Blair Betts has a broken eye socket, for which the Capitals will be rewarded in tonight’s Game 7 by the privilege of using a player in the place of Donald Brashear.

It will be a better one than the Washington goon, who put the Rangers’ valuable penalty killer out with a blind-side hit well after he had gotten rid of the puck during the first period of Sunday’s Game 6.

Five of the games, to be served next year should the Rangers eliminate Washington tonight, were for the hit. The sixth was for Brashear’s bump of his Rangers counterpart, Colton Orr, at the red line during the pre-game warm-up.

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