Rangers destroy Islanders to keep long-shot playoff hopes alive
NY Post
The Rangers are holding on to their playoff hopes by a thread.
A 9-2 win over the Islanders on Thursday night at UBS Arena may have staved off the Blueshirts’ elimination from playoff contention for the time being, but it is only delaying the inevitable with the Canadiens set to play the Senators in Ottawa on Friday night in need of only one point to end the Rangers’ season.
This victory may have come against a team that seemingly is just as disinterested as they are, but the Rangers managed to snap a three-game losing streak going into their final three games of the regular season.
“Great team effort from everybody,” said Brett Berard, who recorded the first two-goal game of his career. “Ever since the first shift, we were kind of clicking there. [Igor Shesterkin] made a couple huge saves there to keep us in it early, but we played a good team game tonight, and it was fun to watch everyone.”
Still, there are no feel-good wins when you’re no longer in control of your own destiny this time of year.
The fact that the Rangers swept the Battle of New York by a combined score of 23-5 this season, however, is perhaps the only silver lining to what still is a bleak situation.
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This is a sad day for the Rangers organization. Conducting a second coaching search within three years and the third over the past five off-seasons represents an admission of guilt from the hierarchy, past or present. Successful franchises are models of stability.
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On Thursday night, we were all Blue Jackets. For all time, we will remember Columbus, a team, organization and fan base that elevated the sport in the wake of unspeakable tragedy.
Fans at Citi Field already were growing restless over Juan Soto’s early season slump, but many in the home crowd stood and cheered the $765 million man as he strode to the plate with a runner on third base and the Mets trailing by one run in the fifth inning Friday night.
By the end of the night on which they were selected as the Rangers’ stars of the game, Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad skated off into the offseason having played a sum of 7,231:31 together — plus another 515:44 in the playoffs per Natural StatTrick — since becoming teammates during the summer of 2017.