Postgame: Rangers Get a Point, but Fall to Kings in Season Opener

There's always an upside to a game in which you earn a point in the standings, but that point is simply not satisfactory when you were only five minutes away from getting the full two and blew it. That was the case for the New York Rangers in this afternoon's season opener against the Los Angeles Kings, as they managed to give up their 2-1 advantage late in the third and ultimately went on to lose in overtime, 3-2. Considering the Rangers found themselves shorthanded five different times in the game, though, you could say that they were lucky to even grab a point, creating multiple different ways of looking at this one.  The first period was one to forget for the Blueshirts. They were outshot 13-4, showed little life offensively and were a bit scrambly in their own zone. Thankfully Henrik Lundqvist came to play today, otherwise the Kings may have put this one out of reach in the opening stanza. It certainly looked like we were headed that way when L.A. finally got one pas...