Rangers escape with uninspiring win over last-place Penguins as NHL trade deadline looms
NY Post
PITTSBURGH — The cliché “a win is a win” almost always applies, but it doesn’t feel right for the Rangers.
Not for a team that gave up eight goals in an embarrassing loss on the first night of a back-to-back slate, only to follow it up with a slow-starting, empty-net abetted 5-3 win over the Penguins that they were more than lucky to come away with after getting outshot 39-15 Sunday evening at PPG Paints Arena.
The cliché “beggars can’t be choosers,” on the other hand, certainly does apply to this Blueshirts team.
“We need to win games right now first and foremost, which we did tonight, but that’s not a recipe for winning games,” Ryan Lindgren said. “We’ve got another big one on Tuesday [against the Islanders], a team we’re battling with in the standings right now. We have to play a heck of a lot better, for sure.”
Splitting their first two games after the 4 Nations Face-Off break should hardly matter to the Rangers hierarchy that watched the team get destroyed in Buffalo and barely escape Pittsburgh with a win over the last-place club in the Metropolitan Division.
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