By the time the 2024 playoffs began, the Rangers had already built their reputation, their 114 points, which happened with a single trophy of the presidents when they were not winning games, and that did not happen much to the appears.
They received game 2 of the second round of hurricanes after following a goal in the third.
They did the same in game 3 after following one after 20 minutes.
And then, in game 6, behind two and looking at the potential for a final to do or die, Chris Kreider burst for a third -period hat trick to boost the return that the series ended.
The Blueshirts continued to find ways to add cardiac and resistant and never say it as labels that could be attached to the front of their name, with the return of 28 profits in 2023-24 after following a goal that establishes a team record.
On 14 occasions, they erased a deficit from at least one goal in the third period and escaped with a victory, and six times, erased a deficit when they followed two goals at any time of the game.
Without that feature, and without the innate ability to produce some magic when necessary, the rangers probably do not end at the top of the NHL classification.
And with five games removed a year later, that has become very clear.
The Rangers, one year after the 28 arrival victories, as well as two and three years after their 21 and 27, have compiled respectively only 15 returns, and the port won a game for two goals throughout the season.
Another example took place on Monday night, when they allowed three goals of rays in two minutes at the end of the first period and was never close to recovering.
The Blueshirts, on the edge of the elimination, six points behind the Canadiens for the last place of wild cards that entered Tuesday night, lost their back, never recovered it and are not located anywhere nearby.
“Last year, we were going to lower the third period two, three goals, and we returned and won those games,” said Eavel Jonny Brodzinski on Monday after his defeat. “That is the difference between last year and this year. The conclusion is simply putting records at the bottom of the network. We have to endure those little opportunities we get in the area or.”
The inability to produce return is far from being the only thing that has been spiral in a disaster for the Rangers this year.
They have not yet won three in a row since November.
They had still collected only two goals of power in the last 16 games, a skate that only received a break when an album bounced on the skating of Mika Zibanejad and entered the network on Monday.
Everything, said Artmi Panarin, has been more difficult for the Rangers in “Both Zones-O-Zone, D-Zone.”
Although most of the nucleus last season returned at the beginning of the year, the Rangers could not replicate their heroic of the late game in most cases.
Exceptions arose, but for the most part, when they continued, and especially in the final painting, they never recovered.
Bluehirts have won only five games in 2024-25 when they approach a goal in the third.
They lost the game long before that stage on Monday, in the eyes of Peter Laviolette.
First, Nikita Kuchov deposited the album on the network in the power game.
Then, Yanni Gourde turned a broken sequence into an ugly goal near the right.
And after Sam Carrick was quickly whistled by a cross verification penalty, Brayden Point sent a shot beyond Igor Shesterkin to give the lightning a three -go advantage in which only Zibanejad’s goal was cut.
When asked about the inability to recreate his “magic” or last season, with the lack of return an underlying layer for that, Laviolette’s succinct response served as told.
“We needed to win a game tonight that we did,” Laviolette said. “So there is much of that throughout the year.”
The Rangers have lost many things this year. Recently, they have wasted any degree of impulse in the playoff career. They have lacked veterans like Kreider and Zibanejad, and have also lost many games. But they also renounced part of their most crucial genetic code, and has turned each remotely game into an essential gain and each soaking point into a must. Only that, thought, may not be enough.
“We just have to win now,” said Brodzinski. “It is no longer a kind of child waiting, where we won a game and then we are waiting to see what they do. We have to win, and then we also need help.”
