
Rangers’ struggling stars staring at elimination scenario
NY Post
The Rangers have one more game to find some answers offensively against the Panthers, or their dreams of ending their 30-year drought without hoisting the Stanley Cup will end prematurely.
Five games into this conference final and the Rangers’ Big 3 on offense remain, for the most part, missing in action.
That’s as good a reason as any for their 3-2 loss to the Panthers on Thursday night at the Garden, leaving them one stressful game from elimination, down 3-2 in the series as it shifts to Florida for Game 6 on Saturday night.
Paging Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider. Goals are needed.
Yes, Kreider scored the first of two Rangers goals Thursday, ending his four-game slide without a single point.
And yes, Zibanejad assisted on the Kreider goal as well as the desperation six-on-five Alexis Lafreniere goal with 50 seconds remaining in the game, his first two points of the series.