe told The Post after the match had ended with a 3-2 overtime defeat to the Caps. “I told him I’d hit anyone I want.”
Wilson was a happy man after he had scored the winner from in front at 4:07 of extra time after a New York two-on-one went awry. Ovechkin was a happy man, too, after coming within nine goals of Wayne Gretzky’s all-time NHL career-record 894 with a power-play score to knot the match at 10:28 of the third.
But though the Rangers lost an important point, they gained one as well, even while falling out of the second wild-card spot by percentage points to Ottawa. But they are firmly in the mix in going 7-3-1 over their last 11 contests, and even now lurking over the third-place Devils’ shoulders, five points back with a game in hand.
