Rangers, Jonathan Quick blank Red Wings despite not playing their best
NY Post
There are times when a team just has to take the win and run.
Well, the Rangers scooped up their empty-net abetted 4-0 win over the Red Wings on Saturday night and got the heck out of dodge after a game where the score could’ve — and probably should’ve — been inverted given how insufficiently the visitors played.
“I think we were just trying to do a little too much coming out of our end,” Braden Schneider told The Post after the game, in which he and Zac Jones were the Rangers’ strongest defensive pairing. “As D, we weren’t moving it quick enough to our forwards. Forwards had D pressure. They had to make some tough plays.
“All in all, I think we were just a little slow on breaking pucks out. I thought the last 30 minutes we did a better job.”
The Yankees and Mets are well represented among finalists for year-end awards.
Aaron Boone acknowledged that “everyone’s going to have their opinions.”
Where and how has it all gone wrong for the Jets? How have they managed to miss the playoffs 13 consecutive years … and counting down the days and weeks to 14?
INDIANAPOLIS — There comes a point in most seasons, if not all of them, when you have to stop giving stock to the words relayed in a news conference.
Call it a bad case of the Sundays.
MUNICH — It is never, or rarely, the fault of one player, but it is time.
INDIANAPOLIS — Karl-Anthony Towns sat with his feet in the ice bucket, staring into nothing with a look of disappointment all over his face.
GLENDALE — Only the Jets could promise their tortured and tormented faithful a season of hope and great expectations and turn it into a Butt Fumble.
The way it’s gone for the Rangers the last two and a half weeks, Tuesday’s game against the NHL-leading Winnipeg Jets at Madison Square Garden is shaping up to be as big of a game as it could be in November.
Grading the Giants‘ 20-17 overtime loss to the Panthers in Germany on Sunday.