It won’t be a full house, but the Rangers are certainly looking forward to having fans back inside Madison Square Garden Friday night when they play the Boston Bruins in the opener of a two-game weekend set against the East Division leaders.
"It'll be exciting,’’ coach David Quinn said after practice Thursday of his team playing in front of a live audience for the first time in nearly a year. "Like I said last time we talked about this, it's been strange, because we've actually been getting used to playing in front of nobody. So I don't care if there's 15, or 1,500 people in the building, or 15,000.