Rangers believe they have found a winning formula: ‘Intention is everything’

Less than two weeks removed from being a point away from the bottom of the Eastern Conference, the Rangers appear to be surging again, winning four of their past five games heading into Thursday’s match at Ottawa.

The team has been here before this season, achieving three different three-game winning streaks.

They haven’t been able to sustain that success, but there’s confidence that they are on their way after perhaps their best win of the season — certainly at Madison Square Garden — on Tuesday.

Following the comeback overtime victory over red-hot Dallas, the Rangers believe they’ve figured out the recipe for winning under Mike Sullivan.

“It’s pretty simple with our group,” captain J.T. Miller said after Wednesday’s practice in Tarrytown. “Half the year, we were a certain version and half a year we were a certain version. When we play to our identity, we’re really hard to play against [and] really hard to beat — especially when we put the puck on the net and play with a lead.”

Too often during stretches this year, the Rangers have gotten away from that, in part due to frustration from not getting the results they were looking for, particularly at home, where they often couldn’t buy a goal.