Rangers’ lack of any room for error makes losses like this so crushing

A minute to go in regulation became 20 seconds to go in regulation, the shots over the final two periods were 27 for the Rangers and eight for Colorado, the scoring chances over that span were 22-10 for the Blueshirts against one of the most highly skilled and dangerous opponents in the league. 

But Sunday afternoon’s entertaining match at the Garden did not end with 20 seconds to go. No, it most certainly did not. And it did not end well for the Rangers. 

For the resplendent Cale Makar, in the box from the 17:36 mark in what was a 4-4 game in which the Blueshirts had clawed back from 2-0 and 4-2, raced onto the ice after the Avalanche killed the penalty. 

Makar raced into the defensive zone just in time to pick off a Will Borgen cross-ice pass meant for Artemi Panarin high on the left side.