Reeling Rangers finally get a needed break from ‘miserable’ stretch
NY Post
We interrupt this meltdown to bring you four days without a desultory Rangers loss.
Yes, true, the NHL is closed for the holidays, which only serves to illustrate how far and how quickly the Rangers have fallen.
A Stanley Cup contender about a month ago, the Blueshirts have descended into being a punchline like the Giants and Jets (they can’t lose Sunday, they’re on a bye week!).
About the only good thing that can be said about Tuesday is that it was better than most of the 32 days that preceded it.
Certainly it was better than Monday, which began with the news that Chris Kreider was a healthy scratch and got worse from there.
The Rangers managed only 12 shots on goal in a 5-0 loss in Newark which was every bit the laugher the score indicated.
On the night the Knicks finally added a new piece for their bench, second-unit guard Cam Payne enjoyed his finest performance of the season
There’s a whole lot crammed into 100 years of playing the game. That span means the Giants have been there, done that, time and again, over and over. Everything has passed through their gates. Great triumphs. Abject failure. The winds of change and the stillness of sameness. Championship moments. Despair in the air.
Every game the Rangers have played recently has come with seismic implications.
Steve Cohen is fast approaching a billion-dollar outlay this offseason, and the Mets’ work isn’t done.
Tank Dell’s knee injury is bad enough that it could put his status in doubt for the start of the 2025 season.
The Jets want to get the fourth-most-targeted receiver in the NFL more involved in their offense.
ATLANTA — The Giants are a franchise bleeding despair right now.
Folks have been clamoring for Peter Laviolette to meaningfully reduce Mika Zibanejad’s minutes and that is what the Rangers head coach has done over the last week.
The Phillies are fortifying their already strong rotation.
The Knicks are saying hello again to Landry Shamet.
Mike LaFleur wore a postgame smile Sunday that was seldom seen when he called MetLife Stadium his full-time home.