Rangers Regroup After Tough Loss, Confident For Game 3
Back home and with an extra day off following their tough double-overtime loss at Ottawa, the New York Rangers are a confident group as they prepare to face the Senators in Game 3.
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Back home and with an extra day off following their tough double-overtime loss at Ottawa, the New York Rangers are a confident group as they prepare to face the Senators in Game 3.
NHL head coaches put their neck on the line with lineup selections and in-game adjustments. If a coach gets them right, he'll smell like a rose and be the toast of the town. If not, well, you can just imagine.
Facing an 0-2 deficit, the Rangers and head coach Alain Vigneault have a lot of questions to answer after they allowed the persistent Ottawa Senators to creep back in and pull off a double-overtime victory on Saturday.
Ottawa leads the series 2-0 despite trailing by two goals after Brady Skjei's score with 14:50 left in the third.
Rangers netminder Henrik Lundqvist deserved to skate off the Canadian Tire Centre ice on Thursday night with a Game 1 victory in his pocket, but he was cruelly denied.
Erik Karlsson was hoping for a good bounce. He got a great one.
The Ottawa Senators present an entirely different challenge to the Rangers in the second round of the playoffs.
After struggling through a subpar season by his standards, Henrik Lundqvist was at his best when the Rangers needed him in the first round.
Thanks to inventive front-office work, inspired coaching, amazing goaltending and incredible leadership, the Rangers kicked their demons to the curb once and for all by winning their first NHL championship in 54 years.
The spirited Norwegian played a starring role to help the Blueshirts eliminate the visiting Montreal Canadiens in six games. The 29-year-old forward recorded two goals, as the Rangers earned a 3-1 victory.
Derek Stepan also scored and Henrik Lundqvist stopped 27 shots to help New York get past the first round for the fifth time in six years.
The rugged Montreal Canadiens have dictated play throughout the majority of their first-round series against the Rangers, but they left a window open when they let that mindset slip in the third period of Game 5.
The Rangers grabbed a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series and will look to advance when they host Game 6 on Saturday.
It's time to bury the tired and inaccurate narrative surrounding Rangers winger Rick Nash.
New York's win also ended a six-game losing streak at home in the playoffs going back to the 2015 Eastern Conference Final.
