The 14-2-2 Rangers look for a franchise-record-tying 10th win in a row Thursday in Tampa
Sir Isaac Newton might not like the Rangers chances in the upcoming weeks or months.
“What goes up,” he purportedly said, “must come down.”
National Hockey League gravity gets every team at some point. Every single one of them, with the exception of the Montreal Canadiens, who went 60-8-12 in 1976-77, and lost a total of 46 regular-season games (out of 320) in a four-year Cup run in the late 1970s.
That can never happen again, and it won’t with these Rangers, who are 14-2-2 and on a ridiculous pace to go 64-9-9.