
Rangers have no answers for Panthers’ Matthew Tkachuk in Game 1 loss
NY Post
Highlights and lowlights from the Rangers’ 3-0 Game 1 loss to the Panthers on Wednesday night in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final:
Florida’s superstar was everywhere in this one, scoring the opening goal, laying hits and making his impact felt all over the ice.
The players in front of Bobrovsky made his night easy, but the netminder was sterling whenever called into action, including a toe save on Mika Zibanejad as time expired in the second period.
Barkov, the Selke Trophy winner, was all over the place defensively, doing the bulk of his work against a Rangers’ top line that never seemed to get going.
14:23: Time elapsed between shots on goal for the Rangers after the 1:55 mark of the second period.
“It boils down to playing north-south hockey. … That’s the kind of hockey they played and we didn’t.”

Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.












