
Rangers’ struggling stars staring at elimination scenario
NY Post
The Rangers have one more game to find some answers offensively against the Panthers, or their dreams of ending their 30-year drought without hoisting the Stanley Cup will end prematurely.
Five games into this conference final and the Rangers’ Big 3 on offense remain, for the most part, missing in action.
That’s as good a reason as any for their 3-2 loss to the Panthers on Thursday night at the Garden, leaving them one stressful game from elimination, down 3-2 in the series as it shifts to Florida for Game 6 on Saturday night.
Paging Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider. Goals are needed.
Yes, Kreider scored the first of two Rangers goals Thursday, ending his four-game slide without a single point.
And yes, Zibanejad assisted on the Kreider goal as well as the desperation six-on-five Alexis Lafreniere goal with 50 seconds remaining in the game, his first two points of the series.

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.












