This Rangers-Islanders game is as high-stakes as it gets
NY Post
It is remarkable, honestly it is, how few meaningful games the Rangers and Islanders have played against one another over the last quarter of a century.
There hasn’t been a playoff series since the first-round sweep of 1994 in which the Blueshirts humiliated their overmatched opponents and a longtime foil in nets, Ron Hextall, by an aggregate 22-3 margin. And it has been rare indeed in the interim for both teams to have been good at the same time. Indeed, they’ve both been in the playoffs only four times over the last 25 seasons. And never in the 49 years the clubs have uneasily coexisted 35 miles apart has there been a head-to-head battle for a postseason berth this late in the regular season.More Related News