Rangers need show they belong in biggest test yet against NHL-best Jets
NY Post
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.
No, it’s not in a make-or-break the season kind of way. Nor will it be a sound-the-alarms loss if it is one.
The Blueshirts do need show up in force at home – where they were embarrassed last week by the Sabres – and compete so much better and so much harder than they have lately if they hope to remind not only themselves, but the rest of the NHL, that they can go toe-to-toe with the best in the league because they are one of the best in the league.
Anything less than a complete and unwavering team effort will be a colossal disappointment.
“They’re obviously playing well, so we’re going to have to make sure that we clean up some things coming out of our end and making sure that we’re playing straight forward,” Braden Schneider told The Post after Jonathan Quick helped the Rangers steal a win over the Red Wings Saturday night in Detroit. “They’re a big, heavy group that has the talent that we have to put pucks away. It’s going to be our biggest test yet and hopefully we can come out on top.”
The Rangers have lost touch with who they were to start the season – albeit the fact that it came against inferior teams. Everything from the way they attack the game, their structure and their fire has dimmed.
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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.
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