Rangers blow chance to make wild-card statement in brutal OT loss to Senators
NY Post
OTTAWA, Ontario — Time and time again this season, the Rangers have not risen to the moment.
There have been many instances this season, but none bigger than the opportunity the Blueshirts had going into this weekend with a back-to-back slate against the two teams who were sitting directly ahead of them in the Eastern Conference wild-card race, the Senators and Blue Jackets.
Brady Tkachuk scored 33 seconds into overtime to complete Ottawa’s comeback and hand the Rangers a 4-3 loss Saturday afternoon at Canadian Tire Center, where the visitors had to settle for a single point and a two-way tie with Columbus for the second wild card entering their matchup Sunday night at Madison Square Garden.
They’ll get another chance to step into the top spot and assert themselves more in the neck-and-neck race.
To put it into perspective, however, this weekend is THE ultimate moment thus far.
And the Rangers — unsurprisingly with the way this season has gone — will not deliver in the fullest.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The head vs. heart calculus which has tugged at the Islanders’ decision-making, or lack thereof, over the past month finally hit an inflection point late Thursday evening.
TAMPA — Aaron Judge will attempt to improve upon an almost unprecedented 2024 season.
LOS ANGELES — The Knicks loss on the scoreboard Thursday night was made worse by the sight of Jalen Brunson limping off the court.
TAMPA — The game kept giving Fernando Cruz chances to walk away from it.
Karl-Anthony Towns’ girlfriend Jordyn Woods attended the funeral of a close friend who lost her battle to breast cancer Wednesday, the model shared in a note posted to her Instagram Story.
The 49ers have a leg up on the competition in the free-agency rush for Joey Bosa.
As the trade rumors swirled, Matthew Stafford’s daughters came home from school to ask him about the questions their friends had peppered them with regarding his future.
Darren Pang made what he thought was an innocuous comment about Alex Ovechkin during Wednesday’s TNT broadcast of the Rangers-Capitals game.
PORT ST. LUCIE — The most significant news of Mets camp has involved the pitchers the world has yet to see: Frankie Montas (a lat strain that will cost months) and Sean Manaea (an oblique strain expected to cost weeks) will miss time at the start of the season.
There’s the famous video, or perhaps infamous in the mind of Jalen Brunson, of the young point guard in the park being pushed through drills by his father.
LOS ANGELES — It started to crumble for the Knicks about halfway through the fourth quarter Tuesday night. They’d been well within striking distance for much of the game against the Warriors, even tying the score early in the final period.
What if the Giants could acquire a quarterback who threw 35 touchdown passes and just 12 interceptions in 2024? What if that quarterback led his team to a record of 14-3? And what if that guy was just 27 years old?
The Rangers are choosing to look at their final game before the trade deadline for what it was rather than what it meant for their playoff aspirations.