Red-hot Rangers throttle Flyers as point streak reaches 10 games
NY Post
The last time the Rangers played the Flyers, their season was beginning to fall apart as they dropped their season-high fifth straight game in Philadelphia.
In a rematch Thursday night at Madison Square Garden, however, the Blueshirts continued to push that disastrous stretch further and further into the rearview mirror as they extended their point streak to 10 games with a 6-1 over the same Flyers team.
To say the end of 2024 and the start of 2025 have been a night-and-day difference for the Rangers would be an understatement.
Philadelphia can attest to that better than most as a team that didn’t have to exert much effort to beat the Rangers, 3-1, on Nov. 29 but struggled to impose its will on the game in any way, shape or form Thursday night.
“I think we’ve done a really good job at focusing on our end first and protecting our goalies,” said Braden Schneider, who was the first of three Rangers defensemen to score Thursday night. “If we’re making their job easy, we can score. We have the skill to score and we’ve done a good job of trying to eliminate those big chances and I think it’s been working. Good defense always leads to good offense, so if we’re playing good D, then it’s creating for us on the other end, too.”
Since Jan. 2, the Rangers’ 19 points are the most in the NHL, and their 43 total goals also top the leaderboard.
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