It was a roller coaster week for the New York Rangers, an OT victory over the Bruins, which featured a Hat Trick from Marian Gaborik, followed by a terrible showing against the Flyers in Philly, culminating Saturday night with an impressive 5-2 comeback victory of the Maple Leafs at Madison Square Garden. In this lock out shortened season, every bad game, every missed opportunity is going to be scrutinized because every point is valuable.
The fact that the Rangers first four games were against teams that made the playoffs last season a tough start was to be expected. For a team that is introducing five new players to their system, you had to know there would be some growing pains early on especially since there was no training camp and only six days to practice together before the first game.
There were plenty of good signs from the Rangers Saturday night, after trailing 2-0 after the first period, which was actually well played, except for a few defensive mistakes, the Rangers star...
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January 27, 2013
