Rangers flop once again in ugly Garden loss to cellar-dwelling Canucks
NY Post
Home-ice advantage has not existed at Madison Square Garden this season.
If their six shutout losses, including this most recent 3-0 loss to the Canucks, doesn’t indicate just how dismally the Rangers have played at the World’s Most Famous Arena this season, the sounds of muffled conversations culminating into loud boos throughout the lower bowl Tuesday night sure did.
With roughly 42 percent of the season gone, the Blueshirts have won a mere four games in front of their home crowd.
Their futility at MSG has been jarring, as well as an insult to the fans who pay NYC prices to be there.
“I’m not concerned, I’m just pissed off,” captain J.T. Miller said. “You feel like you work so hard and you make a lot of plays and a lot of nights, I feel like we’re out playing the other team. And we end up in here pissed because we didn’t score enough goals. It’s a fine line.”
Perhaps it’s been magnified under the pinwheel ceiling in Manhattan. But, quite frankly, the same issues have more than periodically plagued the Rangers through all 35 of their games so far this season.
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He had one last throw left in that 44-year-old wing of his. For most of the afternoon, he’d been able to fool Father Time and frighten 68,771 Seattle Seahawks fans inside Lumen Field who’d come to bury Philip Rivers and, instead, watched him push their football team to the very brink of an impossible upset.
As longtime franchise staple Chris Kreider and former captain Jacob Trouba prepare to make their returns to the Garden on Monday night, one of the players brought in with the salary cap savings generated by their trades has established himself on the Rangers first defensive pairing.
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He was Old Man Rivers when he retired at 39, and now? He is 44-year-old Grandpa Phil, back in the saddle on a desperate colt for an emergency rescue playoff mission.
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