Lucky & Good – Rangers @ Panthers Post Game Thoughts…

The old adage is what…it’s better to be lucky than good. Fortunately tonight the Rangers were both. They came out and blitzed the Florida Panthers jumping out to a pretty quick 4-0 lead, and then they got very fortunate with the Cats hitting several posts (maybe 3?). Had those post shots gone in, the Rangers could be in a very different position right now. What position would that be? Somehow, despite not having Marc Staal for 1 second of playing time so far this year, without having nearly any production from their leading scorer from last year, Brandon Dubinsky till the last 5 games, without having any kind of a decent power play, with having major injuries to their defense, the Rangers find themselves, today, a few days before the winter classic, with the best record in the Eastern Conference. The small caveat being that the Rangers have yet to play the Boston Bruins, who have 2 games in hand on us, and we still have a bunch of games against the Pens, Flyers, and...