It’s the Rangers own fault for making everything harder on themselves
NY Post
A win like Saturday night’s in Columbus should’ve sent the Rangers into the 4 Nations break on a high note, but this season has been anything but exuberant.
Even after earning a 4-3 win over the Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena, the Blueshirts still lost four of their last seven games and, as a result, certainly will have their work cut out for them in a 27-game sprint to the regular-season finish line when they return from the near two-week pause.
That was not lost on any Ranger in the visiting locker room.
The break is to be enjoyed, but the impending grind will make it impossible to feel comfortable.
“We’ve definitely put ourselves in a bit of a spot earlier in the year,” Braden Schneider said Saturday night. “I think these last couple weeks, we’ve done a good job of getting wins, and we just got to make sure that we’re keeping our nose to the grindstone and getting those two points because every point at this point matters. We need everything that we can get.”
The victory over Columbus was imperative for a multitude of reasons.
A win like Saturday night’s in Columbus should’ve sent the Rangers into the 4 Nations break on a high note, but this season has been anything but exuberant.
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