It's Monday morning, which means it's time to vote for the SB Nation New York Player of the Week. Last week, we had a tie, with Chris Kreider and Johan Santana sharing the honors. This week, the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils continued their playoff runs, the New York Knicks remain alive, the New York Yankees went 3-4 and the New York Mets 2-4. Here are the new nominees. Vote now!
↵Marian Gaborik: After not scoring since the first game of the playoffs, Gaborik netted the goal of the week, when he put home the game-winner in triple overtime in Game 3. Everyone was so exhausted, even Mike Emrick was too tired to yell, "Gaborik! Gaborik! Gaborik!" The right winger also has an assist in each of the four games vs. the Capitals.
↵Ilya Kovalchuk: Alexei Ponikarovsky may have scored the winning goal in overtime of Game 3, but it was Kovalchuk who was the star. After missing Game 2, he made an inspirational comeback, boosting his team in both the morale and scoresheet departments. He made a perfect strike to Ponikarovsky to win the game, and he also scored one of his own and assisted on the first goal.
↵Dainius Zubrus: He had to survive a cheap shot to the head, but that didn't slow him down in Sunday's win, when he scored the game-winner as well as the insurance goal. He also notched a pair of assists in the Game 2 win. He's a plus-5 in the series.
↵Carmelo Anthony: The Knick star shot poorly in the first three games (though he scored 30 points in Game 2), but he was the hero in Game 4, helping his team to live another day by pouring in 41 points, including hitting a huge three-pointer at the end. He also grabbed six rebounds and dished out four assists.
↵Derek Jeter: Maybe Jeter can play until he's 49 like Jamie Moyer. The Yankee captain continued to pile up the hits this week (11), hitting at a .367 clip, with three doubles, a home run, six runs scored, two RBIs and two walks. He's hitting .397 on the season.
↵CC Sabathia: The Yankee ace did his job to perfection in Friday's 6-2 win over the Royals, lasting eight innings, only giving up two runs on seven hits, while striking out five without issuing a walk. Sabathia's win snapped his team's three-game losing streak.
↵Andres Torres: The Met center fielder's RBI-per-hit ratio is Hack Wilson-like. He drove in six runs this week on only eight hits, batted .363, walked twice, hit a double, stole a base and scored two runs.
↵R.A. Dickey: The wily knuckleballer just fell short of a complete game on Sunday, lasting eight-plus innings, giving up one run on four hits, with four strikeouts and four walks, and he picked a runner off first to boot. He wasn't too bad in his other start either, Monday's 4-3 loss to the Astros (six innings, three runs), when he really just made one bad pitch. Sunday's win ups Dickey's record to 4-1.
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