Rangers At A Loss To Explain Playoff Struggles On Home Ice
With their 3-1 loss in Game 3, the Rangers have now dropped six straight at home in the playoffs, dating to the 2015 Eastern Conference finals.
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With their 3-1 loss in Game 3, the Rangers have now dropped six straight at home in the playoffs, dating to the 2015 Eastern Conference finals.
Right now, the Rangers are flatlining their way to another deserved first-round exit. Staring at a 2-1 deficit, something has to change and fast.
Artturi Lehkonen and Shea Weber scored power-play goals for Montreal and Carey Price stopped 20 shots.
On Friday night in Montreal, Alain Vigneault stuck to his principles by going into a defensive shell and got burned for it.
The victory was the first for a Canadian team in the playoffs since 2015. Game 3 is Sunday night in New York.
Oscar Lindberg packs a lot of quality into the 10 minutes of ice time he averages per game.
Analytics can track just about everything in hockey, but the one thing that cannot be measured through the explosion of statistical thinking is resiliency.
It will be up to the Canadiens to come up with an answer in Game 2 on Friday night at Bell Centre, or risk heading to New York down two games in the best-of-seven series.
Touting his team's speed, balance and experience, Alain Vigneault said Tuesday he believes his Rangers have just as good a chance of hoisting the Stanley Cup as any team in the playoffs.
The Rangers-Canadiens playoff series could come down to the hotter goalie and which team wins the special teams battles.
Jesper Fast might be overlooked by fans of rival teams and is seldom the focus of media attention, but Rangers teammates have a high appreciation for his work ethic, positional sense and penalty-killing prowess.
Ryan McDonagh had a goal and an assist, Derek Stepan had a goal and Mika Zibanejad added two assists for the Rangers, who will match up against the Atlantic Division champion Montreal Canadiens in the postseason.
Both teams seemed to struggle in the first period as neither created many opportunities and shots were 4-4 after 20 minutes.
Sending the NHL's top players halfway around the world is just not worth it. Between the multiple-week schedule shutdown in mid-season and the injury risk, what's in it for the league?
The Rangers would've liked to win, but they put more of a priority on giving banged up forwards Mats Zuccarello, Rick Nash and Jesper Fast and defensemen Ryan McDonagh, Brady Skjei and Nick Holden a night off.
